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A “Colossal” Success How a personal The Alumni Magazine of blog became a DEMO professional career Columbia College Chicago

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Lena Waithe and other millennials make their marks Friday, May 16, 2014

Alumni at MANIFEST Urban Arts Festival

Columbia College Chicago will celebrate the work of our more than 2,000 graduating students with our annual urban arts festival. From art exhibitions to readings, original fashion designs to interactive designs, the talent will spill out from Columbia’s South Loop campus and onto the streets. The Main Stage and side stage performances from student bands create the musical backdrop to the Manifest showcase.

THIS YEAR, THERE IS AN ALUMNI LOUNGE AND AN ALUMNI-ONLY RECEPTION. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

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8 MILLENNIAL HUSTLE 25 DREAM WEAVER 32 Lee Bey’s (BA ’88) journalism 3 Vision Look out, world! 20-somethings Photojournalist Lenny Gilmore background prepared him for a wild Questions for President Kwang-Wu Kim Lena Waithe (BA ’06), Tony Merevick (BFA ’10) brings fantasies to life career ride as an influential architecture (BA ’12) and Roma Shah (BA ’08) are through digital collage. critic, Chicago’s chief design adviser 4 Wire blazing red-hot career paths. By Brian Dukerschein (BA ’12) and thoughtful civic engagement leader. News from the Columbia community By Audrey Michelle Mast (BA ’00) 29 MAKING A MARK 34 Adam Rust (MFA ’05) & Skye 37 Alumni News & Notes 15 CHANGING COURSE The clever, cheeky and offbeat Yeti Rust (MA ’06) dig up strange treasures Featuring class news, notes Artists Caitlin Strokosch (BA ’98), Press leaves its big, hairy footprint for their aptly-named store, Woolly and networking Rachael Albers (BA ’06) and Shawn on Chicago comics. Mammoth Antiques and Oddities. Lent (MAM ’06) step out of the By Megan Kirby 48 Upcoming Events spotlight and find fulfillment through 36 Christina Stevens (BA ’10) pulls What’s happening on campus nonprofit pursuits. double duty as actor and interpreter with the Little Theatre of the Deaf. By William Meiners (MFA ’96) 49 Backstory Aidy Bryant (BA ’09) talks about

20 A “COLOSSAL” SUCCESS landing her dream job on Saturday How Christopher Jobson (BA ’04) Night Live. turned his humble passion project— an art and visual culture blog— into a full-time, professional career. By Sean McEntee (’14) ON THE COVER: Fresh from a successful Sundance premiere, Lena Waithe (BA ’06) is making her name in television through fresh, honest storytelling. Photo: Anthony Chiappetta (BA ’95) DEMO GET YOUR ISSUE 20 SPRING/SUMMER 2014 COLUMBIA DEMO MAGAZINE STAFF GEAR. Editor-in-Chief Kristi Turnbaugh Editorial Assistants Megan Kirby Hannah Lorenz (’16) T-shirts, Alumni Content Manager Cynthia Vargas (MFA ’13) hoodies, caps, Researcher Amy Wilson baby gear, gifts, Class Notes Editor Michael Bogart (’14) accessories, Creative Director Ben Bilow and yes, Senior Designer Susannah Kim books too! Staff Photographer Jacob Boll (BA ’12) Design Intern Eavan Wallner (BA ’12)

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“For the next few months, I’m going to focus on building relationships with local alumni.”

QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT KWANG-WU KIM

DEMO: Sharpening Columbia’s focus on employment and professional DEMO: What are your plans for continuing to build alumni relationships? marketability for graduates is a major goal of your presidency. How will alumni fit into the “Create Your Career” initiative of preparing DR. KIM: For the next few months, I’m going to focus on building the Columbia students for the professional world? relationships with local alumni because, first of all, the vast majority of our alums are here. I feel like we just haven’t been shining the light at DR. KIM: Alums are going to play a big part in this because in some cases, home. Our alums are populating so many different communities, locally. we’ll have alums who are hiring our students. But equally important is That’s a story I want us to tell more vividly because it’s always great to having a really big network of alumni who are interacting with our students have stars—and all schools celebrate their stars—but part of the story of as informal mentors and points of professional connection. this institution is the story of a person who has made a successful life, Los Angeles is an extraordinary model because we have so many alums who is making a difference in the world in part because they were here. in LA in the film and entertainment industry. Not only are they active That’s the story we’ve got to find and keep telling. about helping to place our students in internships and employment—it’s a very robust relationship—but the people I met all expressed huge excitement at the idea of more interaction with our students. They want to come back to campus. They want to see what we’re doing. They just want to share what they’ve done and what they know with our students.

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Magazine App Showcases Photography’s Best

The Photography Department launched Frank Magazine, a biannual digital publication highlighting the artwork of students, faculty, staff and alumni, in early December. Available in the iTunes App Store, Frank blends writing, video and photography to showcase the department’s work. The magazine is the brainchild of Photography Department members Peter Fitzpatrick and Jo-Nell Sieren, who received Columbia’s CiTE Innovation Fellowship to promote new ways of bringing technology into the classroom. Former College President John Duff Passes Away

John Duff, Columbia College Chicago’s eighth president, passed away on Oct. 1 in Palm Desert, Calif., from complications with Alzheimer’s. As Columbia’s president Soave Anthony (’14) Photo: from 1992 until 2000, Duff was central to expanding the South Loop campus, even approving Columbia’s first residence hall, Plymouth Court. By the end of his presidency, Duff oversaw purchases of 1014-16 S. Michigan Ave., 1306 S. Michigan Ave., 1104 S. Wabash Ave. and 33 E. Congress Park- way. He also oversaw the official change of the school’s name from Columbia College to Columbia College Chicago. All of his efforts helped make Columbia College Chicago a nationally recognized name.

Jo-Nell Sieren and Peter Fitzpatrick used Columbia’s CiTE Innovation Fellowship to develop Frank Magazine. Frank can be accessed using multiple digital platforms and contains the work of Columbia artists, including examples below.

ALUMNI HIT SUNDANCE Alumni brought Chicago spirit to Park City, Utah, at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 18–19. Columbia screened six alumni short films and one alumni feature film, The Trouble with the Truth.

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Deborah H. Holdstein Steps Down as LAS Dean After serving as dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences for seven years, Deborah H. Holdstein will step down from her position on July 1. In her time as dean, Holdstein helped establish the college’s first Honors Program, the new Art and Materials Conservation major and the college’s first degree partnership with Stanley Wearden an overseas institution (the Lorenzo de’ Medici

Photo: Anthony Soave Anthony (’14) Photo: Institute in Florence, Italy). Holdstein will take time off for the 2014–15 academic year and will resume working with Columbia College as New SVP/Provost Announced a full-time professor in the English DepartmentLaura Hool in 2015. In July, associate professor Suzanne Stanley T. Wearden, PhD, will become Columbia College Chicago’s senior vice president Blum-Malley will step up for a one-year and provost, the chief academic officer for the institution, on July 1. Now serving as appointment as interim dean. dean of the College of Communication and Information and professor of journalism and mass communication at Kent State University, Wearden will work with President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim, DMA, to lead Columbia College’s academic affairs enterprise. Louise Stephen Asma Receives Love, PhD, who has been serving as interim provost and vice president for academic a Fulbright Award affairs, will continue in that role until July. Stephen Asma, philosophy professor in the During his 30 years at Kent State, Wearden boasted major achievements, such as Humanities, History and Social Sciences increasing freshman retention rates, creating multiple online master’s programs, Department, received a Fulbright Award to live increasing undergraduate enrollment and helping to create six online degree programs. and teach in China. He is teaching at Beijing Foreign Studies University through Spring The following is excerpted from a March interview with the Columbia Chronicle: 2014, expanding on an academic passion for Buddhism and Asian philosophies. What are your plans upon your arrival in July? SW: My plan is to learn as much as I can as fast as I can. I’ll be meeting with as many people as I can to get their sense of what their goals are, obstacles they face, what solutions Columbia Chronicle named they’re thinking about for those obstacles and a sense of where this college needs to go Best College Newspaper in Illinois academically. … I think that the college needs an academic affairs strategic plan—a five-year In February, the Illinois College Press plan with achievable goals. I want to have an inclusive process for that, including feedback Association named the Columbia Chronicle the from students and faculty and staff and administrators. best college newspaper in the state and presented the paper with 18 other awards for What challenges do you think Columbia faces and how might you address them? various work in photographic, graphic, editorial SW: [The mission] needs to be revisited. We need to make sure that we’re preparing and advertising content. The Chronicle also students for a 21st-century practice in creative disciplines. We really need to look compre- won first place for its 2013 Sex Issue in the hensively at the curriculum. We’re still preparing students ... [but we must give] students Special Supplement category. The newspaper what they actually need, practice in 21st-century industries. Part of that is taking a picked up five first-place awards and overall look at the core, which is fundamentally strong and inspiring. had 12 current or former staff members individually recognized for their work.

demo spring/summer 2014 5 WIRE New Image Campaign Launched in September GIVE & TAKE In the fall, Columbia unveiled a new image campaign centered on the philosophies “Live What You Love” and “Create Your Career.” The multiyear, multiplatform campaign kicked off with billboard, bus shelter and magazine ads featuring students engaging in film, music, dance and more—offering a sampling of Columbia’s vibrant and diverse arts community. The research-based campaign went through an extensive brand review with global public relations and communications firm Burson-Marsteller to focus appeal to key audience groups including prospective students, parents and high school guidance counselors.

Laura Hool

Alumna Supports Family’s ASL Scholarship

For Laura Hool (BA ’06), philanthropy runs in the family. Hool’s grandmother, Alice Fryzlewicz, founded the Michael Fryzlewicz scholarship for American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation in honor of her son. Michael Fryzlewicz, a Chicago-area ASL interpreter, worked with then-English Department Chair Phil Klukoff to start Columbia’s ASL program in the ’90s, but sadly, he died in his 30s before the program got off the ground. “[Uncle Michael wanted] to make sure that there were training opportunities in this area for people who wanted to become interpreters and to learn about the Deaf community,” Hool says. Columbia College Chicago’s ASL program is the only nationally accredited, BA-granting ASL-English Interpretation program in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Today, Hool, assistant director for Outreach, Medicine and Biological Sciences Development at the University of Chicago, Horatio Sanz continues her family’s generosity by contributing to the scholarship fund her grandmother began.

“I think it says a lot about her that she could take this tragedy SANZ AND RIVERS CRACK UP CAMPUS Becker David Photos: of losing her child when he was at such a young age and trans- The 2013–14 Conversations in the Arts series spotlighted comedy, with renowned form that into something that was really positive,” Hool says. comedians Horatio Sanz (’89) and Joan Rivers cracking everyone up in the South “[The scholarship is] a way of really personally and permanently Loop. Saturday Night Live alum Sanz returned to his home turf on Oct. 23 to remembering my uncle and his legacy in Chicago. And as an alum, talk about his time on The Second City stage, with comedy group Upright Citizens it’s about giving back to the institution that I feel like I gained Brigade and as the first Latino member ofSNL . so much from.” Comic legend Rivers hit campus Feb. 25, regaling a packed house with stories For more information on the Michael Fryzlewicz scholarship for ASL about her rise from Chicago’s Second City to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny interpretation, visit colum.edu. D —Hannah Lorenz (’16) Carson, and subsequent years of struggling to stay relevant on the climb back to the top of the ratings heap on E!’s juggernaut Fashion Police.

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MEET & GREET

COLUMBIA SPONSORS FILM FEST The 49th Chicago International Film Festival took place in October at the lavish Chicago Theatre, with Columbia College serving as a sponsor for the fifth year running. The festival highlights the voices of innovative new filmmakers in Chicago and the world.

Manifest 2014 Creative Director: Matt Dunne Matt Dunne (’14) looked to paper airplanes and star lanterns as inspiration for Manifest 2014, Columbia College Chicago’s annual urban arts festival on May 16. As creative director elected by the Columbia community, Dunne will design all the event’s promotional materials. For the first time, Manifest has a theme—flight—and Dunne plans to reach for the sky in his designs. “I like to do really simplistic stuff,” Dunne says of his winning looks, which consist of paper textures, dotted lines and stars inspired by the geometric lanterns at Chicago’s annual holiday Christkindlmarket. He hopes the paper airplane motif will bring a crafty, DIY edge to the events. “I’m hoping everything can be really customizable, so people can make their

Photos: David Becker David Photos: own paper planes or their own stars, stuff like that.” The all-day fest will bustle with art, music and performances showcasing Columbia’s distinct talents and creativity. Manifest events will include old favorites like a zipline GALA FUNDS SCHOLARSHIPS through the South Loop, and some new additions like an art installation from Jones College On Nov. 9, 220 guests gathered for a black-tie event Prep and a Masters of Flight evening to highlight graduate student work. There’s been celebrating Columbia’s diverse talents, raising Open talk of world record ambitions, too: Anyone want to build the world’s largest paper Doors Scholarship funds to help Chicago Public School airplane or the most paper airplanes? students attend Columbia College. More than 70 For more information about Manifest 2014, which is free and open to the public, go to scholarships were funded by the event. colum.edu/manifest. D —Megan Kirby

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Lena Waithe BA ’06, Television Writer/Producer/Creator Age: 29, Los Angeles

How young alumni are blazing hot career paths Millennial

By Audrey Michelle Mast (BA ’00) Photography by Anthony Chiappetta (BA ’95) Hustle and Drew Reynolds (BA ’97) As students at Columbia College Chicago, Lena Waithe, Tony Merevick and Roma Shah all jump-started their careers with hands-on experience, prestigious internships and boundless ambition—and today, they continue to build on the creative momentum that originated in the South Loop. As the rising stars of television, journalism and fashion business, respectively, each of these young graduates has made a major impact in their fields—all before their 30th birthdays. And they’re only getting started.

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“ I pretty much pulled pages from my diary and turned it into a pilot. I told my truth. Ultimately, as a writer, that’s my job.”

Lena Waithe produced the Sundance winner Dear White People, and her TV-show-in-progress Twenties has drawn comparisons to HBO’s Girls. As of press time, Waithe had scored a staff writing job on the Fox seriesBones .

LENA WAITHE: HOLLYWOOD HOTSHOT program, a five-week immersive experience Nickelodeon hired her as a staff writer on its If you haven’t heard of Lena Waithe (BA ’06) with industry professionals—and never left. musical comedy series How to Rock. She became yet, you will soon. At 29, she’s poised to be Waithe racked up a wide array of credits: a member of the Writers Guild of America (the the next big Hollywood voice. She’s an accom- She was an editorial assistant on MTV’s reality official union of the industry), where she found- plished screenwriter; the producer of a hot new juggernaut The Real World and—quite seren- ed the Table Read Initiative as a way to highlight feature film, Dear White People; and the creator dipitously—worked on the set of Girlfriends as the work of African Americans in Hollywood. of a stylish new comedy, Twenties (already the assistant to the executive producer. That At the same time, she increased focus on her drawing comparisons to HBO’s millennial- led to a job as an assistant to writer/director own projects. Waithe wrote a viral video (Shit centric Girls). Gina Prince-Blythwood (who became a mentor Black Girls Say) and webisodes about online dat- When Chicago-born Waithe came to and close friend) on the movie The Secret ing (Hello Cupid), and wrote and directed a short Columbia, she knew she wanted to be a TV Life of Bees. She was also a writing assistant film (Save Me) that appeared at several indie writer. She threw herself into her studies, on George Tillman’s (BA ’91) Notorious B.I.G. film festivals. She also produced the feature film particularly writing courses. She calls the biopic, Notorious. Dear White People, written and directed by her writing class she took with associate professor All the while, Waithe worked on her own best friend, Justin Simien. A satire about “being Michael Fry “life changing.” project: a pilot script that she submitted to a black face in a very white place” (a fictional Ivy “He gave me the fundamentals,” Waithe the selective Fox Writers’ Intensive program, League college), the film premiered at Sundance says of Fry. “He doesn’t hand out A’s a lot—an an invitation-only series of seminars and in January, earning the festival’s Special Jury A means you really have something.” Her final workshops for emerging TV and film writers. Prize for Breakthrough Talent. The filmmakers’ project was a script for the UPN/CW comedy The script, My Mother, Myself, explored the gutsy path to Sundance, begun years earlier, series Girlfriends. After receiving a hard-won relationship between a washed-up diva matri- A, she approached Fry for advice. “I asked him arch and a daughter ready for her own spotlight. whether I really did have something, and he It wasn’t produced, but it caught the eye of said, ‘You do. You have it. Go to L.A.,’” she says. other industry writers, and things began falling PWEB EXCLUSIVE So she did. At the end of her senior year, into place. Waithe secured an agent, won more To watch the trailer for Dear White People and scenes Waithe completed Columbia’s Semester in LA fellowships and met more people. In 2012, from Twenties, go to colum.edu/demo.

demo spring/summer 2014 9 FEATURE involved producing a “concept trailer” to promote the movie, which hadn’t yet been filmed. Through YouTube, social media and the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, the team raised more than $41,000 in summer 2012 and completed the movie’s filming in 2013. Dear White People’s approach is both stylish and compelling—as much inspired by the meticulous, neo-preppy style of Wes Anderson and the deadpan wit of Alexander Payne’s Election as the “black art house” sensibilities of Spike Lee. Its theme focusing on racial identity in “post-racial” America is erudite, funny, and— as Waithe notes—a refreshing departure from the “easily digestible images of black folks” she usually sees. Waithe’s other big project, Twenties, which she created and wrote, is even more personal. The TV dramedy—backed by Queen Latifah’s production company, Flavor Unit Entertain- ment—is about a group of (mostly) black 20-somethings; it centers on a woman named Hattie who video-blogs and just happens to be a lesbian. Hattie is an imperfect, loveable, complex character: She listens to vinyl records, prefers The Wizard of Oz to The Wiz, is broke because she “eats out too much” and is learning to express herself more honestly. Like Dear White People, Twenties is being promoted with a series of four short scenes from Tony Merevick a yet-to-be-filmed episode—and owes its chic BA ’12, Journalism look to director Simien, who will also direct the Reporter, BuzzFeed pilot when (not if) it’s produced. One thing is Age: 24, New York City certain: Twenties will put Waithe in a new league. In the spring semester following Traver’s “I pretty much pulled pages from my diary class, Merevick began working as a professional and turned it into a pilot,” says Waithe. “I wrote journalist. “It was a pivotal semester for me,” he about what was going on in my life. I told my says. “That was also around the time I became truth. Ultimately, as a writer, that’s my job.” interested in covering the LGBT community.” TONY MEREVICK: MEDIA MAVERICK He went to work as an online editor for Chicago Lake in the Hills, Ill., native Tony Merevick Free Press, then as an opinions columnist and (BA ’12) ignited his career while still a student news reporter for Gay Chicago Magazine. When at Columbia. While juggling a full course load, both publications folded within the span of two he also reported for two local publications, years, Merevick saw a huge open market for founded a new one and interned in New York queer media in Chicago. So he and friend Dane City. Last fall, New York-based social news Tidwell cofounded online news publication and entertainment company BuzzFeed hired Chicago Phoenix “out of the ashes” in January Merevick as an LGBT breaking news reporter. 2012—while Merevick was still a college senior. “All the journalism teachers I studied under “I think that Chicago’s community deserves a were instrumental in helping me succeed,” says publication that looks out for them, speaks to Merevick. He specifically cites his Reporting them, for them,” says Merevick, who served as and Writing II professor Nancy Traver, who the Phoenix’s editor-in-chief from January 2012 “really empowered me to look at her six-hour to September 2013. Today, Chicago Phoenix is course and think of it more as a job,” he says. one of the most-read digital LGBT publications “I was really hungry to do that.” in the Midwest.

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On the eve of Illinois’ experimenting with how they could adapt and historic Marriage take advantage of this revolutionary platform,” he says. “I wanted to be part of that.” Top 20s Equality Bill, Merevick When BuzzFeed announced it was hiring journalists to bolster its LGBT coverage, scored an exclusive Merevick jumped at the unexpected oppor- Young alumni make their tunity to move back to New York City. “I was marks in careers they love interview with Gov. hesitant to leave Phoenix and Chicago, but Pat Quinn. [BuzzFeed is] such an incredible, innovative platform,” he says. “I couldn’t turn that down.” With more than 100 million monthly unique Derek Bahr Helming a Web startup during his senior visitors, BuzzFeed is a hub for viral media and Professional guitarist year was a challenge Merevick took in stride: an outlet for original reporting and breaking Age: 26, Nashville, Tenn. “Columbia gave me the tools and provided news. Merevick covers gay rights issues in the me with the opportunity to build a really good U.S. and abroad, reporting on everything from network of people … who I could turn to for marriage equality to Russia’s anti-gay policies. Since moving to Nashville shortly after graduating, support,” he says. Describing the agility of the On the eve of the signing of Illinois’ historic Derek Bahr (BM ’10, Music) has become an in-de- Phoenix’s platform and the need for up-to- marriage equality legislation, he scored an mand guitarist for country music stars including the-second coverage in the Twitter age, he says, exclusive interview with Gov. Pat Quinn. As a Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley. “I learned these things at Columbia, but put reporter for BuzzFeed, he flew back to Chicago He also released a solo EP, Sober Years, in 2011. them to use at the Phoenix.” to interview Quinn in person and stayed for the By the time Merevick launched Chicago signing ceremony at UIC Pavilion—a full-circle Andrew Coate Phoenix, he had a resume any journalism moment for Merevick, having covered the bill student would envy. In addition to working at since it was introduced. Community & Chicago Free Press and Gay Chicago Magazine, At BuzzFeed less than a year, Merevick Content Manager he scored a highly-sought-after, paid summer is just getting started. “It’s full of amazing and at Kapost : internship at O, the Oprah Magazine in New talented people I consider myself very lucky to Age 27, Boulder, Colo. York City through the American Society of Mag- work alongside every day, and it’s a place where azine Editors internship program. He worked journalistic integrity and storytelling are taken The founder of startup online marketing company on a team that developed the magazine’s iPad very seriously,” says Merevick. “It’s exactly Kapost specifically sought Andrew Coate (BA ’09, edition. “At the time, magazines were still where I’m supposed to be.” AEMM) as a member of his marketing “dream team.” Coate’s data-driven approach and ability to succeed with limited resources brought him to the attention of the fledgling company, which has marketed for well-known brands like Allstate, AT&T and Yellow Pages.

