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F O R A L UMN I & F R I EN D S O F 12 C O L UMB I A C O l l E G E C H i c AGO

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Careers Professional Workshops: * Creating a Professional Web Presence * Navigating Job Transition * Networking f e a t u r e s Career track or And more! * Artists’ Proof Highly Animated laugh track? Beginning a career in the creative industries requires a different A panel featuring alumni animators at Pixar: sort of preparation—and presentation—than the traditional Careers, * Daniel Lopez Munoz (B.A. ’96), art director post-graduation job search. Columbia ensures our graduates Camaraderie, (Up, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Robots) 12 16 are ready to prove themselves. & Comedy * Aaron Hartline (’98), animator (Up, Ice Age: are all on The Meltdown, Toy Story 3) Rock Steady schedule for * Everett Downing (’00), character animator (Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille) The music business has changed dramatically in the past decade. Here’s how Columbia’s curriculum has responded to an industry upheaval. Columbia College Chicago Camaraderie 26 * Behind the Scenes Tour of the Media Production Center Portfolio A sampling of work by the eight John Simon Guggenheim * MPC Takeover Party Memorial Foundation Fellows on faculty in Columbia’s Alumni Showcase and Alumni/ * photography department. Student Brunch 31

Comedy Thursday, September 23 — The Business of Being Funny Saturday, September 25 A panel featuring alumni working in comedy: departments * Andy Richter (’90; Conan O’Brien Show) 5 Vision: a question for President Warrick L. Carter 6 Poetic: poems by the winners of the School of Liberal Arts * Chris McKay (B.A. ’91; Robot Chicken) C o v e r and Sciences Poetry Award * Erica Watson (B.A. ’98, M.A. ’05; Fat Bitch) Alana Wallace (B.F.A. ’85), founder 7 Wire: news from the college community Details and registration at Karyn Bosnak (B.A. ’96; Save Karyn) * of Dance>Detour, the first professional 24 Events: what’s coming up on campus colum.edu/alumniweekend * Steve Pink (’89; Hot Tub Time Machine) “physically integrated” dance company. 36 Get Lit: new books by Stephen Asma, David W. Berner, Like others featured in this issue, she’s a or Peter Teschner (’80; Borat, Land Before Time) Steve Cushing, Chris Eliopoulous, Jennifer Greenburg, 312.369.8640 * strong example of someone who created Brandi Homan, Maggie Kast, Kristen Bair O’Keeffe, Fat Bitch! a career that suits her passion. Story, Marcus Sakey, and Margot Wallace A one-woman comedy show written and performed page 12. Photo: Bill Frederking 39 Out There: our alumni section, featuring class notes and by Erica Watson (B.A. ’98, M.A. ’05) (faculty, Photography / associate dean, CAAN updates School of Fine and Performing Arts) Schedule and panelists are subject to change 46 Point & Shoot: caught on camera on campus and around the country 49 Backstory: 1983

S p o t o n Erica Watson 12 Alana Wallace (B.F.A. ’85) determined dancer 14 Adam Jahns (M.A. ’07) on the Blackhawks beat 20 Dan Schwarzlose (M.F.A. ’06) saving Cambodian music 22 John Hellerman (B.A. ’95) purposeful PR Summer 2010

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ng A year-long exploration of trends and issues in disciplines i taught by Columbia’s School of Fine and Performing Arts 12 Like us on Facebook. exe c u t i v e e d i t o r/ v i c e p r e s i d e n t A c onversa t i on w i t h : f o r institutional advancement We only print DEMO three times a year, but we’re Eric V. A. Winston, Ph.D. sharing cool Columbia news every week on Facebook. Patti Smith e d i t o r Ann Wiens Photos, videos, links, and comments. Join the fun! erform Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 7:00 p.m. e d i t o r i a l a s s i s t a n t Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th floor Geoffrey Hyatt (M.F.A. ’09) Become a fan.

i n t e r n d P Widely known as the Godmother of Punk, Patti Smith is a singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist whose 1975 debut album, Horses, stands among the icons of Becca James (class of 2011) c l a s s n o t e s e d i t o r an American rock and roll. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Michelle Passarelli (B.A. ’99)

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a s s i s t a n t d i r e c t o r o f Michelle Passarelli (B.A. ’99) a l u m n i o p e r a t i o n s J u ly 2 2 Young Alumni Event a s s i s t a n t d i r e c t o r o f Cynthia Vargas (B.A. ’01) CHICAGO At Big City Tap a bookstore … and more! a l u m n i programming d i r e c t o r o f a l u m n i r e l a t i o n s , Sarah Schroeder (B.A. ’00) RSVP / info: Marty Kane, [email protected] w e s t c o a s t Au g us t 1 CAAN: Denver / Cubs vs. Rockies DENVER At Coors Field Get your Columbia: DEMO (volume 5, number 3) is published by Columbia College Chicago. It is mailed free of charge to alumni and friends of the college three times a year. Tickets: Pat Blum, [email protected] > t-shirts The ideas and opinions expressed are those of the writers alone, and do not necessarily > hoodies reflect those of Columbia College Chicago. © Columbia College Chicago 2010. Au g us t 1 4 Social Media Summer Tune Up > caps CHICAGO At Columbia College Chicago > baby gear email US: Effective Uses of Facebook/Twitter & Getting Smarter [email protected] > gifts with Your Smartphone CALL US: Registration / info: Michelle Passarelli, 312.369.6987 or > accessories Columbia College Chicago: 312.369.1000 [email protected] > and yes, books too! DEMO magazine: 312.369.8631 mail US: S e p t e m b e r 2 3 - 2 5 Alumni Weekend 2010 DEMO magazine, Columbia College Chicago, CHICAGO 600 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 404, Chicago, IL 60605 Shop in person: Shop online: Join the planning committee, volunteer, or attend the weekend! 624 S. Michigan Ave. columbia.bkstr.com DEMO is online Tickets/info: Cyn Vargas, 312.369.8640 / [email protected] 312.427.4860 Read, comment, and share at colum.edu/demo colum.edu/alumni/events Photo: Alexa Rubinstein (B.F.A. ’09) C O L U M B I A C O L L E G E C hicago re c ogn i z es t he fo l l ow i ng i n d i v i d ua l s who jo i ne d be t ween N ovember 1 , 2 0 0 9 , an d A pr il 30, 2010.

Lee E. & Susan Berk Kerry J. Marshall & Nicholas Brown Cheryl Lynn Bruce a question for President Carter Kevin Cassidy John McAllister Benjamin H. DeBerry Michael & Margaret Meiners Diane L. Doyne Rosendo Mercado ’98 Demo: You often remind students that they are pursuing creative Judith A. Dyke James E. Meyers George H. Eastman Fredrik & Jessica Nielsen careers not because they think they should, or were told to, but Dianne M. & Jon M. Erpenbach Pangratios Papacosta Alvin Golin & June Golin Melina K. Patterson ’93 & because they’ve found their passion, and that will serve them well. Monica Hairston, Ph.D. Michael C. Hendershot In this tough employment market, how does that apply? Bertram J. Hoddinott III ’96 Francesca R. Peppiatt Erica R. Hubbard ’99 Eva R. Rachau Milan Jajic ’09 Randa Sabbagha Dr. Carter: You can go to college to pursue a major that has a very specific Juanita Jordan Jordan D. Schnitzer job description at the end—you major in accounting and know from day one you’ll be an Steven R. Kauffman Steven L. Schwartz accountant. Students come to Columbia to pursue their passions and follow their dreams. John N. & Marina Kavouris Phillip A. Solomonson ’84 Our students are lucky. They’re brave. Ronald Lawless ’82 Arthur M. & Rita Sussman Diana K. ’88 & Bert H. Lindstrom Cynthia L. Thomas We also need to acknowledge our students’ parents. These special parents are willing Pattie Mackenzie Tony Trigilio & Shelly Hubman to support their kids’ decision to pursue a major that doesn’t have a specific job Lewis & Susan Manilow Marlon C. ’85 & Joy West outlined at the end of their studies. A lot of our students are entrepreneurs, they Frederick J. & Gail P. Manning Bryan Zera create cottage industries, they find ways to follow their passions throughout their Photo: Erica Dufour (’96) careers. I want to celebrate the parents that support this direction. To learn more, contact Brent CaburnAY at 312.369.8188 or visit colum.edu/donate. I think of my own parents, who were truly special because they raised a drummer. Raising a drummer isn’t fun. It’s loud. In the beginning, it’s a lot of noise. But my parents were really understanding and encouraging. My grandmother lived with us, and I’d come home as a little kid and she’d say, “I hope you’re going to play your drums today.” Families who raise creative kids are very, very special.

For those students and their families who are hesitant about pursuing an education in what they love rather than something they perceive as “safe,” I have this to Shop. say: We are a “whole-brain” institution. Look across our programs: we have a large requirement of liberal arts and sciences for all students, and even within each major there are required courses that cover theory, not just practice. Columbia. Across the board, in all our majors and electives, Columbia College gives students a full education. That’s probably the biggest difference between Columbia and other arts and media schools. The B.A. degree Dr. Carter performs our students earn reflects a full, well-rounded education. They are not only trained Now. during an April 18 concert in the practice and technology of their discipline, they have the philosophical ShopColumbia is a unique store featuring a celebrating his tenth year standing, theoretical base, and understanding of historical and contemporary events curated selection of art, jewelry, stationery, as president of Columbia to help frame the arts and media they’re creating. That offers a new kind of career College Chicago. gifts, photography, fashions, and accessories “safety” in these times—it gives our students the wherewithal to be agile, to be flexible, Photo: Robert Kusel (‘78) created and designed by Columbia students. to creatively use their degree to make the career they want, or to go on to pursue graduate or professional degrees in other areas. Fresh, new, unexpected. It is defined by what Columbia students are making now. As a drummer, I learned to be a team player. Drummers aren’t soloists; they work with a team. But they’re also leaders, setting the beat. Drummers have to do many things at the same time. Your left hand, your right foot, they all work independently of one another. You have to multitask. And you have to be early; there’s a lot to set up! As an administrator, I’m very conscious of those things I learned as a drummer. I followed my passion, my muse, as I hope our students will do. I’m confident that if they do, they too will find they’ve made a decision that will serve them well. 623 S. Wabash Ave. M, Tu, W, F 11 – 5 312.369.8616 Thu 11 – 7 colum.edu/shopcolumbia Photo: Kim Nguyen (’10) POETIC news from the Columbia community The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Poetry Award (formerly the Elma Stuckey Poetry Award) is presented annually by the Department of English to two distinguished undergraduate poetry majors. The Peter Magubane Alex Kotlowitz Robert Klein goal of Columbia’s poetry program is “to develop the poetry writing skills of students and to help them gain a greater creative, critical, and aesthetic understanding of their discipline.” Here, we’re pleased to present works by Adam Lizakowski (first place) and Zachary Green (second place), this year’s LAS Poetry Award winners:

Illustration: James Kinser (M.A. ’05) 2010 Commencement Speakers and Alumni Honorees The Honey Catalog Zachary Green (’11) Each year, Columbia honors

I want to rest up on a buoy and have you swim behind me and stick your outstanding hand over my chest, between my nipples. individuals in the I want you to send me a rocket that is either crying or exploding. arts, education, I want to say you look like Cape Cod today and I am never going back to public information, my grandparents’ house. or other fields Photos: Robert Kusel (’78) I want to say I love you when you cough on me. that relate to I want to tell you I am recording an album called pocket sounds. It’s the our mission. 2010 Honorary 2010 Distinguished follow up to Pet Sounds. A poem about the rooster This year’s honorary degree Degree Recipients Alumni Adam Lizakowski (’11) Bouquet of broccoli. I wanted to say that. recipients, each of whom addressed Dr. Peter Magubane Paul Broucek (B.A. ’74, English and new graduates at one of Columbia’s I’ve been wanting to tell you that you speak like a cemetery map and no Photographer selected by Nelson Theater) / President of music, Warner three 2010 commencement one knows where the plot is. Mandela as the official photographer Brothers Pictures With a big comb on his head, the boss of our backyard ceremonies, have engaged their documenting the country’s transition (’66, Journalism) / came out when the sun looked like a lion’s mane forged in gold. This is endearing. I did tell you that. great talents in important human Bob McNamara from apartheid to democracy. Broadcast journalist service. The distinguished alumni We watched him strutting the captain of our childhood I wanted, wanted, wanted to end. Alex Kotlowitz wearing a French royal court costume. awardees have made invaluable Laura Yosha-Steele (B.A. ’90, Radio) / I wanted to take you to Iceland, Iceland, Iceland to tell you that bears are contributions to their creative fields. Journalist and author, perhaps best Radio personality, Q95, Indianapolis Watching us with his keen eye when we played everywhere. All of their work embodies the known for his book There Are No cowboys and Indians—the supplier of feathers. college’s spirit and ideals. Children Here: The Story of Two Boys I want to call you and know how the days have been. Growing Up in the Other America. We loved and admired his proud cock-a-doodle-doo I wanted to write you a letter with my eyes. The Force is hard to master. but were so afraid. Robert Klein Some days all I come home to are the lights I left on for myself in the Comedian, singer, and actor who was He never hesitated to chase us morning. an early member of Second City and away from his kingdom. has appeared regularly on The Tonight My father’s hand in the air— Show, Late Night with David Letterman, the axe blade shining. and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

