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Class of 2009
Alex Benepe ('09) will be working in the Development Office at MoMA in New York as a Helena Rubenstein intern.
Nicole Conti ('09) was accepted at the University of Texas-Austin and will be studying Northern Art History. She presented a version of her senior thesis at the 44th International Congress of Medieval Studies, and also had an article-length excerpt from her thesis published in Dartmouth's Journal of Collegiate Art. Her thesis is titled "Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony in Lisbon: Evidence for an Antonite Commission".
Kate Dellas ('09) was accepted to the World Heritage Fund's graduate program in Historic Preservation.
Mercedes Lambarri ('09) has enrolled in the Masters program in Modern Art Connoisseurship and the History of the Art Market at Christie's in New York.
Nicole MacMillan ('09) will be working as an intern at Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
Zmira Zilkha ('09) has been awarded a highly competitive internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice for the Spring.
Class of 2008
Lexi Fisher ('09) has been accepted to Teach for America and will be teaching elementary school in New York.
Sasha Wasserman ('08) has been awarded a three-month internship in the curatorial department at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She will be working on two exhibitions, one of which will open in Paris while she is there studying abroad.
Class of 2007
Cha-Ly Koh ('07) has been accepted into the urban planning program at MIT.
Since January 2008, Erin Schreiner ('07) has been working as the Assistant to the Curator of Rare Books at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York City. She has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and will be taking an intensive rare books course there.
Class of 2006
Jonathan Coble ('06) has been accepted to programs in architecture at the University of Texas (Austin) and the University of Oregon, as well as the urban planning program at the University of Virginia.
Alison Damick ('06) has been accepted to the MA program in Field Archaeology at University College London. She has been working in Egypt atfer winning a highly competitive internship at the American University in Cairo. She acted as guest curator on an exhibition of her own conception, collaborating with the university's director of the arts.
Dana scholar Jon Ellis ('06) has been accepted to do a two-month internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice.
Molly Nora ('06) has been awarded a Fulbright for her project "'Mother of Civilization': Museums and Egyptian Identity". Her research will include the study of Egyptian culture, language, and history at the American University in Cairo; study of specific musuems in Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, and Luxor; examination of official Egyptian policies and theories on museums, their purpose, and they methods they employ; and research into the specific ways in which museums appeal to the average Egyptian.
Jennifer Watson ('06) has been chosen to receive the Middlebury College Student Award for Distinction in the Arts, given by the Middlebury College Friends of the Art Museum. The award recognizes a senior whose talent and creative skills in the visual arts are considered exceptional, or who has made a substantial contribution through involvement in programs promoting the visual arts.
Class of 2005
Gale Berninghausen ('05) is now working for Sotheby's in New York City in the Indian and Southeast Asian Department.
Philip Bloom ('05) has been accepted to graduate programs in art history at Harvard, NYU, Columbia, Berkeley, Emory, and Williams.
Alexandra Castillo-Kesper ('05) is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she is specializing in both Colonial and Latin American art. She received the All-University Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship to support her work.
Delia Conache ('05) has been admitted to graduate architecture programs at Harvard, Princeton, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and the University of Pennsylvania. She plans to attend RISD.
Chris Hornig ('05) has been admitted to the MA program in Archaeology at University College London.
Buck Sleeper ('05) has left DiMella Shaffer, an architecture firm in downtown Boston, and is now enrolled at the graduate school of Architecture at MIT.
Sophia Walter ('05) has been accepted at the Courtauld Institute in London.
Class of 2004
After moving to Chicago to work as an intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art (www.mcachicago.org),Michelle Arazoza('04) was offered a permanent job as the Coordinator of School Programs.
Alex Burr ('04), who has been working in New York at Rafael Vinoly Architects, has been accepted to the Yale School of
Architecture.
Keith Case ('04) is enrolled in the architecture school at MIT.
Alice Crandall('04) is living in Colorado and working at the Denver Art Museum in the education department.
Lauren Keene ('04) is working in the design department at Witt Construction in Saratoga Springs, NY. She plans to work there until March when she will be going to New Zealand with a work abroad program.
