SPRING 2006
Alumni News
Lourenco Egreja (2002) is currently organizing a new juried exhibition of young emerging artists in Portugal.
Jeremy George (2004) has been awarded a Gradiuate Teaching Fellowship (GTF) from the art history program at The Graduate Center. He will be pursuing a PhD, specializing in pre-Columbian art. The subject of his MA thesis was "An Aesthetic of Stone and Water: How the Inca Proposed Their World Should Look.."
Sheila Gerami (2002) is busy teaching Simone Gerami Hassard in Brooklyn. Simone was born November 10, 2005.
Karen Hellman (2002) works part-time as a Research Assistant for the european paintings department at the Brooklyn Museum. She will be taking a leave from the Ph. D. program at the Graduate Center this fall in order to join the one year internship program at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Karen will be working directly with the curator of the Photography Department.
Rebekka Rudin (2004) is Manager of Visitor Services at the Neue Galerie. Aside from managing general visitor services, analyzing visitors statistics, and working on special events, she also works with the museum's volunteer docents and leads many of the tours herself. Her job also includes e-marketing, curatorial research, and lending an occasional helping hand in the bookstore.
Gail Shelby (2004) is currently teaching art for 1-7th grade school children in a Brownsville after school program. On the children's curricula are modernist painters such as Pablo Picasso (6th-7th grades), Piet Mondrian (1st-2nd grades) and George Seurat (3rd-4th grades).
Fuyu Shiraishi (2005) is back in Japan where together with her sister she has started a clothing design business specializing in skirts. (To view their line, visit their website). Fuyu was recently in New York where she assisted the artist Yukiko Koide at the Outsider Art Fair.
Susan (Suzy) Goldstein Snyder (1991) co-curated the exhibition "Life in Shadows: Hidden Children of the Holocaust" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. It was reviewed on the first page of the Arts section in the New York Times, 24 January 2006. The exhibition was previously shown in Washington D.C., Chicago, and Battle Creek, MI. Upon graduation, Suzy got a job at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. (before it actually opened) and has been working there ever since. "Life in Shadows: Hidden Children of the Holocaust" runs until 25 June 2006.
Hiroko Sumi (2003) recently curated the show "You Are Here" at the Tama City Cultural Foundation in Tokyo. The exhibition featured six young Japanese photographers and their new views on contemporary portraiture.