Alumni
2000-2004
Anitra Haendel '00
Michael Mandiberg '00
Xanthe Hohalek '00
David Cole '00
Yvonne Lin '00
- yvonne.lin@SmartDesignWorldWide.com
- www.basecampdesign.com
- Living in New York City and working in product design.
- Working at Smart Design and am trying to start my own company.
Ananda Kantner '00
- anandakantner@gmail.com
- Landscape architect at Rios Clementi Hale Studios in Los Angeles.
- http://www.rchstudios.com
Ryan Peters '00
- rtpeters@alumni.brown.edu
- grad student in the Jewelry and Metals Dept at RISD.
- rtpeters.com
- ryanthomaspeters.blogspot.com
Calvin Burton '01
Valerie Lindhart '01
- valerielinhart@yahoo.com
- MFA in Book Arts & Printmaking at the University of the Arts. Assistant Director of Operations for the Rosenbach Museum. In 2005 I received the Transformation and Change Award from the Leeway Foundation. Exhibited work in a number of Philadelphia venues, Gallery Siano, City Hall, and the Brandywine Gallery.
Aya Brackett '01
- ayabrackett@gmail.com
- Freelance photographer . My work has appeared in galleries, the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum and publications, Dwell, Gastronomica, and the London Sunday Telegraph Magazine.
- http://www.ayabrackett.com
Kelly Chambers '01
- kelswort@gmail.com
- Resides in LA and am a costumer for television and film. My drawing blog is http://cnnistheworstever.blogspot.com
Claire Holroyd '01
- Worked 3 years in Boston and then returned to school for 2 years at RISD for graphic design, which is what I do now. My website is http://www.holroyde.com
Vera Brunner-Sung '01
- vbsung@alumni.brown.edu
- Recently completed a year as a gallery assistant at a New York art gallery.
Peter Light '01
Saya Woolfalk '01
- jwoolf@artic.edu
- Richard Levy Gallery
- Attending graduate school in Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.
- 2003 Recipient of World Studio Foundation Kraus Family Fellowship.
- Work will be in the MFA 2003 edition of New American Paintings.
- Recently Accepted into the Drawing Center Slide Registry.
Jane Tschang '01
- Jane_Tschang@alumni.brown.edu
- Worked for a year in D.C. at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institute.
- Currently an assistant to senior curator in the Painting and Sculpture department at The Museum of Modern Art.
- Resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt '01
- sschmidt5@artic.edu
- www.artinstituteofchicago.org
- Married another Brown alum (he did C.S. not VA).
- Completed a Ph.D in art history at Yale on "interactive and sculptural printmaking in the Renaissance" i.e. the Renaissance pop-up book and curated an exhibit on the topic
- Began a three-year postdoc at the Art Institute of Chicago in the prints and drawings department which will culminate in an exhibition of my own in 2011 .
Ainsley V. Maclean '01
- ainsleymaclean@gmail.com
- Currently doing a residency in radiology at Brigham and Woman's Hospital Harvard Medical School in Boston where I was chief resident last year.
- Continue to dabble in photography and took a class at the Ceramics Program at Harvard.
Heather MacKenzie '02
- coordinator@zimbabweartistsproject.org
- www.zimbabweartistsproject.org
- Volunteer Outreach Coordinator with the Zimbabwe Artists Project.
- Looking forward to spending a month in Zimbabwe, working with some of the newer artists who need further training.
- Assistant manager of an artists's community space in a warehouse. We have 37 people involved. I have an art studio in the space.
Shira Entis '02
- shiraentis@yahoo.com
- Masters Degree in Fashion Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Currently the Assistant Designer at Thuy LLC, a women's ready-to-wear fashion design house in NYC
- www.thuynewyork.com
Alissa Faden '02
- alissa@techeminence.com
- MFA in graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. I currently design books at Abrams, a publisher in New York.
- alissafaden.com
Helena Wurzel '03
- laniewurzel@gmail.com
- wwwhelenawurzel.com
- MFA in painting at Boston University in 2007.
- Taught painting and drawing at the University of New Hampshire, and a winter session course on figure painting at RISD.
- Shown my work in Boston, Providence, and New York.
Jesse Cohan '03
- http://jessiecohan.com
- Currently working in NYC as a fashion and prop stylist. My agency's site: http://www.andersonhopkins.com/cohan/index.html
Andrew Irvine '03
- AndrewI@harker.org
- http://www.harker.org/page.cfm?p=1436&dirid=52&keyword=Andrew%20Irvine
- Teach chemistry during the school year and ceramics during the summer.
- Currently working on putting shows together for ceramic sculpture and/or photography at Stanford U. with help of uncle David Kampmann.
- http://www.davidkampmann.com
Elizabeth Bernstein '03
- elisabeth.bernstein@gmail.com
- ElisabethBernstein.com
- Living in New York working as a photographer.
Meredith Cole '03
- meredithcole@hotmail.com
- Masters in Art Education Research, currently getting my Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Research in Adult Education/Statistics with a focus on adult art education.
Leah Beeferman '04
- leah.beeferman@gmail.com
- Worked for Cabinet Magazine from 2004-2007.
- Currently enrolled in the MFA program in the painting and printmaking department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Va.
- http://www.inkbox.org and a weekly drawing project http://www.inkbox.org/monitoringthearchitectureofscience
Jonah Cohen '04
- jonahmcohen@gmail.com
- http://www.jonahcohenmusic.com
- In my 3rd year of medical school at Brown Med and will be pursuing a career in surgery.
- Unfortunately, I haven't had much time for art these days but have been recording a lot of music over the past 6 years.
Kevin Kunstadt '04
Amanda Norman '04
- norman.amanda@gmail.com
- After moving back to Nashville and doing a few odd & end creative jobs, am working now as a full time artist. Got into View Gallery in Madison, MS in March '09. Currently painting for a two-woman show, while trying to balance commissions. My websites:
- http://www.amandanormanpainting.com
- http://www.emoryandjames.com
- I look forward to hearing from current VA students.
Kristin Gladney '04
- kristin.gladney@gmail.com
- Living and working in NYC as a photographer and photographer's assistant for the past 5 years. Since graduating my job as a travel and children's photographer has brought me to Italy, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Russia, Bal, Argentina, Chile, Vietnam, Thailand, and Guyana. My web address is http://www.kristingladney.com