ARTS + MEDIA = CULTURE SPRING/SUMMER 2012

FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF 16 COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

Two’s Company How alumni are forging successful businesses

DEMOI WEEKEND EVENTS INCLUDE: 2nd Annual Alumni 5K Alumni Bash Friday, Run from Columbia’s campus to What’s networking without Alumni Short Film Festival September 28— Grab some popcorn and watch the museum campus and back. fellow alumni, food, and drinks? some shorts created by your Get your very own Columbia 5K Mingle with old and new friends Saturday, fellow alumni. t-shirt, and take a group photo in and celebrate Alumni Weekend front of Buckingham Fountain. the right way. September 29 Alumni & Student Luncheon Learn how much Columbia has Creative & Career Workshops Program subject to change. grown, and share memories of Check out interactive workshops the Columbia you experienced that will spark your creativity with current students. and expand your professional development.

For the schedule, visit colum.edu/alumniweekend 12) and Louis Byrd (BA ’ 90) (BA Vladimir ZaytsevByrd Photos: ( ’ 12) and Louis

May 4, 2012

JOIN US! ALUMNI AT MANIFEST!

Visit the Alumni Lounge and watch performances by Columbia College alumni. Then join alumni and graduating seniors at the Graduation Party at the Hilton. For the schedule, visit colum.edu/manifest Manifest Art Director: Rocío Lopez (’14) / Photo: Jane Kim (’12) Jane Kim (’14) / Photo: Lopez ArtManifest Rocío Director: SPRING/SUMMER 2012 16

FEATURES

Two’s Company Columbia’s emphasis on collaboration and creativity has sparked entrepreneurial drive in these dynamic duos. See how these alumni use 08 their degrees to follow their dreams. By Audrey Michelle Mast (BA ’00) CAAN–Do Spirit With a new national board in place, the Columbia Alumni Association & Network (CAAN) encourages all alumni to get out there and get involved. 16 By Lisa Holton Portfolio: Linsey Burritt & Crystal Grover Eco-conscious entrepreneurs Linsey Burritt (BFA ’05) and Crystal Grover (BFA ’06) put their activism to work through a booming design 21 studio. By Liz Harmon Miller SPOT ON

26 Andy Flessas (BA ’90) takes computer animation to new heights using robotic technology. 28 Recording artist Kym Mazelle (’86) credits Columbia with providing a rock-solid foundation to succeed in a tough business. 30 Nora Moreno Cargie (BA ’82) leads corporate citizenship work for Boeing, including community-enrichment programs that benefit education, arts, and human services. COVER 32 Ted Ansani (BA ’90), founding member of power-pop trio Material Issue, continues to crank up the music through life’s challenges. Maggie DiBardino (BA ’08) and Jack Edinger (BFA ’06) run Lipstick Dinosaur, part online vintage DEPARTMENTS emporium and part thriving styling firm. Story, page 8. Photo: Nolan Wells 3 Vision A question for President Carter 4 Wire News from the Columbia community 34 Out There Our alumni section, featuring class news, notes, and CAAN updates 41 Point & Shoot Caught on camera around the country 48 Upcoming Events What’s happening on campus 49 Backstory The first collegewide celebration of the graduating class, MayFest, debuts in 2002

Correction: In DEMO 15, Carol Rozansky was listed as chair of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She should have been listed as chair of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Education Department. Her photo should have been credited to Danielle Aquiline (MFA ’06). We regret the errors. SPRING/SUMMER 2012 ALUMNIEVENTS Contact the Office of Alumni Relations for details 312.369.6987 / [email protected]

MAY 4 JUNE 22, 23, OR 24 (DATE IS TBD) Manifest, Chicago Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Manifest is Columbia’s urban arts Diamondbacks, Phoenix festival. All alumni and friends are JULY 3 welcome to attend this free event. Alumni Day, Atlanta Visit the Alumni Lounge to see alumni EXECUTIVE EDITOR/VICE PRESIDENT Join your fellow Cubs fans as the FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT 16 performances and senior work, and Chicago Cubs play the Atlanta Braves. Eric V. A. Winston, PhD then have a blast at the Alumni & Michael Anderson, associate VP for Senior Graduation Party! Institutional Advancement, will be in EDITOR Kristi Turnbaugh MAY 12 attendance. Columbia Bowling Bash EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS AUGUST 3, 4, OR 5 (DATE IS TBD) A CAAN-y competition! CAAN is holding Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Sean McEntee (’14) a nationwide bowling event for Dodgers, Los Angeles J.D. Piland chapters around the country, including Join your fellow Cubs fans as the team Benita Zepeda (BA ’11) Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, takes on the Los Angeles Dodgers. ALUMNI CONTENT MANAGER Los Angeles, Minneapolis (this is a This is an all-you-can-eat event with Michelle Passarelli (BA ’99) chapter launch for the Twin Cities), hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts, nachos, NYC, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, and soda, so come hungry! CLASS NOTES EDITOR and St. Louis. Shay Lessman (’12) SEPTEMBER 28–29 JUNE 16 2012 Alumni Weekend, Chicago CREATIVE DIRECTOR Chicago White Sox vs. Come back to campus for the Ben Bilow Los Angeles Dodgers 2012 Alumni Weekend. Don’t miss ART DIRECTOR Get your tickets for this rare event! The this weekend full of reconnection, Abigail Friedman McLean Chicago White Sox do not typically visit networking, and, most of all, fun! the LA Dodgers, so take advantage of this opportunity to cheer on your COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO Chicago team in LA! CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES Allen M. Turner

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DEMO2 A QUESTION FOR PRESIDENT CARTER

DEMO: This year, the college has undertaken a major effort to prioritize programs and services campuswide. Tell us about the Blueprint | Prioritization process.

DR. CARTER: With a focus on the best are offering throughout this review—by making interests of our students and to ensure our each tier of recommendations available for institution remains among the best in our field, we community review and hosting listening sessions are in the middle of a year-long process—called for feedback—is exceedingly rare. Blueprint | Prioritization—to review our academic curriculum and nonacademic programs. Reviews So where are we now? Since January, faculty and are a fundamental requirement to ensure the staff across our institution reported crucial data health and vitality for our community, just as they on their programs, and we saw recommendations are at any academic institution. To be clear, no made by our deans, associate vice presidents, decisions have been made at this time. vice presidents, the interim provost, and our staff and faculty prioritization committees. We have We were prompted to launch this review nearly also held listening forums, giving all faculty and a year ago because it became clear to us that staff the opportunity to provide input at several the disciplines in which we provide instruction points in the process. Students are also able to have changed. We know that the Columbia of provide comments and feedback via the Student Photo: William Frederking today cannot remain the same as it was for Government Association (SGA). students even five or 10 years ago. And so we are embracing this process as a great opportunity I am deeply appreciative to these individuals, to create a new model in higher education and their dedicated effort, and the hundreds of hours ensure Columbia’s curriculum and programs it took to bring us to this point. remain on the cutting edge of arts and media I am very much looking forward to reviewing education. We must ensure that our programs and carefully considering all recommendations keep pace with contemporary arts and media made and feedback provided by our community, industries so our students receive the best including students, in the weeks leading up to and training possible. after you will read this issue ofDEMO. My review When we began Blueprint | Prioritization, will include reflection on and careful consideration we wanted to respect Columbia’s legacy of all recommendations and feedback, ultimately of encouraging vibrant, open, and honest culminating with my final decisions made to the discussion and, thus, chose an atypical, Board of Trustees in June. transparent, and inclusive method that We deeply appreciate the outpouring of support, incorporates analysis, proposals, and excitement, and passionate recommendations considerations from our entire community—not discussed throughout this period. We are listening just a select group of administrators chosen to carefully to ongoing dialogue, and we hope guide the process. In fact, our faculty and staff you are just as excited as we are to ensure our established the review criteria by which we students continue to be best positioned to author are looking at our academic and nonacademic the culture of their times. programs. We believe that the transparency we

DEMO3 News from the Columbia Community

DANCE CENTER RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS 2012 JOYCE AWARD

The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Photo: Jacob Boll (’12) Photo: received a 2012 Joyce Award to commission choreographer Reggie Wilson to create the evening- length dance-theatre work (project) Moseses Project. The $50,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation also will support Wilson’s research residency in Chicago and a two-week community engagement residency for Wilson and three dancers to involve Chicagoans in the creative process.

The Dance Center is being honored with this prestigious award for the second time, one of only three organizations—and the only dance organization—to receive two Joyce Awards in its The Efroymson Art + Design Resource Center at 623 S. Wabash Ave. houses objects and products for research and study. 10-year history. The Dance Center received a 2004 Joyce Award to support commissioning fees, EFROYMSON ART+DESIGN presentation costs, and associated community engagement and audience development efforts for RESOURCE CENTER OPENS Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s Wild Cursive, created by Artistic Director Lin Hwai-min. The piece In October, Columbia College Chicago opened the new Efroymson Art + Design (A+D) received its American premiere in October 2006, Resource Center on the 4th floor of 623 S. Wabash Ave. Made possible by a $250,000 presented by The Dance Center at the Harris Theater gift from the Efroymson Family Fund, a donor-advised fund of Central Indiana Community in Chicago. Foundation in Indianapolis, the Resource Center is designed to provide Columbia students and faculty with an inspirational environment in which to work and collaborate. (project) Moseses Project is the working title of a new performance piece by Wilson exploring the The center houses a wide variety of art and design objects and products for research interfaith mythical, biblical, ethnographic, historic, and study, such as museum publications, design strategy games, exhibition-related and global references of Moses. Initial inspiration for resources, artist and design books, and one-of-a-kind designed objects. It also houses an the work came from Wilson’s rereading of Zora Neale extensive collection of recorded visiting artist lectures from the A+D lecture series and Hurston’s novel Moses, Man of the Mountain, which other departments and events around the college. The center is physically connected to retells the Moses story as a Southern folk tale in the A+D Media Center, where students and faculty can check out various art materials Southern African-American vernacular. and technologies for classes and projects.

STUDENT AWARDS Fashion studies senior CAREN OLIVER won BET’s Lens on Talent Fashion Competition in November, walking away with the grand prize of $10,000 for her designs. Lens on Talent is BET’s Here’s a sampling of awards talent search for the “superstars of tomorrow,” focusing on music, fashion, and dance. During recently garnered by the competition, BET producers visited Columbia to shoot video of Oliver in her “natural habitat,” Columbia students. the fashion labs in 623 S. Wabash Ave. The student made it through the top 25, the top 10, and then to her place as the only student competitor in the top three of the fashion competition. The winner was determined by an online public vote.

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Broadcast journalism student Paris Lewbel shoots video of the action in Iowa.

STUDENTS COVER IOWA CAUCUSES

Fifteen graduate and undergraduate Columbia students, in a J-term class titled “Covering the Iowa Caucus,” spent three days in Iowa in January interviewing analysts, Steve Becker Steve Photo: voters, campaign staff, and candidates’ family members during the first presidential President Warrick L. Carter, left, and Board of Trustees Chairman Allen Turner nominating contest of 2012. The journalism honor Linda Johnson Rice at the Open Doors Gala. and photography majors were among an estimated 1,500 journalists to cover the event, the closest Iowa caucus in decades. OPEN DOORS GALA RAISES $700,000 “This was a group of extremely motivated and committed students,” said Associate FOR STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS Journalism Department Chair Suzanne At the 2011 Open Doors Gala on November 5, Columbia College McBride, who accompanied the students. “They had deadlines to meet, and they even Chicago raised nearly $700,000 for its Open Doors Scholarship Fund, started phone interviews and research for the which allows Chicago Public Schools’ graduates to attend Columbia. The caucus over the winter break.” event, held at the college’s Media Production Center at 1600 S. State St., was a black-tie evening of dinner and performances by Columbia The students published more than a dozen student artists. Some 250 guests were in attendance. stories on ChicagoTalks, the award-winning local website started by McBride and fellow The college also honoredLinda Johnson Rice, chairwoman of Chicago-based Johnson faculty member Barbara K. Iverson, during Publishing Company, with Columbia’s inaugural Chicago Legacy Award, created to recognize their three days in Des Moines. The stories those who have made a significant impact in the Chicago community and have helped “open covered voter reaction, caucus outcomes, doors” for future generations. Johnson Publishing has a long-standing relationship with and political issues, and included audio, video, Columbia College, including hiring interns and graduates. Columbia recently purchased the and photos. Johnson Publishing headquarters building at 820 S. Michigan Ave. for the future site of the college library.

Art + Design major ELIZABETH SALINAS won first place in the Chicago Tobacco Prevention Project’s “Quit to Win” design contest in fall 2011. Salinas’ winning entry, which addresses the dangers of secondhand smoke to children, was used on billboards and public transit platforms all over Chicago beginning in November. Salinas received a $5,000 scholarship and an Apple iPad.

DEMO5 STUDENTS, ALUMNI WIN EMMY AWARDS

Two student groups and several alumni won big at the Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards in November.

TheTelevision Department and Frequency TV won a Student Production Award in the “Long Format (Fiction and Non-Fiction)” category for Freq Out, a live sketch variety show with an interactive multimedia component. The program was produced with the Audio Arts and Acoustics Department.

TheJournalism Department also took home a Student Production award in the “News: General Assignment” category for “Felony Franks,” produced by journalism grad student Wendy Wohlfeill. The show was created for Metro Minutes, Columbia’s weekly television news program produced, anchored, and reported by journalism students.

Senior Jacob Watts’ photo illustration was chosen as this year’s commencement image. Ann Marie Esp (BA ’95), along with her team at Chicago’s WLS-TV, took home the Outstanding Achievement for Special Event Coverage (Edited) ALUMNI OF THE YEAR, COMMENCEMENT award for “Chicago’s Mayor: The Daley Years.” HONOREES ANNOUNCED Dean Richards (’76), along with his co-host and producers, won for Outstanding Achievement At this year’s commencement ceremonies, taking place May 5 and 6 for Public Affairs/Current Affairs Programming at the historic Chicago Theatre, Columbia College Chicago will recognize - Program/Special for WGN’s “Stories of Hope: the 2012 Alumni of the Year and six honorary degree recipients. Facing Breast Cancer.” Samantha Sanders (MFA ’01) and John Columbia recognizes alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their fields and Farbrother (MFA ’03), co-founders of Green River embody the mission of the institution as Alumni of the Year. This year, the college honors Films Inc., won for Outstanding Achievement celebrity jeweler Lana Bramlette (BA ’97), comic book artist Art Baltazar (BA ’92), and for Arts and Entertainment Programming for Disney animator Marlon West (BA ’85). “Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2011 Youth in Honorary degree recipients are outstanding individuals in the arts, education, politics, Music Festival.” Brett Hartle (BA ’09) served as and public information. This year, the college honorsPhil Ramone, Grammy-winning production assistant on the project. music producer; Lee Flaherty, award-winning marketing expert; Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jens Bogehegn (BA ’88) and the Zacuto Films team acclaimed photographer; Steve James, prize-winning film director Hoop( Dreams); Warren won for Outstanding Achievement for Interview/ Spector, pioneering video game designer and producer; and Mavis Staples, legendary Discussion Programming - Program /Special/Series vocalist. for “Filmfellas: Commitment to the Craft.”

