Alumni News and Events
Eric Aho, former Putney faculty member, exhibits in D.C.
The DC Moore Gallery in Washington, DC, features the work of Eric Aho in its current exhibit, Trees, which runs until July 24, 2009. Eric's work will also be featured in an exhibition this fall. Check back for more details.
Film Festivals Feature A Sea Change, with Sven Huseby
Sven Huseby, above, stars in and co-produced A Sea Change
A Sea Change, the first feature-length film to address ocean acidification, premiered to sold-out audiences in Washington, DC and San Francisco. Upcoming screenings are listed below. Find details at www.aseachange.net.
June 24 & 25 - Portland, ME,
Screenings at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.
July 20 - Woods Hole, MA. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution screens A Sea Change for Ocean Carbon & Biogeophysical Workshop.
July 23 - Honolulu, HI. Bishop Museum screens A Sea Change. 6 pm. Panel of coral reef and oceanographers from University of Hawaii and Bishop Museum follows.
August 11 - Brisbane, Australia. Australian Marine Conservation Society sponsors a screening. Details TBD.
August 12 - Martha's Vineyard, MA. Town of Chilmark sponsors a screening at Chilmark Library
August 15—Cortez, CO. Montezuma Climate Action Network (M-CAN) screens A Sea Change in Verde Fest, the Four Corners Sustainability Fair. Colorado Visitors Center in the Cortez City Park. Coordinator: Betty Janes, 970-533-1051, ejanes at frontier.net.
September 15—New Haven, CT. Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies screens A Sea Change. 5:30 pm. Details TBA.
Rebecca Shore '74 Chicago Exhibit
Rebecca Shore '74's exhibit "A E i O U (and sometimes why)" was shown at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, from April 3 - May 8, 2009. www.corbettvsdempsey.com
"Her refined, complex paintings have affiinities with various camps in and out of her hometown, Chicago...Shore has created a land all her own, microscopically examined, broken down and rebuilt. Like the childhood game of inventing a private language, she has established an evolving syntax with an improvised lexicon that is at once hauntingly familiar and haltingly alien." (From the exhibition 
catalog)
10, 2008, egg tempera and casein on panel, 20" x 16"
Westport Arts Center Featured Alumni Artwork and Eric Aho, Curator
Quentin Curry, Available, 2005, oil and stone dust on panel
From April 3 - June 1, the Westport Arts Center (CT) spring exhibition, HOME, featured the work of four Putney alumni, Quentin Curry '91, Devin O'Neill '91, Rayna deNiord '96, and Soren deNiord '93. Curating the show was former Putney facutly member Eric Aho.
From the WAC website: "HOME features paintings and drawings that touch on the mental, physical and emotional connections to home. According to Aho, 'These artists point out that the range of our associations with ‘home’ is as wide and varied as our own unique circumstances. Through their work we are reminded that the notion of home is seldom a fixed idea. Instead, it is as conditional as our memory and vulnerable to change without notice.'”
Reid Hoffman '85, founder and CEO of LinkedIn and former Executive Vice President at PayPal, was interviewed recently on the Charlie Rose show.
Liz Joie Botkin '02 volunteered as a crew member of the Sea Shepherd expedition to stop the slaughter of whales in the Antarctic. Through this work, she also lent her photographic skills to the Animal Planet crew that shot the seven-part series Whale Wars.
View Liz's photographs for Animal Planet.
Learn about the Sea Shepherd expidition.
Being Catholic Now, by Kerry Kennedy '77, has stirred the waters and received extensive attention. Read Kerry's interview with the Boston Globe.
Said David Gibson's Washington Post review, "The unifying theme of all the interviews is a once-formidable Catholic culture that left a mark as indelible as any sacrament, pushing Catholics to contend with a church that has betrayed or consoled them, or both. The contributors who firmly believe and deeply question give the book its poignancy, with the most affecting essay coming from Kennedy herself."
Tom Fels '63's book, Farm Friends, "reveals how the myths of the Sixties began, and its roots put down through the lives of very real people. Both those of us who were there, and those who have only heard second hand that something extraordinary happened in the Sixties, will find Fels' narrative a delicious and important read." - Carl Oglesby, from the Foreword
Lucinda Parker '60's painting, "Where Water Comes Together With Other Water," is now installed in the performing arts center at Lower Columbia College in Longview, WA. Lucinda and her 40' x 10' painting were featured in The Portland Oregonian and online at oregonlive.com.
Studio 360 features an interview of David Plowden '51 and a slideshow of his work. David's recent book, Vanishing Point, offers a retrospective of more than 50 years of photography, with special attention given to bridges and the American midwest. Plowden has been hailed as "one of the great artists of our time." Visit David's website to learn more.
[Right] Grain Elevator, Toulon, Kansas (1969)
David Plowden '51
Caitlin Cohen '03 was one of nine finalists for a $100,000 prize given at the Teen Choice Awards on August 4, 2008. The awards honor American community organizers under the age of 25 who tackle global issues. Caitlin co-founded the Mali Health Organizing Project in 2006. MHOP enables slum neighborhoods to lead their own sustainable health systems. Since its creation, MHOP has reached 8,300 people with programs for health outreach, microfinance, literacy and peer education and will be expanding to 60,000 people this summer.
Learn more.
Darius Marder '92's debut film, Loot, was named Best Documentary Feature at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival. The film tracks two World War II veterans who search for treasure they buried following the war, following them to Austria and the Phillipines, and uncovering truths about the men's lives as they make their quest. View the trailer.
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