Alumni News

Please contact Susie Klimkos , Senior Academic Department Coordinator, with any new Alum updates to existing information, and comments. Please join our new facebook group to communicate with fellow Dickinson Art and Art History graduates. The Department reserves the right to edit these postings, and to periodically delete entries on an annual basis in order to make room for new entries.

Melissa Eve Haimowitz, 2009

Melissa is currently attending Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and will obtain her MFA in Photography, May 2013. After graduation from Dickinson, she began an internship with the Heller Group, a leading Art Advisory in Manhattan. At the completion of the Internship, she took a position as a Customer Service Representative at the Utrecht headquarters in New Jersey.

Molly Blann, 2009

Molly is one of two Post-Baccalaureate Assistants for the 2009/10 Academic Year.

Kristan Saloky, 2009

Kristan is one of two Post-Baccalaureate Assistants for the 2009/10 Academic Year.

Kara Carmack, 2008

Kara began graduate school at the University of Texas in Austin in 2008. She obtained her BA degree in Art History with a concentration in Modern Art.

Christian Meade, 2008

Christian was one of two Post-Baccalaureate Assistants here in the Department of Art & Art History for the 2008/09 Academic Year.

Rebecca Mendelsohn, 2008

Following their research for the senior seminar last fall, Becky and Prof. Elizabeth Lee, Assistant Professor of Art History at Dickinson College, have co-authored an article on Henry Ryan MacGinnis which will appear in a special issue on landscape painting in the May/June '09 issue of Fine Art Connoisseur. Becky is also busy applying to graduate schools.

Elizabeth Parks, 2008

is currently working at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City. She is working in photography and archives and says it's an incredible experience.

Selwyn Ramp, 2008

Selwyn was our newly hired part-time Studio Technician in the Department of Art & Art History. He was also one of our two Post-Baccalaureate Assistants in our department.

Allison Reilly, 2008

Allison is currently working as an Americorps member at Providence CityArts. In her position as Resident Teaching Artist she is assistant teaching and teaching art classes during and after school for elementary and middle school students. If you are visiting or living in Providence, RI, feel free to contact Allison (reillyma@dickinson.edu)

Samantha Bellinger, 2007

is finishing up a two-year internship at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. She will then be going to graduate school to pursue either a masters in Museum Studies or a PhD in Art History.

Arielle Shapiro, 2007

is a Women's Design Associate at David Yurman in New York City. She began in the couture/bead department but has since expanded to work additionally on the rest of the women's collection.

Stephanie Shapiro, 2007

interned at The Walters Art Museum assisting the Curator of Ancient Art. During this summer of 2008 she worked on a show of South Arabian Art. Stephanie started graduate school at George Washington University in August of 2008. She spent a few weeks traveling throughout Egypt during the past year; snorkeling, riding camels, and sitting atop pyramids, among other things.

Jennifer M. Thompson, 2007

is in her second year of law school at the University at Buffalo School of Law. There, she is an editor for the Environmental Law Journal and a member of the Desmond Moot Court Board. Jennifer is part of an effort to establish an urban farm in a low-income community in upstate New York through the Women, Children, and Social Justice Clinic at UB. In the spring and summer of 2009, Jennifer will be interning at a firm in Buffalo which specializes in Family, Matrimonial, and Criminal law. After completing law school, Jennifer hopes to remain in New York and practice matrimonial law.

Anna Alston Ferguson, 2006

is the Curator for Washington National Cathedral. She is responsible for the art collections of the Cathedral, which include paintings, tapestries, metals, liturgical items, needlework, sculpture, rare books, and manuscripts. Anna handles everything from creating collections policies to hiring conservators to researching provenance to giving lectures. During this summer of 2008, Anna is hosting an intern from Dickinson, Meg MacAvoy, class of 2010 and future Art History major. I shall end her brief alumni bio here with her own words from her latest correspondence with us, "It is an exciting, fulfilling, and challenging job and only a cross-curricular, globally-minded, useful liberal arts education from Dickinson could prepare me for and allow me to thrive in it. I adored my time at Dickinson--the college itself, the activities, and most of all, my amazing art history classes."

Susannah Haworth, 2006

Susannah is working as the Director of the Keith Talent Gallery in London's East End. She graduated with her MA degree from Sotheby's Institute of Art wih a high merit on both her degree and dissertation. If there are ever any Dickinson studio or art history majors interested in London and/or contemporary art, Susannah said she would always be more than happy to get in touch with them. She can be reached via www.keithtalent.com.

Orelia Dann, 2005

Orelia is currently working as a paper conservation technician at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia. She is also interning one day a week for a furniture conservator in Bala Cynwyd. During the academic year she completed College Chemistry at the Community College of Phildadelphia and is looking forward to another year at the college, but this time Organic Chemistry. She is finishing up these requirements for what she hopes will be an admittance into graduate school in the fall of 2009. She is going to apply for Art Conservation and Library Science programs. Feel free to get in touch with her if you live in or are visiting Philadelphia (danno@dickinson.edu).

Nicki Eicher, 2005

Nicki is currently living in Manhattan, nannying for three girls and going to New York University full-time for her Masters in Visual Arts Administration. She is also interning for RxArt, an organization that purchases art work and commissions contemporary artists to create for hospitals and health care facilities.

Moira Fratantuono, 2005

Moira spent her first year after graduating from Dickinson College teaching English in Viet Nam. During the 2007-08 year, Moira was the Post-Baccalaureate Associate in the Department of Art & Art History here at Dickinson. Moira is starting graduate school at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) this coming fall semester of 2008.