The Mi Parque app, a bilingual participatory Marketing Communications senior DERRICK MILTON placemaking web and smartphone application was selected as one of America’s Most Promising Minority developed by students from Columbia’s Students by American Advertising Federation for 2012. One INTERACTIVE ARTS & MEDIA DEPARTMENT, of 50 outstanding students chosen nationwide, Milton flew Illinois Institute of Technology, and University to New York, NY, in February to participate in a recruiting of Illinois at Chicago, was crowned one of the Grand Challenge event, where he and his fellow finalists connected with winners in the 2011 Apps for Metro Chicago contest sponsored industry experts through professional development seminars, by the Metro Chicago Information Center. interviews, and student expos.

DEMO6 Vibrant. Inspired. New.

ShopColumbia features the best of student and alumni art, jewelry, fashions, accessories, stationery, music, media, and more. A learning laboratory for student artists. A shopping destination for customers. Visit us online at shop.colum.edu.

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DEMO8 TWO’S COMPANY

“Live what you love” is more than a mantra for these successful alumni. See how these dynamic partnerships forged at Columbia prove that passion, drive, and old-fashioned hard work can turn dreams into reality.

BY AUDREY MICHELLE MAST (BA ’00)

DEMO9 DIGGING IT MAGGIE DIBARDINO (BA ’08) AND JACK EDINGER (BFA ’06)

LIPSTICK DINOSAUR, CHICAGO multiple decades, particularly the ’80s and ’90s, presented with With a mission of “fashion archeology” and a hefty dose of sartorial plenty of attitude—and humor. This experimentation, Lipstick Dinosaur is part online vintage emporium and type of “renegade styling” has been part thriving styling firm, spearheaded by Maggie DiBardino (BA ’08). Its featured in photo shoots for local media as well as in Nylon magazine. 27-year-old founder has always had a passion for self-expression through fashion. “It’s almost as if clothing became my suit of armor,” she says. But The entrepreneurs conduct swap meets and vintage sales, as well as being part of the artistic community at Columbia, and feeling free to cultivate run a bustling shop on Etsy, a social a renegade spirit, gave her the drive to become an entrepreneur. commerce site for DIY and vintage items. In October 2011, Lipstick Dinosaur held its first runway show “I always wanted to go to art events coordinator and DiBardino as part of Fashion Focus Chicago school,” DiBardino says. She chose worked in music management, to resounding success. “Maggie is Columbia because she felt it was “a the two continued to pursue their a really motivated person when it place where you could basically do fashion passion. “We were going to comes to her business,” Edinger anything you wanted” artistically. thrift stores nonstop, finding all of says. “It never seems like pressure As an arts, entertainment, and these amazing pieces that people for her. She works hard at it media management (AEMM)/ would freak over at bars or on the because it’s a direct reflection of music business management streets, and eventually it was just who she is.” student, she worked her way so obvious that [vintage sourcing through internships that gave her a and styling] was supposed to be our Holland recently left Chicago—and sense of how creative businesses path,” Holland says. Lipstick Dinosaur—to run catering work. Throughout school, she and events for hospitality giant AVI developed a strong sense of Jack Edinger (BFA ’06), who studied Foodsystems, overseeing special personal style that she says “either photography at Columbia and today events in seven states, but says of people thought was weird, or they works as a freelance photographer, Lipstick Dinosaur: “It will always be thought it was cool. But the more also met DiBardino in the dorms our baby and something that we positive comments I got, the more during college and got involved with both have so much invested in.” comfortable I got getting weirder the business shortly after its launch. Edinger, DiBardino’s new business and weirder with it.” “Maggie and Jacob had always had partner who took over in 2011, amazing style,” Edinger says. “There loves the challenge. “There are tons Columbia In spring 2010, she started Lipstick was this underlying attitude [of of people who are making a living Dinosaur with her best friend and making] the world a little more fun doing what they want,” he says. “introduced me business partner, Jacob Holland and colorful and expressive.” “Columbia introduced me to (BA ’07), an AEMM/performing a whole section of society that to a whole section arts graduate she met outside the Edinger shot Lipstick Dinosaur’s first wasn’t playing by the rules—in the of society that Plymouth Court dorms during her “look book,” a sort of portfolio for best way.” freshman year. “Our personalities the brand. “I hadn’t really ever shot wasn’t playing by were electric together from the any fashion and didn’t really even Amidst the changes, DiBardino has moment we met,” Holland says. know what a look book was, but it a clear focus as she moves forward. the rules—in the “Not only had we found someone sounded like fun,” he says. “They “I have learned to listen to other that dressed as eccentrically as were such amazing, colorful, laid- people, but in the end I will stick best way. the other, but we had a brother- back people—it never felt like a job.” with what I feel,” she says. “The and-sister bond from the very words of others are sometimes Lipstick Dinosaur’s “look” defies — Jack Edinger, above,” beginning.” distracting, and you have to keep with Maggie DiBardino easy description. Born from thrift- your core about you, and always A few years after graduation, while store scavenging and raw intuition, believe in yourself.” Nolan Wells Holland worked as a high-end it’s a mash-up of influences from Photos: Photos:

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T’N’T: THEY’RE DYNAMITE Robert Teitel and George Tillman Jr. make reel history, thanks to Columbia Story focused. Hard- Tillman’s short, Paula, earned working characters. Chicago a Student Academy Award background. These are often and a Black Filmmakers the hallmarks of films made Hall of Fame Award. Still, he by Robert Teitel (BA ’90) and and Teitel had to learn the George Tillman Jr. (BA ’91), business. “We always tried to such as Soul Food (1997) and find work outside of school,” Barbershop (2002). But those Tillman says. “We looked for traits could also describe the commercial work in the city filmmakers themselves. and did some PSAs [public service announcements].” Tillman, pictured above left, and Teitel met as Columbia The two planned to arrive in students when they lived in Hollywood with a calling card, the same dorm at Roosevelt so, in 1995, they used their University, and they took Chicago-based feature film, Film Tech II together. When Scenes for the Soul, as the Tillman organized a small door opener to Los Angeles group of student filmmakers agencies. In 2000, Teitel to work on each other’s produced and Tillman directed projects, it quickly became Robert De Niro and Cuba evident to Teitel and Tillman Gooding Jr. in Men of Honor. that they worked harder than Tillman was a producer on anyone else—and that they the Chicago set of Barbershop were in it for the long haul. (which spawned two sequels Together they formed their and a series) and went back own production company, to directing with Notorious Menagerie Films. (2009), a biopic of rapper Notorious B.I.G. As Tillman worked on scripts inspired by his Milwaukee These days in their Los upbringing, complete with Angeles-based State Street strong female characters and Pictures offices (another realistic dinnertime dialogue, Chicago nod), Teitel and Teitel, a Mount Prospect Tillman look to the blueprint of native, forged his own way as Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, a film and marketing major. the director-producer pair “I knew I wanted to be a who’ve taken that relationship producer,” Teitel says, “but to blockbuster heights. at the time there wasn’t a Two more State Street film producing class. So I tried to biographies on the horizon— create my own program as on jazz icon Miles Davis and best I could.” journeyman boxer Peter Buckley—show their passion Both men credit professor for stories, big and small, a Paul Hettel with inspiring them love perhaps only equaled by to start with a stellar script. a Windy City homecoming. “At the end of the day, you “Chicago is a character in need a good story,” Tillman our films,” Teitel says. “We’re says. “That’s what Chicago always coming back.” is about and what Columbia College really taught us.” —WILLIAM MEINERS (MFA ’96) DEMO11 Photos: William Shevchuk “ — Stephanie Furst— Stephanie Slater, withEric above right, Slater We learned how to think, molded usinto the creative not what to think. Our educational experiences atColumbia adventurers we are today. ” BREAD OF LIFE STEPHANIE FURST SLATER (BFA ’04) AND ERIC SLATER (’05) PAN DE VIDA, SAN JUAN DEL SUR, NICARAGUA In 2005, Stephanie Furst (BFA ’04) and her future husband, Eric Slater (’05), who met at Columbia, embarked on a nine-month backpacking journey through Central America—an experience that would change their lives forever. After marrying in 2007, they lived in Chicago but dreamt of moving to Nicaragua, one of their favorite countries from the trip.

“Our educational experiences ringing success, growing into a they are thriving in it. In addition at Columbia molded us into the highly-rated destination catering to expanding their family (they creative adventurers we are today. to townspeople, tourists, and local welcomed their second child We learned how to think, not businesses. in January), they recently sold what to think,” Stephanie says. two franchises of Pan De Vida, “Being surrounded by inspiring Stephanie, who majored in including an outpost at an all- people simply contributed to our photography, believes her inclusive resort about two hours entrepreneurial spirits and gave us education uniquely prepared her north of San Juan del Sur and a the courage to do something new.” for this career. “I think there are third location at a private wildlife similarities between photography reserve on the Costa Rican border. And they did. As “hungry and bread making. It’s about backpackers” trekking through process,” she says. “Patience and When asked what advice they’d Central America, some of the intention really come into play with give to aspiring entrepreneurs, comforts they missed most, says the final outcome, which would Stephanie says “to simply follow Stephanie, were “tasty baked either be a stellar black-and-white through. That’s been the biggest goods.” Nicaragua’s fishing and image, or a beautiful, delicious loaf challenge to us, and something tourist village San Juan del Sur— of bread.” that would present itself to any with a population of 18,500 and entrepreneur in the world: the an idyllic, surfside location on Eric, who studied in Columbia’s courage of conviction. We are met the southern Pacific coast of the Visual Arts Management program, with so many obstacles every day country—offered a suitable market agrees. “Artisan bread in a brick [such as stifling heat and spotty for artisan bread and other treats. oven … made by my hands, baked Internet access] … but we really After establishing residency in in a fire made by me, crafted and believe in what we’re doing, and Nicaragua, the Slaters opened placed directly on the floor of the really value what we’re doing. Pan their own bakery—the only brick- oven­­­—this is art,” he says. De Vida offers a unique product in oven bakery in town—in 2008. the way that we make everything With such success, the Slaters Pan De Vida, which translates by hand, and everything is made are not just living their dream, but to “Bread of Life,” has become a with love.”

DEMO13 If there was a school “ designed for me, it was Columbia. It helped me grow so much from the creative point inside of myself. — Tony Kemp, above right, and Bill Barrick”

DEMO14 TOWN & COUNTRY BILL BARRICK (’89) AND TONY KEMP (BA ’86) THE INN AT IRISH HOLLOW, GALENA, ILLINOIS “The unconventional teaching at Columbia allows an unconventional way of life,” says Tony Kemp, who opened Galena’s Inn at Irish Hollow 22 years ago with his partner, Bill Barrick. As a student at Columbia, Kemp immersed himself in classes ranging from writing workshops to meditation techniques for artists. “Everything was taught from a different place … from creative thinking,” he says. Barrick and Kemp still work from that “place” today.

About three hours from the Loop, “When we started, Bill and I were “Columbia’s always been about nestled in the rolling hills of our entire staff,” Kemp says. “We being fresh and innovative and northwestern Illinois, the couple’s lived in the basement. We cooked ahead of its time, and then the inn is now a bed and breakfast and cleaned … and worked every rest of the world gets it later,” resort on nearly 500 acres, replete moment. It just didn’t faze us Barrick observes, noting that the with private cottages, graceful because we were working in the private cottages on the property gardens, and hiking trails. A stay direction of what we wanted.” don’t have televisions or phones, at Irish Hollow is “not just about but Wi-Fi throughout the resort lodging and food,” but, as Kemp They’ve come a long way. Today, is a must. “In our business we’re describes, “an experience … a their success allows them to always anticipating how things may ‘set’ we create,” says the former enjoy owning multiple properties, change and what the curves may theatre major. including a condo in Chicago (they be. We want to make sure we’re remain avid theatre aficionados), cutting the edge.” Barrick and Kemp met while they and a house in Buenos Aires (a city were theatre majors at Columbia they “fell in love with” after a trip to Future plans for the Inn at Irish and have been together ever since. improve their Spanish), where they Hollow include expanding special Their early years at Irish Hollow spend about two months a year. events, particularly hosting were a labor of love. “It honestly weddings—both indoors in their took youth and ignorance,” Barrick Kemp credits his adventurous barn and outdoors in an old says with a laugh. “Just going with approach to blending work and life quarry on the property—opening a an idea, and having the drive. to his time at Columbia. “If there community dinner theater, growing was a school designed for me, it Photos: Nolan Wells Photos: That’s really what made it happen.” their interior design business, and was Columbia,” he says. “It helped launching farmsteads on their me grow so much from the creative acreage for those who want to not point inside of myself. just visit, but also live at Irish Hollow.

“I very easily could have been The couple stays centered amidst someone who didn’t go to college it all, in part because of what they at all. But my mother brought me learned at Columbia. “It’s probably [to visit Columbia] and … I was the reason why I’m doing what I hooked,” he adds. “All of a sudden do today—growing and being able I realized: There is a school that to live from that creative spot, no speaks my language. That was my matter what it is I’m doing—even experience throughout. It suited me if I’m buying real estate or doing so well. You’re not just using your something else in business,” Kemp brain to study. Columbia has says. “I don’t look at the way things a way of involving every aspect of are always done. I ask myself, What the body: your spirit, your mind, do I want, and how can I create it?” your soul.”

DEMO15 “I got involved because I felt my contribution as a ‘seasoned’ alum could lend itself to the CAAN–DO organization’s goals.” HOWARD SHAPIRO (BA ’53) SPIRIT Regional Representative, Northwest

PORTLAND With a new national board in place, the Columbia Alumni Association & Network (CAAN) encourages all alumni to get out there and get involved SAN FRANCISCO BY LISA HOLTON DENVER

A college with national impact needs a national alumni organization. LAS VEGAS

That’s why for the first time in its 122-year history, Columbia PHOENIX College Chicago has elected its first national alumni board LOS ANGELES with a plan to develop national programming and deliver a wider range of activities, benefits, and job networking opportunities to Columbia’s 55,000 alumni nationwide.

