UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS 143RD COMMENCEMENT 143

CLASS OF 2021 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

Jeffrey A. Lutsky, Chairman Brian Effron, Vice Chairman William R. Gast ’68, Secretary Bruce E. Kardon, Treasurer David Yager, ex officio, President and CEO

TRUSTEES Judson A. Aaron ’81 Joseph Aristone Ralph Citino Eleanor L. Davis Deanna S. DeCherney ’66 Patricia Fowler UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS Travis Gaylord Amy H. Goldman 143RD COMMENCEMENT Peter Haas Nathaniel P. Hamilton Jr. ’07 Seth Lehr Elaine C. Levitt Robert G. Little ’81 Karen Lotman Dr. Noel Mayo ’60 Ronald Naples Adolf A. Paier Lawrence S. Reichlin Ebonne Ruffins Mark H. Samuels Stephen Sypherd Raj Tewari Laurie Wagman Harriet G. Weiss Kenneth Wong

LIFE TRUSTEES

Ira Brind Sam S. McKeel

TRUSTEES EMERITI Commencement Ceremony George A. Beach ’58 Mary Louise Beitzel ’51 SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021 Sondra Myers Albert E. Wolf

FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES

Karl Staven Fadi Skeiker (non-voting faculty representative) COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021 Performance Processional—9:30 a.m. “With A Little Help From My Friends” Ceremony—10:00 a.m. University of the Arts School of Music Commencement Ensemble, Held virtually at commencement.uarts.edu featuring Graduating Vocal Performance Majors

Greetings from the Alumni Association Kate Flannery BFA ’87 (Acting)

PERSONAL MESSAGES Silver Star Outstanding Alumni Awards Parents, Professors, Fellow Graduates, Staff and Friends Alex Da Corte BFA ’04 (Printmaking) Presented by Sid Sachs, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions

Osceola Davis-Smith BM/BMED ’70 (Voice) Presented by Micah Jones, Dean, School of Music CEREMONY President’s Remarks Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree David Yager, President and CEO Agnes Gund Presented by David Yager, President and CEO Performance “America the Beautiful” Commencement Address University of the Arts School of Music Commencement Ensemble, Agnes Gund featuring Graduating Vocal Performance Majors Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree President’s Address Carrie Mae Weems David Yager, President and CEO Presented by David Yager, President and CEO

Greetings from the Board of Trustees Commencement Address Jeffrey A. Lutsky Carrie Mae Weems Chairman, Board of Trustees Presentation of Diplomas Valedictory Speaker Conferral of Degrees and Other Academic Attainments Alexis Thammavong ’21 David Yager, President and CEO (Musical Theater, Creative Writing minor) Jeffrey A. Lutsky, Chairman, Board of Trustees

Valedictory Speaker Closing Remarks Rocky Simpson ’21 David Yager, President and CEO (Vocal Performance, Creative Writing minor)

President’s Awards Presented by David Yager, President and CEO RECESSIONAL PhillyBloco Faculty Awards Presented by Carol Graney Vice President for Academic Affairs

President’s Distinguished Teaching Awards Full-time Faculty Award Julianna Foster, Assistant Professor and Interim Program Director, Photography

Part-time Faculty Award Stephen Cirino, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Music Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS honoris causa

It is a University of the Arts tradition that during its Commencement ceremony, the institution bestows its highest honorary degree, the Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, on distinguished individuals. Honorary degrees recognize extraordinary intellectual or artistic achievement, service to the university and society, and HONORARY those who serve as examples by modeling exemplary success DEGREE to the institution’s student body. RECIPIENTS

AGNES GUND CARRIE MAE WEEMS Photo by Annie Leibovitz DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS honoris causa DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS honoris causa

AGNES GUND CARRIE MAE WEEMS

Agnes Gund is president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and chair Widely renowned as one of the most influential living artists in the U.S., Weems of its International Council. She is also chair emerita of MoMA PS1. Gund joined examines how our society structures power through deeply embedded stories, the MoMA Board in 1976 and served as president from 1991 until 2002. She is images and ideas. Among many other honors, Weems is a recipient of a MacArthur also founder and chair emerita of Studio in a School, a nonprofit organization she Fellowship and was the first Black woman to have a retrospective at the Solomon established in 1977 in response to budget cuts that virtually eliminated arts classes R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In addition, Weems has exhibited at from New York City public schools. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Modern, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney A philanthropist and collector of modern and contemporary art, Gund serves Museum of American Art and many other institutions. She is also the recipient on the boards of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Foundation for Art and of the BET Honors Visual Artist Award, the Prix de Rome, the Frida Kahlo Award Preservation in Embassies, and the Morgan Library and Museum. She is cofounder for Innovative Creativity, the International Center for Photography Spotlight Award, and chair emerita of the Center for Curatorial Leadership, trustee emerita of the the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the Lucie Award for Fine Art Photography and Barnes Foundation and the National YoungArts Foundation, and an honorary the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal. In 2012, Weems was presented with one of the first U.S. trustee of Independent Curators International and the Museum of Contemporary Department of State’s Medals of Arts, in recognition for her commitment to the Art, Cleveland. State Department’s Art in Embassies program. A civic leader and staunch supporter of education, environmental concerns and In August 2020, UArts installed Weems’ public art project titled Resist Covid Take 6! social justice, Gund has served on the boards of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research on campus. The project aimed to create an artist-driven public awareness campaign Center, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Chess in the Schools, the Foundation for to educate and enlighten Black, Latinx and Native American communities about Contemporary Arts, the Frick Collection, the New York City Mayor’s Cultural the impact of COVID-19 on their lives. UArts also hosted an exclusive conversation Affairs Advisory Commission, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, among with Carrie for our community in support of Resist Covid Take 6! other organizations. In June 2017, she launched the Art for Justice Fund, in partnership with the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, to support criminal justice reform in the U.S. Gund earned a BA in History from Connecticut College and an MA in Art History from Harvard University. She holds honorary doctorates from Bowdoin College (2012), the CUNY Graduate Center (2007) and Brown University (1996), and was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts (2016). She received the National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton (1997), the J. Paul Getty Medal (2018), the inaugural Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award (2020) and the French Legion of Honour (2021). SILVER STAR OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTS

ALEX DA CORTE BFA ’04 (Printmaking) Alex Da Corte BFA ’04 (Printmaking) is an internationally renowned conceptual artist. After attending University of the Arts, Da Corte earned his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2010.

He has held myriad solo exhibitions around the world, including As Long as the Sun Lasts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2021; Rubber Pencil Devil, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, 2020; The Superman, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 2018; and Harvest Moon, New Museum, New York, 2017, among many other solo and group exhibitions. Da Corte’s work is included in the collections of Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy; MAC Musée d’art contemporain Lyon, France; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Additionally, Da Corte’s Rubber Pencil Devil and The Decorated Shed were included in the Venice Biennale, 2019, Italy.

In 2020, Da Corte reinvented conceptual artist Allan Kaprow’s Chicken at University of the Arts as a part of UArts’ Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde exhibition, curated by Sid Sachs, chief curator and director of exhibitions at University of the Arts, with Jennie Hirsh, assistant curator, professor of modern and contemporary art at Maryland Institute College SILVER of Art. Da Corte’s Chicken took place in Gershman Hall, the same space in which Kaprow’s original performance was held. STAR AWARD OSCEOLA DAVIS-SMITH BM/BMED ’70 (Voice) RECIPIENTS Osceola Davis-Smith BM, BMEd ’70 (Voice) is a world-renowned coloratura opera star. She earned Bachelor of Music and Bachelor in Music Education degrees from University of the Arts and a diploma in Opera from the Curtis Institute of Music, also in Philadelphia. Her Master of Arts in Teaching - Music degree was later secured at Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx.

Encouraged by Sylvia Olden Lee, the renowned Metropolitan Opera coach and her Curtis Institute mentor, Davis-Smith traveled to Europe for auditions. Immediately, she was offered the lead role of Rosina in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Germany. In her debut performance, she received a five-minute ovation after her second aria. Davis-Smith’s successful European career merited her a contract at the Metropolitan Opera, where she debuted as Queen of the Night in Marc Chagall’s vision of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, thus breaking a racial barrier in that role, with that company, in that house.

Davis-Smith’s performances include Blondchen in Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio; Olympia in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann; Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto; Zerbinetta in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos; and many other roles. She has performed in England, Finland, France, Italy and Russia, as well as the U.S. Davis-Smith has performed for presidents and ambassadors. She’s made sacred recordings, given TV appearances and was soloist for the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Davis-Smith is an assistant professor of voice at Lehman College. PAST SILVER STAR ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTS

1955 1965 1978 1991 2001 2011 Tina Leser Joseph Kramer ’47 Albert Gold Lydia Artymiw Margaret Garwood Evan Solot Irving Penn DIPL ’38 (Advertising Design) DIPL ’38 (Illustration) BM ’73 (Piano) BM ’75 (Composition) BM ’67 (Trumpet), (Design Laboratory) Theodore Miller ’47 Ed Colker DIPL ’49 Myra Mimlitsch-Gray MM ’75 (Music Performance) 1979 (Advertising Design) (Advertising Design) BFA ’84 (Jewelry) Leonard Lehrer 1956 Charles Santore Morris Lomden ’47 BFA ’56 (Illustration) Raymond Ballinger DIPL ’31 BFA ’56 (Illustration) 1992 2002 (Advertising Design) (Advertising Design) Jerry Pinkney DIPL ’60 Diane Monroe 2012 Bernard Glassman DIPL ’47 1980 Henry C. Pitz DIPL ’17 (Advertising Design) BM ’75 (Violin) Hilary Clark (Advertising Design) Evelyn Copelman Spivak ’41 (Illustration) Pearl B. Schaeffer Eileen Neff BFA ’72 (Painting) BFA ’98 (Modern Dance) (Illustration) 1966 BFA ’79 (Dance) Alina Wheeler 1957 2003 Rudolf Freund Jr. 1981 BFA ’70 (Illustration) Wharton Esherick ’08 1993 Jennifer Childs DIPL ’36 (Industrial Art) Marguerite Walter (Drawing) Stanley Clarke ’71 (Bass) BFA ’90 (Theater) 2013 DIPL ’38 (Teacher Training) Charles Sheeler CERT ’01 1967 Joe Dante BFA ’68 Richard Kidney Kate Flannery (Industrial Drawing), Morris Berd DIPL ’36 1982 (Photography) BFA ’75 (Film) BFA ’87 (Acting) CERT ’02 (Decorative Painting (Advertising Design) Philip Eitzen DIPL ’52 Jayson Scott Musson 1994 2004 and Applied Art) (Advertising Design) BFA ’02 (Photography) 1968 Ruth Fine Donald Chittum 1958 Arnold Roth ’50 1983 BFA ’62 (Painting) BM ’56 (Music Performance) 2014 Earl Burns Milliette (Illustration) Thomas F. Schutte Florence Quivar Joseph Musso Adam W. Blackstone ’04 CERT ’13 (Industrial Drawing, BM ’67 (Voice) BFA ’63 (Illustration) (Instrumental Performance) 1969 Constructive Design and 1984 Jeffrey Stern William Stephens BS ’55 1995 2005 Modeling) Kevan Moss BS ’70 BFA ’75 (Film) (Industrial Design) John E. Davis Riitta Vainio Sol Mednick DIPL ’39 (Environmental Design) BM ’72 (Music Theory) DIPL ’62 (Dance) 2015 (Advertising Design) 1970 1985 Deborah Willis Susan Welchman Piper Shepard George Krause DIPL ’58 1959 Jacob Landau BFA ’75 (Photography) BFA ’70 (Photography) BFA ’85 (Fibers) (Advertising Design) Frances Lichten DIPL ’07 DIPL ’38 (Illustration) Brittanie Michelle Richardson 1996 2006 (Applied Art) 1971 BFA ’09 (Acting) 1986 Tom Butter Katherine D. Strickland Warren Blair DIPL ’47 Sidney Goodman Wesley Emmons BFA ’75 (Printmaking) BFA ’98 (Theater) 2016 (Advertising Design) BFA ’58 (Illustration) BFA ’54 (Jewelry/Metals) Janine Cappello Don Moyer Fredric Snitzer 1960 1972 1987 BFA ’86 (Modern Dance) BFA ’70 (Graphic Design) BFA ’73 (Sculpture) John William Brown Paul Keene Kim Yvonne Bears-Bailey Robert Capanna 1997 2007 DIPL ’50 (Advertising Design) BFA ’42 (Illustration) BFA ’84 (Ballet) BM ’73 (Composition) Edward Kalehoff Dan Dailey Marguerite Gaudin DIPL ’30 Stephen M. Zablotny 1973 BM ’69 (Composition) BFA ’69 (Fine Art) 2017 (Advertising Design) BS ’70 (Industrial Design) Noel Mayo BS ’60 Kathy Rose BFA ’71 (Film) Vincent J. Trombetta Robin Eubanks Dana P. Vaughan Peggy Turner Zablotny (Industrial Design) BM ’65 (Saxophone) BM ’78 (Trombone) (1899–1983) c.1920 1998 BS ’70 (Industrial Design) Daniel Joseph Janice Berenstain and 2008 1961 1974 BS ’06 (Industrial Design) 1988 Stanley Berenstain ’45 Charles Long Irene Laverty Barry Wilke BS ’58 William Krebs (Illustration) BFA ’81 (Painting) 2018 DIPL ’29 (Fibers) (Industrial Design) BFA ’66 (Interior Design) William R. McCann Jackson Grace Gay Lucas Steele Boris Drucker DIPL ’42 Eugene Feldman DIPL ’42 Barbara Silverstein BFA ’80 (Trumpet) BFA ’99 (Theater) BFA ’01 (Musical Theater) (Advertising Design) (Advertising Design) BM ’69 (Piano) Catherine Edelman 1999 2009 1962 1975 BFA ’85 (Photography) 1989 Irene Bedard Richard Amsel Mildred Jantzen Richard Reinhardt Stephen Albert BFA ’91 (Theater) BFA ’69 (Illustration) 2019 DIPL ’22 (Art Education) BFA ’47 (Art Education) BM ’62 (Composition) Johnny Irizarry Stephen Quay Teneise Mitchell Ellis 1963 1976 Ken Carbone BFA ’83 (Painting) BFA ’69 (Film) BFA ’05 (Jazz Dance) Virginia Mason Gifford Olaf Skoogfors BFA ’73 (Graphic Design) Timothy Quay Peter Freudenberg 2000 DIPL ’30 (Advertising Design) BFA ’53 (Metals) Leslie Smolan BFA ’69 (Illustration) BFA ’67 (Painting) BFA ’75 (Graphic Design) C. Samuel Micklus 1964 1977 BS ’66 (Industrial Design) 2010 2020 Al Bendiner CERT ’18 Elaine Kurtz DIPL ’50 1990 Brian T. Vernon Renee Jaworski David Ewing (Industrial Drawing) (Advertising Design) Marjorie Levy BFA ’92 (Jazz Dance) BFA ’94 (Modern Dance) BFA ’68 (Film) Jerome Kaplan DIPL ’47 BFA ’69 (Ceramics) Alphonse Mattia Libby Newman (Advertising Design) BFA ’69 (Wood) BFA ’80 (Printmaking) PAST HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS

1961 1975 1988 2000 2013 Harold Taylor Milton Glaser Dorrance H. Hamilton Lily Yeh Douglas Carter Beane Marcus Aurelius Renzetti Armin Hofmann Kenneth J. Hiebert 1976 2001 Sam S. McKeel 1962 Anni Albers Helen W. Drutt English 2014 John W. Merriam Benton Spruance Josef Albers Jane Golden Robert L. Battle Thomas M. Messer 1963 1977 Howard A. Wolf 2002 2015 Karl Sherman Saul Steinberg Walter E. Dallas Lynda Barry 1989 1964 1978 Martin Friedman 2003 2016 Saul Bass Mercedes Matter Meredith Monk Mildred Constantine Thomas Robert Kitt Victor D’Amico Maurice Sendak Robert A. Moog Ronald J. Naples 1979 Edward R. Tufte 1965 Paul Rand 1990 2017 Eugene Grigsby Richard Rogers Katherine Dunham 2004 Glorya Kaufman Edward Hopper Liv Ullman Lukas Foss Leilani Lattin Duke 2018 Erwin Panofsky Nam June Paik Roberto Memmo 1980 Kevin L. Beggs Mrs. Malcom Lloyd Sen. Claiborne Pell Helen Frankenthaler 2005 Lorna Simpson 1966 Rudolf Nureyev 1991 Rexford T. Cardwell Jr. Alfred P. West Jr. Edwin Dickinson Ivan Chermayeff Kal Solomon Rudman 1981 2019 Willard G. Rouse III Dominick Peter Stuccio 1967 H. Ober Hess Ellen Stewart Holly Robinson Peete Edmund Bacon Leo Steinberg 2006 Zhang Xiaogang Paul Froelaich Walter Terry 1992 William M. Hurt 2020 Susanne Langer Mary Ellen Mark 1982 Bernard C. Watson 2007 Phong H. Bui BFA ’85 1968 Placido Domingo Rosalyn Drexler (Illustration) Louise Nevelson Jack Lenor Larsen 1993 Njideka Akunyili Crosby 2008 Lessing J. Rosenwald Harvey K. Littleton Claire Van Vliet Edna Andrade Thomas Wilfred 1983 1994 Ira Brind 1969 George Crumb Joan Myers Brown Stanley Clarke BM ’71 (Bass) R. Sturgis Ingersoll Alwin Nikolais William P. Daley Miguel Angel Corzo Howard Mitchell Henry Holmes Smith Richard Saul Wurman 2009 1970 1984 1995 Portia Hamilton Sperr Berthe von Moschzisker Joseph Castaldo Joel N. Bloom James Lapine Alice Neel Philip Glass 1971 2010 Alexey Brodovich 1985 1996 Peggy Amsterdam (posthumously accepted by Andrew Heiskell Robert M. Greenberg Robert Capanna Irving Penn) Denise Scott Brown Marjorie Samoff Moses Pendleton Howard A. Wolf Robert Venturi 1997 2011 1972 1986 Robert Oldenburg Louis J. Massiah G. Robert LeRicolais Roger L. Stevens Edward G. Rendell Bill Moggridge John Szarkowski Judith Jamison ’64 (Dance) Grover Washington Jr. 2012 Richard Reinhardt BFA ’47 1973 1998 Tony Auth (Art Education) Anais Nin Richard S. Gurin Neil Gaiman 1987 Peter Nero 1974 Laurie Anderson Herbert Bayer 1999 J. Carter Brown Pater DeGelleke Arthur Mitchell Joseph Papp Arnold Newman DEGREE CANDIDATES

