INSIGHTTHE CORNISH MAGAZINE

2012

AT THIS YEAR’S CONVOCATION, as I welcomed the new

class of 2016, I noted that I am only one year ahead of those

students, entering my “sophomore” year as President of Cornish

College of the Arts. I have enjoyed every moment of my first year

here. I have never been anywhere like Cornish; there is such a

strong spirit here. It is a place where, as one student told me last

year, “anything is possible.”

Cornish is nearly 100 years old—2014 marks our centennial—and

there is much about our past that helps us understand our present

and our future. Cornish was founded by a fascinating woman,

Nellie Cornish. She was a visionary, a word I do not use lightly. A

1941 book about the Pacific Northwest, Farthest Reach calls

Nellie “Seattle’s best known citizen outside the boundaries of

Seattle.” This is not surprising, because the early Cornish had an

international reputation.

Nellie was on the move—she was unstoppable—and determined

to attract the best faculty she could find from all over the world.

She was interviewed on a national radio broadcast in New York,

arranged by the distinguished journalist Edward R. Murrow, to talk

about Cornish. She believed in teaching all of the arts together

and told Cornish students to dream of what could be. She

convinced Merce Cunningham to become a dancer (he wanted to

be an actor). She provided the kind of ethos where innovative

beings like Merce and John Cage—who created the first prepared

piano while at Cornish—could flourish. They embraced a way of

life that still informs global contemporary art practice in 2012.

As we move toward the Centennial, how do we take these values

embodied in Nellie’s aspirations and bring them into Cornish’s

present and future?

The Cornish of today is about discovery—alumni last year called it

“creating your own ‘now.’” To get to their own ‘now,’ our

students are exposed to the inspiring work of other students

across disciplines within a collaborative environment. Our

enormously gifted faculty are working professionals who mentor

students. Visiting artists bring new perspectives to the college

throughout the year.

Today’s Cornish is about educational excellence for artists,

inspiration and caring for each other. We celebrate each student,

and help each individual artist develop imagination and fresh ideas.

We are about taking artistic risks and being a safe place to do so.

At Convocation, I told the students, “As you discover your

authentic self, you will be practicing and preparing for your whole

life.” Our students will not only “get” jobs upon graduating, they

will invent new jobs. Cornish graduates have the most precious

job skill of all, creativity without boundaries—and for them, it is a

way of life and will be throughout their careers.

Artist. Citizen. Innovator. That is the promise we make to our

students, that they will enter the next stage of their lives with the

ability to be generative artists, participate fully in their

communities, and foster change and growth around the globe.

This commitment to creativity is at the heart of our new program,

Our Creative Society (see page 31). Each Fall, we will explore and

celebrate creativity. This will link communities, internal and

external, artistic, scientific, business and more—in conversation

about the value of creativity in the 21st century.

I invite all of you—alumni, parents, donors, community leaders,

arts lovers—to become part of Cornish. Attend a performance,

visit our gallery, join the exciting conversations we’re launching. I

look forward to seeing you on campus.

– Dr. Nancy J. Uscher, President

MESSAGE FROM THE

PRESIDENT

2 Real Design in the Real World Cornish Design Students

4 Films That Quicken the Heart Robert Campbell

6 Changing the Path Catherine Cabeen (DA ’07)

8 Throwing in Together Ramiz Monsef (TH ’02)

10 The Neddy Comes to Cornish Stacey Rozish, Eirik Johnson

12 Aleah Chapin (AR ’08)

13 Katie Kate (MU ’09)

13 Brad Shepik (MU ’88)

14 Jason Simms (PP ’05)

14 Noah Veneklasen (PP ’01)

18 Student / Alumni / Faculty Newswire

20 Alumni Newswire

22 Faculty Newswire

24 2012–13 On Stage, In the Gallery and More

28 Summer at Cornish 2012

30 Commencement

31 Our Creative Society

32 Impact Report to the Community

33 Endowed Scholarships 2011–2012

34 Annual Fund

35 Cornish Parents Fund

37 Campaign For Cornish

40 Joshua Green: Donor Profile

41 Mel Strauss, Jesse Jaramillo, Stephen Hazel

and Steven P. Walker, III

TABLE OF

CONTENTS

FEATURE STORIES CORNISH IN PICTURES 2

IMPACT

IN MEMORIAM

PEOPLE TO WATCH

CORNISH COMMUNITY

Cover Photo by Robert Campbell

(Italian location source photo, Pulchrior

in Luce, 2012).

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FEATURE

REAL DESIGN IN THE REAL WORLD–CHRISTINE SUMPTION

IMAGES FLASH ON A CONFERENCE ROOM SCREEN as

designers present their work to a business client. Vivid colors,

sleek forms and dynamic arrangements are not only eye-catching

but energizing to behold. The presentations are striking in their

eloquence and clarity, as designers take the client through the

development of their ideas from concept and preliminary

sketches to color comps and final designs. The client nods,

takes notes, and asks thoughtful questions that the designers

field with confidence and humor.

The surprise about this meeting is that the designers are not

professionals but students from Cornish College of the Arts and

the client is Amazon.com, the global online marketplace that,

over the past decade, has transformed the way people shop for

everything from books to electronics. In recent years, the com-

pany has built an attractive campus integrated into Seattle’s South

Lake Union neighborhood. Its growth has reinvigorated the area,

making it a hub for programmers, business people, and innovators

of all types. Amazon’s latest development, a new eleven-story

office building at 201 Boren Avenue North, provides a unique

opportunity for Cornish Design students to share their talents as

well as to experience the way that design consultants collaborate

on real-world projects.

“The design firm I also work for—IA Interior Architects—is designing

the new work spaces for Amazon,” says Cornish faculty member

Dave Kutsunai, who co-teaches a third-year Interior Design Studio

with Hal Tangen. “Amazon saw an opportunity for innovative

engagement with the community, so we worked with them to use

their latest building project as the basis for our class project to

give us a real site and a real client.”

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Kutsunai and Tangen brought their students together along with

students from Jeff Brice’s “Interactive Narrative Environments,”

a course in designing systems for physical as well as virtual envi-

ronments. Students were organized into teams of four to design

“painted area rugs” for the elevator lobbies of ten floors of the new

Amazon building.

“The ‘painted rug’ project gave us a design problem that would

be relevant to both interior design and graphics students,” says

Kutsunai, “Each team needed to understand the existing interior

environment, research the client, their culture and their business,

and then finally propose design solutions that would be relevant

in some way to Amazon.”

Student teams were challenged to create designs that would

coordinate with the design aesthetic of the interior space,

be visually appealing, and hold meaning for those who would

experience the “painted rugs” on a daily basis. Teams had

to consider how Amazon employees see themselves and what

kind of environment would stimulate their creativity, all while

supporting their productivity. Amazon is a global company, head-

quartered in Seattle, with deep roots in the Pacific Northwest.

The student designers had to find ways to translate that into

visual terms. They also had to take into account practical con-

cerns such as budget, schedule and technical limitations.

Ten winning designs would be implemented on the floors of the

new Amazon building. The general contractor on the project,

GLY, offered a $1,000 award to the winning team and $250 to

the student designer with the best individual presentation.

“As a real project, we wanted to expose the students to as many

of the professional participants as possible, so they could see

how designers work with clients and those who implement their

design work,” says Kutsunai. “In this case, Amazon was the

client, IA the design firm, GLY the general contractor, and Foley

Sign Company the painting sub-contractor.”

To prepare students for the challenge, representatives from each

of the firms provided guidance and counsel. IA presented the

student teams with a general overview of Amazon and their work-

place expectations along with the interior design concepts,

design details, and finishes of the building. GLY explained their

role in the construction process and how they coordinate all of

the various efforts of those needed to implement a project. They

provided a project schedule for the students and outlined

deliverable expectations. GLY also coordinated the collection

and facilitation of information between all parties. Foley Sign

Company explained their role as the selected paint sub-contractor

and provided paint specification requirements, project budget

guidelines, and design submittal formats for students to adhere to.

The resulting “painted rug” designs demonstrate the rich potential

for creativity within such structures. One design playfully recreates

the dancing footsteps on Capitol Hill with the addition of dog paw

prints, hinting at Amazon’s motto “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make

History” and its dog-friendly workplace. Another design embraces

the aesthetics of graffiti to create an astonishingly vibrant treat-

ment of the company name. And another makes use of the Seattle

rain as an image of energy and influence: “A single droplet can

create ripples wide and far, and when these collide they do not

destroy each other. They merge together and become an inter-

esting array of patterns.”

In the end, Amazon selected ten designs for installation as

“painted rugs,” and implemented the rest of the designs as wall

treatments elsewhere in the building.

“All the students learned about collaborating, group dynamics,

conflict resolution, designing for a real client, creating an

appropriate statement for a specific space, and professional

presentation skills,” says Brice. “They performed brilliantly.”

“This was a great real world experience for the Cornish students,”

says Tess Wakasugi-Don, Project Engineer at GLY Construction.

Best Team Submission Elizabeth Phillips, Chelsea Haugan, and Mariya Dudyshyn Lara Hirschfeld, Amazon; Elizabeth Phillips and Mariya Dudyshyn, students; Diane Undi-Haga, Amazon; Tess Wakasugi-Don, GLY Construction; Kate Johnson, Amazon; Ryan Keane, GLY Construction. Not shown: Chelsea Haugen

Best Individual Submission Johanna WattimenaLara Hirschfeld, Amazon; Johanna Wattimena, student; Diane Undi-Haga, Amazon; Kate Johnson, Amazon.

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FEATURE

FILMS THAT QUICKEN THE HEART VISUAL ARTIST AND CORNISH ART FACULTY MEMBER ROBERT CAMPBELL AWAKENS THE SENSES WITH HIS LATEST FILMS–CHRISTINE SUMPTION

A GREAT STONE ARCH frames a broad expanse of sky. Sun-

light glazes walls rising up from the cobblestone streets of an

ancient European city. (Is it Florence? Venice? Wait, was that sign

in French?) As if strolling the city streets early in the morning all

alone, you gaze at the stone walls that surround you, contemplating

the years—centuries—that others have walked here just as you

do. Suddenly, a flicker of movement catches your eye and is gone.

Did someone just pass the window? You watch and wait. A

woman reappears, deep in conversation with an unseen someone,

then moves away. You’re caught between the temptation to call

out to her and the urge to maintain your solitude. You watch a

moment more, catching the barest glimpse of her conversation,

then walk on, intrigued and a little shaken.

In his recent feature-length film, Pulchrior in Luce (translated from

Latin as “Beautiful in Light”), visual artist Robert Campbell takes

the viewer into a world that is at once dreamlike and utterly real.

Foregrounding Western European architecture in all its stone

permanence, while human figures appear as fleeting images

glimpsed through doorways, windows and arches, Pulchrior

in Luce quietly invites you to consider your relationship to place

and time and to ponder the very nature of existence.

“A number of people have remarked on this sense of longing in the

piece,” says Campbell, who created the film over a five-year

period. “I also feel it, but that effect was unplanned as such. The

impermanent and fragile nature of life, and the beauty of that,

is one of the motifs I was working with, but only sub-textually. I

didn’t wish to dramatize that in any obvious way, but to hint at

it. Campbell began shooting images for Pulchrior in Luce in 2007 on

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a Nikon D70s while working in Siena, Italy. “A subsequent working

trip in the winter of 2008 to the Mediterranean island of Sardinia

yielded more imagery for the project,” he says. “Later that year,

I embarked on a three-week summer photographic excursion

to Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy.”

“I shot each architectural and environmental element of every scene

as a document of place,” says Campbell. “Inspired by the work

and words of filmmaker Chris Marker, I wanted each shot of place

as well as singular objects I would later collage into those spaces

to meet the requirement of documenting ‘things that quicken

the heart.’”

Making the film involved painstaking attention to technical detail.

Campbell took the images of architecture that he shot on location

and peopled them with scenes that he filmed in front of a green

screen. “I wanted to approach the development of story as per-

haps a poet might, where there are descriptions of place with

characters emerging from them in the mind,” says the artist. “So

I focused on place first: rather than finding actors and situating

them in real places in European locations, which would be both

extremely expensive and logistically challenging, I developed

collaged spaces using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects, and

only then decided who I might want to put into those spaces.”

“I printed a Blurb book to use as a portable guide for doing the

people shots, with a printed page for each shot in the rough edit

so I could match camera angles,” he says. “I then arranged

a green screen shoot with each person I wished to add to the

piece, emulated the light conditions and camera angles of the

shots I would eventually collage them into.”

While Campbell’s technical prowess is evident in the fluid, crys-

talline imagery of the film, what stays with the viewer is the film’s

deep poetic resonance, a childlike sense of seeing and not quite

understanding, of being kept apart from what’s really going on.

Whether looking through intricate metal grillwork to see nude men

ritualistically pouring water into a marble tub, catching sight of a

young man dancing alone on a stone street, or discovering a child

peering out a window, Pulchrior in Luce invites you to speculate

on what may be happening or to simply experience the people

and places as objects, beautiful and unknowable.

The dynamic tension between artistry and technique is also a key

feature of Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques

from Inside the Atelier, a DVD that Campbell collaborated on with

former KING 5 news anchor and TV journalist Don Porter and

classical realist artist Juliette Aristides. The three began meeting

in the summer of 2009 to develop a feature-length documentary

film about how to see as an artist, and the project grew from there.

“At one meeting early on, while we were looking at our schedules

for future meetings, Juliette announced that she would be gone

for several weeks in August, teaching workshops in Venice and

Florence,” says Campbell. “I saw an opportunity there, and sug-

gested that Don and I accompany her to Italy in order to provide

the project historical context and footage of the eternally stunning

visual backdrops of Venetian and Florentine art and architecture.