The Columbia Alumni Association & Network (CAAN) is just one more product of a major strategic initiative launched in 2006 to expand the school’s programs, provide greater student support, and raise the overall value of a Columbia College degree. CAAN’s first national board was elected in August 2011 and is planning activities for 2012 and beyond. “Pay it forward. We all can benefit from increasing our circle of friends.” PAT BLUM (BA ’84) Regional Representative, Southwest

DEMO16 McLean Abigail Friedman ’99) Illustration: (BA Headshots: Susan Fore MEET YOUR “CAAN is open to alumni of all backgrounds, so CAAN BOARD The national board of the Columbia there is an opportunity to share skills and talents Alumni Association & Network (CAAN) in a way that will be heard and appreciated.” strives to increase alumni’s involvement with the college. It has four national JOAN HAMMEL (BA ’86) officers, six regional representatives, and President and Regional Representative, Midwest five members at large. Some officers have dual roles reflecting their current alumni work in the cities where they’re based. CAAN regional chapters are Northwest, Southwest, Midwest, Great South, Northeast, and Southeast. Chapter cities are Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York City, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, and St. Louis. Meet your board members here and on pages 18–19.

NEW YORK CITY

PITTSBURGH DETROIT CHICAGO

ST. LOUIS

NASHVILLE “Alums are always welcome with open arms

ATLANTA at a CAAN event!” JAMES “WOODY” WOODWARD (MA ’03) Regional Representative, Northeast

“CAAN could open doors for your career. You never know who you will meet.”

SUSAN FORE (BA ’99) Vice President and Regional “I got involved with CAAN Representative, Southeast because I learned there was no active St. Louis chapter.” MATT STAED (BA ’06) Secretary and Regional Representative, Great South DEMO17 MEET YOUR CAAN BOARD

In addition to involving six regional representatives (see pages 16–17), the CAAN National Board includes five members at large. Part of the board’s charge is to get more alumni involved with the network, so DEMO asked: “Why should alumni get involved with CAAN?”

“I’ve been fortunate to meet, mingle, and work with other alums who also share a passion for Columbia; it’s like an extended family you never “You never know who knew you had.” “If you had great experiences as a you are going to meet MARTY KANE (BA ’06) and how they can affect Columbia student, why your life. Come to an not give other young event and find out.” people a chance to have similar experiences?” KRISTIE BORGMANN (BA ’04) MICHAEL MOSCATO (BA ’94)

“CAAN’s objective is to become an efficient Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00), Columbia’s director Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, operating program on a number of fronts,” of alumni relations for the West Coast, thinks New York City, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, said Eric V.A. Winston, PhD, vice president of now is a great time for alumni to get involved San Francisco, and St. Louis. institutional advancement at Columbia. CAAN with CAAN. “We have chapters and reps in goals include: cities where the largest numbers of graduates The national board is taking what Hammel are, and they’re all producing interesting calls “baby steps”: closely looking at what’s • Creating an alumni organization that’s truly programming,” Schroeder said. “We need successful in each city and seeing if those national in scope. Columbia has benefited volunteers at all levels, particularly if they have ideas can be leveraged across the country. from strong regional alumni chapters in good ideas for programming.” In 2011, some of those activities included: Chicago and Los Angeles, among other cities, but the CAAN National Board will work THE NEW CAAN STRUCTURE • An alumni short-film screening (Denver); to better support existing networks and The CAAN board has four national officers, six • A screening of Lovestalker, a movie directed elevate best regional practices and alumni regional representatives, and five members and produced by Columbia alumni (St. outreach to a national scale; at large (see sidebar, page 19). Some officers Louis); • Building an effective, multigenerational have dual roles reflecting their current alumni • Alumni baseball outings when the Chicago alumni network that can guide current work in the cities where they’re based. For Cubs were in town (Phoenix and Atlanta); undergraduate and graduate students example, CAAN President Joan Hammel (BA ’86), who is based in Chicago, was also named preparing for future careers; and • A multiweekend music event that CAAN’s Midwestern regional officer due to her showcased 20 local bands and promoted • Assembling an alumni network that can continuing work with that chapter. Columbia to an audience of hundreds support Columbia financially and on a (Pittsburgh); volunteer basis to improve the school and “We’re in the process right now of collecting membership information from all the chapters its programs to increase the value of all • Fashion Week networking with Columbia and finding out what projects are both planned Columbia degree programs. alumni and networking events with other and in development,” Hammel said. CAAN’s majors (New York); and chapter cities are Atlanta, Chicago, Denver,

DEMO18 • Participation in the Young Storyteller Membership Engagement Committee: GET INVOLVED Foundation, through which alumni This committee will use the Chicago helped elementary school students write chapter’s work with its Young Alumni WITH CAAN Not yet involved with your alumni association? their first scripts and put on productions Committee as a template to engage and It’s easy to start. Contact one of your CAAN with professional actors (Los Angeles, maintain chapter membership through National Board members below. see page 34). social and other media. This committee will also reach out to alumni in other Hammel says CAAN is hoping to do more demographics. multicity events, such as Oscar Night CAAN NATIONAL BOARD celebrations. “We’d love to produce one or National Events Committee: This NATIONAL OFFICERS two national events a year, but we need to committee will develop one or more PRESIDENT get more people involved and come up with national alumni events to be carried out Joan Hammel (BA ’86) a variety of ideas,” she said. concurrently at all chapters. [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT VOLUNTEERS WANTED Fundraising Committee: This committee Susan Fore (BA ’99) will raise funds for the CAAN Alumni [email protected] CAAN is looking for alumni help at all levels Scholarship Fund, which was launched in TREASURER of the organization and in all chapters to 2003 to support junior- and senior-year Anna Keizer (BA ’04) assist with upcoming events and to create [email protected] Columbia students who demonstrate new programming and projects that will SECRETARY extraordinary merit and need. bring more alumni back in touch with Matt Staed (BA ’06) Columbia. The CAAN National Board has [email protected] Nominations/Elections Committee: created six committees to do just that. This committee will evaluate potential They are: candidates for the national board and carry out elections. Alumni Enrichment Committee: REGIONAL This committee will focus on networking REPRESENTATIVES Governance Committee: This committee activities for new and senior alumni, group will develop and supervise national NORTHWEST career development assistance (resume Howard Shapiro (BA ’53) board bylaws, chapter development, and [email protected] development, interviewing skills), and other best practices. employment-related activities. SOUTHWEST Pat Blum (BA ’84) [email protected]

MIDWEST Joan Hammel (BA ’86) [email protected]

GREAT SOUTH Matt Staed (BA ’06) [email protected]

“Living in LA is no easy NORTHEAST James “Woody” Woodward (MA ’03) feat. The importance [email protected] of having a network SOUTHEAST Susan Fore (BA ’99) of people who truly [email protected] support you cannot be overestimated.” “It is a great way to stay in MEMBERS AT LARGE ANNA KEIZER (BA ’04) Kristie Borgmann (BA ’04) CAAN Treasurer touch, have fun, and network [email protected] with alumni in your area.” Don Fox (BA ’85) [email protected] DON FOX (BA ’85) Marty Kane (BA ’06) [email protected] Anna Keizer (BA ’04) [email protected] Michael Moscato (BA ’94) [email protected]

DEMO19 GET CONNECTED

Since 2005, Columbia’s Office of Alumni Relations has offered valuable benefits and services for alumni. CAAN is just one service sponsored by the office. To access your alumni benefits, go to colum.edu/alumni, and then:

FIND YOUR LOCAL CAAN CHAPTER: Click “Stay Connected” and then “Alumni Chapters.”

FIND ACTIVITIES, DISCOUNTS, AND CAREER SERVICES: Click “Benefits and Career Services,” and select your choice.

MAKE A GIFT: Click on “Make a Gift,” then “Ways to Give” in the right column of the page.

The initial mix of tasks and goals for the CAAN from scratch here, and we’ve got to get our anywhere from six to 20 hours until graduation board is a good match for the culture and the hands dirty and our feet wet.” and just quit,” Hammel said. “They could have challenges Columbia alumni now face in one suffered an economic setback or decided to of the nation’s worst economic downturns, Change should start with the top, says Matt change focus. Or they had a chance at a great according to CAAN Treasurer Anna Keizer (BA Staed (BA ’06), the St. Louis-based Fundraising job and just left.” Hammel added that Columbia ’04), who is based in Los Angeles and chairs the committee chair who is developing giving doesn’t charge any reapplication fees for Alumni Enrichment committee. guidelines for CAAN leadership. “We’re giving former students to return at any stage in their our time, but … we have to make a financial coursework. “It’s particularly important for current students commitment as well. We can’t ask people to give to see we’re creating alumni activities with real without giving ourselves.” As the CAAN National Board gets off the ground, value so they can see the benefits of staying in Staed encourages all alumni to get more touch once they graduate,” she added. CAAN will develop long-term timelines for involved in their regions, not only to help the specific goals, but it has immediate fundraising college, but also to help themselves. “CAAN is a DEVELOPING A objectives, Hammel said. “Given the economy great place to meet people in your industry and FUNDRAISING CULTURE and the rising cost of education, both our share contacts. But one less obvious benefit is undergrads and graduate students need support As with all college and university alumni that CAAN gives you the chance to help sculpt now, not five or 10 years from now,” she added. networks, a major objective of CAAN is to attract an organization, chapter, or committee the way “There’s urgent need for current scholarship to Columbia more financial support from those you want to,” he said. “The more alumni support, money so students can continue their studies, who have benefited most from it: its students. the better the programs we provide for our and there’s also a need for funds for textbooks, Although alumni giving has always been critically students, and that makes [a Columbia] degree classroom fees, and other day-to-day expenses important to Columbia, the CAAN National even more valuable. It’s about having people students face.” Board is expected to take alumni giving to a look at your resume and think, ‘That degree is new level. CAAN plans to leverage social media CREATING CHANGE worth something.’” tools including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; For more information on getting involved with traditional fundraising instruments such as In addition to fundraising, CAAN is pursuing a your local or national CAAN, see page 19. To follow phone banks and direct mail; and conventional vital project in the coming months: getting late- CAAN on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, go to solicitation, said Winston: “pounding the ground, stage Columbia dropouts to come back, finish . meeting people in person, calling and staying on their degrees, and join the alumni ranks. “We colum.edu/alumni folks to be involved. We’re starting something estimate that between 1986 and today, there are 900 former Columbia students who had

DEMO20 Photo: SamPhoto: Rosen

Created for co-working office space the COOP in River North, this display uses salvaged egg crates from local restaurants, hot glue, fishing line, and string. It plays off the idea that a co-working environment produces connections that inspire “a hatching of ideas and rise of collaboration.”

LINSEY When Linsey Burritt, far left, andCrystal Grover met BURRITT as co-workers at now defunct Gourmand Coffee in the (BFA ’05) South Loop, it wasn’t more than coincidence that both were students at Columbia. Burritt was in the graphic design program, Grover in interior architecture. They CRYSTAL might not have had much in common. But they did. They both had an entrenched belief in the

Photo: Stephanie ’05) Bassos (BA Photo: GROVER (BFA ’06) importance of living sustainably. It turned out to be a commonality that would become central to their lives and work.

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DEMO21 ABOVE: Slow, a cloudlike structure made of used Styrofoam cups collected from city trash cans, won the 2010 Make Believe competition sponsored by a Wicker Park- Bucktown neighborhood association to revitalize empty storefronts. LEFT: INDO repurposed cardboard to create this window display for home interior shop Post 27 on West Grand Avenue.

OPPOSITE PAGE:

LEFT: The Script Wall at Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre consists of 5,800 pounds (142,000 sheets) of used paper that was collected by INDO, Steppenwolf staff, and Recycling Services. The installation, created in collaboration with Ogilvy & Mather, will be up for five years, making it INDO’s longest- standing display. RIGHT: The sign for Ukrainian Village salon Parlor 836 is made of high-density urethane (a substitute for wood) and repurposed nail polish bottle caps.

Photo of Post 27: Julia Stotz (BFA ’08) Photos of Parlor 836: Julia Stotz (BFA ’08) 836: Julia Stotz (BFA of Parlor Photos

Today, Burritt and Grover own and “I consider INDO quiet activism because we say operate Chicago-based INDO, a window-design studio with an alter what we believe through our work, but not in a ego as an activist organization. Or is it the reverse? way that’s throwing it at people.”

Designs by INDO (the name, Script Wall at Steppenwolf’s Merle also working in the industry,” “I want people to see something like the studio, showcases the Reskin Garage Theatre, which said Burritt, adding that one, Art out of their ordinary day and feel interior of a window) are always Ogilvy & Mather commissioned + Design (A+D) instructor Isabelle that ‘Ooooh’,” said Grover. “If we attention grabbing and often mind INDO to do; it’s constructed of McGuire, helped her even after get that, then maybe people will expanding. Constructed entirely 5,800 pounds of discarded paper, graduation: “I stayed in touch with … think about where we may have of used, discarded, or salvaged hand selected from 10,000 pounds her. She made me more confident gotten those materials. If our work materials, the designs are both donated by a recycling agency. about being able to go out on can spur a conversation, that’s a beautiful and challenging, urging my own.” win. On a deeper level, if our work viewers to think deeply about waste INDO is winning art awards while causes people to reflect on their Grover agrees. “Columbia is great in our society. amassing clients throughout consumption patterns, that’s a Chicago, from restaurants to because the teachers are doing win too.” “I consider INDO quiet activism,” boutiques to top-tier nonprofits. what they’re teaching,” she said. said Grover, “because we say what And they’re garnering even She remembers her favorite Burritt hopes the reason INDO’s we believe through our work, but national media attention, including professor, A+D’s Tim Cozzens, as work is resonating is that, “People not in a way that’s throwing it at coverage in the March issue of someone who “pushed really hard, are starting to learn to live people. It’s not saying, ‘You should Martha Stewart’s Whole Living and then told you when you were modestly,” she said. “I don’t think recycle!’” magazine. doing a good job—or that you could people saw [Slow] and felt badly if do better when you weren’t.” they used a disposable cup earlier Take, for example, 2010’s Slow, Both women credit faculty at their that day. Instead, they’re inspired a dreamlike piece comprising alma mater for teaching them by Now, five years after launching to buy a reusable cup. That right hundreds of white Styrofoam cups example how to be working artists. the company, what do Burritt and there is what it’s all about.” that the women collected from area Grover hope people will say about —LIZ HARMON MILLER dumpsters over the course of just “What was great about Columbia the job they’re doing? one weekend. Or the 40-by-7-foot was having professors who were

DEMO23 ANNUAL GIVING

give. arts matter.

TO LEARN MORE: CONTACT BRENT CABURNAY, DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL PROGRAMS AND ANNUAL GIVING, AT 312.369.8188 OR VISIT COLUM.EDU/GIVING.