GRADUATE & SCHOOL OF ART Aidan David Smart a minor in Business PROFESSIONAL presented by Erin Elman, interim dean Abigail E. Warren with Miranda G. Capparelli** with a minor in Art Education a minor in Business STUDIES Master of Fine Arts in Taylor Rae Yarmie with Genesis Castaneda† presented by Erin Elman, dean Studio Art a minor in Business Melanie Castro Margaret M. Cooney Elizabeth Anne Sauper Buck** Master of Arts in Art Education Bachelor of Fine Arts Kymora Trinity Corker Kevin Patrick Lee** in Photography Alexis Roberto Curiel† Anna M. Schulz Jessica Lynn Stanhagen** Hannah Elizabeth Bohrer Bre’ana Alexandra Daniels* with Abe Zubarev** Master of Arts in Devin Mackenzie Bowes with a minor in Business Museum Education Bachelor of Fine Arts in minors in Art History Jakirah Marquavia Davis Sean Michael Evans** Craft & Material Studies and Business Katherine Rosemarie Davis, Alexus Rae Brittain University Honors Scholar Isabelle Evelyn Ashley Master of Arts in Teaching Emily Nicole Ernst Trina Simone Margaret Edwards Jingnan Cheng in Music Education Hannah K. Fielo Lauren Fader** Emily Rose Ernst Sarah Graff Azari Jeanna-Marie Ford with Jonathan R. Ford Leah A. Gingerich† James C. Izlar a minor in Business Jieling Lin Samantha R. Gualtieri with Lucia E. Klarin with Auset Tamona Fullard Allison Santos Lezama a minor in Figurative Illustration minors in Art History Neva M. Guido Joseph Charles Lockwood Bashya Ryan Jones and Business Diarra K. Harris Zachary Michael Lutz** Gavin William McCoy Lynsey Kowalczyk Chloe E. Heldt Zachary B. Weissberger Dashawn N. McIntosh-Inniss Breanna N. McGeown Monica Filomena Hill with Eleanor Elizabeth Mullen Master of Arts in Teaching Midori Elizabeth Morrow a minor in Musical Theater, Eugene Sohn* in Visual Arts Thomas James Mulvey University Honors Scholar Seungwon Yang Malik C. Murray Rae P. Holtzman Rylee P. Cassel Zaira Zarli Sarah M. Gellerstein** Bari-Michelle Pallarino Lily Inghram Rebecca M. Grier** Bachelor of Fine Arts in Akira Reinhardt Marin Ito Steven Michael Mogck Creative Writing Nathan H. Resnick Jocinda M. Johnson Eden Nicole Stieber Coralyn Jones Megan L. Smock Elizabeth J. Bailey Raymond A. Vander Fliet Peter Paul Jones Simone Williams Nyeree Boyadjian Georgia Anne Wescott with Haley Knieriem Guangyu Zhang Giulia Fedegari a minor in Business Miah A. Lapeyrolerie** Keira R. McKinley Master of Education in Destiny Lynn Williams Elizabeth Hollis Leski with Laura A. Miller Educational Program Design Jennifer Lynn Zauflik a minor in Philosophy & Religion Ishara Selah Yahné Serrette Kiara Y. Lopez† Zachary Taylor Artz Angeline E. Stein Christine Bridget Hochstoeger SCHOOL OF DANCE Luisa Maria Maisto Lynch† Liliane Sharpless Bachelor of Fine Arts in Marcel Jorge Santiago Marcelino presented by Amanda Anne Shortridge Fine Arts Lauren Rose Marsaglia Donna Faye Burchfield, dean Alison K. McBride with Beata Szekeres with Mark Anthony Addison Jr. a minor in Creative Writing a minor in Arts Management Master of Education in Master of Fine Arts in Dance Alyssa N. McCallum† & Engagement Educational Technology Shannon Lee Alvis** Shaurice Taylor McCaster with Brianna Banscher Jon Caleb Baldwin** minors in Business and Jennifer Callinan Erin Bergmann with Kristin L. Clotfelter** Creative Writing Victoria E. Dagen a minor in Art Therapy Brittany Engel-Adams** Lillian M. McGonigle Kristina Megan Roehr Elizabeth A. Bongiovanni with Jhelan Ashané Gordon-Salaam** Nathan E. McNatt Jr. with minors in Art Education and Dennis Gary Wayne Jeter II* a minor in Music Business, Master of Music in Art History Music Education Nitsan Avraham Margaliot* Entrepreneurship & Technology Albany Taylor Brown Rika Okamoto* Tia Trineice Mellerson Samantha J. Andrejcisk** Tiaira A. Bryant with Carolyn Marie Pampalone Claire Madison Mork Patricia A. Betcher a minor in Art Therapy Rabbers** Emma Elizabeth Mulvey-Welsh** Stephanie S. Branch Daniela Nicole Cassetta with Michael Joseph Sheridan** with a minor in Music Business, Heather Amanda Ceresini* a minor in Art Education Mari Travis* Entrepreneurship & Technology Colin Chen* Muir Chiaravalle with Johanna G. Barbosa Munoz Ellen J. Coates* a minor in Figurative Illustration Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Allyia N. Nelloms Joshua I. Crooke* Joseph DeFilippis Tayah M. Owens with Paul William Dengler* Emily Elizabeth Bernard Destiny Eliseth Flores a minor in Business Elizabeth Ann Krall* Emily Marie Grden Jamaal Bowman Kati Rose Payne Catherine Ramis McLagan* Rebekah Ann Hatrak Ella Bess Brockway Louis B. Pearson IV Kari Lynn Morris* Cameron W. King Dominick G. Brown Shaila Caridad Perez Elizabeth Joy Reese* Jayna Caylie Kirk Madison Elizabeth Brown Tania Saiz Perez Katelyn Reichard* Madison Lynn Mayhew Taylor E. Brown Mik Phillips Megan Richerts* Dacota Messer Leslie Renée Bunkley Abigail L. Sery* Juliet M. Miller Jordan Amya-Judith Burse with * Degree conferred August 2020 Kirsten Fay Wilson** Ryan Roberts** Kara Cannella ** Degree conferred December 2020 † Anticipated degree conferral August 2021 DEGREE CANDIDATES