Juliette loved the idea, and she managed to raise enough money

to pay for the trip. Don and I formed an LLC as partners (Pietra

Serena Productions), packed up a couple of giant Sony XD-Cams,

tripods, microphones and light kits, flew to Italy, and spent two

very hot August weeks documenting Juliette’s activities, getting

interviews with students and other artists, and capturing the sights.”

They returned to Seattle with many hours of footage, and put

together a short trailer that piqued the interest of Watson-Guptill,

the publisher of Aristides’ two previous books—Classical Drawing

Atelier and Classical Painting Atelier—who suggested that she

write a new book with an accompanying DVD. “Juliette began

writing a first draft of what would eventually become Lessons

in Classical Drawing,” says Campbell. “We adjusted our vision of

the DVD as Juliette reached new stages in her process, scheduling

interviews with other local artists, architects, curators, and Juliette

herself. Toward the end we scheduled drawing sessions with

Juliette and her models in Tenaya Sims’ Georgetown atelier for the

how-to portions of the DVD.”

The result is a meticulously worked out film that interweaves

images of art studios, streets and plazas in Italy, and step-by

step-instructional footage with in-process drawings and com-

pleted art work. And it’s presented with such stunning clarity

and down-to-earth enthusiasm that even those of us who don’t

consider ourselves artists may be tempted to pick up a pencil.

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FEATURE

ON A HOT AUGUST EVENING in Olympic Sculpture Park, as

the jazz-inflected world music of the Kora Band spirals through

the air, a group of dancers suddenly materializes. Dressed in

colorful hoodies, they move through the park in sensual curves,

riffing off the luscious tones of kora and trumpet and pausing

here and there for brief solos, duets and trios. They move down,

down, down to the pocket beach, where two dancers plunge

into the waters of Puget Sound as the company witnesses from

the shore, and they all take a bow as the sun sets behind them.

It is the kind of audacious and frankly joyful performance that

Seattle dance aficionados have come to expect from Catherine

Cabeen and Company.

Formed in 2009 to explore what happens “when artists of different

mediums collide,” Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC) quickly

earned a name in the Seattle arts community for bold theatricality

and fresh perspective, not to mention the astonishing technical

expertise of the dancers. Cabeen and her dancers can defy

gravity and upend your sense of what the human body can do.

Beyond the athleticism and aesthetic beauty of the performances,

however, CCC creates works for the stage that use dance, visual

art, music and sound to speak to the world we live in right now.

Wrote Artistic Director Catherine Cabeen (DA ’07) in a recent blog

post, “I believe that as an artist I have a responsibility to make

work that actively participates in creating the kind of cultural

dialogue I want to live in.”

Cabeen was just 15 years old when she entered the Preparatory

Dance Program at Cornish College of the Arts in 1993. Steeped in

classical ballet—she’d taken ballet classes since the age of four—

she was suddenly introduced to modern dance, and the experience

was life-changing. At Cornish, she studied Graham technique with

CHANGING THE PATH DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER/VISIONARY CATHERINE CABEEN IS TRANSFORMING DANCE ONE STEP AT A TIME–CHRISTINE SUMPTION

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the formidable Pat Hon, who brought “intensity, fire, and passion”

to the studio, and vernacular dance with Tinka Dailey. “Tinka was

the first person I danced for in tennis shoes and a t-shirt,” says

Cabeen. “She gave me amazing perspective as a young artist.”

“My training at Cornish prepared me to take the wild step, at 17

years old, of moving to New York,” says Cabeen. “After two

years at Prep Dance, I was hungry for more. When I arrived at

the Graham School in New York, my training served me well.”

Cabeen performed with the student company at the Martha

Graham School and with Pearl Lang Dance Theater for two

years. She then went on to dance with the legendary Bill T.

Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company for eight years, frequently

taking on the roles Jones had originally created for himself. In

2005, she moved on to the Martha Graham Company, performing

Graham’s iconic choreography in powerful female roles. “I

put my body in the service of incredible work,” she says. Critics

describe her performances as “stunning” and “extraordinary,”

and in films of the work it’s impossible to take your eyes off her.

Then, leaving rehearsal one day in 2006, she fell down the stairs

and broke her foot. Suddenly, she couldn’t dance. And she

had no college degree. It was a personal and professional crisis.

“I looked at different programs around the country that offered

college credit for life experience,” says Cabeen, “and the Cornish

Professional Dancers Program offered the best deal. I knew the

faculty and they walked me through the red tape.”

CORNISH PREPARATORY DANCE PROGRAM

Ask anyone in the Seattle area about the Cornish Preparatory

Dance Program and you are likely to find a connection. From

being an alum of the program to having watched their own chil-

dren grow up in the program to having friends who took classes,

Prep Dance is often the first introduction many have to Cornish

College of the Arts.

In addition to Catherine Cabeen, a few Prep Dance alums

include Aaron Loux (a Julliard graduate and now a member of

the Mark Morris Dance Group), Sara Beery (who danced with

Atlanta Ballet and Karole Armitage in New York), Naomi Glass

(who danced with Houston Ballet, taught at Ballet Center of

Houston and now teaches in the Cornish Prep Dance program,

other local schools and our College Dance department) and

Joanna Binney (who attended Cornish College of the Arts, gradu-

ated from Harvard, and now dances in Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre).

The aim of the Cornish Prep Dance Program is to ensure that

all students experience the joy of movement and develop a

lifelong appreciation for dance. Classroom work and performance

opportunities instill in each student focus, discipline, account-

ability, efficacy and satisfaction through achievement.

The program provides a learning environment for all students

interested in receiving classical dance training of the highest

caliber. Regardless of students’ aspirations for a professional

career or study of dance for recreational enjoyment, our faculty

nurtures potential at every level of interest and ability.

The Creative Dance/Pre-Ballet courses are designed for students

ages four through eight. Ballet Technique offers courses for

different age groups, beginning with ages seven through nine

and continuing up to ages 15 to 18. More advanced courses

in Pointe, Alternate Techniques, Performance are available for

ages 12 through 18. Modern classes are also available for three

levels, nine through 13, 13 through 16 and 16 through 18.

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FEATURE

THROWING IN TOGETHER–MAXIMILIAN BOCEK

In fashioning a career for himself, Ramiz Monsef has always turned

the “Self” knob way down. He thinks his best work comes from

working with others. His is a taste for collaboration that was instilled

at Cornish and led him to success in the company of the Oregon

Shakespeare Festival and with his own rap group, 3 Blind Mice.

Now, incredibly, even his collaborations have collaborations: 3

Blind Mice (with Casey Hurt) are developing a new musical with

OSF, The Unfortunates.

RAMIZ MONSEF (TH ’02) WAS SITTING AROUND at New

York’s Chelsea Pier waiting for a call-back for a part on TVs “Law

and Order.” He figured he had about an hour to kill. Then his

phone rang. On the other end of the line was Bill Rauch, artistic

director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Rauch wanted him to come to Ashland and take the part of the

Player King in their upcoming production of Hamlet. To Ramiz, it

seemed like a lot of trouble for Rauch to be calling him in New

York for a relatively small part. But the OSF artistic chief explained

that he wanted more than Monsef’s acting talents, he wanted to

tap his burgeoning talents as a hip-hop writer and performer as well.

Ashland wanted to do the whole play-within-a-play in Hamlet as a

hip-hop show.

More tempting. But Monsef had been “blowing up” in The City, as

he would put it. He’d gone with MacArthur-Grant-winner Sarah

Ruhl’s Eurydice from Yale Rep to the Second Stage just Off-Broad -

way; been in the cast of Betrayed, the Lucille Lortel prize-winner

for best Off-Broadway play; toured with Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian

Nights; and now he was up for a role on a well-known television

show. More than all that, his hip-hop group, 3 Blind Mice, a

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col laboration between him and friends Jon Beavers and Ian

Merrigan, was just beginning to hit its stride. So Ramiz was not

anxious to go back to Oregon. He made a condition to accepting

the role that couldn’t possibly be agreed to.

“I need something a little bit more to make it worth my while for

me to leave what’s happening here,” Monsef remembers saying

to Rauch. “I’ve got these guys that I’m working with, and we’ve

played a couple of shows, but there’s something really special

about what we have going on. I think it would be really cool if you

gave us some time to just kind of mess around.”

Let’s be clear: he was asking Bill Rauch to bring not only him but

his entire crew to Ashland to develop a new work. It’s well worth

adding that the Mice had exactly nothing at that moment — not a

title, not a concept, not even a concept for a concept. But an

amazing thing happened, and it flies in the face of any notion that

the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is set in its ways: Bill Rauch said

yes. Hip-hop’s 3 Blind Mice and theater’s OSF threw in together

to develop a brand new musical for the American stage.

Collaboration has always been precious to Monsef. Maybe it’s

because he felt like an outsider at school, where he just never fit

in, never seemed to understand what was going on. He admits

to being an angry kid. Things came to a head in high school, when

he got kicked out for pushing a teacher and getting “up in his

face.” Ramiz’ immigrant father, Mike Monsef, fought to understand

what his son was going through. “My dad is very traditional, old

world,” says Ramiz. Mike worked four jobs to support his family in

Marin County, near San Francisco. It was not the Marin famous

for country clubs, hot tubs and mansions, but the lesser known

one of boat bums and ex-hippies. His mother, Paula, had a job

too, working for the progressive musical organization Bread and

Roses. As a boy, Ramiz heard a lot of music, particularly blues

and soul, and met a lot of interesting people. “I grew up around

Chris Isaacs, Wavy Gravy, Ken Kesey, Joan Baez, John Lee Hooker,

Bonnie Raitt. … I didn’t understand who they were when I was

hanging out with them.”

Along with music, Ramiz discovered theater early. Nearby Marin

Theatre Company had a youth drama program, and he immedi-

ately found a place he could fit in as part of an art form based on

working as a group. “All of a sudden I was in a room with a bunch

of people who didn’t judge me, who didn’t think I was weird … we

all sort of spoke the same language. … I got bullied a lot. I had

to deal with that a lot. I take these theater classes and suddenly

I fit in with all these people.”

It wasn’t easy with his high school grades—which he admits were

awful—but after taking a year off, he was accepted at Cornish.

He wasted no time saying yes. “The decision to go there was

sort of an impulsive one, but there was something telling me it

was the right one.”

Arriving in the fall of 1998, he found exactly what he wanted at

Cornish. He discovered that his classes taught a heady combi-

nation of self-sufficiency and consistent group dynamics. One of

his favorite classes was Auto Cours. “Every week we had to

collaborate and come up with a five- to ten-minute piece .… Now

that I’m out in the professional world … I feel like I was given

something that a lot of people don’t have, that ability to be a really,

really strong collaborator.”

The world of art opened to Monsef by Cornish spun out into his

life away from school. He and his best friend at Cornish, Chris

Johnson, often got together and played the blues. Their favorite

tune was the estimable “Saint James Infirmary,” a haunting dirge

with an ancient pedigree about a gambler who’s lost his girl to

death and expects to follow her under. The song soon had much

deeper and darker significance to Ramiz. Not too long after grad-

uating, something happened that a young man should not have

to face: his good friend, Chris, took his own life. “That’s when I

got serious about making music,” says Monsef. “I had all this stuff

inside of me I was trying to understand.”

After getting the “okay” from Bill Rauch for the Ashland collabora-

tion, Ramiz huddled with his pal and fellow Mouse, Ian Merrigan.

Rauch had essentially called Monsef’s bluff and now they had

to produce. It was then that Monsef tied it all together in his head.

“You know,” Ramiz said to Ian, “I’ve always really wanted to write a

show about ‘Saint James Infirmary.’” Merrigan looked up the song

online and discovered that it was a blues take on an old Irish

ballad about a dissolute soldier titled “The Unfortunate Rake.” Ian

said to Ramiz, “We should call this The Unfortunates.”

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FEATURE

WHEN STACEY ROZICH RECEIVED THE CALL that she was

the 2012 Neddy Recipient in Painting, she was trying on shoes

at Nordstrom. Flustered and elated, she reported—over the sound

of other patrons, intercom announcements, and the rustling of

shoe boxes—that she had just been debating with herself about

whether to buy the shoes or put them back. “Buy them,” I said.

A $25,000 phone call should at least allow for a pair of shoes

before the dust settles.

Eirik Johnson, the 2012 Neddy Recipient in Open Medium, was

in a quieter place when I called. The din about his award came

from the rush of electronic activity when the news was revealed.

His colleagues from Photographic Center Northwest and Cornish—

he is an adjunct instructor in Cornish’s Art department—lit up the

internet with ecstatic tweets, re-tweets, Facebook posts, and

emails about how deserved Eirik’s award was.

These two artists are the first recipients in the new Neddy at

Cornish artist award program. The Neddy itself is not new at all—

it has been awarded to artists for 15 years through the generosity

of the Behnke Foundation in honor and memory of their son

Robert E. “Ned” Behnke, a Seattle painter who died in 1989. In

2011, the Behnke family decided it was time to think about the

next era for the award program and issued an invitation to three

organizations to submit proposals for becoming the new institu-

tional and administrative home of the program.

Cornish’s proposal was based on a desire to continue the original

mission of the Neddy; to honor artists who demonstrate both

excellence in their artistic medium and a commitment to the belief

that art can foster a more conscious, vital and livable world, while

offering new ideas to reflect evolutions in art practices and Cornish’s

status as an educational institution.