DEMO24 CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Annual giving donors provide The Chairman’s Circle, founded in 2010, recognizes inspiration through investment. donors of $5,000 or more per year to any area of the college. Chairman’s Circle-level donors are integral ’97) (BA Reynolds Drew Photo: By providing the resources for world-class education in the visual, partners in providing the necessary opportunities for performing, media, and communication arts, Columbia College student success. As of December 31, 2011: houses the greatest concentration of artists in the nation. Your gift Andrew & Diane Alexander Ernest & Louise Love* propels the future of this artistic epicenter; thank you for your support. Leonard C. Amato (BA ’75) William & Kimberly & Diana Amato (BA ’76) Madden* Anonymous (3)* Barbara Manilow* Ellen Stone Belic Barry Mayo (’01) PRESIDENT’S CLUB Thomas & Madeleine Michael & Margaret Columbia College Chicago recognizes the following individuals who Burrell Meiners (’05)* joined the President’s Club between August 1, 2011, and December Warrick L. & Laurel Carter Howard Mendelsohn 31, 2011. Donors who contribute $1,000 or more per year to any Warren King (BA ’49) & Bonita Chapman Mark & Linda Micheli* area of the college are recognized as President’s Club-level donors. Carol A. Cohen (’13)* Phillip Moll* Michelle Collins* Sylvia Neil & Dan Fischel Robin L. Bargar & Insook Choi John E. (BA ’95) William Collins (BA ’10)* John & Alexandra Nichols* Donal P. Barry & Stephanie N. Hellerman Bruce A. & Deborah A. Anne Marie Ombregt Dara E. Belic (BA ’08) Susan B. Hopkinson PhD Crown* & Karel Cool* Jennifer R. Blair (MFA ’07) & Jonathan C. Jones PhD Diane Dammeyer (’01) Parker Family* Deborah H. Holdstein PhD Mary Ittelson & Rick Tuttle Steve Devick Michael & Sandra Perlow* & Jay W. Boersma (BA ’74) Charlotte Pai (BA ’93) Susan Downing Joseph Peyronnin (BA ’70) Dolores Connolly Quintin E. & Diane I. Primo Allan & Ellen Drebin & Susan Zirinski Patricia O. Cox Desiree Rogers Efroymson Family* Col. James Pritzker* Christopher C. DeMuth Patrick J. Salem (’12) Loranne & John Ehlenbach J.B. & M.K. Pritzker* Shawn M. Donnelley & Mary T. Cheriam Marshall Thomas & Margot Jeane Fisher Erley Lee Shapiro & Joann Eisenberg* Pritzker* Virginia Farley & Robert Shapiro Penelope Steiner In memory of Gigi Pritzker Pucker* Melissa P. & Richard Gamble Kim Theiss Gianna Esposito (’12)* Madeline Murphy Rabb Denise & Gary Gardner Kent R. & Virginia Valley Georgia & Gerald W. Cynthia Raskin (’92)* Ikram & Joshua Goldman Piotr (BA ’91) & Anna Walter Fogelson Linda Johnson Rice* John J. & Julie Haley Laura S. Yosha-Steele (BA ’90) Michael & Susan Frank* Pamela Kendall Rijos Lloyd & Colleen Fry* & John Rijos Patricia L. Heath John & Kim Gallagher* Arlen Rubin John R. & Patricia A. & Elaine Cohen Rubin Gehron Barry & Anne Sabloff Estate of Leo S. Guthman* Michael & Cari Sacks* MANIFEST CLUB Betty Guttman* Denise & Joseph The Manifest Club recognizes alumni donors who make a minimum Mary Louise Haddad Seminetta pledge of $10 per month or $120 per year to support the program Joan Harris* Lawrence & Maxine Snider of their choice. Columbia College Chicago recognizes the following Arthur Hass* Drs. David individuals who joined the Manifest Club between August 1, 2011, Lenore Hervey* & Brenda Solomon Bill & Vicki Hood Spencer Family and December 31, 2011. Juanita Jordan* Sterling Stuckey Chester T. Kamin (HDR ’89)* Anonymous Antonio Marquez (BA ’88) & Nancy Schaefer Arthur & Rita Sussman Jani F. Bowe (BA ’09) Dimitri W. Moore (BA ’11) Anne Kaplan* Stephen Sward* Christopher A. Broyles (MA ’98) Mary J. Porreca (’89) Richard & Susan Kiphart Rebecca Ford Terry* & Jacqueline K. Woods B. C. Rudnick (MA ’86) Earl & Pamela Kluft* Peter (’80) Tracy J. Burns (’86) & Linda Tarshis Rudnick Paul & Nancy Knapp & Gloria Teschner* Courtney L. Drvaric (MAM ’10) Sarah A. Schroeder (BA ’00) & H. Jonathan Kovler* Allen & Lynn Turner Barbara J. Ericks CPA (BA ’85) Kenneth A. Nowak Jr. (BA ’00) Jean Kralka* Donna Van Eekeren* Gerlyn Jackson (’02) Deborah J. Sutliff (BA ’93) Marcia Lazar (MFA ’03) Susan & Bob Wislow Abageal W. Kelley (MAM ’10) Lisa M. Walker (BA ’86) & Alan Amos Sam & Helen Zell* Jeffrey G. Lopez (BA ’01) Jeffrey B. Wehrmeister (BA ’90) Averill & Bernard Leviton Greg Zeman* Tara L. Losoff (BA ’05) Elizabeth Liebman*

*Denotes Founding Member

DEMO25 Photo: Josh Hawkins (BA ’02) DEMO26 “I’m a computer animator who caught the robot wave.”

ANDY FLESSAS (BA ’90)

In 1980, when Mick Jagger wanted to get close to fans during pointed in front of the computer screen to capture the images, Rolling Stones concerts, he climbed into a cherry picker. When which took up to five minutes to regenerate. Nowadays, students Bon Jovi went on tour in 2010, Jon Bon Jovi opted for something a can generate the images in real time and record them on their little more exciting to reach the crowds: robotically controlled video hard drives, without an external camera. screens that would convert from a backdrop to steps and then to a lift, designed by Columbia College graduate Andy Flessas. Flessas says Young pushed his students to work beyond their perceived limits. “Barry Young inspired me to strive for excellence, Flessas, also known as Andy Robot, owns Casino Arts, which to believe in my vision, and then taught me how to get there,” creates specialty computer animation for shows and casinos in Flessas says. Las Vegas, and Robotic Arts, which designs patented robotically controlled video screens that move to add a new dimension to He adds: “Everybody is creative, and everybody has talent, but not animation. Jon Bon Jovi was the first adopter of RoboScreen everybody is willing to go into the shadows to where your ideas technology for the Bon Jovi Circle Tour, the top-grossing global lead you.” At Columbia, he learned to push his art to the next level. concert draw in 2010. Flessas’ next step? Turn the technology into After graduation, Flessas set up an animation business in something the mass market can use. Milwaukee. One of his clients was Potawatomi Bingo and Casino, Flessas has long been intrigued by robots. He had been asking and that work brought him to the attention of other casino himself how an animator would use robots when he hit on the operators. Las Vegas resort operators, looking for the Next idea of RoboScreens. “I’ve roboticized the most common item Big Thing, were willing to support Flessas’ ideas for creative in any home,” Flessas says. “We spend our lives surrounded by animation. The income and experience with large projects gave stationary video screens. If they move, it’s because we pick them the entrepreneur the freedom to experiment. Suddenly, audacious up ourselves. With robotic control, a screen could bob and weave ideas like robotic video screens became real. to give gamers a new obstacle to conquer, or shimmy and shake to Flessas remains in motion during his free time: His hobby is riding add a new dimension to action flicks.” Other ideas for the moving motocross bikes in the Nevada desert. Even at home, he and his screens include marketing displays in grocery stores and monitors wife chase after their two-year-old son, known as Andy Robot Two. in hospitals to help doctors treat patients. Whether he’s working with rock bands, traveling to China to As a student, Flessas commuted to Columbia College from research manufacturers, or designing a new animation for casino Milwaukee, lugging his camera equipment on the train each day. signage, Flessas marvels at his animated career. “Every day is so His major campus influence was professor Barry Young, who still weird in my life,” he says. “It’s just so interesting.” teaches animation. When Flessas took Young’s classes, computer animation involved a Mauer camera, a 16-millimeter film camera —ANN C. LOGUE

DEMO27 “I’ve always looked broader than just being a singer, and that’s why I went for the business management degree instead of the music degree.”

KYM MAZELLE (’86)

Kym Mazelle grew up in Gary, Indiana, just two doors down from Mazelle’s career soon skyrocketed. Her single “Missing You,” the studio rehearsal house of the world-famous Jackson family, so which she co-wrote and recorded with Soul II Soul, achieved major it’s no surprise she dreamed of making it in the music industry. success worldwide, including gold status in five countries. Her cover of Candi Stanton’s “Young Hearts Run Free” appeared in the “I would run down the street and stick my head through the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film William Shakespeare’sRomeo + Juliet, window to listen to their music and dance on the sidewalk in front starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, and the soundtrack of the house,” she says. “I would also bug their uncle Tim to give went six times platinum. my songs to Michael and Jackie.” Over the years, the singer many consider “the First Lady of House Mazelle brought her musical dreams to Columbia College Music” worked with Mick Jagger and Chaka Khan. Mazelle even Chicago in 1983, enrolling in the Arts & Entertainment Media had lunch with Princess Diana for a fundraising event: “I was Management program under department head Fred Fine. “I topping the charts,” she says. “She was a very kind and gentle lady had the most awesome educational experience on the planet,” who liked my songs.” she says, crediting instructors Chuck Suber, who ran Downbeat magazine and taught music promotion; Linda Mensch, who taught Mazelle credits her Columbia education with giving her the entertainment law; Willie Henderson from Motown, Stax, and foundation to make it in a tough business. “What I learned that Chess Records, who taught record production; and Irwin Steinberg, has become so valuable to me—even to this day—is that this is a former head of Elektra Records, who signed Tracy Chapman and business,” she says. “I’ve always looked broader than just being a Anita Baker, and taught record deal and label management. singer, and that’s why I went for the business management degree instead of the music degree.” “We had to actually produce, write, record, budget a recording session, and get radio airplay from the recording,” Mazelle says. Mazelle continues to look to her alma mater for inspiration, keeping close to her heart Columbia’s mission statement, which The budding artist achieved her first career milestone when, hangs on the wall in 600 S. Michigan Ave.: “… Columbia’s intent is after paying her dues as an intern with Jam Productions and DJ to educate students who will communicate creatively and shape International Records, she recorded her first house music album the public’s perceptions of issues and events and who will author in 1988. A year later, Mazelle signed an international record deal the culture of their times.” with EMI/Worldwide, and in 1991 moved to England, where she gained fame. “England really supported electronica/house/dance “When I came back to visit CCC after being away for a long time,” more than the states,” she says. she says, “I read that statement and thought to myself, ‘I got that! I applied it. It’s all connected.’”

—REA FREY (BA ’04)

DEMO28 Photo: Andrew Nelles (BA ’08) DEMO29 Photo: Nolan Wells DEMO30 “How do you tell a good story around the wonderful work you’re doing? How do you support community organizations?”

NORA MORENO CARGIE (BA ’82)

A degree in TV production has led Nora Moreno Cargie down a She oversees Boeing’s corporate citizenship work in Chicago, fascinating path. including programs to benefit education, the environment, arts and culture, health and human services, and civic life. “I was always really curious, always really interested in things,” Cargie says, crediting her liberal arts education from Columbia as a “It’s project management,” she says. “When you think about catalyst that pushed her to pursue a variety of fields from radio to engagement and buy-in, it all directly relates. I minored in journal- politics, culminating in her current role as director of global corpo- ism. You have to do writing. How do you tell a good story around rate citizenship for The Boeing Company. the wonderful work you’re doing? How do you support community organizations?” Cargie grew up in suburban Alsip and initially enrolled at a small Christian college in Tennessee, but, she says, “I could not stand Cargie is the executive sponsor for Boeing’s Employee Community being so far from Chicago.” So she transferred to Columbia for her Fund in Chicago. Enterprisewide, the fund is the largest such final two years of school and graduated in 1982. She loved having employee-run fund in the world. She helps decide which commu- professors who actually worked in the television field. “Back then, nity organizations receive Boeing-funded grants, along with helping it was really novel,” she says. She took advantage of the school’s to organize employee volunteer projects and drives. Some 4,000 internship program, landing a gig at Burson-Marsteller, where she nonprofit organizations benefit from the approximately $30 million helped produce commercials and public service announcements. in Boeing employee donations each year. From there, she moved over to public radio station WBEZ, which eventually took her to Washington, DC, to work as an associate pro- For example, a Boeing grant supported the Fresh Moves Mobile ducer and director on the weekend edition of All Things Considered. Produce Market, a retired city bus donated by the CTA that brings healthy food to neighborhoods without access to grocery stores. After returning to Chicago, Cargie discovered politics. She served The market serves more than 5,000 people in 16 neighborhoods. as deputy commissioner for the Mayor’s Office of Workforce De- velopment, communications director for the Chicago Park District, “But we didn’t stop there,” Cargie says. When Fresh Moves brought assistant commissioner of the Chicago Department of Human Ser- attention to a distribution and staffing problem, she says Boeing vices, and acting press secretary for the Chicago Public Schools. addressed it by convening a think tank of community and Boeing She also served as deputy communications director for Barack leaders, which resulted in a great plan for the group and new board Obama’s run for Senate in 2004. Cargie’s former boss Forrest Clay- members for the organization. pool, now president of the Chicago Transit Authority, recommended “We want to be an example that corporate citizenship matters,” her for the job. Cargie says. “It has been a joy and an honor for me.” Cargie’s current role at Boeing, which began in November 2006, —HEATHER LALLEY blends her communication skills with a bit of political savvy.

DEMO31 “We were kind of like AC/DC meets Cheap Trick. … We were just going to blast these songs and powerchord them straight out.”

TED ANSANI (BA ’90)

Sustaining a rock and roll lifestyle over the long haul can be a generation. But Ansani says challenge, especially for someone with banker’s hours. the emergence of grunge rock and Mercury’s inability Consider Ted Ansani, branch manager at First Nation’s Bank on to properly market the band Milwaukee Avenue. He’s a founding member of Material Issue, a helped detour fame. power-pop trio that achieved almost-famous status in the early 1990s. “One of my only regrets was that I didn’t take the time to smell the roses,” Ansani says. “I had no idea that it was going to end. To me, Ansani, a bass player, met lead singer and guitarist Jim Ellison that was my life.” in Columbia College’s Lizard Lounge in 1986. Both sporting a quintessential rocker’s look of leather jackets and combat boots, In 1996, Ansani took a job at First Nation’s Bank on Milwaukee Ellison asked Ansani about putting a band together. The addition of Avenue. That same year, while looking for a new record label, drummer Mike Zelenko (not a Columbian) completed the trio, and Material Issue dissolved tragically when Ellison committed suicide. the band started gigging immediately. “When Jim died, I already had two kids,” says Ansani, now a father of three. “Playing in bars can take its toll on you, and I had some “We were kind of like AC/DC meets Cheap Trick,” Ansani says. “Jim responsibilities.” wrote these really nice, melodic songs, and you put us up in front of a room full of kids and we’d give them hell. We were just going to Still, silencing the music within is difficult. With the equipment, blast these songs and powerchord them straight out.” the talent, and the creative desire, Ansani keeps playing. Last year, the Ted Ansani Project released Throttle and Pistons (available As the band pushed its music to college radio stations and played on iTunes). And to celebrate International Pop Overthrow’s 20th clubs from Iowa to Indiana, Ansani learned the music business as anniversary in 2011, Ansani and Zelenko joined forces with Phil part of the Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management (AEMM) Angotti, a Chicago singer-songwriter, for shows under the name program. He took recording classes and interned at Chicago Trax Material Re-Issue. “Fans really showed their appreciation, and it Recording Studio. was glorious to do those songs again,” Ansani says.

