McIntire Department of Art UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIANEWS Fall/Winter 2002

chair’s note

Dear Alumni, Colleagues, and Friends,

This past year has been one of notable con- enable us not simply to cope with the hir- tradictions for the McIntire Department of ing freeze and budget cuts, but to actively Art. The success of all our programs and the improve our programs in ways that would joys of student achievement have been tem- have seemed unthinkable in prior reces- pered by the deaths of our retired senior sions. I want to express at the beginning of colleagues Ted Turner and Bob Barbee. At this newsletter the deep gratitude of faculty, the same time the encouraging—indeed, staff, and students for the many gifts, large energizing—process of planning construc- and small, that give us the means to strive tion projects for the department has accom- and achieve in adverse fiscal circumstances. panied the grim, major budget cuts that the With the funding of Ruffin Hall in place, state has imposed on the University. thanks to a gift of the Ruffin Foundation, As regards the financial situation of the we are nearing the final stages of schematic department, we are in a truly paradoxical design. My Studio colleagues have worked situation in which we are actively engaged closely with Machado and Silvetti Architects in the process of designing new and reno- during the last two years to refine the interi- vated buildings for Studio Art and Art or plan, and we are now working on an History while simultaneously experiencing exterior design that will sit comfortably in frozen salaries, a hiring freeze, and signifi- the shadow of both the Rotunda and cant cuts to our operating budgets. Campbell Hall and the Culbreth Theater. Paradoxical too is our ability, in spite of Ruffin Hall will respect the architectural serious budget cuts, to bring visiting artists heritage of the University, but it will also be to the Grounds, including a full-time a building of character and distinction that instructor in digital art. We find a similar expresses the ethos, culture, and vitality of paradox in the Graduate Program in Art the Studio Art program as we venture into a History in that our new fellowship new century. We now anticipate ground- resources enabled us to recruit an unusual- breaking in the spring of 2004. In the next ly strong entering class even in this year of newsletter, we’ll provide floor plans and ele-

?? budgetary contraction. The mitigating fac- vations showing a more advanced stage of tors in each of these paradoxical situations design. prove to be the generosity of alumni and As regards Fayerweather Hall, the passage

PHOTO CREDIT friends, whose gifts in the last decade of the educational bond issue in November chair’s note

means that construction can begin as soon René Mueller, are both supporting a full- both outside and within the University. Our as we move out of the building. Daggit time position in this field. We are delighted students have always successfully competed Saylor Architects completed the construc- to welcome back Bogdan Achimescu, a for outside fellowships, but the number and tion drawings last year, and we can now Romanian print-maker and digital artist importance of awards this year is remark- actively search for “swing space” in which who has proven a creative mentor to stu- able. These include, from funding sources to house the department during construc- dents exploring the new challenges and outside the University: tion. We need two quite disparate kinds of opportunities that digital media present. Ellen Daugherty: a Luce/ACLS space—on the one hand, large open vol- As for graduate Art History recruitment, Fellowship for the study of American art. umes with sturdy structures to house stu- during this past spring semester we again Jill Deupi: Two-Year Fellowship at the dios and heavy printmaking equipment, succeeded in bringing to U.Va. a strong American Academy in Rome (the Rome and on the other, offices for Art History fac- entering class, including most of our top- Prize) for the academic years 2002-03 and ulty and the department staff. It may well ranked applicants. The critical factors here 2003-04. She also received a travel grant prove practical to put the art historians and were the Shannon Jefferson Scholars from the Kress Foundation. their offices in one location and the studios Fellowship established two years ago, Justin Walsh: Fulbright Fellowship and in another. In any case, we anticipate a chal- another fellowship funded by a private the James and Mary Ottaway Jr., Fellowship lenging year finding temporary dwellings, foundation to assist in recruiting students to attend the American School of Classical as well as moving into them. Of course, the in classical archaeology, and the commit- Studies at Athens during the academic year prospect of radically improved facilities ment of two President’s Fellowships from 2002-03. drastically diminishes the inconvenience of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Rebecca Young Schoenthal: Predoctoral this disruptive move! We may well vacate The ability to offer competitive fellowship Fellowship for Summer Travel Abroad for Fayerweather as early as summer 2003, and packages in recent years has enabled us to Historians of American Art, from the Center it’s entirely possible that we could re-occu- recruit aggressively. This makes our other for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at the py the building in the winter of 2004-05. fellowship resources available for addition- National Gallery. The capacity of bequests and gifts to rad- al recruiting and for supporting our wider Mary Leclere: appointed critic in resi- ically affect our programs is also evident in and equally excellent graduate student dence for 2002-03 at the Glassell School of the teaching of digital art and in graduate body. This welcome change in our recruit- Art of the Museum of Fine Arts in . recruitment, two quite different fields of the ment practices is owed primarily to private Jonathan Stuhlman: Virginia Museum of department. As regards digital art, two philanthropy, and it affects not only our Fine Arts Fellowship. bequests have proven critical to maintain- students’ experiences in the classroom but And from sources within the University: ing it in the Studio curriculum during a the national profile of the department as Emily Moerer: Arts and Sciences period when the College’s resources are well. Dissertation Year Fellowship. strained to the limit. The Artist-in-Residence One of the most notable accomplish- Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard: Depart- Program, established by the bequest of ments of the past year was the record num- mental Dissertation Year Fellowship. Lydia and Warren Chappel, and the Mueller ber of fellowships that our graduate Tara Zanardi: Departmental Dissertation Digital Fund, established by the bequest of students in Art History won from sources Year Fellowship. We owe these last two fellowships to the generosity of the same foundation that has caa conference 2003 supported recruitment fellowships for clas- sical archaeology in recent years. I speak for breakfast reunion the entire faculty in emphasizing how proud we are of our students’ achievement FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 7:00–8:30AM in winning these highly competitive awards. HILTON AND TOWERS The Studio wing of the department also GREEN ROOM saw impressive student achievement last year with the continued success of the Fifth- All Art History and Studio Art alumni, students, faculty, friends, spouses, and Year Program and the production of the sec- companions are most welcome. We look forward to seeing you in New York! ond “Fringe Festival” held in conjunction with the Virginia Film Festival. Addressing