Brittany Davis Rapper Age: 25, Chicago

Brittany Davis (’13, Graphic Design), under the stage name Bebe O’Hare, made a splash in Chicago’s rap scene with the release of her first mixtape, Fash- ionably Late, last October. The South Side native studied graphic design at Columbia but found her calling when she started rapping for fun one winter break. Her mixtape’s big-name cameos from BJ the Chicago Kid and Wiz Khalifa, as well as stellar press from Chicago’s top hip-hop blog, Fake Shore Drive, position her to make it big. Before landing at BuzzFeed, Tony Merevick launched his own digital LGBT publication, Chicago Phoenix, while still a student at Columbia. (continued on page 12)

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Ross Feighery ROMA SHAH: FASHION FANCIER Shah grew up in Chicago and chose Columbia Photographer at Roma Shah’s infectious energy and intensity for its stellar fashion department and reputation Ross Feighery have taken her to one of the most iconic fash- for hands-on training. “You could be an entre- Photography ion houses in the world. At 28, Shah (BA ’08) preneur and be in school,” says Shah. “It was the Age: 27, Chicago & is a sales manager for Saint Laurent (formerly best choice I could have made.” Los Angeles Yves Saint Laurent), where she oversees the At Columbia, Shah built on her fashion skills Ross Feighery (BA ’09, Photography) has snapped wholesale of the brand’s shoes and accessories and experience. Her favorite professor, Barbara photographs for the Field Museum, Lens Crafters for all of North and South America. “I want to Samuels, taught a class that teamed photog- and Kraft. Chicago commuters will remember his always show that I love what I do,” says the ris- raphy, fashion design and fashion business “Working Dead” ads for the Solixir energy drink that ing fashion star, whose boundless enthusiasm students to produce photo shoots. “It was really were plastered all over train platforms last spring. for the industry was cultivated at Columbia. cool because you worked with people from dif- “It’s what I carry from my college career into ferent departments,” Shah says. “Collaboration my life now.” is key. That’s what it’s like in the real world.” Whitney Fox Junior animation writer at Nickelodeon Age: 24, Burbank, Calif.

Whitney Fox (BA ’11, Television) landed a Nickelodeon internship after meeting an executive at a Columbia event. During the internship, a script coordinator was promoted and chose Fox to replace her. In her running gig at Nickelodeon, Fox has served as the script coordinator for Robot & Monster and T.U.F.F. Puppy.

Ryan Lowry Photographer Age: 24, Chicago

Ryan Lowry’s (BFA ’11, Photography) bright, engaging and dynamic photo essays explore subjects ranging from Chicago’s rap scene, Detroit residents and the inner workings and life of Costco. Lowry’s compelling work earns him consistent gigs for The Chicago Reader, Nylon, Topshop and The Wall Street Journal.

Mike Marsoupian Production assistant on set of The Mentalist Age: 26, Los Angeles

As an assistant to the executive producer of CBS drama The Mentalist, Mike Marsoupian (BA ’11, Television) constantly buzzes around the Warner Brothers set, handling everything from call sheets to VIP tours. He says the amount of work that goes After graduating in 2008, Roma Shah moved to New York City to join the corporate accessories team at Valentino. Now as sales manager at Saint Laurent, she works into one episode is “mind-boggling,” but he loves with buyers from upscale department stores. the fast-paced environment.

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Roma Shah BA ’08, AEMM Sales Manager, Saint Laurent Age: 28, New York City

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Meghan Mathes During her junior year, Shah interned at the Manager of corporate headquarters of Valentino in New Development for TV York, working with the accessories team. “I fell at Evolution in love with the wholesale business the minute Entertainment I walked into that office,” she says. “I felt really Age: 27, Los Angeles lucky to be working with such amazing people who were making such beautiful things.” A At Evolution, Meghan Mathes (BA ’09, Television) highlight of her intern experience: seeing Mr. scours books, articles, blogs and more with an Valentino’s last ready-to-wear runway show in eye for potential TV series, then monitors the devel- Paris before he retired. “It was a really exciting opment of scripts and pitches the ideas to studios. time in fashion for me, at a really early age,” Because Evolution Television is a new venture, its ongoing projects are under wraps, but Mathes says she says. that A-list stars have been recruited for some of After graduating in 2008, Shah moved to her developing shows. Today, Evolution’s TV division New York City to join the corporate accessories partners with Lionsgate and other major studios. team at Valentino. Two years later, she moved to Mumbai to work at Vogue India on the editorial team for fashion features and the beauty team. Kate She began freelancing for the legendary brand Riegle-van West Yves Saint Laurent, now called simply Saint Designer, Laurent Paris, in 2011, and moved to New York Performer, Inventor for her current job later that year. Age: 27, Somerville, Mass. As a wholesaler, Shah works with buyers from department stores including Bergdorf Kate Riegle-van West (MFA ’11, Interdisciplinary Arts) Goodman, Barneys New York and Neiman created a new way to amp up her performances of Marcus, as well as boutiques like A’ Maree’s poi, the Maori art of spinning tethered weights. For an in Newport Beach, Calif., and Chicago’s Blake. assignment in her Space and Place class, Riegle-van Every store’s needs and expectations are West invented the Orbitar, a poi tool that allows artists different. One day, Shah might work on styling to manipulate light and sound as they spin the weights. Barneys’ online presence. The next, she might The invention earned her an Albert P. Weisman Award travel to Paris with her team for a runway show in 2011, and she gave a successful TED talk about it in followed by briefings and market campaign October 2013. The Orbitar is still in prototype mode, development. “My day is always changing. No but Riegle-van West is meeting with potential investors job is too little for me,” she says. “What keeps to sell her creation. me motivated is how often fashion changes.” Shah’s newest personal side projects are Angela Snow soon-to-be-launched blogs LeProfiles.com and YvesDropping.com, with photography by friend Director/producer at To the Moon Perrie Schad (BFA ’07). They will celebrate the often-unsung creativity of people working Productions on the business side of fashion. “I want to Age: 29, New York City highlight the people who inspire me every day,” Shah says. Angela Snow (BA ’06, Film + Video) and Josh Gibson In 2012, Yves Saint Laurent rebranded itself (BA ’06, Film + Video) wanted to make movies and under a new creative director, Hedi Slimane, travel the world. So they created their own company, who wanted to nod to the brand’s classic designs To the Moon Productions. Today, To the Moon has filmed videos for travel companies in Peru, Greece while looking toward the future—with Shah and throughout Europe, and also produced a video for “ I fell in love with following every step of the way. “It is like Habitat for Humanity. The pair’s latest documentary, the wholesale working for a new company. It’s modern, fresh World Circus, follows five acts to the international and exciting,” says Shah. “We are making Monte Carlo Circus Festival. business the minute fashion history.” D —Hannah Lorenz (’16) I walked into [Valentino’s] office.”

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CHANGING COURSE

What happens when your life’s work no longer seems the right work? For these alumni artists, it’s all about following the heart

By William Meiners (MFA ’96)

In the arts, timing is everything: the musician’s backbeat, the actor’s These three women are linked beyond the intense training they follow- delivered line, the dancer’s choreographed leap. For many artists, knowing ed through their college years. Each has parlayed artistic backgrounds into when to transition from center stage to a supporting role can make all the successful work in nonprofit fields. Strokosch is the executive director difference in their lives—and in the lives of others. of Alliance of Artists Communities, an organization in Providence, R.I., Three Columbia College Chicago alumni spent much of their time prac- that has helped lift artists’ voices worldwide. Albers has set up a nonprofit ticing toward artistic perfection before even starting kindergarten. shop in Chiapas, Mexico, working with indigenous women to use theatre Caitlin Strokosch (BA ’98) would have been dwarfed by the cello she as a tool of popular resistance. And Lent has traveled the globe, creating first played as a 3-year-old in her Oak Park home. Rachael Albers (BA ’06) dialogue through dance, raising money for children’s cancer hospitals and recalls always performing, acting and singing in Chicago’s western suburbs. recently inspiring thousands through her writing about what it means to And Shawn Lent (MAM ’06) may have only dreamed of the places the arts be an artist. would take her when she danced as a child in Saginaw, Mich.

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Strokosch majored in classical cello at Augus- Cerqua hired her to play the cello on a couple tana College in Rock Island, Ill., but transferred recording gigs while offering a bit of a backhand- to Loyola University in Chicago and started played compliment: “You’re not the best cello player ing with rock bands. One night, an emergency I know, but you’ll show up on time and be put her music in perspective. When Strokosch’s prepared,” he said. apartment building caught on fire, she risked her Strokosch knew he was right. She was a good Caitlin Strokosch life dashing back to retrieve her beloved instru- cello player and could probably make some sort CLASSICAL CELLIST ment from the flames. She says, “I remember of living with it. But her professionalism also thinking: ‘Why am I studying English at Loyola prepared her for other fields. PROFESSIONAL PERFORMER when all I really want to do is play the cello?’” ARTS ADMINISTRATOR Strokosch spent her senior year taking classes “I’m very comfortable [facilitating] in Columbia’s music department. The lone cellist in the program, she earned performance credit in other artists’ dreams.” theatre productions and fostered collaborations A CELLO’S IMPRINT that offered career possibilities outside of an Encouraged by professors, Strokosch learned As much as she enjoyed playing cello, Caitlin orchestra pit. the logistics of putting on a concert: creating a Strokosch had a bit of a rebellious streak when “Columbia was so different from the strict, flier, paying the accompaniment and so forth. it came to the instrument she played almost classical training I had,” says Strokosch, who “It never occurred to me that there was a whole daily for 25 years. “I wanted to be in a setting loved being taught by professional musicians field of administrators out there supporting that wasn’t a traditional, conservatory style,” like Gustavo Leone, Athanasios Zervas and artists,” she says. she says. Joe Cerqua. Strokosch’s first foray into the nonprofit arts world came with managing Chicago music en- sembles such as Bella Voce and CUBE. She began her work at the Alliance of Artists Communities in 2002, learning the ins and outs of artistic administration. “I liked the idea of being part of a team that brings new work into the world,” she says. “And I’m very comfortable [facilitating] other artists’ dreams.” As executive director since 2008, she’s furthered those dreams in spades, launching several major initiatives, helping to grow Alliance WHEREVER membership by 40 percent and leading an organization that has granted more than $2 million in funds to artists and residency programs. One recent project, New Voices of Modern Arab Literature, found safe residential havens for emerging writers from 10 different countries YOU GO, GO in the Arab world. “In a three-year project, we found 30 residences at 18 different sites around the world,” Strokosch says. “Some writers were literally running [from] countries that were falling apart.” The vast logistical concerns, such WITH ALL as obtaining visas and securing translators, paid off. “On a small scale, we were able to offer real, intimate interactions for cultural understand- ing,” Strokosch says. That good work she’s able to share makes her journey worthwhile. “I struggled for a long time with not having YOUR HEART the cello as strongly in my life. But I started playing the electric guitar in bands and still have music in my life in a way that’s incredibly exciting,” says Strokosch, who now sports a tattoo of the cello’s f-holes. “So it seems okay now. My cello is always with me.”

16 spring/summer 2014 demo FEATURE A TALE OF TWO COLUMBIAS

From Columbia, Mo., to Columbia College, Louise Packard found her footing as a nonprofit fundraiser

Louise Packard (BA ’10) enjoyed two very different college experiences—the first at a traditional state school in the Midwest and the second in the City of Big Shoulders. But when she left Columbia, Mo., (and the University of Missouri) for Columbia College Chicago, she quickly discovered the possibilities of a career in the nonprofit world. Looking to become more marketable, the former double major (journalism and art history) studied arts, entertainment and media management, and took enthusiastically to Columbia’s exhibition management courses. “I help donors and volunteers find the most meaningful way in which they can give back.”

She settled on law school, at least for a time, “Professor Robert Blandford helped me understand enrolling at DePaul University and dedicating that even as an artist, you should learn to be self- herself to learning legalese. After completing sufficient,” says Packard. “In the very least, if you can’t her first year in 2008, she landed a summer practice your own art, you can help other projects internship in Mexico to work at a nonprofit for come to life through fundraising.” an indigenous women’s rights group. The project While still at Columbia, Packard first interned at Rachael Albers fell through, however, and to salvage her sum- Marwen, a nonprofit providing free visual arts classes ASPIRING ACTRESS mer, Albers volunteered with a Mayan women’s to Chicago youth, which introduced her to grant writ- LAWYER collective called FOMMA that used theatre as ing, a responsibility she not only enjoyed, but a tool for education, empowerment and popular mastered. That experience led to an internship at the FREELANCE DESIGNER / RADICAL THEATRE resistance in lives marked by poverty and lack Museum of Contemporary Art, which turned into a ORGANIZER / ARTS ACTIVIST of opportunity. post-graduation job. “For the first time, I saw theatre and art Today, the 25-year-old is the associate director of being used for social change,” Albers says. mission advancement for the YMCA of Metropolitan “It was amazing to me to see how powerful it Chicago, where she oversees a board of managers AN ACTING ACTIVIST was in the lives of these women and in and trustees and cultivates major gifts for capital cam- Rachael Albers was destined to be a star. She says these communities.” paigns and new programs, including those centered she chose Broadway over the Backstreet Boys as Law school didn’t stand much of a chance on the arts. a kid, memorizing entire musicals, such as A Cho- after that. Albers says all she wanted to do was “People my age are making charitable contributions rus Line, for bedroom performances. Columbia’s research the theatre of the oppressed, a concept at higher rates every year,” she says. “[And] we’re very theatre program seemed the perfect fit for the (coincidentally introduced to her at Columbia generous with our time. In my role, I help donors and driven actress. by Jeff Ginsberg, associate professor of theatre) volunteers find the most meaningful way in which they Her transition away from performance started that asks the audience to become participants, can give back.” as she neared graduation. “I became very frustrat- or “spect-actors,” in attempts to transform the Like many Midwest dreamers, Packard found her ed with the arts as I had experienced them at realities of their own lives. “I knew I wasn’t calling in the bustle of the city. She says she received that point,” says Albers, who was tired of what doing what I call my heart work [in law school],” a strong general education in Columbia, Mo., but felt like a self-centered focus and didn’t want to she says. “I had to go back to Mexico.” Columbia College gave her the practicality and market- play the real-life part of a struggling actress. Fluent in Spanish, Albers volunteers with ability to be a lifelong fundraiser.

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Shawn Lent PROFESSIONAL DANCER FUNDRAISER / BLOGGING SENSATION / ARTS EDUCATOR

A DANCER DEFINED Shawn Lent started stepping away from the idea of being a “professional” dancer not long after she graduated from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. She says she knew she was very good, but maybe not great in a business that’s quick to pick up on faults. The demands on a body and the long odds of finding steady work played into her decision to find a practical alternative. Days after 9/11, Lent was in a predominately Muslim neighborhood in East London as a youth worker and dance critic. She then began ponder- ing the role of dance in divided communities, forever altering her own professional path. At Columbia, Lent enrolled in the Arts, Entertainment and Media Management master’s degree program and joined a small cohort of students who embraced financial planning, applied marketing and fundraising. She began exploring arts in education and youth development. She volunteered to teach children with “This work is about empowering cancer how to dance and began applying some people to find the artist within As for the meandering path to her current of her newfound business skills to help raise themselves.” position, Albers wouldn’t change a thing. money in hopes of bettering their lives. “Columbia gave me this solid artistic founda- “Once I got involved with the Children’s established schools and community-based tion,” she says. “Law school helped to inform Hospital of Chicago, I got much more comfort- organizations to help them prepare and stage and amplify my radicalism. Through the process able asking for money,” Lent says. theatre shows in the Mayan heartland. In one of learning the legal language our country and As advised by faculty and peers, she applied city, a production drew in a crowd of nearly world speaks, I’m able to use that knowledge for “everything,” writing proposals for fellow- 400 people—“all hungry” for the message of to help people who are fighting the system.” ships and applying to attend conferences resistance. Sometimes the groups share caution- Albers wants to take that fight further. Last about integrating arts into various aspects of ary tales, true accounts of their experiences year, she traveled to Kenya to work with the life. Passionate about her own global education, of discrimination and violence. nonprofit Girls Shift Africa. Through an art and she has since traveled from Belfast to Bosnia, In addition, Albers runs her own freelance theatre workshop, Albers helped the organiza- Palestine to Uganda—often embedded in web design business, RKA Ink, using the mar- tion establish a group that could continue in war-torn communities—both teaching and keting skills she picked up at Columbia. She her absence. engaging in dialogue through dance. has since worked with several repeating clients “I believe everyone’s an artist,” Albers says. In 2010, Lent returned to Millikin University to enhance their online presence, which has “This work is about empowering people to to talk to students about her evolving role helped further her humanitarian work. find the artist within themselves.” in arts education. During the question-and-

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Lifelong go-getter helps others pursue their passions

FIND A For as long as he can remember, Cesar Lerma (BA ’11), a Chicago native, wanted to live in New York City and work in the music business. He networked and paid his dues through unpaid internships, always focused on his future. He’s in Manhattan today, but now helping college students find their dream jobs as a program WAY HOME director at a company called Dream Careers. Music boiled in Lerma’s blood. He watched family members gig all over Chicago, but wanted to shine the light on that scene, working for a record label and promoting the talent. Barely out of high school, Lerma called record companies in New York City, hoping a live voice could point him to a Chicago internship. “My opportunities came “I decided to be an artist in this Almost overnight, the blog went viral. It was from networking and being resourceful,” Lerma says. “liked,” forwarded and eventually reposted “A lot of people shot me down, but one guy at Atlantic world. I teach dance, I lead dance as a feature in Huffington Post Arts, receiving Records hooked me up with my first internship at experiences … . And it certainly more than 140,000 hits. Clearly, Lent’s expe- Jaguar Entertainment, a marketing and promotions feels like fulfilling a dream, rience had struck a chord with artists who also company in Chicago.” had found professional fulfillment away from Before, during and after Columbia, Lerma landed 10 rather than giving up on one.” the spotlight. music internships, including stints at Universal Motown, In the hectic aftermath, Lent has tried to Island Def Jam and 107.5 WGCI. He worked with Vickie answer period, a student nearly stopped her in maintain running dialogues with many people Charles, the Cash Money publicist who handles Drake, her tracks by asking, “Did you have any sort of to somehow “mobilize the energy.” In her Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne. breakdown when you gave up on your dreams current Egyptian setting, she’s seen firsthand Between internships, work and school, Lerma barely [of being a professional dancer]?” the revolutionary reactions that social media had time to sleep. He worked at Whole Foods and pick- Lent calmly explained that she had not given can help stir. ed up seasonal music industry jobs. “If you’re in the up on her dreams; they had, in fact, gotten Today, Lent advocates the need for artists music business, you’re going to work for free for a while,” bigger. But the question nagged at her. to be “at the table”—from school boards to says Lerma. A full-time arts integration dance specialist at community development organizations. Their He found cheap housing at New York University in Columbia for six years after earning her master’s perspectives, centered in creativity, can help the summers, offsetting the expense of free labor. In all, degree, Lent obtained a Fulbright scholarship shed light on any problem. And she doesn’t feel Lerma spent six consecutive summers in New York, that took her to Egypt in 2012 to explore a proj- diverted from her art at all. learning public relations, even working a few events at ect called “The Artist as Catalyst.” The Fulbright “I decided to be an artist in this world. I teach the Grammys. required her to write a blog about her experi- dance, I lead dance experiences, I choreograph, That single-focused pursuit changed last fall when ences. For one post, she revisited the Millikin I manage and evaluate programs, consult, share, Lerma was selected, from more than 200 applicants, student’s question in the reflection, “Am I a think, write …,” she blogged. “And it certainly for the position of Dream Careers’ program director for Dancer Who Gave Up?” feels like fulfilling a dream, rather than giving its NYC programs. It’s a chance to show students the “I am dancing, with and for others. I am and up on one.” D professional ropes on the business path he took to so will always be a dancer. I take that with me, aggressively 10 years ago. Over the fall and winter, in the ways I think, develop ideas, move,” she Lerma worked and lived with 20 “dreamers” in dorms, wrote. “I haven’t been on a professional or PWEB EXCLUSIVE providing guidance and motivational support. semi-professional stage in six years, but I am a Read Shawn Lent’s blog post that rocked the “I may have missed out by being too focused on the dancer. … I am an artist who had decided to join arts world, “Am I a Dancer Who Gave Up?,” music industry,” says Lerma. “I’m content where my tables off the professional stage.” at colum.edu/demo. life is right now, taking it day by day.”