After some breakthrough radio play on 93WXRT and four years Nowadays, although he works around his bank’s hours, Ansani of packed clubs in Chicago, Ansani and Ellison graduated from can be found cranking out songs like Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Columbia with contracts in hand from Mercury Records. The label Robinson” as part of cover band Diving for Dynamite, performing released Material Issue’s debut album, International Pop Overthrow, with the Ted Ansani Project, and planning more shows with in 1991. Material Re-Issue—forever pursuing his lifelong passion for music.

“Renee Remains the Same,” an early hit, and later, “Diane” and —WILLIAM MEINERS (MFA ’96) “Valerie Loves Me,” put Material Issue’s songs in front of the MTV

DEMO32 Photo: Jeremy Lawson (’94) DEMO33 alumni / faculty news & notes Contact your local CAAN chapter leader: CHICAGO Joan Hammel (BA ’86) [email protected] DEAR ALUMNI, ATLANTA Susan Fore (BA ’99) A new day is rising for the Columbia Alumni Association & [email protected] Network (CAAN). Now that we have organized a national board CONTACT THE OFFICE with representatives from across the country (see page 16), we DENVER Pat Blum (BA ’84) OF ALUMNI RELATIONS have started a number of committees ripe with opportunities for [email protected] you to participate in a meaningful way. Which leads me to say … Michelle Passarelli (BA ’99) DETROIT Assistant Director GET INVOLVED Patrick Duffy (BA ’02) Alumni Operations Looking for events through which to connect to other alumni? [email protected] 312.369.6987 Want to work with a team of dedicated alumni volunteers? Join LAS VEGAS [email protected] a committee that can benefit from your professional experience; C. J. Hill (BA ’99) see pages 16-20 for more information. Whether you want to [email protected] Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) plan special events, help with student scholarships, provide your Director of Alumni Relations LOS ANGELES expertise, or share a discount from your company, there are West Coast Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) 323.469.0443 numerous ways for you to connect. We want CAAN to become [email protected] [email protected] stronger and better. And we will with you and because of you. NASHVILLE Join in and get involved! Joseph Porter (BA ’92) Cynthia Vargas (BA ’01) [email protected] Assistant Director HAVE A NEW IDEA? Alumni Events and Programs If you want to do something that we are not already doing, share NEW YORK METRO 312.369.8640 your idea! CAAN LA is the first alumni chapter to get involved James “Woody” Woodward (MA ’03) [email protected] with the Young Storytellers Foundation. Along with HBO, Warner Kristie Borgmann (BA ’04) Bros., and Fox, chapter members worked one on one with [email protected] schoolchildren who wrote short screenplays and then put on PHOENIX productions for the whole school where family and friends Don Fox (BA ’85) saw the screenplays brought to life by professional actors. [email protected] Thank you, CAAN LA alumni, for giving back in the truly creative Donna Jagielski (BA ’90; MAT ’96) Columbia way! [email protected]

CONTACT US PITTSBURGH I am always glad to hear from you. Please contact me at joan@ Mike Moscato (BA ’94) [email protected] joanhammel.com. To make sure you are on our email list to receive the latest alumni news and events, visit us at colum.edu/ PORTLAND, OREGON alumni, or call the Office of Alumni Relations at 312.369.7934. Howard Shapiro (BA ’53) [email protected] Sincerely, SAN FRANCISCO Beth Barnette (BA ’03) [email protected]

Joan Hammel (BA ’86) ST. LOUIS President, CAAN National Board Matt Staed (BA ’06) [email protected]

DEMO34 NEWS&NOTES COLUMBIACOLLEGECHICAGOSPRING/SUMMER2012 What are you doing out there? We want to know! To submit your news, log in to the alumni community at colum.edu/alumni. Deadline for the fall/winter issue is July 1. Notes received after the deadline will be considered for later issues.

Karen Gabriel (BA ’89) Robert Nightingale’s (’89) CLASSNEWS is now the proud parent of Wilder Nightingale Fine Art a Columbia student. Her gallery in Taos, New Mexico, daughter, Morgan, has en- just celebrated 20 years of 1970s rolled as a dance major. representing various artists. Visit wnightingale.com. Michael Felten’s (BA ’72) Sarah Hoskins’ (BA ’83) band, The Real Deal, played photo essay “Car Cul- James Richardson (BA ’86) two Chicago shows in No- ture” was revisited in the is a character animator, sto- vember, one at Miska’s and December issue of Lifeforce ryboard artist, and illustrator the other at the Elbo Room’s Magazine. who completed a project at Acoustic Lounge. Royale in Los Angeles on Jeff Kapugi (BA ’88) is interstitials for Disney Junior. Hank Grover (BA ’79) Chicago country music radio He is also animating his new launched a science fiction station US 99.5’s program short film,Hot Property. Visit web series on machinima. director. com. The series has received jimreels.blogspot.com. Michael Karberg (BA ’89) more than one million hits. ’s script, joined Morphy Auctions in Ben Schwartz (’88) Home by Christmas: Bob Hope Allen Rafalson (BA ’54) published a book, The Santa Claus Dean Richards (’76), Denver, Colorado, as an in Korea, made it onto Frank- Trial. Visit thesantaclaustrial.com. along with his co-host and acquisitions associate. producers, won a Chicago/ lin Leonard’s Black List. Richard Goldschmidt (BA ’87) released a book, Rankin/Bass’ Midwest Emmy for Outstand- Angela Kelly (MA ’89) was Mad Monster Party, in the fall. Goldschmidt’s book tells the story ing Achievement for Public an artist-in-residence at 1990s of the 1967 creation of the cult classic filmMad Monster Party. Affairs/Current Affairs Pro- the Burren College of Art in Arnie Bernstein (MA ’95) gramming - Program/Special County Clare, Ireland, during was signed by St. Martin’s for WGN’s “Stories of Hope: August. She worked on a new Press to publish his next Facing Breast Cancer” in photographic work, which Lorraine Harrell book, Swastika Nation: November. (See page 6.) traces the residue of the 1847 Irish famine in the con- Fuhrers, Politicians, Mobsters (BA ’84) & the Rise and Fall of the temporary Irish landscape. Lorraine Harrell has made her 1980s German-American Bund. Eric Kurtz (BA ’87) was a life’s work about motivating and Mark Bessenger’s (’88) Bite candidate in the three-way Michael Burke’s (’95) debut inspiring others. Marks was part of Reeling short story collection, What race for clerk-treasurer in As a poet, playwright, journalist, 30 in November at Portage You Don’t Know About Men, Ogden Dunes, Indiana. Internet radio personality, author, Jacob Boll (’12) Theater. was a finalist for Book of the Jerry Luterman (’88) and creativity empowerment

Year sponsored by the Chi- Photo: Jens Bogehegn (BA ’88) coach, she uses different media featured a group of real-life cago Writers Association. and the Zacuto Films team superheroes on his blog, On to spread the idea that anything is possible. won a Chicago/Midwest Kristen Cone (BA ’99), the Trail. Luterman is also a “People [need] to realize that we are all innately creative,” Emmy for “Filmfellas: Com- a Chicago Public Schools photographer for Wisconsin Harrell says. “Some people don’t feel fulfilled unless they have mitment to the Craft” for drama teacher, produced Trails. an art talent, but anything can make you a creative person. Outstanding Achievement and directed an adaptation It may be hard to start, but you have to believe you have the for Interview/Discussion David Mahlmann (’88) of two-time Grammy Award passion to make it work for you.” Programming - Program / won the 2011 ICG Emerging winner Robert Mirabel’s Special/Series in November. Cinematographer Award. Po’Pay Speaks. In 2008, Harrell launched her business, Creative Odyssey, (See page 6.) which focuses on creativity empowerment coaching. She Patrick Marks (’86) is Karen Christopher also hosts an Internet radio show, Heart of a Woman, which is Craig Dowden (BA ’87) was the recruitment manager (MFA ’99) was awarded a dedicated to female empowerment and social change, and appointed to the board of the for Paramount Pictures in University College Falmouth tapes at Columbia station WCRX. Oak Grove School Education Hollywood. He is recruiting (Cornwall, UK) Honorary Fel- Foundation (OGSEF). for Theatrical Marketing and lowship. Harrell also has two books under her belt. Creating a Map of Home Media Entertainment. Your World is a step-by-step look at how to make one’s creative Virginia Echols-Harrison Darius de Haas (’90) was dream a reality, and Obama’s Hope: Our Youth Envision the (BA ’82) published her first Jim Newberry (BA ’86) nominated for Best Actor in Future is a collection of 25 essays from Chicago Public Schools’ book, The Simplicity of the had one of his photographs a Play at the 2011 Broadway students that express their feelings about the presidency. In Biblical Sanctuary, available selected by the 2011 jury World Connecticut Awards addition, Harrell has published a collection of poetry titled at amazon.com or gingers to appear in Photography for his role as Feste in Women Hold Up Half the Sky, and she is writing another creative world.net. She is writing a Annual 52, the July/August Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, nonfiction book about women who have passion and purpose “how-to” book about dealing issue of Communication Arts. or What You Will. The play ran for social responsibility called Creative Dreamers. with adversity. at Westport (Connecticut) Country Playhouse. — BENITA ZEPEDA (BA ’11)

DEMO35 Karyn Bosnak (BA ’96) wrote the details of the music business Russian Play and the Chicago book 20 Times a Lady, which was and will benefit the organiza- premiere of Moscovitch’s made into the 2011 movie What’s tion. Go to petraluna.com, East of Berlin. The production Your Number?, starring Anna Faris plunafoundation.com, or ran from October through and Chris Evans. Bosnak was present help4guys.org. November. for a special screening at Columbia Rexford Robinson (BA ’90) Aaron Vanek (’97) the night the movie was released released a CD in October moderated a panel at San nationwide in September. titled On The Tracks. The Diego Comic Con about H.P. Matthew Glasson (’98) and his album is a mix of blues, folk, Lovecraft in comics and film. filmLovestalker screened at the St. jazz, and rock under the proj- Vanek also promoted an H.P. Louis International Film Festival in ect name RSessions. Visit Lovecraft Film Festival in Los November. reverbnation.com/rsessions. Angeles. Cynthia Sciacca Hooker Lidia Varesco Racoma’s (BA ’99) was nominated (BA ’94) design was featured for two BroadwayWorld Los in The Big Book of Packag- Angeles Awards. Her show, I ing, a collection of the latest Ann Marie Esp (BA ’95), and Best Social Media Con- for Field of Souls at the Black Love Lucy Live On Stage, gar- packaging designs and ideas. along with her team at sultancy in Washington, DC. Theatre Alliance Awards. nered Hooker nominations Chicago’s WLS-TV, took home Jay Vinitsky (MA ’95) was James Lacey (’94) was head Mark L. Montgomery in the Best Featured Actress a Chicago/Midwest Emmy the post-production supervi- of the makeup department (’95) was Dr. Noonan in the in a Musical (Local) category for Outstanding Achievement sor on the 2011 filmHorrible on Werner Herzog’s film, Chicago premiere of Sarah and in the Person to Watch for Special Event Coverage Bosses, starring Colin Farrell, My Son, My Son, What Have Ruhl’s Tony-nominated play category. The show was (Edited) award for “Chicago’s Kevin Spacey, and Jennifer Ye Done?, starring Michael In the Next Room. nominated for Best Musical Mayor: The Daley Years” in Aniston. Shannon and Chloe Sevigny. (Local). Mike Moscato (BA ’94) is November. (See page 6.) Ian Weaver (BA ’93) had a Gary Luz (BA ’92) played a member-at-large of the Chelsea Scott (BA ’93) has Randy Filippi (BA ’97) was solo exhibition at the South Prince Dauntless in the Columbia Alumni Association a CD on iTunes and Rhap- the subject of a story in the Bend Museum of Art featur- Pallette, Masque, and Lyre & Network’s (CAAN) National sody under her stage name, Daytona Beach News Journal ing the work he produced Community Theatre produc- Board, and the owner of a Bella Queen Be Be. for his Elvis Presley perfor- between 2004 and 2011. tion of Once Upon A Mattress, music company called Sard- mances at the Black Cloud in David Skvarla (’90) played The show ran from June to in Antioch, Illinois. onyx Productions. Bunnell, Florida. the lead role, King Henry II, September. Michael Matthews (BA Barbara “Petra Luna” in the Idle Muse Theatre pro- Diane Flynn (BA ’93) was Michael Wojcik (BA ’96) ’99) was featured in LA Stage Ochoa (BA ’91) is a profes- duction of The Lion in Winter hired as a branding manager was promoted to senior Times for directing What’s sional musician who formed at The Side Project. for a Fortune 500 company director of corporate and Wrong With Angry? at Celebra- the P. Luna Foundation, a based in northern Virginia. Joseph Stearns (BA ’98) foundation partnerships for tion Theatre in Los Angeles. nonprofit group that aims announced a double bill that the American Red Cross. He Amy Fulford (BA ’93) is the to help male victims of Darlette McAlpin (MFA ’94) included the US premiere relocated to New York City vice president and national abuse. Her book, The Music earned a Lorraine Hansberry of Canadian Playwright from Washington, DC, to director of social media for Business, takes budding Award for Best Writing of a Play Hanna Moscovitch’s The pursue this role. Agency 720, which handles entertainers through the Chevy dealer groups. Deborah Grant (BA ’96) was chosen from 100 ap- plicants to be the recipient of Jason Lazarus the William H. Johnson Prize of $25,000 for her artwork. (MFA ’06) Jason Lazarus’ installation Kendall Harnett (MFA ’96) was named to the board of “The Search” was on display directors of Portland Ova- at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery tions, a nonprofit performing in Chicago in fall 2011. The arts organization based in site-specific, viewer-interac- Portland, Maine. tive installation consisted of a tower of white steps 24 John Hellerman (BA ’95), feet long, 10 feet tall, and a 2011 Columbia Alumnus 10 feet deep. The inside hid of the Year, has shed 100 an intimate room accessible pounds. His company, Heller- only by ladder. Depending on man Baretz Communica- the time and date, visitors to tions, was named the Bulldog “The Search” encountered a Reporter’s Best Boutique full canvas or an empty one. Specialty PR Agency of the Lazarus built his ziggurat as Year; one of PR Week’s Top a platform for public events Five Boutique PR Agencies of and private conversations. the Year; the Legal Times’ Best He started his career as a Photo Courtesy of the ArtistPhoto PR Firm in Washington, DC; photographer.