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the Film Festival’s theme, “Masquerades,” the 2001 Fringe Festival included participa- tion from all the arts departments on Grounds: Studio Art, Drama, Music, Report from the Visual Resources Collection Creative Writing, and Architecture, as well as dance performances. The week-long series of events commenced with a recep- tion for the visual art component of the fes- he Visual Resources Collection experienced a productive and exciting tival on Friday, Oct. 19, 2001, at the Frank Ix T year since the last Newsletter. With remaining funds from a previous factory complex just south of grant, we hired a student programmer to enhance and upgrade our online Charlottesville’s downtown mall. Few who database “ARTEMIS.” For the past several years, faculty have been able to attended will forget the spectacular effects search the database for digital images and arrange their search results into of lighting in a number of major installa- Web pages for the purpose of student study. As part of our recent tion pieces within these vast industrial initiatives, we have been developing a tool to integrate faculty searches for spaces. Events and performances continued digital images with the ability to create digital lectures for projection. each evening of the following week, culmi- With remodeling in our main lecture hall this year, we will soon be able nating in a masked ball on Friday, Oct. 26, to offer digital image projection using two side-by-side projectors. sponsored by our newly formed Art Louise Putnam-Stoner, assistant director of the VRC, participated in the Students Society. The studio chair’s letter Visual Resources Session of the 2001 SECAC conference in Columbia, S.C. comments further on the Fifth-Year She presented a paper outlining her work on the restructuring of our Program, as well as on this current year’s Chinese art and architecture slide holdings, based on the scholarly trend Fringe Festival, which relates to this year’s of filing images of objects by the location of find. This change reflects the Film Festival theme, “WET.” current site-based thinking prevalent in teaching of early Chinese works. Even as we enjoyed these student Please watch the Department Web site for more news on developments in achievements, the department also marked the Visual Resources Collection. http://www.virginia.edu/~finearts sadder milestones with the passing of an older generation, the deaths of Bob Barbee on Sept. 29, 2001, and Ted Turner on Sept. 26, 2002. Both joined the faculty in the testifies to the organizers’ conspiratorial rate as possible, and we are working to 1950s, and both shaped the foundations on skills. For more on this symposium see the make each edition of the newsletter better. which the modern Art Department was note on page 5. Surveying the vigorous life of this depart- built in the 1970s. Both were vital, energetic Millie Dean again supervised the produc- ment within the political and economic cli- individuals, with remarkably different per- tion of this newsletter, and her gentle per- mate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I’m sonalities as artists and human beings. sistence was essential to the completion of amazed at our accomplishments. While Speaking for the department, I wish to the editorial and design process. Tanya Paul, these successes result from the energy, devo- express our sincere condolences to the fam- a graduate student, compiled the faculty, tion, and creativity of our faculty, staff, and ilies, students, and friends of these long- student, and alumni news with great effi- students, we also recognize the degree to time and valued colleagues. A tribute to ciency and dispatch. Anne (Hilton) which your philanthropy has made the crit- each will be found elsewhere in this Matthews (’91), an alumna of the Studio ical difference in providing us the means to newsletter. program, again provided our design. Eric reach the margin of excellence in all our The students of Paul Barolsky provided Schmidt, the department’s gallery and stu- programs. We deeply appreciate your sup- yet another kind of milestone this past year dio assistant, provided the photographs. port as we build on last year’s achievements by organizing a living Festschrift in his Paul Barolsky and Christopher Johns help- to excel as scholars, artists, teachers, and honor: a symposium titled “Reading fully edited the news sections, and Jane Ford students. Vasari,” held at the and others in University Relations edited Nov. 16-17, 2001, at which many of his stu- the entire text. If we misspelled, omitted, or Sincerely, dents spoke as well as a number of his close otherwise misrepresented anything in your Larry Goedde friends and colleagues in the field. That the news, please accept our apologies. We want Chair, McIntire Department of Art program was a complete surprise to Paul to make the information about you as accu-

3 notes from the studio

Studio Chair’s Report “True art…clarifies life, establishes models of human action, casts nets towards the future, carefully judges our right and wrong directions, celebrates and mourns. It does not rant... It does not whimper or cower or throw up its hands and bat its lashes. It does not make hope contingent on acceptance of some religious theory. It strikes like lightning, or is lightning; whichever.” –JOHN GARDNER, NOVELIST (1933 - 1982)

As we come to the end of a year where more Also, our fifth-year students, wanting than art strikes like lightning and as I look to more rigor and a greater critical edge to their the world’s future with a mix of fear and studio practice, independently organized a hope, I am comforted by John Gardner’s weekly seminar, which now is the heart of “art” that “does not whimper, or cower,” that our expanding Fifth-Year Program. Their ini- is powerful, strikes like lightning, is an anti- tiative induced the faculty to declare the dote for terror. It is the responsibility of every seminar an actual course, which is led by artist and community of artists to reinvent Dean Dass and Howard Singerman. our mission, to determine and adjust course During the last three years, the Fifth-Year toward an uncertain future, to allow the Program has grown from four students visual arts to speak with authority to the working independently with their advisors, present and to the future as it has spoken in to a more structured program in which 10 the past. This is the task of all artists at the fifth-year students, four distinguished dawn of the third millennium and of the majors and three art history graduate stu- Studio Art wing of the McIntire Department dents participate. For more on the Fifth-Year of Art as we enter our second 50 years as a Program and the Art Students Society, see the degree-granting department of the articles on them in this newsletter. . All of this is only possible because of the As we begin the 2002-03 school year in support of alumni and friends. Gifts to the the face of massive state budget cutbacks, the department have allowed us to hire Bogdan Studio Art Department is experiencing a Achimesu, a visiting artist teaching courses period of growth, expansion, and a general in digital art. Bogdan is helping us give defi- increase in the quality of our overall pro- nition and direction to this new and exciting gram. How is this possible? I attribute this area. His position would not have been pos- first and foremost to the dedication of our sible without the support of the Chappel faculty and staff who seem to work harder in Artist-in-Residence Fund and the Mueller spite of a salary freeze for the last two years. Digital Art Fund. With our digital art classes When this spirit sometimes falters, our stu- and our cinematography classes taught by dents, with their sense of reckless invulnera- Kevin Everson, we are expanding our offer- bility, step in and challenge the program and ings into 20th- and 21st-century technolo- my colleagues to do more, to be more. gies. Last year, a group of students wanting Although the tools, techniques, and more power over their own education organ- media of art making are expanding, we are ized the Arts Students Society as an inde- committed to the belief that the mission of pendent student organization and received a the fine arts is enlarged but not fundamen- budget from Student Council for programs. tally changed. Drawing is still the heart and This year includes a trip to foundation of our program and the prereq- galleries and museums, sponsoring a visiting uisite for all other studio courses. To further artist, and organizing the concluding party this commitment, an anonymous gift for the second annual Fringe Festival party, allowed us to hire Tom Doran to teach two

