Winter 2008

When A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words: Photography Class Teams with Sixth Street Workshop

K a t e Mo r r i s only brought home to them the realities and Portraiture: A Retrospective of the Sixth Street One evening just after Thanksgiving last year, complexities of the issue of homelessness, but Photography Workshop” which showcased students in Renee Billingslea’s “Exploring also engendered a spirit of trust and openness photographs from a decade of Sixth Street Society Through Photography” class were that is clearly visible in the photographs that collaborations. Accompanying these important honored to share a meal with the residents were taken on November 4. Participating works was a separate exhibition of thirty works of Community Homeless Alliance Ministry student Megan Raimondi described the works: by the fourteen students in Billingslea’s class. (CHAM) in San Jose. In fact, the meal was the “Each person in each picture has a story – a Leyna Roget echoed the excitement of all of students’ idea, and they cooked it themselves story full of love and loss and joy and struggle the student participants when she remarked: on the evening in which they presented shelter “It was really great to see the photographs residents with albums of photographs that displayed in the exhibit, and so professionally. the students had taken at CHAM a month Seeing the photographs framed and in a earlier. Portrait Day at CHAM, which took museum setting created a sense of legitimacy; place on November 4, was one in a decade-long about the class and the project.” By the time series of similar events organized by the Sixth the two exhibitions closed in March, nearly Street Photography Workshop, a collaborative 4,400 visitors had come to view these and community-focused organization that powerful portraits. shares the art and craft of photography with Clearly, the experience of volunteering in the low-income and homeless people. The goal shelters, participating in Portrait Day, and then of such projects, according to Sixth Street being featured in the De Saisset exhibition founder and artistic director Tom Ferentz, is to and public programs, was rewarding to “encourage creativity and enhance quality of students. In the best sense, Billingslea’s class life by engaging people in the activity and art and the collaborative project reflect both the of making photographs.” Photo by Renee Billingslea Department’s and the University’s commitment Recognizing the potential of such projects to Students prepare photo albums for families to promote “rigorous inquiry coupled with bring issues of ethics and social justice into at CHAM. creative imagination, reflective engagement the classroom, Billingslea restructured her with society, and a commitment to working traditional “Introduction to Photography” and pride and suffering. And each story, just toward a humane and just world.” Student course to bring photography into contact with like mine and yours, deserves to be heard. Each participant Kat Harper summarized her the larger Santa Clara community. “When a face deserves to be seen. Each person deserves experience this way: “Working on this project photograph is created from a place of empathy, to be loved. This project is a small start, but it has made me confront what it would be like compassion, and consciousness,” Billingslea is a start. It has changed the way I see.” not to have the privileges I have been given, by says, “it’s not only a beautiful piece of art making connections with individuals that have but has the ability to provoke awareness in a When the story of the Sixth Street/SCU/ not had the same opportunities. I think it is viewer and help to bring positive change to our CHAM partnership was reported in the San easy to shy away from situations that challenge society.” As part of the new course curriculum, Jose Mercury News, an anonymous member us to look at ourselves in relation to a part of students and guest speakers engaged in of the San Jose community was moved to society that we feel different from. This work sustained conversations about homelessness, donate photo albums so the students could has forced me to do just that. It also makes poverty, and racial inequality, as well as about give their work back to the CHAM participant obvious that we would be wrong to think that photography and portraiture. families. Students had a great time compiling someone who is homeless is nothing like us. I the albums and then presenting them to their hope our photographs help our audience see In preparation for their Portrait Day friends after dinner at the shelter. In many these similarities, and I also collaboration with the Sixth Street