Kaitlyn Porter Wendell Terrence Hemingway SCHOOL OF FILM David Pascal McFaul Veronica Andrea Quintero Julia M. Hollinger with presented by Wendy Weinberg, Emily Mejia Jennifer Rivera a minor in Painting & Drawing dean Elijah Jameel Mosley† Lamar D. Rogers** Andrea Hu Muyan Pei Javares M. Selby Anastasiia Kruhlova Bachelor of Fine Arts in Andjela Preradovic with Amanda L. Shell** with Sara L. Lesneski with Animation minors in Film & Media a minor in Business a minor in Advertising Practices Studies and Photography Trey T. Singletary† Alejandro Madera-Sandoval Ethan M. Alvarez Robert Michael Rada Teagan M. Smith Donyel T. Marbley Sara Cristyn Brush Ralph Andre Ravix with Katlyn N’cole Stamps** Abigail N. Martino with J Cella a minor in Film & Media Studies Emily E. Stevens a minor in Business Felix DeLuccia Sara Renner Pedro Suarez Rachael Nagy Miller with Corrine Elaine Distefano Skylar Elizabeth Watkins with Lindsay Imani Tillman a minor in Advertising Practices Kelsey Leigh Ericksen with minors in Business, Film & Destiny Shanieve Toussaint with Mia Elise Paltrow-Murray with a minor in Game Art Media Studies, and Photography minors in Business and Film a minor in Print Media Oliver Fici** Audrey Zycinsky with & Video Siyu Pan Shannon Nicole Guerin with a minor in Photography Savannah Rose Vawter Ninah-Symone Parker a minor in Figurative Illustration Imani P. Wilson with Hayley Elizabeth Romansky with Kayla E. Herrin Bachelor of Fine Arts in a minor in Business a minor in Print Media Ebin Bradley Huston Film Design Natasha Wolkwitz Christian Ivan Rosado Sabrina Krispel with Sharon Marie Culbreth Iesha S. Wood Grant E. Sawyer a minor in Screenwriting Nadia E. Young with Audrey Jayne Thompson Guia Longasa** Bachelor of Fine Arts in a minor in Business Kyle Matthew Valdés with Reese MacDonald Film Design & Production a minor in Advertising Practices Haley R. Malone Grant Dowdell Fisher Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jadon Isaac Mason Modern Dance Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration Gianna Marie Mazzone Bachelor of Fine Arts in Khadija Ahmaddiya** Brianna Michele Bender Trevor J. McKeon Game Art Ryan P. McLaughlin Gabriela Nicole Bogdanoff Eden Jaivony Blas Brandon L. Perez Centurion Kayla England SCHOOL OF DESIGN Austin James Pettit Sarah Boline Phillip Khrichenko* Robin L. E. Prentice with presented by Mark Tocchet, dean Peter Bussard Steg Martin a minor in Game Design Melissa A. Castillo Moises Gabriel Oliveri Mark Reid** Master of Arts in Amanda M. Ayala Estrada Azalea Marie Rosado** Museum Studies Montanez Crespo with Claire Christine Rushton Atesh Sakarya Shelby Rose Gonzales a minor Arts Management Bachelor of Fine Arts in Stephen G. Salvatore Bergstresser** & Engagement Photo & Film Media Kathy Shin Seth Daniel Berkowitz** Isabelle Lois Cress with Jenna Lindsay Cohen with Travis S. Swisher Zindzi I. Harley** a minor in Creative Writing a minor in Film & Media Studies Coraletta I. Tucker Nashay Antoinette Jones William Dowd with a minor in Print Media Jaymen Christopher Tucker-Price Bachelor of Fine Arts in Master of Design in Veronica Rebeca Gilman with Geselle Vasconez Writing for Film & Television Angela Danielle Visconti Product Design a minor in Art Therapy Brianna May Benozich with Yang Chen Jacob Frederick Gross with Bachelor of Fine Arts in a minor in Film & Media Studies Raunak Deshmukh** a minor in Typography Film & Animation Monica Marie Feldman Kaila M. Hammonds Master of Fine Arts in Museum Julian G. Lloyd with Liam W. Carroll with Exhibition Planning & Design a minor in Animation a minor in Screenwriting Rachael Cho** Chaya Arabia Jasper Luu Maria Katherine Braswell Selina M. Mendez Bachelor of Fine Arts in Mia Rose D’Alessandro Kat Mooradian with Film & Video Chase Noel Dougherty a minor in Creative Writing, Charles M. Cooper Katie M. Naber University Honors Scholar Jesse DeRocco with Ronnakrit Rojyindeelert Kelli Pier Jacob Henri Soojian a minor in Screenwriting Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jahvi R. Thomason** Brooke Elizabeth Evertsz Graphic Design Benjamin M. Thompson Dionte J. Gill with a minor in Music Business, Senna Javid Ahmad Hector E. Torres Entrepreneurship & Technology Sean Raul Andrade Victoria Elizabeth Veltri Christina Mary Haverilla Juhyun Cha Dahlia Visconti Lauren DiRenzo Koob† Christie Leigh Ciberey Shahvteeaylah Williams Jaden S. Luciano Arianna S. Collins Aaron Michael Lurie Alexis Kay Eusebio-Baskerville Xenia A. Matthews Dana M. Grabski Christian Patrick Hanna with * Degree conferred August 2020 a minor in Advertising Practices ** Degree conferred December 2020 † Anticipated degree conferral August 2021 DEGREE CANDIDATES