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The 2012 recipients were chosen after an open process yielded

close to 300 applications. They were reviewed by a panel of

distinguished arts professionals—Stokley Towles (artist), Barbara

Matilsky (curator), and Ken Allan (educator)—who determined

a group of four finalists in Painting and four finalists in Open

Medium (any medium or combination of media grounded in the

visual arts). The two Neddy recipients were named by Ian Berry,

Curator at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore

College in Sarasota Springs, NY, who reviewed all work and

conducted on-site studio visits with each artist. In addition to

Rozich and Johnson, the Neddy exhibition for 2012 featured

the work of Gala Bent, Cynthia Camlin and Jeremy Mangan in

Painting; and James Coupe, Lead Pencil Studio (Annie Han and

Daniel Mihalyo) and Susie Lee in Open Medium. An accompanying

exhibition, Reflections, was curated by Peggy Weiss and featured

the work of Ned Behnke.

One of the key features of the Neddy at Cornish will be a year-

long series of programs shaped, in part, by the interests of the

annual award recipients. While the Neddy is an unrestricted

grant, the artists are invited to participate in conversations about

how to link their commitments and practice as artists to the

ongoing work of the educational program at the College. The

first event, the Neddy at Cornish Annual Lecture, featured the

renowned Harrell Fletcher in a presentation and discussion of

art and social practice.

The Neddy at Cornish program is staffed by Program Director

Jenifer Ward, Associate Program Director Cable Griffith and

Program Assistant Ellen Ito. The 2013 call for applications will

be announced at www.cornish.edu/neddy in the late fall.

Top: The Neddy at Cornish exhibition. Bottom Left: The Behnke Family. Bottom Right: Eirik Johnson, selection from the “Barrow Cabin” series, 2010, archival pigment prints. Courtesy of the artist and G. Gibson Galley. All photos: Winifred Westergard.

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ALEAH CHAPIN– KAREN BYSTROM

ALEAH CHAPIN (AR ’08) WAS AWARDED FIRST PRIZE

at the BP Portrait Award 2012 Awards ceremony for her paint-

ing Auntie, making her one of the youngest recipients of this

prestigious global award. Her portrait and the three other finalists’

work were on display at the National Portrait Gallery June 19

through September 23, 2012

From the National Portrait Gallery website: “Brooklyn-

based Aleah Chapin has just completed a MFA in painting

at the New York Academy of Art. She gained her BFA at

Cornish College of the Arts in her native Seattle and attended

a residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in

Germany in 2011. A recipient of several awards including the

Posey Foundation Scholarship, Judith Kindler and Kyle

Johnson Scholarship for Innovation in the Arts, and nominated

for the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, Chapin’s work has been

included in solo and group shows in the US and Europe.

“Her portrait is of a close friend of the family and is part of a

series of nude portraits of women Aleah has known all of her

life. She says: ‘The fact that she has known me since birth is

extremely important. Her body is a map of her journey through

life. In her, I see the personification of strength through an

unguarded and accepting presence.”

From The Huffington Post: National Portrait Gallery Director

Sandy Nairne said “Aleah Chapin’s portrait is ambitious and

beautifully painted, with superbly controlled colour and tone.”

Learn more about Aleah’s work at www.aleahchapin.com.

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If you are savvy to the ways of the Seattle music scene, chances

are you have already bumped into one of its hottest up and

coming young talents, hip hop producer/MC and Cornish alum

Katie Kate (MU ’09). After all, it’s kind of hard to miss her when

she can be seen on some of the Northwest’s biggest stages.

Whether you are hitting up the Sasquatch! or Decibel music

festivals, or even Seattle’s renowned Bumbershoot, Katie

Kate’s compelling vocal rhythms and sophisticated electronic

beats can be felt for miles across the Puget Sound. However,

as formidable and dynamic a rapper and vocalist as she has

become, Katie Kate’s story might surprise you.

Born Katie Finn in upstate New York, Katie was what many

consider the typical “band geek.” Primarily a flutist, Katie

never liked the idea of being limited to just one thing. So, with

music imbedded in her soul, Katie armed herself with whatever

instruments she could get her hands on. “I was totally that nerdy

music kid in school, ever since I can remember. I was in every

ensemble I could manage to elbow my way into —I even played

tenor sax in the jazz band (somewhat poorly). I was insatiable.

[Music] was a way for me to escape, something very natural that

made perfect sense to me and always had.”

With a dream of a music career in her head, and living in New

York, Katie had an armada of schools and programs almost

at her front door. The problem was, the typical music program

just didn’t fit her style. “Between New York City and Boston

alone there were many, many excellent universities... [and] I

would have to audition on flute as my principal instrument.

The problem was, I didn’t really want to be a concert flutist. I

went on several auditions that ended in tears because the

adjudicator could tell I didn’t want to be there. I had a huge

variety of interests and skills, and I was so discouraged that

the schools near me seemed so... linear.” Waiting for a program

to want to see every side of her, Katie finally discovered Cornish.

Music has always played a big part in Brad Shepik’s life. Since

high school, the Seattle native and Cornish alum dabbled

in numerous instruments including the alto, tenor and baritone

saxophones, double bass and guitar while starting up his

own rock and blues bands. Using money earned from his paper

route, Brad frequented record shops to pick up albums from

iconic jazz and blues musicians Charlie Parker, John Coltrane,

Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk or anything that

looked interesting. Brad and his friends even started to book

gigs, playing school assemblies, talent shows and parties

developing a popular repertoire including favorites Mack the

Knife, Cheap Sunglasses, and Blues Brothers tunes.

However, realizing that he spent all of his time around music,

Brad decided that it was going to be almost impossible for

him not to commit to being a full time musician. That was when

he discovered Cornish.

“I was spending all my free time practicing and playing—I wasn’t

going to be satisfied if I didn’t pursue it and learn more about

how it was put together. Early on, the thing that was attracting

me was writing music of my own. I applied to Berklee, NEC

and Cornish and ended up receiving a scholarship to Cornish.

It was a great opportunity to study with people like Dave

Petersen, Jim Knapp and other faculty that I’d seen performing

around Seattle ... It was probably when I decided to go to

Cornish that I committed to being a musician.”

Upon finishing his music degree, Brad moved to New York.

Though his first couple years out of school were tough, they

ended up being some of his most productive. “When I first

moved to New York, I hardly played gigs for a year. I did a lot

of odd jobs to pay my rent, but it was still a very fruitful period

because I was doing a lot of semi-regular sessions with like-

minded musicians, reading and writing our own music.” Those

casual sessions, though, eventually coalesced into groups that

started out playing little gigs around town. Eventually, they moved

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From an early age, Jason Simms knew he wanted to have a

career in the arts. While he had a passion for both performing

and visual arts, it wasn’t until he started high school that he

realized his calling was to design for live theater. Jumping knee

deep in set and costume design, the Carson City, NV native

never looked back.

A 2005 graduate of the Performance Production department,

Jason discovered Cornish after an extensive college search at

the recommendation of his teacher. “My high school theater

teacher encouraged me to interview and apply to many different

schools. After getting accepted to several, Cornish became

a clear choice because of its uniqueness. A school that only

existed as a nurturing artistic environment unattached to a

university or larger school seemed ideal. This is what sets Cornish

apart from so many other programs that offer degrees in design

for theater. There is no other place like Cornish.”

After finishing his degree, Jason moved to New York and con-

tinued to design while completing his MFA from NYU’s

prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. However, like many young

artists, transitioning to the professional world was a challenge

for Eric. “You suddenly have to create your own life structure

after a curriculum provided one for you. My method was to

do as much work as I possibly could because the more work

you do, the more work you will get ... When everyone gets

out of school, they feel very vulnerable and unsure of what the

future is going to bring them. I put my faith in the art form

and trust that it is going to catch me if I fall, so far it has. I

think the lesson is that you get out of it what you put into

it.” However, despite the difficulty of transitioning into the real

world, Jason believes strongly that the best challenges often

result in the best rewards. While acknowledging that even

though his first years away from Cornish and NYU were some

of his toughest, the professional opportunities and relation-

ships he gained during his school years set him up to be

successful. “Since I have graduated from NYU, about 50 percent

Muse Media Center, the brainchild of co-founder and Executive

Producer Noah Veneklasen (PP ‘01) is a unique production

company nestled in the creative heart of downtown Emeryville,

California. You might be familiar with the Oakland area suburb

for being the home of beloved animation giant Pixar Animation

Studios, but its lesser known neighbor across the street has

also been climbing the ranks of the commercial and entertain-

ment industry with a reputation as a force to be reckoned

with. Before its inception though, its creator had a unique path

that took him from Hollywood to Cornish.

Noah, a Castro Valley, California. native landed in Hollywood

straight out of high school. Starting as a grunt set construction

worker, he quickly worked his way up to become a Labor

Manager. During that time, he worked on several major feature

films, including Sphere, which was at the time the largest

film ever made, and the Eddie Murphy comedy Metro. Despite

building an impressive resume, with a dream to become

a producer, Noah made the decision to go back to school to

study performance production.

“I wanted to get a very broad background, which would make

me a better production manager or producer ... I went to

Cornish because it was much more hands-on, much more

creative, and I was going to get a chance to really do the

work. I was all about applied art; using art as your foundation

to build an actual, stable career, and I wanted to apply a

strong artistic background to a career in entertainment and in

film, and that’s how I decided on my path to and through Cornish.”

Even while at Cornish, Noah continued to use his experience

from Hollywood to build on his impressive body of professional

work. “I was meeting with film investors and working with

corporate America producing really high-end videos and corpo-

rate events, and a lot of people probably never knew I was

working during college doing those things.” In fact, finding the

right balance between corporate work and filmmaking—where

Noah’s real passion lies—is where the idea of Muse came about.

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“They did an outstanding job researching the client, presenting their

designs, working within actual project budget and schedule

constraints, and collaborating with one another and our subcon-

tractor, Foley Signs. They are the future designers in our industry.”

In recognition of the students’ efforts and the collaboration that

helped make the project possible, Amazon donated $10,000

to the Design Department at Cornish College of the Arts. The

finished project will be a lasting reminder of Amazon’s close

ties with the community and a unique addition to the portfolios

of the participating students.

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Cabeen took humanities and science courses at Cornish while her

body healed, devoting her time to the study of kinesiology and

anatomy in particular. “I had thought of the body as a magical

thing,” she says, “but in anatomy class, I learned the science of

how it all works. Carla Corrado provided an amazing map of the

human body, and I learned how all these things are connected. It

helped me use my body more responsibly.”

Meanwhile, the Seattle dance community couldn’t help but take

notice that Catherine Cabeen was in town, including Hannah

Wiley, Artistic Director of Chamber Dance, a resident company at

University of Washington that performs and archives significant

works of modern dance. “I took advantage of her living in Seattle

by asking her to coach my company on a reconstruction of

Martha Graham’s Chronicle, in which Catherine had performed,”

says Wiley, who describes Cabeen as “an exquisite artist and

master teacher [who] engendered trust and risk-taking from the

dancers she coached.”

A year later, her Cornish BFA in hand, Cabeen was invited to

become an MFA student in the dance program at the University

of Washington. Beyond dance, her studies included feminist

theory, 20th-century history and philosophy. “I used my graduate

education to study self-representation as it unfolded for various

artists throughout the 20th century,” said Cabeen in a recent

interview, “so that I could better understand how to represent my

own unique perspective in my own work.”

Cabeen expresses a passion for reframing the relationship of

dancers to the work. “I want to encourage dancers to think and

be present within structure, to train dancers to think for

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them selves. But,” she points out, “most dance jobs involve doing

what you’re told. If I wanted to see a change from the tradition of

dancers as cattle, I knew that we needed new teaching method-

ologies, the development of the whole self. We needed companies

where directors were willing to have a conversation. I wanted to

teach virtuosity and have dancers respected as whole people. I

wanted to maintain the rigor of form and allow whole individuals.”

“I had three clear reasons to start my own dance company,” says

Cabeen. “One, I was ready to dance again. Two, I was ready

to express myself—I had my own things to say. Three, I wanted

to create work that was interdisciplinary.” And in the Seattle

arts community, Cabeen met a variety of artists—dancer Sarah

Lustbader, composer Kane Mathis, media artist Tivon Rice, and

others—who became principal collaborators.

Meanwhile, Cabeen’s work caught the eye of On the Boards’

Artistic Director Lane Czaplinski and Regional Programs Director

Sean Ryan, both of whom quickly became advocates. Cabeen

wrote a proposal for Into the Void, and OtB presented the premiere

of this astonishing evening-length work using drag performance,

video, sculpture, sound, music, and dance to explore the complex

gender politics of postmodern artist Yves Klein. OtB went on to

commission her next work, Fire!, which will premiere in January, 2013.

“Catherine brings intelligence, integrity and artistic talent to all of her

artistic activities,” says Kitty Daniels, Cornish Dance Department

Chair. “She is a mesmerizing performer who compels the audience’s

attention through her extraordinary physical articulation, emotional

honesty and sense of self. As a choreographer, her interest in col-

laborative and cross-disciplinary creation reflects her commitment

to the deep inquiry and research that lies at the heart of all artistic

exploration. She brings to our Seattle community an extensive

professional background and a desire to bridge artistic worlds,

fueled by her passion to communicate from deep internal truth.”

When asked if she has advice for young dancers, Cabeen quickly

says, “Go to college.” Then she pauses for a moment. “Dance

is not something everyone has to do. You get to do it if you’re

lucky,” she says. “In technique classes and in life, you get to

make choices and follow through. Every day you have a new series

of choices. You can, with complete integrity, change your path.

You’ll be a better dancer and a happier person if you realize that

life is series of choices.”

If you’ve never seen Catherine Cabeen and Company, go to On

the Boards TV online and watch Into the Void. It costs $5 to rent

the video, $15 to buy a copy, or you can watch the trailer for free.