Workshop, cases, these albums came to contain the only hope it prompts them to students also spent many hours during the personal photos the families have. But that do more than think about Fall quarter volunteering in two area homeless wasn’t the last that students and families would them, and perhaps reach out shelters: CHAM, and the Cecil White Center. see of the Portrait Day photographs. themselves. There’s just never enough that can be done.” The relationships that the students built there, with homeless children and their parents, not In January the mounted an exhibition entitled “The Power of score) and SCU lecturer Marco Marquez, now begun work on her next research project which premiered in New York City in April. entitled “Galileo’s Venice: Reconciling Art, Photographers in Florence For her junior faculty development leave in Science, and Faith at the End of Now posted on the Art Department web site: spring, Kathy enjoyed an artist residency at the the Renaissance.” the full story about the Italian Photographic Cité Internationale des Arts in , bringing Exchange. This innovative project brought her husband David and baby daughter Sara in K e l l y De t w e i l e r together three photographers from Florence, tow. Her new wall installation, “Holy, Holy, Kelly Detweiler exhibited his work at the Italy and three from Santa Clara University. Holy” was included in the group show Banzai/ as part of Beyond the Exhibits were held here and at the Syracuse Godzilla: Japanese Influences on American Likeness: Self-portraits by California Artists University in Florence campus. Santa Clara Art at the SFMOMA Artist’s gallery in San and participated in a panel discussion with faculty Renee Billingslea, David Pace and Francisco (June-July). This year Kathy was a artists Yolanda Lopez and Richard Godinez Susan Felter took part in this exchange; their featured artist on the KQED television in conjunction with the exhibit. He also counterparts in Italy were Stephania Talini, show “SPARK.” participated in two group exhibits at SJICA Francesco Guazzelli, and Maurizio Berlincioni and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Br i g i d Ba r t o n Artists Gallery. Kelly was instrumental in Students Select de Saisset This will be Brigid Barton’s last year on the the development of an exchange exhibit with faculty, although she will continue to teach Syracuse University in Florence. The first half Acquisitions in SCU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Program. featured three artists from Florence exhibiting Students who enrolled in Kate Morris’s She continues to be active on the Palo Alto Art in our department gallery, and the return Winter 2007 course “Special Topics in Native Center Foundation Board and she also teaches exhibit will feature three photographers from American Art” were delighted to learn that in the Continuing Studies Program at Stanford our faculty exhibiting in their new art gallery their class project would make a lasting University. This summer, she and her husband at the campus in Florence. Kelly also helped impression on future generations of Santa Clara Rob took on a major hike from Mont Blanc to introduced the work of Korean artist Kim students. As part of an innovative collaboration the Mediterranean and hope to do even more Jung Hwa to the de Saisset Museum and this between the de Saisset Museum, the Art ambitious treks in the future! resulted in an exhibit during July and August Department, and the Center for Multicultural at the museum. Kelly was officially invited to Learning (CML), students in Morris’ class R e n e e Bi l l i n g s l e a exhibit in Korea next summer by the mayor of were given the opportunity – and important Photography lecturer Renee Billingslea began Yeongchong who was visiting for the exhibit. responsibility – to select several works of art by the 2006-2007 academic year teaching a Kelly has agreed to serve the department as contemporary Native American artists to add new community based studio art course Chair for the next three years. to the Museum’s permanent collection. The “Exploring Society Through Photography” program, “Acquisitions for Diversity,” is the (Arts 51/151). This course was a joint project Su s a n Fe l t e r brainchild of de Saisset curator Karen Kienzle, with the de Saisset Museum and Sixth Street Mesmerized by a lot of Italian church floors, who has utilized funds generously provided Photography Studio in San Francisco. She Susan Felter began work on a new photo- by the CML’s “Building Partners for Diversity also helped implement an International art montage series tentatively called “Old Marble.” Grant” to bolster the Museum’s holdings in exchange between photography faculty at Santa Her continuing “Hunting and Gathering” contemporary African American and Native Clara University and Syracuse University in montages were featured in the on-line arts American art. Last Winter, after conducting Florence, Italy. Renee has recently accepted magazine “Stretcher” (www.stretcher.org) in in-depth research projects and presenting representation from Michael Rosenthal April. Works from both series will be in the impassioned arguments to their classmates, Contemporary Art in Redwood City and will Fall 2007 studio art faculty show Experience students in Morris’ class voted to purchase be exhibiting new work Fall 2008. Teaches at the de Saisset Museum. She also works by four prominent living artists: Frank has some works on consignment at Westwood La Pena (Nomtipom Wintu), Rick Bartow Br i d g e t Co o k s Gallery in Manhattan. In the Spring, Susan (Yurok), Jean La Marr (Pit River/Paiute), and Bridget Cooks spent the 2006-2007 academic and Mary-Rose Jensen (‘07) used photo- Dugan Aguilar (Maidu/Pit River/Paiute). All year at the University of California, Irvine. In montage to create a panorama of a Bay Area seven newly-acquired works went on display June 2007, she resigned from her position at wetlands scene in the centuries before the at the de Saisset this Fall. This Winter, to accept a position at UC Irvine. arrival of Europeans. The editors of Bay Nature tradition continues, with students in Professor We all miss her, but we wish Bridget every Magazine expressed interest in the project, Pappas’ “Women in the Visual Arts” selecting success in her new job! so in the ‘07-‘08 school year, Susan hopes a print by a living woman artist to add to the to work with another student in ecosystem collection. This latest acquisition is being made Bl a k e d e Ma r i a illustration. The Snapshot Photo course has in honor of Paula Kirkeby, founder of the In addition to her regular teaching and now gone completely digital, since students Smith Andersen Gallery in Palo Alto. advising responsibilities, in 2006-2007, Blake aren’t showing up with film cameras anymore. de Maria served her first year as Director And this Fall, Susan will inaugurate a regular of Santa Clara’s Medieval and Renaissance 4-5 unit “Digital Photography.” Faculty Updates Studies Program. In addition, she gave K a t h e r i n e Ao k i scholarly talks at the Sixteenth Century Studies Do n Fr i t z Kathy Aoki exhibited her recent work in Conference and at a symposium on Venice’s Don Fritz has big news: after an extensive solo shows at Humboldt State University Mediterranean Possessions held on the island national search the Department hired him (November) and LMAN Gallery in Los of Crete. She completed her manuscript into the new tenure track position in ceramics Angeles (March). She created an animation “Becoming Venetian: Immigrants and the Arts which begins Fall 07. This comes at a good entitled “Penelope’s Song” in collaboration in Early Modern Venice” which currently has a time as the ceramic area has been granted with composer Judith Shatin (electronics/ publication release date in early 2009. She has $200,000 for facility improvements. Don has been busy with exhibitions also. He reports, Pa n c h o Ji m e n e z K a t h l e e n Ma x w e l l “I was asked to lecture about my sculpture Pancho Jiménez recently exhibited work at Kathleen Maxwell completed the third year at the Santa Cruz Museum for the Time City Hall in Santa Clara as part of its biannual of her term as Chair of the Department in And Place ceramics exhibition which I was Indoor Sculpture Exhibition. This past spring spring 2007. She is looking forward to her fall a part of. I donated a sculpture which was he taught as a guest lecturer at San Francisco sabbatical where she hopes to make substantial reproduced in the Show And Tell, The Art Of State University and was a guest artist at the progress on her book. In February 2008, Harmony exhibition catalog for the Zimmer , where he gave a lecture she will present a paper at a symposium at Children’s Museum in Los Angeles. I was and demonstrated some of his techniques for Southern Methodist University in honor of her also asked to exhibit drawings at the Triton making large ceramic sculpture. His work is undergraduate mentor, Prof. Annemarie Museum and had one of my drawings featured currently being exhibited in the show “All Fired Weyl Carr. on the announcement for DRAWINGS: Up” at the City of Santa Clara’s Civic Center. Visions, Surfaces, and Beyond on view this His piece, “Red Head”, received a merit award Ma r c o A. Ma r q u e z summer. I also have ceramics and drawings at this exhibit. In addition to teaching, Pancho Marco worked on an animation entitled currently