CHRISTY HOBAUGH “Wet and Wild.” sections of ARTS 161, our most basic and

4 notes from the studio

fundamental course. Tom is an alumnus of The third annual Fringe Festival, which Institute for Afro-American and African this department who recently received an started as an alliance between Studio Art and Studies, the University of Virginia Art M.F.A. in printmaking from the Tyler School the Virginia Film Festival, has expanded into Museum, the Arts Students Society, of Art in Philadelphia. a two-week-long ALL ARTS event addressing Piedmont Virginia Community College, and Gifts from Mortimer and Ruth Caplin the Film Festival theme, “WET.” This year the the University of Virginia Department of and Don Santarelli have allowed Studio Art Fringe Festival features students, faculty, vis- Athletics have combined resources to bring to be the experimental home of dance at iting artists, and community artists from all Bill T. Jones, the choreographer, dancer, and U.Va., enabling us to hire the dancer and the fine arts departments, architecture, land- icon of American dance, to Grounds in the choreographer Sage Blaska, a visiting artist scape architecture, dance, creative writing, spring 2003 for a performance, master class, teaching dance composition as art. and microbiology in the U.Va. Health and lecture. In this event, I see an early step These gifts and others have made all the Sciences. The “WET” theme is too large and toward the new University of Virginia with difference during these turbulent times. My provocative to be restricted to the arts. For all the arts working together across bound- colleagues and our students thank all of our the first time, the festival is being coordinat- aries combining resources, energy, and supporters. ed by a committee of students representing vision. The University of the future envisioned all of the arts departments and student art When I came to Virginia 23 years ago, the by Ed Ayers, dean of the College of Arts & groups on Grounds. art department was comfortable, quiet, Sciences, is an interconnected series of The Fringe Festival, which will run from almost invisible. As I look at the horizon, I departments with distinct identities but Oct. 18 – Nov. 2, will take place in 70,000 can hear the sounds of the construction of with flexible boundaries that allow and square feet of the former Frank Ix textile mill our new building and the renovation of encourage interdisciplinary courses, pro- located three blocks south of the Char- Fayerweather Hall. I can hear the sounds of grams, and efforts. The new Arts Grounds, lottesville downtown mall and donated to the thunder of our students marching from which will contain all the arts departments, the Fringe Festival by Monticello Associates the Art Department into the world and car- is the physical and architectural expression which consists of Gabe Silverman, Beatrice rying a vision of art, which “strikes like light- of this new sense of community. We are also Ost, Ludwig Kurtner, and Bill Ditmar. ning, or is lightning.” working as a committee of the arts under An alliance led by the Art Department the leadership of Provost Gene Block to cre- and the Forum for Contemporary Thought, Bill Bennett ate programmatic initiatives that will the departments of Drama, Music, the Associate Chair for Studio Art strengthen all the arts. Campaign for Dance, the Carter Woodson

READING VASARI: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF PAUL BAROLSKY

tudents and friends of Paul Barolsky gathered at the Georgia “Vasari’s Mothers;” “Marcantonio’s Nose?: Vasari and the Early SMusuem of Art at the University of Georgia on November 16th Historiography of Prints”; and “Michelangelo’s Snowman.” Paul’s and 17th, 2001 for a symposium in his honor. The cunning of the students speaking at the conference included Diane Ahl, Anne organizers, Anne Barriault, Andy Ladis, and Norman Land, was Barriault, Karen Goodchild, Sally James, Norman Land, April evident in every aspect of the event, not least in its being a total Oettinger, and Jerry Wood, with Andy Ladis and Arthur Iorio surprise to the honoree, who had thought he was going to give a chairing sessions. Also speaking were many of Paul’s colleagues in conference talk at the University. Instead, Paul encountered an art- the field, including Denise Allen, David Cast, Liana Cheney, Jack fully chosen and pointedly titled sequence of presentations, Freiberg, Ralph Lieberman, Hayden Maginnis, Katherine McIver, whose inspiration and approach bore witness to his own prolific Maureen Pelta, Debra Pincus, Lisa Pon, Laurie Schneider-Adams, engagement with the great biographer and theorist of Louis Waldman, and Bill Wallace. Bill Eiland, the Director of the art, Giorgio Vasari. The titles of a few lectures convey the decided- Georgia Museum, presented the opening address. Paul’s own lec- ly Barolskian, as well as Vasarian, tenor of the entire conference: ture, “Vasari and the Fear of Fiction,” ended the conference on a “Every Painter Paints Himself(?)”; “The Delight of Art: Reading note appropriate to the the author of, among many other books, Vasari Against Himself”; “Piero di Cosimo: the Egg-Eating Artist”; Michelangelo’s Nose: A Myth and Its Maker.

5 the faculty report

• PAUL BAROLSKY, who lectured this • DANIEL EHNBOM contributed an year at Princeton University, the Villa I Tatti essay on the Mughal style and the schools in , and the American Academy in of Rajasthan to the recent book Rethinking Rome, has recently published several essays Early Modern India. In addition he has lec- on Michelangelo as well as essays on tured at numerous venues including the Leonardo da Vinci and Verrocchio. His Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in book, Infinite Jest, is being reprinted by Richmond, Va.; the Reformed Church in Questia Media, and the Japanese transla- New Paltz, N.Y.; the Walters Art Museum in tion of his Faun in the Garden has recently Baltimore, Md.; the San Antonio Art appeared. Museum, and the Crow Museum in Dallas. He continues to serve as the director of the • MALCOLM BELL provided an essay University of Virginia Center for South on Jefferson’s Lawn and Vitruvius for the Asian Studies. catalogue of an exhibition on the Kevin Everson with student. Nachleben of classical art held at • This past year KEVIN EVERSON was Gropiusbau in Berlin, and an essay on John the Jules Guerin/Metropolitan Museum of • CHRISTOPHER JOHNS has arti- Boardman for the volume commemorating Art-Jacob H. Lazarus Rome Prize Fellow at cles in press in three anthologies, including the 50th anniversary of the Mellon the American Academy in Rome. While at the Cambridge Companion to Jacques-Louis Lectures. He gave lectures on Jefferson and the academy, Kevin completed six short David. He also has articles forthcoming in Vitruvius at Enna in Sicily and experimental films and a body of new pho- Master Drawings and Memoirs of the Charlottesville, Va., and read papers at the tographic work. Everson had screenings of American Academy in Rome. Last spring, he annual meetings of the Archaeological his films in various venues including the joined the advisory editorial board of the Institute of America in Philadelphia and New York Underground Film Festival, New Master Drawings Association. He also gave the Society of Architectural Historians in York Shorts International, Robert Flaherty invited lectures at the universities of Iowa, Richmond. He continues to serve as co- Film Seminar and Temple University in Oregon and , at Oregon State director (with Carla Antonaccio, of Rome. University and at Oberlin College where he Wesleyan University) of the U.S. excava- delivered the Baldwin Lecture. He present- tions at Morgantina, Sicily. • FRANCESCA FIORANI contributed ed a conference paper at the Getty Research an article on Duke Cosimo de’ Medici for Institute and chaired a session at the • JOHN DOBBINS is one of two the collection Renaissance Representations of American Society of Eighteenth-Century Martha Sharp Joulokowsky Lecturers for the Prince (Rome, Edizione Kappa). She Studies annual conference in the Archaeological Institute of America gave lectures on Leonardo’s treatise on Springs, Colo. He continues work on a during the 2002-03 academic year. He will painting at the Getty Research Center and book-length manuscript, “Papal Art and lecture on Pompeii at 13 AIA societies on Renaissance maps at the annual confer- the Catholic Enlightenment.” around the country. John was on leave dur- ence of the Renaissance Society of America. ing the spring semester with a • In July MEGAN MARLATT gave a Sesquicentennial Fellowship. During part • Department chair LARRY GOEDDE fresco workshop for the Montserrat College of the spring and summer he was in presented a paper on the development of of Art summer program in Viterbo, Italy. continuing as director of the Pompeii the Netherlandish winter landscape at a Her painting, “Burgers on the Grill,” was Forum Project. In addition, he is editing a symposium at the Max-Planck-Institut für published in Adbusters, a media watch mag- book of essays on Pompeii written by spe- Geschichte in Göttingen on the cultural azine published in Vancouver, B.C. cialists in the field. Dobbins serves as the consequences of the Little Ice Age. Another painting, “Tower of Babel,” has chair of the Advisory Board of the Etruscan been chosen as the cover illustration for Foundation, the secretary/treasurer of the • SANDA D. ILLIESCU delivered a the book Beyond Babel: A Handbook for North American Branch of AIEMA, and paper, “The Black Box Project,” at the 2002 Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages, edit- president of the Charlottesville society of CAA conference. In Sept. 2002 she had a ed by John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie the AIA. solo show at Amarcord Gallery in Beacon, and published by Society for Biblical N.Y. Literature.

