Fall / Winter 2014 Moore College of Art & Design 96% of 2013 Moore BFA graduates are employed or in graduate school, 90% in their field of study* * 2013 figures are representative of 102 of the 112 graduates who responded to our survey. Moore Magazine from the cover 96% collage was comprised of select works from the BFA 2014 graduating class. 2 3 1 5 4 6 7 1 Christy Dinsmore, Graphic Design 5 Valerie Lang, Illustration 2 Chelsea Maggi, Art Education 6 Brittany Cooke, Photography & Digital Arts 3 Kacie Doran, Illustration 7 Samantha Jauch, Photography & Digital Arts 4 Charmaine Yeung, Graphic Design Artwork Photographs: 2014 Thom Carroll Photography 1 Moore College of Art & Design FROM THE PRESIDENT This issue of our magazine focuses on Moore College of Art & Design’s all-important mission to “Inspire Careers” and the impact it has on students, alumni and their employers. As you read further, you will discover that we are very serious about connecting the fine education the College provides for its students with services that help in preparing them for life beyond Moore. We are proud to share that 96% of our 2013 BFA graduates are either employed or in graduate school, 90% of them in their field of study. This is remarkable, truly remarkable. Moore remains steadfast as an institution of higher learning that draws the connection between what students learn in the studio and classroom and how they work and live as citizens of the world. This means balancing intellectual, artistic and practical pursuits. It requires our excellent faculty to be active in their fields and to connect students with their network of professionals by bringing them into the classroom. We have embedded career-building support throughout the student experience, through leadership development, through the coaching and online employment resources President Cecelia Fitzgibbon with Robert of the Locks Career Center and through the relationships we maintain with our alumni as Goodman, Chair of Fine Arts and 2014 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award internship hosts and employers and those developing their careers. recipient at the 2014 Senior Show. Photo: 2014 Thom Carroll Photography I’m sure you will find the outcomes and impact of Moore’s career-focused education and its unique paid internship program both uplifting and energizing as you continue reading. With warmest regards, Cecelia Fitzgibbon President 2 Moore Magazine In This Issue CONTENTS 4 8 12 LOCKS CAREER LIFE AT LIVING THE CENTER LENOX DREAM 16 20 30 ENTREPRENEURIAL DISCUSSING CAREERS: IN THE CAREERS GRADUATE STUDIES GALLERIES ALUMNI 2 From The President | 27 Faculty Notes | 32 Development News | 36 Alumni Notes 38 Remembering Alumni | 39 Donor Report 3 THE LOCKS CAREER CENTER AT MOORE IS A SMALL OFFICE WITH A BIG MANDATE 4 Locks Career Center at Moore ourteen years ago, the Locks Career Center for Women designers and internship hosts are in attendance to view and in the Arts was founded by Sueyun Locks, Director purchase student work and meet and interview students. Fof Philadelphia’s Locks Gallery, mainly to support students in their search for employment after graduation. “Moore works extremely hard to prepare our students for the workforce on day one through graduation,” Chapp “The Locks Career Center enables us to get behind our said. “A critical tool supporting this mission is the required women as they go out into their careers,” Locks said in a internship experience for all majors, where they learn the 2000 interview in Moore magazine. best practices in art and design.” But the Center’s role at the College has expanded markedly Moore is the only art and design school to provide $1,000 over the last five years, particularly with Moore’s heightened paid internships for each student in every major. Students emphasis on a career-focused education, even leading to are required to complete a 240–hour internship in their a change in the College’s tagline, to “Inspiring Careers,” field of study, typically scheduled during the summer in 2011. between the junior and senior year. About 40 percent of Moore students have been hired immediately from their “The pressures on higher education career centers are more internship or have received a commitment for the future, intense since the Great Recession,” said Belena Chapp, Director Chapp said. The Career Center over time has built up of the Locks Career Center. “The national conversation a large network of employers and motivated alumni in has shifted regarding the purpose of college – the financial art and design fields who are intensely committed to the investment also requires students to seriously consider how welfare of future classes. their education will help them get and keep jobs.” “Employers who host our interns are continuously impressed Today, Moore’s Career Center – staffed by Chapp and with our students’ creative problem–solving skills and Assistant Director Veronica Scarpellino – is an invaluable technical abilities, as well as their initiative, commitment College