on view at the Susan Street gallery is an Academic Advisor in the Drahmann “Penelope’s Song” in collaboration with SCU in San Diego. Other Assistant Professor Kathy exhibitions organized Aoki and composer Judith through the Billy Shire Shatin (electronics/score), Fine Art Gallery include which premiered in New art fairs such as: SCOPE York City in April. He /Chicago, BRIDGE / has also been involved Miami, and ART LA, in a number of research Los Angeles.” projects that focus on Graphical User Sa m He r n a n d e z Interface design. Sam Hernandez was on sabbatical during spring K a t e Mo r r i s quarter, 2007. During that Kate Morris celebrated her time he took ten weeks of first year as a tenure-track Catalan language classes, Assistant Professor by and continued fieldwork adding two new courses on art environments and to her teaching rotation traditional folk art and of both Western and performance events. He non-Western Art History also hosted SCU alum and courses. Native American former student Matthew Photo by Chuck Barry Art in the 20th Century Moore and his artist (Winter) was designed wife, Carrie Marill at his Assistant Professor Kate Morris and students Lauren Roon, James Hanold, Mike Larre- in cooperation with the studio. He completed more, Courtney Jordan, and Marisa Nakasone gather in the collections storage area of the de Saisset Museum, de Saisset Museum to view works of art acquired as part of their class project. ceramic artwork initiated and culminated in the on a previous leave and students’ selection a created several additional works in wood, Advising and Learning Resource Center and number of works by Native American artists metal, and mixed media. He hosted several continues to be the Faculty Director in the to be added to the Museum’s permanent foundation and gallery staff members at his Unity Residential Leaning Community. collection. Postmodern Art (Spring) proved studio in Spain, as well as hosting a VIP group a serious methodological challenge for both from the Museum of Art and History in K a t e Lu s h e ck Kate and her students, but was a resounding Santa Cruz to his studio in California. Prior The Department welcomes Kate Lusheck success made all the more memorable by a to leaving for his sabbatical, he completed back for another year of teaching in the art classroom visit by renown Bay Area artist several new sculptures and paintings that will history program. Kate earned her Ph.D. in Deborah Oropallo. Off campus, Kate pursued be on view at the faculty exhibition at the art history at the University of California, her scholarly interest in contemporary Native de Saisset Museum on the SCU campus this Berkeley, and specializes in the intersections of American art by participating in two important fall. In addition, his work was included in the classical humanism and the northern European exhibitions. She contributed an article, “Places following group exhibitions: Wiegand Gallery, artistic tradition in the early modern era. She of Emergence: Painting Genesis,” to the catalog Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont. A is currently working on a book entitled Rubens for Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Strong Vision. San Francisco Museum of Craft and the Eloquence of Drawing which focuses Imagination, which opened in March 2007 + Design. M. Lee Fatherree’s Photography: on the integral relationship between graphic at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Evidence of Artists at Work. Further, two of style and content in the drawings of the Museum of the American Indian in New York his photographs were published to accompany preeminent seventeenth-century Flemish artist, City. She also wrote a monograph entitled, The the “Art Environments” and “Outsider Art” Peter Paul Rubens. Kate is looking forward to Emergence of Tsha’ De Wa’s, to honor painter citations in the Encyclopedia of American returning to Santa Clara University this year to George Longfish and to accompany the 30-year Folklife. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006: teach ARTH 11, 12 and 13, and European Art retrospective exhibition of his work as it will Vol. 1: 51; Vol. 3: 927. and Visual Culture 1680-1800. travel to many tribal and regional museums in the Midwest this year. This September Kate made her third trip to Alaska as a member of the Board of Directors of the Native American project. She’s still gardening and barbecuing Despite the upheaval, he managed to remain Art Studies Association. and always loves to hear from former students. active in his artistic practice, exhibiting works in a number of group shows, most notably Da v i d Pa c e Tr u n g Ph a m “Beyond the Likeness: Self-Portraits by David Pace continued his international Trung had a group exhibition at the Triton California Artists” at the Triton Museum, and documentary project with photographic trips Museum in Santa Clara in the Spring 2007. “Experience Teaches: Santa Clara University to Cuba, West Africa and El Salvador. He Last summer, he traveled to Vietnam to give Art Faculty Exhibition” at the de Saisset presented work from his travels in several the Ignatian eight days retreat and teach Museum. He continues to teach both life locations: in the International Speaker Series at English to Vietnamese seminarians. This fall, drawing and watercolor classes for the Art the Montana Center for International Visitors beside teaching two drawing classes, Trung Department. in Bozeman, Montana; in the graduate seminar begins his first year as Resident Minister for in photography at San Jose State University, the Loyola Residential Learning Community. and at Santa Clara University in colloquia Currently, he is working on a life size Saint Staff Updates for the International Studies Program and Claire bronze sculpture for the university. After nearly 23 years as Administrative the Modern Languages Department. David’s Assistant in the Art and Art History photography was included in the exhibitions Ry a n Re y n o l d s Department, the incomparable Gratia Rankin Faith Placed at the de Saisset Museum at Santa R. Reynolds received his MFA from the has moved across campus to become the A.A. Clara University and the Center Awards Show University of California Berkeley in 2003. for Biology. We miss her already! Gratia’s email at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel. Reynolds exhibits his paintings both nationally remains the same ([email protected]); feel Publications included a photo essay in the June and internationally, most recently at the U.S. free to keep in touch. 2007 issue of the magazine Western Times, Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay in 2007. He and portraits from West Africa in the spring/ is represented by Stellar Somerset Gallery, San The Department is happy to announce two summer issue of the Santa Clara Review. In Francisco; B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento; and new hires that went into effect in November of June 2007 David completed his 11th year as a Swarm Gallery, Oakland. His work has been 2007. Elizabeth Ricardo joins the department member of the Board of Directors of the San published twice in New American Paintings, a as our new Administrative Assistant. Elizabeth Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, where he national juried exhibition in print and is held is a Santa Clara alumna, she graduated in 2005 continues to serve as chair of the curatorial in numerous private collections. Reynolds with a B.A. in Communication and English, committee and past-president. David was work has been described as “exploring the jilted and she comes to us from her most recent job also invited to be one of the inaugural artists space in between - examining, deconstructing, as Housing Service Coordinator at Stanford represented in the Professional Gallery of the and finally rebuilding the components that University. new International Web Gallery of the Center make his paintings. This aggregated slow for Photographic Art. His photographs can understanding is left exposed, like a tender Michele Mizejewski is the Department’s first be viewed at www.photography.org. He is and beautiful wound, on each painting. Such Digital Image Manager, a position created this represented by art advisor Chandra Cerrito and ambivalence gives the paintings life, not just an year to support the teaching faculty and to further work can be viewed at account of life.” In 2005, he became a lecturer further develop our database of digital images. www.chandracerrito.com. of drawing and painting at Santa Michele has a Master’s degree from Simmons Clara University. Graduate School of Library and Information An d r e a Pa pp a s Science; for the past 15 months she has been a Andrea Pappas is delighted to report she has Jo r d a n a Mo o r e Sa g g e s e specialist in Electronic Services at the Redwood received tenure and promotion to Associate Jordana Moore Saggese joined Santa Clara City Library. Professor. It’s been a busy year: she published University as a lecturer in winter 2007. She two articles on Mark Rothko and is currently developed an upper-division course on the We Want You writing, with Professors Carroll and LaGuardia African-American aesthetic, which now fulfills We would love to know what our Alumni are of the English Department, a book chapter on the University’s Ethnic Studies requirement, up too. Please feel free to contact us by email the impact of technology in teaching a joint and also taught ARTH 13. While working on by contacting Elizabeth Ricardo at art history-composition course. The book, her PhD dissertation, Jordana has published [email protected]. which she is also co-editing, is published by an article on conceptual art photography Cambridge Scholars Press. Always interested and received a Center for Multicultural in new teaching projects, she is offering a Learning Grant to conduct research in Zurich special topics seminar this fall, “Exhibiting Switzerland. For the 2007-2008 academic the Art of the 1960th” in which students will year, Jordana has been appointed a Inclusive prepare material (artist bios for the catalog, Excellence Predoctoral Fellow by the College educational material for the museum, etc.) in of Arts and Sciences. She will spend the fall association with an upcoming exhibition which quarter finishing her dissertation, and is she curated from the Anderson Collections. looking forward to teaching her course on The show opens February 2, 2008 and runs African-American Art and sections of ARTH through June 15, 2008. She, Karen Kienzle at 13 in the winter and spring quarters. the de Saisset, and Prof. Crowley (Religious Studies) are all working on their essays for the Ge r a l d P. Su l l i v a n , S.J. exhibition catalogue. She gave a paper from her In the summer of 2006, Father Sullivan new research on the art market at CAA and moved with his fellow Jesuits out of historic is continuing to move ahead with this book Nobili Hall and into the fabulous new Jesuit Community Residence on Franklin Street. Alumni News liability corporation (Alt Studios LLC), and school students. Prior to The BizWorld will have stretchm.com up and running soon. Foundation, I spent two months in New STUDIO ART Orleans working on an education grant- Jen Norton ’87 making effort on behalf of a private donor in Ashley Ator ’05 Two of my paintings, “Patriot Act” and response to Hurricane Katrina. In April 2007 I exhibited photography in the “Water’s Edge” were chosen by Jane Hofstetter, Herbert Sanders Gallery in the Industrial NWS, to be part of the California Statewide Morgann Trumbull ’07 Studies building at San Jose State University. Watercolor Competition & Exhibition. The I have an internship in the fine arts department Then, in October my MFA Thesis show, show ran from 1/13/07 to 3/25/07. at Bonhams and Butterfields auction house in “Church: Outside the Box” was held the SJSU http://www.nortonstudio.com/giftshop.html San Francisco, where I am enjoying seeing art Art Gallery. up close and personal. I am also in the process Nick Wong ’05 of applying to master’s programs in art history Marianna Galindo ’06 I recently started a new job as the assistant for the coming year. This Fall I started my new job as a Visual production manager/graphic designer for a Effects Artist at PDI/DreamWorks Animation. local weekly newspaper called the East Bay Express. I’m in charge of the layout and the Congratulations: Landis Lau ’06 design of various ads throughout the paper. To all of our art history and studio majors who I am currently working at Challenger School in Other than that, nothing has changed, but it’s graduated between July 1, 2006 and San Jose, CA as a Computer Specialist teacher. really nice getting some creativity back in my June 30, 2007! I teach a logic based program called Terrapin life, especially in a relaxed Logo that combines vector drawing and working environment. computer code into the production of artwork. Art History K a t h e r i n e Be r b e r Marika Marchegger ’00 ART HISTORY R a c h e l Br a d y The project I’m going to be working on when Jaime Austin (Dick) ’99 R i c a r d o Co r t e z I get back from Switzerland was recently I got into the master’s program in curatorial Me d l e y Cr a n k written up in the New York Times. I am going studies at California College of the Arts. I will Li z Eg a n to be working on a Google-based initiative begin this Fall. Ol i v i a Ga d s o n to retain laid-off North Carolina workers La r i s a Go l t z e r for employment in the computer industry. Michelle Dezember ’06 Je s s i c a In w o o d I’m particularity excited because it’s a great [email protected] Je n n i f e r Ke a t o n opportunity to help displaced workers and As h l e y Ly b r a n d hopefully revive the community. I’m going I just finished an internship at the Brooklyn Ch r i s t i n e Ma s t e r m a n to be managing the bits and pieces around Museum, and I am currently a freelance Ca i t l i n Mcc a r t h y working with the community college to museum educator, working with school An d r e a Ni c h o l s o n implement the training program. groups in