DEMO6 Philippe Ravanas, faculty in the Michael Olszewski joins Columbia New Chairs Department of Arts, Entertainment, this summer as chair of the new and Media Management, has been Department of Fashion Studies. for AEMM, appointed chair of that department. Olszewski has been professor of Ravanas came to Columbia with solid textile design at Moore College Fashion Studies experience in arts management, of Art and Design in Philadelphia a vast international network in his since 1977, serving as chair of the Philippe Ravanas The Departments field, and a track record of building Textile Design department for 12 of Fashion relationships between business and years. He has held visiting artist Michael Olszewski academia. He has taught in Canada, positions at institutions ranging Photos: Shane Welch Studies and Arts, 2010 Fischetti Austria, Spain, France, and Russia, from Kyung-Won University in Seoul Award-winning cartoon Entertainment, and and served as VP of Corporate to the Kansas City Art Institute, and by Steve Breen Media Management Communications for Euro Disney holds an M.F.A. from Cranbrook in Paris and Manager of Worldwide Academy of Art. have appointed Client Development for Christie’s in new chairpersons. New York and London. Breen Wins Photo: Drew Reynolds (B.A. ’97) Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition Scholarship Columbia, a giving $144,997 was contributed, for a Media Production Center initiative that includes a matching total of $251,007 after the match. If a picture’s worth a thousand component from the college, was Forty-three students will receive Opens for Classes words, then San Diego Union-Tribune launched in January 2009. Since scholarships for the 2010-11 then, participation from donors academic year. Included in the Columbia’s new 35,500-square-foot Media cartoonist Steve Breen said a has been steadily increasing, surge of giving was a 156-percent Production Center (MPC) opened to students mouthful with his winning entry that with students gaining immediate increase in faculty/staff giving, with the beginning of spring semester captured the 2010 John Fischetti Scholarship Giving Grows; financial benefit. From January 1, due in large part to the Faculty 2009, to January 15, 2010, and Staff Scholarship Initiative, classes on January 25, 2010. Editorial Cartoon Competition Students Benefit $66,991 was contributed and a grass-roots, peer-to-peer giving The opening came just 13 months Chicago’s long role in the history coordinated by Columbia College Thanks to contributions from faculty, matched by the college for a total campaign launched by Columbia after the initial groundbreaking. of filmmaking, with a 25-foot terra- Chicago’s Department of Journalism. of $193,796. Twenty-nine students faculty and staff in direct response Designed from the ground up to cotta arch salvaged from the former Breen has been the editorial cartoonist staff, alumni, and others, dozens of new received scholarships this spring. to the difficult economic times accommodate a new way of teaching Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, for the San Diego Union-Tribune Scholarship Columbia awards will be Giving has increased facing our students. filmmaking and media production for a parent of Paramount Pictures, since 2001. His work is nationally dramatically in 2010. Between the twenty-first century, the project whose facilities once stood nearby. syndicated by Creators News Service available to students this fall. January 16 and April 26, 2010, saw its beginnings in conversations The building is anchored by a and regularly appears in USA Today, the that began in 2001, shortly after 7,350-square-foot main soundstage, New York Times, and Newsweek. Warrick Carter began his tenure as with a 2,085-square-foot motion- Breen’s entry, one of more president of the college and made capture studio as well as a smaller than 150 submitted, depicts the the creation of a state-of-the-art soundstage, prop and wardrobe backlash of the Iranian government’s production facility a priority. The studios, classrooms, an outdoor unsuccessful attempt last year to Fiore, who earned a B.A. in film with director, and Aaron Hartline (’98), project gained momentum when dock for the college’s remote media squash Internet communications Alumni Impress a concentration in cinematography who attended Columbia but did not Allen Turner, a partner in the Pritzker truck, a rooftop terrace, and a documenting public uprisings. The in 1987, was the cinematographer receive a degree from the college, Organization, became Chairman lofty, glass-walled lobby that acts cartoon features an image of the Academy for the live-action scenes in the worked as an animator on the film. of Columbia’s Board of Trustees in as an informal gathering space Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the Twitter record-breaking movie, filmed in Hilmar Koch (B.A. ’93) was 2005, acting as a catalyst to bring for students. A black-tie gala will bird perched atop his head. Columbia alumnus New Zealand. His most recent effort, awarded a Scientific & Technical it to fruition. celebrate the college’s first new- This annual competition was Mauro Fiore won the The A-Team, opened nationwide on Award for advancing the technique The innovative structure, construction building in its 120-year created in 1980 in memory of June 11. of ambient occlusion rendering designed by Jeanne Gang / Studio history on October 2, 2010. For the Pulitzer Prize-winning political 2010 Oscar for Best Pixar’s Up, which won the Oscar by the Academy of Motion Pictures Gang Architects, incorporates information, visit colum.edu/mpc. cartoonist John Fischetti. Fischetti’s Cinematography for Best Animated Feature Film, Arts & Sciences. Koch is currently sustainable design and construction work graced the pages of many also benefited from the talents employed by Lucasfilm Ltd., processes and commemorates publications, including the Chicago for his work on the of Columbia alumni: Daniel Lopez which was founded by George Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, and the Mauro Fiore (B.A. ’87) blockbuster Avatar. Munoz (B.A. ’96) served as art Lucas in 1971. New York Herald Tribune.

DEMO8 Honors Program Launched Photography Students A new Honors Program, based in the Featured in Art Chicago the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), Two Columbia students made the cut for launched in the spring 2010 semester. inclusion in the prestigious New Insight art

With its foundation in the LAS core average of 3.5 will earn the distinction exhibition this year. curriculum that is taken by all Columbia of Honors on their transcripts. Honors An exhibition of top M.F.A. students students, the Honors Program courses include such wide-ranging from some of the country's most Leilani Wertens, from the “Forget Me Honors offers qualified undergraduates the subjects as Victorian Illustrated influential graduate art programs, Not” series. opportunity to think, study, and create Poetry, Vertebrate Paleontology, and New Insight has been part of the at a more advanced academic level. the History of the 1960s. Students international Art Chicago/NEXT expo Students who complete a minimum of who qualify will find nearly two dozen for the past several years. Jennifer Program 15 credit hours of honors courses and honors courses from which to choose Ray and Leilani Wertens, both M.F.A. Columbia College Chicago who maintain a cumulative grade point when they register for fall 2010 classes. ’10 candidates in photography, were selected by curator Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society. A platform for new talent and innovative ideas, New Insight provides the opportunity to view work by some of DeRogatis Leaves Sun-Times, the brightest young minds working in Joins Columbia diverse graduate programs across the country. New Insight took place at the As one of the best-known popular music Chicago Merchandise Mart April 30 critics in the country, Jim DeRogatis’s through May 3, 2010. résumé includes editorial positions at Rolling Stone and the Chicago Sun-Times, The album, which features recordings Waits, Aimee Mann, DJ Spooky, The bylines in Spin, Guitar World, Penthouse, and GQ, authorship AEMMP Records Wins by Pet Lions, Office, Owen, Big Black Keys, and Zooey Deschanel of nine books, and a weekly WBEZ radio show, Sound Science, Maps & Atlases, and and M. Ward of She & Him. A public Opinions. Now he’s adding Columbia professor to the mix. Independent Music Award Netherfriends, among others, vote determined the winner. DeRogatis, who has taught at Columbia part time for a represents the accomplishments year, joins the college as full-time faculty in the English Chompilation, a compilation CD featuring Two of the bands from Chompilation of the restructured AEMMP Records, department. He has left his staff position at the Sun-Times, are working with AEMMP on this 21 Chicago acts, was named Best College a label and class offered through but will continue his roles on Sound Opinions and as a year’s project. Pet Lions is making the Arts, Entertainment, and blogger for Vocalo.org Label Release of 2009 by the Independent a seven-inch record and Big Science Jim DeRogatis. Media Management department at Music Awards (IMA). released an EP on AEMMP in June. Photo: Kelsey Wright Columbia. Extended to a full year and revamped to offer students a more See “Rock Steady,” page 26. genuine professional experience, Intended to honor the best in legislative scholarship program run the class is designed to provide a collegiate student reporting in the by the Illinois General Assembly. taste of what it’s like to manage an fields of print, radio, television, Another investigative journalism independent record label. In that Student Journalists and online journalism, the awards project, conducted by students spirit, the class participated in the Recognized are administered by the SPJ, one Lauren Rozyla and Morgan McDevitt 2010 SXSW Music Conference in of the largest journalism-advocacy with their teacher Sam Roe, a full- Austin, Texas. The Society of Professional Journalists organizations in the country. The time Tribune reporter, landed on Columbia projects recognized are the the front page of the January AEMMP Records’ effort beat out honored three Columbia student projects online sports magazine Beyond the 25, 2010, Chicago Tribune. The college labels from across the country with regional Mark of Excellence Awards Game and two investigative-reporting story examined a Chicago Police to win the IMA award, with finalists projects: “Access Denied,” about Department shooting in 2004 selected by a panel of 80 artists and this spring. the CTA’s lack of accessibility for involving Seneca Smith, now 30, industry professionals including Tom disabled passengers, and “Secret who was convicted of the attempted Scholarships,” which questioned the murder of a police officer.

DEMO10 Alana Wallace (B.F.A. ’85)

As “Marie Benson, HR Manager,” Alana Wallace maneuvers her performing at a convention for the Council for Disabilities Rights in wheelchair around a scenario right out of The Office. She gently pokes Rochester, New York. fun at coworkers who are “fashion-deficient” and “copy-machine There can be no question that Wallace lives a full and productive incapable.” Then, after several of them forcefully spit out their life. She has collaborated with the Joffrey Ballet; was featured in mugs of joe, Wallace confesses her own “disability”: “coffee-making the 1998 PBS documentary Dance from the Heart, narrated by impaired.” The national television spot is part of a campaign from Ben Vereen; and in 2008 was named Ms. Wheelchair America. Health and Disability Advocates that urges employers to “Think Beyond the Label.” The role perfectly suits Wallace, who has taken This spring, Wallace debuted her one-woman show, Men-o-Pause, a consistently positive approach to her fulfilling careers in the arts at Chicago’s Prop Theater. The show carries a universal message and activism for people with disabilities. about how many of us, at very young ages, are conditioned to hide certain aspects of ourselves (whether it’s a birthmark or a high “These types of ads are usually a pity party,” says Wallace, who IQ). Wallace, for instance, covers up her legs by wearing pants or earned a B.F.A. in Theater and Music from Columbia College in 1985. long skirts, and even when she was a child, her crutches were not “But this campaign can be just as powerful using humor.” included in family portraits. Men-o-Pause offers a witty and balanced The actress-singer, who contracted polio at the age of five, calls her take on body image and the familiar “look-away” mentality often wheelchair “a beautiful accessory.” As a child recovering from painful applied to those with disabilities. orthopedic surgeries, Wallace found inspiration by singing along to By putting herself literally front and center on stage, Wallace her father’s Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holiday records. delivers a strong message about capabilities, without playing the At Columbia, the late William Russo, who was the music department sympathy card. Though she still believes society has a long way to go chair and founder of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, cast her in her first in the areas of accessible housing and employment opportunities, vocal performance, Ellington Sacred Works, at the Getz Theatre. This she also encourages persons with disabilities to work to constantly opportunity and the encouragement of her instructors gave Wallace raise awareness. As an actress, Wallace regularly auditions for “the confidence to seriously pursue a career in the arts.” television roles that do not call for a wheelchair. “We don’t always She established Dance>Detour, Chicago’s first professional have to play accident victims,” she stresses. “We can be the mother, “physically integrated” dance company, in 1995, proving that her the judge, the lover.” wheelchair can transform her into an ethereally gliding presence, After all, she says, “We have to believe in ourselves and claim like an ice dancer. By joining together artists of mixed abilities, something.” Dance>Detour’s stage portraits take on another level of grace and athletic virtuosity. The company has toured the country, recently —By Lucia Mauro “Prejudice is the only true disability.”

Dance>Detour featuring (clockwise from bottom left): Mia Coulter, Ladonna Freidheim, Annie Snow, Jennifer Sawicz, Alana Wallace, Anel Gonzalez (center). Photo: Bill Frederking

DEMO1412 After covering the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup championship season, Adam Jahns says, “As a writer, I know I can handle it. As a fan, it really hasn’t sunk in yet.”