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• MAURIE MCINNIS contributed an Cathedral,” with Catherine Walden at the essay on the reconstruction of Charleston’s CAA conference in February 2002. Her St. Philip’s Church in Building Image and book, Dugdale and Hollar: History Identity: Perspectives in Vernacular Architec- Illustrated, has just appeared (University of ture (University of Press). In Delaware Press). She continues to work on addition she gave a lecture titled “The a book about Salisbury Cathedral, as well Material World of Tidewater, the Low as on the Salisbury Project Web site: Country and the Caribbean” at the College http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salisbury/ of Charleston. • HOWARD SINGERMAN has lec- • AKEMI OHIRA participated in several tured recently at the University of Victoria, group exhibitions including the 2002 the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the “Breaking Through the Walls of Bias” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. He also Hofstra University Museum, the “1st LUC contributed to La Part de L’Oeil in 2001-02. Megan Marlatt with student. Print Biennial” at the Crown Center Gallery of Loyola University in , • TYLER JO SMITH published reviews Chios, Greece, in collaboration with the and the “1st Biennial National Print in The American Journal of Archaeology, British School at Athens. Competition” at the Old Main Art Gallery Colloquia Pontica, and Bryn Mawr Classical at Northern Arizona University. In addi- Review. She contributed a chapter to • ROGER STEIN, professor emeritus, tion, in 2001 she participated in the group Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World recently returned from Athens where he exhibition “Pressed & Pulled X,” at Georgia and has submitted encyclopedia entries for spent two months researching the begin- College & State University in Milledgeville. publication in ThesCRA (Thesaurus of nings of American classical archaeology in Ancient Cult and Ritual) and Encyclopaedia the 1880’s. Last year he gave a short gallery • MARION ROBERTS presented a Micrasiatica Graeca. She continues to par- talk and published a review of the exhibi- paper, “‘Improvements’ at Salisbury ticipate in the excavations at Kato Phana, tion, “Art of John dos Passos,” at the bob barbee

hen Robert Barbee, who died on September 29, 2001, included in regional exhibitions in Virginia and the Southeast. Wjoined the Department of Art at the University of Virginia His early paintings show the influence of Cézanne and some of in 1951, his arrival doubled the faculty in a department that had the School of painters who were fashionable at mid-cen- been recently established in the College of Arts and Sciences. tury, influences that became less and less important as his art When he retired 32 years later, he left a faculty of more than 20, matured. His painting became less abstract and more personal. an established major, and an art department of steadily increas- He came to rely more and more on his keen observation and his ing influence and reputation in the State of Virginia. real gift as a draftsman. He worked slowly and carefully, some- Bob’s own education as an artist took him from to times spending years on a painting, and became less interested Mexico and Louisiana. His early training was interrupted by in exhibiting his work or promoting himself as an artist. One of World War II, when he served in the Army Air Force as a bom- his virtues as a teacher was that he was able to impress on his bardier/navigator in Italy. As a veteran, he was able to use the GI students the importance of the discipline and craft that he culti- Bill to complete his education at Cranbrook Academy in vated in his own work. Michigan, one of the most prestigious art schools in America at Bob Barbee’s good sense, fairness, dedication, and steadfast the time. After receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree, he spent belief in the importance of the visual arts in a University educa- time painting in Mexico and Louisiana, preparing himself for a tion made him an important force in forming our department career as an artist and teacher. and in shaping the lives and careers of many students over the Bob’s work was widely exhibited early in his career. He was course of more than 30 years as a teacher. represented by a well-regarded gallery in New York, and was

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University of Virginia Art Museum, and American Home, and Buildings of the United • WILLIAM WYLIE published his sec- continues his involvement as a board States, published by the Society of ond book of photographs, Stillwater, in member of the Lewis and Clark Architectural Historians. In addition, he August and had a solo show of the work at Exploratory City/County project. authored the catalogue essay for the exhi- the University of Virginia Art Museum. His bition at the U.Va. Art Museum titled exhibition will travel next year to • ANN BAIRD WHITESIDE, who was “Singular Visions: Folk Art from Charlotte, N.C. and Boulder, CO. He also appointed director of U.Va.’s Fine Arts Charlottesville Collections,” and con- had a retrospective of his work at Regis Library this past year, contributed to the tributed essays to Rag and Bone, Victorian University in Denver. His photographs journals New Review of Information Society Summer School Alumni Association, were included in the Abstraction in Networking and the VRA Bulletin. She and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History of Photography exhibition at the Amon served as president of the Visual Resources Biography. He continues to lecture exten- Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas, where Association (March 2000-March 2002) and sively at various museums, societies and he also lectured. Wylie was a visiting artist was the co-leader of a workshop at the symposia, as well as make appearances on at Winthrop University in South Carolina, VRA-ARLIS/NA Joint conference in 2002. NBC Dateline, the History Channel and C- Regis University and The Light Factory in She was also co-editor of “Cataloguing Span Book. Charlotte, N.C.; and he taught a landscape Cultural Objects, a Guide to Cataloguing photography workshop at Anderson Ranch Cultural Objects and their Images,” phase • DOROTHY WONG read a paper, Art Center in Snowmass, CO. This past one of which is due to be published in “Unity and Diversity: Buddhist Steles in summer he returned to Carrara, Italy, to January 2003. She also presented a paper at Gansu and Sichuan in the Fifth and Sixth further his research on the marble quarries. SECAC in October 2002. Centuries,” at the 2001 Asia Society sym- posium. She contributed an article, “The • RICHARD GUY WILSON recently Making of a Saint: Images of Xuanzang in contributed entries to Lost Virginia: East Asia,” to Early Medieval China and was Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship from the (Virginia Historical Society and Howell Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Press). He also published essays in Harvard. American Architects and Their Books to 1848,

ted turner

ormer Studio Art Professor Theodore Turner died on Sept. 26, tions of watercolors received favorable reviews in Arts Magazine and F2002. Ted came to the University in 1952 and taught in the Art Art News. This past spring, a retrospective celebrating his long and Department until he retired in 1985. Colleagues’ recollections tell of prolific career included shows at Les Yeux du Monde gallery, the a personality that was dynamic and rebellious as they recall Turner former Merchant’s Tire building on West Main Street and the Uni- teaching classes in jeans rather than the coat and tie expected at versity of Virginia Art Museum. The Fayerweather Gallery concur- U.Va. during the 1950s and 60s and racing his motorcycle up to rently exhibited work by Ted’s former students. Cocke Hall. The details of his academic career speak to the numer- Ted’s worked in several media including woodblock prints, ous contributions he made to the art department. In addition to watercolors, oils and wood constructions. A predilection for vibrant teaching studio courses and participating in faculty exhibitions, Ted color and an aggressive handling of paint and materials distin- initiated a survey art history course, purchasing the initial slide col- guished his style and a juxtaposition of the contemplative and lection and teaching classes for five years. Ted also served as acting humorous marked his content. As he commented about his paint- chair of the Art Department at various times during his tenure. ings shortly before his death, “I don’t care if you like them. I don’t Ted’s fanciful watercolors, gritty oils and raw constructions were care if you don’t think of them as paintings, but you must see the exhibited up and down the east coast, from New York to Char- desire and energy. You must.” It is this energy and desire that marks lottesville. Several galleries represented Ted throughout his career, Ted’s work and his life and is that by which he should be remem- most notably the Babcock Gallery in New York where his exhibi- bered.

8 graduate student news

• AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN is the current • TANYA PAUL organized the exhibi- new art history president of the Art History Graduate Student tion “To Delight the Eyes and Transport the graduate students Association at U.Va. She was also the first Viewer: Dutch Landscape Prints in the recipient of the Dennis Luzak Fellowship at Golden Age” at the University of Virginia the University of Virginia Art Museum. Art Museum and spent part of the summer Parker Agelasto in the Netherlands learning Dutch. BATES COLLEGE • KIMBERLEE A. CLOUTIER- Lisa Ashe BLAZZARD is a lecturer at UMass Lowell • ERIC E. POEHLER presented the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA and at the Montserrat College of Art in paper “Romans on the Right: The Art and Ashlie Beach Beverly, Mass. She presented a paper “Jan Archaeology of Traffic” at the Florida State UNIVERSITY Steen and the ‘Socratic Style’” at the University Graduate Symposium in Scott Craver Mediterranean Studies Association Annual February, and at the University of North MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE Congress in May 2001 in Aix-en-Provence. Carolina/Duke University joint Graduate Claire D’Alba Colloquium in Classics in March. CARLETON COLLEGE • AMANDA GUYTON will be an Nichole Hendrix adjunct professor at Germanna Communi- • E. LUANNE MCKINNON REEVES UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS ty College and at the University of Rich- recently published “The Eye, the Ear and the Seung Kim mond this fall. She also happily announces Sacred: James Turrell and an Emblemata PRINCETON UNIVERSITY the birth of her son, Joseph Thomas Guy- Sacra of Guilielmus Hesius” (Segura Press) Stacey McGowen ton. In addition, she continues to be in a limited edition of 40 copies with origi- UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA involved with the Ajanta Site Seminar, a nal engravings by James Turrell. She also Erika Schneider program for anyone interested in South gave two lectures at the National Gallery of GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Asian Art. The homepage for the program Scotland in Edinburgh: “Monet’s Haystack, Jessica Snow is: http://www.devi.org/ajanta.html. Snow Effect and the Science of Color” and DUKE UNIVERSITY “Particulate Color and the French Country- Jennifer van Horn • CORY KORKOW received a fellow- side: Pissarro, van Gogh and Seurat.” In UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ship from the Victorian Society of America addition, she is working on the reorganiza- Catherine Walden to attend the 2002 Victorian Society sum- tion of the exhibition “Material Color” with UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA mer school in . Mel Gooding of the Tate Modern. Maria Zachariou VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OFFICE NEWS 5th year students Sylvia New Strawn spent her vacation in Europe this summer looking at properties. Jeannette Ortt The first quadrant of her Renaissance Liz Pisciotta Garden is nearly complete—a rosemary Erin Lyddane and lavender knot garden. She will have Peter Mina been in the Art Department for 20 years Rachel Peltzman this November. How time flies...

Millie Dean spent her vacation in the Outer Banks with her family. She is cur- rently working on reading as much as she can in her free time. She is desperately waiting for the fifth book in the Harry Potter series. Sylvia New Strawn

9 graduate alumni news

• DIANE COHL AHL (’77) of • ANNE DERBES (’80) of Hood Col- • CHERYL KEMPLER (’77) is cur- Lafayette College has recently published lege will soon publish the Cambridge Com- rently the director of publicity, marketing the Cambridge Companion to Masaccio. panion to . and education at the Cathedral Choral Society at the National Cathedral in Wash- • JENNIFER BAHUS (’02) accepted • JENNIFER GIBSON (’85) is a fine ington, D.C. She also serves as arts admin- a year-long curatorial fellowship at the Rin- arts management specialist focusing on art istrator for the Arts Club of Washington. In gling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla. and architecture at the General Services November she organized and presented Administration in Washington, D.C. the symposium “African-American Com- • LAURA BAPTISTE (’96) is public posers, Performers and Musicians 1880- affairs officer and project manager for • ANDREW GRACIANO (’02) pre- 1920.” She also published an article on the “George Catlin and His Indian Gallery” at sented a paper, “Joseph Wright’s Matlock music of William Walton in the Cathedral the Smithsonian American Art Museum. High-Tor as Didactic Landscape: Art, Sci- Choral Society’s educational magazine Pre- ence and History” at the Yale Center for lude. • JOHANNA BAUMAN (’00) is a British Art in December. He recently landscape historian and digital media spe- accepted a position as visiting assistant • HOLLY KERIS (’99), curator of col- cialist with the Landscape and Garden professor of art history at the University of lections for the Museum of Arts and Sci- Studies Program at the Bard Graduate Cen- South Carolina at Columbia for the 2002- ences in Daytona Beach, Fla., contributed ter in New York City. She recently pub- 03 academic year. 12 essays to the Treasury of American Art: lished an article in Studies in the History of Selections from the Permanent Collection of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. • FREDERICKA JACOB (’79) of Vir- the Museum of Arts and Sciences. She also ginia Commonwealth University has pub- received the Young Professionals Award • IVÁN CASTAÑEDA (’00) will pres- lished an article in the Art Bulletin on the through the Registrar’s Committee of the ent a paper, “Pico dell Mirandola’s Theolo- Medici garden. American Association of Museums. gia Platonica,” at the Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Society of • LYLE C. GRAY (’99) recently pub- • ANDREW LADIS (’78) published Biblical Literature, in Moscow, Idaho next lished two articles with ELEANOR his book of collected essays titled Studies in May. He is assistant professor of art history JONES HARVEY (’83) in the journals Italian Art. He gave the Rand Lectures at the at the University of Idaho. American Art Review and Antiques. She was University of at Chapel the McDermott Fellow of American Art at Hill. He was also appointed to the Nation- • KEVIN E. CONSEY (’76) received the Dallas Museum of Art this past year, and al Council for the Humanities. his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate has now returned to New York City, where School of Business at Northwestern Uni- she is working at the Spanierman Gallery. • NORMAN LAND (’74), professor of versity in 2000. He is currently the director art history at the University of Missouri, of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film • SARA N. “SALLY” JAMES (’94) is published articles in Source and Explorations Archives at the University of . associate professor of art history and chair in Renaissance Culture. In November he pre- of the art department at Mary Baldwin Col- sented a paper, “Michelangelo’s Shadow” • CATHERINE CRAFT (’89) is an lege. She published an article in Artibus et at “Reading Vasari,” the University of Geor- independent scholar and a partner in the Historiae and has presented several papers gia’s conference in honor of Paul Barolsky. Norwood Gallery in Austin, Texas. She has on Luca Signorelli at recent conferences, He also gave the keynote address for “Art curated several exhibitions there, including including the Biannual Conference on and Text,” the Fifth Annual Graduate Stu- “Kazmir Malevich, Nikolai Suetin, Uya Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the dent Symposium at the University of Vir- Chashnik, Drawings & Watercolors,” Southeast Art Conference, and at “Reading ginia. “Barry le Va: Selected Drawings from 1979- Vasari,” the Art History Symposium at the 1986,” and “Shu Eguchi: 4 Sculptures from University of Georgia in Honor of Paul • DONALD S. LEWIS JR. (’73) is a 1979 to 1986, and Bakuba Textiles from Barolsky last November. professional artist and is referenced in Congo.” She has also published a review of Who’s Who in American Art and the Bio- “Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956- • ANNE JAMIESON (’92) is the man- graphical Encyclopedia of American Painters, 1966 at the Meme Collection” for Burling- ager of human resources for North America Sculptors and Engravers of the United States- ton Magazine. at Marakon Associates in Stamford, Conn. Colonial to 2002.