DEMO36 Carl Dahlstedt (’06) 2000s opened C. Dahlstedt in Geling Yan Zach Abubeker (BFA ’09) Wicker Park. The boutique had an exhibition in Decem- features fashions produced (MFA ’99) ber at Artists’ Cooperative exclusively in Chicago. Geling Yan’s historic novel, , was Residency and Exhibitions Jacquelyn Dean’s (BA 13 Flowers of Nanjing adapted for the film (ACRE Projects) in Chicago. A ’04) film, Hamill, won seven The Few Metaphors for Distance ex- awards from seven different Flowers of War (pictured), plored the artist’s connection film festivals, including the which was China’s entry for to Ethiopia. Abubeker plans to Breakthrough Award (AFI the 2012 foreign-language return to Ethiopia in 2012 to Fest 2010), the Audience Oscar. The book and movie develop ongoing projects. Award (Miami International center on the 1937 Rape of Film Festival), and Best Amer- Nanking massacre following Leyla Arsan (MA ’01) pro- the Japanese invasion of duced an event in Chicago ican Independent Film (Philly CineFest Film Festival). China’s wartime capital, now called Downtown Dash, a called Nanjing. social media scavenger hunt Erik Deerly (MFA ’08) is that took place in September. assistant professor of new Dawn Avello (BA ’02) media communication at Jess Godwin (BA ’05) was owns the midday slot at Indiana University Kokomo. cast in the Chicago premiere WRXQ 100.7 in Crest Hill, Two of his works were se- of Snapshots at the North- Illinois. Tune in from 10 a.m. lected by jury for inclusion in light Theatre. the 2011 Whitewater Valley to 3 p.m. Eric Gross (BA ’06) is Annual Art Competition. Kathy Bardales Sardena the sound designer for (MA ’04) teaches at the ele- Danielle Dellorto (BA ’04) Glu Mobile. won two Emmy awards for mentary level in the Chicago Michelle Harmon (MFA Outstanding Coverage of a Public Schools system on the ’06) is the set designer on Breaking News Story in a north side of Chicago. She GI Joe 2, which was filmed in Regularly Scheduled News- also co-directs a Peruvian New Orleans. dance troupe and is working cast and Outstanding Live © 2011 - Beijing New Picture Film Co. Film Picture New © 2011 - Beijing on her first book. Coverage of a Current News Justin Howard (BA ’07) Story - Long Form. brought home the silver Lindsay Benacka (BA ’09) “metal” in the 2011 Air Brandon Dermer’s (BA was featured in a Columbus, Guitar World Championships. Multimedia in Chicago in America Cinema Editors Nebraska, article regarding ’08) short film,Fleshlighting , July. The film chronicles the Internship in Los Angeles. made the Viewfinder List of Pasquale Iannino (BA ’06) journeys of Chris “Sandman” her Peace Corps service in Andrew Micheli (MFA ’08) Cambodia. Benacka has the best short films of 2011. and his company Rockit Proj- Sand, the infamous rappin’ ects Incorporated took first was named Arts & Business worked under the Cambo- Daniel Dominiak (BA ’09) cowboy from Dunn Center, place in the Events, Fairs, Council Chicago’s executive dian Ministry of Education, produced the third full-length North Dakota. and Congress category at the director. Youth, and Sports and the album, Time To Shine, for his Lisa Lindvay (MFA ’09) International Tourism Film Norma Monsivais Diers Peace Corps Education group I Decline and indepen- won the 3Arts award for Festival in Barcelos, Portugal. (MAT ’06) achieved national Sector as a youth develop- dently released it on his own her photography on exhibit board certification in English ment advisor in rural public Horns Raised Records, avail- Dionne Joseph (BA ’06) with 3Arts. The series of as a Second Language. schools in the Kampong able at i-decline.com. and her husband, Dr. Sean photographs depicted the Cham province. Joseph, opened Integrated Sara Ebel (BFA ’09) was lives of her father, sister, and Aaron Munoz (BA ’01) shot Chiropractic in Silverdale, John Bosher (BA ’06) and hired as an associate art two brothers as they dealt a recurring guest star role for Washington. Chris Charles (BA ’07) director by Abelson Taylor. with the deteriorating mental the acclaimed AMC series, took first place at the Elgin Daniel Kibblesmith (BA state of Lindvay’s mother. The Walking Dead. Munoz Candace Edwards (BA ’08) (Illinois) Short Film Fest for ’05) appeared on a season 5 Visit lisalindvay.com. also relocated to Nashville, landed the role of Little Bo Tennessee, and writes and The Small Assassin, adapted episode of Bravo’s Millionaire Peep for the Theater at the Akisha Lockhart (BA ’07) produces comedy shorts. from the short story by Ray Matchmaker. made her Big Ten Network Bradbury. Center’s production of Babes in Toyland. Kyle Kinane (BA ’02) is television debut in early Joseph Muszynski (BA ’07) Shemeka Buckner (BA ’04) a stand-up comedian who October. produced a feature-length Lorrisa Engel (BA ’03) started her own fashion line, played Zanies in Chicago in documentary titled Chicago made a guest appearance Alex McCrary (’08) was Kiyoko Linden, for trendy, November. Visit kylekinane. Farmer. on CBS’ The Bold and the Gad in the Paramount urban, full-figured women. tumblr.com. Beautiful in August. Aurora production of Joseph Jordan O’Donnell (’09) Evrod Cassimy (BA ’06) Jesse Klug (BFA ’05) was and the Amazing Technicolor joined KCRG-TV as a market- Brandon Faris (BA ’02) joined KCNC-TV as weekend the lighting designer for Dreamcoat. ing consultant and interac- launched his Road Kings morning anchor. Joseph and the Amazing tive media designer. podcast on iTunes. Matt McGrath (BA ’09) Chris Coates (BA ’04) was Technicolor Dreamcoat for traveled the world as the Rebecca Ortiz (BA ’01) named city editor of the Westley Gathright (BA ’07) Paramount Aurora. video editor and broadcast hosts the CBS Radio Chicago was cinematographer on Sioux City Journal. He was Elizabeth Lawrence’s technician for Azamara Club Community Service show Munger Road, working with previously managing editor (BA ’02) documentary, Roll Cruises. Prior to sailing the Chicago Connection on 96.3- fellow alumni Kyle Heller of the Suburban Journals of Out, Cowboy, had its home- seas, McGrath was one of FM (B96) and 104.3-FM (BA ’08), producer, and Nick Greater St. Louis. coming premiere at Facets the top 10 finalists for the (K-HITS). Visit facebook.com/ Smith (BA ’08), director. RadioRebeccaOrtiz.

DEMO37 to Los Angeles to continue ecutive producer of Extreme Writing 2011 for their work, his career as an actor, writer, Makeover: Home Edition. which originally appeared in and producer. Vendt works alongside two Columbia College Chicago’s other Columbia alumni, South Loop Review: Creative Thomas G. Petersen (BA

Jacob Boll (’12) Chris Schmitt (BA ’07), Nonfiction + Art, Vol. 13. ’05) published his first book, lead assistant editor, and Green earned his place in All I Needed to Know About

Photo: Photo: , a the anthology for “I Will Send Projects, I Learned as a Kid Lauren Willems (BA ’05) casting producer. You This” and Schweihs for Shoveling Snow, under the “Gauche Chemistry.” name Pete Thompson. John Zuiker (BA ’05) returned to Chicago with Tempestt Hazel (BA ’10) Ronnie Polidoro (BA ’09) scenic design for Porchlight is a jury/curatorial consul- was nominated for two News Musical Theatre’s 2011 tant for the Chicago Artists’ and Documentary Emmys for production of Stephen Sond- Coalition. NBC Nightly News’ coverage of heim’s Putting It Together. the earthquake in Haiti and Becca James (BA ’11) was NBC News’ coverage of “Deci- hired as a secondary English Justin Kulovsek (BA ’04) sion 2010.” He moved over 2010s language arts teacher by and Lauren McLain (BA ’05) from MSNBC’s The Last Word Matt Avignone (BA ’11) Higher Ground Academy in to an associate producer received the Second Runner- Saint Paul, Minnesota. Justin Kulovsek and Lauren McLain may have graduated from position at NBC’s primetime up Award from Blurb for his David (Christopher) John- Columbia less than 10 years ago, but they are already giving magazine show, Rock Center book An Unfinished Body. son (MA ’11) released three back to the school that has shaped them both personally and with Brian Williams. His book will go into the feature films in 2011 and professionally. Kulovsek (BA ’04) and McLain (BA ’05) have Samantha Sanders (MFA permanent collection at plans on three short films pledged $10,000 over 10 years to fund a scholarship called ’01) and John Farbrother the International Center for in 2012. Johnson is also the Student Leadership Legacy Award. Starting in fall 2012, a (MFA ’03), co-founders of Photography and the George participating in art shows in $1,000 award will be given annually to an exceptional student Green River Films Inc., won a Eastman House. Japan and Paris. Visit christo- entering their senior year. The recipient must be a member of a Chicago/Midwest Emmy for pherkelleyarts.com. recognized student organization on campus and have at least Celeste Ball (BA ’10) was Outstanding Achievement a 3.25 GPA. promoted to a staff writing Devin Katayama (MA ’10) for Arts and Entertainment position at WGN-TV News. was hired as a general as- It’s no surprise that these alumni are rewarding students who Programming for “Chicago signment reporter for WFPL volunteer. During their Columbia days, Kulovsek was presi- Symphony Orchestra 2011 April Bocchieri (BFA ’10) Public Radio in Louisville, dent of the Student Government Association, and McLain was Youth in Music Festival” in works as the event director Kentucky. co-chair of the Student Organization Council and a Student November. (See page 6.) for Chicago RAW: natural Government Association senator. The two continue to volunteer born artists. Jenny Lazaroff (BA ’10) Donnie Seals (BA ’02) was their time as members of the Young Alumni Committee, a group was hired as a music coor- interviewed by Slam Online Brian Caffrey (BA ’11) was that aims to keep new alumni connected to Columbia. dinator at Bunim/Murray regarding season two of his hired as a production assis- Productions in Los Angeles. Today, McLain works at the business psychology consulting firm web series, Findlay Prep. tant at 103.5 Kiss-FM. YSC, and Kulovsek is managing partner of a social media and Dimitri Moore (BA ’11) Michael Slaboch (BA ’05) Cynthia Calderon (BA ’07) digital content firm called Social Media Makers. Both believe joined Free Spirit Media as earned two Grammy nomina- celebrated her one-year it’s important for young alumni to give back in some way so that special projects producer in tions for Best Album Notes anniversary as an account current students can have the same, if not better, experience October. and Best Historical Album coordinator at Univision they had. for the Numero Group’s Syl Communications. Keri Morgan (BA ’10) is “Whether giving back with volunteer work or fiscally, staying Johnson: Complete Mythology Safa Eshmawy (BA ’10) is lead producer on the Emmy- connected to Columbia in a giving capacity helps support the box set. a full-time news writer/editor winning show Chicago’s Best. future of the creative community,” McLain says. Adds Kulovsek: Michael Glover Smith’s at FM News Chicago. Allison Rodriguez (BA ’11) “I think giving back shows that you believe in your alma mater.” (BA ’00) short, The Catastro- Whitney Fox (BA ’11) was headed to Yuma, Arizona, to In addition to funding the Student Leadership Legacy Award, phe, screened as part of the hired as the script coordina- become an anchor/reporter Kulovsek and McLain have pledged an additional $10,000 2011 Illinois International tor for the new Nickelodeon for KYMA-TV. that will go toward other college funds of their choosing. For Film Festival at the Viaduct show Robot and Monster. Spencer Roush (BA ’11), example, this year, some funds will go toward the Sharon A. Theatre in November. former Columbia Chronicle Palermo Memorial Scholarship, which assists talented students Kristina Gosh (MFA ’10) Brian Ulrich (MFA ’07) had editor-in-chief, works for committed to careers in the television industry. contributed to Chicago’s art his first major photography festival Built Fest in August, the Frankfort (Ind.) Times as — KRISTEN KUCHAR (BA ’11) exhibition at Cleveland along with fellow alumni Erin government reporter. Museum of Art. Cramer (MFA ’09), Stephen Judith Ruiz-Branch (BA DeSantis (MFA ’08), and Yunuen Oseguera-Pardo Colorado. He was previously Julia Vazquez-Zimmerman ’10) was hired as a writer Loni Diep (MFA ’08), and took the stage in employed as a newscast di- (BA ’04) moved to Key West, with WGN-TV and is training (BA ’06) students Chelsea Midden- December in Steppenwolf’s rector for FOX/CW in Denver Florida, and is pursuing her to be a producer with CLTV. dorf (’12) and Don Widmer production of Penelope. and as an assistant editor for master’s degree in higher (’12). Lucas Seiler (BA ’11) is a Chicago Tribune listed her as E! Entertainment Television education. She freelances as reporter with the NBC affiliate one of the hot new faces in in Los Angeles. a nonlinear editor, massage Zachary Green (BA ’11) KCWY in Casper, Wyoming. Chicago theatre. therapist, and pharmacy and Frank Schweihs (’12)

Gabriel Pastrana (BA ’05) technician. were selected for inclusion Suree Towfighnia (MFA earned his master’s degree Michael Parrott (BA ’00) in the 2011 anthology plain ’06) screened her film,From is employed as an ELC in humanities from the Uni- Daniel Vendt (MFA ’08) china: Best Undergraduate Pine Ridge to Chicago, at the director for KCNC in Denver, versity of Chicago and moved is the assistant to the ex- Wicker Park Arts Center in

DEMO38 November as part of the treatments, respectively, for Ivory Ocean (BA ’81) died Reeling 30 Film Festival. a music production teaching Marriages In Memoriam at age 65 on January 8 facility at Options Laboratory in Los Angeles. He was a John Trierweiler (BA ’11) Lacey Bauman (BA ’11) is John Garrett (BA ’80) School in Chicago’s Kenwood touring company alumnus joined KVLY/KXJB, the NBC engaged to Tyler Coleman. passed away on September neighborhood. of Second City and taught in and CBS affiliate in Fargo, The wedding is planned for 28 at Beth Israel Hospital in the Theatre Department at North Dakota, as a reporter. Jayme Wojciechowski (BFA May 26. New York. Garrett was the Columbia College Chicago. ’10) was in the production of keyboardist for the Nitecaps, Emmanuel Wallace (BA Zelda Robinson (BA ’93) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity in a band that has opened for ’11) and Ben Bennett (BA married chef Tony Hogues, Scotland in September. He the Ramones and U2. ’11) were consultants on author of Southern Cookin’ is finishing his postgraduate the equipment selection and with a Twist, on September 7. degree at The Royal Conser- configuration, and acoustical vatoire of Scotland.