Adam L. Jahns (M.A. ’07, Journalism)

It’s mid-March, and Chicago Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville Three months later, Jahns is again talking to Quenneville following an stands in front of a brick wall in a hallway at the United Center. The overtime victory—but the scene is very different. Instead of a hallway coach is surrounded by three TV cameras and 14 hands gripping in Chicago, this interview takes place on the ice in Philadelphia’s microphones or tape recorders. His team has just completed a Wachovia Center. The arena is packed with fans, reporters from practice, and it’s time for a press conference. across the country, the players, and their families. And the Hawks Just 12 hours ago, Quenneville and the Hawks left the ice to a standing have just defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 4 to 3 in Game Six of the ovation after winning an overtime game against a Western Conference Stanley Cup Finals, winning the franchise’s first title in 49 years. rival. Now the building is quiet, save for the maintenance crew cleaning “The entire playoffs, it was a whirlwind, not much time to rest,” Jahns up and the chatter of reporters grilling Coach Q. For more than eight says. “It was a grind, from a writer’s perspective, from all the travel minutes, the questions are fired off like slap shots: Who will the goalie “Every day on to not having a day off in three months to writing on airplanes, writing be for an upcoming stretch of games? How’s the health of some important forwards? What defensive adjustments need to be made? from my hotel room.” the beat is different.” Adam L. Jahns, in his first year as the Blackhawks beat writer for the Hockey is a sport of constant motion, and like the players he Chicago Sun-Times, stands in the middle of the media pack, holding covers, the 27-year-old reporter is always moving. The playoffs alone one of the recorders, capturing every word Quenneville utters. Because took Jahns from Chicago to Nashville, Vancouver, San Jose, and the team isn’t playing today, Jahns doesn’t have to save the material Philadelphia, watching and writing about the Blackhawks. The lifelong for a game story. Instead, he “only” has to write up the information for Chicagoan says the responsibility is a little daunting, but covering the a notes section in the newspaper, blog about the press conference on city’s biggest sports story in years has offered amazing opportunities. the Sun-Times’s website, and post some of the noteworthy information on Twitter. All in all, a pretty low-key day for the 2007 graduate of “It was tough, with tight deadlines, but I always tried to put lots of Columbia’s master’s degree program in journalism. color in my articles,” Jahns says following the championship season. “I have confidence now that I can handle the pinnacle of the sport. As “Every day on the beat is different,” Jahns says. “The routine is the a writer, I know I can handle it. As a fan, it really hasn’t sunk in yet.” same sometimes, but I’m in different cities, different players are doing well, I’m talking to different guys. Things are always changing.” —By Eli Kaberon (B.A. ’09)

Adam Jahns interviews Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville after a mid-season practice. Photo: Andy Keil (’11)

DEMO2414 Preparing creative The Portfolio Center professionals At Columbia College Chicago, career development begins on day one. Final preparation for the job hunt ideally begins a year or more before graduation, for often at the Portfolio Center. The Portfolio Center offers resources to students success in all majors, with some services, such as career workshops and website hosting, available to alumni as well. The mission is simple: to help students in be aware of what is expected from them by the professional community and a to prepare their materials accordingly. To that end, each semester staffers tough hold workshops, bring in dozens of professionals to meet with students, demonstrate effective portfolio styles for many disciplines, and provide other career professional development resources. Tim Long is the executive director of climate Career Initiatives, a consortium that includes the Portfolio Center, a career development specialist, and the Office of Student Employment. Long wants to prepare students for lifelong career building, not just the first job search after graduation “Our ideal would be to get every student thinking along these lines,” he says. “ Last year, 260 classes attended presentations at the Portfolio Center to learn how to use class projects to create professional portfolios. At the A center and on its website, students can see sample portfolios. Some portfolio majors lend themselves easily to portfolios; graphic design students, for example, seem to find that the portfolio-preparation process is second Artists’ Proof: creates nature. But the center also serves actors, lighting designers, poets, dancers, marketers, journalists, and other graduates of Columbia’s An 120 different programs. opportunity Long emphasizes that he and other staff members help students present themselves and their work in the media best suited to their professions. or Journalism, management, and public relations students might learn how to present their work in project or text-based portfolios, while audio presents artists will find advice on building websites to showcase their sound clips. An actor may want to include a short video performance clip, so one the Portfolio Center will help supply taping and editing expertise, with a faculty member offering advice on a monolog. The center helps students, ” whatever their majors, design websites, create DVD packages, and display photographs that enhance their portfolios and the presentation of their work.

Building a portfolio is an integral part of Columbia’s academic program. Students and industry professionals network Joan Giroux, associate professor of art and design in the School of Fine and Performing Arts, requires final portfolios in many of her classes. That class By Ann C. Logue There was once a time when one could graduate from college with a “safe” at Industry Night. Photos: Alexis Ellers (’08), work, and the skills exercised in pulling it together, can form the foundation degree—in accounting, perhaps, or business, or engineering—and expect Cristina Rutter (photography of a professional portfolio. She stresses documentation of work because to get a job with a big, established company where one might work for years, major), Shane Welch (’10) students often want to throw away their projects at the end of the semester. decades, even an entire career. No more. “A portfolio creates an opportunity or presents one,” Giroux says, adding that these opportunities are not exclusively professional. A portfolio can help a That time expired years ago. People in the creative industries were never student measure progress or identify gaps in knowledge or skills that can be really part of that lifestyle, anyway. Creative careers are often marked by addressed with additional coursework or practice. entrepreneurship, freelance work, employment with smaller companies, and continual change. Employers and clients don’t make hiring decisions The portfolio-editing process continues throughout one’s career. Because based on a résumé and on-campus interview. They want to see evidence professional development is an ongoing process, the Portfolio Center offers a of talent, ability, knowledge, critical thinking, and flexibility—things best number of services for alumni, including workshops, networking opportunities, shown through examples of one’s work. and WebAgent, a website development and hosting service that makes it easy for alumni to build a site to share their work with industry professionals.

DEMO16 Industry Night wonderful feedback and constructive criticism. It gave me the opportunity to meet with the people I wish to be working for and see them as real people Sharing one’s body of work is critical to launching and sustaining a career instead of these untouchable, prodigious photographers that I could not even in the creative industries. Columbia brings leaders and influencers in these come close to, let alone talk to. It gave me a jumping point and practice to know industries—those who may eventually be hiring our students—to campus where to start looking and who to connect with. It was truly one of the most regularly, but not as interviewers in on-campus job fairs. That’s a model with memorable events in my college education, and I feel that it will help me get my little relevance to these disciplines or to the current job market. Instead, career started.” the Portfolio Center invites these professionals to give panel presentations on what they do, review student portfolios, and host workplace field trips. “It expands the number of opportunities to put Columbia students in front of people who have real expertise,” Long says. Industry Night Internships networking takes One of the most successful ways the college has found to bring students For many students, a good internship combines both portfolio development place all over and industry professionals together is Industry Night, now in its third year. and networking. Lyn Pusztai, internship and industry relations coordinator campus, with showcases and The campus-wide networking event, held during the final week of the spring for the Film & Video department, works with employers and students to portfolio reviews semester, connects graduating students with hundreds of professionals in make sure that the system benefits both sides. After all, the student is paying designed to best their fields. This year, 595 creative industry professionals registered to tuition for the for-credit internship, and the employer providing part of the represent each attend, and more than 600 students participated in showcases particular student’s education. discipline.

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to their disciplines. Because it is not a job fair, Long says that he hasn’t had a Pusztai notes that the portfolio is a blueprint for a student’s career, and any industry cancellations due to the economy. “They are interested in what recommends that they think about the type of work they would like to add to these young people are doing, and they are happy to lend a hand. It’s a great strong it, and how it will impress future employers, as they choose their internships. introduction to networking, which is how people get work in the long run.” “The Portfolio Center and the internship program work really well One graphic design student, whose Industry Night connection landed him a job body together,” says Lauren Walsh, a 2010 Film & Video graduate. “They with the Chicago-based digital agency Colossal Squid, credited the combination of do an amazing job of helping students take a look at their work so that of a good portfolio and networking skills with helping him succeed. it stands out in the best way.” Walsh hopes that her post-production “Connecting to creative careers requires a vastly different approach than work. internships lead to employment after graduation, but even if not, “I’ll traditional careers, and this is really the impetus for Industry Night,” says be leaving Columbia with a strong body of work.” Caroline Juhlin, assistant director of the Portfolio Center. “We want the ” Employers like the Columbia approach. “As a result of our non-pigeonholed students to be prepared to meet with people in their industries for feedback, approach to marketing, we need a special type of person. And we’ve found advice, and networking which may, directly or indirectly, immediately or after them in our hires from Columbia,” says Rob Albertson, managing director of a period of time, lead to jobs.” Bandwidth Marketing Group in Winnetka, Illinois. “Plus, they know how to get Photography student Joanna Aloysia Patterson understands the value of this around on the El.” preparation. “I spoke with at least 50 people,” she says, “all of whom gave me

DEMO18 DAN SCHWARZLOSE (M.F.A. ’06, Interdisciplinary Arts)

A two-week vacation to Cambodia in 2008 changed Dan Schwarzlose’s life—and perhaps many others’ as well.

While there, Schwarzlose visited some traditional music classes. Schwarzlose’s work in Cambodia is the latest chapter in a He learned that during the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge in the consistently fascinating artistic life. In 1998, he helped found the late 1970s, which targeted anyone suspected of being educated or Elastic Arts Foundation, a Chicago-based musicians’ cooperative intellectual, roughly 95 percent of all Cambodian musicians were that produces live music, readings, art, theater, and multimedia massacred. Today, just 15 traditional master musicians from that events. And while a student at Columbia, his work took another time remain, many of them elderly or in poor health. interesting turn. He has always been interested in multisensory art, so a friend suggested he check out Moto—the groundbreaking, Schwarzlose, a classically trained musician and artist who earned surrealistic Chicago restaurant run by chef Homaro Cantu. He an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media from Columbia in had dinner there and became fast friends with the chef. “We will save this music.” 2006, knew what he had to do. He returned to Chicago and gave notice at the Public Interest Law Initiative, where he had been “That meal literally changed my life,” Schwarzlose says. He wound working for six years. up spending four years with Cantu, touring the world and making “I do important stuff in Chicago, but I’m done,” he decided. videos of Cantu’s amazing creations. He helped create and write “I intend to go to Cambodia and save the music … I plan to be the first season of Cantu’s new reality show, Future Food, which there for decades. I will not stop.” He is working to raise money began airing in March on Planet Green. He hopes to continue and worldwide interest in Cambodian Living Arts, a group that is working with Cantu while living overseas. attempting to save Cambodia’s traditional music from extinction “I’ve fallen in love with Cambodia,” Schwarzlose says. “I’m studying by training young musicians at the feet of the few remaining the language and I’m committed to learning it and being fluent.” masters. He has invested thousands of his own dollars in the He now makes his home in Phnom Penh, and is struck by how cause, but hopes to secure grants and outside funding. welcoming the people are. “They love me and I love them.” “So many people know Cambodia for the horrible things the Khmer To learn more about Cambodian Living Arts, go to cambodianlivingarts.org. Rouge did,” Schwarzlose says. “There is no way I’m going to let To see a gallery of Schwarzlose’s photographs from Cambodia, find this those horrible people win 35 years later just because they almost story online at colum.edu/demo. wiped out the music. [Cambodian Living Arts] is something really beautiful and really positive.” —HEATHER LALLEY

Dan Schwarzlose (center) with Cambodian musicians Phoeun Sreypov (left) and Nhok Sinat. They performed at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in Chicago on April 20. Photo: Rachael Strecher (B.A. ’08).

DEMO20 What do a plastic surgeon, an heiress, and a disabled veteran have in common? Lawyers.

“The lawyers are the ones cutting the deals,” says John Hellerman, who cofounded the legal marketing company Hellerman Baretz Communications in 2001. “And we are with them in the middle of everything.” John Hellerman (B.A. ’95) Marketing Communication Hellerman and his Washington, D.C.-based team supply public relations advice to some of the largest law firms in the country. Hellerman Baretz’s services include everything from landing a lawyer an expert quote in the New York Times to combating a libelous tale in the media. Consider the heiress and the plastic surgeon: Said heiress tells the media the surgeon botched her nose job, and now the surgeon’s practice is at stake. So the surgeon’s lawyer sends him to Hellerman, who deflects the bad press by employing before and “You name a big story, after pictures that demonstrate the surgeon’s innocence. “We came in and made it go away,” Hellerman says. and we’re involved in some way.”

The agency won a PR News award for fending off the surgeon’s tabloid troubles, but Hellerman says his work on behalf of disabled veterans tops his list of recent achievements. For 20 years, a Vietnam War veteran fought the government for health benefits to help him with post-traumatic stress disorder, but it wasn’t until a couple of pro bono lawyers stepped in and enlisted Hellerman that doors started opening. With Hellerman’s support, the veteran became one of the major characters in an American Legion magazine three-part feature story about the enormous backlog of unresolved benefits claims. “As a result of that piece, Congress held hearings,” Hellerman says. “These guys got their day, and they got their benefits.”

John Hellerman. Hellerman says there is no limit to what issues he covers in a single Photo: Howard Korn (M.F.A. ’93) day, but he does carry one motto with him at all times: be genuine. It’s something he picked up from a communications class taught by Mort Kaplan at Columbia College. “I really took it to heart,” Hellerman says. “It always seemed to me to be the path of least resistance if you’re honest about what you can accomplish and what you can achieve.” Spoken like a true diplomat.

—Nora O’Donnell

DEMO1622 Photo: Panel discussion featuring Brian Caunter, Frank Vincent, John W. Bosher, and Danny Goldring at Columbia Night at the 45th Chicago International Film Festival. See Special Events.

Photos (from left): Media Production Center Gala Kick-Off. Photo: Vandell Cobb (B.A. ’75). G a l l e r I e s See Special Events.

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Paula McCartney, Pacific Mockingbird, 2008. Photo courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York. See Galleries. DEMO24 Midway through Chicago band Big Arts, Entertainment and Media the pop-rap act Black Eyed Peas and Science’s mid-May record release Management (AEMM) department— country-pop singer Taylor Swift—but concert at Subterranean, a nightclub has undergone changes recently to increasingly, musicians are reaching in Wicker Park, lead singer Jason give students a better sense of how much smaller, niche audiences and Hendrix pauses to express his the real-world music business is relying on concert performances and gratitude. operating today. other sources to generate revenue.

