Hanna Excel graduated this past May from Oberlin College with a BA in Art History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. She's currently working a twelve-month position as the Louise Bourgeois Intern in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA.
Sarah Purgett
08/29/12
Sarah Purgett transferred to The Cooper Union beginning in the Fall 2012 semester.
Mitsuko Brooks
08/29/12
Mitsuko Brooks' solo exhibition "Dissonances of the Diaspora" at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island opened on August 4 and ran through September 16, 2012. She used the lush and beautiful setting of the Botanical Garden to create a series of photographs documenting the body immersed in landscape as if reclaimed by nature.
Anna Krengel
08/29/12
Anna Krengel graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in July. She will be returning to Boston to continue her art.
Andrew Grant
07/30/12
Andrew Grant is graduating this Fall from the University of Oregon with a Bachelors Degree in Art with a focus on ceramics. After that, he'll be heading back to Seattle to continue developing his personal studio practice and then pursue graduate school opportunities.
Megan Abell
06/23/12
Megan Abell is Director of a political consulting firm in Berkeley and organizing a field campaign for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and loving it!
Audrey Snyder
06/19/12
Audrey Snyder is excited to share the project she and Joe Riley are working on this summer Parallel Cases-Tramp Printing and the Abandoned Railroads of Northern California.
Starting June 20th Joe and Audrey drove cross country, from Richmond, Va, to San Francisco, CA with their Kelsey Excelsior 3"x5" Letterpress, a custom build rail-bike, and a carload of gear to start their trip into the abandoned rail-lines of Northern California. In early July, they traveled down a series of abandoned railroad tracks that once connected areas of industrial production and raw materials with metropolitan areas within the state but are now unused. They have modified bicycles, adding a clamp attachment to the front wheel and an outrigger (easier said than done) which allows them to ride on the rails. This project was inspired by the legacy of the tramp printers, a group of itinerant type setters during the golden days of type who hopped freight trains from town to town in search of a couple days work. According to their tradition, a printer's training was not complete unless they had traveled, and they have taken up their methods and means as a way to both collect and distribute their findings. They have proposed this project as a way to is to situate themselves in this lost landscape by traveling a series of abandoned train tracks in Northern California on rail-bikes with the aim of producing a primary document of their experience of the past and present states of the lines they travel.
They received the Benjamin Menchel Fellowship and look forward to showing in the fall at the Cooper Union! You can follow their progress and periodic updates along the way: http://parallelcases.tumblr.com/
Devin Rutz
06/18/12
Devin Rutz was in a group show "What's the Point?" at the Jen Bekman Gallery in New York June 28th through August 4th, 2012. The exhibition featured work by Josef Albers, Ky Anderson, Jordan Bernier, Andrew Brischler, Christian Chaize, Matthew Craven, Corey Drieth, Jessica Eaton, Ellsworth Kelly, Gregory Krum, Sol LeWitt, Carrie Marill, Jason Middlebrook, Laura Newman, Devin Rutz, Joel Shapiro, Jessica Snow, Mia Taylor and Michael Zelehoski.
Anne Moertel
06/14/12
Anne Moertel graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2010 and now works as the in-house designer for the non-profit Healthy Schools Campaign (April 2011 to present).
Max Ostrow
06/09/12
Max Ostrow recently landed an Internship at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). LACMA's High School Internship program offers a small group of students from LA-area public schools an opportunity to be introduced to the museum and its exhibitions and staff, take part in special projects, and work with exhibiting artists.
