School of Art 2013–2014

Degrees and Enrollment

Master of Fine Arts Degrees Conferred, 2012

• Beverly Dominique Acha, Painting/Printmaking
• Peter J. Baker, Photography
• Rushern Leslie Baker IV, Painting/Printmaking
• Kevin Michael Beasley, Sculpture
• Thomas Jordan Betthauser, Painting/Printmaking
• Julia Ann Bland, Painting/Printmaking
• So-Yoon Richard Choi, Photography
• Gabriela Collins-Fernandez, Painting/Printmaking
• Kyle Michael Coniglio, Painting/Printmaking
• Inva Cota, Graphic Design
• Stephen Miguel Decker, Sculpture
• Katharine Fera DeWitt, Graphic Design
• Florencia Cecilia Escudero, Sculpture
• Golnaz Esmaili, Graphic Design
• Sonia Lee Finley, Sculpture
• Thomas Edward Gardiner, Photography
• Harry Pollak Gassel, Graphic Design
• Maxime Harvey-Carrière, Graphic Design
• Kristian Andrew Henson, Graphic Design
• Pao Houa Her, Photography
• Thomas Luke Hutton, Sculpture
• Kristyn Lilyanna Johnson, Painting/Printmaking
• Joyce Wadiahendo Kalema, Painting/Printmaking
• Katie R. Koti, Photography
• Doron Langberg, Painting/Printmaking
• Sae A Lee, Painting/Printmaking
• Weiyi Li, Graphic Design
• Andrew James Lister, Graphic Design
• Yen-Wei Liu, Graphic Design
• Eric Nathaniel Mack, Painting/Printmaking
• Carlos-Enrique Martinez, Painting/Printmaking
• Kate Antoinette Tardif Merrill, Photography
• Peter Francis Moran, Sculpture
• Sarah R. Muehlbauer, Photography
• Jorge Luis Mujica, Jr., Painting/Printmaking
• Nontsikelelo Kudzai Mutiti, Graphic Design
• Evan Ryan Nesbit, Painting/Printmaking
• Tameka Jenean Norris, Painting/Printmaking
• Jennifer Marie Packer, Painting/Printmaking
• Daniel Alberto Pizarro, Graphic Design
• Ronny Paul Quevedo, Painting/Printmaking
• Amy Giovanna Rinaldi, Painting/Printmaking
• Kenneth Christian Rivero, Painting/Printmaking
• Aurora Robles, Graphic Design
• Felix Rodriguez Cid, Photography
• Heesun Seo, Graphic Design
• Jaewon Seok, Graphic Design
• Randi Lynn Shandroski, Sculpture
• Maayan Strauss, Photography
• Carlos Emanuelle Vela, Sculpture
• Ryan James Weafer, Graphic Design
• David Valentine Whelan, Jr., Painting/Printmaking
• Kit Yi Wong, Sculpture
• Jeseok Yi, Graphic Design