museums of New York City. I am Br e a n n a Ra y m e r working at MoMA with high school students, Ni c o l e Si m o n c i n i Annie Masterman ’06 and the Center for Architecture Foundation La u r e n Sw i g a r t I got married on September 8th and have just with middle school students! I am also going Mo r g a n n Tr u mb u l l started a new job as a teacher’s aid for Regnart to continue to do freelance work with the Ha l l i e Wr i g h t Elementary in Cupertino. I have moved back Brooklyn Museum, leading workshops for La u r e n Ze a l e a r into the Santa Cruz mountains and continue to teachers and leading art activities during their paint whenever I have the chance. First Saturday program. Studio Art Christina Newell ’02 Barbara Kutis ’04 Sh e r r i e Be n j a m i n After leaving SCU I went to Denver and got Until recently I was at Penn State working Ha l i n a Bo y d a teaching license and then started a Master’s toward a master’s degree and writing a thesis K a t i e Ca r e y of Science in Counseling Psychology program, on the Bay Area’s Joan Brown. In the Fall I was R i c a r d o Co r t e z focusing on how people use art to better accepted to the University of Delaware. Tr a c y Fl e ck y express themselves. My thesis title was Creating El i z a b e t h Fu l l e r t o n Art: Expression as Healing. I’m currently an Ashley Lybrand ’07 Ga b r i e l a Gr i j a l v a art teacher at Polaris K-12, it’s an alternative After enjoying 2 months of unemployment, I Sh a w n Ha n n a school but still in the public school system. I am now working as a substitute teacher for the Ma r y Je n s e n just got married at the end of June. Jefferson Elementary School District in my K a t h e r i n e Ko v a c i c h -Ha r p e r hometown of Daly City, CA. Additionally, I K i mb e r l e y Mu n s o n Michael Nielson ’07 am currently applying to a combined Master’s Mi c h a e l Ne i l s o n I have an art installation project for the CIE and Teacher Credentialing program to pursue Lo r a e l i n Ob e r s t founders charity banquet at SCU’s Adobe a career in Elementary Education. With any Tr i s t a n Pa r h a m Lodge on the 26th of September. The luck, I will start this program in January 2008. Di a n e Uy installation uses stretchable elastic fabric cut Li z e h t Ze p e d a into unique dimensional shapes then attached Kristin Mjoseth ’06 with small metal connectors and end pieces to I currently work in San Francisco for The wall, ceiling, or corners. I have filed my limited BizWorld Foundation, a nonprofit that teaches business and entrepreneurship to elementary Department of Art and Art History

2007 Student Awards

Studio Art Awards Art History Awards was originally written for a class in African- American Art and also dealt with issues of Sullivan Scholarship: Cr i s t a l Fr i e s e n , Art History Research Paper Prize Ja m e s Ha n o l d self-representation in the rapper Mos Def’s First Place: Mo r g a n n Tr u mb u l l album covers. Best of Show: Di a n e Uy Second Place: El i z a b e t h Sh a w Both papers were very well received and Painting: Ch r i s t o p h e r La n e , Honorable Mention: Ca m i l l e La c e y stimulated interesting discussions among Me g a n Di d d i e , Ke l l i Fl i n t the audience. Faculty mentors Prof. Barton Art History Symposium Prize: and new lecturer Jordana Moore Saggese, Sculpture: Mi c h a e l Ne i l s o n Mo r g a n n Tr u mb u l l , Je s s i c a In w o o d were impressed by both students’ levels of Mixed Media: Lo r a e l i n Ob e r s t , Ka t professionalism and scholarship. Marisa and Ha r p e r , Cr i s t a l Fr i e s e n Santa Clara Art History Jessica have reported that the symposium was a great experience and provided them the Ceramics: Je n n a Ma c h o , Li z e h t Ze p e d a Students Participate in exciting opportunity to interact with other art Photography: Je n n a Pi m e n t a l Graduate Symposium history students and faculty in the Bay Area. In April, two SCU art history majors, Marisa Jim Blair Sculpture Competition: Nakasone (Junior) and Jessica Inwood Ma r y Ro s e Je n s e n , Ka y l a n O’By r n e , (Senior) presented papers at San Jose State Ch r i s t o p h e r Be r r y , Ki mb e r l e y Hu g h e s , University’s Art History Symposium. Both Af t a n He r n a n d e z , Marisa and Jessica stood out as the only Sa r a h (Ro s i e ) Ro t h r o ck undergraduate students invited to speak at this graduate program event at SJSU. Marisa presented her paper entitled, “Resistance to For the most Current Classification: Frida Kahlo and the Discourse info please visit us on of Self-Portraiture,” which she wrote for Prof. the web: Brigid Barton’s Early Modernism class. Jessica’s paper “Hiding Behind the Boogie Man” www.scu.edu/art