“This song is off our new release on Since mid-1999, when the online file “We’re in a cultural shift,” says Nan AEMMP Records,” Hendrix calls out sharing service Napster enabled the Warshaw, cofounder of Bloodshot to the near-capacity crowd, referring widespread exchange of music files Records, an independent label in to Columbia College Chicago’s via the Internet, unauthorized file Chicago. Warshaw earned a master’s degree in arts, entertainment and media management in 1994, the same year Bloodshot released its first record. $943 76.4 $14.32 The label continues to put out a Statistics from the Recording steady stream of records, focusing Industry of America (RIAA) indicate the dramatic shift on acts that mix country music twang that has taken place in the with punk rock fervor, but now sells music industry. CD sales have far fewer of them than it did a few fallen significantly, as sales of $7.69 years ago. “We have to do everything digital albums (downloaded via much more frugally as well as being iTunes and other services) have increased since 2004, the first incredibly creative,” Warshaw says. year for which the RIAA has 293 “You have to add unique items to figures. Overall music sales in every release to make it so that all formats (including singles, people think it’s worth paying for.” cassettes, vinyl, etc.) have dropped by nearly half since $4.6 2000. (All figures are for sales Justin Sinkovich, the head in the United States alone.) 2000 2009 2004 2009 2000 2009 instructor for the AEMMP Records class, is uniquely prepared to help orient Columbia’s students digital overall to the music industry’s rapidly CD sales album sales music sales (in millions) (in millions) all formats (in billions) changing landscape. He grew up in Nashville and was working in the music industry before he was Big Science (from left: Jason a teenager, packing boxes for his Hendrix, Jason Richards, Jeremy Pena, and Jason Clark). The student-run record label. “I’d like to sharing has become rampant, even father’s management company and band released an album this dedicate it to the students for all the though courts in the United States record label. In the 15 years since spring on Columbia’s AEMMP work they did.” The tribute draws and other countries have ruled he received his business degree Records label. exuberant cheers from the audience. repeatedly that it violates copyright. from the University of Tennessee At the same time, sales of compact at Knoxville, Sinkovich has (among By Kevin McKeough Big Science resumes its set, a disks have plummeted, a trend the other things) founded Epitonic.com, well-played take on late-’70s post- Recording Industry of America (RIAA) a popular website that offered free, punk indebted to bands like the blames on unauthorized file sharing. legal music downloads (the global Buzzcocks and Joy Division. The multimedia company Palm Pictures “We have to band’s music hearkens back to a In response, major record labels acquired Epitonic.com in 2000); do everything decade before most of Columbia’s have consolidated, laid off throngs of spent four years managing digital much more current students were born. The employees, and slashed their rosters distribution for the late, legendary RockColumbia’s Curriculum RespondsSteady to an Industry Upheaval frugally as music industry, however, has gone of recording acts. Once-behemoth Chicago-based label Touch and Go well as being through an upheaval in the last retail chains such as Tower Records Records; run his own label, File 13 incredibly decade, and AEMMP Records— have gone out of business, along Records; and been a singer and creative” along with other elements of the with thousands of independent guitarist in three bands—the latest, —Nan Warshaw (M.A. ’94) undergraduate music business record stores. Acts that can sell the Poison Arrows, will release a Owner, Bloodshot Records concentration offered by Columbia’s millions of records still exist—witness record on File 13 in August.

DEMO26 In the midst of it all, Sinkovich earned During the course of working with a repeatedly due to problems in the and Simmons have expanded the At Sinkovich’s suggestion, AEMMP label’s A&R (artist and repertoire) a masters of arts management from band, AEMMP students determine recording and production process, scope of the students’ involvement had a presence for the first time representative to Pet Lions, helped Columbia in 2007. After teaching part a budget for the group’s record and the Big Science record and beyond putting out the record itself. this year at South by Southwest, convince the band to attend South time at the college for several years, and related promotion, negotiate related merchandise only arrived Assignments now include band the sprawling music-industry by Southwest and arranged their he joined the faculty full-time in 2009. a contract with the band, help see the day before the band’s record management, publishing, and an conference and showcase held four separate performances at the When he did, he restructured the them through the recording process, release show. increased emphasis on booking each March in Austin, Texas. The conference. This experience, and class built around running AEMMP determine the quantity of compact concert performances, including the students arranged for a daytime Sinkovich’s connections, landed Records, which was founded in 1982. disks and vinyl albums that will be “The joke is that if something goes Big Science release show. Simmons party that featured performances her an internship this summer released, arrange for the record’s wrong, you’re getting the most “I was always points out that this shift realistically by the label’s bands. They picked at Flower Booking, a Chicago The class had been starting over from production, coordinate the design realistic, hands-on training in what able to connect reflects the direction of the music the venue, found sponsors, booked agency that arranges concert scratch every academic year, with and photography involved in the it’s like to work at a record label, the dots and industry, as record labels sign artists to the bands (who were paid for their performances for alternative students signing local bands to the cover art, handle publicity and because that always happens,” understand that “360” deals that encompass concert performances), and even manned rock acts. label in the fall, helping them through promotion, and make sure all the says Kegan Simmons, an adjunct much of what tours, merchandising, sponsorship, the soundboard during the sets. “The joke is that the recording process, then releasing non-students involved get paid— professor at Columbia and former AEMMP does is and licensing music for use in To make the long trip worth the This past spring, she also interned if something the record in the spring. Now AEMMP essentially, everything involved in retail director and digital distributions what normal television, films, and advertising. bands’ time, the students also at Minty Fresh Records, a local goes wrong, operates throughout the year, with running a record label. manager for Bloodshot Records, record labels arranged other opportunities independent label. “I was always you’re getting some students joining or staying who began helping teach the AEMMP do. We definitely “Now it’s part management company, for them to perform, including a able to connect the dots and the most with the class during the summer Along with developing business, class this spring. part marketing company, part product party AEMMP co-sponsored with understand that much of what term. The students are spending this management, and communication went through company. It’s becoming a media Universal Motown Republic Group, AEMMP does is what normal record realistic, hands- summer promoting Big Science’s skills, they experience the difficulties Building on a shift in approach initiated the trials and company focused around music,” a part of the Universal Music Group labels do,” says Mourino, who on training in record, releasing a 7-inch vinyl single of working in the music business, by David Lewis and Martin Atkins, who tribulations of says Daniel Zarick, a senior with a conglomerate, where a Columbia graduated in May with a degree what it’s like by another local band, Pet Lions, and from budget limitations and taught the AEMMP Records course any independent combined major in AEMM and graphic student had an internship. in arts, entertainment and media to work at a assembling a mix tape, scheduled for scheduling conflicts to creative in 2008-09, and with support from record label.” arts, who was chosen by his fellow management. “We definitely went record label.” a fall release, that marks AEMMP’s temperaments. The release of the AEMM’s new Music Business program —Naomie Mourino (B.A. ’10) students to be the manager of all Naomie Mourino, a student in the through the trials and tribulations —Kegan Simmons (faculty, AEMM) first foray into hip-hop. Pet Lions single had to be postponed coordinator Jerry Brindisi, Sinkovich AEMMP Records student things Big Science-related. AEMMP class who has acted as the of any independent record label.”

Students in the spring 2010 AEMMP Records class. Left photo: Ren Volpi Neto, Calid Bowen (Jamie Gooden in background). Right photo: Naomie Mourino, Per Ohrstrom (wearing glasses), Trevor Geiger.

Jim DeRogatis. Photo: Marty Perez

Writing a New Career Chapter

Rock critic Jim DeRogatis joins Columbia faculty to help students navigate a new media landscape

Arts, Entertainment and Media This fall, he’ll teach two sections reporting and maintain their watchdog Management isn’t the only Columbia of Reviewing the Arts, the class that role. On the other hand, he points out, department that’s attracting media- first brought him to Columbia, and the Internet offers more opportunities industry veterans. In the fall of a course in careers in writing that for talented writers to express their 2009, Chicago Sun-Times rock critic will encompass public relations, views. “It’s easier for anybody with an Jim DeRogatis came to the college marketing, blogging, and print opinion to get it out there as quick or as an adjunct professor of English. journalism. He’ll also continue to quicker than you can for a professional He has since left the Sun-Times co-host, with Chicago Tribune rock news organization,” he says. and joined Columbia as a full-time critic Greg Kot, Sound Opinions, a talk faculty member. DeRogatis says show focusing on popular music that “I remain optimistic that a diligent that it was simply the right time is syndicated nationally by Chicago reporter who’s a talented writer to make the jump given the Public Radio. with a story no one else has is going unsteadiness of the Sun-Times, to remain something of worth,” which nearly folded last year before DeRogatis worries that, on one hand, DeRogatis says. “How much worth being purchased by Chicago financier newspapers’ struggles are reducing and what institution remains to pay James Tyree. their ability to support in-depth for that reporter remains to be seen.”

DEMO28 The AEMM program is responding to the class, we could provide solutions best brand yourself, how do you stay music industry’s convulsions in ways and decision-making processes true to what you’re doing and attach that extend beyond AEMMP Records. so they make thoughtful, well- value and make money from it?” In each of the past two semesters, educated decisions, whether they Sinkovich taught a course titled New were managing a band, an artist Brian McKinney, an AEMM major with Media Strategies, which focuses themselves, or have their own small a music business concentration, took on online and mobile wireless music record label,” Powers says. “You both Powers’s and Kaskie’s classes. sales, promotion, and legal issues. “It’s a have to continually readapt, because “They were like a one-two punch that Columbia College Chicago The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation states that pretty key element, because obviously, there’s not a fixed model anymore.” anyone who wants to be in the music Photography Faculty its prestigious fellowships “are awarded to men and women who that’s where the music industry is business needs to take,” he says. John Simon Guggenheim have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive “You have to shifting right now,” Sinkovich says. Another new instructor, Chris Kaskie, scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” continually Accordingly, the merchandise table at is the publisher and chief operating McKinney is already in the music Memorial Foundation Fellows With eight Guggenheim Fellows currently on faculty, Columbia College Chicago readapt, because the Big Science show sold cards with officer of Pitchfork Media, the wildly business himself. A former Marine couldn’t agree more. * These are artists for whom taking a picture is no trivial there’s not a codes for online downloads of their popular online music magazine. who served in Iraq, he runs a By Elizabeth Burke-Dain matter. With their ages spanning a range of 50 years, some were taking pictures fixed model record, Skyscraper Sound. Kaskie taught Decision Making in publicity company, 1-Up PR, and before the youngest of them was born. They’ve entered the field at a variety of anymore.” the Music Business during both a label, Chocolate Lab Records. See more at points in the evolution of photography—some at a time, in the twentieth century, —Jim Powers, owner, Students also benefit from the the fall and spring terms, guiding McKinney founded Chocolate Lab colum.edu/demo/portfolio12 when photography still fit uncomfortably under the purview of “fine art,” with even Minty Fresh Records experience of several high-profile students through considerations in 2009 to release a record by art critics deeming it merely depictive; others more recently, at a time when the medium has become so fully integrated into the contemporary canon that such notions seem stunningly naïve and imperceptive. * Each of the Columbia faculty who holds the title of Guggenheim Fellow has created works that possess a timeless quality; each strikes a visual balance that can only be achieved through a long-standing commitment to craft and the palpable, though in some cases unnerving, ring of truth. Columbia College Chicago stands taller as a result of their presence on campus.

Left photo: Students in the spring 2010 AEMMP Records class: Brian Starr, Kevin Dawoud Cornell, Daniel Zarick, Chris Hemstreet, members of Chicago’s music industry about issues such as contracts, Andy Yorke, a 1-Up client and the Chadd Kline (instructor Justin Sinkovich Bey in background). Right photo: Assistant who teach courses at Columbia. Last publishing, licensing, and intellectual brother of Radiohead lead singer Professor Justin Sinkovich. All photos by fall, Jim Powers, the founder and property. In addition to case studies Thom Yorke. He now has six artists Dawoud Bey has been photographing Andrew Nelles (B.A. ‘08) except Big Science owner of Minty Fresh Records, taught drawn from his experience as a signed to the label. young people for more than 15 photo, page, 26, by Christopher Free. the Independent Label Management music industry observer, he offered years. His choice of teenagers as class. “I was just bringing some of students a first-hand perspective McKinney relished the chance his collaborators and subjects the principles that have guided my when Apple Corp. acquired and then to review the budgets for Minty “stems from a real belief that this reasoning and some of the lessons I’ve decided to shut down Lala, an online Fresh CD releases that Powers society, in spite of all the rhetoric, learned to the table for young people service that Pitchfork used to stream brought into class and hear the really does not care as much about that are interested in getting into this music on its website. insights Kaskie shared about how young people as it purports to,” he field,” says Powers, who has run Minty to successfully pitch coverage of an has said. Bey’s representation of a Fresh for 17 years and previously In response to the file-sharing-driven artist to Pitchfork. “It’s very nice to diverse population of adolescents worked for the major labels Geffen expectation that music should be have people who have been in the and young adults offers a thoughtful Records and BMG International. free, Kaskie challenged his class industry give that kind of feedback,” examination into how this group has to think creatively about how to he says. “When I’m in classes with been traditionally described within Powers’s students already were create value for it. “The students people like that, my mind starts our visual culture. Bey is a professor involved in various music-related ultimately are the ones who will be racing. I want to run out of the of art at Columbia, where he has projects, and much of the class in the workforce and charged with classroom and go to my computer taught since 1998. He was awarded focused on assessing actual fixing things,” he says. “How do you at home and immediately apply it the Guggenheim in 2002. situations they were facing. “As a distribute your music, how do you to what I’m doing.” Dawoud Bey, Elizabeth, Chicago, 2008

DEMO30 Anna Shteynshleyger The fierceness of Anna Shteynshleyger’s work is revealed in the steely-eyed stares of her subjects. Shteynshleyger creates an iconography that is steeped in her Russian-Jewish ancestry. Her specialty is the matriarch, the Terry protectress, which is evidenced in Evans the titles of her works: The Nest, Mother’s Room, Grandmother, and Terry Evans’s image of a here, Portrait with Mordecai, which decaying bed amid the wreckage shows Shteynshleyger as a pregnant of an abandoned farmhouse is woman sitting with her husband and a testament to her genius for stopping only for a moment to pose seeing the quilted American for the picture. Shteynshleyger is landscape not only from the air— adjunct faculty at Columbia, where as in the aerial views for which she has taught since 2003. She was she is best known—but from awarded the Guggenheim in 2009. a more intimate perspective Anna Shteynshleyger, Portrait with Mordecai, 2003 as well. The earthy brown and palomino hues of the fields she photographs from above are part of the rich palette that enlivens all of her photographs. Evans is adjunct faculty at Columbia, where she has taught since 2001. She was awarded the Guggenheim in 1996.