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Enrollment, 2012–2013

Graphic Design

• Ming Bai (B.A. Central Acad. of Art & Design [China] 2007), Beijing, China
• Nir Bitton (B.Ed. Neri Bloomfield School of Design & Education [Israel] 2012), Haifa, Israel
• Xavier Alejandro Cerrilla (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2008), Burbank, Calif.
• Yu-Yeon Cho (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2008), New York, N.Y.
• Matthew Dowland Chrislip (B.F.A. Brigham Young Univ. 2007), Oneonta, N.Y.
• João Doria de Souza (B.A. Pontificia Universidade Católica [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] 2009), Oslo, Norway
• Njoki W. Gitahi (B.A. Amherst Coll. 2004), Wakefield, R.I.
• Jonathan Gorman (B.A. Long Island Univ. [Brooklyn, N.Y.] 2008), Philadelphia, Pa.
• Jang Hyun Han (B.F.A. Hongik Univ. [Korea] 2006), Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Suck Zoo Han (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2008), Wonju, Republic of Korea
• Tiffany Burr Hockin (B.F.A. Kansas City Art Inst. 2006), St. Croix Beach, Minn.
• Eric Hu (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2011), Temple City, Calif.
• Jenny Hung (B.S. Rochester Inst. of Technology 2008), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Shira Grace Inbar (B.F.A. Bezalel Acad. 2012), Haifa, Israel
• Jiyoni Kim (B.A. Vassar Coll. 2009), Clarens, Vaud, Switzerland
• Marina Mills Kitchen (B.A. Vassar Coll. 2008), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Azusa Kobayashi (B.A. Williams Coll. 2002), Tokyo, Japan
• Kellie Michelle Konapelsky (B.A. Univ. California [Los Angeles] 2006), Los Angeles, Calif.
• Sean Ervan Kuhnke (B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth Univ. 2009), Woodbridge, Va.
• Scott Langer (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2012), Jericho, N.Y.
• Kyong Won Lee (B.A. Univ. California [Berkeley] 2004), Los Angeles, Calif.
• Min Hee Lee (B.S. Univ. Pennsylvania 2007), Ridgewood, N.J.
• Esther Lewis (B.F.A. State Univ. New York [Purchase] 2006), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Qiuye Liu (B.A. Tsinghua Univ. [China] 2008), Dashiqiao, China
• Robert Douwe Matthews (B.A. Univ. Sussex [Brighton, U.K.] 2009), Hurstpierpoint, England
• Martha Kang McGill (B.A. Yale Univ. 2007), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Houman Momtazian (B.A. Central Saint Martins Coll. of Arts & Design [London] 2010), London, U.K.
• Gina Moreno-Valle (B.A. Univ. Anáhuac [Mexico] 2010), New York, N.Y.
• Cecilie Nellemann (B.A. Danish Design School [Denmark] 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark
• Benjamin Barret Niznik (B.F.A. Ringling Coll. of Art & Design 2005), Burlington, Vt.
• Julia Drummond Novitch (B.A. Yale Univ. 2006), Washington, D.C.
• Eric Theodore Nylund (B.A. New York Univ. 2005), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Sun Young Park (B.A. Central Saint Martins Coll. of Arts & Design [London] 2010), Seoul, South Korea
• Timothy Fleming Ripper (B.A. Amherst Coll. 2009), Swarthmore, Pa.
• Ria Lenore Roberts (B.F.A. Univ. Illinois [Urbana-Champaign] 2011), Chicago, Ill.
• Grace Robinson-Leo (B.A. Barnard Coll. 2009), Minneapolis, Minn.
• Jessica Svendsen (B.A. Yale Univ. 2009), Provo, Utah
• Christopher Eric Svensson (B.A. Univ. California [Irvine] 2001), Los Angeles, Calif.
• Stefan Thorsteinsson (B.A. Danish Design School [Denmark] 2009), Copenhagen, Denmark
• Ghazaal Vojdani (B.A. Univ. of the Arts London [U.K.] 2010), London, England
• Lacey Blaire Waterman (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2008), New York, N.Y.
• Sean Yendrys (B.F.A. Concordia University [Quebec, Canada] 2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Painting/Printmaking