Jennifer March('04) is taking a full load of science classes at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks in preparation for her application to graduate school next year. She can be reached at (fnjrm3@uaf.edu).
Jennifer Nightingale('04) left MCWB Architects in winter 2005 and succumbed to her childhood dream of becoming a veterinarian. She is currently completing prerequisites while managing a lambing operation and working alongside a vet in upstate New York. Despite the change in direction she is more grateful than ever for her experience with the department!
Sinan Tanridag ('04) has been accpeted to the California College of Arts for graduate study in architecture.
Emily Thaler ('04) will attend the Washington College of Law at American University. She is particularly interested in art law, and will also pursue a master's in arts administration while in law school.
Agatha Vaaler ('04) graduated with a MA in Housing and Urbanism from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. She works for CDC Associates, a firm specializing in strategic planning and market analysis in Minneapolis, MN that consults on community, workforce, and economic development issues. In the coming months, she will be working with the Blue-Green Alliance, an organization focused on global warming, clean energy, fair trade, and green chemistry.
Karl Whittington ('04) has been accepted to graduate programs in Art History at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, Williams, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Class of 2003.5
Jessica Brozyna ('03.5) completed an MA at Harvard in 2007 and is now working in the Russian department at Christie's in New York.
Class of 2003
Angela Boulart('03) is working in the Director's Office at the Frick Collection in New York.
Nathan Davis('03) is now working in Press Office at the Whitney Museum in New York.
Beth Eisenhower ('03) graduated from the Master's program in Architecture at the University of Oregon and is now working for DiMella Shaffer Architects in Boston.
Lisa Jasinski('03) is working on a graduate degree in Film at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The university has offered her guaranteed funding to support her work through her Ph.D. She was also accepted by New York University's Film Studies program. She can be reached at: lmjasinski@wisc.edu
Evan Kanaly('03) has just been offered a job at the NaPua Gallery on the island of Maui, thus realizing her dream to work in Hawaii. The gallery is part museum and part commericial gallery, specializing in modern art.
After working at Sotheby's, Jose Lobon('03) is now a director for two new 20th century design galleries, Sebastian+Barquet, in New York.
Pre-Architecture major Nelson Martelle('03) has been accepted at the Architecture School at the University of Washington.
Kate Pentkowski('03) is now working at the Marlborough Gallery in New York.
Maressa Perreault ('03) graduated with an M.Arch from the University of Virginia in May 2009, and was the recipient of the Faculty Award for Design Excellence. She is now living in Boulder, CO, and has joined arch 11, a seven-person office that specializes in highly detailed, environmentally and contextually sensitive residential and small educational/institutional projects.
Ali Perdue('03) has recently been accepted at Williams and plans to begin work on a Master's degree in Art History there this fall.
Nancy Sul ('03) is living in New York City and is now the Communications Editor at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Aubry Threlkeld ('03) is pursuing an Ed.D. at Harvard's Graduate School of Education in Human Development to study language acquisition and literacy in adolescents.
Amory Wooden('03) is living in New York and working at Wert & Company, a firm specializing in Creative Recruitment.
Class of 2002.5
After graduating from the Rice University School of Architecture Andrew Corrigan ('02.5) moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to work for JDS Architects. He is now back in the US and works at ORG in Somerville, MA.
Class of 2002 Sarah Brophy ('02) has finished her graduate work in interior design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Her thesis focused on a community housing project in Brooklyn based on Danish co-housing. Sarah had been introduced to Danish co-housing while studying furniture design in Denmark in the summer of 2007, and she was able to apply the principles she learned there to her final thesis design. She is now working as an interior designer in Boston at Goody Clancy, a mid-size architecture firm that specializes in civic and higher education. She will soon be taking the LEED CI exam -- good luck, Sarah!
Holly Congdon('02), has left Sotheby's and joined Wright Modern and 20th Century Design Auctions in Chicago, IL.
After having worked for Teach for America since graduation, Brett Dorfman ('02) was accepted to the School of Architecture Program in Historic Preservation at Columbia University and the City College architecture school in New York. She plans to attend Columbia, and will pursue a joint degree in Historic Preservation and Architecture.