Terry Evans, Bed, Mattfield Green, 1990 - 1998

Brian Paul Ulrich D’Amato Brian Ulrich infuses many of Paul D’Amato’s portraits are a his photographs with a wry result of a unique collaboration acceptance and commentary in which his subjects scrutinize on American consumerism. In him as the photographer while Powerhouse Gym, a dead franchise he scrutinizes them through the being sold for scrap symbolizes an lens of both his camera and his economic fall, but also represents creative intent. “It’s a collaboration the opportunity to find a deal. that suggests that differences The optimistic “yes” is a double- can be transcended by the simple edged sword, depending on act of one individual looking at who benefits from the economic another,” says the artist. D’Amato equation. Ulrich has been adjunct is an associate professor of faculty since 2004 and earned photography. He has taught at an M.F.A. from Columbia in 2007. Columbia full time since 2001, He was awarded the Guggenheim and was awarded the Guggenheim in 2009. in 2004.

Brian Ulrich, Powerhouse Gym, 2008 Paul D’Amato, Boy by a Pool, 2005

DEMO34 Melissa Ann Pinney From a core series of photographs of her daughter, Emma, Pinney’s project “Girl Ascending” has evolved into a pictorial study of emerging female identity, with all its Barbara promises and perils. The pictures reflect both the ways Kasten in which a girl’s world in 2010 Barbara Kasten, the rare differs from the world Pinney abstract photographer, creates knew growing up in the 1960s photographs that depict a and the ways in which the performative interplay of light formation of self transcends and shadow. Having started out time and place. Pinney has as a painter, she did not think been adjunct faculty at of herself as a photographer even Columbia since 1985. She after she began taking pictures. was awarded the Guggenheim Her studio is set up with tableaux in 1999. of Plexiglas sheets that she Melissa Ann Pinney, Kyra and Emma, 2008, From the book Girl Ascending, forthcoming from configures and photographs. the Center for American Places at Columbia She is currently enjoying a College Chicago. resurgence of interest in the work she has pursued for many years. Kasten is an associate professor at Columbia, where she has taught full time since 1998. She was awarded the Bob Guggenheim in 1982.

Barbara Kasten, Studio Construct 51, 2007 Thall The Lake Michigan that Bob Thall conjures is not the frolicksome Chicago lakefront of summer, but that of its relentless winter. The black-and-white images convey a chill that only real Chicagoans know and, in their own way, often covet as a badge of honor. Thall’s lakefront images belong to a tradition of picture-making that prizes compositional spareness and restraint. Thall is associate professor and chair of the photography department, where he has taught since 1983. He was awarded the Guggenheim in 1998.

Bob Thall, Chicago (Montrose Pier), 2003

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Bobcat Country titled “My Mother Can’t Stand this a neo film noir in black-and-white storyline. The Amateurs shows that if reader smack dab into the middle The Rockabillies and they weren’t losing sleep over members of the rockabilly subculture, By Brandi Homan Poem” and “Mobile Homecoming.” print. It packs a punch—not in such he were ever an amateur at writing of his experience at Cowherd with By Jennifer Greenburg the economy, AIDS, or Roe v. Wade.” felt “defeated and hopeless” as [Shearsman Books, 2010. “Good China” begins with the line, shorthand as smoke-filled shadows, thrillers, those days are gone. The the students and colleagues he [Center for American Places, She found “a subculture of people the nation entered a period of 80 pages, $15.00 paperback] “My ex-future-mother-in-law used to but in its pervasive doom. Sakey guy’s a pro. encounters there, such as breaking 2009. 100 pages, $50.00 who had mostly turned away from the “mediocrity and fundamentalism.” Reviewed by Jessi Lee Gaylord, be a cop,” and gives a history of family administers a workmanlike tale of up a fight, trying to stop a teen hardcover] horrors of contemporary American Mast points out that rockabilly culture, (M.F.A. ’09) china collected one piece at time at greed and cunning, both great and from getting her ears pierced in Reviewed by Ann Wiens culture to focus on family, friends, neither anti-establishment nor gas station sales. “Recurring Dream petty, in his fourth novel. Four casual Accidental Lessons: the hallway, attending a student’s music, and vintage Americana.” fundamentalist, is “an inward-looking” Bobcat Country scrutinizes the barns, House" sprawls along the lineage drinking buddies cajole each other A Memoir of a Rookie baseball game on a weeknight, In this book of carefully composed, version of conservatism. Incorporating backyards, and bedrooms of the of divorce, sibling secrets, and the into one of the author’s patented Teacher and a Life Renewed his continual efforts to help his color-saturated photographs—nearly This escapism may seem irresponsibly a strong shared aesthetic to identify Midwest. Brandi Homan, a 2007 M.F.A. vestiges of what they leave behind. “good-people-in-over-their-heads” By David W. Berner students engage in their learning all of them portraits—Jennifer naïve on a level, but Greenburg’s one another, the rockabillies seek to poetry graduate and the editor-in-chief dilemmas when a foolproof victimless [Strategic Book Publishing, and improve their academics, and Greenburg offers entry into the subjects knowingly pick and choose build a like-minded community while of Switchback Books, renders poems Homan examines the ripple effect of crime goes haywire. It never occurs 2009. 174 pages, $12.95 the heartbreaking news that the rockabilly subculture of which she the elements that define their leaving the rest of the world alone. of personal history simultaneously childhood with chagrin and tenderness to them that crimes sometimes come paperback] mother of one of his students has is both participant and observer. subculture. They create a fantasy Greenburg’s book gives a fascinating infatuated and repulsed by the past. In with lines like, “I grew up in a nice in pairs. Part of the fun is in guessing Reviewed by Dan Godston been murdered. Taken between 2001 and 2009, lifestyle modeled on fictionalized glimpse into their world. “Welcome to Bobcat Country,” Homan house on the good side of town with / just how many ways the scheme can mostly in the Chicago area (where depictions of an ideal from an era dissects a slice of American pie, leaving parents who loved me and a shotgun go wrong. The answer is, all of them. Accidental Lessons is David W. One remarkable quality of the Greenburg, who teaches photography before most of them were born—with the reader holding a dirty knife with lines rack in the basement. For / vacation Berner’s eloquently crafted memoir memoir is Berner’s candid portrayal at Columbia, lives), the photos initially total self-awareness. As Greenburg Blues Before Sunrise: like, “We carved initials into our ankles, money, my mother worked part-time at The story shifts points of view between of experiences as a rookie teacher of himself during a time when his appear to have been shot about 50 notes, her interest in this vision of the The Radio Interviews rode to funerals in pick-up / trucks. Wal-Mart. / My friends and I wore Daisy three more-or-less alpha males and at Cowherd Middle School in Aurora, life seems to be coming apart at years earlier. past allows her “to be the architect By Steve Cushing; We knew the deceased all our lives, Dukes and steel-toe boots.” Later she a female travel agent who becomes Illinois. The memoir also brings in a the seams. He vividly conveys a of a dream world constructed entirely foreword by Jim O’Neal whose dad beat / who, whose sister writes, “Someone’s looking down on more than friends with more than one constellation of events and situations precarious time as he struggled In the book’s introduction, Greenburg in my own imagination.” [University of Illinois Press, got locked in the dog kennel.” Homan my kinds of comfort.” Bobcat delivers of them. A timid doorman who is tired that changed his life during that with difficulties, opened himself to explains how her involvement in 2010. 256 pages, $25 takes an ice pick to the coming-of-age- a Midwestern pastoral with exacting of being a doormat colludes with a year: his decision to leave a career new possibilities, and dealt with the close-knit rockabilly community In her insightful contribution to the paperback] in-Iowa motif with provocative results. detail and a sheepish sense of humor, coke-y broker and a sympathetic but as a broadcast journalist, his divorce epiphanies rising from tumultuous initially evolved from a shared book, “The Culture, Style, and Art of Reviewed by Suzanne Flandreau reminding us how it felt to have our feet financially desperate bartender. All of and its effect on his kids, his father’s change. He writes that, toward the aesthetic. That particular aesthetic— the Rockabillies,” essayist Audrey Bobcat is a departure thematically propped on a sun-hot dash, singing these appealing characters engage in death, and an offer of a tenure-track end of his year as an instructor at with its poodles and pompadours; Michelle Mast contextualizes these Steve Cushing, a 1974 graduate and stylistically from Homan’s first along to Guns N’ Roses as our youth some wrestling over loyalty and moral position in Columbia College’s Cowherd, “Much of what happened crinolines and credenzas; dinette people’s commitment “not just as an of Columbia’s Radio department, book, Hard Reds (Shearsman Books, flew by. relativism, while the menacing bad guys Radio department. at the school in those last few weeks sets, tiki bars, and pin curls—is aesthetic, but as an identity.” Mast hosted the program Blues Before 2008). Whereas the poems in Hard do whatever they want—a big advantage became wired to my psyche. All that emblematic of an era of optimism, a invokes Jean Baudrillard’s concept of Sunrise for years on WBEZ in Chicago. Reds are methodically sculpted, for them. The main action occurs in Berner’s use of language is striking, seemed foreign months ago now felt fictional America of happy suburban the simulacrum to explain the nature Blues Before Sunrise, the book, is Bobcat is written in a fly-by-the-seat- The Amateurs and around a Lincoln Avenue bar; the and he has a sharp eye for detail oddly normal. Less than a year ago, I families with stylish cars, bright-eyed of this lifestyle, in which the invented an edited compilation of interviews of-your-pants verse that flirts with By Marcus Sakey setting is effortlessly Chicago in the new that makes the narrative compelling. was clueless about what I was getting children, and easy lives. The craving or created lifestyle is “neither a with blues personalities from the prose. While Hard Reds revolves [Dutton, 2009. 384 pages, Depression. The pace of action moves He describes walking into Cowherd into, where my life was headed. But for this American dream is at the likeness nor a copy of historical radio show. Cushing interviewed around romantic relationships, $25.95 hardcover] from a leisurely checker match to an for the first time: “The glass doors Cowherd and its students had made subculture’s center: the rockabillies, reality,” but a newly invented truth, a spectrum of individuals: record Bobcat delves into how relationships Reviewed by Kevin Riordan explosion of game theory stratagems had what appeared to be permanent a mark on me, a cattle brand seared Greenburg notes, were “actively more real than that which inspired it. producers and record company with family and the past are indelibly as the stakes exponentially rise. smudges on them; there were into my soul.” Accidental Lessons pursuing a 1950s lifestyle of marrying owners, radio personalities, and transposed over the present. In our era of TV on telephones and chips out of the side glass panels, brims with memorable touches of young, moving to the suburbs, and Greenburg recalls her own many musicians ranging from the backlit bestsellers, Marcus Sakey (’06) One of Sakey’s gifts is a cinematic blemishes left from someone Berner’s personal odyssey through a having children. They did not care disillusionment with Bush-era well-known to local characters who Bobcat is a family portrait with poems has given us a refreshing crossover, power to propel you along his throwing stones.” He brings the pivotal time in his life. much for the ins and outs of politics... America; how she, and other never found the national limelight. He