• Darja Bajagic (B.F.A. Pacific Northwest Coll. of Art 2012), Portland, Ore.
• Stephen Benjamin Benenson (B.A. Wheaton Coll. 2002), Portland, Maine
• Williamson Stanhope Brasfield (B.F.A. Pennsylvania State Univ. 2007), State Coll., Pa.
• Jordan Margaret Casteel (B.A. Agnes Scott Coll. 2011), Denver, Colo.
• Thomas Pu Chung (B.F.A. San Francisco Art Inst. 2010), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Andrea Elizabeth Cofield (B.A. DePauw Univ. 2008), Brownsburg, Ind.
• Claudia Cecilia Cortinez (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2007), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Masoomeh Dehghan (B.A. Alzahra Univ. [Iran] 2005, M.A. Tehran Univ. [Iran] 2010), Karaj, Iran
• Jose Alfafara DeVera (B.F.A. California State Univ. [Fullerton] 2011), Buena Park, Calif.
• Jessie Yelmi Edelman (B.A. Skidmore Coll. 2008, Cert. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2011), Milwaukee, Wis.
• Daniel Vincent Flaherty (B.F.A. Rutgers Univ. 2010), Summit, N.J.
• Sonja Laureen Foard (B.F.A. Univ. Tennessee [Knoxville] 2010), Knoxville, Tenn.
• Aaron Martez Fowler (B.F.A. Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts 2012), St. Louis, Mo.
• Mariana Garibay Raeke (B.F.A. California Coll. of the Arts 2011), Oakland, Calif.
• Kathryn Joan Gegenheimer (B.F.A. Temple Univ. [Tyler School of Art] 2007), Pineville, Pa.
• Mark Thomas Gibson (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2002), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Ana Maria Gomez Lopez (B.A. Univ. Pennsylvania 2003), Cali, Colombia
• Austin Lee Gutowski (B.A. Keystone Coll. 2003, B.F.A. Temple Univ. [Tyler School of Art] 2006), Philadelphia, Pa.
• Heidi Lee Hahn (B.F.A. Cooper Union School of Art 2006), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Maeen Ameela Khan Hasan (B.A. Oberlin Coll. 2009), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Daniel Eliot Coleman Herwitt (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2010), Boulder, Colo.
• Lucia Hierro (B.F.A. State Univ. New York [Purchase] 2010), New York, N.Y.
• Olof Carl Johan Inger (B.F.A. Royal Inst. of Art [Sweden] 2012), Stockholm, Sweden
• Haley Pearl Josephs (B.F.A. Tyler School of Art 2011), Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Krysten Marin Koehn (B.A. Univ. Northern Colorado 2001, M.A. Univ. Northern Colorado 2007), Monument, Colo.
• Jacob Antonius Konst (B.F.A. California Inst. of the Arts 2011), Lyme, Conn.
• Jae Na Kwon (B.F.A. Seoul National Univ. 2010), Seoul, South Korea
• Lance Edward Marchel (B.F.A. Univ. Wisconsin [Madison] 2011), Waukesha, Wis.
• Wayde McIntosh (B.F.A. Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art 2008), Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
• Romina Meric (B.A. Brandeis Univ. 2010), Istanbul, Turkey
• James Damien Miller (B.F.A. Laguna Coll. of Art & Design 2009), Laguna Beach, Calif.
• Mario Deandre Moore (B.F.A. Center for Creative Studies 2009), Detroit, Mich.
• Cathleen R. Mooses (B.F.A. Cooper Union School of Art 2005), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Tammy Vo Nguyen (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2007), Daly City, Calif.
• Jonathan Van Dell Peck (B.F.A. Kansas City Art Inst. 2002), Kansas City, Mo.
• Jenna Eve Pirello (B.F.A. Boston Univ. 2011), Westwood, Mass.
• Kristin Elaine Richards (B.A. Asbury Univ. 2011), Versailles, Ky.
• Devan Maurice Shimoyama (B.F.A. Pennsylvania State Univ. 2011), Philadelphia, Pa.
• Nicholas Andrew Steindorf (B.F.A. Columbia College [Illinois] 2009), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• John Denton Szlasa (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2005), Ridgewood, N.Y.
• Emmy Hennings Thelander (B.F.A. Washington Univ. 2010), Wellesley, Mass.
• Christopher Eugene Watts (B.F.A. Univ. North Carolina [Charlotte] 2009), High Point, N.C.
• Timothy Shawn Wilson (B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth Univ. 1993), Brooklyn, N.Y.

