Fall 2005 arts&letters Faculty of Arts Alumni Newsletter birthed in printmaking, weaned on digital media Juno winner thrives on projects that are in need of a tender, but dark touch. BY CHRISTINE WOODS vessel for me to study science and art simultaneously,” says Marcone, hen Vincent Marcone, who was “birthed in printmaking” BA ’97 Geography, while moonlighting in the Fine Wwandered the long, Arts department, and “weaned narrow hallways in UW’s East on digital media.” Campus Hall as an undergraduate With a devoted following in student, he could not have the horror genre, his work has imagined the success he would been described as sinister, but have as a designer and illustrator, soothing, uniting the ancient “a dark architect behind an technique of intaglio printmaking electronic temple of work that with the latest in digital media. attracts converts from all over the Drawing on biology classes that he world.” Marcone won a 2005 Juno took at UW, as well as mythology Award for CD/DVD and folklore, Marcone Artwork Design of Art is about pursues his dark the Year for Toronto creating‘‘ moments. vision incorporating industrial-pop I’m trying to vertebrates, band Jakalope’s give it a soul invertebrates, and It Dreams album. rather than a anatomy into his As a Geography work. “Art is about student studying two-dimensional creating moments,” ecology, exotic design. says the award- environments, and ’’ winning graphic animal behaviour, he took mostly artist. “I’m trying to give it a soul Fine Arts electives in drawing, rather than a two-dimensional painting, and printmaking. design.” Much of Marcone’s “Essentially, my degree became a inspiration comes from trying to continued on page 4 Ⅲ Alumni Achievement Award Ⅲ Upcoming Events Ⅲ Alumni Life Stories inside this issue… editorial 3 from the dean 11 upcoming arts alumni events Don’t miss UW Homecoming 6 2005 arts alumni achievement award 12 message from your alumni Curwin Friesen receives the 8th and communications officers Faculty of Arts Alumni Achievement Welcome to the first full-colour Award 12 arts alumni survey The results are in edition of Arts & Letters. What 8 2005 spring convocation do you think? Medalists honoured 14 faculty news Last year, I invited you to send me your letters, letting me know 9 arts $ at work 17 arts grad wins Fulbright how you are making your stamp scholarship on the world. The response was 10 past arts alumni events Tanya De Mello heads to Princeton overwhelming. It is now my The Tempest — pleasure to pass on some of your Theatre Night 2004 a success 18 class notes stories to your alma mater — stories of success, challenge, and change. alumni life stories 22 In this issue of Arts & Letters, you will discover how hard work, dedication, and passion has its rewards. You will read about one UW DRAMA 2005 - 2006 grad’s success in creating award- winning art, music, and web sites; another who has become an OUR TOWN NEW DIRECTIONS OUR COUNTRY’S international business leader; and yet another who thrives on learning By A series of short plays GOOD in the Ontario Public Service. Thornton Wilder staged by students By from UW Drama’s As editor of Arts & Letters, my November 16 - 19, 2005 Timberlake Wertenbaker directing class goal is to keep in touch with you, Theatre of the Arts March 15 - 18, 2006 our alumni, and find out what’s new February 1 - 4, 2006 in your life. I want to hear from you. Theatre of the Arts Studio 180, Hagey Hall Happy reading and stay connected! For more information, visit www.uwaterloo.ca/DRAMA/drama.html Christine Woods BOX OFFICE 519-888-4908 BA ’97 Speech Communication TIME 8:00 p.m. [email protected] TICKET PRICES $12 general public $10 students/seniors 519-888-4567, ext. 2119 2 arts &letters from the dean – Bob Kerton paying for your children’s education million dollars. That’s what most people. is a little like Piet Hein’s advice financially, pay more, and repay A one analyst says is the Many parents are willing for cooking toast perfectly: “Toast more quickly than graduates with lifetime difference, on average, to choose a savings plan that it until it smokes and then, lower incomes. My reservation between a high school graduate restricts payouts to education — twenty seconds less.” It’s too late about the ICL rests in the and a college or university a psychological “commitment when you cash in the RESP to pretense that this is new. After graduate (Globe and Mail, August mechanism” that comes at a cost. learn about restrictions. Real all, our income tax system already 19, 2005: “The value of a degree: a For example, the Registered progress will come only when we looks after much of the income million bucks”). I am sure you’d Educational Savings Plan (RESP) have public policies to reduce the contingent payment plan. The 16 like to have your million up front. gained new life after 1998 