Alumni News

Jeffrey M. Adams (B.F.A., 1990) received his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is now an Assistant Professor, Department of Art Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, KS.

Patrick Adams (MFA 1992) has exhibited work in Chicago and is represented by Lydon Fine Art Gallery. His Lexington show at Anne Tower Gallery reviewed in Lexington Herald-Leader, http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/visual_arts/10268512.htm

Terry Adkins (MFA 1979) writes “If you google ‘Black Beethoven Adkins’ you will get hits from the Philadelphia Weekly and artblog about my show that is currently running in Philadelphia.” [ed.: http://philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=8509] Critic Roberta Fallon writes, “The artist, musician and Penn Fine Arts Department professor, who's known for exploring themes related to African-American heritage, has created a complex enterprise including music and ceremony. It amounts to a reenvisioning of history and a reclaiming of one of the white world's icons, Beethoven, as a brother… Whether the god of Western music was of mixed race or considered such in his lifetime is less important than Adkins' more salient proposition of a people's Beethoven--a genius embraced by all whose art is every bit as beautiful, and deified, as the German guy's.”

Mr. Lawrence P. Anderson (MFA 1981) is now Chair and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Francis Marion University.

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Jane Andrus reports “I curated Opening the Gates of Consciousness: Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery at the UK Art Museum in Fall 2004 and presented two lectures in conjunction with the exhibition.  I also taught an adult education class through the Lexington Community College on Art Nouveau, using the exhibition as a basis for exploring many aspects of the movement.  In addition to my full-time job as Marketing and Membership Coordinator at the Art Museum, I also periodically teach at both UK and LCC (in Fall 2004, I taught one section of A-H 106 at UK).  That's about all I've done recently (and I won't be doing much in the immediate future as my third child is due Jan. 7). 

Priscilla Bain-Smith recently published Van Gogh Walks: Paris (Elpub, the Netherlands) . order levitrahttp://www.vangogh-paris.com/author.htm. The website describes her as an “Art historian, artist, and free-lance photographer, spent sev-eral years researching Vincent van Gogh and his life in Paris, Auvers-sur-Oise, and Arles. A former college professor, Ms. Bain-Smith … also an award-winning painter and has exhibited in New York City in SoHo, Tribeca, Chelsea, as well as numerous places around the country.”

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Renée Bair (BFA, 2003) has been accepted into the MFA in Book Arts program at Columbia College in Chicago.

Darwin D. Bearley (M.F.A. c.1972) has spent 30 years of his life collecting antique Ohio Amish Quilts. The quilts in his collection date from as early as 1881 and as late as the mid-1940’s. Along with full size examples, the collection includes “Crib” quilts, “Lounge” quilts and “Doll” quilts. Thanks to the generosity of the Bernina Sewing Machine Co. of Zurich, Switzerland, a hard cover book reproducing the entire 138 quilts collection in full color. Jonathan Holstein has written the introduction and Darwin has written an essay about the collection. To order your copy, please contact Darwin at:
ddbstuff@aol.com or call 330-376-4965.

Charles Boggs (BA, 194?) continues to paint at the ages of 83 in his Montparnasse studio in Paris. See his work online at generic levitrahttp://www.unhooked.com/boggs/catartist.htm.

Mac Boggs (BA, University of Kentucky?) is Professor of Art and Chair, Art and Design Department, Converse College, Spartenburg, SC.

Mindy Bruce (BA, Art Studio, 2001) Development & Promotions Director Morehead State University Public Radio.

Cambid-J Choy, (MFA, 1991) is now Associate Professor of Sculpture and Drawing, U-Wisconsin La Crosse.

Cheryl Chapman (MFA) is now co-owner of Chapman/Friedman Gallery in Louisville. Her show “Verses in Verticals” opened at the Cerlan Gallery in Lexington in February 2005.

Monica Church (MFA, 1993) is continuing to exhibit in and around New England. Recent shows include the Kiesendahl+Calhoun Contemporary Art, Springfield MA and

at LoRiver Gallery, Boston, MA (a review of this show can be found at http://www.nynarts.com/previews.htm. She also made the news in other ways—see the article “Nursing mothers protest at airport” Times-Herald Record, where to buy paxil http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2002/02/28/aspaintp.htm

Jeanne Crouse (MFA, 1972) The first female general contractor in Connecticut, 1981-1990, she now is Editor and General Manager of her own firm, Vieques Publications, Puerto Rico.