Photography

• Marzena Abrahamik (B.A. Loyola Univ. 2001), Park Ridge, Ill.
• Endia Sherie Beal (B.F.A. North Carolina State Univ. 2008), Winston Salem, N.C.
• Elizabeth Rose Bick (B.F.A. Loyola Univ. 2003), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Johanna Ruth Case-Hofmeister (B.F.A. State Univ. New York [Purchase] 2004), Castleton, Vt.
• Erin Desmond (B.A. Univ. California [Los Angeles] 2010), Venice, Calif.
• Awol Erizku (B.F.A. Cooper Union School of Art 2010), Bronx, N.Y.
• Genevieve Ruth Gaignard (B.F.A. Massachusetts Coll. of Art & Design 2006), Wendell, Mass.
• Hannah Flora Hummel (B.F.A. Kunstakademie Muenster [Germany] 2008), Duesseldorf, Germany
• Fumikazu Ishino (B.A. Ohio Valley Coll. 2007, B.F.A. Rochester Inst. of Technology 2012), Rochester, N.Y.
• Tommy Kha (B.F.A. Memphis Coll. of Art 2011), Memphis, Tenn.
• Michael Barry Marcelle (B.A. Bard Coll. 2005), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Casey Robert McGonagle (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2011), Chicago, Ill.
• Tyler Zachary Moore (B.A. Bard Coll. 2008), Great Barrington, Mass.
• Hannah Christine Price (B.F.A. Rochester Inst. of Technology 2009), Fort Collins, Colo.
• Sophie Charlotte Ruspoli (B.F.A. Corcoran Coll. of Art & Design 2009), Middleburg, Va.
• Justin Phillip Schmitz (B.F.A. Columbia Coll. 2004), Morton, Ill.
• Melissa Erin Stultz (B.A. Sarah Lawrence Coll. 2004), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Sadie Marie Wechsler (B.A. Bard Coll. 2007), Seattle, Wash.
• Evan Whale (B.A. Bard Coll. 2009), Los Angeles, Calif.
• Rick George Yribe (B.A. California State Univ. [Northridge] 2010), Sylmar, Calif.

Sculpture

• Jerry Michael Blackman (B.F.A. Cooper Union School of Art 2006), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Allen Hung-Lun Chen (B.A. California State Polytechnic Univ. [Pomona] 2008), Diamond Bar, Calif.
• Yoon Jung Choi (B.F.A. Seoul National Univ. [Korea] 2008, B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2010), Sung Nam Si, Republic of Korea
• Shih-Hsiung Chou (B.A. Central Saints Martins Coll. of Arts & Design [London] 2012), Taipei, Taiwan
• Kayla Bree Gibbons (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2011), Stratford, Conn.
• Gustavo Gordillo (B.A. Yale Univ. 2010), Lima, Peru
• Jennyfer Haddad (B.F.A. Bezalel Acad. [Israel] 2011), Tel Aviv, Israel
• Lauren Danielle Halsey (B.F.A. California Inst. of the Arts 2012), Los Angeles, Calif.
• Michael Ryan Handley (B.F.A. Univ. Utah 2011), Salt Lake City, Utah
• Erin Irene Henry (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2001), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Joel M. Holmberg (B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth Univ. 2005), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Yutaka Kawahito (B.A. San Francisco State Univ. 2006), Mililani, Hawaii
• Shehrezad Maher (B.A. Bennington Coll. 2011), Sindh, Pakistan
• Maya Cecily Manvi (B.F.A. Univ. Californa [Santa Cruz] 2010), Oakland, Calif.
• Mathew Muturi-Kioi (B.F.A. Lyme Acad. Coll. of Fine Arts 2011), Nairobi, Kenya
• Oren Pinhassi (Beit Berl Coll. [Israel] 2012), Tel Aviv, Israel
• Kenya Naila Robinson (Univ. Florida), Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Deirdre Jane Sargent (B.F.A. Pratt Inst. 2008), Pawcatuck, Conn.
• Jeffrey Alan Scudder (B.F.A. Ringling School of Art & Design 2011), Assonet, Mass.
• Michael Boynton Sims (Dip. Tufts Univ. [School of the Museum of Fine Arts] 2011), Vancouver, Wash.
• Mark Starling (B.F.A. Univ. Georgia [Athens] 2011), Harlem, Ga.
• Karen Lucia Tepaz (B.F.A. California State Univ. [Long Beach] 2010), Downey, Calif.
• Shelby Cai Voice (B.F.A. Pratt Inst. 2011), Pasco, Wash.