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a “Colossal” Success

How Christopher Jobson (BA ’04) turned his humble passion project—an art and visual culture blog —into a full-time, professional career

By Sean McEntee (’14) / Photography by Jacob Boll (BA ’12)

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“The best part of [Columbia] was being around other people

On the morning of March 9, 2011, Jobson was receiving monthly checks for while they were Christopher Jobson (BA ’04) posted Sagaki as much as $500 from advertisements on his Keita’s surreal, intricately detailed ink website, animalhumor.com. Before graduating, making art. drawings to his arts and visual culture blog, he sold the site for $7,000—which he used to Colossal. By 5 p.m. that day, so many visitors buy his first car and drive to Burning Man, the And I was terrible flooded the site that his server crashed. notoriously radical arts and culture festival Before promoting the Keita doodles, the in the Nevada desert. at it.” months-old Colossal (thisiscolossal.com) In 2000, Jobson began attending Columbia had a few hundred visitors. As that post went College to study interactive multimedia design, viral, more than 1 million visitors flocked which combined Web development—HTML, to the blog over a few hours. Today, Colossal Javascript—with design classes emphasizing attracts around 3 million visitors a month, typography, drawing and art history. an almost unheard-of number of fans in the He specifically remembers the impact of Awards and blog world—and Jobson curates, writes, professor Janell Baxter, who still teaches in what develops and designs all blog content himself. is now the Interactive Arts + Media Department. recognition He has become one of the dedicated few Baxter, says Jobson, repeated the advice, able to support himself (and his family) by “Stay relevant even after what you’ve learned Since launching art and visual culture blog professionally blogging. is obsolete.” Colossal (thisiscolossal.com) in 2010, That the self-proclaimed “terrible” artist has During sophomore year, Jobson had the Christopher Jobson has become a bonafide arts and media tastemaker. He’s contributed become a bonafide tastemaker in the inter- sudden urge to “just get a job.” He approached a to Slate, Wired, Designboom.com and Mental_ national arts and media scene has surprised just dozen advertising agencies in Chicago, and Floss. The National Endowment for the Arts about everyone—especially Jobson himself. boutique Fathead Design hired him to work full interviewed him, and a seventh-grade class Up until that fateful day in 2011, after all, he time designing and developing for clients. The in central Uganda picked his brain via Skype was just a guy who started a blog. real-world job experience inspired him to branch about art culture. Colossal has received out creatively and do something “that was just the following recognition: PRE-COLOSSAL PERIOD fun.” Engaged in his creative writing classes, Jobson grew up dually in rural Kyle, Texas, he decided to finish his last two years of college 2013 Utne Media Award for and Chicago—his mother lived in Texas and his studying in the Fiction Writing Department. Arts Coverage father, Columbia College Art + Design associate By the time Jobson graduated with a fiction professor Craig Jobson, lived in Evanston. writing degree, he had left his job at the ad Named in the Top 100 Websites PC Magazine He discovered his creative and entrepreneurial agency to study abroad twice in Prague, and he of 2013 by outlet during his freshman year of high school knew he needed to get a job—any job—to Ranked at No. 40 in Technorati’s in 1996. After his father sent him a modem, pay the bills. He found work as a Web designer list of the top 50 blogs Jobson learned how to build his own websites and developer for a downtown financial firm, and earn money with online advertising. but after a few years of being the only “creative” Featured in “100 Websites You Should “I was very, very fascinated with the Internet member of the team, he craved alternative Know and Use” by TED, 2013 very early on,” he says. “By my senior year in outlets to feed his creative fire. high school, checks were showing up in the mail Nominated for a 2012 Webby Award in because I had started [featuring] advertisements the Art category on websites.”

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A Day in the Life of a Professional Blogger

Christopher Jobson wakes up around 8 a.m. Coffee in hand, he works in his Rogers Park apartment or at any number of coffee shops throughout the North Side and Evanston. The Colossal blogger starts his day’s work with his own version of reading the morning paper.

“I read probably about 300 or 400 blogs The shove he needed came during a mundane Jobson’s desire to share never-before-seen a day,” he says. “I have a Google Chrome day while on jury duty. Required to remain content has set Colossal apart from the rest extension that pings about 200 artists’ in a courthouse room with no WiFi or entertain- of the blogosphere. websites, so it tells me the second they update their portfolio.” ment, Jobson experienced a sort of existential And this passion for curating rather than panic. Overcome with anxiety, he broke out his creating aligns with Jobson’s sensibilities: Jobson’s daily routine involves a lot of brows- laptop and typed a list of 100 things he wanted He has always considered himself an appreciator ing and email correspondence—he receives to accomplish in 2009—everything from reading of the arts rather than an artist himself. up to 50 requests per day from artists pitch- a book to taking cooking and ceramics classes. “The best part of [Columbia] was being ing their work. His email inbox contains 33 Somewhere near the bottom, maybe number around other people while they were making gigabytes of used storage—thousands upon 76, Jobson wrote, “start a blog.” art,” he says. “And I was terrible at it. I did not thousands of emails—and his browser toolbar “That was it,” Jobson says. “That changed enjoy making art, and it was awful, and it bursts with bookmarks and folders leading my life.” was frustrating.” to other art blogs, artists’ portfolios and top Treating Colossal as a sort of virtual gallery, social networking sites like Reddit, Tumblr, HUMBLE BEGINNINGS Behance and Flickr. For each post—about Jobson strives to appeal to the most prestigious four or five a day—Jobson gathers visuals and Jobson created Colossal as a humble passion of readers and critics. “I think about these links as well as proper credits and attribution. project in summer 2010. He didn’t want to re- fictional 30 or 40 people who are completely hash the mainstream art already being discussed. plugged into the art world who have seen After posts are finalized, published, Tweeted He wanted to find obscure, underground art absolutely everything, and I’m like, ‘I’m going and Facebooked—totaling roughly a seven- and artists. This led to endless hours scrolling to make them my audience,’” Jobson says. hour work day—Jobson closes his laptop and through Tumblr accounts run by college stu- picks up his son, Caleb, from school. dents, reading hundreds of blogs and trying to FROM SIDE PROJECT TO CAREER navigate a Korean art gallery’s website. If Jobson After Keita’s doodles went viral, Jobson was conducted a search and couldn’t find anything hooked. How many unknown artists could he written about a particular artist or piece, he’d find and share? share it on Colossal. Since the beginning, MOST VISITORS IN ONE MONTH:3.8Million NOV 2013 1,937,704+ GOOGLE+ FANS FACEBOOK FANS: 400,260+ TWITTER FOLLOWERS: 22 spring/summer 2014 demo 83,900+ FEATURE

“This is What Happens When At the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the Japanese artist constructed a completely white environment, complete with furniture and decorations, You Give Thousands of The “effectively serving as a giant white canvas,” writes Jobson. Over the Stickers to Thousands of Kids” course of two weeks, the museum gave children thousands of colored Best Of Yayoi Kusama dot stickers and asked them to “collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. Colossal JANUARY 1, 2012 How great is this?”

Since 2010, Colossal has showcased thousands of the world’s quirkiest, weirdest and most beautiful artworks. Here are three of the blog’s most popular attractions.

“High-Speed Liquid and Bubble Photographs” Heinz Maier

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Jobson praises the German photographer’s sophisticated shots of water droplets, “Manic Doodle Drawings” writing, “Simply outstanding: the lighting, the colors, the Sagaki Keita occasional use of symmetry in the reflection of water, MARCH 9, 2011 let alone the skill of knowing In the post that made Colossal famous, how to use the camera itself. Jobson marvels at the Japanese artist’s It’s hard to believe these recreation of fine art pieces composed of aren’t digital.” doodles. “His densely composited pen and ink illustrations contain thousands of whimsical characters that are drawn almost completely improvised. I am dumbstruck looking at these,” Jobson writes.

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Jobson began receiving submissions from Knowing he, his wife, Megan Stielstra off of—but it was terrifying.” artists all over the world. He spent endless (associate director of Columbia’s Center for Last year, Colossal added a store—an addi- hours scavenging for the “one obscure, weird Innovation in Teaching Excellence), and their tional small revenue stream—where featured thing” that nobody had seen. He blogged son, Caleb, could live a comfortable, sustainable artists can sell merchandise from a “stock room” about five hours every night after work as well life with the revenue from Colossal’s ads, conveniently run from Jobson’s Rogers as on his lunch breaks at the financial firm. Jobson decided to blog full time. He left his job Park apartment. As agonizing and exhausting as the at the financial firm in early 2013—nearly two “I hope that whatever comes out process could be, Jobson’s labor started to pay years after the Keita doodles went viral—but it of [Colossal]—if I end up creating actual art off—literally. wasn’t necessarily an easy transition. shows or maybe even open a gallery or store— In 2012, Colossal was nominated for a Webby “Those first four weeks ... I was just a that I’m still waking up at 8 in the morning Award in the Art category. Actor Neil Patrick nutcase,” Jobson says. “It was like flapping my so I can put something up on the blog,” Jobson Harris even tweeted about the blog, endorsing wings—like I don’t even know if I’m flying. says. “That’s the core of all of it; it’s the most Colossal as “artistic, smart and inspiring.” It was one of the greatest things I’ve done as a important thing.” D Then a Google advertisement featured person—to create this thing that I can live Colossal as an example of how to add a publication to a Google Currents account, showing a few pages of the site being swiped across a screen. In 2012, Colossal showed up in an “It was one of the Apple iPad commercial. (For a few seconds, the audience can see Colossal bookmarked in greatest things I’ve done the browser window.) People began approaching Jobson, saying, “I had never heard of Colossal as a person—to create before I saw it in that iPad commercial.” The blog’s audience continued to grow, attracting nearly 2.5 million viewers a month. this thing that I can Jobson made repeated attempts to sell advertisements, but his site traffic was too large for live off of—but it was smaller agencies, and better-known agencies were hesitant to work with a site they terrifying.” didn’t know. Finally, New York-based advertising agency Nectar Ads asked Colossal to be a part of an “art ad network” with site-specific content that catered to the art world. Jobson says the ads displayed on Colossal are “almost an enhance- ment,” adding that many of the site’s sponsored posts and advertising efforts have gone viral themselves.

PWEB EXTRA Which bloggers inspire Christopher Jobson? How has Colossal boosted artists’ popularity? Find out at colum.edu/demo.

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Take a walk in the city, and chances are One of Gilmore’s earliest champions at you’ll encounter the work of photographer Columbia was adjunct faculty member Rachel DREAM Lenny Gilmore (BFA ’10). As photo editor of Herman, who let him assist her with work on a RedEye, the Chicago Tribune’s free daily news children’s book. “She really treated me like a and pop culture publication, Gilmore captures peer rather than a student, which I appreciated,” striking cover images that draw passersby Gilmore says. “And she’s continued to meet WEAVER to newspaper boxes stationed on hundreds with me and mentor me as I’ve hit little of street corners. roadblocks in my life.” Gilmore, who went from RedEye intern Gilmore continues to develop his skills both Newspaper photographer by to photo editor in three short years, attended as a photojournalist and as a conceptual artist. day, Lenny Gilmore (BFA ’10) high school in the western suburb of Batavia, His personal creative spark resulted in Year One, explores otherworldly themes Ill., and transferred to Columbia after spend- a haunting group of photo collages that rumi- ing two years at Northern Illinois University. nates on the connection between dreams in meticulously constructed He immediately immersed himself on campus, and memories while poetically depicting the and personal collages both in the Photography Department and as coming of age of its protagonist, played by a photo editor at the Columbia Chronicle. Gilmore himself. “Columbia is really good at presenting all these different opportunities to you, and “The World That Never Sleeps,”Space Dreams Us Dangerous you just have to be aware and know what series, 2014. This image will be the last in the series’ narrative. each person is offering and make the most of “I was told once that if you know how a story ends, it’s much it,” says Gilmore, who ties his initial interest easier to get it there, so that’s why I made it first,” says Gilmore. in photography to a father-son road trip when “You see my characters [played by Gilmore and girlfriend Petya Shalamanova] have returned to Earth and are sort of being he was 14 that left him “obsessed with and embraced by the natural world as they embrace each other.” inspired by the evolving landscape.”

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The series attracted the attention of the prestigious Catherine Edelman Gallery, which featured it as part of its Chicago Project, an online showcase of local talent. Gilmore followed up with First Flights, a second collage series exploring the mythology of superheroes. “Journalism keeps me connected to my community and in touch with reality, but collage lets me tell the story of what’s happening in my head and heart,” says Gilmore of his desire to create more conceptual work. “It allows me to approach a photograph like a painter would a canvas. I can be meditative, methodical or OCD, and express whatever I dream and not just what I see.”

“Journalism keeps me connected to my community and in touch with reality, but collage lets me tell the story of what’s happening in my head and heart.”

Gilmore’s latest project, Space Dreams Us Dangerous, is the creative summation of his previous series and is, in essence, a photographic narrative. Starting from intricately detailed sketches, Gilmore transformed his Humboldt Park studio into an ambitious production site— complete with miniature and life-sized sets, costumes and taxidermic animals—to tell the story of a cosmonaut, played by Petya Shala- manova (BFA ’10), Gilmore’s partner and a fellow photographer, who is being pursued by her former lover, played by Gilmore. Each of these elements, which number in the hundreds, was photographed individually and then digitally manipulated and composited into a single image using Photoshop CS6.

“How Time Flies,” First Flights series, 2013. In his First Flights series of photographic collages, Gilmore plays off the theme of superheroes and how “fantastic strengths and effortless flight are used to thinly veil our own almost inescapable sense of fragility and restriction. A superhero’s strengths are our weaknesses and, conversely, their weaknesses are our fears.” In this piece, Gilmore “tried to give the collage the tension one can feel when watching hands move around a clock. To accomplish this, I tried to give my image a spiraling /twisting feel, to cause the eyes to observe it in a circular motion.” The collage is composed entirely of Gilmore’s own photography.

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“I’m retooling all these disparate ideas I had while working on Believed Imaginings and First Flights and making a narrative that could work like a comic book, but also prints on a wall,” Gilmore says. Later this fall, Gilmore plans to release a hardcover volume of the final images printed alongside his earliest notes and sketches, allowing the reader an in-depth look at his creative process. So, with a thriving professional and artistic career, where does this multitalented lens- man see himself in five years? “My path hasn’t changed much in 10 years, so I don’t really see it changing in five,” he says with a laugh. “I see myself making documentaries, running a photography studio with Petya and my friends, and hopefully still [living] in Chicago. I love this city. It’s been good to me.” D —Brian Dukerschein (BA ’12)

Limited-edition prints of Gilmore’s conceptual work are available at ShopColumbia, his website (lennygilmore.com) and the Chicago Project (edelmangallery.com).

1. “Past Time,” Year One series, 2009. “‘Past Time’ was an image conceptually created from combining three of my memories,” Gilmore says. “I had originally planned the collage to be an aerial view of my memory of my first kiss, when I was in middle school. As I started to construct the image, I started to reminisce and had a realization that the first kiss wasn’t that significant in itself; it was more what the kiss represented to me: a first brush with adulthood and the optimism of youth. 9/11 happened the same week as my first kiss, and I wanted to subtly reference how that distant event started to form my worldview and challenge that bottomless optimism.”

2. “Pale Orange Dots,” Space Dreams Us Dangerous series, 2014. “The idea and title of this image comes from the 1990 photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe called ‘Pale Blue Dot,’” says Gilmore. “The thing that is so impactful about that photograph is how insignificant Earth appears, as only a small blue speck on the endless black of space. In ‘Pale Orange Dots,’ I’m trying to do the opposite. ‘Pale Blue Dot’ made the most significant thing in our lives seem totally unim- pressive, so I wanted to make an insignificant thing (like orange 2 juice) seem totally impressive and majestic.”

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Yeti Press will release Andrea Bell’s (BFA ’13) “adora-horror” comic Rose from the Dead this spring.

When Eric Roesner (BFA ’11) and RJ Casey Yeti comics subjects range from human teamed up to create their tongue-in-cheek connections, like Kat Leyh’s intimate relation- cowboy comic, Pecos, they wanted to make the ship comic Pancakes, to surreal adult stories like MAKING final product—and their artistic partnership— Casey and Alvarado’s Beginner’s Luck, a tale of a official. With just that first title under their deadbeat fish on an underwater bender. These belt, they pulled together a logo (a hairy, blue books sell everywhere from alternative com- monster foot), and Yeti Press came to life. ics conventions to local stores like Quimby’s A MARK Since its 2011 debut, the self-proclaimed Bookstore and Chicago Comics, though business “comic books for Bigfoots” publisher keeps really booms online. getting bigger. The small-but-mighty entity now Kevin Budnik met Roesner in Intro to Graphic Upstart Yeti Press leaves boasts 15 titles, with six more releases spread Design, and joined Casey in a sandwich-centric its big, hairy footprint on across 2014. But don’t come to Yeti looking for collaboration called Party Sub under the Yeti Chicago comics capes and tights; instead, you’ll find alternative Press stamp. Budnik had also been working on comics and graphic novels that veer away from Our Ever Improving Living Room, a project that standard superhero fare. Most Yeti contributors grew out of a Columbia class assignment to are young Chicago artists, a majority culled create a journal comic every day for a year. After from Columbia’s Illustration program, including Budnik wrapped up all 365 entries, Yeti asked if David Alvarado (BFA ’11), Kevin Budnik (BFA he’d be interested in publishing the collection. ’11), Kat Leyh (BFA ’11), Biz Knapp (BFA ’11), “I’m not one to ever get excited about things. Andrea Bell (BFA ’13) and Sean Mac (’14). I’m very low key,” says Budnik. “But when we

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1. Yeti’s successful Kickstarter campaign funded the printing of Kat Leyh’s female-fronted fantasy comic Bird Witch.

2. Kevin Budnik began drawing his daily journal comic Our Ever Improving Living Room as a Columbia class assignment.

3. One of Yeti’s best-sellers, Pancakes follows a “strong relationship at a turning point.”

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“If you want to be in comics, you have to pave your own path.”

had the release party at Challenger’s Comics [in Logan Square], I was sitting there thinking, ‘Wow, this is real! I have a book!’ I never really pictured that as a possibility.” A successful 2013 Kickstarter campaign helped Yeti crowdfund this year’s titles. With the financial boost, Yeti welcomed new artists like Andrea Bell, whose cute-with-an-edge “adora-horror” comic Rose from the Dead will be released this spring. She first heard of Yeti Press through Columbia College connections, and she reached out to Roesner and Casey through social media to pitch her book. “If you want to be in comics, you have to pave your own path,” she says. “You have to reach out and talk to people, go to conventions, and spend way too much time on Tumblr and Twitter seeing those artists.” The tag-team mentorship of Ivan Brunetti and Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos, illustration professors and renowned comics professionals, is partly to thank for the recent outpouring of comics talent from Columbia. In fact, Roesner and Casey originally met through Eliopoulos, who thought they would make a good creative team. (“Everything’s kind of Chris’s fault,” Roesner jokes.) Brunetti, a frequent illustrator for The New Yorker, even wrote the introduction for Budnik’s Our Ever Improving Living Room. The Yeti editors are pretty hands-off when it comes to the process behind the comics, but they do have one request for every new artist: to create their own version of the Yeti Press logo for the back of their book. In one version or another, the big, blue footprint should stamp Pecos, the cowboy comedy “full of action, adventure and mustaches,” across many more books to come. D was the first comic printed on the Yeti Press label. —Megan Kirby

Yeti Press will make an appearance at Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) May 31–June 1.

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Lee Bey

Renaissance Man

Lee Bey (BA ’88) was sweating it out on a world’s tallest building climbed higher and broke about U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds engaging in May day in 2001. Less than three weeks into his higher into the sky. a sexual relationship with a teenaged campaign job as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s deputy A self-proclaimed “extraordinarily lazy” volunteer, which turned into a yearlong exposé chief of staff, Bey found himself informing a student, Bey got a wakeup call at age 15 when that ultimately led to the politician’s prison room full of prized architects and Chicago Bears his 52-year-old father died suddenly. He went sentence. owners that the boss wanted a new football to vocational school to become a printing press Burnt out after covering “every story of mur- stadium to be shoehorned into the historic operator. But when computer-operated presses der, scam and rape” for three years, Bey jumped Soldier Field structure—instead of constructing came along, Bey took the advice of his English at the chance to become the Sun-Times’ first a brand-new field elsewhere. Delivering the teacher and pursued journalism, writing for architecture critic. The new editor selected him decision “nobody was happy about” forced the local newspapers and eventually enrolling in even though he’d written only one architec- longtime journalist and architecture critic to im- Columbia’s journalism program in 1985. turally-themed piece, much to the shock of the provise some serious diplomacy skills on the spot. “It was an interesting time because Harold other reporters—and Bey himself. “I understood the gravity of what I was get- Washingtonroam was mayor, and there was this But Bey found his niche, using his weekly ting myself into,” Bey says, “but the fact that I interest in African Americans being represented full-page column not only to critique new could find the levers and ask the right questions and [having] voices in the media,” Bey says. “I architecture, but to fight for the preservation

to get this done—it was Columbia that taught said, ‘This is where I want to be.’” of significant city landmarks, including those in ’12) Jacob Boll (BA Photos: me that.” Upon graduation in 1988, Bey went to work Bronzeville, one of the nation’s most important Born in 1965 to working-class parents on the for the City News Bureau, the notoriously rig- centers of African-American urban history—and South Side, Bey fell in love with the city at an orous training ground for cub reporters to cover where Bey’s father had grown up. early age. His parents took him “everywhere,” every tiny, grislyfree detail of the city’s crimes, “The city was moving to demolish [about instilling in him an appreciation of Chicago’s courts and political machines. From there, he eight] historic buildings that were the anchors diverse neighborhoods and architecture. During moved to the Daily Southtown and then the Chi- of Bronzeville,” Bey says, so the paper cam- the Sears Tower’s construction in the early cago Sun-Times in 1992, where he covered crime, paigned to save them. “The city landmarked 1970s, the young Bey begged his father to drive gangs and government scandals—including some, [and] they specifically saved the old him into the Loop regularly as the soon-to-be the explosive story he and Maureen O’Donnell Eighth Regiment Armory [the first U.S. armory

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built for an African-American military regiment] and turned it into a high school, on the Lee Bey takes care of business at University of Chicago’s Logan Center of the Arts. strength of what we had written.” Mayor Daley had taken notice of Bey’s work and handpicked him in spring 2001 to become his senior architectural design adviser. In addition to managing the 18-month Soldier Field project, during his time at City Hall, Bey worked to bring the Joffrey Ballet Co. headquarters to downtown, hammered out a deal that saved the historic Metropolitan Baptist Church from dem- olition and negotiated the creation of a green roof—one of America’s largest—atop the $700 million expansion of Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center.