resource providing crucial career preparation and and work ethic,” Chapp said. “This sense of professionalism support services to BFA, Graduate Studies and Continuing is instilled early in our students and the Class of 2013’s Education students and alumni. success in landing career opportunities is the result.” The Career Center provides free resume advice and Jake Krolic, Creative Director for the Advertising Specialty career coaching, assistance in internship preparation Institute (ASI) in Trevose, PA, currently employs three Moore and competitive fellowships, help with networking alumnae as freelance designers. The company presents an skills and job searches, access to valuable career information award each year at the Senior Show. “Our company has and resources, programmatic leadership opportunities, really become a gateway for students coming out of Moore. and more. When I’m hiring, I always look at Moore first. You have a very mature student base that is ready to work. You train “We coach people and give them access to resources that your students to become really great problem solvers.” enable them to place themselves in the marketplace,” Chapp said. “That’s what 21st century career development ••• is. Do we cut through the red tape? Yes.” The Locks Career Center is careful to distinguish itself The Career Center also coordinates and sponsors the between being a placement center and providing career annual Senior Show VIP Reception, a “capstone” event services. While Chapp and Scarpellino play the role of and launching pad for students, ensuring that several “connectors” – it’s ultimately up to the student to be hundred employers, collectors, art enthusiasts and advocates, aggressive and do the work. 5 Left: Belena Chapp, director of the Locks Career Center, works with Interior Design student Shakira Hunt ’15. Opposite right: Veronica Scarpellino, assistant director of the Locks Career Center, works with Karli Cox ’14, Illustration. Photo: 2014 Thom Carroll Photography Thom Carroll 2014 Photo: s “Students get the most out of our services when they Shelley Tubbs, mother of Alexa Tubbs ’11, a Curatorial Belena Chapp frequently utilize our resources,” Scarpellino said. “When Studies graduate who works at Peter Marino Architect in Director, Locks Career they know they are ultimately the ones who need to do the New York City, said the required internship experience Center, since 2005 legwork and the process is part of the learning experience, helped prepare her daughter for the real world. The support they leave school very prepared for the job search they will from the Career Center was crucial as well. Previous roles: need to pursue on their own.” Acting Executive Director and Director “Belena is really a fabulous person and an advocate, very of Development, Today, the Locks Career Center is fully integrated into many encouraging and such a good example,” she said. “And she Delaware Center for different areas at Moore. Students are encouraged to visit still stays in touch with Alexa. I was so impressed with her. Contemporary Arts; the Center as early as their first year to start planning their As a student, you really have to put yourself out there and Director of Museums, careers, and many do. Juniors are required to work closely get experience. People aren’t going to hire you right off the University of Delaware. with the Center as part of their curriculum. They must bat just by having a BFA. It’s so competitive, especially in complete a semester long “professional development” class New York. Janet (Kaplan) and Belena encouraged Alexa, Education: before securing their summer internship, which is facilitated but the work that Alexa did on her own helped her get her BS in Art Marketing by Center staff, along with collaboration from faculty. career. I could not have picked a better job for her than and Craft Production from Appalachian where she is now.” State University; “We cover resume building, mock interviews, portfolio MA in Creative Arts preparation, networking and professionalism,” Chapp ••• from Purdue University said. “We help students understand they are entering into in Indiana. a contract (with the employer).” Advances in technology over the years have made it easier for Moore students and alumni to have access to a whole Twenty percent of students in the junior class apply for new network of job opportunities, from an electronic job additional support for more elaborate internships through bank – COOL (Career Opportunities On-Line), to active competitive Penny Fox Internship Fellowships, also ad- Career Center Twitter and LinkedIn pages and Béhance, an ministered by the Career Center. online platform for students to create centralized portfolios that link directly with social media networking sites and Abby Schwartz, adjunct professor of Interior Design, personal websites. owns Abby Schwartz Associates, Integrated Architecture & Interiors, and teaches the professional development class “Social media allows our office to reach students in a at Moore.