Better yet, call On the Boards now and reserve tickets for Fire!

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Two years later and after a lot of patience and support from OSF,

The Unfortunates has been through two rounds of development

and is scheduled for production in the upcoming season. The play

has turned into a dark fantasy about a group of soldiers facing

execution and taking refuge in singing “Saint James Infirmary.” The

play radiates out from that point, deconstructing the song and

spinning it into new stories.

“We are thrilled to be staging this world premiere because it’s really

quite new for us and our audience,” Bill Rauch says. “It’s a musical

comic book with super heroes; it’s a play, a musical, a concert, all

of those things. The music is soul-stirring, emotion-soaked, tran-

scendent. It will definitely be a ‘not-to-be-missed event.’”

If you look up the show on YouTube or Google, you’ll see the

writing credit is “3 Blind Mice and Casey Hurt. Monsef’s name is

buried in the concept of “crew.”

“I like to be a part of something,” says Ramiz. “I don’t feel like I

need to be the one out in the middle of it. I just want to be a part

of a collection of artists who are working together to make one

solid whole that is transformative to an audience, that is cathartic

to an audience.”

THROWING IN TOGETHER continued from page 8

“My audition tape had flute, piano, guitar, vocals, pop songs, even

some musical theater. I had no expectation that I would get in.

I had kind of resigned myself to a much more depressing fate.

When I was accepted I felt an unbelievable sense of relief, but

not just relief—hope. They had heard the different sides of me, and

I was accepted. It felt like a dream. I was moving across the

country and embarking on this great adventure to study music

and become an artist. That was a really special time.”

Even then, the road from Cornish didn’t get easier. Like many

musicians with big aspirations, the path less traveled can be

scary. Upon graduation Katie recalls really having to confront the

reality of what it would take to achieve her dream. “ I realized

that if I wanted to, I could give up music forever. I had to think

about my future, and there was the very real possibility of getting

a ‘normal’ job, not being an artist, not being a professional

musician. I allowed myself to really consider this, and it scared

me senseless. It was the perfect way to scare myself straight.

Nobody was going to make this happen for me.” Knowing full

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well that success would not fall into her lap, Katie did the only

thing she knew how: “to work my butt off, be thankful for every

little step, and stay true to myself.”

Now, three years later, all of that hard work seems to be paying

off. She released her debut album Flatland earlier this year to

critical acclaim, much to her surprise. “I had no idea how well

it would be received! I kind of half expected it to be something

my family and friends bought, and then I’d put out my REAL album

later. That entire month after the release show was really amazing.

Suddenly I was being praised in papers, articles were written

about me, people wanted autographs... it happened really quickly.”

Despite quick success, Katie is humbled by being able to remem-

ber the path she has traveled. From the festivals to the album

release, “the most rewarding thing about this whole process has

been being able to look back at myself as a young woman,

prior to Cornish, prior to the rap thing, and really see how far I

’ve come. That’s the beauty of these big events, it really gives

me a timeline to see my progress.”

Though primarily studying flute and classical piano at Cornish,

from her audition Katie demonstrated that diversity and

creativity was her true skill as a musician, and that she refused

to be defined by one thing. As a result, Katie has blossomed

into a multi-faceted musician with a lot to look forward to. In

addition to a busy festival performance schedule, Katie is currently

working on her next studio album while hinting at a possible

tour in the works. Did we forget to mention she is also a member

of Seattle’s renowned Gamelan Pacifica ensemble?

into recording studios and even embarked on a Europe tour. In fact,

Brad’s bands Tiny Bell Trio, Paradox Trio, Pachora, and BABKAS

all started from relationships he built in his early years.

Since then, Brad has been working on a slew of new projects.

In 2008, the guitarist was commissioned from Chamber Music

America to compose a ten-part suite constructed around the

theme of global climate change called the Human Activity Suite.

Conceived by Brad himself, the project grew out of his desire to

“connect to how I felt about the earth and the environment we are

creating for ourselves as a result of how we live.” Most recently

though, Brad launched his debut album Across The Way in 2011

with his new quartet, aptly titled the Brad Shepik Quartet. “I start

to get antsy if I don’t play or write for a while so I don’t wait for the

muse to tap me on the head. I’ll write things down that pop into

my head while walking to the store and finish later when I have time.”

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of my work comes from connections made there, another 50

percent comes from connections made at Cornish.”

Now a freelance designer in New York and only a handful of

years out of school, Jason is on the path to becoming one of the

hottest designers in the country. Busier than ever, Jason has

now designed over a dozen shows regionally and Off-Broadway,

including recent designs for Sweeney Todd at Yale University

and—one of his personal favorites—Samuel Hunter’s The Whale

at the Denver Center Theatre Company. In recognition of his

phenomenal design work, Jason was the recipient of the 2012

USITT Rising Star Award. Sponsored by LDI2012 and Live

Design magazine, the annual award recognizes excellence and

artistic achievement in the areas of scenic, lighting, sound and

projection design. The award is given at the beginning of a career

to a young designer in the first four years of professional work.

Honored by the award, Jason admits the recognition is humbling

and, maybe even more importantly, motivating. “There is a sense

of responsibility involved with winning such an award because you

have to continue to live up to it.”

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“I started Muse because I was doing a ton of work for Oracle, Cisco,

Intel and Microsoft—and you name it—and I needed a home base

both for that and the film production I was doing. Even though I’m

also doing relatively well-funded films, the reality is that you can’t

really make a living on just that, and also those projects only

come around every two to three years, so what do you work on

in between?”

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He is currently preparing new material for some solo concerts in

November and is writing music for a new trio. Despite the new

work, he still keeps his old groups fresh and alive with some new

tunes in the works for Pachora and the Paradox Trio. Even next

year is looking to be a busy one with tours starting for his new

quartet, Paradox: George Schuller, Arthur Kell, and Combo Nuvo.

Brad currently lives in New York with his family. When not perform-

ing and composing, he teaches at a number of local colleges in

the area, including New York University where he also received

his masters in jazz performance and composition.

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The creation of Muse allowed Noah to have what he calls a “holistic

career,” where one can pay the bills and the other one can ride on

the tails of the other. “Muse exists because I do all this corporate

work, but the reality of it is that it’s a major tool for all the little

independent films I do.” In fact, because of the strong support

system Muse creates, Noah can produce passion projects like

his film 50/50, a documentary in development that follows a well

known relationship writer as she goes on first dates in all 50 states.

In addition, because of his background in Hollywood, Noah brings

a unique insight even to the corporate work he’s doing. “Most

of the work that I do in the corporate world does sort of tie back

to the film world. They hire me not because I am Mr. Corporate

America, but because I can bridge the gap between corporate

America and Hollywood.” This diversity is definitely evident in

one of his most recent projects when he was hired by Google to

help launch their new Google Glasses. Viewed by more than 10

million people, Noah coordinated and filmed a stunt team of sky-

divers, bike jumpers and rappelers to jump out of a blimp and

land on a building in San Francisco and then ride into a convention

center to deliver the first pair of glasses to Google’s CEO.

Noah has three pieces of advice for aspiring artists. The first is to

learn as much as you can about all sides of your industry. “The

more you know about what everyone else is doing, the better you’ll

be at whatever your specialty is.” The second is not be afraid

to work for free. “Never hesitate to solicit a mentor relationship

with some body, because those are the people you will most

likely work with and take over for.” Most importantly, he advises

artists to “never let anyone tell you that art isn’t a real career or

there is no way to apply art in the real world ... Given a little creative

thought, there is always a way.”

Noah currently lives in Oakland, California, with his lovely wife

and two kids. More information about Muse Media Center can

be found at www.musemediacenter.com.

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CORNISH WAS WELL REPRESENTED at The Stranger’s annual

Genius Awards. Ellen Forney (DE faculty) received the Genius

Award for Literature. Nominees included Dan Webb (AR ’91) and

Sarah Bergmann (AR ’99) in visual art and THEESatisfaction

(Catherine Harris-White, MU ’08) in music.

The local theater scene, particularly, was filled with examples of

the Cornish community working together.

Theater Department Chair Richard E.T. White directed John

Logan’s Red at Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre

Company, featuring Denis Arndt and Connor Toms (TH ’01).

During the summer and fall he also directed developmental work-

shops for a new play about Seattle rock ’n roll by faculty member

Gretta Harley (MU and TH) and singer-actress Sarah Rudinoff

entitled These Streets, with a cast that includes Samie Detzer

(TH ’10), Terri Weagant (TH ’04), Eden Schwartz (TH ’11),

John Q. Smith (TH ’95), and Evan Crockett (TH ’12). Look for

the production at ACT Theatre in February 2013.

The repertory company for Intiman’s 2012 Summer Theater

Festival included actors Timothy McCuen Piggee (TH Faculty),

Carol Roscoe (TH Faculty), Marya Sea Kaminski (TH Faculty)

and Fawn Ledesma (TH ’11). Working as performance interns

were Jonathan Crimeni, Drew Highlands, Jonathan Pyburn,

and Angela Rose Sink (all TH ’13). The creative team included

costume staff Michelle Grimm (Staff/Costume Shop Technician),

properties intern Megan Tuschoff (PP ’13), stage management

intern Holly McNeill (PP ’13), and producing/directing interns

Kayla Walker, Sara Peterson and Quinn Armstrong (all

TH ’12). Wade Madsen (DA Faculty) choreographed Romeo

and Juliet.

Greg Carter, artistic director of Strawberry Workshop Theatre,

is a member of the Performance Production faculty. The two

most recent productions included a variety of Cornish artists.

Stranger Genius Award-winner Gabriel Baron (TH ‘00) directed

Accidental Death of an Anarchist with a cast and crew that

included Claire Branch (PP ’10), Reed Nakayama (PP ’07),

MJ Sieber (TH ’01) and Rhonda J. Soikowski (TH ’00),

as well as current students Ashley Bryant (PP ’15), Kathleen

Le Coze (PP ’13), Gabrielle Strong (PP ’13) and Annsofie

Wikegard (PP ’14). This Land: Woody Guthrie included Katherine

Stromberger (PP ‘12) singer/puppeteer; Gabrielle Strong

(PP ’13) stage manager; Kayla Walker (TH ‘12) singer/puppet-

eer; Don Darryl Rivera (TH ’06) singer/puppeteer; Sheila

Daniels (TH faculty) singer/puppeteer; Reed Nakayama (PP

’07) projection designer; Greg Carter (PP faculty) director/

designer; Ron Erickson (PP faculty) costume designer; and

Rob Burgess singer/puppeteer, husband of Melanie Burgess

(PP faculty).

Cornish alums and faculty were all over two timely plays in

Seattle, 99 Layoffs at ACT and Foreclosure at New Century

Theatre Company, both written by Vincent Delaney (TH ’82–’84).

99 Layoffs featured Theater faculty member Aimee Bruneau

The relationships among artists—students, alumni and faculty—

are integral to what makes Cornish College of the Arts so

distinctive. Cornish faculty members are working artists and,

from the beginning, become strong mentors to our student

artists. They also become colleagues, creating art together.

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Ezra Dickenson. Photo by Tim Summers. Runner by Dan Webb. TheeSatisfaction. Photo by David Belisle. Aimée Bruneau as Tamara in 99 Layoffs. Photo by Armen Stein.

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on stage and set design Montana Tippett (PP). The workshop

production of Foreclosure was directed by Theater faculty

member Makaela Pollock and starred Peter Dylan O’Connor

(both PP faculty and alum) and MJ Sieber (TH ’01).

A new performance ensemble, soikowski research | performance

(srp), founded by Cornish faculty and alum Rhonda J. Soikowski

(TH ‘00), examines and investigates the gaps in the artistic process

that may be detrimental to the personal wellness of art makers,

then seeks to fill, bridge, eliminate, or simply illuminate them. Their

first public offering, at capacity, is an exploration of the issues

that currently arise for artists utilizing heightened emotional energy

in performance and the development of long-term practices

in order to maintain personal emotional wellness. The ensemble

includes alums Brenda Arellano (TH ’04), Kate Huisentruit

(TH ’01), Alianna Jaqua (TH ’99), Gina Malvestuto-Fitzgerald

(TH ’01), Pilar O’Connell (TH ’12), Tim Smith-Stewart (TH ’10),

and Sydney Tucker (TH ’12).

Lisa Norman just completed coaching text for upstart crow

collective’s all-female production of Titus Andronicus, with

fellow Theater faculty Amy Thone, Rhonda Soikowski, Terri

Weagant (TH ’04) and Sarah Harlett and alums Nicole

Merat (TH ‘12) and Donna Wood (TH ’11). Last spring she also

appeared in the ACT Young Playwrights’ Festival along with

Kate Myre (TH faculty) and Tim Smith-Stewart (TH ‘10). She

continues to support and work with Orion Out Loud, a writing

program for homeless youth created and directed by alums Tim

Smith-Stewart, Carol Thompson, Samie Spring Detzer and

Sarah E. R. Grosman (all TH ’10).

Cornish theater artists were joined by musicians, dancers and

visual artists at Bumbershoot 2012. In addition to Katie Finn (MU

‘09), AKA Katie Kate, Cornish was represented by LG Cabaret—

JUST Dance by Live Girls! Theater, founded by Meghan Arnette

(TH ’97); the Washington Ensemble Theatre production of Bed

Snake, featuring alumni Noah Benezra, Jessie Underhill, and

Heidi Korndorffer and current senior Angela Rose Sink;

Sandbox Radio Live, featuring T-Minus, written by playwriting

instructor Elizabeth Heffron; Maximum Velocity with Amy

O’Neal (DA ’99), Kate Wallich (DA ’10) and Markeith Wiley (DA

2006–2010); and the rap duo THEESatisfaction, Catherine

Harris-White (MU ’08) and Stasia Irons. On the visual arts side,

involved with Elvistravaganza are Diem Chau (AR ’02), Rich

Lehl (AR’93), Sean Hurley (AR ’07), Tatjana Pavicevic (AR ’05),

faculty member Ellen Forney and former faculty Joe Park and

Joey VeltKamp.