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• KATHLEEN LYNCH (‘99) is assis- crafts and sewing supply distributor in Van- ropolitan Museum of Art: and tant professor of Classics at the University couver, Wa. . She also chaired a session at CAA in of Cincinnati. 2002 titled “The Gothic Cathedral Transfig- • ANTHONY MULLAN (’73) works at ured,” which included a paper on • HOPE MAUZERALL (’96) is the Library of Congress as the arts special- “‘Improvements’ at Salisbury Cathedral” by adjunct instructor of art appreciation and ist for the main reading room. Marion Roberts. art history at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Ga. • ELIZABETH “BETH” O’LEARY • ANNE TAYLOR (’02) is an intern at (’93) is associate curator of American Arts Anatolia College, Thessaloniki, Greece. • SUSAN MAXWELL (’02) is current- at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and is ly a visiting assistant professor of art histo- guest curator for the Maymont Founda- • PATRICIA THOMSON (’79) is a ry at Virginia Commonwealth University. tion. Her book, From Morning to Night: journalist and president of La Dolce Vita She read a paper, “Wine, Women and Domestic Service in Maymont House and the Wine Tours [www.dolcetours.com]. She is a Reckless Men,” at the Sixteenth Century Gilded-Age South (University Press of Vir- travel columnist for Pasta: The Journal of Studies Conference and another titled ginia), is expected in spring 2003. Italian Culture and Cuisine. “Improvisation and Experience in the Stair- way of Fools,” at the Middle Atlantic Sym- • APRIL OETTINGER (’00), who is • JERI WOOD (’85), professor of art posium at the , teaching Renaissance and Baroque art at history at the University of , pub- Washington, D.C. the University of Hartford, recently pub- lished the Cambridge Companion to Piero lished an article in Miscellanea Marciana. della Francesca. • DONALD A. MCCOLL (’96) is The recipient of a Francis Yates fellowship assistant professor of art history and chair at the Warbug Library, a William Morris • BARBARA ZABEL (’78) con- of the art department at Washington Col- Society Fellowship, and a Delmas Founda- tributed an essay to the anthology National lege in Chestertown, Md. He recently lec- tion Fellowship, she has presented papers Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans in tured on Dürer at Cambridge University at Yale, the University of Georgia, and the France—Frenchmen in America. She gave a and on Swiss Iconoclasm at Exeter Univer- Renaissance Society of America. paper, “‘Primitivist’ Portraiture: Portraits of sity. He organized two sessions at the Six- Kiki by Man Ray and Alexander Calder,” at teenth Century Studies Conference in • JOYCE HENRI ROBINSON (’93), the conference of the American Culture Denver, Colo. on “Art and the Reforma- curator at the Palmer Museum of Art at Association in April. In addition, she tions: Intention, Reception and Interpreta- Penn State, recently presented the exhibi- received a Joshua C. Taylor Fellowship to tion.” In addition, he was appointed tions, “Sam Gilliam: Recent Prints” and be in residence as a senior fellow at the curator of the Douglass S. Cater Society of “Artistic Friendship: Beauford Delaney and Smithsonian American Art Museum and Junior Fellows at Washington College. Lawrence Calcagno.” She continues to the National Portrait Gallery to work on write exhibition reviews for Museum News the wire portraits of Alexander Calder. • GRETCHEN KREAHLING and International Review of African-Ameri- MCKAY (’97) is assistant professor of art can Art. • GERALD ZERKIN (’71) is an attor- history at Western Maryland College. In ney in Richmond, Va. and represented the May she presented a paper at the Interna- • LYN BOLEN RUSHTON (’94) is accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. tional Congress of Medieval Art in Kalama- the director of Les Yeux du Monde Gallery zoo, Mich., titled “The Artistic Conception in Charlottesville, Va. She shows approxi- • MORGAN BOYD ZINMEISTER of the Ancient of Days in Byzantium.” mately seven exhibitions per year, and (’96) is a degree candidate in the Master recently collaborated with the Art Depart- of Art Conservation Programme, Queen’s • KRISTI MCMILLAN (’01) will ment on a retrospective of the work of Ted University in Kingston, Ontario. He is spend another year as a member of the fac- Turner and on the exhibition entering his second year as a paper conser- ulty in the Départment d’Américan at the “9/11/01:Reflection.” vation student and spent the summer Université de Provence Aix-Marseille. working in the Conservation Department • MARY B. SHEPARD (’80) recently of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, • CYNTHIA MORRIS (’89) is the helped revise the introduction to Stained D.C. as a graduate conservation intern. president of Petersen-Arne, a wholesale Glass before 1500 in the Collection of the Met-