Simon Gore ('02) has been accepted to Master's programs in Architecture at Ohio State and the University of Michigan, and will be attending the program in Michigan.
Sydney Johnston ('02) is now working at Christie's in New York.
Jason Toh('02) is now Assistant Curator at the Singapore History Museum, which is undergoing a process of major redevelopment slated for completion in 2006. Jason will be involved in the development of the permanent core gallery focusing on Singapore's history from 1867-1940. He previously worked at the National Arts Council of Singapore in the events department handling visual arts exhibitions.
Class of 2001
Kate Collins('01) is working at the Isabella Brancolini Gallery in
Florence, Italy.
Ethan Lacy ('01) is enrolled in the architecture school at MIT.
Elizabeth Makrauer ('01) was a speaker at the History of Art and Architecture department's 2003 alumni symposium on careers in the visual arts. Elizabeth worked as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy during the Summer of 2000, and received her B.A. in Art History in 2001. She has now begun her career at Save Venice, a non-profit dedicated to the preservation and conservation of architecture and art in Venice.
Betsey Perkins('01) has been accepted to the Ph.D. program in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
Class of 2000
Kristen Loring ('00; M.A. Harvard) has been accepted to the Ph.D. program at UCLA, with a Mellon Fellowship in East Asian Studies, concentrating in art history.
Class of 1999
Kim Conaty ('99; M.A. Williams) has won a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Germany. She has also had internship offers from the National Gallery and the Walker Art Center.
Hendrik Dey ('99, M.A. University of Durham), a double major in the History of Art and Architecture and Classics, has received a two-year pre-doctoral Samuel H. Kress Rome Prize in Ancient Studies. After graduating from Middlebury, Hendrik earned a M.A. in Archaeology from the University of Durham (U.K.), and then went on to study for a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. His current project is entitled, "The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855".
Class of 1998
Liz Gerber ('98)is currently working at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the Education Department. She previously worked at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento and for Documenta 11 in Germany, and earned her MA at the University of California - Davis.
Anna Kamplain ('98) has been named the Adelson Fellow in American Art at Boston University, where she is writing a dissertation on Rauschenberg and Dante.
Class of 1995
David Hamilton ('95; M.Arch. Harvard) is now a designer at Anshen and Allen, an architecture firm in Los Angeles, CA. He was invited back to Middlebury for a public lecture entitled "Learning from Lagos: (Mega) Cities in the Rest of the World." The lecture offered an overview of current research from Harvard's Project on the City (led by architect Rem Koolhaas), which studies new kinds of cities emerging in the developing world. He was also a guest speaker at the History of Art and Architecture department's 2003 alumni symposium on careers in the visual arts.
Class of 1994
Gracyn Robinson Whitman ('04) is an interior designer and principal at Gracyn R. Whitman Design in Wenham, MA. One of her projects, the 2004 Junior League show house kitchen at the Commandant Naval Yard in Boston was featured in the November/December 2004 Better Homes and Gardens Kitchens and Baths magazine. In 2005 she also designed the children's stairwell, hallway, and children's bath in the 25th Anniversary This Old House show house in Carlisle, MA. She has two daughters, Lila Grace Whitman and Dylan Norcross Whitman.
Class of 1982
Lisa Ackerman('82; M.B.A. New York University) is now Vice President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York. The Kress Foundation holds its own collection of fine art, and works to support conservation and study in the area of European art, archaeology, and architecture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Lisa was a guest speaker at the History of Art and Architecture department's 2003 alumni symposium on careers in the visual arts.
Class of 1978
Philip Koether ('78) is Architect and Chief Designer at the firm he founded, Philip Koether Architects in New York. He was a guest speaker at the History of Art and Architecture department's 2003 alumni symposium on careers in the visual arts.
Class of 1975
Marc Simpson ('75; Ph.D. Yale) is Associate Director and Lecturer in the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Class of 1974
Timothy Rub ('74) is Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Last updated: 7/15/09