And Then, NESAD Alumni Newsletter, No.10, Spring 2006
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Suffolk University Digital Collections @ Suffolk And Then, NESADSU alumni newsletter Suffolk University Publications 2006 And Then, NESAD alumni newsletter, no.10, Spring 2006 Art and Design Department Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.suffolk.edu/ad-mag Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Art and Design Department, "And Then, NESAD alumni newsletter, no.10, Spring 2006" (2006). And Then, NESADSU alumni newsletter. 4. https://dc.suffolk.edu/ad-mag/4 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Suffolk University Publications at Digital Collections @ Suffolk. It has been accepted for inclusion in And Then, NESADSU alumni newsletter by an authorized administrator of Digital Collections @ Suffolk. For more information, please contact [email protected]. & ThenSpring 2006 I s s u e # 1 0 The Class Of 1959 This reminiscence was sent to me by Irene at the time, was essentially an oversized closet. It Lambert (Advertising Design) of the Class of was open during lunch break and working there 1959 at New England School of Art. The memo- allowed me to purchase art supplies at a consid- ries are hers. erable discount. “Reading “The Challenge: Hayes Bickford ” in the “I also remember a “pizza joint” on Gainsborough Fall 2005 issue of the Alumni Newsletter brought Street where we frequently enjoyed jazz, pizza, back some very fond memories. How well I and beer. And, on a more cultural level, we would remember Hayes Bickford when it was on the very often attend free corner of Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough rehearsals at Symphony Street! Basically, it was what we considered our Hall, which was just “cafeteria”. Many of us would “brown bag” our around the corner from NESADSUAlumni Newsletter lunch and just order a coke or cup of coffee (and the school. At the end I must admit we sometimes just requested hot of the school year, we water and used our own tea bag!) More often would take the trolley than not we shared our cafeteria with students to the Museum School from the Boston Conservatory [of Music], which (School of the Museum was located just down the street. of Fine Arts) for their annual pottery sale. We At the end of the school year, we would take the could buy wonderful pieces, many of which trolley to the Museum School (School of the Museum I still have today, for 4 girls in 1959...Louise Grace, Jackie Tracy, Grace Thatcher and Irene Lambert. of Fine Arts) for their annual pottery sale. We could pennies. buy wonderful pieces, many of which I still have “The four girls in the photo are Louise Grace, today, for pennies. Jackie Tracy, Grace Thatcher and me. The photo was taken by Charlotte Clymer at Grace’s apart- Inside “When I saw John Roman’s drawing in this issue ment in Jamaica Plain where we often met for of the Newsletter I was somewhat confused be- good times. Grace shared the apartment with her Editor’s Note........ .2 cause McDonald’s was not there in 1959, nor do sister and they both worked at Beth Israel Hos- New Class .......... 2 I recall the art supply store that John mentioned pital in Jamaica Plain. I was bridesmaid at Grace Project M2005 ....... 3 (The Open Door). I do, however, remember Thatcher’s wedding when she married Roland The Class of 1959 (cont.) . 4 working in the school’s art supply store which, Cherwek, an electronics engineer. Passages ............ 5 National Design Award. 6 “Many of the male students in the class of 1959 Hollywood & NESADSU 7 were veterans and were attending school under Class Notes ......... 8 the G.I. Bill. For those of you who are not familiar News & Tidbits....... 10 with the G.I. Bill, it was enacted in 1944 and pro- Hayes Bickford...... 11 vided many benefits to veterans of World War II Alumni Interview.... 12 (and later to veterans of the Korean War as well). Among these benefits, for all who served in the Faculty Interview ... 14 armed forces, were stipends covering tuition for NESAD Grad ....... 15 those attending colleges or trade schools. Many Gallery Schedule.... 16 of these fellows were married at the time they attended NESA. continued on page 4 It seems as though 2005, or the latter half of it, was the “Year of NESADSU”. I don’t remember a time when our alumni have garnered so much publicity, national as well as local. We had Kody Starr and the Mbulance Editor’s Note (you’ll have to read on to find out what that was!) making a very real contribution to hurricane Katrina relief, but in a very different and special way. Lori Sartre and George Lucas (yes, THAT George Lucas) crossed paths at Boston’s Museum of Science. Joel Gendron made the papers—again— New Class and, in a way, paid tribute to Laura Golly. Two current students, Something Snappy! Kayla Hicks and Laura Nathanson, won a national design Title: Digital Portfolio Workshop award. Richie Sarno took home a documentary video award. And Don Johnson decided to concentrate on what he does best and Course Code: ADG 150 continue teaching, but this time in his own school. The only sad Prerequisite: Photoshop proficiency and experience with the note was the untimely, which is to say very premature, death of Macintosh platform or instructor permission. our own Bill Oakes, a beloved faculty member and a mentor to countless hundreds of NESAD students. I hope you’ll take the Whether you’re a designer, a sculptor, or a painter, an on-line time to read the details inside. I think you’ll be proud. portfolio is an essential marketing tool for the contemporary artist. In this workshop you’ll create a digital portfolio web site Sara Chadwick and establish your on-line presence. The curriculum will include branding, html integration, and image preparation. By the end of the workshop you’ll not only have produced a working web site, but you’ll have the necessary skills to create digital portfo- lios on your own. June 20 through August 1 Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 8:40 PM $675 tuition For more information, please call Sara Josephson at (617) 994- 4235 or email [email protected] The New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2006 Issue # 10 EDITOR: Sara Chadwick DESIGN CONCEPT & DESIGN: Kate McLean Please send your photographs and news for inclusion in the next CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER: Rita Daly issue. Send all photographs, slides, or digital files, with an ac- PRINTING: Reynolds DeWalt, New Bedford, MA Spring 2006 companying caption that identifies who is in the picture and when WEB SITE: www.suffolk.edu/nesad 2 3 and where it was taken. All photographs, slides and digital files should be 300 dpi at 5”x7” (1500 x 2100 pixels, two megabytes Send updated contact information, questions or requests to Sara Chadwick at approximately), a high-resolution JPEG taken with at least a two- [email protected] or call (617) 994-4294 or use the new online form on the megapixel camera. Alumni page of the website. Then & PROJECTM2005 NESADSU alum Kodiak Starr (Graphic Design 2002) was chosen this spring to take part in an innovative graphic design initiative called Project M2005, a kind of “think tank” for designers. The brainchild of John Bielenberg, and run by the Bielenberg Institute at the Edge of the Earth (really, in Belfast, Maine), this is a post-graduate program designed to inspire young designers, writers, illustrators, photographers, and filmmakers, by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world. The program is targeted to young people just finishing college, though current students and those several years out of college have been chosen as well. The first group, of seven, spent their month investigating Kody suggested a refurbished ambulance–inexpensive, “Thinking Wrong”, and their resulting book was selected by the American reliable, and “somewhat cool”. Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the 50 best designed of 2003. In 2004, Project M traveled to the Guanacaste Conservation Area in Costa Rica to design and complete a communication project for the area’s founder. That project also resulted in a book, which was released in mid-2005. Kody, a Maine native, had been working since graduation at Foote, Cone & Belding, the New York advertising agency. Having been laid off early this year, he applied to the Bielenberg group and was one of only two applicants chosen for 2005. Their project? While on the AIGA National Board of Directors, John Bielen- berg had been asked to produce a “mentoring guide”. Having had trouble coming up with a viable concept, he turned the project over to Kody and the group. They decided to produce a “mentoring road trip”, rather than a guidebook, to recruit design mentors. Needing a vehicle, Kody suggested a refurbished ambulance— inexpensive, reliable, and “somewhat cool”. So the Mbulance was born. The proj- ect was launched at the AIGA national conference held in Boston in September, when the ambulance appeared on the second floor at the Hynes Convention Kody would drive the Mbulance from Maine to New Center (as Kody said, they just drove it up in the freight elevator and no one said Orleans, stopping at AIGA chapters along the way... a word.). At the conference, John struck up a conversation with a designer from New Orleans, who was looking for ideas on how to provide disaster relief to the displaced designers of the Gulf Coast in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Bingo! And so the idea arose.