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divides the book into three sections: indicate what a cutthroat business Despite the relentless yoke of TheC rack Between the Worlds: “Ancient Age,” recounting the earliest it was, a theme reinforced in the industrial and domestic servitude, A Dancer’s Memoir of Loss, years of blues as popular music musicians’ interviews as well. the story is not one without beauty Faith, and Family (Yank Rachell, Alberta Hunter, Jesse or tenderness: an army of butterflies By Maggie Kast Thomas, the Grey Ghost); “Postwar Cushing’s editing preserves the covers the town, a child is born in a [Resource Publications, 2009. Glory,” focusing mainly on Chicago interviewees’ colorful turns of phrase, pumpkin patch beneath the stars, 220 pages, $25 paperback] (John and Grace Brim, Jody Williams, adding to the reader’s pleasure. and lifelong friendships are formed. At the peak of her modern dance Rev. Johnny Williams, Little Hudson); Blues fans will enjoy dipping into Moments of laughter or kindness career, Kast loses her three- CoolConnections: and “Esoterica” (Tommy Brown, Ralph this volume, either to follow up on a are resonant amidst Thirsty’s grime, year-old daughter and begins a Bass, Cadillac Baby, and Richard favorite musician or to learn firsthand giving Klara (and the reader) the pilgrimage to discover the sacred y O U N G A l umn i F orm N e t work i ng G roup Stamz), while including other aspects about the blues in general. strength to go on. through art and faith. Kast of the blues recording industry. teaches Writing and Rhetoric O’Keeffe, who earned an M.F.A. in part time at Columbia. After much discussion and a nudging All three were highly involved with venues, such as Villain’s Bar & Grill, Cushing’s interviews are universally Thirsty writing from Columbia in 1996, covers “dare” from Director of Alumni Columbia as students and remain an establishment in the South interesting, as he lets the musicians By Kristen Bair O’Keeffe a vast span of years in this slim Bun, Onion, Burger Relations Josh Culley-Foster (B.A. committed to contributing as alumni. Loop owned by a former Columbia talk, interjecting questions mainly for [Swallow Press, 2009. 208 pages, novel, yet sacrifices neither depth nor By Peter Mandel, Illustrated ’03), television grads Justin Kulovsek “I believe in Columbia and the mission student, which hosted an April clarification. Though he is a record $22.95 hardcover] nuance. Thirsty is a story of suffering, by Chris Eliopoulous (B.A. ’04) and Maggie Ness (B.A. ’06) of the college,” says Kulovsek. “I want gathering. “We want people to come collector, most of the time he avoids Reviewed by Geoff Hyatt (M.F.A. ’09) perseverance, and ultimately of hope. [Simon & Schuster, 2010. took on the challenge of founding students to know that when they here to see their friends, network emphasizing recording sessions, a Elegant prose and rich period detail 30 pages, $12.99 hardcover] a networking group specifically for graduate from Columbia, they are with other alumni, and just have fun,” trap many collector/interviewers fall Thirsty’s title refers to the turn-of-the- make for an absorbing and often A family’s backyard cookout Columbia graduates in the early welcome back to the school.” says Ness. into. Recording sessions are usually of nineteenth-century steel-milling town heart-wrenching read. is brought to life by Mandel’s years of their college-to-career However, after attending alumni Events rely on alumni connections and little interest to general readers, and in which it largely takes place, where cheerful rhymes and Chris transitions. They launched the functions, they were disappointed donations—such as a Flip Video camera very often the musicians are fuzzy on the inhabitants’ lives are stained by more . . . Eliopoulous’s (B.F.A. ’07) playful Columbia Young Alumni group in To get involved by the absence of recent graduates. donated as a door prize at a recent the details anyway. Instead, we hear the industry’s poisonous emanations illustrations. February of 2010 with an event at “We were the youngest people at the gathering. The group is completely how to approach a recording from and bloody hazards. At the center of Why I Am a Buddhist: visit colum.edu/alumni or contact Kasey’s Tavern in Chicago. majority of the events, yet we knew a self-funded. “We are not taking a dime twenties classic blues singer Alberta this is Klara Bozic, a young Croatian No Nonsense Buddhism with Consumer Research for Marty Kane at [email protected] ton of recent alumni who would enjoy from the college,” says Ness. Hunter, and a railroad-by-railroad immigrant who has crossed the sea to Kulovsek is a media strategy Red Meat and Whiskey Museum Markets: Audience or Cyn Vargas at 312. 369.8640. being involved,” says Kulovsek. description of hoboing to gigs in Texas settle in a town where people come not By Stephen Asma Insights Money Can’t Buy specialist for the Nielsen Company With several events under their from the Grey Ghost. Most of the to live, but to die. Her old-world struggles [Hampton Roads Publishing By Margot A. Wallace and Ness works for PBS member Young Alumni events are targeted belts, Kane, Kulovsek, and Ness Chicago interviewees (Jody Williams, are not alleviated in America; Drago, Company, 2010. 179 pages, [Altamira Press, 2010. 179 station WTTW–11. In a combined toward those who have graduated are excited about the Young Alumni the Brims) include anecdotes about her explosively tempered husband, $21.95 hardcover] pages, $24.95 paperback] effort, Kulovsek and Ness founded within the past 10 years, and are group’s future. “Columbia is so cool, other Chicago bluesmen, such as compounds them. The powerlessness Columbia philosophy faculty Margot Wallace, associate Social Media Makers, a boutique publicized primarily via social and it has a young community here John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, and misery of factory work fuel a member Stephen Asma’s newest professor of marketing firm specializing in social media and marketing through Facebook, that is such an untapped resource,” Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, and drunken rage he unleashes on his work explores the balance communication at Columbia, digital branding. Marty Kane (B.A. Twitter, and email. “We each invite says Ness. Kulovsek agrees, adding, Muddy Waters. Little Hudson relives family, an affliction he shares with between ancient wisdom and creatively instructs museums on ’06), a musician who also works in people we’re friends with, people “It’s all about bridging the gap and the night John Lee Williamson died, many men in Thirsty. The specter of this modern life, and how a “second how to study visitors and make Above: Justin Kulovsek (B.A. ’04), the Office of Academic Initiatives and we know have an affiliation with continuing to network, young alumni and Jody Williams recalls Little violence haunts the next generation, nature” of Buddhist devotion can exhibits, programs, and shops Maggie Ness (B.A. ’06), and Marty Kane International Programs at Columbia, Columbia, and word spreads though (B.A. ’06) relax at a Columbia Young to young alumni.” Walter’s fondness for Cadillacs. The forcing mother and daughter to co-exist with one’s own innate more appealing for all segments Alumni event at Villain’s Bar and Grill. came on board early on and rounded our social networks,” says Kane. representatives of the record industry confront their shared demons. human tendencies. of the public. Photo: Lenny Gilmore. out the leadership committee. Events are hosted in casual Chicago —Becca James (’11)

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Chicago Joan Hammel (B.A. ’86) Penelope Cagney (M.A. ’88) has Mauro Fiore (B.A. ’87) won the and work history were noted alongside DEAR ALUMNI, [email protected] 1970s been appointed to the 2009-10 board 2010 Academy Award for Best those of such notables as Oprah Winfrey New York Metro chapter leaders Atlanta of directors of the Arizona Costume Cinematography for his work on Avatar. and Chris Rock. Alumni often contact us looking for career assistance and continuing Allen D. Edge (’78) serves as Susan Fore (B.A. ’99) Institute. She has also been selected to Mauro was responsible for the live- chairman of the board of directors for educational opportunities. The central goals of the Office of Alumni Relations [email protected] participate as a consultant in a capacity- action sequences in the blockbuster Calvin Townsell (B.A. ’87) is an actor are to build a stronger community and to provide additional advantages to Christian Artists Network and Agape building program jointly sponsored by film, which was filmed on location who performed in regional productions Denver Columbia alumni. Your degree has immeasurable value, and we hope to Youth Development and Family Support the Arizona State University Lodestar in New Zealand. He was also the in the ’90s and is now returning to the Pat Blum (B.A. ’84) Services. He is the founder and president Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit cinematographer for the summer 2010 field professionally. increase that value by continuing to add benefits and services for alumni. [email protected] To that end, I would like to direct you to the careers section of our alumni of Transitions Edge Productions Inc., Management and the Virginia G. Piper flick The A-Team. He visited Columbia Detroit which is committed to the effective website, colum.edu/alumnijobs. There you will find a comprehensive list Charitable Trust for 2010. She is featured in February as part of the college’s Patrick Duffy (B.A. ’02) communication of Christ Jesus through at Fundraisingscenarios.com as one of 18 Conversations in the Arts series. s of the career resources Columbia provides for you. [email protected] 1990 the performing arts and media. fundraising experts. In 2009, she received Some of the highlights are: Las Vegas the President’s Award from the greater Jeanette Hablewitz (B.A. ’85) is a Lana Bramlette’s (B.A. ’97) fine gold C. J. Hill (B.A. ’99) Margaret Jamison (B.A. ’73) worked Phoenix chapter of AFP for outstanding teaching partner with the Hawaiian Arts jewelry has been featured on magazine > WebAgent: Show off your best work through your own personalized [email protected] as an archive researcher for PBS’s service and excellence in education. Alliance. She is teaching visual art to covers (Lucky, the New York Times’ T website. Columbia will host your portfolio site for FREE. Los Angeles American Masters: Sam Cooke Crossing children in kindergarten through fifth Magazine), TV shows (Sex & the City, Over, which aired on January 11, 2010. > Workshops and career networking: Whether it’s a new version P. A. Cadichon (B.A. ’01) Lori Carr’s (B.A. ’87) photography was grade and working to expose children Weeds, Cashmere Mafia), and feature Margaret is the owner of Amethyst films (The Back-Up Plan). Her celebrity of a software package, a social networking how-to, or a professional [email protected] exhibited in February at the Love Show, with learning disabilities and autism to Integrity Productions and publicist to D. a multifaceted celebration of love in all the visual arts. fans include Angelina Jolie, Cameron development seminar, we want to help you succeed. Check the alumni Nashville Channsin Berry, producer/director; David of its forms—from beautiful to brutal, Diaz, Kate Hudson, Halle Berry, and Ross Rylance (B.A. ’84) events page on our website for more information about workshops in H. Jenkins, fine arts photographer; and [email protected] heartfelt to hilarious—as translated Mike Harvey (B.A. ’89) was named top Katherine Heigl. Visit lanajewelry.com. Chicago and elsewhere, and the CAAN: Connect series on the West Coast. Judith Grand Pré Smith, artist. through the Denver art community. account executive for Sun-Times Media’s New York Metro Visit loricarrphotography.com. Corporate/National Team, first quarter, Tamatha Conaway (B.A. ’96) is an > New partnerships: For alumni in mid- to late career transitions, we offer James “Woody” Woodward (M.A. ’03) Gil Peters (B.A. ’73), under the name 2010. assistant director of financial aid for a new partnership with the Career Transitions Center of Chicago, a Kristie Borgmann (B.A. ’04) Christopher Michael, a recent WGN lead David Cromer (’86) was featured in the Chicago School of Professional nonprofit career counseling service. [email protected] news anchor, won the AP Spot News the New Yorker on February 11, 2010, Doug Ischar’s (B.A. ’85) photography Psychology. > Online networking communities: Join our CAAN LinkedIn group TODAY. Phoenix Award for coverage of a Chicago high-rise for his work as an Obie Award-winning exhibition Marginal Waters took place in LinkedIn is the world’s fastest growing professional network, and it can Don Fox (B.A. ’85) fire. He owns Sound Targeting, Inc., a theater director and stage actor. Having the fall of 2009 at the Golden Gallery. Natasha Egan (M.F.A. ’98) has been [email protected] be a valuable resource for you. Also, theLoop, Columbia’s own online radio syndication and marketing firm in received wide recognition for his off- The show included photographs taken selected to judge the sixth annual Art Donna Jaglieski (B.A. ’90; M.A.T. ’96) Morton Grove, Illinois. Broadway work, he has now made his nearly every day between the summers of Photography Show, an international community, offers a robust directory for you to use as a networking tool. [email protected] Broadway directorial debut with Neil of 1984 and 1985. competition and exhibition. Selected As we continue to improve our services, we need your help. Your involvement Pittsburgh Larry Zgoda’s (B.A. ’75) work was Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and works will be exhibited from August in your local CAAN chapter will help us organize more opportunities for Mike Moscato (B.A. ‘94) included in the exhibition Artifacts & Ideas Broadway Bound. Karl Ochsner (B.A. ’85) recently through November at the Lyceum alumni, students, and future students of Columbia College Chicago. Please [email protected] for a Nature Inspired Architecture this passed his defense for his doctorate in Theatre Gallery in downtown San Josh Culley-Foster join us in building a strong and supportive community! Portland, OR spring at the Chicago Mosaic School. The Charolette Eulette (B.A. ’81) is innovation and leadership from Arizona Diego. Natasha is the associate Dan Strickland (B.A. ’94) show focused on connecting the man- the North American director for the State University. His dissertation was director and curator at the Museum All the best, [email protected] made environment to the natural world. Celebrant Foundation and Institute, on the effects of didactic movie making of Contemporary Photography and Donna Egan (’88) which is dedicated to educating people on twenty-first-century learning skills teaches at Columbia College. [email protected] about the importance of ceremony and science content in the middle- San Francisco 1980s and rituals marking life’s important school classroom. Germaine Sibley Gordon transitions. Celebrants officiate and (M.A. ’98) is currently involved with Josh Culley-Foster (B.A. ’03) Steven Gray (B.A. ’89) [email protected] Dennis Anderson (’85), managing co-create personalized ceremonies Tina Stiles’s (B.A. ’85) biography dance/movement therapy. Her National Director of Alumni Relations editor of the Lawrence Journal-World in such as weddings, marriages, was featured in a 2008 exhibit called blog (southernvegchronicles.com) Washington, D.C. [email protected] Lawrence, Kansas, was elected to a commitments, renewal of vows, baby The Magic and Science of Cinema and and YouTube channel (YouTube: Peyton Caruthers (M.A.M. ’06) three-year term on the Associated Press welcomings, adoptions, and more. Visit Television at the Museum of Science and southernveggirl) give tips and insight [email protected] managing editors board of directors. celebrantinstitute.org. Industry in Chicago. Her background into being a vegetarian from the South.