Included in Velocity Presents: The Fall Kick-Off + BIG BANG! Remix

were Markeith Wiley (DA 2006–2010), current student Matt

Drews, and alums Sarah Butler (DA ’12), Ezra Dickinson (DA

’07), Alicia Garcia (DA ’12), Amy Johnson (DA ’11), Molly

Sides ( DA ’10), Callie Swedberg (DA ’10), Kate Wallich (DA

’10) and Belle Wolf (DA ’08). Cornish faculty members and

instructors participating included Iyun Ashani Harrison, Assistant

Professor; Alia Swersky, faculty; and KT Niehoff, former adjunct

instructor. Among other participants were Maureen Whiting,

who has choreographed for Cornish Dance Theater, and Erica

Badgeley, an alum of the Cornish Preparatory Dance program.

Ashani Dances, a newly formed, 17-member dance company

directed by Cornish faculty member Iyun Ashani Harrison

launched its debut season this June. Ashani Dances’ mission is

to explore places where “finesse” confronts raw athleticism and

“beauty” distorts into palpable emotional expression. Among the

company members are Rebecca Kalnasy (DA ’12), Camryn

Kelly (DA ’12), Babette McGeady (DA ’13), Sam Picart (DA ’13),

Sean Rosado (DA ’15), Kelton Roth (DA ’12) and Autumn

Tselios (DA ’13).

Richard E. T. White and Cornish students Red. Kayla Walker and Don Darryl Rivera at the Straw Workshop. Photo by John Ulman.

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2012

As an outgrowth of her design BFA project, Heather

Nicewonger (DE ’12) started SafeCupboard, a

non-profit whose mission is to generate awareness

of allergen-free foods and resources.

2011

In June, Seattle-based Fruition Productions premiered

Watermyth, an exciting new work by Katherine Jett

(TH ‘11). Though originally founded in 2008, Fruition will

be launching its first official season this fall.

2010

Major Scales (aka Richard Andriessen TH ’10) per-

formed with Jinkx Monsoon (aka Jerick Hoffer TH ’10)

in Freedom Fantasia, a drag, cabaret, music, burlesque

and contemporary dance packed extravaganza with a

healthy dose of patriotic flair, all this while pointing

out the often-ironic misconceptions that Americans

have about their own country’s history.

Jerick Hofer (TH ’10) also received critical acclaim for

his roles in Rent at The 5th Avenue Theatre and Spring

Awakening at Balagan Theatre.

James James (TH ‘10) recently lent his voice talents to

Audible Inc, narrating David Callahan’s new book Fortunes

of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking

of America. The audio book was released in July.

Charles Spitzack (AR ‘10) spoke to Seattle-based

CultureMob, a national news and blog website

covering the arts, about the struggle of balancing

work, life and recent success as an artist. Since leaving

Cornish, Charlie’s work has been focused primarily in

woodblock prints, monotypes, etchings and lithography.

Gerald Ford (TH ’10) wrote and performed his solo show

El Ultimo Coconut at Annex Theatre Company in August.

2009

During Spring 2012, John Ruzel, (AR ’09) participated

in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, one of the

largest artist residency programs in the West.

Catherine Harris-White (MU ‘09) and her THEESatis-

faction rap counterpart Stasia Irons were invited to

play a concert in New York with Jazz-Rap group Shabazz

Palaces in July. The pair also guest appeared on

Shabazz Palaces’ recent album Black U and debuted

their first album, awE naturalE.

2008

Seattle’s own Queer Teen Ensemble Theatre (QTET)

developed and launched their new show Beyond Boxes

at the Washington Ensemble Theatre last June. Led by

theater alum Jessica Hatlo (TH ’08), QTET is a unique

program giving voice and artistry to LGBTQ youth

in the Seattle community. Produced with Washington

Ensemble Theatre, QTET is a city-wide summer theater

workshop that provides a creative outlet for queer

teens and their friends to express who they are and

where they come from.

Diana Huey (TH ’08) performed in Rent at The 5th

Avenue Musical Theater and It Shoulda Been You at

Village Theatre.

2007

Ezra Dickinson (DA ’07) was the topic of a January

20 story in The Seattle Times, “Local Dance, Ezra

Dickinson: What Can’t He Do?” and featured in the

April issue of CityArts magazine.

2005

Josh Neumann (MU ‘05), Brandi Carlile’s cellist,

is heard on her fourth album Bear Creek on

Columbia Records.

2004

Portland’s Floating World Comics hosted World Within

The World, an art exhibit and book release party by Julia

Gfrörer (AR ’04). The month-long art exhibit included

Julia’s original comic pages and illustrations. She also

debuted her latest comic, the first chapter of Black

Is The Color, recently nominated for an Ignatz award.

2003

Mallery Avidon (TH ’03) wrote breaks & bikes, a play

that examines the unexpected events that force us

to look up from our phones and rediscover the people

who have ended up in our lives, for Chicago’s

Pavement Group.

Joshua Conkel (TH ’03) made his UK debut as a play-

wright this year in London as a part of the award-winning

Finborough Theatre Summer Season with the world pre-

miere of his new dark comedy The Sluts of Sutton Drive.

2002

Megan Hill (TH ’02) is starring in a new web series

ME + U: Us Against the Small Stuff is a fun and short

episodic comedy about a couple in New York. Through

a few snapshots stolen from their life, we discover

how much they love each other, and how as multiple

challenges arise every day, even when they disagree

most, they end up finding a certain way to resolve

everything —their way.

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The Man the Sea Saw by Wolfe Bowart (TH ’87). Elizabeth Conner’s (AR ‘86) art piece in Jefferson Park.

Megan Hill (TH ‘02) in ME + U: Us Against the Small Stuff.Photo by Kantarama Gahigiri.

Julia Gfrörer (AR ’04).

Danielle Agami’s new dance company Ate9. Photo by Tim Summers.

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2001

Local actor, director and filmmaker, MJ Sieber (TH ’01)

has been working on a documentary film examining the

human toll of unemployment in America. Aptly titled

Not Working, the documentary will come out later this

year. A companion book, by DW Gibson, was released

as well.

1998

Toby Hanson (MU ’98), together with his band mates

and lead singer Kristi Nebel, are busy performing

all over the Northwest as Cowgirl’s Dream, the newest

take on a time-worn tradition of country swing music.

1996

Since graduating from Cornish, Kim Marking (AR ’96)

attended and received her MFA degree in sculpture

from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After com-

pleting graduate school, she worked for IKEA as an

interior designer for 12 years and is currently self-em-

ployed as a freelance consultant for global IKEA as

an interior designer, specializing in new store projects.

1991

Lisa Carswell (TH ’91) played Mrs. Venable in Theatre

9/12’s riveting production of Tennessee Williams’ one-

act Suddenly, Last Summer.

Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc. hosted Destroyer, an exhi-

bition by Dan Webb (AR ’91). In addition to a few

resin works, the work in this exhibition marked a break-

through in scale with five large-scale, carved-wood

sculptures. The title of the show refers to the destructive

choices and results brought about by the act of creation.

1987

The Man the Sea Saw, by the physical theatre creator

Wolfe Bowart (TH ’87), was nominated for a

2012 Helpmann Award® in the category of best visual

or physical theatre production. The pre-eminent annual

event of the Australian theater calendar, the Helpmann

Awards will be announced September 24 at the Sydney

Opera House.

1986

Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs hosted an official

dedication of Elizabeth Conner’s (AR ’86) public art

piece, Painting and Sculpting the Land and Drawing the

Land, at Beacon Hill’s Jefferson Park in July.

1983

Don Quixote & Sancho Panza: Homeless in Seattle, a

new play by Rose Cano (TH ’83) had its debut in a

staged reading at Seattle’s REPRESENT! A Multicultural

Playwrights Festival. Developed through Seattle’s

Latino theatre company, eSe Teatro, Don Quixote &

Sancho Panza: Homeless in Seattle is inspired by

Rose’s work as a Spanish language Medical Interpreter

at Harborview Hospital. Her play, based on the 16th

century icons by Miguel de Cervantes, examines a

strained healthcare system and the intersection between

homelessness, mental health and chronic inebriation

among Latinos.

WORKING ACROSS YEARS

Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production of As You

Like It included Ray Gonzalez (TH ’97), Hannah Mootz

(TH ’11), Peter Dylan O’Connor (TH ’94), Donna Wood

(TH ’11) and Jake Ynzunza (TH ’12).

Danielle Agami’s new dance company Ate9, which

includes alums Sarah Butler (DA ’12), Matt Drews

(DA ’13), Chantael Duke (DA ’13) and Kate Wallich

(DA ’10), performed in the company’s inaugural

performance Sally Meet Stu in residence at Velocity

Dance Center.

Jericho House, a new full length animated feature film by

Seattle’s Blue Forge Productions, will showcase the

vocal talents of several Cornish alumni. Evan Crockett

(TH ’12), Angela Hughes (MU ’13) and Kaila Towers

(TH ’12) will each be sharing their vocal prowess on the

big screen in 2013, when the film is expected to debut

in the festival circuit.

Cornish design students participated in Russia Rising:

Votes for Freedom, an exhibition at New York’s School

of Visual Arts that responds to the recent political

turmoil in Russia. The exhibition includes over two dozen

contributors, including internationally known designers

Yossi Lemel and R.O. Blechman. Among the contrib-

utions are designs from four Cornish students, Emily

Firebaugh (DE ’13), Allison Hefely (DE ’14), Alexandria

Lopresti (DE ’13) and Derek Vander Griend (DE ’13)

who were selected as part of the exhibition.

Rose Cano (TH ‘83). Photo by Hugo Ludena, Latino Cultural.

Rhonda J. Soikowski (TH ’00) in Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Strawberry Theater Workshop. Photo: John Ulman.

Jerick Hoffer (TH ‘10) in Rent. Photo by Mark Kitaoaka. Mallery Avidon (TH ‘03). Poster design by Luke Williams.

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Judy Allen (AR) exhibited her work in a group show

at the G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle this past June and

July. She will be showing work at the Columbia City

Gallery in October.

Byron Au Yong (H&S) received a 2012 Time Warner

Fellowship. He was artist-in-residence at Rutgers

University and White Oak, taught composition at the

Regional Taiko Gathering in Portland and served as

a workshop leader for Creative Capital in Detroit, Fort

Collins, Nashville and New Orleans. Byron’s music-

theatre hybrid Stuck Elevator premieres in San Francisco’s

historic Geary Theater next April 2013.

Carla Corrado (DA) taught an Injury Prevention Work-

shop for the 2012 Seattle Mark Morris Summer

Intensive and classes in Dance Anatomy and Injury

Prevention for the 2012 Cornish Summer Dance

Program. She served as physical therapist for the

Corella Ballet’s 2011 Seattle performances and with

Pacific Northwest Ballet. She is a member of the Seattle

Dance Medicine Journal Club. She attended the 2012

Performing Arts Medicine Association Symposium.

Dance Department Chair Kitty Daniels taught at the

Dance Fremont 2012 Contemporary Summer Dance

Program and at the 2012 Bill Evans Dance Teachers

Intensive at SUNY/ Brockport, N.Y. She presented

Technique Class Participation Strategies for Injured

College Dance Students at the 2011 meeting of the

International Association of Dance Medicine and Science

in Washington D.C, and Teaching Turnout to Dancers

at the 2012 meeting of the Performing Arts Medical

Association in Snowmass, Colorado. She also presented

a lecture on Teaching Dancers During the Adolescent

Growth Spurt at Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Teachers

Seminar, and Teaching Alignment and Core Support

at the Creative Dance Center’s Dance Educators

Workshop. She serves on the editorial board of the

Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, and is serving as

Vice-President of the Council of Dance Administrators.

Chuck Deardorf (MU) played bass in the rhythm section

that accompanied trombonists Wycliffe Gordon and

Jiggs Whigham and guitarists Graham Dechter and

Bruce Forman at Jazz Port Townsend in July. Joining

Deardorf in the rhythm section were Tamir Hendelman

(piano) and Rodney Green (drums). Deardorf was also

featured in pianist George Cables’ trio with Matt Wilson

(drums) at the Upstage in Port Townsend. Other

musical activities of note last summer were shows

with New Yorkers Eric Alexander (saxophone) and

George Colligan (piano).

Julie Gaskill (AR) exhibited paintings this year at Gallery

110’s Annual Juried Exhibition in February in Seattle

(2nd Prize Award), at the CVG Gallery Fifth Annual Juried

Show, January through February in Bremerton,

and at Bastyr University in June in Kenmore, WA

(Honorable Mention).

Iyun Ashani Harrison (DA) premiered a new work, For

Christine With Love, for the 2012 Full Tilt concert. His

dance And From Your Shadow I Will Fly was presented

at a regional American College Dance Festival by Hen-

derson State University. His new company Iyun Ashani

Harrison/Ashani Dances presented four dances

on the company’s debut season in June 2012. The

company also presented Union at the 2012 BOOST

Dance Festival. Iyun joined the Seattle Dance Project,

performing in their January 2012 season at ACT. He

danced as guest artist/title role in Dance Fremont’s

production of The Steadfast Tin Soldier and as guest

artist in Ballet Northwest’s 2012 Spring Gala. He

returned to the ballet faculty of the Ailey School for

their 2012 summer intensive.