Mayor Daley handpicked Bey to become his senior architectural design adviser.

But after three years of rapid-fire project oversight, he needed a change. “Working at that level in the mayor’s office is like riding a bronco: You can do it, but you can’t do it forever, and you don’t want to get thrown,” he says. In 2004, Bey moved to the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill—designers of his beloved Sears Tower—to serve as the company’s governmental liaison. He then became executive director of the influential civic group Chicago Central Area Committee, all the while pursuing other creative outlets: He hosted and produced programs on WBEZ, launched an architectural photography business and consulted with architectural firms. Today, Bey is civic engagement and special projects manager at the Arts Incubator with The University of Chicago Arts and Public Life Initia- tive, where he manages strategic initiatives and partnerships with arts organizations, community groups and civic leaders.

Photos: Jacob Boll (BA ’12) Jacob Boll (BA Photos: This Renaissance man says he often marvels at the unexpected twists his career has taken, but he says his time at Columbia instilled in him the willingness to try. “Education is not learning a skill, necessarily; it’s opening the doors of your mind so that everything can be considered,” he says. “And that’s what Columbia did for me. To be able to take the strange turns that my career has taken—it takes a mind that’s open.” D —Kristi Turnbaugh

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Adam & Skye Rust

Urban Archaeologists

An inventory of the shelves at Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities on Chicago’s North Side sounds like a mad scientist’s shopping list. A broken rocking horse, a tray of antique dental tools, a mask shaped like a teddy bear, a human skull under a bell jar, a taxidermic giraffe’s head donning a humongous red necktie: This eclectic store is a go-to spot for everything offbeat and macabre. Husband-and-wife store owners Adam (MFA ’05) and Skye Rust (MA ’06) met on an interdisciplinary arts retreat while they were both attending Columbia College Chicago. Skye came into the interdisciplinary arts program focused on photography, but shifted into sculp- ture and installation art. Adam studied in the Center for Book and Paper Arts, where he often incorporated road kill and taxidermy into his installations. They consider the store itself an art installation piece, inspired in part by Columbia’s broad creative approach. “Our education definitely “We have an arts career right now, but this isn’t something either of us had thought of helped us see that there before,” says Skye. “Our education definitely were other possibilities helped us see that there were other possibilities

out there.” ’12) Jacob Boll (BA Photos: out there.” Woolly Mammoth’s 2010 origins have a tinge of urban legend. On a trip to Transylvania, Romania, hot on the historic trail of Vlad the Impaler (otherwise known as Dracula), the couple wondered how they could bring that excitement home. “How are we going to make our lives an adventure?” Skye asked. Within a month, they found a storefront in their Andersonville neighborhood and brought Woolly Mammoth to life.

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Both Adam and Skye grew up in the “I bought him from the lady and man who 1. This vintage display of taxidermic crustaceans Midwest (Wisconsin and Indiana, respectively) taxidermied him,” says Adam. “They picked him would add an edge to anyone’s beach-themed home.

in antiquing families, and they’d been building up from the zoo in Clear Lake, Iowa, where he 2. Taxidermic animals hold a special place in the their own taxidermy collection for years. was struck by lightning and killed. To have the Rusts’ hearts—and store. When the store first opened, they traveled backstory about that—and as incredible as that frantically to flea markets, thrift stores and story was—it was sad to see Lightning go.” 3. Adam turned this old-school gumball machine rummage sales to stock the shelves. As Woolly In addition to helping Adam buy, sell and run into a lamp.

Mammoth’s notoriety grew, collectors and the storefront, Skye works full time in inter- 4. A hippopotamus skull hangs out under the sellers began approaching the store. Today, the national admissions at Columbia, traveling all glow of an X-ray screen. couple turns to antique markets, auctions and over the world to recruit students—and squeeze private collections while still fostering word-of- some Woolly Mammoth shopping into her mouth relationships. (Earlier in the day, a local downtime. She returned from a recent South magician dropped in with a collection to sell.) America trip with a suitcase full of butterflies “We buy what we want—and we buy things under glass and shrunken heads (creepy we think are interesting or cool,” says Adam. but fake).

Photos: Jacob Boll (BA ’12) Jacob Boll (BA Photos: “This is what our house looks like.” (“Not quite Adam grew up in a part of Wisconsin where as intense!” Skye adds—though she admits they mammoth skeletons were often unearthed, so have 43 pieces of taxidermy at home.) he feels a certain kinship with the store’s name, Customers might find the taxidermy morbid, as well as the woolly mammoth on the store- but Skye says it’s their way of “saving the front’s neon sign. animals.” They name each creature that comes “It’s an extinct animal that is resurrected through the store—which can make it hard from time to time, so we kind of think of it like to say goodbye. Adam particularly misses a zebra we’re resurrecting this junk,” Adam says. named Lightning, whom they sold to a bar “We have to dig for it and clean it,” Skye adds. in Manhattan. “And bring it back to life,” Adam says. D —Megan Kirby

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“I thought ASL was a language on its own. But Deaf culture has its own history, shared experiences and traditions.”

Stevens’ fascination with ASL interpreting came from watching the fluid motions and expressive faces of interpreters at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. A 2002 theatre studies graduate from DePaul University, Stevens was ready to earn a second degree. After a local interpreter recommended Columbia College, she enrolled in the program at the age of 27. The Midland, Mich., native immersed herself in ASL. Because her professors were deaf, she couldn’t revert to English in a bind. So she picked up ASL quickly, especially by making mistakes. Stevens accidentally signed completely in- appropriate things—translations unsuitable for publication—but mistakes were part of the learning process, she says. During the first two years of Columbia’s ASL program, students learn the language itself. In the latter two years they learn how to interpret, taking what a deaf person signs and translating that into spoken English (and vice versa). But along with language and interpreting, the program also explored Deaf culture— something Stevens didn’t know existed. “I thought ASL was a language on its own,” Stevens says. “But Deaf culture has its own history, shared experiences and traditions.” Columbia’s ASL program requires students to attend Deaf events around Chicago, which led to Stevens’ discovery of the Little Theatre, When Christina Stevens (BA ’10) takes the the children’s branch the National Theatre stage in an elementary school, she does more of the Deaf (NTD). Established in 1967, the than delight young audiences with depictions of Tony Award-winning NTD has performed in Christina fables and fairytales. As the actress delivers every state and on all seven continents. Now

her lines in English, her hands speak an entirely based in West Hartford, Conn., Stevens tours Phelan Lindsey Photo: Stevens different language: American Sign Language the nation’s schools with the Little Theatre. (ASL). Yet her role doesn’t stop there; she pulls Ultimately, exposing students to ASL makes double-duty interpreting the lines of her NTD the most rewarding experience of her two deaf cast mates, who perform solely in ASL. career, Stevens says. Besides freelance inter- The simultaneous use of sign language and preting for students in spoken English classes, Intrepid Interpreter English lets Stevens and the rest of the Little Stevens continues to stay focused on the Little Theatre of the Deaf entertain both hearing Theatre’s performances. No matter where she and deaf children at the same time. At every goes, her nimble fingers will do the talking. D moment during the play, kids hear and see the —Amanda Sims (BA ’12) production in two languages.

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Dear Alumni, CAAN UPDATES See what’s happening in your city, and get involved with the At May’s commencement ceremonies, Columbia Alumni Association & Network! Columbia College Chicago will graduate more than 2,400 students, one of the largest con- tingents ever. These grads will join the tens of MIDWEST thousands of distinguished Columbia alumni NORTHWEST NORTHEAST who are creating, making and doing through- Chicago Portland Detroit NYC Metro out the Midwest, the U.S. and beyond. Seattle Minneapolis Pittsburgh With new leadership under Dr. Kwang-Wu Kim, the college and the Office of Alumni Re- SOUTHWEST lations are ramping up efforts to better serve our incredible expanding cadre of alums. Denver GREAT SOUTH Las Vegas SOUTHEAST We want to develop strong, lasting ties with Phoenix you, and the upcoming hire of a new national Los Angeles St. Louis San Francisco Atlanta alumni director will take us further in the Nashville right direction. In the coming months, look out for more professional services—webinars, workshops, symposia—to help you as you pursue your career. We will develop a set of programs that supports all levels of alumni. In addition, we will create more opportunities to get involved in mentoring current students on campus. Consider getting more involved with alum- Atlanta Detroit ni where you live. Contact your local CAAN Atlanta seeks a chapter leader. As chapter leader, The CAAN Detroit chapter strives to provide a regular you will be responsible for planning and executing two source of networking and support to alumni through chapter leader (see “CAAN Updates”) to learn to three yearly alumni events, as well as staying events and other means. Get involved! Contact Julie how you can help fellow alums and yourself. connected with your local alumni via social media. Atty (BA ’10) at [email protected]. Please stay in touch with us. Follow us on If you are interested in this position, please contact Facebook, join the Columbia College Chicago Sarah Schroeder at [email protected]. If you’re a Las Vegas Alumni group on LinkedIn and send us a class new arrival in Atlanta, please contact Brad Sanders We are on the lookout for a chapter leader for Las (BA ’76) at [email protected]. note. We want to hear about your challenges Vegas. Responsibilities include organizing alumni events, staying in contact with chapter members and and accomplishments. Chicago promoting fundraising opportunities and scholarships Margi Cole (BA ’90) is the new chapter leader of like the Alumni Scholarship Fund. All chapter leaders CAAN Chicago. If you’d like to volunteer, the chapter are required to stay connected to local alumni using Kind regards, would love to have you. Whether it’s the special events social media. If you are interested in this position, Warren K. Chapman committee, benefits committee, Alumni Scholarship please contact Sarah Schroeder at sschroeder@ Fund committee or Young Alumni, there is a place for colum.edu. Senior Vice President/Interim Vice everyone. Contact Margi at caanchicagoprez@gmail. President for Development com. CAAN Chicago also hosted its second annual Los Angeles Photo: Lindsey Phelan Lindsey Photo: holiday party in December and donated food to the More than 100 Los Angeles alumni were on hand Chicago Food Depository. to give a warm welcome to Columbia President Kwang-Wu Kim on Nov. 16 at the Peninsula in Beverly CONTACT THE OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Denver Hills. Upcoming events for CAAN LA are a one-time CAAN Denver eagerly awaits the release of Teddy revival of our networking meeting at the Formosa Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) Boy, Sean J.S. Jourdan’s (MFA ’09) debut feature film. Café, an alumni comedy show and the annual CAAN Director of Alumni Relations, West Coast Denver alumni will be treated to a screening of this Connect. Contact CAAN National Board members 323.469.0443 | [email protected] highly anticipated film that explores what happens Jonathan Weber (BA ’03) at jonathanmarkweber@ when betrayal becomes its own redemption. (For more gmail.com and Kim Chavarria (’90) at chavarria.kim@ Cynthia Vargas (MFA ’13) about Jourdan’s film, see DEMO 18.) Contact Pat Blum gmail.com. Please also contact Sarah Schroeder Associate Director of Alumni Events & Programs (BA ’84) at [email protected] or Jodi Hardee (BA ’00) at [email protected]. 312.369.8640 | [email protected] (MA ’04) at [email protected].

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EVENTS Check out these upcoming alumni events across the country. For the full calendar, go to colum.edu/alumni.

Los Angeles, Chicago, Los Angeles / July 10 New York / April & May FORMOSA CAFÉ NETWORKING MENTOR OF THE MONTH EVENTS REUNION Visit colum.edu/mentorofthemonth Contact Cupid Hayes (BA ’97) at

Taking in CAAN LA’s annual Cubs vs. Dodgers game at Dodgers Stadium on Aug. 27 were [email protected] Sheila Chalakee (BA ’05) and Jillian Adams (BA ’11). On Nov. 16 in Los Angeles, musician Chicago / May 9 Dan Wessels (BA ’08) and Paul Broucek (BA ’74), president of music at Warner Bros., were ALUMNI ON 5 SPRING Detroit / July & November among the alumni meeting President Kwang-Wu Kim. Photo: Alex Kinnan (BA ’95) EXHIBITION & RECEPTION NETWORKING EVENT Contact Cynthia Vargas (MFA ’13) Contact Julie Atty (BA ’10) at julie. Minneapolis–St. Paul Pittsburgh at [email protected] [email protected] Look forward to an event for Twin Cities CAAN Pittsburgh’s chapter leader, Mike alumni. Want to get involved? Contact Moscato (BA ’94), produces the High Chicago / May 16 Los Angeles / August 1 Marie Chaiart (BA ’05) at mariechaiart@ School Rock Challenge every spring, and ALUMNI AT MANIFEST CUBS VS. DODGERS WITH gmail.com and Kelsi Moffitt (BA ’03) at all alumni are invited to attend. For more Visit colum.edu/alumnimanifest FIREWORKS SHOW information, contact Mike at maguitar [email protected]. Contact Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) [email protected]. Los Angeles / May at [email protected] Nashville ALUMNI COMEDY NIGHT WITH Alumni in Nashville got together on Portland NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Portland / August Jan. 28 at Urban Grub. This chapter of We have great alumni in the Pacific Contact Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) PACIFIC OCEAN BEACH HOUSE CAAN is small but mighty! Get involved Northwest, so get involved. Contact by contacting Joseph Porter (BA ’92) Howard Shapiro (BA ’53) at pmahoward at [email protected] GET-TOGETHER at [email protected] and Anthony @aol.com. Contact Howard Shapiro (BA ’53) at Schneider (BA ’11) at anthony Los Angeles / June 17 [email protected] [email protected]. San Francisco Bay Area CAAN CONNECT Bay Area alumni welcomed Columbia Contact Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) Denver / August-September New York President Kwang-Wu Kim to the at [email protected] SCREENING OF SEAN S. In spite of the crazy winter weather, Columbia community on Nov. 17. Hilmar JOURDAN’S (MFA ’09) FEATURE CAAN New York continued to hold Koch (BA ’93) and Bob Stock (BA ’79) Nationwide / June 27 DEBUT TEDDY BOY regular networking events. Many NYC hosted the gathering for Northern DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS alums gathered at Puck Fair on California alumni. Are you interested Contact Pat Blum (BA ’84) at AND ELECTIONS FOR THE CAAN Lafayette in October and January. With in organizing events and conducting [email protected] alumni consistently moving to NYC, alumni outreach in the Bay Area? All NATIONAL BOARD these networking events provide a great chapter leaders are required to stay Contact Sarah Schroeder (BA ’00) Chicago / October 2014 way for newcomers to connect with connected to local alumni using social at [email protected] 2014 ALUMNI WEEKEND those rooted in the city. Contact Eric media. Contact Sarah Schroeder at Visit colum.edu/alumniweekend Wallace (BA ’09) at ericcwallace@gmail. [email protected]. Portland / July com or James “Woody” Woodward (MA TOUR OF WILLAMETTE VALLEY ’03) at [email protected]. Seattle VINEYARDS The Seattle chapter of CAAN has been Contact Howard Shapiro (BA ’53) at Phoenix revived! Thanks to the efforts of In March, CAAN Phoenix attended a Sharon Zweiback (BA ’91), alumni in [email protected] spring training game for the Chicago Seattle have been busy. In September, Cubs in the new Cubs Park. We are local alumni met at Liberty in Capitol looking for a new chapter leader. Hill. In November, Jane Richlovsly (BA Responsibilities include organizing two ’91) hosted alumni at her gallery, ’57 to three alumni events per year, staying Biscayne, prior to enjoying the Seattle in contact with local alumni and Art Walk. In February, alumni enjoyed a promoting scholarships like the Alumni tour of the Seattle Art Museum led by comedian Chuck Armstrong. To get STAY CONNECTED Facebook Scholarship Fund. All chapter leaders Columbia College Chicago Alumni are required to stay connected to local involved, contact Sharon at szsandflow alumni using social media. If you @gmail.com. Stay in theLoop, update Twitter are interested in volunteering for this your info, and check twitter.com/ColumAlum position, please contact Sarah out new alumni events at LinkedIn Schroeder at [email protected]. colum.edu/Alumni Columbia College Chicago ALUMNI

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What are you doing out there? plays a superhero on TV, but must We want to know! To submit your Maximilian Timm (BA ’02) look beyond the cape to inspire a news, go to colum.edu/alumni, deaf boy to believe in himself. The click on “Promote Yourself,” and Author takes broken wings, learns to fly film was chosen for the Heartland submit a class note. If you’ve never Film Festival. logged in before, you’ll need to After raising $7,000 on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, Maximilian complete a quick registration first. Timm (BA ’02), 35, published his fantasy novel, The WishKeeper, Dan Gorski (BA ’98) launched in November 2013. The story revolves around Shea, a tattooed, punk his comedy web series Baby Time!, Class news information will be fairy with broken wings who’s determined to make a human’s shot entirely on location in printed based on availability of wishes come true despite her handicap. Chicago using local cast and crew, space. Announcements that are including several Columbia incomplete or older than one You came to Columbia to study film. How did your film background alumni. The series follows a man year cannot be considered for influence your writing? My film background helped me understand as he struggles to get across the publication. Deadline for the Fall/ city and back to his wife before (and practice) how visuals can tell a story. The WishKeeper started as a Winter 2014 issue is Aug. 1. she gives birth. Watch the series script—many, many, many drafts of a script. I worked on it for eight years before trying to write at babytimeseries.com. the novel. All of the books I am working on now start as screenplays, so you could say my film background had a very direct impact on my novel writing. R. Earl Harville (BA ’97) is a 1970s member of the Education Board of Hank Grover (BA ’79) produced How did you get the idea for The WishKeeper? My sister and I wanted to adapt an old PC game International Voice Teachers of Mix. the documentary film The Power called King’s Quest. That project fell flat, but it gave us the motivation to start from scratch and of Photography: Beyond the Image, tell our own story. The first five or six drafts had nothing to do with fairies or wishes, but the more Sheila House (’99) was nominated about several renowned National I focused on what was truly unique about the story, this little broken-winged fairy kept popping for an Emmy in the 2013 Los Geographic photographers. Angeles-area Emmy awards for her up. Shea was born out of hours of brainstorming that focused on creating a character no one had Grover also produced Provocateur, work producing a PSA for the Santa a documentary about photographer seen before: a resentful, pissed off, handicapped teenager who just so happened to be a fairy with Monica History Museum. She also Helmut Newton, featuring producer broken wings. received her MS in Entertainment Robert Evans and actress Business from Full Sail University. Darryl Hannah. Why did you write a youth fantasy novel? I write for the young adult audience because tweens and teenagers deserve relatable characters who are flawed, disturbed and maybe even make bad Kevin Leadingham (’98) is the Margaret Jamison (BA ’73) choices at times. I feel kids need to know that it’s OK and quite normal to make mistakes and get executive producer of Animal Plan- was named by Black Press Radio into a little trouble. —Hannah Lorenz (’16) et’s Treehouse Masters. The series, as second among 14 Women to which follows host Pete Nelson and Watch in 2014. She is the publicist his team as they build custom to D. Channsin Berry, director/ treehouses, has been picked up for producer of 2014 NAACP Image a second season. Award nominee Dark Girls. fiers are used by Cheap Trick, John Brian Kalata (BA ’87) completed Marlon West (BA ’85) was the Fogerty, Jim Peterik and The Ides of his seventh season as key assistant effects supervisor for Disney Eric Matthies (BA ’92) completed March. He also owns and operates location manager for the Showtime Pictures’ Frozen, which received Nancy Stone (BA ’79) is the the documentary feature Killing executive producer of the film a recording studio in Chicago. series Californication. He’s turned the 2014 Academy Award for Best the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of Words and Pictures, starring his attention to his production Animated Feature. News, available online at killingthe Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche. Patrick Egan (’86) self-published company, Lucky Coffee Productions, messengerfilm.com. The trailer was The film premiered at the his first novel,Get Happy. It is avail- whose first feature project is the edited at Buddha Jones Trailers able in paperback and as a digital documentary Toronto Film Festival and was Which Side Are You 1990s with the guidance of Daniel Asma picked up for U.S. distribution download for Kindle and Nook. On?, a look at the polarizing issue Caryn Capotosto (BA ’99) was (BA ’92). of labor unions focusing on the associate producer on the doc- by Roadside Attractions. (BA ’85) is working as historic 2007–08 Writer’s Guild of umentary , Donald Fox 20 Feet from Stardom Chris McKay (BA ’91) was the a master control operator at Weigel America strike. Visit luckycoffee which received the 2014 Academy editor and animation co-director for Broadcasting, the home of Me-TV prod.com. Award for Best Documentary The LEGO Movie, and David Tuber 1980s and Movies! as well as many other Feature. The film focuses on backup Patricia Blum (BA ’84) was (BA ’05) was the storyboard artist. promoted to vice president of the channels. Serita Stevens (BA ’81) was a singers for legendary acts such as judge for the 3 Gates of the Dead the Rolling Stones, Bette Midler American Growth Fund. She is the Nobuko Oyabu (BA ’95) was Columbia Alumni Association & Laura Good (BA ’89) released her filmmaking competition. and Bruce Springsteen. featured in Sankei Newspaper, a Network (CAAN) chapter leader for fifth CD with alternative pop band financial daily newspaper in Japan. Denver as well as the Southwest re- The Twigs.Jump Right In, from Whirli- Laura Cooper (BA ’92) is a DJ The article considers the impor- gional representative on the CAAN gig Records, features songs for kids and the owner of A Special Day DJ tance of having a sexual assault National Board. of all ages. and an actor with SAG-AFTRA. victim support system in Japanese society. (BA ’88) published the (BA ’93) was hired Jens Bogehegn (BA ’88), one of Corey Hall Elizabeth Field sixth volume of Expressions From as communications manager for the founders of Zacuto camera Stacie Passon (’93) wrote and accessories, was a producer of the Englewood, which features personal the Department of Performing and directed the filmConcussion , which documentary Light & Shadow, in essays, poetry, fiction and research Media Arts at Cornell University. is nominated for an Independent which cinematographers share their from people who live, work or go Spirit Award in the category of personal perspectives on what they to school in the Englewood Jeff Gatesman (’92) was the Best First Feature. Concussion do and what it means to them. neighborhood of Chicago. Hall was cinematographer for No Ordinary premiered at the 2013 Sundance also featured in NewCity’s “Lit50: Mark Protosevich (BA ’83) Hero, featuring Oscar winner Film Festival. Who Really Books in Chicago?” for wrote and co-produced the Spike Marlee Matlin and Rick Cruz (BA ’89) designs and Peter Hulne mass produces guitar amplifiers Expressions From Englewood. Lee film Oldboy, which opened in (BA ’91). No Ordinary Hero is a fam- under Cruz Amplification. His ampli- theaters in November 2013. ily drama about a deaf actor who

