School of Art Newsletter Fall 07 vol. 2 issue 1
Alumni Highlights
Heather Ingram, who recently completed her MA in Art History, is the curator of education for the Arizona Historical Society. The Arizona Historical Society has the world's largest collection of Arizona history artifacts, documents, and photographs.
Ann Fessler, 2007 recipient of the Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award, is an educator, arts administrator, photographer, filmmaker, installation artist, and publisher of several artist books. She is a Professor of Photography at Rhode Island School of Design.
Jessica Drenk, a recent MFA graduate in 3D, was awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Her work has been pictured in Sculpture Magazine and has appeared in shows at the International Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, the Albuquerque Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, and the International Book Fair of Contemporary Creative Books in Marseilles, France. Drenk currently lives and works in Tucson.
Erin O’Toole was recently hired as the Assistant Curator of Photographs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The SFMOMA is a San Francisco landmark and one of the world’s most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art.
Katarzyna Cepek, a recent Printmaking MFA graduate, received two Honorable Mention Awards with a $250 prize for her installation entitled Communion at the 2007 Idaho Triennial Exhibition. To see a photo of Cepek's exhibition, click here: Katie%20Cepek_Exhibitions
Mike Buffington, a Visual Communications graduate, is working with faculty member Ellen McMahon and The Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) on the Morua Estuary in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. He was the co-art director for the digital project NaturArte: A Bi-National, Interdisciplinary Wetlands Conservation Project in Sonora, Mexico which was presented at SIGGRAPH's 34th annual conference in August 2007. In the spring of 2008, Buffington will work on a mural for a Kayak ecotour business on the Morua Estuary, with Puerto Peñasco high school students and UA undergraduate students.