The Washington Rogues, a Washington D.C.-based

theater company made their triumphant return to the

Capital Fringe Festival with Mitzi’s Abortion by Elizabeth

Heffron (TH), which received ACT Theatre’s New

Play Award in 2005, and had its world premiere at ACT

in 2006. Elizabeth will also debuted her new play

Bo-Nita at Portland’s JAW: A Playwrights Festival this

summer. Selected from a national search, Bo-Nita

was featured as a part of the mainstage series at the

14th annual Just Add Water festival.

Christine Juarez (DA) choreographed Carmen for the

Vashon Opera and The Tender Land produced by

Northwest Lyric Opera. She was Artistic Director for

Dance Vashon Allied Arts’ productions of The Nut-

cracker and Giselle. She was an artist-in-Residence

for Washington State, exploring beach life through

movement with first-grade students.

New faculty member and alum (MU ’93) Pacific North-

west violinist, violist, and composer Eyvind Kang is

a leading figure on the chamber-jazz and progressive-

rock scenes, Kang performed and recorded with

such rock, pop and jazz artists as John Zorn, Bill Frisell,

Beck, Sunn O))) and Marc Ribot. On his recent solo

CD, Narrow Garden (Ipecac), Kang explores haunting

realms and Arabic meters.

In the spring, Alyssa Keene (TH) spent several weeks

in France, first to engage in voice studies at the Roy

Hart Center in Thoiras, then to western France to retrace

her grandfather’s escape during WWII. Alyssa was

featured on Radio France and several French news-

papers. In Seattle, Alyssa coached dialects for ACT

and starred in Reckless at Theater Schmeater and

Rosen crantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Seattle

Public Theatre.

In September, Patrick LoCicero (AR) showed his Bird

Portraits exhibition at Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle.

Wade Madsen (DA) toured to Los Angeles and Austin,

Texas in Dayna Hanson’s work Gloria’s Cause. He

taught for the 30th year at the Boulder Jazz Dance

Workshop where he created dances for students

and for the Interweave Dance Company. He completed

his Gyrotonic ™ trainer certification. Velocity Dance

Center honored Wade for his many years of out stand-

ing teaching, choreography and dance mentorship

in the Seattle dance community.

Lodi McClellan (DA) served as moderator for a post-

performance discussion of the Merce Cunningham

Dance Company’s Legacy Tour at the Paramount

Theater. She taught in the 2012 Cornish Dance College

Prep Intensive, and taught dance writing in the 2012

Pacific Northwest Ballet Summer Intensive. She

continued research for an article about the history of

the mirror in dance.

Kathi McCormick resigned from her position as

Director of the Preparatory Dance Program. Steve

Casteel was named as her successor.

Timothy McCuen Piggee (TH) made his Broadway

debut as Agent Bill Cod in Catch Me If You Can and

was awarded the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award for

the University of Utah College of Fine Arts.

Kate Myre (TH) recently participated in a Roy Hart

voice workshop entitled Ecstatic Voice and Lamen-

tation taught by Marya Lowy. Additionally, she spent

a week in Maine with Master Linklater voice teacher,

Natsuko Ohama, founding member of Shakespeare

and Co., and attended a two-week Roy Hart Voice

Work intensive this fall in France with Cornish colleague

Alyssa Keene.

Barbara Noah (AR) was awarded the 2011 Twining

Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement from

Artist Trust. Her work was included in the Seattle As

Collector show at the Seattle Art Museum. She was

also recently added to the Jon and Mary Shirley

Collection. She is working on the conclusion of her

Likely Stories series, after which she will be doing

research and development on a new body of work.

Lisa Norman (TH) was a participant in a Shake-

spearean text workshop with Scott Kaiser of Oregon

Shakespeare Festival.

Heather Dew Oaksen’s (AR) documentary film,

Minor Differences premiered in October at the

Northwest African American Museum. The production

is documented at www.minordifferences.com.

Becci Parsons (DA) taught Feldenkrais master

classes at the 2012 Seattle Mark Morris Summer

Dance Intensive.

Kathleen Rabel (AR) has been an artist-in-residence

at the seventh century Abbey of San Vincenzo

al Volturno in southern Italy since 1997 with Stephen

Hazel (former Cornish Art Department faculty member)

Almost every year since then, they have returned

in the early summer to bring workshops in art to the

young people and artists of the region. This year

they completed a 15-year ceramic project, The San

Vincenzo Vase, and also gave a watercolor workshop

for the youth of the Molise region.

Jovino Santos Neto (MU) performed across the region

in September, including at the Whittier Theater in

Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, in For the Soul, a duo

concert with Estonian bassoon virtuoso Martin

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Kuuskmann; at Vito’s in Seattle with the Jovino Santos

Neto Trio with Tim Carey (bass) and Jeff Busch

(drums/percussion) and at Lopez Center for Community

and the Arts on Lopez Island with The Jovino Santos

Neto/Chuck Deardorf Duo. He also premiered his

orchestral piece, All Nations, composed for the 10th

anniversary of the All Nations Soccer Cup and

sponsored by 4Culture at Volunteer Park. He recently

wrote this piece for a 20-piece orchestra (strings,

woodwinds, brass and rhythm section), which featured

some of Seattle’s best musicians, including Hans

Teuber, Tom Varner, Beth Fleenor, Samantha Boshnack,

Paul Taub, Tim Carey, Mark Ivester, Chris Spencer

and many more.

Dan Shafer (DE) headed two creative community

projects this year. His “Color Theory” classes and

design faculty Beanne Hull, Jenny Sapora painted

more than 30 4-foot by 8-foot murals for the Wood-

land Park Zoo’s annual Jungle Party benefit. Students

worked in pairs and selected one of five animals that

the zoo was highlighting for the fundraiser, “Borneo to

Bali.” In addition to the animals, textile patterns from

Southeast Asia were integrated into the student’s designs.

Students from Dan’s “Book Design I” class taught drop-

in bookmaking workshops to children and teens at

eleven Seattle Public Library branches this summer, in

partnership with the Seattle Public Library Foundation.

Students involved in the project were Gabriela Ayala

(AR), Kelsey Rogers (PP) and Ella Shkurina (DE).

Acclaimed Harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree (MU)

made her concert debut on Vashon Island at a special

benefit concert in June at the Church of the Holy Spirit

benefiting the music ministry of the Episcopal church.

The church is currently in the midst of celebrating its

centenary anniversary.

Christine Sumption (H&S) is the dramaturg for Cheryl

L. West’s play Pullman Porter Blues which opened the

50th anniversary season at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

As Resident Dramaturg at Hedgebrook, she led the

2012 Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival in May.

Hedgebrook Plays, Volume 1, which she co-edited

with Liz Engelman will be published by Whit Press this

fall. She is also co-curator (with Anita Montgomery)

of the Construction Zone, a new play reading series at

ACT Theatre.

In June, under the direction of the Seattle Symphony’s

new music director, Ludovic Morlot, pianist Cristina

Valdes (MU) performed with the Seattle Symphony for

a special chamber concert in the Nordstrom Recital

Hall at Benaroya Hall featuring selections from com-

posers Henri Dutilleux and Maurice Ravel.

Deborah Wolf (DA) received a 2011 4Culture Individual

Artist Project Grant which will support a work for

the 2012 Men in Dance Festival that will incorporate

sculptural pieces by Michele dela Vega (DA ’97).

She taught in the Cornish College 2012 Dance College

Prep Intensive, and the 2012 Dance Fremont summer

program. She staged Blue Decorum for the Bellingham

Repertory Dance Company, choreographed a new

dance, BC Blues, for Eastside Moving Company and

choreographed a new dance for Evoke Production’s

2012 Full Tilt. She also choreographed a solo

for a senior in the 2012 Dance BFA Concerts. She

adjudicated the 2012 University of Washington Dance

Majors concert.

STAFF

Carolyn Hopkins (Admission) was featured in group

exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and

Seattle. She curated and participated in a collaborative

exhibition at Soil titled Sticks and Stones with artists

Anthony Sonnenberg and Emily Nachison. Her work

was included in the Fiber Biennial at the Bellevue

Arts Museum this fall. She was awarded and attended

a residency at the Brush Creek Foundation for the

Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming in April and in the coming

year, her work will be featured in the SAM Gallery

window. She continues to develop new work in her

Vashon Island studio.

Laura Lynn Horst, graduate residence hall director,

spent the summer assistant directing and playing the

role of Vi Moore in Footloose: the Musical at Kitsap

Forest Theatre. She worked under the direction of Ken

Michels and was thrilled to share the stage with Cornish

theatre student Nicholas Martin who played Bickle.

Dance Department accompanist Ben Morrow per-

formed with Trip the Light, Life in a Blender, the

Jazz Police, the Toucans Steel Drum Band, Scott

Lindenmuth, Esteban and others throughout the

greater Seattle area. He also performed in musical

productions of South Pacific (Lyric Light Opera)

and Hairspray (Nathan Hale High School). He ac com-

panied classes at Velocity’s Strictly Seattle.

Ben released his solo percussion EP Shadow Benny,

featuring compositions inspired by accompanying

dance classes. He recorded drums on and coproduced

Trip the Light’s debut album I Feel Great.

Angela Rinaldi, Dance Department accompanist, was

musical director and choreographer for Disney’s

Aladdin, Jr. at Bellevue High School and choreographed

Once Upon a Mattress for Bellevue’s Chinook Middle

School. She released her new single MAMA, the song

she wrote for her now deceased mother. As co-founder

of Variety Plus, Angela composed, music directed,

choreographed and performed in their original adaptation

of Rumpelstiltskin. Angela is a Teaching Artist at

Seattle Children’s Theatre, teaching musical theatre

classes year-round. She also taught in Spectrum

Dance Theatre’s summer camps. She is a company

member of Events on the Edge, performing

interactive murder mysteries aboard the Royal Argosy.

Preparatory dance department administrative assistant

Christine Weh performed with Chimera Dance Theater

at Velocity Dance Theater in choreography by Sarah

Lofgren. She taught at The Dance School in Everett.

Heather Dew Oaksen’s (AR) documentary film, Minor Differences. Kathleen Rabel’s (AR) watercolor workshop. Photo by Kathleen Rabel.

Zak, Oil on Board, 24” x 24” by Julie Gaskill (AR).

Chuck Deardorf (MU) at Jazz Port Townsend.Photo by Jim Levitt.

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CORNISH IN PICTURES

TOP LEFT: Cornish Opera Theater, Fall 2011. La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina by Francesca Caccini. Stephen Stubbs, Music Director; Anna Mansbridge, Stage

Director and Choreographer. Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis. TOP RIGHT: Cornish Dance Theater, Spring 2012. Divided, choreography by Rhonda Cinotto. Photo: Chris Bennion.

BOTTOM: Opening reception for INK ON PAPER: The Mary Alice Cooley Print Collection at Paper Hammer. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

2012–13ON STAGE, IN THE GALLERY & MORE

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TOP LEFT: Work in Progress, by SuttonBeresCuller. TOP RIGHT: H&S field trip. BOTTOM LEFT: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Rupert Holmes. Directed by Richard Gray and

Kathryn Van Meter. Theater and Performance Production, Spring 2012. Photo: Chris Bennion. BOTTOM LEFT: Cornish Dance Theater, site-specific work, I-5 Colonnade Park.

Beneath Our Own Immensity, choreography by Alia Swersky. Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis. Photos by Winifred Westergard.

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CORNISH IN PICTURES

TOP LEFT: Cornish Dance Theater, Spring 2012. Subway Stories: Dances On the ‘A’, choreography by Iyun Ashani Harrison. Photo: Chris Bennion. TOP RIGHT: Fall 2011, Art

Foundation Runway Show. Photo: Winifred Westergard. BOTTOM: BFA Art + Design Show, Spring 2012. Photos: Winifred Westergard.

2012–13CONTINUED

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TOP: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Rupert Holmes. Directed by Richard Gray and Kathryn Van Meter. Theater and Performance Production, Spring 2012. Photo: Chris

Bennion. MIDDLE LEFT: Dawn Cerny. MIDDLE RIGHT: Nicole Mitchell and the Cornish Big Band. Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis. BOTTOM: Kathleen Rabel (second from left) and

John Overton (second from right), curators of the Mary Alice Cooley Print Collection, President Nancy J. Uscher (center) and alumni artists represented in INK ON PAPER: The

Mary Alice Cooley Print Collection. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

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CORNISH IN PICTURES

TOP LEFT: Photography field trip to Gas Works Park, photo: Ashleigh Robb. TOP AND BOTTOM RIGHT: Summer Art class, photos: Jenny Lindquist. BOTTOM LEFT Summer

Dance class, photo: Mike Urban.

SUMMER AT CORNISH 2012

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TOP: Summer Dance class, photo: Mike Urban. BOTTOM: Summer Music class,

photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis.

CORNISH PROVOST RETIRES

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Lois Harris, Ph.D.,

retired from Cornish College of the Arts after 12 years.

President Nancy J. Uscher, in bidding Dr. Uscher farewell said,

“Our students will continue to benefit from Dr. Harris’ values,

integrity and contributions to the College for years to come,”

“It has been gratifying to have contributed to the remarkable

growth and development of this institution,” said Dr. Harris.

“The arts are critical to the cultivation of civil society, and arts

education is critical to the perpetual renewal of the arts.

Cornish has served, and continues to serve, as a creative

incubator for artists in Seattle and the region, and it has

become a vital force in arts education nationally. I am proud

to have had a role in its evolution.”