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Cherie Richardson (MA ’99) was ing five feature films over the past her works in watercolor, ink and named senior associate director of 18 months. The first to be released, pencil en plein air landscape and development for the Medill School Medeas, premiered as an official wildlife subjects were displayed of Journalism, Media, Integrated selection at the 70th Venice at the “Art in Nature” Exhibit at the Marketing Communications at International Film Festival. The Crabtree Nature Center in Bar- Northwestern University. Previously, Hollywood Reporter called it “an rington, Ill. Visit flyngypsyarts.com. she served as a director of develop- impressive debut that promises ment at Bradley University. greater things to come.” Angela LaRocca (BA ’08) played the lead role in the filmThe Right Klahr Thorsen (BA ’91) has been Angela Hobbs (BA ’04) authored Kind of Wrong, which premiered in selected as an International Acting the thriller novel Isle of Beasts, St. Louis in February. Her one- Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe available for digital download and woman comedy show, Undercover Theatre in London. The fellowship in paperback on Amazon. The book Undergrad, was accepted into a brings together 20 professional received a five-star rating on theatre festival in NYC, and LaRocca actors from across the world to goodreads.com. will perform it in Chicago this year. learn the artistic methods used at the Globe and experience perform- Arika Jacobs (’05) was the Frank McGrath (’04) has worked ing in the historic theatre. designer of the restaurant Sage as an editor and assistant editor in Culver City, Calif. The Huffington on several comedy television On the set of the CBS drama The Mentalist, crew members recently discovered Post wrote, “Another beautiful shows, including Childrens Hospital, they had something special in common: their alma mater. From left to right: 2000s feature of Sage is the unique and NTSF: SD: SUV, Newsreaders and Matt Gossen (BA ’10), Zach Andrews (BA ’07), cinematographer Jeffrey Jur Steven Berger (BA ’06) produced rustic design elements created Party Down. (BA ’77), The Mentalist star Simon Baker and Bridget Arnet (BA ’12). the film The Pretty One, a 2011 by L.A.-based designer Arika Black List Script that premiered at Jacobs, who used reclaimed barn Marc Morgan (BA ’07) starred in the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and wood and vintage garden tools the filmMordy to the Max, which was bought by Sony Pictures for a to help create a cozy, stylish and screened as an official selection theatrical release. welcoming space.” at the East Lansing Film Festival and won a Silver Bulb Award at the Beth Caucci (MFA ’08) composed Lorris Julianus (BA ’03) premiered Vegas Indie Film Festival. music for the popular comedy her historical musical Zenobia in This Is the End. Her other projects September 2013. She wrote the Michael Oberholtzer (BA ’05) include The Lorax, Free Birds and Ice book and lyrics and starred as the was cast in the film Delivery Man, Age: Continental Drift. Syrian warrior queen. The theatre which opened in November 2013 production featured computer ani- and starred Vince Vaughn and Jayson Cruthers (BA ’02) mation by Dustin Carroll (BA ’04). Chris Pratt. was the cinematographer on the Daytime Emmy-winning writer Kay filmColdwater , which was nominat- Alden called Zenobia “a magnificent Laurel Parker’s (MFA ’00) music ed for Best Cinematography at the and moving tour de force.” video for the Emmy-nominated Las Vegas Film Festival and won the group Gangstagrass has been Grand Jury Prize for Best Film. Daniel Kibblesmith (BA ’05) co- accepted into the Bang! Short Film authored How To Win at Everything, Festival in England. Brant Daugherty (BA ’08) was a available from Chronicle Books. contestant on season 17 of ABC’s Nicholas Pinto’s (BA ’07) photo- Dancing with the Stars. He is known Jessica Kronika (BFA ’09) is a journalism is featured on the Leica Alumni Weekend 2013: Dozens of students and alumni came out for the for his roles in Pretty Little Liars, marketing coordinator at Mid- Camera Blog at blog.leica-camera. 3rd Annual Alumni 5K Scholarship FUNd Run/Walk, with proceeds benefiting Army Wives and Days of Our Lives. America Tile. Also, in August 2013, com. Also visit nicholaspinto.com. the Alumni Scholarship Fund and the Columbia Cares: Alumni for Students Fund. Lucas Graham (BA ’06) shot the 2013 Sundance Film Festival movie Escape From Tomorrow, which opened in theaters and got a Video-on-Demand launch in I JUST... October 2013.

Bryan Grant (BA ’02), owner Acted in a play Started a business of Bryan Grant Studios, has been Published a book Found my calling selected by illusionist David Performed at Madison Got married Copperfield to brand a new pro- Square Garden Had a baby duction company, Red Safe, under Appeared on Got a new job which Copperfield will develop, create and film television shows. Project Runway Retired Visit bryangrantstudios.com. Whatever you’ve been doing, we want to know. Go Michelle Harmon (MFA ’06) to , click on “Promote Yourself,” and was recently accepted into the Art colum.edu/alumni Director’s Guild and worked as submit a class note. If you’ve never logged in before, you’ll assistant art director on the Emmy- need to complete a quick registration first. nominated series American Horror In March, Roland Cailles (BA ’08), Ashley Lavore (BA ’13), Liz Dunlop Story: Coven. Is your DEMO still going to mom’s house? Reading some- (BA ’09), (BA ’11) and (’07) presented at the Kate Jacobsen Ryan Beshel one else’s copy? Make it right: Update your address at Public Relations Student Society of America conference. Kyle Heller (BA ’08) launched the Beverly Hills-based production colum.edu/demo/subscribe. company Varient Pictures, produc-

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In March, alumni screened their feature film Animals at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. From left to right: Chris Charles (BA ‘07), executive producer; Charles Young, co-producer; Mary Pat Bentel (BA ‘01), producer; John W. Bosher (BA ‘06), executive producer; and Damon L. Marks, co-producer.

Family Travel with Colleen Kelly, she will earn her MBA in strategic Jacqueline Rezak (BA ’10) is a Sundance fever: TV and film alumni descended upon Park City, Utah, to which premiered on American management. designer for the clothing brand Rad participate in the Sundance Film Festival in January. Top: Will Johnson (BA Public Television in October 2013. and Refined. Her garments have ’12), Bret Hamilton (’15), Ryan Nanni (BA ’12) and Jon Steinhorst (MFA Joel Everett (BM ’10) has been been worn by the likes of Miley ’09) attended the Chicago Luncheon and Alumni Film Screening on Jan. 18. Daniel Vlasaty (BA ’09) published nominated for a regional Emmy Cyrus and Tegan and Sara. Bottom: Lena Waithe (BA ’06), at right, with Devon Edwards (BA ’11) and his novella The Church of TV as God Award in the area of Music Compos- Willie Jackson, produced the filmDear White People, which took home the through Eraserhead Press. er/Arranger for his score to the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Talent (see pages 8–10). historical documentary Merger: Lena Waithe (BA ’06) produced Making the Twin City by WSTV. the film Dear White People, which was selected to premiere at the Agnes Hamerlik (BA ’12) was Christopher Roach (BA ’01) wrote Melodie Simond’s (BA ’06) short 2014 Sundance Film Festival in the approached to be part of the FLOR the filmNon-Stop , starring Julianne film A Friend at the End screened U.S. Dramatic Competition category flooring catalog after part-time Moore, Liam Neeson and Michelle in September 2013 in Long Beach, and took home the Special Jury Photography faculty member Sarah Dockery. The film opened on Calif. Two other Columbia alumni Prize for Breakthrough Talent. Faust learned about her fashion Feb. 28. worked on it: Richard Skrip (BA designs through DEMO magazine ’06), editor, and Daniel Z. Levin Yvette Wren (BA ’06) co-wrote (Spring/Summer 2013). Hannah Rosner (BA ’09) premier- (BA ’06), sound. an episode of Love That Girl! that ed her directorial debut, Park City, aired on TVone on Friday nights Christina Harper (BA ’12) was at the United Film Festival at the Daniel Smukalla (BA ’08) is in fall 2013. featured in the show The Story of Laugh Factory in Chicago in moving into post production on his Curtis Mayfield, which ran through November 2013. documentary Sedae, about how March 30 at the Black Ensemble various generations in South Korea 2010s Theatre in Chicago. Charles Sato (BA ’03) is the post- have been affected by rapid eco- Michael Bailey (BA ’12) made production supervisor for NBC News nomic growth. Visit sedaechai.com. his theatrical debut in Paramount Sarah Levi (MAM ’10), a board Peacock Productions. His work has Theatre’s production ofMiss Saigon member for Artlink Phoenix, included long-form specials for The Michael Stahl-David (BA ’05) as part of the 2013–14 Broadway opened art gallery Tabula Rasa Chris Terry’s (MFA ’12) Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball and starred opposite Sarah Jessica season. Directed by Jim Corti Collective, focused on Arizona novel Zero Fade was a Favorite All in With Chris Hayes, as well as Parker in the off-Broadway play and choreographed by Columbia artists, in the downtown Phoenix Book of 2013 for Slate.com, reunion specials for Breaking Amish The Commons of Pensacola. College Dance Department staff arts district. Visit tabularasa and Sister Wives, network specials member Jeff Hancock, the show collective.com. was named one of the Best for America’s Got Talent and Christ- Deborah Stokes (MA ’00), curator ran Oct. 30–Nov. 24, 2013. Teen Books of 2013 by Kirkus mas at the White House, and Weather for education at the Smithsonian’s Diane Mayers-Jones (BFA ’10) Reviews and has been Channel breaking news specials. National Museum of African Art, Samantha Crowley (BA ’11) was was one of the entrepreneurs received the Pioneer Award from recently a post-production assistant featured in an exhibit called “Our nominated for the Young Adult Nicholas Sheptak (BA ’05) won a the Federal Government Distance on the show Lucky 7 for ABC. Work: Modern Jobs, Ancient Library Services Association’s Bronze Key Art Award in the Copy Learning Association. Origins” at the Oriental Institute of 2014 Best Fiction for Young Writing category for his work on the Quiana Edmond (BA ’12) was the University of Chicago. trailer for Anchorman 2. Emily Stroble (BA ’09) served as admitted to the Indiana University Adults list. supervising producer for the series Kelley School of Business, where

demo spring/summer 2014 41 FACULTY & STAFF NOTES Notable achievements from the college community

Michelle Barreras and Mary Quest Christine Rice (Creative Writing) won first (Education) presented “Enhancing Story- place in the In Print Professional Writers Orga- telling with Technology” in October 2013 nization Fiction Writing Contest for her piece at the National Progressive Education “The Art of Breaking Away.” Network Conference in Los Angeles. Their presentation showed how storytelling builds Brendan Riley (English) was appointed ex- developmental skills and provides room ecutive director of operations for the Popular for creativity. Culture Association/American Culture Associa- tion. Riley will manage financial, communica- Molly Beestrum, Amy Wainwright tions and administrative efforts. (Library) and Kerri Willette won a People’s Choice Award for their presentation, “When Michel Rodriguez (Dance) received a 3Arts Social Media Fails to Inspire: Transforming award in October 2013. 3Arts promotes your Library’s Social Media Presence,” at the diversity in the arts by awarding $15,000 to Association for College and Research Libraries notable female artists, artists of color and 2013 Conference in Indianapolis. Awards artists with disabilities. were selected by conference attendees. Sheila Solomon (Journalism) was chosen as Terri Hemmert (Radio)—pictured with the Ramones in the 1970s—celebrated 40 years as DJ a recipient of the 2014 Ida B. Wells Award by David W. Berner (Radio) won the 2013 at WXRT in 2013. Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared Dec. 18 “Terri Hemmert Day in Chicago.” Chicago Writers Association Book of the the National Association of Black Journalists Year Award in the category of nontraditional and the Medill School of Journalism, Media, nonfiction for his memoir,Any Road Will Take David Flatley (Center for Community Arts Charles Matlock (Radio) was featured on “DJ Integrated Marketing Communications at You There: A Journey of Fathers and Sons. Partnerships) was chosen to participate as Sessions: The Story Behind Chicago House” Northwestern University. one of 50 leaders in the National Arts on 90.9 WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, to (MFA ’13, Alumni Relations) won Kristy Bowen (MFA ’07, Library) released Cyn Vargas Strategies’ Chief Executive Program. discuss the evolution of the house music the Guild Literary Complex Prose Award in three books in 2013, including a short genre and its Chicago roots. chapbook of prose, fragments, beautiful, Linda Fortunato (Theatre) received a 2013 Fiction for her short story “That Girl.” Vargas sinister; a longer prose collection, the shared Jefferson Award in choreography for the pro- Vaun Monroe’s (Cinema Art + Science) also was accepted into the Ragdale residency properties of water and stars; and a full- duction of 42nd Street at Theatre at the Center production of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men won program for the 2014 Winter/Spring session. length book of poems, girl show. in Munster, Ind. best actor, best supporting actress, best John H. White (Photography) received the supporting actor, best director and best pro- 2013 Lucie Award, one of photography’s Charles Cannon (Science + Mathematics) Patrick Friel (Cinema Art + Science) production at the Black Theater Alliance Awards highest honors, in an Oct. 27 event at New was named a 2013 fellow for the American grammed and presented the 25th Onion City in October 2013. Chemical Society. He joined a distinguish- Experimental Film and Video Festival Sept. York’s Carnegie Hall. ed list of 96 scientists who have demon- 6–7, 2013. Nami Mun (Creative Writing) received Etta Worthington (Television) produced the strated outstanding contributions to the National Runaway Safeline’s Spirit of Youth (BA ’99, Cinema Art + Science) is short filmHatboxes , which was screened at chemistry field. Craig Gore Award for her work to keep homeless youth a writer for the NBC series Chicago P.D. the We Like ’Em Short Film Festival in Oregon, off the streets. and at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Jessica Cochran (Book + Paper Center) Deborah H. Holdstein’s (School of Liberal Film Festival, where it won an audience and Melissa Potter (Interdisciplinary Arts) Betsy Odom’s (Art + Design) exhibit Bulldog, Arts + Sciences) book Who Says? The Writer’s received a 2013 Craft Research Fund which consists of three-dimensional objects award and best director award. Hatboxes Research was published in December 2013 by grant for Social Paper, an exhibition and made from a variety of materials using tech- also screened at the Palm Springs Gay and Oxford University Press. catalog charting the evolution of the art niques like sewing and woodworking, Lesbian Film Festival. of hand papermaking with special attention Darrell Jones (Dance) won the juried Bessie was the debut exhibit for DEMO Project, a to craft, labor, community and site specificity. Award for Choreography for his work “Hoo-Ha contemporary and experimental art gallery IN MEMORIAM (for your eyes only).” in Springfield, Ill. Peter Cook (ASL-English Interpretation) Jane Ann Ganet-Sigel, founder of the recently taught poetry workshops throughout Megan Kirby (Institutional Marketing and Pan Papacosta (Science + Mathematics) Dance/Movement Therapy Department at Eastern Europe and completed a weeklong Communications) won first place in the Lumin- participated in the World Innovation Summit Columbia College Chicago (now the residency in the Department of Linguistics at arts Cultural Foundation’s fiction contest, for Education in October 2013 in Doha, Department of Creative Arts Therapies), Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. sponsored by the Union League Club of Qatar. The event hosted more than 1,200 passed away at age 87 on Jan. 27. Ganet- Chicago. Her short story, “Your Very Flesh,” international leaders in education, politics Sigel founded the only Midwest graduate Kevin Cooper’s (Cinema Art + Science) appeared in 2013’s Luminarts Review. and the corporate sphere to discuss growth program in dance/movement therapy, which filmThe Painter, which was shot by in education. began in 1982. She chaired the department Columbia faculty members and students in April Langworthy (Center for Community until her retirement in 1998. the Media Production Center, won the Illinois Arts Partnerships, Cinema Art + Science) was Samuel Park (Creative Writing, English) Film Office Shortcuts competition. honored by the Federation for Community was named one of the Best Local Authors in Ronn Pitts (Cinema Art + Science) passed Schools in Illinois as a partner agency leader Chicago by CBS Chicago, along with Audrey away Sept. 22, 2013. Throughout his career, Pamela Dittmer McKuen (Journalism, because of her demonstrated effectiveness in Niffenegger (Creative Writing). Park’s work Pitts challenged and broke color barriers. He First-Year Seminar) co-authored a fashion spearheading the CCAP’s Community Schools This Burns My Heart was chosen as a Best documented history with his camera, from guide for girls, Expressionista: How to Express program for 11 years. Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, Amazon, the death of gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk to Your True Self Through (and Despite) Fashion, NPR.org and BookPage. a behind-the-scenes look at Muhammad Ali with Jackie Walker (wife of Music chair Laurie Lawlor’s (Creative Writing) biography, preparing for a fight. Pitts’ legacy will live on Richard Dunscomb). Rachel Carson and Her Book that Changed the Nancy Rampson (Institutional Advancement) through the Ronn Pitts Scholarship Fund. World, was one of 40 titles selected for Macy’s was elected president of the newly formed Laura Downey (Creative Arts Therapies) 2013-14 Multicultural Collection of Children’s South Loop Toastmasters Club. She and Chris won an Outstanding Achievement Award Peter Radke, former head bursar, passed Literature and will be distributed to thousands Skrundz also won third prize for the film How at the 2013 American Dance Therapy away on Dec. 20, 2013. Radke graduated of students across the country. Many Stars in the Traverse City Film Festival Association conference. from Columbia as class valedictorian in 1981 Bumper Film Contest. and started working at the college part time, (Journalism) received the Elio Leturia eventually becoming the head bursar, helping 2013 Dee Sarelas Service Award from the students with their financial accounts. Fulbright Association.