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Chester Gregory (B.A ’95), one Mahmoud Asgari, who were convicted Museum, and The Black Knights of the Jessica Christopher (’06) and Jon was interviewed on Chicago Public gone on to coordinate for such network Brandon Koller (B.A. ’06) and Curtis Mann (M.F.A. ’08) was selected of Columbia’s first musical theater of being gay in Mashad, Iran, in 2005. Black Bottom at Packer Schopf Gallery Jayme Joyce, in an effort to work Radio about his permanent installation series as Sons of Tucson, Better Off Ted, Genevieve Perrino (B.A. ’09) were part to show his photography in the 2010 graduates, is touring the country in Michael has been nominated for in Chicago. He participated in the with local businesses and provide of photos and recollections at the historic Kath & Kim, and the new ABC pilot It of the ensemble of Ragtime at Drury Whitney Biennial, among the most Dreamgirls as James “Thunder” Early. several awards throughout his career Artists Connect lecture series at the Art opportunities for Columbia College Armitage Station. Takes A Village. Lane Oakbrook. The production ran prestigious invitational art exhibitions in When Dreamgirls hit Chicago, Chester and served as the artistic director of Institute of Chicago, where he spoke students and graduates, have started through May and featured the largest the world. came back to Columbia to speak Celebration Theatre from 2005 to 2008. about the work of fellow artist Kerry their own boutique production space Jessica Godwin (B.A. ’05) returned Chris Hefner (B.A. ’06) premiered cast ever to take the stage at Drury with current students in the musical James Marshall. called Joone Studios in Chicago. to Chicago during March and April his new film The Pink Hotel at Chicago’s Lane, as well as the original costumes Audrey Michelle Mast (B.A. ’00) theater program. Steve Meyer (B.A. ’92) was recognized to perform shows at the Elbo Room, Music Box theater in April. The art from the 1998 Tony Award-winning contributed an essay to Jennifer with four nominations and two awards Shiraz Dada (B.A. ’05), Chris Hainey Darkroom, Joey’s Brickhouse, film was inspired by what’s left of the Broadway production by costume Greenburg’s 2010 book The Aaron Hartline (’98) was one of the in the recent VES awards. The awards, 2000s (B.A. ’06), Dave Davison (B.A. ’06), Davenports, and Circuit. She is currently Edgewater Beach Hotel, and featured designer Santo Loquasto. Rockabillies, published by Columbia’s animators responsible for Pixar’s Up, Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects and Erin Elders (B.A. ’05) formed the in the studio recording a CD. live accompaniment on pipe organ and Center for American Places. Audrey which won the 2010 Academy Award for in a Broadcast Series and Outstanding Kamelya Alexan’s (B.A. ’07) band Maps and Atlases while students musical saw. Rose Kruger (B.A. ’07) was the stage is currently working as a freelance Best Animated Feature Film. Compositing in a Broadcast Series or independent film, One Simple Life, was at Columbia College. Maps and Atlases Brandon Graham (M.F.A. ’08) manager for the Chicago premiere of writer, consultant, educator, and Commercial, were for his work on an screened at the Skokie Theater in has signed to Seattle’s Barsuk records. presented his paper “Relating the Book Curtis Jackson (B.A. ’08) was cast as The Emigrants at the new Moving Stories curator based in St. Louis and Chicago. Kathi Kabbara (née Grafe, B.A. ’90) episode of CSI. February. Visit onesimplelifemovie.com. More at mapsandatlases.org. Space to Performance Space” at the Chet in Steppenwolf’s recent production Theater, a venue devoted to Eastern See our review of The Rockabillies on works as a registered nurse in critical 2010 College Art Association Conference of A Separate Peace. European theater. page 31. care at a hospital in Providence, Rhode Daniel Lopez Muñoz (B.A. ’96) was Jess Audy (B.F.A. ’06) launched AUDEY, Rachel Damon (B.A. ’05), Links Hall in Chicago as part of the panel “The Island, after retiring from her 17-year art director for the Pixar film Up, which her own design studio committed to the artistic associate, curated Collision Artist’s Book as a Site for Interdisciplinary Anne Kelly (B.A. ’07) finished her Dimitrios S. Latsis (B.A. ’08) received Anne Mills (B.A. ’08) was awarded career in the television industry. Kathi won the 2010 Academy Award for Best classic tradition of cocktail dresses with Theory #3. The December 2009 Work.” At the same conference, Karol first two years of reporting for an NBC his M.A. from King’s College London. He a Fulbright Scholarship to Korea to plans to attend the nurse anesthesia Animated Feature Film. an innovative touch. Heavily influenced performance featured dancers Julia Shewmaker (M.F.A. ’08) presented her affiliate in North Dakota. She is currently will be starting a Ph.D. program in film continue her research of cataloging and graduate program at University of by her experience with tactile upholstery Antonick and Jonathan Meyer moving to thesis paper “Day In, Day Out” as part of the face of Springfield news for Channel studies at the University of Iowa in August. documenting cultural output by Korean New England. Tracee Pickett (’97), fine art fabrics and custom orders, Jess strives to the improvised sounds of DRMWPN. the panel “Intermix: Art and Language in 3 / WCIA-TV in Champaign, Illinois. adoptees in Seoul. Her 14-month specialist, was a lecturer at Columbia combine the perfect fabric and design for Independent Publishing.” Stephan Leuenberger (B.A. ’07) lives project begins in August. Liubov Karminsky’s (B.A. ’96) show College Chicago’s international each of her garments. Visit audey.com. Fernando Diaz (B.A. ’04) has been Kyle Kinane (B.A. ’02) is a comic and in Switzerland and has signed his first Enyky Benyky was nominated for a symposium Wealth and New Wealth last named managing editor of Hoy Chicago, Amy Grogan (B.A. ’10) was promoted recently released his debut album, Death publishing contract as a songwriter with Gabriel Pastrana (B.A. ’04) is the Ukrainian Emmy two years in a row. year. Tracee was recently published in the Hettie Barnhill (B.A. ’06) performed Tribune Media’s Spanish-language to a full-time producer at Intersport of the Party. Warner/Chappell Music Holland. founder of Satyr Productions and Liubov produces the program. commentary at the Guggenheim forum in the Broadway musical FLEA and was newspaper and website. Diaz was Television, where she has worked for recently directed three ultra-short “Beyond Material Wealth.” Tracee has featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. previously community manager for about two years as a production assistant. Becca Klaver’s (M.F.A. ’07) first full- David Lister (B.A. ’07) works as the dramedies that were featured at the Hilmar Koch (B.A. ’93) was awarded written her second book, Down Syndrome She lives in New York. news and opinion of the Tribune’s length collection of poetry, LA Liminal, managing editor for BlockShopper.com. American Demigods presentation of a Scientific and Technical Award for and the Arts, which offers instruction ChicagoNow.com site. Brice Habeger (B.A. ’08) produced has been published by Kore Press. Monks in Trouble this past winter. Gabriel advancing the technique of ambient to aid people with Down Syndrome, Allison Barron (B.A. ’08) is on the and directed the film Happy Anniversary, Becca helped found Switchback Books, Christian Litke (B.A. ’05), an actor also teaches English as a second occlusion rendering by the Academy of along with instructors and parents who management team for Theory at Chicago Cynthia Dorsey (B.A. ’05) received a short tale of a long marriage, which a feminist poetry press that promotes and stuntman, has appeared in films language at Harold Washington College Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Koch have students and children with Down Premium Outlets. her master’s degree from Syracuse is now going out to film festivals. Visit and publishes women writers. She is such as The Dark Knight, Public Enemies, in Chicago, and is pursing a master’s at is employed by Lucasfilm Ltd. Syndrome. It will be out this year. Visit University after working in Barack happyanniversarymovie.com. pursuing her Ph.D. in English Literature at and Death of a President. He is the host the University of Chicago. traceeandcompany.com. Zandra Beltran (B.A. ’03) is a Chicago Obama’s senate office and presidential Rutgers University. Her recent work has of WWE’s Fan Axxess Tour, Biggest Party Lisa Lahde (B.A. ’93) is currently Public Schools teacher and was recently campaign. She currently works for Heather Hartley (M.A. ’07) and been published in Coconut, Copper Nickel, of the Summer, and Wrestlemania Axxess. Snehal Patel (’04) felt the timing was the account director of community for Monice Mitchell Simms (M.F.A. ’97), featured on an ABC 7 segment on the Illinois Senator Roland Burris. Casey Murtaugh (M.A. ’06) were and the anthology DIAGRAM III, and a He is currently starring in the New right to create his own mob series, which Drillteam Marketing, an engagement writer, producer, director, and Los Angeles challenges and successes of students. jointly awarded a DanceBridge forthcoming issue of the Literary Review York Theater production The Elaborate became the premise for his recent short marketing agency. She founded resident, owns and operates the motion Shannon Fortune (B.A. ’03) Residency through the Department of will feature one of her short stories. Entrance of Chad Deity. film, Indian Gangster. MightyFlirt.com, and helped launch picture company Flower Girl Productions. Matt Bradwell (B.A. ’09) is working graduated from Cleveland-Marshall Cultural Affairs. The residency provides Amazon.com, Starwave, and Preview She recently began producing Prepare for the AAA affiliate of the Kansas City College of Law at Cleveland State Heather and Casey with four months Sean Knight (B.A. ’09), a graduate Maria Lorenzana (M.F.A. ’08) Julian Peebles (B.A. ’08) is finishing Travel (now Travelocity). for Love, an Internet talk show. Her debut Royals in Omaha. University in May 2009. She was of free rehearsal time at the Chicago of the musical theater performance designed the costumes for The Bannen his service for the Peace Corps in novel, Address: House of Corrections, was officially sworn in as a licensed attorney Cultural Center and production and program, won first place in the first Way on Crackle.com, the latest Web Benin. Upon his return to the U.S. this Ben Lewandowski (B.A. ’98) debuted published in March. Ben Burke (B.A. ’09), Sean Knight in November 2009. marketing support for a work-in-progress Musical Theatre Singing Competition series distributed by Crackle and summer, he plans to pursue work with his film project Starts Friday in December (B.A. ’09), and Tomm McGunn showing of their latest work, Tell Me A sponsored by the National Association of produced by Sony Pictures Television. fair trade. at the Times Cinema. The film is based Lidia Varesco’s (B.A. ’94) line of (B.A. ’09) performed in Hello Again, a Jessica Galliart (B.A. ’09) is assistant Story (Nostalgia in the Digital Age). Teachers of Singing/Chicago Chapter. on his experiences working in movie greeting cards and stationery, Greetings production from the Bohemian Theatre editor at Playboy.com and a regular Damon Maloney (B.A. ’08) is the Adam Preston (B.A. ’07) is a project theaters in his teens and twenties. by Lidia Varesco Design, was featured Ensemble. Genevieve Perrino (B.A. blogger for EverythingiCafe.com. Nic Harvey (B.A. ’07) has been steadily Amy Knittel (B.A. ’04) was featured in 2009 recipient of two Arkansas manager with Enliven Production in the March/April 2010 issue of HOW ’09) choreographed the musical. working in the film/television industry Chicago’s first edition of CRAVE Chicago: Associated Press awards. He won first Group. His experience includes creating Michael Matthews (B.A. ’99) recently magazine. Visit lsvgreetings.com. Jon Gitelson’s (M.F.A. ’04) photography since completing the Semester in LA: The Urban Girl’s Manifesto, a guide to the place in the Spot News category for his promos for Oprah Winfrey, NBC Sports, directed Celebration Theatre’s West Amanda Bussa (B.A. ’09) is interning has been exhibited regularly throughout Production Design program in the places women crave in Chicago. The report on the tornado that hit Mena, and others. He has worked as a Coast premiere of Haram Iran, which is Ian Weaver’s (B.A. ’93) recent solo with Miami-based designer Eva Danielle. Europe as well as in the U.S., most recently summer of 2007. He joined I.A.T.S.E. publication, which includes more than Arkansas, in 2009. Damon also received technical director, videographer, and based on the real-life trial and execution exhibitions include Document, a show She is in charge of marketing, promotions, at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Local 871 as an art department 125 women you need to know, can be a second-place award in the Enterprise photojournalist, and as a cameraman of Iranian teenagers Ayaz Marhoni and of 10 paintings at the Saint Louis Art and event planning in Chicago. Museum of Contemporary Photography. coordinator early last year and has found on Amazon.com. Investigative category. for the World Series of Poker.