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

David F. Arieti (Science & David Bernstein and Susan Cook (Music), direc- Mindy Faber (Interactive translated into Chinese for Mathematics) co-authored Noah Isackson (Journal- tor of Sherwood Community Arts & Media) co-managed a Wen Hua Yen Giu (Cultural and published the book ism) contributed an article Music School, went on a Eu- team of female developers Studies), a Beijing Capital Prognosis Disaster: The to Chicago Magazine titled ropean tour as a saxophonist that won Chicago’s Place- University publication. Environment, Climate Change, “Gangs and Politicians in with the Chicago Symphony making App contest from the Human Influences, Vectors, Chicago: An Unholy Alliance,” Orchestra. Chicago Metropolitan Plan- Deborah H. Holdstein’s Disease and the Possible End which chronicles how violent ning Council. The Mi Parque (School of Liberal Arts and of Humanity? street gangs and politicians Kevin Cooper (Film & Video) app is designed to engage Sciences) essay “Rhetorical trade money and favors for directed what he believes is Little Village residents in the Silence, Scholarly Absence, Stephen Asma (HHSS) mutual gain. the first live-action indie 3-D process of building a neigh- and Tradition Rethought” wrote an article about gender family comedy, Shakey, last borhood park. (See page 6.) was published in Pedagogy: and sex called “Gauging Bonnie Brooks (Dance) ob- fall in Chicagoland. Critical Approaches to Teach- Gender” that appeared in The served, tracked, and recorded Ron Falzone (Film & Video) ing Literature, Language, Chronicle of Higher Education. the final days of the legend- Dan Dinello (Film & Video) is the regular film commenta- Composition, and Culture. ary Merce Cunningham’s wrote the chapter “AutoFac” tor on WGN Radio 720’s The Annette Barbier (Interactive troupe through written form. for the book Philip K. Dick and Steve and Johnnie Show. Allan Johnston (English) Arts & Media) was awarded a Philosophy. He also wrote a published poems in R.KV.R.Y, $2,000 grant from Chicago- John Casey (English) was chapter called “Lucifer Rising Lynn Floriano’s (Art & Epiphany Magazine, New based Propeller Fund for the the recipient of the Upton Fel- and Falling” in the book The Design) work “Flower on the Verse News, White Pelican project “Expose, Intervene, lowship in Civil War America, Rolling Stones and Philosophy. Vine” was accepted by The Review, Write Room, and Third Occupy: Re-interpreting Pub- which provided a total of 13th Biennial International Wednesday. lic Space,” a collaborative $8,000 for a two-month Dave Dolak (Science & Enamel Exhibition, which between two arts collectives: residence. Mathematics) displayed highlighted the best in Jonathan Keiser (Science one featuring Barbier, and four handmade musi- contemporary enamels. It & Mathematics, Academic the other featuring Mat Paul Catanese (Interdisci- cal instruments and also was housed at the Knoxville Affairs) was invited by the Uni- Rappaport (Television). The plinary Arts) was the featured highlighted photographs of Museum of Art from Novem- versity Council of Jamaica to project proposes an Aug- artist at Wright State Univer- student projects from his ber through January, and will be a member of a reaccredi- mented Reality application sity’s Robert and Elaine Stein Honors class “The Physics be at The Metal Museum in tation team reviewing four bi- for Internet-enabled mobile Galleries through January 8. of Musical Instruments” in Memphis, Tennessee, from ology programs for Northern devices. July at the Convention of the March through June 3. Caribbean University. Sandi Chaplin (Film & Guild of American Luthiers in Anne Becker (Education) is Video) was one of the Tacoma, Washington. Kelly Forsythe (English; Mark Kelly (Student Affairs) the president of the Illinois featured alumni artists in MFA ’11) was named a Fall was chosen to receive the Art Education Association. Revolution of Self that ran Robert Duffer (Fiction 2011 Emerging Poet by the 2011 National Association of through March 9. Writing; MFA ’05) won first Academy of American Poets. Student Personnel Adminis- David Berner’s (Radio) place in the Chicago Public trators (NASPA) IV-East award story for radio station WBBM- Suzanne Cohan-Lange (In- Library’s “One Book, One Chi- Julian Grant’s (Film & Video) for Outstanding Performance Chicago about memorials terdisciplinary Arts), Sherry cago” short fiction contest Fall Away won five awards as a Senior Student Affairs being placed in front of Antonini (Interdisciplin- for fall 2011. at the 2011 New York City Officer. Apple stores after the death ary Arts), and Niki Nolin’s International Film Festival. of the company’s founder, (Interactive Arts & Media) Nick Eipers (Audio Arts & Aviya Kushner (English) Steve Jobs, was selected for installation Little Black Acoustics; BA ’94), along with Ann Gunkel’s (HHSS) article, published an essay in Gulf broadcast on the CBS Radio Dress was invited to The Columbia alums, founded “On Cultural Studies in the Coast Magazine titled “Give Network. Meijer Sculpture Gardens Chicago Sessions, a record Future Tense: Pedagogy and Me Shelter” about the ef- in Grand Rapids, Michigan, label devoted exclusively to Political Work in Cultural forts to help international as part of its fall exhibition, Chicago-based jazz. Studies,” which was pub- refugee writers who come to Sculpture Today: New Forces, lished in Communication and America. New Forms. Critical/Cultural Studies, was

DEMO39 Larry Lundy (Film & Video) Philippe Ravanas (AEMM) Patricia Ann McNair (Fiction Writing) was selected to design the was asked to join The Interna- released her book The Temple of Air in 40th anniversary fundraising tional Journal of Arts Manage- September. The book contains 11 linked exhibition for Opportunity ment (IJAM) editorial team as stories, which take place in a small town International of Oak Brook, Il- associate editor. Also, he was called New Hope. linois. He created a “nomadic voted into the board of direc- global village” at the Hyatt Re- tors of the Arts & Business Samuel Park (English) released his novel gency, San Francisco Airport, Council (A&BC) of Chicago. This Burns My Heart in 2011. The book was in October. chosen as one of Amazon’s “Best Books Brendan Riley’s (English) of 2011,” a People magazine “Great Martha Meegan (Campus essay “The E-Dead: Zombies Reads in Fiction,” and one of Today’s Safety & Security) received a in the Digital Age” appeared “Favorite Things.” scholarship to attend North- in Generation Zombie: Essays western University’s Center on the Living Dead in Modern for Public Safety Executive Society. In addition, Riley was Development Institute in quoted in New York Times Louis Silverstein’s (HHSS) Peter Thompson’s (Film & Exhibition at the Society for November. Magazine and Discovery Chan- paper “Engaged Contempla- Video) Lowlands premiered at Contemporary Craft. nel stories about zombies, tion” was accepted for pre- the Gene Siskel in October. Andrew Micheli (AEMM; MFA and his entries in the World sentation at the 3rd Annual Sharon Zurek (Film & Video) ’08) was appointed executive Book Online Encyclopedia, Association for Contempla- Fereshteh Toosi (First-Year was awarded Best Feature director of the Arts & Business “Zombie” and “Necromancy,” tive Mind in Higher Educa- Seminar) received a $6,000 Documentary at the Illinois Council of Chicago. were published in the fall. tion Conference at Amherst grant from the Propeller International Film Festival (Massachusetts) College in Fund for her project Garlic for her feature A Mind in Jack C. Newell and Ron Jane M. Hussein Saks November. He also presented & Greens. In December, she Quicksand, Life with Hunting- Falzone (Film & Video) signed (Ellen Stone Belic Institute on the subject matter of his presented her paper, “Oral ton’s. The film also won a CINE a distribution deal with Shorts for the Study of Women and book Encountering Life’s End- History through Touch and Golden Eagle Award. HD for their short film Typing. Gender in the Arts and Media) ings at the 2nd International Sound: Multisensory Design The film ran on the Shorts HD was appointed by Mayor Conference on Religion and for People with Low or No channel. Rahm Emanuel to the City of Spirituality in Society, in Van- Vision,” at the Sensory Worlds In Memoriam Chicago’s Cultural Advisory couver, Canada, in February. conference in Scotland at the Carolina Posse (Film & Video) Rose Economou (Journal- Council serving Commissioner University of Edinburgh. curated Mostra II: Brazilian Film ism), an Emmy Award-winning Michelle Boone. Michael Slaboch (Audio Arts Series on November 9-16. television producer, died on & Acoustics) and the entire Marie Ullrich’s (Film & Video; Jonn Salovaara and Qween Numero Group team received MFA ’11) Faster! was picked October 2 at her home in Oak Douglas Reichert Powell Wicks (English) were awarded two 2011 Grammy nomina- up by Shorts International for Park. She was 65. Econo- (English) gave the keynote the Timothy J. Densmore tions for Best Album Notes distribution. mou joined Columbia as an address at the confer- Faculty Fellowship follow- and Best Historical Album. artist-in-residence in 1990 ence “Critical Regionalism: ing the completion of the Guy Villa Jr. (Art + Desigm) and became a member of the Determinants of Community 2010/2011 Service-Learning Jill Sultz (Film & Video) was invited to give a lecture Journalism faculty two years Sustainability” hosted by the Course Conversion workshop was awarded a First-Year Ex- on book form at the Ninth later. The Journalism Depart- Centre for Regional Studies at facilitated by the Center for perience Award for Outstand- International Conference on ment established a scholar- St. Francis Xavier University Teaching Excellence and the ing Faculty Member after October 14-16 at the Univer- ship in her honor. This scholar- in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Center for Community Arts being nominated by fellow sity of Toronto, Canada. ship will help students pay for in October. Partnerships. They’ve infused members of the Columbia international travel courses, service-learning into their community. Mia Wicklund (Film & Video) which Economou developed Pegeen Reichert Powell existing courses. won a 2011 Weisman Award and championed. Contribu- (English) was invited to give a Ben Sutherland (Audio Arts for her short documentary tions to the fund should be lecture and conduct a writing Mark Schimmel (Film & & Acoustics) will be featured Bananafesto! The documen- made payable to Columbia workshop at the University Video) completed a 30-webi- on an upcoming album of tary was associate produced College Chicago and directed of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in sode campaign for True curriculum-based rock songs. by Dimitri Moore (BA ’11). to Chris Richert in the Journal- October. Value Hardware. His YouTube ism Department, crichert@ channel is youtube.com/user/ Chris Swider’s (Film & Video) Daniele Wilmouth (Film colum.edu, 600 S. Michigan Teresa Puente (Journal- Dogdirector. Children in Exile was the win- & Video) talked about her Ave., Chicago, IL, 60605. ism) was the Newsday/David ner of the 2011 Amsterdam documentary Eleanore & the Laventhol Visiting Professor at Joanie Schultz (Theatre) Film Festival Van Gogh Award Timekeeper on NPR radio sta- Gerry Pinka (Building Ser- Columbia University’s Gradu- directed Next Theatre Com- for Best Human Rights Film, tion WBEZ. vices) died on December 10 ate School of Journalism for pany’s The Girl in the Yellow and was featured in The Cos- after a brief battle with can- fall 2011. Dress at the Noyes Cultural mopolitan Review. Fo Wilson (Art + Design) cu- cer. Pinka started at Columbia Arts Center in January and rated the exhibition The New in April 2009. His attention to Michelle Rafacz (Science February. David Tarleton’s (Film & Materiality: Digital Dialogues detail and vast knowledge en- & Mathematics) authored Video) web series Dorku- at the Boundaries of Contem- deared him to his colleagues the manuscript “Hormonal Sandeep Sharma’s (Film & mentary played in festivals, porary Craft, which opened at across the college campus. Correlates of Paternal Care Video) A Portrait in Bombay including the Abbie Hoffman the Asheville Museum of Art in Differences in the Hyloba- placed second in the Heroic Festival, and won Best En- North Carolina on November tidae,” which was accepted Individual category of the semble at the Indie Incubator 18 and ran through March into the American Journal of 2011 MY HERO International Festival. 18. Wilson was also the Primatology. Film Festival. juror for the 101st Annual

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2 3 Political strategist and former Writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist interim chair of the Democratic activist Gloria Steinem spoke at National Committee Donna Columbia on February 7, discussing Brazile visited Columbia College her time as the co-founder and on October 25. Brazile spoke editor of Ms. magazine, and her about the US deficit, Tea Party and interest in gender roles, roots of Occupy Wall Street movements, violence, and peace and justice. and the upcoming 2012 elections.

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OCTOBER 6 & 11, 2011

At the Chicago International Film Festival, Columbia hosted alumni, students, and college supporters at a private reception, Q&A session, and private screenings. The Return of Joe Rich, written and directed by Sam Auster, and Lenny Morris vs. the Universe by Evan Powers (BA ’10) were shown. Brent White (BA ’08) (BA White Brent Photo:

LAS DEAN’S LECTURE, OCTOBER 13, 2011 [ 1 ] Sam Auster, center, and Bruce Sheridan, left, lead a panel discussion. [ 2 ] Evan Powers (BA ’10), left, directed and co-wroteLenny Morris vs. the Universe. [ 3 ] Gary Cole and Dennis Farina starred in the Dr. Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy; Dr. Deborah H. Holdstein, Opening Night film,The Last Rites of Joe May. dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Allen M. Turner, Board of Trustees chairman, at the fall 2011 lecture. Turner and Asma debated the future of morality and ethics in our dangerous and changing world. Photos: Robert Kusel (BA ’78)

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ALUMNI WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 23–25, 2011

The 2011 Alumni Weekend featured a casting panel that included alumni talent agents,

2 casting directors, and executives. Alumni also enjoyed the Student/ Alumni Luncheon as well as several career-based and creative workshops. Don’t miss this year’s Alumni Weekend, which will be held September 28–29. 5

[ 1 ] Theatre studentsCharlie Cook and Katie Mathias perform a scene from The Odd Couple [ 2 ] PA Cadichon (BA ’01) and staff member 3 Pattie Mackenzie [ 3 ] Alumni enjoy the memoir workshop [ 4 ] Adriana Galvan (BA ’01) and Director of Alumni Relations, West Coast, Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) [ 5 ] Navid McIlhargey (MFA ’00), senior VP of New Regency Pictures; Orion Barnes (BA ’97), agent/owner of Rogers Orion Talent Agency; and Sara Isaacson (’99), casting director, Fringe

Photos: Vladimir Zaytsev (’12) Photo: Vladimir ZaytsevPhoto: (’12) Photo: Vladimir ZaytsevPhoto: (’12) WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? FILM SCREENING STUDENT ALUMNI ALLIANCE SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 OCTOBER 14, 2011

The Office of Alumni Relations andKaryn Bosnak Marlon West (BA ’85), center in white shirt, discussed film animation and his career (BA ’96) hosted an on-campus screening and Q&A for path with students on campus. During his 19-year tenure at Disney, he has worked the filmWhat’s Your Number, based on Bosnak’s book, on many notable films, includingThe Lion King, Pocahontas, Tarzan, and Chicken Little, 20 Times a Lady. and served as visual effects supervisor onAtlantis: The Lost Empire, The Princess and the Frog, and Winnie the Pooh.