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UNDERGRADUATE: UNDERGRADUATE: DOUBLE MAJORS ART HISTORY • CATHERINE CONGER (’86) left • LUCY ERON (’00) is an elementary • ELEANOR T. ANGLE (’91) is cur- the National Gallery of Art in 1992 to earn school art teacher in Phoenix, Ariz. Last rently out of the workforce and busy raising an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Manage- spring she participated in an exhibition at her two young children. She lives in Rich- ment. From 1994-2000 she worked in the the Apollo Bar in Florence, Italy. mond, Va. community development/affordable hous- ing field. She married Greg Webb in 1995 • ROSEMARIE FIORE (’94) exhibit- • ESTHER BELL (’01) is a second-year and has two children. ed in numerous venues, including The M.A. student in art history at Williams Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City; College. • AMANDA DOUBERLEY (’00) is a Sestosenso Gallery, Bologna, Italy; gallery assistant at the Shoshana Wayne Museode las Americas, Puerto Rico; Revo- • DAVID M. BENEDEK (’86) is current- Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif. She will lution Gallery, Mich.; and Oni ly the chief of the Forensic Psychiatry Service begin work towards an M.A. in art history Gallery, Boston, Mass. Reviews of her work and director of the National Capital Consor- at the University of Texas at Austin this fall. appeared in Dialogue Magazine, The New tium Military Forensic Psychiatry Program at York Times, The New Art Examiner, The the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Wash- • MOLLY A. EPPARD (’94) is a sales City Star, and The Salina Journal. ington, D.C. He has published articles in associate and director of the Contemporary numerous journals, including Journal of the Realism Division at Hollis Taggart Galleries • K.K. KOZIK (’83) is an artist and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Psy- in New York. She recently organized the adjunct professor at Hofstra University. She chiatric Services and Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry. launch of Brad Leithauser’s book Darling- had a solo exhibition at the Art Resources ton’s Fall, in conjunction with the exhibi- Transfer and participated in group exhibi- • ANNE (HANAHAN) BLESSING tion and sale of the drawings by his brother tions in New York City and at Allegheny (’94) is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Mark Leithauser that were featured in the College. Tulane University, and teaches Latin at Trin- novel. ity Episcopal School. She will soon be mov- • SARAH BUSHEY LILES (’78) is a ing to Auckland, New Zealand with her • TRISTAN FLEMING (’98) is a third- mother and practicing family physician in husband for one year. year law student at Georgetown University Newport News, Va. and was recently included in two exhibi- • WILLIAM B. BODINE JR. (’70) tions, “Artists for Peace” and the Law and • JANE MATRICARDI (’96) is a high was recently named executive director of Arts Society Exhibit, in Washington, D.C. school art teacher in Fairfax, Va. She partic- the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pitts- ipated in the group exhibitions “Installa- burgh, Pa. • ELIZABETH DAWN GALANTI tion Art” at the Arlington Arts Center and (’95) owns Raven Gallery in Char- “Emergency Art Show” in New York City. • COURTNEY ANNE CAPRIO (’99) lottesville, Va., which specializes in local She received the Virginia Museum of Fine is currently a law student at the University artists and conservation framing. Arts Professional Fellowship for Sculpture of . for 2002-03. • MEGAN GLEASON (’00) graduated • SUSAN MCDOUGALL CARMACK from Christie’s master’s program in decora- • JOHN B. MCPHERSON (’63) is a (’75), a painter and printmaker, has had tive and fine arts in December and is cur- retired yacht designer and lives in solo exhibitions at the Andrea Schwartz rently the intern to the Decorative Arts Lawrenceville, N.J. Gallery in San Francisco, at Northern Vir- Department at Sloan’s Auction Galleries in ginia Community College, and at the Cervi- Bethesda, Md. • WHITNEY THOMAS (’99) just ni Haas Gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz. She has defended her creative project for the M.F.A. also participated in group exhibitions at the • LESLIE ABOUD HOLZMAN (’94) in Visual Communications at Virginia Com- Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., at received her master’s degree in Public Art monwealth University. She is a graphic Louisiana State University, and the Gallery Studies at the University of Southern Cali- designer at Circle S Studio in Richmond, Va. at the University of Maryland. She was fornia in 1997. She is currently an art con- recently the featured artist in New American sultant at nextmonet.com. Paintings magazine.

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• AUGUSTA KEEVIL (’00) completed • ANDREW W. POTLER (’73) is a • ALICIA VOLK (’94), adjunct profes- the Christie’s fine and decorative arts physician and partner at East Mountain sor of Japanese art history at Northwestern course in London last year and currently Medical Associates in Great Barrington, University, recently contributed entries to works in the appraisal and consignment Mass. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japan and services department at the auction house Contemporary Artists. She also presented the Doyle New York. • COURTNEY RUCH (’01) is entering paper, “The Zen of Surrealism: Painting the M.A. program in art history at the and Politics in 1930’s Japan,” at the Uni- • PETER J. KLOMAN (’00) is a jun- Courtauld Institute in London this fall. versity of Wisconsin at Madison. ior specialist in American paintings at Christie’s in New York City. • MARY ELIZABETH RUSHING • AMANDA C. (PATTERSON) (’00) completed the first year of medical WALKER (’87) received an M.B.A. from • PENNY KOZAKOS (’93) is a media school at the Medical College of Georgia. Virginia Commonwealth University in specialist for the global public relations She received the Peacock Family Award in 1992 and has been an independent man- firm Burson-Marsteller in Chicago, Ill. anatomy. agement consultant since 1996, serving clients in the Richmond and D.C. area. • KIMBERLY LEWIS (’96) is an • JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE (’94) account manager at Trilegiant Loyalty Solu- is a Ph.D. candidate at U.C. Berkeley. She is • EMILY F. DAY WHITWORTH (’85) tions in Richmond, Va. the editor of Qui Parle: Literature, Philoso- is president of the Arts and Cultural Coun- phy, Visual Arts, History, and published cil of the Twin Counties in Galax, Va. In • TERRY JASPERSON LOCK- reviews in Boston Review. She presented a 1999 she opened Center Street Arts, a coop HART (’74) is a graduate student in paper titled “Experiencing the Arts, Writing for artists in Galax. She is the mother of counseling at the Alliance Graduate School Within the Disciplines” at U.C. Berkeley’s four. of Counseling, Alliance Theological Semi- conference: “Artists/Intellectuals/Institu- nary in Nyack, N.Y. tions,” and another, “Brancusi’s Absolute • LISA SUMMERS WILLIFORD Equity: The Costs of Consensus in a Mod- (’00) works as a collections technician • MARGARET M. MAGNER (’84) is ernist Monument,” at the conference “The- and assistant to the curator at Monticello. an HRMS Implementation Project Manag- orems of Power: An Interdisciplinary Recent publications include Tribal Textiles er in Rockville, Md. Conference on Sovereignty & Visuality” at 101 (SunBow Press), and an article in About N.Y.U. Art History. In March, she lectured at the • ALEXIS MILLER (’92) received her Virginia Art Museum on “Riding the M.S. in art conservation from the Win- • JENNIFER SUBLETTE (’92) is Waves.” She also curated “When the Snow terthur/University of Delaware Program in project director of the Teaching America Fell”: The Monticello Fireside,” at Monti- Art Conservation in 1999. She is currently History grant program for Montgomery cello and “Off the Camel’s Back: New Trib- associate conservator of paintings at the County Public Schools, the Smithsonian al Textiles from the Mid-East,” at SunBow Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Institution, Montgomery College and the Gallery in Charlottesville, Va. Diego, Calif. University of Maryland. Her child, Isobel Katheryn, was born in November. • FARRAR WOLTZ (’93) lives in Char- • JAMES I. NEWMAN (’69) works as lottesville, Va. and is self-employed as a a visual information specialist in the Office • TONYA EAST SULLIVAN (’89) decorative painter. of Public Affairs of the U.S. Department of received an M.B.A. from Virginia Com- Education in Washington, D.C. He is mar- monwealth University in 1999 and is cur- ried with two children and owns Evangeli- rently product manager of Unified cal Used Books. Communications Software for CMG Telecommunications in Glen Allen, Va. • SARAH POITEVENT (’98) is assis- tant director at the Galerie Simonne Stern • JENNIFER TINDER (’95) is a in , La. graphic artist living in Barboursville, Va.