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Marcella Mencotti Lisa Maxwell Murphy D. Monroe (’99) Beatrice C. Mayer Cheryl L. Morton–Langston Kennon P. Mckee Honor Roll of Donors (BA ’79) Judith Mendels–Peterson Fiscal Year 2013. Sept. 1, 2012, through Aug. 31, 2013 Isobel Neal Henry C. & Cynthia J. Moy In fiscal year 2013, which ended Aug. 31, generous individuals and organizations contributed a total of Teresa Nino (BA ’86) Glenda L. Mulac (BA ’86) & Adele L. Osmond (BA ’92) & John Mulac $19,714,207 to support the educational mission of Columbia College Chicago. Many of those gifts were Robert F. Osmond Cary C. Noren (BA ’88) designated for Scholarship Columbia, a five-year matching program backed by $1 million, to address the Neil P. Pagano Gina I. Ordaz (BA ’02) Michelle A. Passarelli (BA ’99) Jose D. & Renee J. Perez financial needs of our students. Sheldon A. Patinkin Mark D. Protosevich (BA ’83) Corey & Barbara–Honorine Sarah A. Schroeder (BA ’00) & Plazak Kenneth A. Nowak Jr. (BA ’00) INSTITUTIONAL Constance & Hugh Williams Alan R. Clark (BA ’82) & Rita Clark Margot A. Wallace D. E. Price & Louis J. Yecies Daniel Shea Individuals Susan & Bob Wislow Richard H. & Rae M. Colabella Piotr Walter (BA ’91) & Steven T. Rabeor (BA ’85) & Melissa Skoog Dunagan $500,000–$999,999 William E. Wolf & Kay Collier Anna Walter Deborah A. Rabeor (BA ’85) Mark C. Sramek Lynn & Allen M. Turner Meredith Bluhm–Wolf Daniel V. & Karen Considine Robert S. Wildeboer (MA ’04) & Eva Rachau Daniel W. Strickland (BA ’94) Thomas S. Coughlin (BA ’77) Christine Wildeboer Nancy Rampson Jerome C. Svec $250,000–$499,999 $5,000–$9,999 Patricia O. Cox Susan Mongerson Julie L. Redmond Cynthia L. Thomas Margot L. & Thomas J. Pritzker Jay Albanese* Craig J. & Janet Duchossois Wunderlich (’91) Roche E. Schulfer & Pantelis N. Vassilakis Ph.D. Nandi S. & David Ballard Jeane F. Erley Laura S. Yosha–Steele (BA ’90) Mary B. Fisher Lisa M. Walker (BA ’86) $100,000–$249,999 Paul B. 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Allison–Billingslea Anonymous Kenneth G. Savoca Jeanne Gang & Mark Schendel Stanislaw W. Bernacki Tom D. & Liz A. Whitaker (BA ’91) Andrew & Diane Alexander Hank & Wendy Paulson H. John & Kathryn Gilbertson Sherrill L. Bodine Nicholas C. Wilson (BA ’09) & Kathryn M. Balsamo (BA ’00) Diane N. Dammeyer (’01) & Barbara Rosin Kenneth C. & Lynne M. Gotsch Lana N. Bramlette (BA ’97)* Amy C. Wilson Usha & Ashok R. Bedi Rod Dammeyer* Denise & Joseph Seminetta Devin A. & Rachel S. Gross Cathryn Bulicek David A. Beliles (BA ’54) & Steve Devick* Peter G. Teschner (’80) & Marilyn & Mark Hacker Racquel A. Cable $250–$499 Ruth Beliles John Edelman Gloria Teschner James & Carol Ann Harbert Katherine Jui Chang Anonymous Carolyn & Gene Berg Marshall Field V & Jamee C. Field Stephen L. Hatch (’91) & Raymond M. & Elaine Chin Gerald E. Adams Vivian & Derek Berry Gerald W. & Georgia Fogelson $2,500–$4,999 Lisa Hatch Margaret L. Costas (MFA ’06) & Rosalind J. Baker (BA ’83) Daniel V. Biggar (BA ’92) Linda Johnson Rice Christopher Augmon* John E. Hellerman (BA ’95) & Chris O. Costas Sandra Bass Patricia A. Blum (BA ’84) Gary A. Moffat (BA ’75) & Deborah H. Holdstein & Stephanie N. Hellerman Chandra M. Dennis Brikena Becovic Alvin J. Boutte Ellen MacInnes Jay W. Boersma (BA ’74) Susan B. Hopkinson Ph.D. & Julian C. D’Esposito Jr. & Robert J. Blinn (BA ’73) & Mary A. Sheila A. Brady Alexandra & John Nichols Tanya & Mark Bohr Jonathan C. Jones Ph.D. Molly D’Esposito Blinn (BA ’95; MA ’04)* Bill Britt (BA ’92) & Cari & Michael J. Sacks Louis M. Brown II Arnold & Carol Kanter Kevin Doherty Michael T. Bright & Stacy Dean Britt Leslie A. Weaver–Weinberg Gwendolyn L. & Charles L. Butler Kathleen & Richard Katz Diane L. Doyne Joan E. McGrath Barrie M. Broadie (BA ’81; (MA ’87) & Hilton H. Warrick L. Carter Ph.D. & Linda G. & Jon R. Katzenbach Courtney L. Drvaric (MAM ’10) Dennis A. Brozynski MFA ’11) & Stephen Weinberg (MA ’85) Laurel Carter Steven R. Kauffman Larry D. & Lynn Dunn Diana Cazares W. Broadie Warren K. Chapman Ph.D. & Melissa Kelz Ronald A. Elling Scott Chan Gisela M. Brodin–Brosnan $10,000–$24,999 Bonita Chapman Jeffrey A. & Laura Kopczynski Sherron L. Farrell (BA ’08) Helena Chapellin Wilson (BA ’76) Andrea K. Brown (MA ’86) Anonymous Jeanna M. Cullins Justin A. Kulovsek (BA ’04) Mark E. Ferguson & & Clarence S. Wilson Jr. Linda M. Burdiak & Dara E. Belic (BA ’08) Jill S. Dodds Diana K. Lindstrom (BA ’88) & Elizabeth A. Yntema Ralph H. Chilton III (MFA ’98) & C. William Roth John H. Bryan Jr. & Neville Bryan Michael K. Goi (BA ’80) & Bert H. Lindstrom Ayanna A. Floyd (MFA ’98) Pamela W. Chilton Kathleen T. Butera Carol Cohen (’13) Gina Goi Marilyn C. Lord (BA ’82) & Mary E. Forde Janice F. & K.V. Chindlund* Susan E. Cahill (MA ’90) & Bruce A. & Deborah A. Crown Allison Grant Williams & James Meisner Susan L. Fore (BA ’99) Margaret A. Cole (BA ’90) John N. Moore* Eugene G. Esposito Jr. & Darrell Williams Louise & Ernest Love Melissa P. & Richard G. Gamble Dana D. Connell (’97) & Tracy M. Cargo (’14) Victoria L. Esposito Mark E. Kelly & Lewis & Susan Manilow Caroline A. Girgis Joseph T. Connell Barbara Carlson The Frank Family Patricia A. Needham Susan Marcus Marilyn S. Gordon Candace Corr & William H. Jones Richard C. & Sharon S. Carlson John & Patty Gehron Suzanne G. McBride & David H. Mardigian John C. Green Ph.D. & Donna Davies April M. Castro (BA ’96) Ralph W. & Karen C. Gidwitz John R. O’Neill Patrick T. McBriarty Tess E. Green Laurie Davis Elizabeth R. Chilsen (MFA ’95) Mary Louise Haddad & Pamela M. & Michael W. Orr Bernadette B. & Cynthia Greene McChesney & Nancy L. Day* Renette C. Coachman Samuel Perry Sandra J. & Michael Perlow Robert McMahon Mike McChesney Javier A. Delgado Katie Coath Joan W. Harris Donald E. Thompson & Robert E. McNamara (BA ’66) & Wendy D. Hall Adriane M. DiMeo (BA ’83) Kenneth Coats & King W. & Caryn Harris Kathleen Wilson–Thompson Jane McNamara Thomas S. Hamilton Joseph Feldman & Anna V. Fong (BA ’01) John M. & Jenni Holmes Stephen Ware John H. & Kay L. Meisch Peter R. Hartel (BA ’81) & Martha Jill Holtz Feldman Bette B. Coulson Chester T. Kamin & James E. & Lynne E. Warner Linda R. Naslund (MFA ’99) A. Shaifer–Hartel (BA ’80) Peter G. Fitzpatrick Lorna Crowl Nancy Schaefer Sharon R. Wilson–Taylor Ph.D. Scot T. O’Hara (MA ’95) Virginia Heaven Robert J.R. & Nancy C. Follett Dennis J. Czechanski (BA ’70) & Paul R. & Nancy J. Knapp Sylvia W. Wright M.D. & A.M. & K. Ombregt–Cool Maureen H. Herlehy Linda M. Fuller Corinna S. Czechanski Averill & Bernard Leviton Keith Wright Pangratios Papacosta (BA ’93; MFA ’08) Deborah D. Gallizo James H. Dai Lynn & Frederick C. Lowinger Barbara & Robert Sherwood Park Arthur J. & Susan Hill Zelia K. Goldberg Tanisha D. Dalmas (BA ’93) In Memory of Gianna $1,000–$2,499 Melina K. Patterson (BA ’93) & Bill & Vicki Hood Helyn D. Goldenberg & Mia M. Delano (BA ’99) Esposito (’12) Anonymous (3) Michael C. Hendershot Margaret M. Howard Michael N. Alper Dirk Denison Howard Mendelsohn (BA ’49) Randall K. Albers Jay S. Robinson (BA ’77) & Shelly Hubman (’03) Roland C. Hansen Madeline Murphy Rabb James L. Alexander Barbara S. Robinson Nena Ivon Dorothy A. Horton–Jackson Mike & Adele Murphy Robin L. Bargar & Insook Choi Steven & Lauren Scheibe Craig Jobson (MFA ’02) (BA ’84; MA ’99) Ron Norinsky (BA ’70) & Rosanna Barresi (BA ’03) Laura Shallow Teisha L. Johnson (BA ’96) Martin T. Kane Jr. (BA ’06) For more Pamela Norinsky Doreen M. Bartoni & Re’Lynn Sydney Smith Gordon (’88) Sheryl L. Johnston (BA ’93) & Jonathan C. Keiser Arlen D. Rubin & Hansen (BA ’80; MA ’86) Donald M. & Isabel C. Stewart Robert Johnston Kimberly A. Livingstone (BA ’92) information, check out Elaine Cohen Rubin Alicia & Brian Berg William S. Swartwood (BA ’96) & Michelle A. & Glenn R. Kolak Christina P. LoPresti the Columbia College David S. Solomon M.D. & William W. Boyd Ann Marie Gray Rachel E. Kraft Joseph F. & Angela LoPresti Chicago 2013 Annual Brenda C. Solomon M.D. Joyce E. Butts Mark E. & Jean M. Tansey Pattie Mackenzie Frances Maggio Ellen Stone Belic Barbara J. Calabrese Oney & Joyce A. Temple Sr. John P. Mahoney Matthew Mark Report at colum.edu/ Arthur & Rita Sussman Charles E. Cannon Oney D. Temple Jr. (BA ’08) Dirk W. Matthews (BA ’02) & Margaret L. Mason (MA ’87) AnnualReports Donna Van Eekeren & Dominique J. Chéenne Bob Thall Babette Novak (BA ’02) M. Michael Massumi M.D. Dale Connelly Paul Chiaravalle Julia McQuade Volkmann (BA ’12) Lauren M. McLain (BA ’05) Marilyn G. & Myron D. Maurer

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Stephen A. DeSantis (MFA ’08)* James C. Levins (BA ’99) Colleen A. Rose (BA ’89) Patricia Attalla Margaret A. Cole Alexandra L. Field (BA ’13) George J. & Phyllis A. Didier Melissa L. Levy Carter Loren J. Rubin (BA ’89) & Danielle B. Austin–Cano (BFA ’13) Carol A. Coleman (BA ’72) Renayle M. Fink (BA ’08) Christine DiThomas (MFA ’11) Jane M. Lillegard (BA ’85) Patricia A. Rubin (BA ’89) Susan O. Babyk (MFA ’05) John D. Colon (BA ’00) Gali Firstenberg (BA ’11) David Dolak* Jay A. & Bonnie Lipe Charles R. Salter George H. Bailey (BA ’74) & Sean P. Connor (BA ’10) David Fischer William T. Doyle Jack & Martha G. Little Jeffrey D. Sanderson & Linda Bailey Carol Constantine & Brian J. Fisher (BA ’95) George H. Eastman James M. Little (BA ’09) Cristine L. Kruse (BA ’06) Neale R. Baldyga (BA ’08) Gregory Batton Laura K. Flamion (BA ’98) Catherine Edelman Daniel J. Lloyd (BA ’75) & Howard F. Sandroff Arthur W. Baltazar (BA ’92)* Norman T. Cook (BA ’90) Ronald A. Fleischer (BA ’84) Devon J. Edwards Sr. (BA ’11) & Martha J. Lloyd Richard M. & Judith H. Sawdey Kelly A. Barnes (BA ’01) Peter S. Cook (’11) Griselda Flores (BA ’12) Dawn Edwards Whitney R. Logan Christopher G. Schedel (MFA ’07) Cathleen J. Barone (BA ’12) Malcolm R. Cooper (BA ’96) Donald R. & Janice L. Floyd Gillian Ellett Lea C. Lovelace Richard Schieler John & Susan Barone Mercedes Y. Cooper (MFA ’08) Peter & Marilyn Folster Eric J. & Jessica D. Ellingsen Keith A. Lusson Margaret Schmid Ryan Barton (BA ’12) Ryan C. Cosgrove (BA ’00) & James L. Foster (BA ’13) George E. & Sarah Engdahl Nancy Lynch Thomas M. Schnecke (BA ’93) & Roland D. Batten Laura M. Orrico (BA ’99) Jason Foumberg Ann K. Engelstad (BA ’93) Priscilla R. MacDougall Judy I. Schnecke Wesley D. & Deanne Beedon Lily B. Cote (BFA ’13) Donald A. Fox (BA ’85) & Maxine Evans Jeffrey R. & Linda M. Madore Lawrence E. Schneider (BA ’93) Nathaniel B. Beeler Erinn M. Cox Michele Fox Barbara D. Fedor Nathan T. Mahoney (BA ’06) & Amy M. Seay Margot I. Belgorod (BA ’10) Timothy P. Craddock (BA ’98) Whitney E. Fox (BA ’11) Paul & Christy Fisher Cheryl A. Mahoney Victoria L. Shannon Abigail Belka John T. Craighead (BA ’12) Lyndon G. French Anne E. Foley Antonio Marquez (BA ’88) Howard B. Shapiro (BA ’53) & Sandra L. Belmonte (BA ’93) Amanda L. Crawford William S. Friedman (’08) Charlotte Fong Jay D. McClellan (BA ’77) Petra Shapiro Clay Bennett LaToya T. Cross (BA ’09) Karen Frost (’13) Mary C. Fons Lisa Marie McComb Susan H. & Robert E. Shapiro Bryce A. Berkowitz (BA ’12) Michael J. Crowley (BA ’12) Catherine D. & Paul D. Fry Gregory J. Foster–Rice Mary J. McDonald Badger Thomas L. Shirley (’07) Meeka L. Berry (BA ’10) Samantha Crowley (BA ’11) Nancy Fryzlewicz Jerry L. & Nancy Y. Frank (BA ’76) & Elbre Harrell Jo–Nell Sieren Sterling Berry–Whitlock & Carla Culberson (’03) Annette F. Fuller (BA ’87) Manuel P. Galvan Laura McGrew Arlie F. Sims (’97) Dayle Matchett Nicole E. Cunningham (’96) Tracey D. Fuller (BA ’04) Hillary J. Geller David R. & Vicki McNutt Patricia C. Smith John N. Bess Shannon Cunningham* Michael & Melissa Gabin Melissa R. Glass (BA ’98) & Kathleen H. Meredith Donald R. & Tetiana K. Smith Dawoud Bey (’07) Nicholas S. Czurylo (BA ’13) Adriana J. Galvan (BA ’01) Ari F. Glass Jana & Tom Merrill Marc D. Sokol Adam T. Biba Anna Dagata David M. Galvan Jr. (BA ’11) Nancy Goldenberg (MFA ’05) David J. Michor (’03) Jeanne M. Sowa Phillip I. Bloom (BA ’09) Barbara A. Dallia Alyssa D. Gambla (BA ’13) Mark A. Gonzalez (’91) T.J. Mino (BA ’99) Rowena C. Spencer Sandra J. Boersma–Klauck Cheryl D’Amato Edward H. & Saundra L. Gamble Oscar B. & Carolyn G. Goodman Dimitri W. Moore (BA ’11) Matthew M. Staed (BA ’06) (BA ’86) Paul D’Amato & Anne Harris Connor Gandolfo Christopher J. Gorcik Karen Morby Dorothy N. Starks Clarissa M. Bonet (MFA ’12) Despina Damianides (BA ’03) Eric J. Garcia Diana L. Gorman–Jamrozik (’02) Judith Morley Murray W. & Jan O. Stein Zoely Borges (BA ’06) Louise R. Dana (BA ’12) Rhonda Garner James M. & Lynda V. Grant John T. Morrison Steven G. M. & Jacqueline Stein Kate M. Borghgraef (BA ’11) Brittania G. Dancer (BA ’06) Thomas D. Gasek Myra B. Greene Marie H. Moss Scott T. Summers Matthew P. Bors Jake R. Davidson Jeff J. Gatesman (’92) Ann H. & David Gunkel Davy & Mariam Mui Daniel E. & Sara B. Susmano Hannah L. Bourne James S. Dawson V (BA ’77) & Vincent J. Gatewood (BA ’08) Susan Hahn K. Roger & Ella Mui R. B. Sutherland Kristy Bowen (MFA ’07)* Jacqueline Dawson Gloria J. Gatz Joan S. Hammel (BA ’86) & Miranda Mui Michael A. Swidler Timothy S. Boyde (BA ’09) Stanley G. De Cwikiel (’94) Patricia A. Gayden (’08) Mark Hammel Rita Mui Lauren M. Targ (MFA ’05) Daniel A. Braden (BA ’12) Jacquelyn M. Dean (BA ’04) Phil Geer Dennis P. Han M.D. & Catharine Musho Bradley M. Temkin Ana Brazaityte (BFA ’11) Robert P. Deckert (BA ’73) Justine M. Gendron (BA ’07) Amy W. Han Ph.D. Trent I. Musho (BA ’12) Frederick C. & E. L. Tillis Sean P. Brennan (BA ’02) Sharon & Robert DeGeorge Theresa Gennari Jodi L. Hardee (MA ’04) & Albert J. Nader Elizabeth Uhl Mary Brill Cara J. Dehnert Huffman (MAM Trudi A. Gentry (BA ’95) John R. Hardee Isaac Nahon Ted Uzzle Emory L. Brown (BA ’00) ’10) & William E. Huffman Lena A. Geronimo (BA ’10) Gregory J. Harris (BFA ’06) Sally S. Nalbor (MFA ’04) & Cyn V. Vargas (BA ’01; MFA ’13) & Jordan K. Brown Desiree D. DeMars (BA ’01) Jerome R. Gilbert (BA ’10) Marsha J. Heizer (’91) Allan M. Nalbor Cesar Vargas Patrick D. Brown (BA ’12) Deneen R. Denham (BA ’92) Jeffrey M. Ginsberg & Hal Brun Howard M. Hildebrandt Robert S. Neches (BA ’74) William L. Vautrain Bethany Brownholtz* Margaret H. Denny Matthew W. Glasson (’98) Susan E. Hilferty Charles P. Newell & Franklin S. Walters (BA ’04) & Ivan Brunetti* Kristin M. & Robert D. Desrochers Corey T. Glenn (BA ’11) Robert F. Hirsch Kathleen Collins Keri L. Kurlinski–Walters (’13) Russell Bruzek Jeannie DeVita (BA ’95) Roger C. Glienke (BA ’75) & Mary B. Hoerner (MFA ’07) K. J. Ng Sally M. Weiss (MA ’89) Allison C. Buell (BA ’96) Juan J. Diaz (BA ’97) Jody Glienke Cassidy L. Holtz (BFA ’13) John J. & Alicja M. Nowak Brent S. White (BA ’08) John M. Buhta (BA ’03) Danielle N. Dickerson (BA ’95) Marek A. Glinski (BA ’85) Laura J. Hool (BA ’06) Paige Nowak (BA ’12) Eric V.A. Winston Ph.D. Hadassah E. Bullis (BA ’12) Barbara A. Diener (MFA ’13) Amalia Gonzalez (BA ’11) Ksenia R. Horobchenko (MFA ’93) Thomas A. Nowak Marla & Steven Winston Richard P. Burgauer Nicole R. Dieschbourg Daniel P. Gorski (BA ’98) & Volodya Horobchenko (BA ’86; MA ’10) Jay P. Wolke & Avril J. Lindsay A. Burn (BA ’07) Julian Dieterle Diane Goyette James E. Houston Jaclyn M. O’Brien (BA ’10) & Greenberg (’05)* Arzo Burnett Jr. (’94) Amber M. Donahue (BA ’06) Allison M. Grant (MFA ’11) Susan M. Hubbard (MFA ’93) Sean M. O’Brien Arthur & Elaine Wong Tracy J. Burns (’86) Tiffany M. Dotson (BA ’12) Robert O. Grayson (’85) Cheryl D. & Bradley A. Jackson Michael E. Olszewski David M. Wong Lisa K. Butler (BA ’05) Bernard J. Dowling Steven B. Greenberg & Donna M. Jagielski Edward H. & Susan M. Irene Wong Mathew Calica Samantha L. Doyle (BFA ’12)* Roberta Rubin (BA ’90; MAT ’96) Oppenheimer Grace Woo & Theodore Schuldt Kenneth G. Campbell (BA ’73) Nora W. Drew Yvonne C. Greene–Lofton Kristen L. Johnson (BA ’92) & Karla P. Palomo (BA ’01) & Andrea R. Wood Leon Campbell (BA ’85) Jess T. Dugan (BA ’83; MAT ’11) Timothy Johnson Sebastian Ficht Krista Wortendyke (MFA ’07) Nina L. Campbell Wilhelmina J. Dunbar (BA ’02) Christopher M. Greiner (MFA ’04) Catharine J. Jones Debra R. Parr Linda Young Lorraine M. Campione Hannah L. Dunsirn Gina J. Grillo (MFA ’99) Marlene & Robert C. Josefsberg Maria Patel Peter X. Zhang Timothy A. Campos (BFA ’10) & Victor M. Echevarria (BA ’94) & Christine Gryko Elaine K. & Robert O. Joseph Nick A. Patricca Seymour Zitomersky Kelly Campos Jennie A. Rodriguez (BA ’86) Joseph M. Grzeskowiak (’02) S. B. Kanters Francesca R. Peppiatt & Frank & Carol Canzolino Quiana J. Edmond (BA ’12) Claudia E. Guerrero–Zalokar Dennis L. A. Keeling (’91) Douglas Tonks* Up to $99 Erik T. Carlson (BA ’04) Ross J. Efaw (BFA ’07) (BA ’90) William D. Kerr Jr. M.D. & Samuel E. & Paula F. Pfeffer Ph.D. Anonymous (10) Amy S. Casden Anton A. Eggertsson Patricia A. Gullett (MA ’90) Ausrine Kerr Anthony S. Phillips & Christina J. Adachi Charles S. Castle (BA ’07) Renee S. Elkin Susan K. Gumbiner Azeeza Khan Judith Raphael Jay S. & Lalaine P. Adler Beth Caucci (MFA ’08) Terry J. & Elaine G. Emrick Fred R. & Karen K. Gustafson Parisa Khosravi (BA ’87) William F. Phillips (BA ’72) Kathleen S. Aharoni (BA ’91) Edward B. Cella Laura Englander Matthew S. Hale (BA ’97) Soo La Kim* Melissa A. Pinney (’77) & Heather Ahrens Marie A. Chaiart (BA ’05) Holly Enns Robert L. Hall (BA ’99) Michael F. King (BA ’93) & Roger W. Lehman Nicholas Albertson (MFA ’13) Sheila K. Chalakee (BA ’05) Barbara J. Ericks CPA (BA ’85) Wayne Hall Annette King Jeremy A. Policarpio (’07) Carminda Aldeza Joseph R. Chambers (BA ’05) Jeff P. Ericksen (BA ’90) & Carol Halliday McQueen Craig Kirsch (MFA ’98) Joseph B. Powers (BA ’72) Krzysztof D. Aleszczyk (BA ’10) Albert Chan Korynne Ericksen Rebecca A. Haltom (BA ’10) Margaret Klenck Michael Rabiger & Nancy A. Leon Q. Allen I (’02) Kim & Miriam Chan Jenine K. Esco (BA ’98) Lee R. Hamilton & Tom Pado Don B. Klugman Mattei (’89) Robert L. Alpaugh Kimberly L. Chavarria (BA ’90) & Paula E. Estrada Jones (BA ’03) Gabriel B. Hammer (BA ’07) Sumner & Patty A. Korins Constantin & Mariana Rasinariu Shannon L. Amoako (BA ’98) Criston C. Chavarria Gregg Evans (MFA ’13) Charles Hammond Jr. (’07)* Daniel S. Krzyzanowski Vonita Reescer Rich Andersen Gregory J. & Kimberly M. James G. Faber (BA ’98) Elizabeth A. Hamsher (BA ’11) Kristen N. Kula Steven F. Rehkemper Aaron Anderson Chismark Jennifer E. Fagan Alexander H. Hansen (BA ’11) Aviya Kushner Douglas A. & Pegeen Catherine Anderson Mary T. Christel (MA ’88) Lucious Fair Jr. (BA ’76) Lori J. Hardy (BA ’00) Joseph D. La Rue Reichert Powell Eric R. Anderson Lois A. Cichowski Mary R. Fanning Alice Hargrave Stanley Landis Jr. Jori Remus Rachel Angres Saundra Clark John Fee (MFA ’08) Colleen E. Hart (BA ’08) Scott Laster (’78) Gina M. Reyes (BA ’05) Robert L. Ariail SCDL Mokneque D. Clark–Morris Dave J. Feiferis (BA ’08) Matthew Hart (BA ’63) & Gabriel K. & Linda W. Lau Dale M. Roadcap (MA ’89) & Robert L. Arons (BA ’70) (MA ’05) & Kirkland Morris Joel & Toni Fenchel Joan M. Hart Mary W. Leibman Nieves Roadcap Jennifer D. Arrington–Cutaia Dustin A. Clendenen (BA ’09) Michelle N. Ferguson (BA ’13) Harold Haydon+* Lori Lennon Deborah D. Roberts (’99) & (BA ’96) & Lou S. Cutaia John R. Cole Jr. & Katherine Barbara P. Fernandez (MA ’89) & Cupid M. Hayes (BA ’97) Kimberly A. Leukaufe (BA ’96) Bill Roberts Maritsa Arteaga (BA ’10) H. Cole Bennie W. Fernandez Rose Hayes