SCHOOL OF MUSIC Bachelor of Science in Music Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting Bachelor of Fine Arts in presented by Micah Jones, dean Business, Entrepreneurship & Emily Sophia Amador with Musical Theater Technology a minor in Musical Theater Arielle Faye Telemaco Beane Master of Music in Jazz Studies Sanniyah Antoinette Bey Carzell Anderson Jr.† Maginnis Hart Buckley Adam William Butz-Weidner Lydia Madelaine Cahall with Alexia L. Correa Zachary S. Devine** Cayla Rose Casler a minor in Musical Theater Hailey C. Costello Bachelor of Music in Composition Banaias Matthew-Paul Cason Mary Callahan Elizabeth Courtney Grace Peter Douglas Dampman Christina Marissa Carelli with Doerrman Colin Barry** Saige Sarah Anne Defreitas a minor in Musical Theater Ameer R. Dunn Ian A. Smith James J. Duvak** Cameron C. Farrell Olivia Gabrielle Duvall** Bachelor of Music in Jessica Lynn Einhorn** Brandon Michael Fisher with Giacomo Fizzano Instrumental Performance Matthew David Glosson** a minor in Fibers & Textiles Studies Paige E. Galdieri Joshua Randall Glover** Shannon Jane Cleary Jones with Gracie Patricia Gentile** Scott Patrick Blanke with Morgan A. Grubb a minor in Musical Theater Madelyn A. Gillespie a minor in Music Education, Ryn Hearing Cianon Delani Jones with Hannah A. Hobson University Honors Scholar Brett M. Iannucci a minor in Creative Writing Jessie D. Hoffman* James E. Lawroski III Ethan Michael Javage Lauren DiRenzo Koob† Wes Donald Hopkins Catherine Marie Madewell** with Elizabeth Rose Jiacopello Bella A. Main Devon S. Lynch a minor in Music Education Isaiah A. Joyner Ma’Kayla P. Nolan with Mackenzie Love Maula Conor T. McElroy with Jeremy K. Little with a minor in Musical Theater Alexandra Marie Mazzie a minor in Music Business, a minor in Creative Writing Jeffrey William Pfeiffer Samuel Kent Oberle Entrepreneurship & Technology Katharine E. Lord with Chester Jones Pollard Caroline Orejuela** Christopher Mummert with a minor in Photography Ian Karl Ritter* Gregory K. Power* a minor in Music Business, Noah Christopher Miller† with a Brianna Rivera Jessica Margaret Ruby† Entrepreneurship & Technology minor in Creative Writing Rachel McMillan Schumacher Anna E. Schneider Raphael S. Krause Palit with Andrew Ryan O’Connor** Darzaya J. Scott Gemma Christine Smith a minor in Music Education Andrew D. Santora Clark C. Smith** Alexis Hope Thammavong with Alexander C. Papatolis Oliver Spencer Victor Eduardo Valadez** a minor in Creative Writing Samuel D. Pickard Edward Suh with Evanthea Tjoumakaris Evan Michael Rondinelli with a minor in Game Art Shayne Agnello Vasquez a minor in Music Education Sydney Anna Taylor** Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing, Daniel D. Saleem with Tyler Jacob Trexler Playwriting & Production Bachelor of Fine Arts in a minor in Music Business, Mark James Turtola with James Fredrick Bruenger III† Theater Design & Technology Entrepreneurship & Technology a minor in Creative Writing Monique Jasmine Dionne Chambers** Rachael Marie Gran Zachary Eric Stein Brianna E. Vacca with a minor in Art Therapy Julie Rose Padovan with Bachelor of Music in McKinley S. Yarrington Marisa L. Faller** a minor in Art History Vocal Performance Joshua Davis Farner* Bless M. Rudisill Kelly Fleming Sunflower D. Watkins Megan Meelad Ebraheem IRA BRIND SCHOOL Audrey Elise Gregory Desmond R. Gittens† OF THEATER ARTS Frank John Krause Brooke I. Hanson** with Kelly Krieger a minor in Music Education presented by Kym Moore, dean Kereni P. Sanchez Maceira Nya S. Harris** Elana Mirella Mariani** with Radrick Hastings with Master of Fine Arts in a minor in Music a minor in Music Education Devised Performance Rodney Alan Murray Jr. Hannah Grace Hopkins Anna Katharine Basile** Jonnel Outen** Diamond Ruthlynn Ketchens with Katherine Butler** Juana Joyce Parral with a minor in Music Education Michaela M. Duffly** a minor in Creative Writing Brie Leazer with Aaron Adam Fischer** Justin David Rubenstein minors in Music Business, John Miller Giltner** Jaedto Smith† Entrepreneurship & Technology Sohrab Haghverdi Rebecca Kjar Smith with and Musical Theater Curt David Himmelberger** minors in Business and Andrew B. Malabunga with William Edward Quinn** Creative Writing a minor in Music Education Nathan Martin Rothermel** Rebecca Claire Thomas Miranda L. Pilato with Jonathan Harper Schlieman** Maxwell Park Van Kooy** a minor in Music Education John L. Skelton** Rocky Simpson with Sascha Streckel** a minor in Creative Writing Walter Blake Taylor** Basil Thompson Jr. with Angela Michelle Trovato** a minor in Music Business, Gabriel Ann Walburn** Entrepreneurship & Technology

* Degree conferred August 2020 ** Degree conferred December 2020 † Anticipated degree conferral August 2021 THE UNIVERSITY’S HISTORY UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC TRADITIONS