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Summary of Enrollment

General Summary

Admissions Information, Fall Term 2012
Applicants	1,125
Applicants admitted	63
Matriculants	59
Student Profile
Graduate students	128
Graphic Design	42
Painting/Printmaking	43
Photography	20
Sculpture	23
Preliminary-year students	6
First-year students	59
Second-year students	63
Female students	65
Male students	63
Age range of students	22–41
Average age of students	27
Mean age of students	25
Undergraduate degrees in fine art	107
Undergraduate degrees in other areas, e.g., English, history of art, political science	21
Institutions represented	88
States represented	27
Foreign countries represented	18

Institutions Represented 

• Agnes Scott College
• Alzahra University [Iran]
• Amherst College (2)
• Art Center College of Design (4)
• Asbury University
• Bard College (4)
• Barnard College
• Beit Berl College [Israel]
• Bennington College
• Bezalel Academy [Israel] (2)
• Boston University
• Brandeis University
• Brigham Young University
• California College of the Arts
• California Institute of the Arts (2)
• California State Polytechnic University [Pomona]
• California State University [Fullerton]
• California State University [Long Beach]
• California State University [Northridge]
• Center for Creative Studies
• Central Academy of Art & Design [China]
• Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design [London] (3)
• Columbia College [Chicago] (2)
• Concordia University [Canada]
• Cooper Union (6)
• Corcoran College of Art & Design
• Danish Design School [Denmark] (2)
• DePauw University
• Hongik University [Korea] (2)
• Kansas City Art Institute (2)
• Keystone College
• Kunstakademie Muenster [Germany]
• Laguna College of Art & Design
• Long Island University [Brooklyn]
• Loyola University (2)
• Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
• Maryland Institute [College of Art]
• Massachusetts College of Art & Design
• Memphis College of Art
• New York University
• Neri Bloomfield School of Design & Education [Israel]
• North Carolina State University
• Oberlin College
• Ohio Valley College
• Pacific Northwest College of Art
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
• Pennsylvania State University (2)
• Pontificia Universidade Católica [Brazil]
• Pratt Institute (2)
• Rhode Island School of Design (2)
• Ringling School of Art & Design (2)
• Rochester Institute of Technology (3)
• Royal Institute of Art [Sweden]
• Rutgers University
• San Francisco Art Institute
• San Francisco State University
• Sarah Lawrence College
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago (4)
• School of Visual Arts (4)
• Seoul National University [Korea] (2)
• Skidmore College
• State University of New York [Purchase] (3)
• Tehran University [Iran]
• Temple University [Tyler School of Art] (3)
• Tsinghua University [China]
• Tufts University [School of the Museum of Fine Arts]
• Universidad de Anáhuac [Mexico]
• University of California [Berkeley]
• University of California [Irvine]
• University of California [Los Angeles] (2)
• University of California [Santa Cruz]
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia
• University of Illinois [Urbana-Champaign]
• University of North Carolina [Charlotte]
• University of Northern Colorado
• University of Pennsylvania (2)
• University of Sussex [England]
• University of Tennessee [Knoxville]
• University of Utah
• University of the Arts London [England]
• University of Wisconsin [Madison]
• Vassar College (2)
• Virginia Commonwealth University (3)
• Washington University
• Wheaton College
• Williams College
• Yale University (4)

Institutions represented, 88

Geographical Distribution

United States 

• California (16)
• Colorado (4)
• Connecticut (3)
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Illinois (4)
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Maine
• Massachusetts (5)
• Michigan
• Minnesota (2)
• Missouri (2)
• New Jersey (2)
• New York (28)
• North Carolina (2)
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania (7)
• Rhode Island
• Tennessee (2)
• Utah (2)
• Vermont (2)
• Virginia (2)
• Washington (3)
• Washington, D.C.
• Wisconsin (2)

• States represented, 27

Foreign Countries 

• Canada
• China (2)
• Colombia
• Denmark (2)
• England (3)
• Germany
• Iran
• Israel (4)
• Japan
• Kenya
• Korea, Republic of (5)
• Norway
• Pakistan
• Peru
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Turkey

• Foreign countries represented, 18

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