Saman Khan, 2005

is presently living in Philadelphia working through the Americorps VISTA program at a non-profit organization called BuildaBridge (www.buildabrige.org) doing development work. The organization engages homeless children and women through therapeutic arts and arts-integrated education within homeless shelters. Saman had the opportunity to go abroad in January 2008 to Egypt, Israel and Palestine. Since then she is thinking about possibly going to grad school for conflict resolution or international relations.

Jean Macaluso, 2005

Jean graduated from Dickinson College in 2005 with a degree in Art and Art History with a concentration in Studio Art studying ceramics and photography. She is currently a photographer exhibiting her artwork in the local area. She also spends her time working at, working for, and volunteering for the Carlisle Arts Learning Center in Downtown Carlisle--a non-profit learning center for the visual arts. There she coordinates all of the members artworks that are displayed and for sale in the Sales Gallery and also oversees several off-site artwork exhibit opportunities in the local area. Other enjoyments are making bowls for the annual Empty Bowls event (held at Dickinson), working on her website, and playing with her grandson.

Nora Mueller, 2005

just finished up her first year of a MAT program at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. It is a masters of arts in teaching, the focus on art education, which she plans to use in museum outreach and education programs when she graduates in a year. In addition, Nora has been teaching art full time for the past three years at Rock Creek Academy in Washington, DC.

Stephanie Latini, 2004

Stephanie completed her master's degree in Art History at George Washington University, while simultaneously working full-time at T. Rowe Price. Her master's research focused on the Italian Baroque and more specifically, Caravaggio.

Molly Fraust, 2004

Molly is currently getting her master's degree in Integrated Marketing Communications from Emerson College in Boston, MA, specializing in cause related marketing and social media. Molly is currently the Marketing & Campaign Director for MassRecycle, Inc., a Massachusetts non-profit focused on recycling within the state.

Kathryn Booth Corbin, 2003

received her masters degree in interior design from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005. Katie lives on a farm with her husband (Mike Corbin '03) in Westminster. She has her own interior design business, MK&D Designs.

Marney Pelletier, 2003

is currently back in her home state of Maine after attending grad school at the City College of the City University of New York to obtain her degree in Museum Studies with a concentration in Art History.���� She is writing her thesis while working full time in the Development Office at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. Marney is the membership director, gift coordinator, and database manager. If anyone has any questions regarding CCNY, she'd be happy to answer them. Also, if you ever find yourself in mid-Coast Maine, and would like to visit the museum, please do not hesitate to contact her (pelletie@dickinson.edu).

Lenka (Walldroff) Podhrazsky, 2003

Upon graduating from Dickinson, Lenka attended the Post-Baccalaureate Art Conservation Program at SACI in Florence, Italy. After working in DC at the National Gallery of Art in the Conservation Matting and Framing Department, Lenka and her husband moved to upstate New York. She is presently the Curator and Collections Manager at the Jefferson County Historical Society in Watertown, New York. They bought a farmhouse nearby that they are renovating.

Todd Arsenault, 1999

Todd is a Visual Artist and Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Dickinson College. His work focuses on the use of traditional materials and integration of digital technology and includes painting, drawing, digital images, video, and sound. He completed his MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and received his BA from Dickinson College in 1999. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions and has recently had work shown in New York, Boston, Toronto, and Madrid. In 2005 Arsenault had his first New York solo show and recently had his first European solo exhibition in Spain. He is represented by the Massimo Audiello Gallery in New York City and Galeria Fucares in Madrid, Spain.

Mattie McLaughlin Schloetzer, 1999

Mattie graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2004 with an MA in Art History and Museum Studies. She works as a research assistant at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC.

Kate Stewart, 1998

Kate currently lives and works in Philadelphia, where she is an artist member of Vox Populi Gallery. Her work explores the notions of escape and shelter through paintings, works on paper and installation. She received her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2003 and a BA from Dickinson College in 1998. Kate has exhibited her work locally and nationally, including The Art Institute of Philadelphia, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, Pageant Soloveev Gallery in Philadelphia, Long Beach Island Foundation for Arts and Sciences in New Jersey, The ICA in Philadelphia, and will exhibit in the fall of 2008 at P.S. 122 in New York. Her work has been featured in the publication New American Paintings in 2003 (juried by Ingrid Schaffner) and 2008 (juried by Jenelle Porter). She was a finalist for the PEW grant for artists in 2008, a Terra Foundation nominee in 2002, received a Fleisher Challenge exhibition in 2005, and participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center in 2002 and 40th Street Artist in Residence in Philadelphia in 2006. She has been an adjunct member of the faculty in the Art Department at West Chester University since 2006. For more information, please visit: www.katestewart.xbuild.com

Sophie Simmons, 1994

After graduating from Dickinson College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Sophie attended Parsons School of Design and graduated with a BFA in Fashion Design. Sophie presently designs her own lingerie line, Dessous. In 1999, with business partner Beth Blake, Sophie launched Thread, a line of bridesmaid, wedding and cocktail dresses.

Christopher Sharples, 1987

Christopher received his Bachelor of History and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from Dickinson College and his Master of Architecture from Columbia University in 1990, graduating with honors for excellence in design. He was employed at Richard Meier and Partners and Aoshima Sekkei, Nagoya, Japan, where he worked as a project designer for three years prior to establishing SHoP Architects PC with his four partners in New York City. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, The City College, City University of New York, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Columbia University, and at the University of Virginia as Shure Professor of Architecture. In the Spring of 2008 he served as a Louis I. Kahn Assistant Visiting Professor for Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. Among Christopher's awards he has received the Emerging Voices Award, Architectural League of New York and the Academy Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters.