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Alumni Updates
Paula Nameth (BA 1996) is currently a library intern at the Milwaukee Public Library and is completing a Masters in Library and Information Studies at UW-Milwaukee. Dorothy Nieciecki (BA 2005) is a PhD student at Boston University as well as an Adjunct Lecturer at Suffolk University. Mary Robinson (MA 1994) received her MFA in printmaking from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2001. She is now Assistant Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. Rhonda Kasemodel Puntney (BA 1986) received her MA in Library and Information Science in 1996 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been at the Lakeshores Library System in Waterford, WI since 2000, working as a Youth Services and Special Needs Consultant. She currently serves on the Association for Library Services to Children's 2008 Caldecott Award Committee, which presents an award annually to the most distinguished illustrated children's book. Corinne Granof (MA 1986) was recently promoted to Curator at Northwestern University. Her current projects include the forthcoming exhibitions/ publications: "Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film" (fall 2007) and "Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright" (spring/summer 2008). Rebecca Beverstein Wanek (BA 2001) now works in the Office of Corporate Relations for the Smithsonian. Jennifer Vigil (BA 1990) received her MA (1994) and PhD (2004) from the University of Iowa and began teaching Native American Art History at the University of Arizona in January 2003. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program and was hired to develop a Native Art History program at the University of Arizona. Her specialization is twentieth century American art with an emphasis on issues of race, class, gender and ethnicity. Her research has focused on contemporary Native American art with her dissertation focused on the contemporary Lakota artist Arthur Amiotte. She has also done freelance curatorial work for the Nelso Atkins Museum in Kansas City and the University of Iowa Museum of Art and served as a Board Member for the Native American Art Studies Association. Robert Cozzolino (PhD 2006) is CO-curator of "George Tooker: A Retrospective" which will open at the National Academy Museum, New York in October 2008, Pennsylvania Academy in January 2009, and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio in Summer 2009. He is also a contributor and general editor with Marshall Price of the exhibition catalogue to be published by Merrell, with essays by Cozzolino, Price, Anna Chave, Jonathan Weinberg, and Melissa Wolfe A symposium, "New Perspectives on George Tooker" will take place at the Pennsylvania Academy in March 2009. Anna Huntley (BA 2004) recently graduated from the Cooperstown Graduate Program with an MA in History Museum Studies. She is now working as an Exhibition Project Manager at the Field Museum in Chicago, where she is working on several of the permanent halls, including the Hall of Jades, Grainger Hall of Gems, and Evolving Planet. Madeleine Brechin (BA 2007) begins the MA in Curating the Art Museum program at the Courtauld Institute of Art this fall. She is also one of four students to receive the Ineva Baldwin/Helen C. White Award of the College of Letters and Science. Danielle Lindenberg (BA 2007) will be teaching elementary school in New York City as part of the Teach for America program. This summer Eva Quigley (BA 2007) will complete her second internship in the decorative arts department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This fall she will be entering the masters in Art History program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dorrie Unertl (BA 2007) will begin the graduate program in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education this fall at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Rebecca Washecheck (BA 2007) will be working as an English teaching assistant for the French Embassy in Montpellier, France, beginning this fall. Tom Atwood (MA 1995) Received an MBA in 2003 in International Business/Entrepreneurship from the University of Colorado, Denver and has lived in Colorado since early 1997. Business web page: http://tkatwood.com. I married Kristen in 2005 and had our child, Willem, in Sept. 2006. I'm still passionate about Self-Taught art! |
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