Summertime!

Congratulations to all of our graduates!!! And to everyone -- have a wonderful summer!

Photo of the Week

Several weeks ago, Jeff Haase (Design) and design students Ron Croe and Julie Evers participated in the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) event called Dining By Design. The group was enlisted for the fundraiser to design an "environment" that would accommodate 10 for dinner; in their case, for a group of folks from the OSU Medical Center. The event, started 18 years ago, is in New York City each year, and also travels to selected other cities. The Columbus event was held at the CCAD annex in downtown Columbus, and some of the 43 tables will be featured in Elle Decor magazine. Our design crew's table (above) used a sculpture of broken mirrors hanging above an all-white table to reflect projected images throughout the space.

Notable News

At the 35th Graduate School Awards Reception May 30, almost 20 College of the Arts grad students were recognized with honors and awards. Receiving the Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship were: Alexandra Copley, David Efurd, Wing Sze E. Ho, Amy-Ruth Holt, Jodi Kushins, Colleen Leonardi, Karen Mozingo, Anna Reed, Sky Shineman and Jaclyn Thompson. Vicki Daiello received the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, and Matthew Baumann was presented with a US Student Fulbright Award. Earning the Presidential Fellowship Award were Amy-Ruth Holt, Laurie Ann Kilker, Karen Mozingo and Jennifer Schlueter. Maribea Barnes and Matthew Saunders were presented with the Preparing Future Faculty program award, and Alisha Leighanne Miller received the Mary Hubbell Osburn Memorial Graduate Scholarship.

College of the Arts students receiving Undergraduate Student Goverment (USG) Undergraduate Student Academic Enrichment Grants are, from Art, James Burke, Kevin Duffy, Dina Sherman, Monica Song, Mary VanWassenhove, Nina Wesler and Doo-Sung Yoo, and from Design, Jennifer Lau.

Robert Ladislas Derr (Art) will exhibit in "Maps and Journeys" June 26-Aug 4 at the Studio Place Arts Gallery in Barre, VT.

Music alumna Marianna Suri has been cast in the role of Inez in Verdi's Il Trovatore with the Kazakh National Opera for the Paphos Opera Festival in Cyprus.