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Steven B. Heath (MAT ’96) Steve H. Kolios (BA ’88) Pamela K. Matthias Shannon A. Page (BA ’13) Patricia Schoelkopf Nancy Toncy* Andrea M. Heckman Richard F. Kollinger Sondra Mayer (BA ’98) Vincent C. Pagone Eliot B. Schreiber Joseph W. Trimarco Sr. (BA ’67) & Ernest Held Mark J. Kosin Todd M. Mayhew (BA ’05) Katherine Pallasch–Kingston Jordan A. Schulman Patricia A. Trimarco Kathleen T. Hennen Keith S. Kostecka Christina T. Mazurek (BA ’90) & Tim A. Kingston Michelle L. Schultz (BA ’01) Steven A. Tryba Kimberly A. Henry–Thornton Robert & Roberta Koverman Kelley N. McAdams (BA ’12) Janel E. Palm (MA ’01) Elliott K. Scott (BA ’00; MA ’04) Marianna Tsiamas (BA ’06) Kelly M. Kovreg* David W. & Mary K. McAlpin Karla Palmer Jay Seawell (MFA ’13) David H. Tuber (BA ’05) Robert A. Herbert Thomas E. Koziol (BA ’77) John A. & Andree S. McArthur Beverly Paonessa Mary Anne & Jeffrey W. Seeck Richard V. Turek Sr. (AA ’61) & Daniel R. & Catherine P. Christina & Yan Krasov Timothy McCaskey Steven R. & Gayl N. Parr Alyson K. Seeger (BA ’10) Sylvia Turek Herdeman Robert Krauvitz Patrick D. & Stacey McCusker Kelsey A. Parrott (BA ’12) Michael H. Seitzinger (BA ’00) Lauren Turk (’12) Sally K. Herman (BA ’85) & Kraig T. Krueger (BA ’93) & William & Barbara McElroy Gabriel Pastrana (BA ’05) Eric B. Semelroth Hollis Turner Frank D. Herman Nicole V. Krueger Sharon M. McGee–Jenkins Snehal M. Patel (PCRT ’10) Earl K. Sewell (BA ’12) Carlos E. Uribe–Cardozo (’12) Andrea V. Hernandez (BA ’12) Yatzik J. Krupak (’03) (BA ’87) Lee C. Payton Dave Shaffer Charlston C. Uvas (BA ’01) Dana Herpe Donald F. & Debora L. Kuchey Douglas McGoldrick Jermaine L. Pearson (BA ’10) Mirella Shannon David Valadez Kristi L. Herro (MFA ’03) & Nickolas G. Kusen (BA ’08) Patricia M. McGuire (BA ’89) Mary F. Perez Brian G. Shaw (BA ’86) & Mario E. Valdivieso (BA ’08) Paul J. Herro Peter Kuttner James W. & Mary Sue E. J.C. Peterson (BA ’91) Stephanie L. Shaw (BA ’92; Sara R. Van Koningsveld Kathy R. Herwig (BA ’94) Jerry F. LaBuy (BA ’98) & McInerney Robert Petrulis MFA ’09) (CERT ’10; MA ’11) Aaron T. Hilliard (BA ’09) Brooke LaBuy Adam M. McOmber* Mackenzie L. Peykov (BA ’09) & Christopher S. Shaw Kristie D. Borgmann (BA ’04) & Deborah A. Hines (’87) Joseph F. Laiacona (’07) Marc A. Mellens (BA ’12) Alex Peykov Matthew Shenoda Joshua J. Van Praag (’05) David M. & Cindy S. Hitch Angela A. LaRocca (BA ’08) Darius Menafield (’00) Benjamin J. Pfeifer (PCRT ’06) Anna Sher (BFA ’11) Rickey A. Varisce (’01) Jack C. & Linda A. Hoag Victoria & John R. Lasser Dena Mendes Daniel J. Pico (BA ’02) Karen Shiffman Carl J. Varnado (BA ’03; MAM ’12) Richard J. Holland (BA ’98) Richard A. & Angela Lastomirsky Adriana Mendez (BFA ’12) Kimberly L. & Donald E. Pinkston Tom Shimenetto (’96) James B. Vartan (BA ’01) Sherell M. Hollis Lois K. & James T. Latimer Joseph N. Meno Alison Pinsler (’84) & Eric Chavkin Junia J. Shlaustas Lauryn S. Vaughan (BA ’11) Heather S. Holmberg (BA ’79) Sharon R. Latson–Flemister (BA ’97; MA ’00)* Jonathan M. Pivovar (BFA ’12) Mary Kay Siebert Nassoma S. Vernon (BA ’03) Crystal L. Holt (MFA ’10) (BA ’98) Ruth Meridjen (BA ’12) Nestor C. Policarpio (BA ’10) Deborah L. Siegel (BA ’83; Mary Visconti Harvey Honig & Paul Latza (BA ’12) Dennis Merritt Ronnie Polidoro (BA ’09) MFA ’08) & Kenneth Bowen Mary L. Wade (’93) Jean E. Scott–Honig Naomie Laurent (BA ’12) David M. Meyer (BA ’06) Anthony E. Polito (BA ’11) Robert A. Signer Susan Wagenaar Michael R. & Pamela S. Howard Marcia Lauzon (MA ’92) Nancy Michael* Louis F. Pradt (BA ’96) Katie M. Sink (BA ’12) Jeffery & Lisa J. Wahlstrom Janice M. Hundrieser (BA ’81) Ronald Lawless (BA ’82) Barbara J. Miller (BA ’77) Benjamin D. Price (BA ’08) Nellie E. Skallerup (BA ’07) Hanna B. Walkowaik Carlos E. Hurtado (BA ’97) Peter Le Grand Susan W. Miller (’00)* Beatrice Prunotto Joseph A. Skertich (MFA ’11) Jeremiah A. Wallis (BFA ’09) Margaret T. Hussey (BA ’81) Ching I. & Lee Sam Milman (BA ’10) Michelle L. Ptack (BA ’96) & Tianna C. Skordilis Elizabeth A. Walsh (BA ’01) Gretchen M. Husting (BA ’12) Han N. Lee Michael Miner Daniel H. Ptack Jess Smith (BA ’82) Sharon F. Warner (MA ’83) Dorianne Irons Ronald D. Lehmann (BA ’05) Laurence P. Minsky (’93)* Preston A. Purchase (BA ’13) Martina L. Smith (BA ’06) Loraine T. Washington (BA ’82) Stanislava Sasha Ivanovic Mark E. Leidig Charles E. Mitchell (BA ’12) David M. Puszkiewicz (’95) Melissa Smith (BA ’13) Jacob M. Watts (BA ’12) (BA ’10) Michael Levin* Janice M. & W. J. T. Mitchell Dustin D. Puttuck (’13) Vladislav Solc John W. Wawrzaszek Jose A. Jaime (BA ’03) Ilya Levinson & Martine Benmann Vukasin Mitrovic (BA ’07) Berniece L. Rabe Tryand (MA ’88) Tony Soluri (BA ’75) (BA ’03; BA ’12) Alison S. James & Lynn E. Levy Ashley V. Mohney & James P. Tryand Matthew M. Soria (BFA ’11) Gary S. Weber Marc N. Downie Amanda M. Lewis (BFA ’13) Whitney A. Molsen (BA ’08) Kristine M. & David B. Emily P. Spieler Andrea Wedren Denise James Amy Li Chancellor A. Moore (BA ’10) Raino–Ogden Jamie S. Spirakes (BA ’06) Venus M. Wehle (BA ’85) Jenny M. Januszewski (’97) Joseph C. Liccar LaShera Z. Moore (BA ’12) Allyson E. Ratliff (MAM ’11) Nancy Sprince & Craig Zwerling Jeffrey B. Wehrmeister (BA ’90) Constance S. Jeffrey (’73) Maris V. Lidaka Jr. (BA ’02) Patricia Morehead (’07) & Teresita P. Ravinera Agnes A. Sprouse Mooney & Paula L. Weiner (BA ’97) Amanda M. Johnson (MFA ’07) Justin A. Ligeikis Philip Morehead James W. Raynor Charles P. Mooney Ann E. Weisman & Bob Szurgot Kristin I. Johnson (BA ’08) Christopher M. Liliedahl (BA ’08) Michael D. Morgridge (BA ’91) Shawn M. Recinto* David L. Stamps II (BA ’03) David A. Weiss (BA ’88) & Phyllis A. Johnson (’08)* Kenny Z. & Rosebelle T. Lin Keith A. Morris (BA ’04) Marvin C. Reed (BA ’07) Kimberly J. Stanton (BA ’99) Helen C. Weiss William R. Johnson Lisa Lindvay (MFA ’09) David F. Morton (BA ’05) Jocelyn R. Reese (MAT ’97) & Anjuli D. Starling (BA ’11) Donald A. Weiss (BA ’86) & Rosetta M. Johnston (BA ’11) Steven A. Liss Michael J. Moscato (BA ’94) James R. Julien Laurie A. Starrett (BA ’10) Lisa Weiss Cheryl D. Jones (BA ’93) Alexia M. Lodwick Michael K. Mosley Jr. (BA ’10) Marion J. Reis (’90) & Arthur J. Stein (BA ’66) Marvin Weiss Ian R. Jones (BA ’12) Mary K. & Daniel S. Loizzi Howard Moy Mary Farrell Reis Jeremiah Steinberger Sam T. Weller (BA ’90; MFA ’01) & Katherine M. Jordan Timothy S. Long (BA ’81) Susan L. Moy Elio H. Reyes (BA ’08) John H. & Marlyn L. Steury Jan Nguyen (’10)* Powell C. Jordano (BFA ’13) Jeffrey G. Lopez (BA ’01) Winnie Moy Christopher J. Richert (BA ’99) Serita D. Stevens Tarlow (BA ’81) Jill K. Wenz (BFA ’04) Anthony Jorden (BA ’92) Jennifer Lopez Bob Mui Michael Riendeau Joanne M. Stockman Brooke M. Westerlind Carl P. Jossell Sr. & Mariana Lopez Roth Mui Phyllis Roberts Joni M. Strand Angela C. Whitfield Debra A. Jossell Mario R. Lopez (BA ’90) & Richard Muller Cole A. Robertson (MFA ’08) Walter D. Street IV Mark Widman Sean J.S. Jourdan (MFA ’09) Amilla Lopez George H. Munger III & Julie Rodrigues Widholm Margaret A. Strickland (’11) Alexander E. Wieder Jeffrey Jur (BA ’76) Martha C. Lopez (BFA ’13) Fredi Munger Lisa C. Rodrigues Shayla Sullivan Holden P. Wiens Alan L. Kagan (BA ’82) Rodolfo A. Lorejo Thomas G. & Charmayne Robert M. Rogers Kathlyn Z. Sultan (MAM ’11) April I. Wilkins Keith S. Kaminski (BA ’96) Karen M. Louis (MA ’09) M. Munizzi Lauren Ronsse Anne Swaney Jonathan Williams (BA ’10) Hilda Karadsheh (’00) Thomas M. & C. Mary Love Maria V. Murczek Debora Rosenblum LCSW Ross Swaney & Kevin J. Williamson (BA ’01) Anna Kaspar (BFA ’13) Kathy & Robert Lovejoy Dale Rae Murphy (BA ’81) Teresa A. Rosendale Elizabeth M. Greene Reginald B. Wilson Ani B. Katz Michael E. Luckovich Carla Mutone (BA ’98) Mark M. Rosengren (BA ’01) Miriam B. Swanson Aaron C. Winkler (BA ’04) Jennifer L. Keats (MFA ’07) James D. Mac Lennan Luis Nasser Chelsea A. Ross Maureen K. Swiertz (BA ’95) Paris R. Winston (MAT ’01) Jeffrey S. Keck Brian L. MacLean (BA ’01) Anthony M. Nawrocki (BA ’09) Maria I. Rostro (BA ’05) Vicki L. & James A. Sylvester Sara J. Winston Patrice Keleher Angela M. Malcomson (BA ’96) Thomas L. Nawrocki (BA ’77) Ilana Diamond Rovner Alex Szabo (BA ’10) Bethany Wirtz (BA ’13) Steve Kelley Joanne Malinowski Ashley E. & Andrew N. Netzer Erick D. Rowe (MFA ’03) Matthew Szymanski Gregory J. Witt (’98) & Joy Witt Kurt E. Kennedy Dean J. Mallires (BA ’71) & Ashlee N. Niec (BFA ’08) Jeffrey C. & Susan Rubenstein Euclid J. Talbot (BA ’85) & Michael & Lisa Wolanski (MFA ’12; MA ’13)* Lori A. Mallires Shuai Niu Daniel T. Rubio (BA ’05) Janet M. Talbot* Ethan C. Wolf (BA ’11) Maureen Kennedy Mark J. Mallorca (BA ’05) Kristen R. Nolan (BA ’00) Gary A. & Linda S. Rudenberg Kimberly L. Tau (BA ’13) Latoya M. Wolfe (BA ’05) Karl M. Kiel Michelle C. Maloy Dillon (’95) Marilyn K. Nolan (BA ’78) Robert A. Rudner (BA ’75) Madeline G. Taussig Leonard F. & Helen F. Wong Kimberly Kim Benjamin B. Manns (BA ’12) Niki R. Nolin (’00)* Maria E. Ruiz Edwin E. Taylor (BA ’12) Patricia M. & Stephen W. Wood Leticia & Howard Kim Jamie T. Marcelle (BA ’12) Jamel E. Nuckolls (BA ’92) Shannon M. Ryan (BA ’12) Olga V. Tchetchina (BA ’03) Thomas H. Wood III (BA ’05) Kevin King Annika Marie Lawrence W. Oberc (MA ’97)* Dennis E. Salaty (BA ’78) Terri P. Tepper (BA ’81) & James D. Woodward II (MA ’03) Jonathan Kinkley Guido R. Mariottini (BA ’85) & Jill Obertubbesing Jennifer A. Sauzer (BA ’99) Lawrence Tepper Etta L. Worthington (BA ’72) Susanna K. Kirkwood & Susan L. Mariottini Timothy J. O’Brien (BA ’95) Kenneth G. Savoca (BA ’13) Christopher L. Terry (MFA ’12) Joseph R. Wright (BA ’06) & Dieter S. Kirkwood (BFA ’04) Gary B. & Rebecca S. Markstein Rosa H. O’Connor (BA ’55) Ross Sawyers Samantha Tessendorf (BA ’11) Leslie Wright Kevin J. Kita Melissa A. Marlette (BA ’07) Keith A. Ogier (BA ’93) David C. Schalliol Alicia A. Thomas Kevin W. Wright (BA ’02) & Louis Kittlaus Matthew A. Marposon (BA ’11) Kimberly Ogle Anderson Lauren L. Scharf (BA ’11) Linda Thomas Colette N. Gabriel (BA ’02) Dave J. Klec (BA ’00) Dianne M. Martia (BA ’78) Karlene M. Olesuk (MA ’02) Jason L. Schettler (BA ’98) & Lydia Thompson Kim P. Wright (BA ’95) Amy A. Kline (BA ’06) Janet Martins* Barbara L. Olson Amelia C. Schettler Mark Thompson Stephen C. Yealin (BA ’07) Jennifer L. Klingberg (BA ’02) John Martins* Nancy D. Olson Charles D. Schildt (BA ’13) Robert & Christine Thompson Jessica L. Young (MA ’01) & Kelley E. Knudson (BFA ’13) Terry Maslanka Nancy A. Onderdonk (MA ’00) Madalyn S. Schiller (BA ’12) Erik C. Tillmans (BA ’01) William A. Young* David A. Kohl (BA ’75) James J. & Deborah Z. Mathews Diane O’Neill (BA ’84) Patricia M. Schiro Sheryl Tirol (BA ’00) Judy B. Young Ryan J. Kohler Richard R. Matson (BA ’98) George F. Orlowski Jr. (BA ’87) Steffani Schlierf (BA ’11) DeOtis N. Tole (BA ’11) Whitney A. Young (BA ’12) Mari J. Kohn (BA ’88) Kirsten M. Mattheis (BA ’10) Heather L. Paarlberg (BA ’12) Monica K. Schmidt David S. Tolsky (BA ’83) & George Zarr Ahmed M. Kolacek (BA ’10) Mark A. Matthias & Susan Padveen (’02) Felicia J. Schneiderhan (MFA ’02) Jessica Tolsky Volodymyr Zaytsev (BFA ’12)