Lois Harris is a pianist with undergraduate and graduate

degrees in performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory

of Music and Boston University. Her Ph.D. was earned at

the Union Institute and is in the Theory and Philosophy of

Progressive Education. She has held numerous positions

in higher education administration, including that of Academic

Dean at Goddard College, Director of Liberal Studies at

Antioch University Seattle, and since 2000, Provost and Vice

President for Academic Affairs at Cornish College of the

Arts. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the

Humanities award, a research award in ethnomusicology at

the University of California at Berkeley. Her teaching interests

beyond music include Holocaust Studies and Ornithology.

She is a member of the Society for Values in Higher Education

and has served on the Advisory Board for the Washington

Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education.

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CORNISH IN PICTURES

COMMENCEMENTMAY 13, 2012BENAROYA HALL

Photos by Michelle Smith-Lewis. TOP LEFT: John Gordon Hill, 2011–12 Board Chair; Dr. Lois Harris, Provost/VP Academic Affairs; Betye Saar, renowned artist; Chris

Csikszentmihályi, artist, designer and technologist; Dr. Nancy J. Uscher, President; Christopher O’Riley, distinguished pianist. TOP RIGHT: Student speaker Sydney Tucker, TH ’12.

MIDDLE: Chairs Council, Dr. Nancy J. Uscher, John Gordon Hill. BOTTOM LEFT: The new graduates celebrate! BOTTOM RIGHT: Sarah Gordon Butler (DA ’12), Memory is

Parallax, choreography by Alex Ketley; music by COH, Philip Jeck, Trent Resnor and Atticus Ross.

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OUR CREATIVE SOCIETY 2012

TOP LEFT: Erica Badgeley in Super Eagle at Smoosh. TOP RIGHT: Where Art, Human Expression and Technology Converge. Oscar Murillo from Microsoft speaks at Day of

Ideas. MIDDLE RIGHT: David Shields and Brangien Davis at Day of Ideas. BOTTOM: Audience members are still talking as they leave the conversation with David Shields and

Brangien Davis at Day of Ideas.

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IMPACT—REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

HUNDREDS OF CORNISH DONORS make it possible for

talented students to attend Cornish. Gifts to the Cornish Annual

Fund, along with proceeds from the annual Cornish Celebrates

an Evening of the Arts, are a critical component of our growing

scholarship funds. In the 2011–2012 academic year, three

new endowed scholarships were established to honor individuals

who have been central to Cornish’s growth and development.

Endowed scholarships ensure a permanent source of support

while recognizing the individuals for whom they are named.

Cornish Trustee Sherry Raisbeck (AR ’88) has been an extraor-

dinary volunteer over the years and, with her husband James,

a key source of support for the College, including Raisbeck Per-

formance Hall. James and Sherry have established the Sherry

Raisbeck Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will annually award

financial assistance to a Cornish College of the Arts visual arts

student who has a good studio practice—meaning he/she has

focus, can make a plan and be effective.

IMPACTREPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 2011–2012

The late Stephen P. Walker III served as a Trustee from 1993

until his death last December. A successful businessman, artist,

sculptor and superior craftsman, Steve gave readily of his time

to the arts and to Cornish. His family and friends made generous

gifts to establish the Stephen P. Walker III Endowed Scholarship,

which will be awarded annually to a passionate, outstanding third

year student with a demonstrated commitment to pursuing work

in sculpture and related genre.

Pat Hon is a remarkable teacher who prepares superb dancers,

and, in the words of a former student, trains her pupils to “handle

life’s ambushes and difficulties with creativity and tenacity.”

Cornish is beyond fortunate to have had her tremendous influence

and rigor for 35 years. We are grateful to Evelyn “Casey” Steen

for her generous support in launching the Pat Hon Endowed Schol-

arship Fund this past year.

You can make a difference in the education of artists, citizens

and innovators at Cornish College of the Arts by making a

gift today to our scholarship fund. To make your gift, contact

the Office of Institutional Advancement at 206.726.5064.

Former Trustee Eve Alvord is honored for her long-time support for Cornish College of the Arts with a solo by Christine Bell (MU ’09).

Attendees at the annual gala, Cornish Celebrates an Evening of the Arts, “Raise the Paddles” to pledge support for the Cornish Scholarship Fund.

Sherry Raisbeck (AR ’88) is surprised when husband James announces the Sherry Raisbeck Endowed Scholarship Fund at the annual gala, Cornish Celebrates an Evening of the Arts.

Alum Greg Ruby (MU ’03) performs at the annual gala with his quartet.

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ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS 2011–2012

TOP: Jamie Walker, Stephen Walker II, Lin Walker, inaugural Stephen Walker III Endowed

Scholar Reilly Sinanan, and Deborah Weasea at the reception honoring the late Steve

Walker. MIDDLE: The inaugural Pat Hon Endowed Scholar, Kelton Roth, with Taryn Jansen,

Pat Hon and her husband James Bates, donor Evelyn “Casey” Steen, Kitty Daniels,

Chair of the Dance Department and Roy Harsh. BOTTOM: Kreielsheimer scholars from

all six disciplines celebrating at the 2011 Annual Endowed Scholarship Luncheon.

WHERE OUR SUPPORT COMES FROM

Tuition and Fees 84.3%

Other Income 8.1%

Gifts and Grants 7.6%

Scholarships 15%

Institutional

Support

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Buildings 9%

Academic

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Auxiliary

Services

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Depreciation/

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WHERE OUR SUPPORT GOES

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ANNUAL FUNDJUNE 1, 2011–MAY 31, 2012

Thank you to the many alumni, parents, faculty, staff, trustees

and friends who made gifts to the Cornish Annual Fund,

Campaign for Cornish and Nellie Cornish Legacy Society. We

are especially delighted to acknowledge first-time donors

and those donors who have increased their giving. Your

contributions sustain the outstanding educational and artistic

environment essential to the development of our students.

For information on how you can support Cornish and the

future of the arts, please call the Office of Institutional

Advancement at 206.726.5064.

+ deceased *Alumnus/Alumna

$25,000 & ABOVE

Eve & Chap Alvord

Elias & Karyl Alvord

Behnke Foundation

Edmund Littlefield Jr. & Laura Littlefield

Robert B. McMillen Foundation

Sherry* & James Raisbeck

$10,000–$24,999

Sally Behnke

Bob & Eileen Gilman Family Foundation

Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation Inc.

John & Ellen Hill

Camille McCray

Joan Poliak

$5,000–$9,999

Anonymous

Virginia Anderson

Blick Art Materials

Boeing Matching Gift Program

Joseph & Maureen Brotherton

John & Stephanie DeVaan

L. Robin Du Brin & Douglas Howe

Estate of Margaret L. Wesselhoeft

Katharyn Gerlich

Lawrence & Hylton Hard

John Jordan & Laura Welland*

KeyBank Foundation

Dianne & Steve Loeb

Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund

Bruce & Jolene McCaw

Mary Kay McCaw

Carol & William Munro

Olive Kerry Trust

Gladys Rubinstein

Ellen* & Joe Rutledge

Carlo & Eulalie Scandiuzzi

Severt Thurston

Larry True & Linda Brown

Utrecht Art Supplies

Vulcan Inc.

west elm

$2,500–$4,999

Robert Alexander & Kathleen Devon

Altria Group, Inc.

AmericanWest Bank

Steven & Connie Ballmer

Roger Bass & Richard Nelson

The Boeing Company

Bon Appetit

Lindsey & Carolyn Echelbarger

James & Gretchen Faulstich

Michael & Katharine Gibson

Heather Howard & Roderick Cameron

Donna & Mike James

Kantor Taylor Nelson Evatt and Deana PC

The Loeb Charitable Foundations

Lawrence & Karen Matsuda

Sean Owen* & Tricia McKay

The Presser Foundation

Mansour Samadpour

Julie Speidel* & Joseph Henke

Peggy & Michael Swistak

Andrew Taper

Nancy J. Uscher

$1,000–$2,499

Susan Adams

Ameriprise Financial Employee Gift

Matching Program

Robin & Dana Amrine

Myron Apilado

Irena & Doug Baker

Joan Baldwin & James Walsh

C. Kent & Sandra Carlson

Heidi Charleson & Louis Woodworth

Grace & Adolph Christ

Jody Cunningham & Mark Mennella

Grady & Nancy Cunningham

D’Addario Music Foundation

Peter Danelo

Allan & Nora Davis

Dr. & Mrs. David & Jane Davis

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Jane & James Ewing

Gary & Kristin Fluhrer

C. Douglas Francis

& Marianne Sorich Francis*

Lois Harris & Debra Crespin

Christopher Harris & Christine Crandall

Kimberly Harris & Kyle Branum

Dave Head & Marne Anderson Head

Harold & Mary Frances Hill

Steve Hill

Phen Huang

Joe Iano & Lesley Bain

Frank & Lynn Lindsay

Barbara Mallett

Cynthia Mannella*

Mariette & Jim O’Donnell

Robert & Annette Parks

Todd & Julie Patrick

Deborah Person

The Petunia Foundation

The Seattle Foundation

Britt & Susan Slone

Ric & Alysee Spengler

Estate of David W. & Dorothy D. Stevens

Peter Szabad & Katarina Szabadova

Tove Thompson & Rolf Rundquist

Dave & Linda Tosti-Lane

Stephen Walker+ & Deborah Weasea

Jenifer Ward

Nancy Waterfall

Jane Wells & Jeff Bair

Corinne & Carl Wilmarth

$500–$999

Anonymous (2)

Harvey & Mei Allison

Ballet Academy

Pamela & A. M. Bendich

Rebecca Bogard

Nick & Kami Bohlinger

Gloria & William Burch

Karen & Craig Bystrom

Michael & Cathy Casteel

Vicki & Jessica Clayton

Kathleen Collins & Andrew Elston

Gary & Athene Craig

Jill Cunningham & Michael Gallanar

Tom Curtis

Mark & Kim Dales

Bertrand & Brooke de Boutray

Margaret & Luino Dell’Osso

Gary & Carrie Dodobara

Vasiliki Dwyer

Bill Enkeboll & Ann Cockrill

Laura Finn

Helen Gamble*

Jean Gardner

Bert Green & Alexandra Brookshire

Bret Hamby & Melissa Hamburg

Jerry Hekkel & Garrison Kurtz

Michael Hill & Liz Berry

Jon Holt & Susan Trainor Holt

Randall & Jane Hummer

Susan Jones & Marco Zangari

Christine Kellett & Jay Kuhn

Leroy & Anne Kilcup

Tiffany Koenig & John Ostolaza

Susan Linde

Timothy Manring

Linda & Charles Mauzy

George & Gloria Northcroft

Lee & Deborah Oatey

Mary Olander

Gail & Larry Ransom

Jeffrey & Suzanne Riddell

Lee Rockoff & Jodie Jones

Lonnie Rosenwald

Thomas Sartor & Ellyn Corey

Carol & Gary Schaefer

Lori Silverstein

Anne & James Thomson

Lynn Thorburn

Ida Uscher

Alan Veigel & Laura Parma Veigel

Nancy Weintraub

Rob & Jennessa West

Sarah & Alexander Wiener

LaVerne Woods & John Zobel

$250–$499

Anonymous

ADP Foundation

Natalya Ageyeva-Traficante

& Ranan Traficante

Amphion Communications

Glenn Amster & Shelly Shapiro

Ellen Amsterdam-Walker

David & Corry Barr

Adrienne Bolyard & Gene Thorkildsen

Susan Boyd & David Fliegel

Zell Brook* & Brad Whiting

Jim Brown & Jim Richardson

David & Kristi Buck

Michael & Lori Caldwell

Sharon & Craig Campbell

Shawn Cole

Cheryl Comstock* & Tom Giovanelli

Kent Devereaux* & Janet Sutcliffe

Stan & Valerie Dickison

Dennis & Bernie Dochnahl

Donna & Robert Dughi

Alek Edmonds

LaMar & Marlys Efaw

Rebecca Elmore-Yalsh

Ryan Feddersen*

Roy Harsh

Paul & Toni Heppner

Charlie & Holly Housman

Erica Howard

Sally Hurst

Mark Kantor

Susan Leavitt

Michael Levan & Carol Schapira

Alexander Lindsey & Lynn Manley

Kyle McAuley*

Jennifer McCausland

Microsoft Giving Campaign

Mauritio Miozza & Elisabetta Valentini

Hollis Near & Anna Seaberg

The New York Community Trust

Beverly Page & Michael Verchot

PONCHO

Alan & Andrea Rabinowitz

Jonathon Reingold* & Karen Criddle

Bruce Ritzen

Jeanne Roberts

Nancy Robinson

Frank & Regina Routman

Kim & Sid Rundle

John & Joanne Rupp

Cathy Sarkowsky

IMPACT—REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

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Mark & Carol Slosberg

Otto Spoerl & Lynn Erving

Christine Stollery

Stephen Stubbs & Maxine Eliander

Sandra Tanzi & Claudio Bellini

Theodore Tuttle

Eileen Whalen & Bob Heilig

Richard E.T. White & Christine Sumption

Jan & Bob Whitsitt

Virginia Wilcox

Robert Wilkus

Jeffrey & Melisa Williams

Deborah Wolf

Evelyn Yenson

Mariann & Kirk Zylstra

$100–$249

Anonymous(4)