Celebrating its 143rd Commencement this year, University of the Arts is one of the Led by the grand marshal, carrying the university mace, the academic procession nation’s only universities dedicated to the visual and performing arts, design and begins with the candidates for degrees, followed by the faculty from UArts’ six writing. The university evolved from two institutions that were each over a century schools and Graduate and Professional Studies, who in turn are followed by the old when they merged: Philadelphia College of Art (PCA) and Philadelphia College President’s Council, members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished guests, the of Performing Arts (PCPA). chairman of the board and the president of the university. PCA was established in 1876 as part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The tradition of academic regalia dates from the 12th and 13th centuries, when Together, they were originally known as the Pennsylvania Museum and School of universities emerged from religious organizations. The tradition of a long robe Industrial Art, created in response to the growing interest in art and art education for academia arrived in the country with the colonists and served as the norm at stirred by the country’s Centennial Exposition. In 1948, PCA changed its name to Harvard College, the College of William and Mary, and all American colleges and the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, reflecting expanded programs that trained universities founded in the two centuries thereafter. In 1932, the American Council artists in a variety of areas. The school received accreditation as a college in 1959 and on Education authorized a Committee on Academic Costumes and Ceremonies to in 1964, it separated from the museum to become the Philadelphia College of Art. oversee the code for academic regalia. The performing arts programs of University of the Arts date back to 1868, when The gown for the bachelor’s degree has pointed sleeves and is designed to be three graduates of Germany’s Leipzig Conservatory opened the Philadelphia Musical worn closed. The gown for the master’s degree has oblong sleeves, while the gowns Academy, one of the first European-style conservatories of music in the U.S. The of the doctoral degree have bell-shaped sleeves and are often trimmed with velvet. academy became an independent college of music in 1950, one of only eight Black is the standard color for bachelor’s and master’s degree robes. Doctoral institutions in the nation to offer four-year Bachelor of Music degrees. The school degree robes may be black or a special color and design as established by a particular changed its name to the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts in 1976. One institution. year later, the Philadelphia Dance Academy became part of PCPA and in 1983, the Master’s degree hoods are usually shorter than those for doctoral degrees. The School of Theater was created, achieving the college’s ideal combination of dance, color of the hood lining usually denotes the school’s official color(s), and the velvet music and theater arts. trim, the earned degree. For example, blue for philosophy, brown is reserved for In 1985, PCA and PCPA merged to become the Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, fine arts degrees, pink for music, purple for law, yellow/gold for science and white a collaboration bringing the institution one step closer to becoming the nation’s for literature. The color and shape of the hats and tassels are matters of national, first comprehensive arts university. After being granted university status in 1987, institutional or personal preference. University of the Arts became the largest institution of its kind in the nation, The presidential mace and medallion were designed, crafted and presented by offering programs in crafts, dance, design, fine arts, media arts, music and theater. Richard H. Reinhardt BFA ’47 (Art Education) (1921–1998), faculty member, In 1996, the university established the College of Media and Communication former dean of the Philadelphia College of Art and professor emeritus. The (CMAC), offering degrees in Communication, Writing for Film and Television, medallion incorporates a medal coined in 1876 in honor of the U.S. Centennial and and Multimedia. In 2011, CMAC and the College of Art and Design merged to the founding of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, a forerunner form the College of Art, Media and Design. In 2017, the university acquired the of University of the Arts. The medallion’s grosgrain ribbon neckpiece was designed Philadelphia Art Alliance, an iconic, century-old exhibition and performance space and woven by Warren Seelig, professor of Crafts. and a Philadelphia cultural gem. Students who graduate with academic honors wear stoles to denote their Today, more than 1,500 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate accomplishments: red/white for honors/cum laude; silver/white for high honors/ programs taught by more than 300 full- and part-time faculty members on the magna cum laude; and gold/white for highest honors/summa cum laude. university’s campus, located on Philadelphia’s vibrant Avenue of the Arts. The university’s undergraduate programs include Acting; Animation; Craft and Material Honor cords are also worn, indicating participation in honor societies and service Studies with concentrations in Ceramics, Fibers and Textile Studies, Glass, Jewelry/ activities. Red/white cords are for students in the University Honors Scholars Metals and Wood/Furniture; Creative Writing; Dance; Directing, Playwriting program; blue/gold cords indicate members of Delta Alpha Pi, an honor society and Production; Film and Animation; Film and Video; Film Design; Fine Arts; for high-achieving students with disabilities; and red/gold cords are worn by those Game Art; Graphic Design; Illustration; Instrumental Performance; Music recognized by the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Purple cords indicate Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology; Music Composition; Musical Theater; Artists of Service—those who have been committed to serving the underprivileged Photography; Screenwriting; Theater Design and Technology; Vocal Performance; and underserved communities in our area. Maroon/gold cords are worn by students a five-year BFA/MAT in Visual Arts-Art Education; and a five-year BM/MAT in serving as resident assistants and orientation and student community leaders. Black/ Music Education. red cords are given to those who serve their fellow students as Academic Achievement Program peer mentors, and silver/gold cords go to those who are Advising Center Graduate programs include the nation’s only PhD in Creativity and Master’s degrees peer tutors and writing fellows. in Book Arts and Printmaking, Dance, Devised Performance, Educational Program Design, Educational Technology, Jazz Studies, Museum Education, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design, Museum Studies, Music Education, Product Design, Studio Art, and Teaching in Visual Arts. NOTES CONGRATULATIONS 2021 GRADUATES UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS 143RD COMMENCEMENT

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The program book design is by Hayley Romansky ’21 (Graphic Design).