demo spring/summer 2014 45 DONOR LIST

Nejron Zeko (BA ’10) SierraPine $500–$999 ANCHOR GRAPHICS Paschal Y. Younge $1,000–$2,499 Larae Zeman Jerome H. Stone Family C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Individuals William J. Zick Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Michael Zerbe Foundation CBS Films $1,000–$2,499 Meng Ni & Zhang Yi Zhang U.S. Equities Realty, Inc. Etymotic Research, Inc. George E. Muller Organizations $500–$999 Patrick Zielinski (BA ’11) The Zeman Family Foundation Hupernikao Fund Madeline Murphy Rabb $5,000–$9,999 After School Matters Susan A. Zindle (BA ’91) J.Cheikh* Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Virginia C. Zirkle $5,000–$9,999 Lake View Musical Society $250–$499 Up to $99 Jabari Zuberi (BFA ’09) AlliedBarton Security Lana Jewelry* Kevin Kelly & Erin Jaeb $100–$249 PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Daniella M. Zuccheri Services, LLC Logan Square Neighborhood Boston College Truist Adam O. Zyglis Autohaus on Edens Association Organizations Central Michigan University Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Time Warner Employee $5,000–$9,999 University of Alabama Huntsville THE DANCE CENTER Organizations The Chicago Drama League Grants Programs Illinois Arts Council University of Colorado at Boulder Individuals $5M+ CoBank TransUnion, LLC University of Missouri–St. Louis $25,000–$49,999 Illinois Board of Higher Education The Dow Jones News Fund, Inc. Samuel Weinstein Family $2,500–$4,999 University of Pittsburgh Elizabeth A. Liebman Ph.D. Family Focus, Inc. Foundation Packaging Corporation $500,000–$999,999 Follett Higher Education Group Youth Guidance Project of America CENTER FOR COMMUNITY $5,000–$9,999 US Army Research, Development Illinois State Board of Education ARTS PARTNERSHIPS Marcia E. Lazar (MFA ’03) & & Engineering Command Lake County Press, Inc.* $250–$499 BOOK & PAPER CENTER Individuals Alan O. Amos Macy’s Bloomingdale’s* Individuals $500–$999 $250,000–$499,999 Marsh Affinity Practice Boss Online, Inc. $250–$499 Suzanne G. McBride & $1,000–$2,499 Chicago Department of Family Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.* Chicago Public Schools Barbara B. Leyendecker John R. O’Neill David D. & Carolyn L. Colburn & Support Services C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation The Lawrence Pucci Wedgewood Harvey & Madeleine Plonsker Pamela Crutchfield Robert R. McCormick Foundation David & Agatha Moll Society of Chicago Up to $99 Patrick D. & Stacey McCusker Pritzker Foundation Charitable Fund Lettuce Entertain You Dennis Bayuzick $250–$499 Travis Foundation The Elizabeth Morse Enterprises, Inc.* Roger B. & Marcia Johnston Darlene E. Fieberg $500–$999 U.S. Department of Education Charitable Trust Lulu’s on the Avenue Nancy Rampson William C. Hunt The Nielsen Company Glenda & John Mulac Bari Zaki $100–$249 Susan A. Manning & $100,000–$249,999 The Northern Trust Company Charitable Account J. A. & Blair Douglas A. Doetsch The Chicago Community Trust Sarah Siddons Society, Inc. National Academy of Television Organizations Natasha H. Egan (MFA ’98) & D. E. Price & Louis J. Yecies The Coca Cola Foundation Arts & Sciences $10,000–$24,999 Zach Egan Spencer Family Charitable Fund $2,500–$4,999 Open Society Foundations $250–$499 Ariel Investments $100–$249 Up to $99 John C. Green Ph.D. & $50,000–$99,999 Atelier Azza* Another Studio $5,000–$9,999 Mary Damon Tess E. Green After School Matters Continental Painting & Bloom Yoga Studio* Illinois Arts Council Kenneth C. & Lynne M. Gotsch Denise M. Rosenfeld (BA ’01; The Louis Armstrong Educational Decorating, Inc. The C. G. Jung Center Pamela Jordan MA ’05) & Thomas S. Foundation, Inc. DST Systems, Inc. Chicago Network For $1,000–$2,499 Amber Kouba Rosenfeld Efroymson Family Fund, Matching Gifts Program Justice & Peace CEC ArtsLink, Inc. Guy & Kristin Massey Susan F. Rossen a CICF Fund New England Foundation Encana Cares Foundation Feigenbaum Nii Foundation Sara Schuneman Stephen D. Roy & Lloyd Kohler Georgia–Pacific Foundation for the Arts Fashion Outlets of Chicago* Brian G. Shaw (BA ’86) & National Science Foundation W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. Homemade Pizza Company, LLC THE CENTER FOR BLACK Stephanie L. Shaw $100–$249 The Negaunee Foundation Toyota Dealer Match Program JP Morgan Chase Foundation MUSIC RESEARCH (BA ’92; MFA ’09) Sandra Allen & Jim Perlow TREK on Michigan Avenue Roger Lehman & Melissa Ann Individuals Tom Sherry & Jennifer Kurt M. Christoffel $25,000–$49,999 The Yarka Vendrinska Pinney Fund $2,500–$4,999 A. Dunham Nancy Church Anonymous Photojournalism Neuropsychiatric Services SC Jean B. Stearns* Lynn M. Tuttle Peter N. & Susan F. Gray Driehaus Design Initiative Memorial Fund PPG Industries Foundation Randall S. Mattheis The Richard H. Driehaus The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation Pride Realty Group $1,000–$2,499 Organizations Robert & Marsha Mrtek Foundation Smiling Bright* Sterling Stuckey $2.5 MILLION to $5 MILLION Elaine A. Sachnoff The Fogelson Foundation $1,000–$2,499 Space Movement Project* U.S. Department of Education Judith Sagan Grosvenor Capital Anonymous Swartwerk Media Design $100–$249 Clyde Whitaker Management, L.P. 900 North Michigan Shops* Uber Technologies, Inc.* Jean E. Snyder Ph.D. $500,000–$999,999 Melinda A. Wilson (’04) Mark Vend Company The AMD Family Fund Uline Dolores White Chicago Public Schools John D. & Alexandra C. Nichols The American College Visceral Dance Center* Barbara Wright–Pryor Illinois State Board of Education Up to $99 Family Foundation Breaking Limits Lucius R. & Christine B. Wyatt Dale Boyer The PNC Financial Services Group Chicago Bar Association Up to $99 $100,000–$249,999 Paul & Christy Fisher The Second City, Inc. The Donald W. Collier Charitable AT&T United Way Employee Up to $99 JP Morgan Chase Foundation Karen A. Fitzner & Weaver Family Foundation Trust II Giving Campaign Ken J. Archer John D. & Catherine T. Richard A. Heckinger Comcast Corporation The Blackstone Hotel* Philip V. & Christine W. Bohlman MacArthur Foundation Gilbert R. Ghez $10,000–$24,999 Creative Composites Ltd Campbell & Company Jane M. Bowers Polk Bros. Foundation Christine Harber Anonymous Edelman Public Relations Chicago Bears Football Club* Leonard L. & Cheryl R. Brown United Way of Metropolitan Virginia S. Holbert AAR Corp. Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc. Chicago History Museum* Gary Burns Ph.D. Chicago David & Beth Jarl The Art Institute of Chicago Charles R. Feldstein & Chicago Holistic Medicine* James G. Carroll John R. Jenkins Mary Barnes Donnelley Family Company, Inc. Chicago Sun–Times* Barbara Cooper $25,000–$49,999 Christopher & Maryann Krall Foundation Fox Valley Winery, Inc.* Chicago White Sox* Jacqueline C. DjeDje & Community Consolidated School Christian Sheppard William Blair & Company French American Cultural CorePower Yoga* Eddie S. Meadows District 65 Beth E. & Gerard C. Smetana Foundation Exchange Daystar School* William Egan Crown Family Philanthropies Ellen Stone Belic Blick Art Materials Gilt City Limited Fernwork Productions Jonathan Eubanks* United Way of Metropolitan Anthony & Marcia Thomas BMO Harris Bank Global Philanthropy Partnership Las Vegas Sun Katlyn Free Chicago Impact Fund Thomas Tremback Arlen & Elaine Cohen Rubin Greater Horizons Mercedes–Benz USA LLC, Sandra J. Graham Ph.D. Christine J. Watkins Charitable Fund The Greer Foundation Central Region* Regina A. Harris Baiocchi* $10,000–$24,999 Connie’s Pizza Links Hall, Inc. Network for Good Robert A. Harris* Anonymous Organizations Barry S. Crown Charitable Trust Make It Better North Jersey Media Group, Inc. Brian E. Johnson Children First Fund $50,000–$99,999 Crown Family Philanthropies McGuire–Patmor Fund On–Camera Audiences, Inc. Bryan Johnson Illinois Arts Council Alphawood Foundation Gensler Metropolitan Rental Corp. Posture Perfect Pilates* J LanYè Terra Foundation for American Art National Endowment for the Arts Gidwitz Family Foundation Nordstrom Real Kitchen* Rainer E. Lotz Prince Charitable Trusts Goldman Sachs & Co. Northern Trust Charitable Rockit Ranch Productions* Robert M. Marovich Jr. $5,000–$9,999 Gray Family Fund Giving Program The San Diego Union–Tribune Stephen Miller Food 4 Less Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Harris Family Foundation Plante & Moran Sheraton Chicago Hotel & James H. & Lois G. Patterson National Performance Network New England Foundation for The Irving Harris Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Towers* Dean Reynolds U.S. Bancorp the Arts Illinois Arts Council Sound Incorporated Street Level Youth Media Patsy Simms–Turner John D. & Catherine T. Studio Gang Architects Twin Anchors Restaurant* Roy E. & Pauline Stillwell $2,500–$4,999 $10,000–$24,999 MacArthur Foundation Temple Family Charitable Twirl Advertising & Design LLC Robert Stoldal Evanston Community Foundation The Richard H. Driehaus National Endowment for the Arts Giving Fund Wood Family Foundation Carl Vermilyea Kinder Morgan Foundation Foundation Northeastern Illinois University YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago Griffin Woodworth The Irving Harris Foundation

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$5,000–$9,999 Ralph & Nancy Segall* $500–$999 William & Penny Obenshain Margaret B. & Kevin P. Stineman Organizations Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Guillaume Simoneau* Renee M. Bills (BA ’94) Richard J. & Kristin L. Parker Diane R. Thomas $25,000–$49,999 Illinois Arts Council Rhett W. & Kay Butler Julia Pesek Margaret & Michael Unetich After School Matters $10,000–$24,999 Eric W. Carroll* Alexandra Piper & Tricia Van Eck (MA ’98) & Lloyd A. Fry Foundation $2,500–$4,999 Patricia J. Carroll & Joyce E. & Bruce Chelberg Jonathan H. Seed Andre Fiebig Lannan Foundation Arts Midwest Anthony E. Jones* Patricia O. Cox Patricia Reilly Davis Alain & Lourdes Weber Isaac & Jennifer Goldman* Sam D. Evans Jr. Harrison Rivera–Terreaux $10,000–$24,999 $250–$499 Sandro Miller* Annelia W. Fritz Anne Rorimer Up to $99 Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Anonymous Susan O’Brien Lyons & Richard & Mary L. Gray* Laura Samson Nicole Alexander David C. & Sarajean Ruttenberg Douglas W. Lyons Joan M. Hall Anthony Sarkees Jeffrey C. Arnett Arts Foundation $100–$249 Christopher E. Olofson David & Jeannette Jordano Rebecca Schanberg Matthew Avignone (BA ’11) Illinois Arts Council Marsha & Robert Mrtek Jan Tichy* James A. & Sari L. Klein Patti Schumann Peter Balciunas JHB Gallery* Charitable Education Fund Lynn & Allen M. Turner* Todd Lavine Jeff & Carter Sharfstein Ashley Barnes Andrew Rafacz Gallery* Geoff Winningham* Louise & Ernest Love Elizabeth E. Siegel & Greg Jacobs Dawoud Bey (’07) Terra Foundation for American Art INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY Kevin E. Lyle Sara & Blake Swift Timothy Briner OF WOMEN & GENDER IN THE $5,000–$9,999 Kara Mann Ivana & Michael T. Taylor Carla Broxton $5,000–$9,999 ARTS & MEDIA Anonymous* Charles & Amy Marlas Larry A. Viskochil (BA ’75) Andrew R. Bruah (BFA ’08) Corbett vs. Dempsey* Individuals Jeremy C. Bolen (BA ’02)* Jacqueline E. Moss Reading & Andrea Wilson Stephanie D. Burke Gray Family Fund $2,500–$4,999 Suzette & Allen E. Bulley D. E. Price & Louis J. Yecies Sebastian Campos K & I Holdings Evette Cardona & Mona Noriega Veronique & Marc Bushala* David & Mollie Rattner $100–$249 Emilie Chandler Monique Meloche Gallery* Jean Choi Deborah D. & Jeffrey S. Ross Gerald W. Adelmann Sandra Chen Weinstein Weinberg/Newton Family $1,000–$2,499 Gorman Cook Richard & Ellen R. Sandor Portia Belloc Lowndes Vanessa Churchill Foundation Elliot & Frances Lehman John Corbett* Jan Theun van Rees* Katherine Benson James & Susan Davie Yossi Milo Gallery, Inc.* Cari & Michael J. Sacks Jim Dempsey* John Vinci John C. Berghoff Jr. & Jean Smith Douglas Dawson & Wallace S. John & Mary Frances Hass* Berghoff Bowling $2,500–$4,999 $100–$249 Sarah Herda $250–$499 Lawrence Bernstein Patricia Decicco Ameriprise Financial Annual Jane M. Saks Jason L. Lazarus (MFA ’06)* Jane Fulton Alt (’00) Richard A. Born Eva R. Deitch (’08) Giving Campaign Lisa Sandquist & Peter Kinney Michael J. Anderson Sangini Brahmbhatt Julie DiDomenico (BFA ’10) William Blair & Company Organizations Victor Skrebneski* Fernando & Magda Assens Jenny Brown Jennifer Donati Foundation $5,000–$9,999 Lawrence K. & Maxine Snider Sandra Bass Jacolyn Bucksbaum Jess T. Dugan Bloch Family Foundation Illinois Arts Council David A. Weinberg (’97) & Meaghan & James Benjamin Genia Chechersky Gary Faculjak Bulley & Andrews LLC The Momentum Project Grace A. Newton David W. & Carolyn C. Bomier Paul Clark Michelle Feuer City of St. George Timothy H. Brown & Jill M. Riddell Tara Cornell Alexandra L. Field (BA ’13) Catherine Edelman Gallery* $2,500–$4,999 $2,500–$4,999 Michelle & Theodore Buzby Ana C. Cummins Peter G. Fitzpatrick Richard Gray Gallery* Chicago Foundation for Women Patti T. Bartelstein (BA ’88) Helena Chapellin Wilson (BA ’76) Patricia M. Davis (’03) Scott D. Fortino (BA ’80) Kinney/Sandquist Family Fund Polk Bros. Foundation Julie Blackmon* & Clarence S. Wilson Jr. Calvin Engel Michael Walsh & Elizabeth Foster LATITUDE, Inc.* Sonia & Ted Bloch Waldemar Colon Gordon & Constance A. Ensing Lane M. Fujita (’05) Morgan Stanley Smith Barney $100–$249 Catherine Edelman* Laura & Tony Davis Joseph D. Eyer Bruce & Michele Gelman Global Impact Funding C.A.H., LLC Natasha H. Egan (MFA ’98) & Elizabeth & Sébastien de Arthur W. Fox Aron R. Gent (BFA ’07) Trust, Inc. Zach Egan Longeaux Timothy Garvey Ben F. & Gloria Golden Yancey Richardson Gallery* LIBRARY Joshua & Ikram Goldman Hugues & Camille B. Delannoy Mark Geall Susan Goren Carrie Secrist Gallery* Individuals Francois Grossas Monique Demery Matthew J. & Roxanna Goebel Marianne Grabowski Stephen Wirtz Gallery* $1,000–$2,499 Carles Guillot Gilles & Neeta Demeulenaere Fritz Goeckner & Tracy Bell Myra B. Greene Susan Mongerson Wunderlich Gary I. & Meryl Levenstein Tracy Dillard J. Mitchell Gordon Gwen Hafner $1,000–$2,499 (’91)* Margaret R. 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Galambos Jonathan Kinkley Laura Kinkley $500–$999 $100–$249 Greenberg (’05)* Christopher Galvin Michael L. & Marianne Kinkley Melissa Kirschner Butler Family Foundation Janice Kramer Jeanne Gang & Mark Schendel Anne N. Kostiner (BA ’81) & Peter Kuttner $1,000–$2,499 Susan Geraghty Lewis S. Kostiner Lignel Laurence $250–$499 Up to $99 Julia & Larry Antonatos Charles B. & Emily C. Grace Henry Kugeler Kristall Laursen The Art Institute of Chicago Christopher M. Greiner (MFA ’04) Thomas S. Armour Jr. & Douglas C. & Ann M. Grissom Jasmine Kwong Todd Maxwell Paul Elledge Photography James Hugunin* Robin S. Armour Gary N. Heiferman William Lieberman Kristopher Mendez Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Margaret T. Sullivan (MFA ’06) Curt R. & Lisa Bailey Whitley Herbert Kate Lorenz Ashley Miller Reina Sofía Philip D. Block IV & Axelle & Jan Horstmann Michelle Lynn Claire Molek Northern Trust Charitable Organizations Susanna R. Block Gregory D. Hoskins Martin Magid & Susan Beale Tara O’Connor Giving Program $10,000–$24,999 David & Jennifer Brooks Mariana E. & Paul R. Ingersoll Tiia Mandell Linda M. Ordogh Weisman Art Museum Arts Midwest Philip Hamp Kasia & Greg Kay Barbara Markoff–Eggener Beth Parsons David P. Hartney Roberta & Sam Kramer Caroline Masterson Eva Rachau $100–$249 $5,000–$9,999 Keith & Claire Koeneman Jennifer Krantz Lou Meluso Mia Ries–Wicklund (MAM ’12) Kohl Feinerman Family Illinois Humanities Council Stephen Kusmierczak Jr. Randall S. Kroszner & Ana Miyares & John Issa Vanessa Santi Charitable Trust Lisa Lindvay (MFA ’09)* David Nelson Anthony E. Nicholas Abby C. & Bill Schmelling Neapolitan LLC MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY Sioban Lombardi Mark J. & Christiane E. Ladd Robin Parsons Howard & Susan Stern PHOTOGRAPHY Christopher J. Meerdo* Katja Linnig Claire Pentecost Lejla Sunje Up to $99 Individuals Gary Metzner William R. Loesch Diane Reilly Bradley M. 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demo spring/summer 2014 47 UPCOMING EVENTS Spring/Summer 2014

MAY 1–8 Predetermined Structures Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave.

Predetermined Structures presents the works of 2013 Pougialis Fine Art Award winner Josh Kuffel and runner–up Leota Mea.

THROUGH MAY 24 My Florence: Photographs by Art Shay MAY 16 Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd floor This project by renowned Chicago photojournalist Art Shay documents his wife, Student work at A+D Gallery

Florence, and “the story in pictures of our 67 years of marriage.” Manifest Throughout campus colum.edu/manifest THROUGH JUNE 14

Manifest is an urban arts festival Manifest Exhibition celebrating the work and creativity of Averill and Bernard Leviton Columbia students. Free and open to A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave. the public, Manifest features music, exhibitions, screenings, presentations, Columbia College Chicago’s Manifest performances, an alumni reception Exhibition represents students’ comple- and much more. tion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree within the Art + Design Department.

JUNE 7–8 SEPTEMBER 19 Printers Row Lit Fest Printers Row in the South Loop Wabash Arts Corridor chicagotribune.com/ (WAC) Crawl printersrowlitfest Wabash Avenue in the South Loop colum.edu/waccrawl THROUGH JULY 13 Enjoy music and literary performances by Columbia’s community of artists Part of EXPO Art Week, the Wabash Arts Home Truths: Photography and at the Chicago Tribune’s annual Printers Corridor Crawl showcases the South Motherhood Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor Loop’s dynamic, creative community literary event in the Midwest, and shop and opens up Columbia’s on-campus Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan Ave. mocp.org a selection of artful items from galleries to public viewing. investigates the complex and demanding experience of motherhood Home Truths ShopColumbia. through the lenses of gender roles, domesticity, body and identity.

48 spring/summer 2014 demo BACKSTORY Live from Columbia College, it’s Saturday Night! How Comedy Studies led me to The Second City stage and on to New York City

By Aidy Bryant (BA ’09)

Aidy Bryant, left, and Cecily Strong (pictured with Josh Hutcherson) write for and star in SNL’s recurring sketch “Girlfriends Talk Show.” “Fifty percent of my job is writing,” Bryant says. “Every cast member writes for the show. It’s a huge part of the job.”

writing in a way that I hadn’t before. I really got my legs underneath me; ultimately, that led to me writing for Second City. After working there for about two years, I was writing and performing on the e.t.c. stage, doing a two-hour sketch revue with five other cast members. I was very lucky in that Lorne [Michaels, Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer] and the producers came to see my show at Second City. Later that week, I was called to come and audition [for SNL]. So I put together a five-minute showcase of my best material, and then I was flown out to New York and did my five-minute audition. I did one more audition, and then I was hired. My advice for aspiring comedians? Just get up in front of audiences as much as you can— because the good experiences and the bad experiences, they all will make you a better performer, and you only learn from being in front of a big group of people that you don’t know. That is really where I cut my teeth, doing Growing up in Arizona, Aidy Bryant (BA ’09) I always felt wacky or quirky or weird in high that. And really, I did it all over Chicago. I went “obsessed” over Saturday Night Live cast members school. And then when I got to Columbia, I was everywhere to be in front of an audience and like Molly Shannon, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler— surrounded by other weirdos, other creatives, practice honing my voice so that by the time I and she even dressed up like SNL characters for people with all kinds of interests and passions. got to where I am, I know what I like to write, Halloween. For college, she knew she wanted to When I was a freshman, I would do my normal and I know my strengths, and I know my weak- come to Chicago, home of The Second City (famed theatre classes by day. By night, I started taking nesses. It really helps when you get into these launching pad for the SNL players). Hard work classes at iO and other Chicago comedy theaters. high-pressure situations to know who you with Columbia’s Comedy Studies program and the So it was a lucky thing that the [Comedy Stu- are as a performer. D —As told to Kristi Turnbaugh Chicago improv scene paid off: Now in her second dies] program was just getting started as I was year at SNL, Bryant writes sketches and appears an upperclassman. I had done all these different weekly as a repertory player. things in the improv community, but I had PWEB EXTRAS never gotten my foot in at Second City. Learn more about Aidy Bryant’s SNL audition, It was a great way to start there, and really the show’s grueling schedule, lessons learned immerse myself in seeing the Mainstage and during the first season, her best writing and e.t.c. shows, and taking writing classes—really more at colum.edu/demo.

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