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UNDERGRADUATE: • NICOLE CHARBONNET (’88) • LAUREN HUNTER (’00) STUDIO is a tutor had a solo show, “Landscapes and Heroes,” and substitute teacher in Stone Mountain, • REBECCA WRENN ADAM (’79) at the Galerie Simonne Stern in New Ga. is a self-employed graphic designer for Orleans, La. Rebecca Adam Design. She has received • BILL KERR (’87) is the president of numerous honors, including the Addy • JOANNA (FLEMING) CURTIN Fun Quilts, Inc., and co-authored Color Award, the Aiga Award and the Neenah (’90) lives in Seattle, Wash. with her hus- Harmony For Quilts, which is scheduled for Gold Medal. band and two children, Aidan and Shan- publication in November. He had a solo non. Most recently she was the production exhibition of his quilts at the Artisan’s • ISABELLA BANNERMAN (’80) is head at Encore Media Group, which pub- Gallery in Oak Park, Ill., and had one quilt a cartoonist for King Features Syndicate. lishes arts programs for Seattle’s leading included in the traveling show “Material She co-authors the strip “Six Chix” and arts groups, including the Seattle Opera Images: Contemporary Midwestern recently published a collection of cartoons, and the Seattle Symphony. Quilts.” Pacifists in Bomber Jackets. She gave a lecture in March on women cartoonists at Blue- • JESSICA DACHER (’97) designs • ROBIN MERRITT LIESFIELD stockings Bookstore in New York City. children’s books for Chronicle Books in (’99) is a salesperson/title-clerk/book- San Francisco, Calif. keeper for her family business, a minivan • SCOTT BARRON (’74) recently had dealership in Montpelier, Va. She also a solo show of his photographs of water • CRAIG EARL HARDING (’79) designs Japanese gardens. images called “Water Works” at the Garri- owns the Ultra Studio of Art in Dyke, Va. son Art Center in Lenox, Mass. His work and created 21 illuminated calligraphy • CHRIS LUZAR (’01) was featured in may be viewed online at www.scottbar- documents for the American Urological the November issue of Sports Illustrated. He row.com. Association’s annual awards ceremony. In is currently working towards an M.A. in addition, he completed a series of medical education, and plans to teach art after pur- • MARIE (BETOWSKI) TAWES illustrations for the U.Va. surgery depart- suing a career in the NFL. He continues to (’75) owns and operates Firelight Glass ment for an article to be published in the sculpt; his preferred medium is wood. Art, a stained glass studio in the McGuffey Thoracic Cardiovascular Journal. Art Center in Charlottesville, Va. She • M.F. PIERCE MACDONALD (’92) recently had an exhibition there titled • SARAH (JOSEPHS) HELLE- is associate urban planner for the city of “Dreaming of a Future.” WELL (’92) is an internal medicine resi- Dublin, Calif., and is also the editor of APA dent at the Medical College of Virginia in Northern News, published by the American • TOMMY BURNETTE (’93) is senior Richmond, Va. Planning Association. technical director/computer graphics artist at Industrial Lights & Magic in San Rafael, • ANDREA L. HERDRICH (’00) • KENNETH MILES (’92) works at Calif. His work was featured in the films interns with the Smithsonian’s Traveling Syracuse University as the school’s coordi- Deep Rising (’98), Small Soldiers (’98), Jack Exhibitions Department and works in a nator of academic support for football. He Frost (’98), Star Wars Episode I (’99), The frame shop in Columbia, Md. works with the players to ensure that they Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (’00) and meet rigorous academic standards in addi- Star Wars Episode II (’02). • ELIZABETH HOGAN (’00) had six tion to their athletic endeavors. of her paintings included in a group exhi- • WALTER W. BURTON (’90) & bition at the White Walls Gallery at the • ADAM PESAPANE (’95) is a direc- KELLY TODD BURTON (’90) are Corcoran College of Art and Design in tor of commercials and short films. He designers and partners of W.W. Burton & Washington, D.C. The exhibition, “Por- received the Viewer’s Choice Award at the Company, a sign, graphic and decorative trait-Self-Portrait,” featured work from Short Attention Span Film Festival, the arts business in Reba, Va. They celebrated seven aspiring artists from the Washington Young Director Award at Cannes in 2001, the birth of their second child, William area. and was a finalist at the 2002 Annecy Festi- Waugh Burton, in July. val of Animation. He has been featured in SHOIS, Campaign Screen, and Shoot.

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• LAWRENCE W. PRITCHARD JAMES WHITING (’88) is a self-employed artist and owner of Pritchard Fine Arts in Denver, Colo. He has been showing abstract and representa- n the spring of 1952, James Whiting received the first Bachelor of Arts degree tional oil paintings and prints for the past Iin Studio Art from U.Va. Whiting, who lives in Richmond, is a painter and several years in Denver and Boulder. In teaches painting at a community college. He returned to Fayerweather Hall last Denver, he has exhibited at the Open Press spring to visit students, faculty and staff of his department. A story about his visit Print Studio, the Cherry Creek Fine Arts is in the June/July 2002 issue of the Arts and Sciences Online magazine at Festival and the Fresh Art Gallery Show. In http://aands.virginia.edu. Boulder, his work has been shown at the Maclaren Markowitz Gallery.

• BEN REA (’96) is a professional artist in Atlanta, Ga. He had solo exhibitions in Atlanta at the Atlanta Financial Center and the Modern Primitive Gallery and partici- pated in group shows at the Lagerquist Friends of Fayerweather Gallery Gallery and the Bennett Gallery in Nashville, Tenn. In 2001 he was named to Atlanta Magazine’s “A-list” of “people to watch.” His work may be seen online at ast June, the Friends of Fayerweather Gallery (FFG) sponsored www.benrea.com. Lanother successful alumni exhibition honoring former art professor Ted Turner. Painters, sculptors and printmakers who studied under • PATRICIA B. SAMPSON (’89) Turner at U.Va., from 1952 to 1985, exhibited a wide range of work in works at Montanna & Associates, a residen- honor of their former professor. Artists who contributed to the tial interior design firm in Orlando, Fla. exhibition included Basil Burke, Jessie Coles, Susan Firestone, Judith She is in charge of producing all CAD inte- Trott Guy, Ruth Latter, Frederick Nichols, John McCarty, Ron Moore rior architecture drawings for the firm. and John Rousseau. Fred and Beth Nichols served as curators and organizers of the • KEVIN BRADFORD SCHMITT Fayerweather Gallery exhibition and worked tirelessly to ensure the (’94) left his job at a public relations firm Turner Alumni Show was a wonderful success. in order to work freelance in digital design. During graduation week, the Friends of Fayerweather Gallery also He continues to be a contributing editor to recognized exceptional undergraduates in the departments of studio Digital Media Online, and his work there art and art history. FFG awarded cash prizes to Whitney Odell for best may be found at www.digitalmedianet. contemporary art paper and to Peter Mina for best studio work. com and www.creativemac.com. This fall, FFG plans to develop a catalog and policy for placing alumni artwork throughout the University. We also hope to design a • KARA WALSH (’96) teaches third Web site and reinstate our annual group trip to the Virginia Museum grade in Montgomery County, Md. of Fine Arts in Richmond. If you are interested in participating in the Friends of Fayerweather Gallery, please contact Megan Marlatt at [email protected].

Mara McCray Hilliar (‘85) President, Friends of Fayerweather Gallery

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