when “noise” in the RESP market so percent of the population with It’s an average based on a forty- Ottawa added a bonus —20 that the best sellers rise to the higher education provides 33 year career, and the average may percent (up to $400/year) to the top. percent of personal tax revenues. be a lot less interesting than RESP if the student actually My own preference, as a I’ll bet you already noticed. And your actual situation. As well, enrols in higher education. These general approach, would be a the ICL needs to be designed by a the average is often not enough RESPs are selling briskly and are low interest loan, repayable after Federal-Provincial committee information — recall the very profitable to most sellers. graduation. It is true that some (see photo). statistician who crossed a river At a Financial Symposium (June students are ill prepared for the Advance financial planning is that was, on average, three feet 2005), Statistics Canada reported borrowing decision and can make prudent. So are loans — especially deep. She drowned. that about 65 percent of middle unwise loans (especially with if the recent “million-dollar Question: Which age group of income Canadians who save for credit cards at 18 percent or lifetime premium” is anywhere alumni got lucky with tuition? education use RESPs. higher), but that is another issue. near correct. It’s an investment Answer: If you went to university in the 1980s, you paid the lowest tuition rates of any age cohort – and you got to pay less The probability that a Canadian child will attend university than 15 percent of the total costs ‘‘ is nearly doubled if a parent attended university. of your education. From 1994/95 to 2003/04, average tuition for ’’ Arts and Science in Ontario Unhappily, these are increased from $2,225 to $4,161. buccaneer days for sellers of The sharp increases in tuition RESPs. A recent review of selling after you graduated is an practices conducted by the inevitable response to the fact Ontario Securities Commission that by 2003, Ontario had fallen (OSC) uncovered an alarming to last place among the 60 North volume of malpractices — among American jurisdictions in the them concealed fees, excessive amount of public support per claims about returns, statements student. that a plan is a “not for profit,” How can you plan for your unsupervised sellers, outrageous own children? According to limits to liability for seller Statistics Canada, the average misrepresentation, and a host of Dean Bob Kerton with a horse designed by the Federal-Provincial committee. cost of one year of university other abuses, many of which the is now between $12,000 and salespeople do not even Note: Graduates from the in your children. And it’s high $15,000. Plus, the probability understand. In an illuminating University of Waterloo have the time we got Truth in RESP rules that a Canadian child will attend piece in Toronto Star papers, lowest 4Δ an default rates among to allow families to get reliable university is nearly doubled if a Ellen Roseman shows specific graduates of any university in information on where to find parent attended university, so you cases of disappointment and Ontario. quality RESPs. Ⅲ may need to plan ahead. The most offers advice to “shop carefully.” The financing policy we economic strategy for you to take Unhappily, it’s close to impossible are likely to see in the next A good brief source of terms is a savings/investment plan with for the potential buyer to identify couple of years is the “income and pitfalls in RESPs from OSC: high returns, no fees and no which seller has the best offer. We contingent loan” (ICL) now in http://www.investored.ca/en/ restrictions on withdrawals. do not have a Consumer Reports use in several countries. With library/osc/RESP_english_b.pdf. That’s an impossible dream for testing the offerings. This advice the ICL, graduates who succeed fall 2005 3 continued from page 1 … birthed in printmaking, weaned on digital media recapture a residue of his mypetskeleton.com, “a digital multimedia musical project of choreographed to the beat. “It’s a dreams. He wakes up at five slide show of wispy phantoms, the same name. He collaborated very new way of performing,” he every morning to jot down his lonely scarecrows, and insects with two friends, Janine White says, “but very effective. For visions — words, objects, colours. trembling in a world of rust and Kitty Thompson, who are example, if a flower blossoms “Paying particular attention to and stained paper.” When classically trained musicians, with the beat, that’s a direct your dreams is a way to truly mypetskeleton.com went live, the and together they formed a trio, relationship with the audience — communicate your own original cinematic approach to his design Johnny Hollow, with Marcone they’re seeing something ideas and thoughts,” he says.