Brian Curling (BFA, 1999) founded Goldfinch Press in 2002 (http://www.goldfinchpress.com/) completed the MFA program at the University of Nebraska. He is now director of the Falaki Gallery and assistant professor of performing and visual arts at the American University in Cairo. Check out the article about his arrival and plans in his new post at http://www.aucegypt.edu/newsatauc/main.cfm?ArticleId=218

Caren Cunningham (MFA) is now an Associate Professor of art and chair of the art department at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. She continues to exhibit widely, with work in numerous private collections on five continents and 24 solo shows in the U.S., China, Finland, Kenya, and Peru, as well as over 50 group shows in the U.S., Tanzania and Germany.  She has served on the Louisville Visual Art Association board and the Kentucky Foundation for Women board. She writes that she would “like to thank her University of Kentucky professors for their guidance and support over the years…in their footsteps, she has sent two of her students, Jaime Corum and Theresa Koester, onto the graduate program at the University of Kentucky and then subsequently hired them to teach at Bellarmine University.”

Richard Gay (MA Art History, 1993) writes: In haste, my stay at the Getty, which was a wonderful experience, ended in 2003 with the opening of “Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Illumination.” From LA Rhonda and I went to south Texas for a year, and I taught at Texas A&M—Corpus Christi … I put myself back on the job market and ended up at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke…. I’m the first full-time art historian here, which is both exciting and a challenge for me. I find myself teaching everything; it keeps things interesting, but I miss my focused studies in medieval art.  This is a place were I feel I can make a real contribution.”

Carey Given (BA, Art Studio, 1998) received her M. Ed. from Indiana Wesleyan University and now teaches at St. Raphael The Archangel Parish and School, Louisville, KY.

Bryce Harper entered MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University. His work (along with Kate Shannon) was featured in Kaleidoscope, UK Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship.

David Hanlon (MFA, 1989) is currently Assistant Professor of Art, Archaeological Photography and Art History, Departments of Art and Archaeology and Anthropology, St. Louis Community College. He recently presented a paper “Deaccessioned Treasures: Reassessing 19^th Century Architectural Photographs in Institutional Collections” at the Midwest SPE Conference in Chicago.

John Raymond Henry (BA 1965) was selected by the University to receive an Honorary Doctor of Arts, 1996 in recognition for his outstanding artistic career. His trademark style is recognized world-wide and he continues to promote artistic causes through his service on numerous boards.

Richards Higgs (MFA 197?) is currently Provost/Vice-President for Academic Affairs Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Christine Huskisson (MA Art History, 2001) currently works as an independent contractor for the University of Kentucky Art Museum coordinating the Robert C. May Photography Endowment Lecture Series.

Marie Francoise Hutchison (MA Art History, 2002) relates “After the June trip I came back here for the opening of an exhibition that I co-curated at one of the UB [ed.: University of Buffalo]Galleries.  The exhibition was the first extensive survey of the work of a former UB professor, Walter Prochownik (1923-2000) [ed.: http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/07/23/32223.html.]  It was a great & enjoyable experience thanks to a museum internship that I completed at UB this year (the director of the UB Galleries taught one of the courses in Museum Studies).  As for the Albright-Knox, I interned with them for 2 semesters (2004-05) and that was also very rewarding….”

Maureen Ille (MA in Art History) since receiving her Ph.D. from Open University, United Kingdom, she has begun to teach in the Life-long Learning Program, University of Hull, UK.

Sherry Lane (B.F.A., 1999) has been sighted at Louisiana State University, where she received her MFA in 2002.

Loren Long (Graphic Design/Art Studio) Long graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BA in Graphic Design/Art Studio and went on to do graduate studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. For a time he was an illustrator at the Gibson Greeting Card Company in Cincinnati. He gained recognition as an editorial illustrator for numerous magazines and newspapers in the 1990s, most notably Forbes, Time, Atlantic Monthly, and Sports Illustrated. He began illustrating book covers for Harper Collins, Penguin, Houghton Mifflin, and the National Geographic Society. In 1999 Long was commissioned to paint a grand-scale mural for a restaurant in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Andy Light (BFA, 2004) will be attending graduate school at Florida State, in the MFA program.

Sarah Mace (BA in Art History, 1995) formerly Assistant Curator of Education, Portland Art Museum, Sarah is now at Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.

Stanley Majka (MFA 1975) is now a writer/director at Beach Productions in Chicago, working in all professional formats of motion picture and videotape. He has orchestrated award-winning commercial campaigns for Amoco Corporation, WLUP radio/Chicago, The Chicago Sun Times, and Colorsplash Faucets. He has consulted on network television series including "Crime Stories" and has directed and shot hundreds of television commercials for most major advertising agencies

Peter Malinoski (BA, 1988) since completing graduate school at Murry State University, (MA,1991) and Arizona State University (MFA, 1994), Peter has exhibited his work at several shows in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey. His most recent is the “Outrageous Home” show at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ 10/17/04 - 01/09/05, described as an exhibition of “of unusual, ‘outrageous,’ eccentric but functional furnishings and accessories of various kinds for the home.” Check out his website at:

http://www.petermalinoskiart.com/.

Mary Lamb Nehring (BFA, 2004) is the winner of the University of Kentucky’s Oswald Research and Creativity Award for her quilt painting Jubilation.

Christopher Olszewski is “having a great time being a Dad” to son Peter, who is now old enough to attend daycare a few days a week. Christopher is teaching at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan, working at the Southwest Gallery in Southfield, Michigan as Shipping Area Supervisor, handling artwork, packaging, and distribution. He has also conducted several drawing workshops at the Detroit Institute of the Arts.

Jill Plaisted (BFA, 2002) was recently interviewed on KET’s arts program “Mixed Media”.

Kelly Phelps (MFA, 2000) is now Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Xavier University.

Kyle Phelps (MFA, 2000) is now Assistant Professor in Visual Arts, University of Dayton.

Kate Shannon (BFA, 2003) (with Bryce Harper) was featured in Kaleidoscope, UK Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship.

Ronald Sloan (MFA ) continues to show his work in Connecticut and New England. Taught art for twenty-three years and has exhibited in a number of one-person shows as well as group and juried exhibitions. His work is in such permanent collections as the University of Potsdam, New York; Provincetown Museum, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City; G. E. Corporation, Connecticut; The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut; City Savings Bank, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Northwestern Community College in Winsted Connecticut. More recently, solo show at the Atrium Gallery in Torrington, CT, that ran from May through July, 2002; Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Leonhardt Galleries.

Megann C. Thomas (BFA, 1998) wrote to us a few years ago from “Fantasia Farm” in Augusta, KY. Her work is featured on “World’s Women Online” http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/thomasm.html.

Aimee Tomasek (MFA, 1993) replies to my email asking about her recent activities with “the short answer to your big question is:    TENURE!!!   I'm on sabbatical right now!!!  and it feels great!” Aimee is now an Associate Professor at Valparaiso University. She is currently involved in several projects, including “’Knee High by the forth of July; Overholt’, [which] is the visual investigation of a three generation family farm in south Porter county, Indiana. The focus of this project is to illustrate a family history according to social and regionally industrial contexts. I have spent a great deal of time investigating what we perceive to be the primary industry in the Northern region of Indiana, steel making, which is represented in the portfolio, ‘Hot Idle:  LTV steel, Indiana Harbor’ . The Overholt's are practitioners of this other very important regional industry, farming.”

She concludes, “tell Joyce Rife Hi!!! … give her a big hug from me. Also greet Bones and Marilyn!”

John Thrasher (B.A, 1984) is now an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University-Mansfield.

Melanie VanHouten (BFA, 1998) received her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota where she was awarded the Katherine E. Nash Studio Art Scholarship. She is now an assistant professor, teaching 3-dimensional design and sculpture, at the College of St. Catherine’s in Minneapolis. She exhibits in Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky and is a Board Member, Mid America College Art Association.

Kenny Weinfurtner (BA, 1996; BFA, 1996) is now Professor of Photography & Graphic Design, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA.

Thomas P. Zwierlein (MFA) now teaches at the Lovett School, Atlanta GA.