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C l a s s n e W S & n o t e s C o l u m b I A C o l l e G E CHIC A G O s u m m e r 2 0 1 0 faculty&staff notes C o l u m b I A C o l l e G E CHIC A G O s u m m e r 2 0 1 0 Jaafar Aksikas (Humanities, History, childhood conference in the region. Education and Assessment meeting of “Lust for Life” appeared in the April 12 & Social Sciences) presented a paper, the Association of American Colleges and issue of the New Yorker. Karen Glaser (Photography) exhibited “Globalization and the Politics of Universities in Seattle. Brad Robinson (B.A. ’04) started Alena Scarver (B.A. ’07) accepted published her work regarding the legal Steve Yaccino (B.A. ’08) is writing at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Jane Saks (Belic Institute) was among Collectivity,” at the All Together Now: The working at WBBM 780 in the spring of a position at the Chicago Tribune as protections needed for fashion design. for the alumni magazine at the University Winchester, Massachusetts. Her series Guido Mendez (Creative Services) was 25 individuals honored by the Chicago Future(s) of Collectivity round table at 2008. He is an assistant producer as well an editorial assistant. In addition to of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Dark Sharks/Light Rays was favorably honored by Graphic Design USA with an Foundation for Women with a 2010 the 2010 Cultural Studies Association (B.A. ’07) shot reviewed in the Boston Globe. American InHouse Design Award for his Impact Award. as the highlight coordinator for Chicago her administrative duties, Scarver has Joshua Staman Conference at the University of California. design of DEMO magazine. Bears broadcasts. Brad is also a sports covered stories about art, education, and his short film Almost Runaways Robert Gordon (Art & Design) was Christina Samycia (Humanities, Stephen Asma (Humanities, History, anchor for the Illinois Radio Network. the Chicago Burr Oak Cemetery scandal. in Fresno, California. Almost Runaways In Memoriam honored by Chicago Mayor Richard RoseAnna Mueller’s (Humanities, History, & Social Sciences) released a & Social Sciences) discussed his new won first place in the Student Short M. Daley for “ten years of service History, & Social Sciences) article, “Tales new book, Discovering Inner Peace: A book, Why I am a Buddhist: No-Nonsense Leah Rosenthal (M.A.M. ’09), Angela Snow (B.A. ’06) directed category at the 2008 Written and commitment to Chicago’s civic from the House of Smiles: Teresa de Psychological, Philosophical and Spiritual Frank Dawson Buddhism with Red Meat and Whiskey, on formerly the assistant to the vice and produced World Circus Culture, a Image Awards. landscapes.” Gordon’s civic work la Parra’s Mama Blanca’s Memoirs,” Perspective. (Faculty, music) WTTW’s Chicago Tonight and talked about includes the areas of pedestrian appeared in Acta Iassyensia Comparationis president of operations/production documentary film released by her travel anthropomorphism on the Chicago Public (Theater) and planning and public transportation. 7 - Smile and Laughter. Stephanie Shaw coordinator at the Chicago Symphony video company To The Moon Productions. Mark Stetson (B.A.’06) starred in Maria Isaura Gonzalez Radio program Eight-Forty-Eight. Edward Thomas-Herrera (Creative Orchestra, recently accepted a position The Weird at Manhattan Theatre Source. (B.A. ’87) Julian Grant (Film & Video) screened Nami Mun (Fiction Writing) was profiled Services) were among the members of Dawoud Bey (Photography) was the as the artistic administrator at La Jolla Aleksandra Spevacek (B.A. ’06) has The production is a collection of six his new film The Defiled, starring Brian in the January 31 Chicago Sun-Times. the performance collective BoyGirlBoyGirl keynote speaker for the 2010 College Music Society. Visit ljms.org. joined VF Corp (John Varvatos, North Face, short pulp plays that riff on classic Shaw (Theater), in a sneak preview at The article looks at her “stunning debut to deliver monologues in The Flesh Art Association Conference in Chicago. Columbia College on January 25. novel” Miles from Nowhere. Market at the Prop Theater in February. Lucy, Lee Jeans, Wrangler, Reef Shoes, horror movies, urban legends, and Marriages & Unions Bey, Kehinde Wiley, and Theaster Gates Colette Ruscheinsky (B.A. ’07) Vans) in their licensing and trademark comic book characters linked together also participated in the Art Institute Arielle Greenberg (English) co-edited Sabina Ott (Art & Design) participated Louis Silverstein (Humanities, was associate producer for the A&E department. Additionally, the John by themes of trust and the nature Tamatha Conaway (B.A. ’96) married of Chicago’s Leadership Advisory two new poetry anthologies: Starting in Painters Painting, an exhibition History & Social Sciences) presented documentary series Paranormal Cops. Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law of relationships. Wardell Magitt on July 31, 2009. Committee’s program New Paradigms: Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First organized by Michelle Grabner in on his book Encountering Life’s Endings How Are “We” Influencing Art? 100 Days and Gurlesque: The New Grrly, conjunction with the 2010 College Art at the national joint conference of the Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics. Association conference. American Society on Aging and the Sheila Baldwin (English) was named National Council on Aging and at the president of the American Association of Jennifer Greenburg (Photography) Samuel Park (English) sold world rights ASA Chicago Roundtable. Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE). participated in The Alderman Project: 50 to his novel This Burns My Heart to Simon Aldermen / 50 Artists, for which each & Schuster. The book is slated for release Steven Teref’s (English) translations Anne L. Becker (Educational Studies) artist created a portrait of a Chicago in the summer of 2011. of works by Serbian poet Novica Tadic, presented at the National Art Education alderman. Greenburg’s contribution which he co-translated with his wife, Association Conference in Baltimore. Pan Papacosta’s (Science & Math) was a photographic portrait of 14th Maja Teref, were published as the She focused on technology in teaching, article “The Pedagogical Significance of Columbia Night at the Ward Alderman Ed Burke, of whom she collection Assembly. leadership skills, and networking. Debates in the Classroom” appeared in Chicago International Film Festival is a fan. (See our review of Greenburg’s Alumni Film Contest book, The Rockabillies, on page 31.) the Association for General and Liberal Fereshteh Toosi (First Year Seminar) Ivan Brunetti (Art & Design), along Studies newsletter. As a Road Scholar participated in a panel discussion, October 14, 2010 with Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, and Dan Ames Hawkins (English) and Greg of the Illinois Humanities Council, “Cabinet of Curiosities,” at the Museum Clowes, contributed to a special four-part Perrine launched a food column titled Papacosta shared his speech “Fly Me of Contemporary Art, as well as in Let Call for Entries! cover for the February 15 and 22 issue of Columbia College Chicago is the presenting partner “Amuse Bouche” for the Windy City Times. to the Moon … The History, Politics and Them Eat Cake, a performance about the New Yorker invoking the magazine’s of the 46th Annual Chicago International Film Festival, Impact of the Space Program” at the marriage rights, as part of Lambda classic fictional dandy, Eustace Tilley. Carrie Hanson (Dance) and the October 7-21. Enter your film(s) and your work could be Seldoms headed to Krasnoyarsk, Cherry Valley Public Library in Rockford. Legal’s annual Freedom to Marry featured at COLUMBIA NIGHT, including an exclusive Robert Buchar (Film & Video) released Siberia, in January to work with dancers In addition, his essay “Lateral View reception. the book And Reality be Damned, which of Darwin” appeared in the Journal of reception and screening! of the Elena Slobodchikova Dance Michelle Wasson (Art & Design) had a takes a firsthand look behind the Iron College Science and Teaching. Company. The company performed solo exhibition of paintings and collages Curtain to discuss the danger of Soviet Two categories for submission: at the Isadora Festival in Krasnoyarsk Jennifer Peepas (Film & Video) at Linda Warren Project Space in Chicago. deception during the fall of communism. in May. directed and Dimitri Moore > Feature (40 minutes or more) Sam Weller (Fiction Writing) Elizabeth Burke-Dain (Public (Department of Exhibition & Performance > Short film (15 minutes or less) Deborah H. Holdstein (Liberal interviewed Ray Bradbury in the Spring Relations) curated the exhibition Let Spaces), Dave Feiferis (President’s Arts & Sciences) participated in the 2010 issue of the Paris Review. The There Be Geo at Columbia’s A & D Gallery. Scientific Committee for the global Office), and Chris Pluchar produced The Two winners, one from each category, will receive conversation is excerpted from Weller’s The show received a favorable review in Littéracies Universitaires conference Wardrobe, a new film that was shown at new book, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray complimentary travel and accommodations to the Chicago Tribune. in Lille, France. Holdstein and a small the Big Screen event in April. Bradbury Interviews (Melville House the Columbia Night screening and festivities international group of academics Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s (English) Corey Postiglione (Art & Design) had Publishers/Stop Smiling Books). (if winner not in Chicago metro area). and administrators judged several short story collection, How We Move the a retrospective at the suburban Chicago hundred proposals for the conference. Stan West (English) appeared on a Air, will be published by Mayapple Press Koehnline Museum. The exhibition traced All entries must be received by July 30, 2010. Winners will Researcher-scholars presenting panel discussing “Hemingway and Race” this summer. Postiglione’s painting career from 1972 papers and convening workshops at at the Hemingway Museum. West’s be announced and contacted by September 1, 2010. to the present. Natasha Egan (Photography, the September 2010 conference will recent book, Suburban Promised Land, MoCP) judged the sixth annual Art of represent Asia, the Middle East, North Rose Camastro Pritchett (Arts, discusses Hemingway’s bittersweet For complete information and entry form, visit Photography Show, an international America, South America, and Africa. Entertainment, & Media Management) relationship with race. exhibition opening in August at the exhibited her fiber sculpture at Super Robert C. Laquex (New Millennium Ann Wiens (Communications), DEMO’s colum.edu/AlumniFilmContest Lyceum Theater Gallery in San Diego. Market 2010, an international art fair Studies) and Neil Pagano (Liberal editor, gave a presentation titled “The of artist-run galleries, in Stockholm, Angela Fowler (Early Childhood Arts & Sciences) presented “Assessing Medium Is Not the Message” on creating Sweden. Photo: Stephen Serio Education) presented at the Opening Liberal-Learning Outcomes through Multi- effective online magazines at the 2010 Minds Conference, the largest early Modal Student Projects” at the General Michael Robbins’s (English) poem CASE Editors Forum in Boston.

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21st Century [ 1 ] President Warrick L. Carter and Mayor Richard M. Daley cut the ribbon officially

[ 1 ] Mauro Fiore (B.A. ’87, center) visited opening Columbia’s new Media Production campus in February, shortly before winning 1 2 3 1 Center on February 5. From left: Student board the Best Cinematography Oscar for his work representative Michael Lencioni, VP of Campus on Avatar. From left: Film & Video Chair Bruce Environment Alicia Berg, architect Jeanne Sheridan, Fiore, Senior Lecturer Ninoos Gang, Carter, Daley, Chairman Allen M. Turner, Bethishou. [ 2 ] Arianna Huffington visited Alderman Pat Dowell, Dean Doreen Bartoni, campus in January, and recruited students to Student Government Association President participate in the Huffington Post’s new college Jessica Valerio. [ 2 ] President Warrick section. [ 3 ] Film director Mira Nair (Salaam L. Carter, MPC architect Jeanne Gang, and Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding, Amelia) came to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley at the Media Columbia in April. Production Center ribbon cutting. [ 3 ] Legendary engineer/producer/photographer Eddie Kramer (he’s produced Hendrix, Zeppelin, the Rolling Manifest 2010 / Stones) visited Columbia this spring, conducting several master classes and even working on May 14, 2010 4 5 6 7 2 3 4 a session with student Claire Stahlecker and her band. [ 4 ] Sam Weller (B.A. ’90, [ 4 ] Design by Bas Talaga (’10) at Fashion M.F.A. ’01, faculty, Fiction Writing) and Marcus Columbia [ 5 ] Design by LaNita Pearson Sakey (’06) attend a Story Week reading at (’10) at Fashion Columbia [ 6 ] Design Smart Bar. [ 5 ] Fiction Writing alum and by Peter Koryzno (’10) at Fashion Columbia Trustee Marcia Lazar (M.F.A. ’03) Columbia [ 7 ] Design by Teresa Blewitt shares a laugh with Fiction Writing Chair Randy (’10) at Fashion Columbia [ 8 ] Alumni get Albers at the Story Week alumni reception in their groove on under the Big Top at Manifest March. [ 6 ] Columbia’s President Warrick L. 2010. [ 9 ] Sherry Trotter (B.A. ’06) performs Carter takes a turn on the drums during a concert on the Alumni Stage. [ 10 ] Da’non Bolden featuring the Columbia College Jazz Ensemble, (B.A. ’95) performs with his band Dreammasters 3CVJE, the Sherwood Children’s Choir, and on the Alumni Stage. [ 11 ] Howard 8 9 10 11 4 5 6 Columbia students and faculty performing Mendelsohn (B.A. ’49), a proud alum Carter’s compositions and arrangements. The and Columbia trustee, enjoys Manifest April 18 concert celebrated Dr. Carter’s tenth 2010. [ 12 ] Alumni of the Year Laura anniversary as Columbia’s president. [ 7 ] Jose Yosha-Steele (B.A. ’90, Radio), Paul Broucek (Josach) Chavez (’13) and fellow students enjoy (B.A. ’74, Theater), and Bob McNamara a meal at Connie’s Pizza at the annual Student (’66, Journalism) are honored at the Great Alumni Association (SAA) Etiquette Dinner in Convergence at Manifest. [ 13 ] A contender April. [ 8 ] Tim Ipsen (B.A. ’10), Matt Roberts in the “Hack Your Manifest T-Shirt” contest at (’11), and Alex Marianyi (’11) provide the the Manifest 2010 Kick-Off [ 14 ] TheC ool atmosphere for the SAA Etiquette Dinner. Kids (Evan Ingersoll, a.k.a. Chuck Inglish and Antoine Reed (’10), a.k.a. Mikey Rocks) perform at Manifest.

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Celebrating the Big (and small) Screen … and Radio, Too!

[ 1 ] Columbia welcomed the cast and crew of The Dry Land, which premiered at Sundance, to the Columbia House in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival. From left: actor Ryan O’Nan, President Warrick L. Carter, actor 1 Jason Ritter, Director Ryan Piers Williams, actor America Ferrera, Dean Doreen Bartoni, actor Wilmer Valderrama, Film & Video Chair Bruce Sheridan [ 2 ] Trustee Lori Ehlenbach and her husband John Ehlenbach joined the Columbia crew at the Sundance Film Festival in January. [ 3 ] Alumni Ken Nowak (B.A. ’00) and Dominique Anders (B.A. ’03) at Sundance. [ 4 ] Cast, crew 2 3 4 and supporters turned out in April for the Chicago premier of CA$H, co-produced by Film & Video alum Naveen Chathappuram (’00). From left: Azeeza Desai (PR director), Rich Moskal (Chicago Film Office), Naveen Chathappuram (’00, producer), Stephen Milburn Anderson (writer/director), Antony Thekkek (actor), Michael Anderson (Columbia staff member), Zeenat Desai (M.A. ’05, director of media). [ 5 ] CA$H crew Antony 5 6 7 Thekkek , Stephen Milbourn Anderson, and Naveen Chathappuram (’00) [ 6 ] Film editor Peter Teschner (’80) and his wife Gloria Teschner attend the Columbia Oscar party at the Universal Hilton in Universal City, California. [ 7 ] Kenny Young (B.A. ’93), partner at James Young Entertainment, and Peppur Chambers at the Columbia Oscar By Heidi Marshall Party. [ 8 ] Radio legends Dick Biondi and 8 9 1983 Herb Kent (“The Cool Gent”) join broadcaster * Motorola introduces Before the keyboard shortcuts X, publishing and software such Heidi Marshall is Columbia’s college Bob Sirott (B.A. ’71) for “100 Years in Radio the first mobile phones C, and V, the cut, copy, and paste as QuarkXpress, InDesign, and archivist. If you have photos or materials you with Dick Biondi and Herb Kent” at Columbia on to the public functions were done by hand for PageMaker made the process think might be of interest for the archives, April 10. [ 9 ] Sitcom king Carl Reiner visited newspaper page layout. Paragraphs less messy and more seamless. let her know! [email protected] / The U.S. Space Shuttle that did not physically fit on the 312.369.8689. Visit the Columbia archives the set of the award-winning, student-produced/ * The Journalism department Challenger’s maiden flight page were literally cut out with online at lib.colum.edu/archives. directed/acted/edited sitcom Debbie’s Got at Columbia College Chicago is launched scissors. Other key ingredients Class in April, where he watched a taping and was established in 1947, and for this paste-up process included offered his expertise. [ 10 ] The student cast of The final episode of generations of Columbia students * galleys and glue. Debbie’s Got Class on set. M*A*S*H airs, breaking used this paste-up method in the record for most- This “old-fashioned” method of the classroom and professionally, Photos: Jacob Boll (’12), Brad Bretz (’05), Vandell Cobb (B.A. ’75), watched episode putting together a newspaper lasted making the switch to computers Alexis Ellers (B.A. ’08), Michael Kanzler, Robert Kusel (B.A. ’78), into the 1990s, when desktop in 1991. Kelsey Lindsey (’11), Alexa Rubinstein (B.F.A. ’09), Kevin Serna (’12), Michelle West (’11), Vladimir Zaytsey (B.A. ’10) 10 DEMO48 Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Woodstock, IL Permit No. 58

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