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OPEN DOORS GALA, NOVEMBER 5, 2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, JANUARY 20–23, 2012

The Open Doors Gala raised nearly $700,000 to benefit theOpen For a fourth year in a row, Columbia College Chicago had a big presence Doors Scholarship fund for Chicago Public Schools’ graduates to in Park City and a full slate of activities during the film festival at attend Columbia College. About 250 community and business leaders Sundance. The college hosted alumni, friends of Columbia, industry and college supporters attended the event at the college’s Media professionals, and festival goers at several weekend events at the Production Center. Waldorf Astoria Park City.

[ 1 ] President Warrick L. Carter and John Rogers [ 2 ] Linda Johnson [ 1 ] Len Amato (BA ’75) and President Warrick L. Carter greet Rice, Jerome Russell, and Stephanie Russell [ 3 ] Serafin Lopez (’12), fest goers [ 2 ] T.J. Mino and Aaron Washington [ 3 ] Carrie Beck, Bruce recipient of an Open Doors Scholarship, addresses the audience [ 4 ] Students Sheridan, and School of Media Arts Dean Robin Bargar lead a discussion perform [ 4 ] Tanya Savard (BA ’10), John Brankin (BA ’09), Bethany Barnes (BA ’10), and Brian Henderson (BA ’10) [ 5 ] Casting director and producer Sharon King (BA ’88) and writer, producer, and actor Diandra Lyle

Photos: Steve Becker Photos: Samantha Kanzler

DEMO43 In fiscal year 2011, which ended August 31, generous individuals and organizations contributed a total of $12,889,644 to support the Thankyou. educational mission of Columbia College Chicago. Many of those gifts were designated for Scholarship Columbia, a five-year matching program backed by $1 million, to address the financial needs of our students.

For information about giving to Columbia, visit colum.edu/giving, or call 312.369.7287.

Melissa Catanese Sonny Garg & Julia Harris Joyce E. & Bruce Chelberg 2011 Michelle L. Collins Susanne Ghez Mary T. Cherian & Patrick J. Salem Columbia College Chicago Bruce A. & Deborah A. Crown Darryl & Anne Hendricks Dee Dee Chesley Honor Roll of Donors Allan & Ellen Drebin Nena Ivon Paul Chiaravalle Scott D. Fortino (BA ’80) Nicholas Kahn Alan R. (BA ’82) & Rita Clark Fiscal Year 2011 (September 1, 2010, Marcia Frank Chester T. Kamin & Nancy Schaefer Rhea Cohn through August 31, 2011) Ralph W. & Karen C. Gidwitz Burton* & Anne Kaplan Kay Collier Individuals Isaac & Jennifer Goldman Earl & Pamela Kluft Mary Connelly Leo S. Guthman* H. J. Kovler & Sally Meyers Kovler Gorman Cook $250,000 to $499,999 Mary Louise Haddad & Samuel Perry Jean Kralka Thomas S. Coughlin (BA ’77) Richard P. & Susan Kiphart Lenore W. & Richard Hervey William R. Madden II Pamela Crutchfield Spencer Family James T. Holliday & Kimberly M. Madden Shelley A. Davis Bill & Vicki Hood John D. & Alexandra Nichols Julian C. D’Esposito Jr. $100,000 to $249,999 Juanita V. Jordan Sandra J. & Michael Perlow & Molly D’Esposito Anonymous Paul R. & Nancy J. Knapp Joseph F. Peyronnin III (BA ’70) Diane L. Doyne Carol A. Cohen Justin A. Kulovsek (BA ’04) & Susan Zirinsky Ronald A. Elling Diane N. Dammeyer (’01) Nate Larson Osvaldo & Celsa Rodriguez Patricia B. Erens Michael B. & Susan Frank Marcia Lazar (MFA ’03) & Alan Amos Esther S. Saks In Memory of Gianna Esposito (’12) Allen M. & Lynn Turner Elizabeth A. Liebman PhD Oliver Sann & Beate Geissler Jonathan Fanton Barry A. Mayo (’01) Ralph & Nancy Segall Virginia Farley & Robert Shapiro $50,000 to $99,999 Lauren M. McLain (BA ’05) Denise & Joseph Seminetta Mary R. Farmilant (BA ’01; MFA ’11) Anonymous (2) Margaret R. (’05) & Michael Meiners Ellen Stone Belic & Steven R. Farmilant PsyD (BA ’85) Terry & Lee Anne Box Mark J. & Linda L. Micheli Stephen Sward Richard J. & Nancy L. Firfer Georgia & Gerald W. Fogelson Sylvia Neil & Dan Fischel James & Lynne E. Warner Sunny & Paul Fischer John R. & Patricia A. Gehron A.M. & K. Ombregt-Cool Anne E. Foley Gigi Pritzker Pucker & Michael A. Pucker Cynthia S. Raskin (’92) $1,000 to $4,999 Robert John Richard Follett David Teplica MD, MFA Pamela & John Rijos Anonymous (2) Martin Forman Arlen D. Rubin & Elaine Cohen Rubin Brad Akers Sue & Paul Freehling $25,000 to $49,999 Lisa Sandquist & Peter Kinney Randall K. Albers Sarah Fritz Bruce R. & Ann R. Bachmann Laurence Sloma & Lyn Persson David Applegate Lloyd A. & Colleen B. Fry III Steve Devick Lawrence K. & Maxine Snider Tony & Robin S. Armour Peter Fulgenzi Paul Freeman David S. Solomon MD Curt R. Bailey H. John & Kathryn Gilbertson Averill & Bernard Leviton & Brenda C. Solomon MD Donal P. Barry Matthew J. & Roxanna Goebel Howard Mendelsohn (BA ’49) Sterling Stuckey Doreen M. Bartoni Michael Goi ASC (BA ’80) James N. Pritzker & Renee L. Hansen (BA ’80; MA ’86) Ikram & Joshua Goldman Barry M. & Anne M. Sabloff $5,000 to $9,999 Marjorie C. & Charles W. Benton Alvin & June Golin Peter G. (’80) & Gloria Teschner Anonymous Alicia & Brian Berg Katherine G. & Jeffery Graham Leslie A. Weaver (MA ’87) Brian Arnold Carolyn & Gene Berg Marla Green & Hilton H. Weinberg (MA ’85) Madeleine & Thomas J. Burrell Mark A. Biello (BA ’83) Jay Wolke & Avril J. Greenberg (’05) Susan and Bob Wislow William F. Cellini Jr. (BA ’94) The Douglas Bierly Family Betty Guttman & Carmen Cantarin Deborah H. Holdstein PhD Carolyn Haack $10,000 to $24,999 Warren K. Chapman PhD & Jay W. Boersma (BA ’74) Jesse Hall & Barbara Engel Anonymous (3) & Bonita Chapman Whitney Bradshaw (MFA ’05) James & Carol Ann Harbert Jay Albanese Michael & Barbara Collins Bonnie Brooks Ronne & Bob Hartfield Andrew & Diane Alexander William Collins (BA ’10) Mark & Veronique Bushala John & Mary Frances Hass Soraya Betterton Susan V. Downing Joyce E. Butts Mark Hedengren Paul B. Broucek (BA ’74) Natasha H. (MFA ’98) & Zach Egan Barbara J. Calabrese Anthony E. Hinton (’92) & Carolyn Manetti James F. Feldstein Gregory C. Cameron Robert A. & Lorraine Holland Evette Cardona & Mona Noriega Rebecca Ford Terry (’91) Charles E. Cannon Susan B. Hopkinson PhD Warrick L. Carter PhD & Laurel Carter Kim & John J. Gallagher Alejandro Cartagena & Jonathan C. Jones PhD

DEMO44 Tami L. Hughes Michael T. Taylor Susan A. Manning & Douglas A. Doetsch Jean Choi Chris Hurley Eugene Thomas (BA ’90) & Tobi V. Faut Ling Markovitz Behnam Cirrus Chris Jabin Brian Ulrich (MFA ’07) Dirk W. Matthews (BA ’02) Christina Conlin Deone Jackman & Rachelle B. Friesen (BFA ’08) & Babette Novak (BA ’02) Daniel V. & Karen Considine Jim Jacobs Oscar Valdez (BA ’05) Matthew & Linda Matthews Christine Cornell Linda & Jon R. Katzenbach Pantelis N. Vassilakis PhD Debra M. McGrath (’88) Michael C. Costello (MFA ’98) John N. & Marina Kavouris Gary T. (BA ’90) & Anne M. Vlk Miles & Kirk McKie John Cramer Misty L. Keasler (BA ’01) Julia McQuade Volkmann Marcella Mencotti Aurelie Daligand Mark E. Kelly & Patricia A. Needham Albertina Walker* James E. Meyers Elizabeth de Longeaux James F. Kinoshita & Merrillyn Kosier Elizabeth Warren Murphy D. Monroe (’99) Jacquelyn M. Dean (BA ’04) James A. & Sari L. Klein Shirley Weese Young Cheryl L. Morton-Langston (BA ’79) Tracy Dillard Robert & Roberta Koverman Marlon C. (BA ’85) & Joy West Laura Myntti Bernard J. Dowling Joseph & Ellen Krutz William Whitman Jr. Neil P. Pagano Reynaldo F. Dumas (BA ’06) Elliot & Frances Lehman Constance & Hugh Williams Sheldon A. Patinkin Philip M. Eickhoff Gary I. & Meryl Levenstein Sharon R. Wilson-Taylor PhD Richard J. Peppin P.E. Eugene G. Esposito Jr. Diana K. (BA ’88) & Bert H. Lindstrom Eric V.A. Winston PhD Rudy Perpich & Helen J. Esposito Chastity Lord James B. & Margaret Maxwell Zagel Corey & Barbara-Honorine Plazak Tricia Van Eck (MA ’98) & Andre Fiebig Marilyn C. Lord (BA ’82) Carol & William Pollak Larry Finkel & James Meisner $500 to $999 Eva Rachau Paul & Christy Fisher Louise & Ernest Love Anonymous (3) Peter T. Radke (BA ’81) Douglas M. Foster Anthony J. Lubniewski Joseph & Gladys Amerio Nancy Rampson, CFRE Linda Fuller Priscilla R. MacDougall Michael J. Anderson Julie L. Redmond Paul M. Glavin Pattie Mackenzie Patrick D. Baker John G. Rex-Waller Barry A. Gomberg Suzanne G. McBride & John R. O’Neill Timothy T. Bauhs Barry L. Rice & Ted Allen Myra B. Greene Paula McCartney Sonia & Ted Bloch Christopher J. Richert (BA ’99) Christopher M. Greiner (MFA ’04) Patrick D. & Stacey McCusker Charles A. Bonilla (BA ’94) Paul Rickert Brian Heller Bernadette B. & Robert McMahon Brenda Borri & Michael Molloy Janice E. Rodgers Maureen H. Herlehy (BA ’93; MFA ’08) John H. & Kay L. Meisch Diana K. Borri Kenneth & Julie Sacks Cynthia Homan Susan A. Miner Nicholas Brown William F. Satterlee III Guillaume Horen Delores J. Mosier (’89) Brent Caburnay Joachim Schuessler William C. Hunt George Muller Janice F. Chindlund (’12) Robert Shields Jean-Francois Hurel Eliza Nichols & K.V. Chindlund Ronna Stamm & Paul Lehman Peter Johannknecht Jessica & Fredrik Nielsen Nancy Church Caitlin Strokosch (BA ’98) Marla W. & David A. Johnson Franklin W. Nitikman & Adrienne C. Drell Paul Clark Charles H. Suber Michelle Jolas Susan O’Brien Lyons & Douglas W. Lyons Kim T. Clement & Mia Clement Fill Bob Thall David & Jeannette Jordano Scot T. O’Hara (MA ’95) Waldemar Colon Cynthia L. Thomas Frederick G. & Rebecca E. Kaegi Edward H. & Susan Oppenheimer Dana D. (’97) & Joseph T. Connell William R. Thompson Elizabeth Kane Dominic A. Pacyga Rebecca T. Courington Tony C. Trigilio Morton H. Kaplan & Hedy M. Ratner Lydia Panas Elizabeth & Christopher Cronin Louis L. Tucker Steven R. Kauffman Daniel S. & Mary Parker Chandra M. Dennis & Carolyn S. Woollen-Tucker Jonathan Keiser Neil & Amy Parker Todd Deutsch Wayne Tukes Kevin Kelly & Erin Jaeb Melina K. Patterson (BA ’93) Kevin Doherty Kristi Turnbaugh Jonathan Kinkley & Michael C. Hendershot Tobias R. Dold Kelli A. Walker Martijn Kist Clark Pellett & Robert Kohl Larry D. & Lynn Dunn Margot A. Wallace Amy A. Kline (BA ’06) Birthe Piontek Robert A. Falls Sanford S. Weinstein (BA ’75) Sherwin S. Konik (BA ’63) Yvonne A. 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GALLERIES Survival Techniques: Bad at Sports Summer Jan Tichy Narratives of Resistance Residency 2012 October 12–December 23 MFA Thesis Exhibitions Through July 1 June 21–July 18 Museum of April 20–May 26 Museum of A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave., Contemporary Photography, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Contemporary Photography, colum.edu/adgallery 600 S. Michigan Ave., mocp.org 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd floor, 600 S. Michigan Ave., mocp.org colum.edu/cbpa Bad at Sports will go beyond Jan Tichy (Czech, b. 1974) is The exhibit, featuring 14 the podcast to create physical collaborating with the Museum The MFA Thesis Exhibition features international artists, looks at experiences, “sound art objects,” of Contemporary Photography projects by students graduating human conflict and the ways and to test installation strategies for a one-year period to create a in the Interdisciplinary Arts individuals and groups endure long- for experiencing verbal content in museumwide exhibition based on Department. Work on view will term hardship. a gallery. the museum’s collection of more represent all of the department’s than 11,000 images and objects. interdisciplinary areas of study: Works from the Peripheral Views: book and paper practices, Dieu Donné Papermill States of America performance, and media. June 16–August 11 July 13–September 30 THEATRE Center for Book and Paper Arts, Museum of RENT Subimago: BFA Fine Art 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd floor, Contemporary Photography, April 18–28 Exhibition 2012 colum.edu/cbpa 600 S. Michigan Ave., mocp.org May 4–June 2 Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St. A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave., Dieu Donné Papermill is an artists’ As we debate our country’s Tickets: 312.369.6126 or colum.edu/adgallery workspace and gallery dedicated economic and political course this colum.edu/theatre to the creation, exhibition, and election year, this exhibit brings Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Set in the East Village art scene preservation of contemporary art together artists grappling with the Fine Art Exhibition has been during the height of the 1980s utilizing handmade paper. difficulty of picturing America in a tradition since 2001 and AIDS epidemic, RENT is a year in our time. represents Fine Art students’ the life of a band of talented young completion of the Bachelor of Fine artists. Arts degree.

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