Reader’s Digest Foundation

Thomas Andersen

Steven Armistead & Di Anne McDaniels

Edith & Ray Aspiri

Marjorie Bardan & Ed Hill

Donna Benaroya

Bonnie Biggs

Nicole Boyer Cochran & Robert Cochran

Perry & Lori Burris

Terry & John Bursett

Alyssa Byer

Beth Bylund

Craig Campbell

Whitfield & Mary Carhart

Manuel Cawaling

Justin & Michaela Chalk

Colby Chester & Sue Arau

Denna Cline

Janene Collins

Elizabeth Conner*

James & Margaret Corbett

Stefania Crisci

Sean Drew

Barry Eben

Rasheed & Waisang El-Moslimany

Tom & Julia Evans

Margo* & Rodger Fagerholm

Betina Finley

Morgan & Marney Freeland

Robin Goldstein & Tim Root

Janet Gorkin & Brett Gorkin

Leo Griffin

Lee Guice

David & Michele Hasson

Michael & Patti Hathaway

Buzz & Leanne Hofford

Janette Hubert

Edward Intravartolo

Kelly & Kimberly Jackson

King County Employee

Charitable Campaign

Linda & Joe Krutenat

Vivian Lee

Barbara & Jesse Lee

Jerry & Charlene Lee

Jackie Lum & Deborah Adams Lum

Jerry Manning

Maika Manring

Marguerite Casey Foundation

Donna McCampbell

John Mettler & Anne Shinoda-Mettler

Karen & Milton Miller

Susan Min

Mirabella Seattle Resident’s Association

Adam Moomey & Shellie Guinn

Moomey

Benjamin Moore

Robert Muller

Irene Myers

Kathleen Myre

Ross & Ava Ohashi

John Overton*

Thomas & Carol Ozanich

Jared Pechacek*

Leni & Michael Pfenning

Vivian Phillips

Sandra Plann & Michael Curley

Marlene Price

Barry & Debbie Rochefort

Nichole & Martin Rose

Michael Rosenberg

Ruth Saecker

Christopher Sande

Martha & Robert L. Sander*

Jovino Santos Neto*

Jill Scheuermann & Russell Paquette

Beth Sellars

Donald Sirkin

Monica Smith

Charles Spitzack & Christine Vice

The Standard Employee Giving

Campaign

Alan Sugiyama

Rose Tamburri* & Kristof Iverson*

Bing & Sandia Tang

Paul Taub & Susan Peterson

Francis Timlin & Dean Speer*

Patty Tosti & Jim Tosti

Sergei Tschernisch & Kate Purwin

Rebecca* & Dell Wade

Guy & Michelle Weisenbach

Sally Ann Williams

Meredith Williamson*

Walt & Jean Wood

Jeffrey Wyborny

UP TO $99

Anonymous(4)

Laila Adams

Judith Allen

Nicole & Derik Andreoli

Ellis Armistead

Laurie Barker*

Richard Barney

Eric Bashor* & Celeste Marble*

Rachel Blauman*

Jill Bowers & David Conrad

Anita Bowers

Diana & Chuck Carey

Christopher Castillo

Tina & Kevin Chamberlain

Carmen Clayton

Tamera Clifford

Judith Cohen

Maria & Nicola Crimeni

Diane & Larry Culpepper

Belinda Dang

Kathryn Daniels

Jennifer Davis*

Denise Dawson

Sue Derry*

Catherine Dickson-Schaffer*

THE CORNISH PARENTS FUND

GIVING BACK TO AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATION

A Salt Lake City native, Cornish junior Nora Wilmarth began

taking summer camp theater classes at the age of eight. She

entered Salt Lake’s performing arts high school in tenth grade,

specializing in theater. In selecting a college, she originally

intended to go to the alma mater of a favorite high school

coach and mentor. That path changed when she participated in

the United Theater Auditions in New York City and met faculty

member Kate Myre. Nora’s mother, Corinne, credits the “very

positive experience” of the audition process with Nora’s

decision to attend Cornish. And when Corinne and Nora traveled

to campus to attend New Student Day, Corinne was really

impressed with the alumni panel’s remarks. “They were such

confident communicators—it was really apparent they had

received a substantial, well-rounded education. It sealed the

deal for me.”

Corinne’s enthusiasm for Cornish has grown as Nora continues

her studies. When she received a Phonathon call last fall from

a Cornish theater student, she enjoyed their conversation and

pledged a modest gift to the Cornish Parents Fund. Between

the phone call and the time Cornish received the gift, she and

her husband decided to increase the amount. “We felt like

Cornish has given us the opportunity to give Nora an outstanding

education, and when you’ve been given something, you’ve

got to give back. Hopefully more students will be able to par-

ticipate in the education that Nora enjoys.”

Cornish is grateful to the parents and family members like

Corinne and her husband who chose to give annually to the

Cornish Parents Fund.

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IMPACT—REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

Susan & Jeffrey Dossett

Mary Jo DuGaw*

Cary & Quynh Falk

Joseph & Carol Fielding

Carol Furry

Michelle George

Tavia Gilbert*

Patrick* & Debbie Haskett

Hayes Haugen & Mindy Brown-Haugen

Todd Hayen*

Erik & Sara Hedberg

Julie & Robert Hemmen

Barbara Hubers-Drake

Jim & Karen Huff

Cherise James

Christopher Kalafatis

Frederick Kassab

Deann Ketchum

Sati & John Kohn

Rebecca Lane

Mari London & Mark Popich

Mary & C. P. Mahoney

Kevin Manring

Christine Marie

Dawn Matisse & William Damon

Janey McAlpine

William F. McAlpine*

Marie McCaffrey

Sean McCain

David & Gayle McCampbell

Laura McKee

Robert McQuigg

Ronda Miller

Henry & Jill Mills

Charles Mitchell

Ida Jane Mitsumori

Gary & Mary Molyneaux

Pam Morgan

Maria Mow & Milton Schroeder

Cynthia Nawalinski*

Nintendo of America, Inc.

Lisa Norman

Christine O’Connell

Felicia Oh*

Norman Ose*

Donald & Kathy Parks

Eric & Shalimar Pedersen

Katy Philp*

Sara Pickett*

Brad & Rochelle Prather

Oliver & Nancy Press

Kathleen Rabel & Stephen Hazel

Dennis Raines*

Gary & Lynanne Raven

Wendy & Alan Richardson

Ryan Rowell

Christopher Rubicam

Paula Russell & John Dick

Judy Selle

Lora & Omar Shahine

Sylvia & Paul Schoenfeld

Judith & David Sircloumb

Kristina Sutherland

Gary Takacs & Patricia Tall-Takacs

Brittany Taylor*

Robert & Charlotte Udziela

Lois Uscher

Marc & Linda Vassallo

Ruth Vinegar

Richard Wagoner

John & Teresa Walsh

Fiona Wang

Hazel Warlaumont

Barbro Wasbrekke

Norma & Steve Wengelewski

Dan & Minori Whitney

Carolynne Wilcox

Phillip Wood* & Judy Mahoney

Kit Wright

GIFTS IN HONOR

Tawnya Bhattacharya*

Christine Marie

Eric Lane

Rebecca Lane

Sherry Raisbeck*

David & Michele Hasson

Stefan* & Chris Udziela*

Robert & Charlotte Udziela

President Dr. Nancy J. Uscher

Ellen Amsterdam-Walker

Sylvia & Paul Schoenfeld

GIFTS IN MEMORIAM

Kevin Goeltz

Davis Wright Tremaine

Janet Hamburg

Barbara Mallett

Jeannie Hammond

Anonymous

Steven J. Rossel*

Edward Intravartolo

GIFTS IN-KIND

Chateau Ste Michelle

Chuck Deardorf

Frye Art Museum

Gigantic Planet Inc.

Thomas Goeltz

Tom Goetzl

Elizabeth Heffron

Ken Howlett

Wah Lui

Athena Mace

Julia McClean

Tamara Moats

Eleanor Nicholls

Bridget Nowlin

Lisa Raskind

Andi Rusu*

Hank Sanford

True System Designers, Inc.

Vulcan Development

Linda Warson

Austin Watson

Deborah Weasea

Mike Winters

Joy Wood

CORNISH PARENTS FUND

Nicole & Derik Andreoli

Adrienne Bolyard & Gene Thorkildsen

Jill Bowers & David Conrad

Perry & Lori Burris

Tamera Clifford

Judith Cohen

Shawn Cole

James & Margaret Corbett

Maria & Nicola Crimeni

Diane & Larry Culpepper

Mark & Kim Dales

Denise Dawson

Susan & Jeffrey Dossett

Donna & Robert Dughi

Lindsey & Carolyn Echelbarger

Rasheed & Waisang El-Moslimany

Tom & Julia Evans

Michelle George

Christopher Harris & Christine Crandall

Kimberly Harris & Kyle Branum

Hayes Haugen & Mindy Brown-Haugen

Erik & Sara Hedberg

Julie & Robert Hemmen

John & Ellen Hill

Jon Holt & Susan Trainor Holt

Jim & Karen Huff

Randall & Jane Hummer

Kelly & Kimberly Jackson

Sati & John Kohn

Barbara & Jesse Lee

Dawn Matisse & William Damon

Lawrence & Karen Matsuda

David & Gayle McCampbell

Camille McCray

John Mettler & Anne Shinoda-Mettler

Karen & Milton Miller

Ronda Miller

Charles Mitchell

Pam Morgan

Maria Mow & Milton Schroeder

Christine O’Connell

Ross & Ava Ohashi

Thomas & carol Ozanich

Donald & Kathy Parks

Leni & Michael Pfenning

Sandra Plann & Michael Curley

Gary & Lynanne Raven

Wendy & Alan Richardson

Lonnie Rosenwald

Kim & Sid Rundle

Paula Russell & John Dick

Ruth Saecker

Thomas Sartor & Ellyn Corey

Beth Sellars

Lora & Omar Shahine

Lori Silverstein

Judith & David Sircloumb

Ric & Alysee Spengler

Charles Spitzack & Christine Vice

Rose Tamburri* & Kristof Iverson*

Robert & Charlotte Udziela

Richard Wagoner

John & Teresa Walsh

Fiona Wang

Guy & Michelle Weisenbach

Norma & Steve Wengelewski

Sarah & Alexander Wiener

Jeffrey & Melisa Williams

Corinne & Carl Wilmarth

Walt & Jean Wood

NELLIE CORNISH LEGACY SOCIETY

The Nellie Cornish Legacy Society recognizes those individuals

who have included a bequest or other planned gift arrangement

for Cornish College of the Arts in their long-range financial plans.

By including a charitable gift to Cornish in your financial planning,

you help to perpetuate the legacy of founder Nellie Cornish and

her vision for arts education. Your gift will help Cornish provide

an educational program of the highest possible quality in an

environment that nurtures creativity and intellectual curiosity,

while preparing students to contribute to society as artists,

citizens and innovators.

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS

Glenn Amster

Gwenn Barker Harsh+

Roger Bass

Kitty Daniels

Carol Gregory

Karen Guzak*

Carol Hobart*

Steven Jensen*

Pam Johnson

Thelma Lehmann+

Dale Lehrman+

Mark Levine

Dorothy and Sterling Miller

Carol Munro

Sean Owen*

Oliver and Yolanda Pardo

Joan Pearson

Linda Pederson

Sherry Raisbeck*

Donna Shannon*

Bobbie Stern*

Dorothy Stevens*+

Margaret L. Wesselhoeft+

Robert Wilkus

Irving Williams

and Susan Barash Williams

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CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT

$1,000,000 & ABOVE

Eve & Chap Alvord

Building for the Arts

John Gordon Hill & Ellen Hill

The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation

John W. Jordan & Laura Welland*

Sherry* & James Raisbeck

$500,000–$999,999

Anonymous

Kenneth & Marleen Alhadeff & the Kenneth

and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable

Foundation

Elias & Karyl Alvord

Gladmar Trust

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

David & Isabel Welland

$100,000–$499,999

Anonymous

4Culture

Michael & Marjorie Alhadeff

Dr. + & Mrs. Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr.

Katharyn Alvord Gerlich

The Boeing Company

Joshua Green Foundation

Edmund W. Littlefield Jr., Laura Littlefield &

The Sage Foundation

The Norcliffe Foundation

PONCHO

James & Kalpana Rhodes

Kayla Skinner+

$10,000–$99,999

Rick & Nancy Alvord

Virginia Anderson

The Bravo Fund

Joseph & Maureen Brotherton

C. Kent & Sandra Carlson

Sturges & Pam Dorrance

Foushee & Associates Co., Inc.

Michael & Katharine Gibson

Heather Howard & Roderick Cameron

William & Ruth Ingham

Pam* & Ned Johnson

Richard Kaalaas

Dianne & Steve Loeb

Michael & Barbara McKernan

Joan & Paul Poliak

Jean Rhodes

Elizabeth & Stephen Rummage

Julie Speidel* & Joseph Henke

Stephen Walker+ & Deborah Weasea

$5,000–$9,999

Glenn Amster & Shelly Shapiro

Roger Bass & Richard Nelson

Boeing Gift Matching Program

Jane & J.J. Ewing

Marianne Sorich Francis* &

C. Douglas Francis

Judith Kindler & Kyle Johnson

Richard & Rachel Klausner

Wanda & W.A.+ Lynch

Dorothy & Sterling Miller

Carol & William Munro

Linda & Arthur Pederson

Margaret Perthou-Taylor+

Ellen* & Joe Rutledge

Carlo & Eulalie Scandiuzzi

Sellen Construction

Dean Speer*

Richard+ & Ellie Sprague

Bobbie* & Michel Stern

Sergei P. Tschernisch & Kate Purwin

John+ & Marcy Walsh

$1,000–$4,999

Shary & Michael Frankfurter

Wanda Gregory

Lois Harris & Debra Crespin

Hasbro

IBM Corporation

Laura Kaminsky

Gilbert Leiendecker, Jr. & Sally Leiendecker

Lawrence & Karen Matsuda

Microsoft Giving Campaign

Gail & Larry Ransom

Jamie & Michael Rawding

Toby Whitney

UP TO $999

Anonymous

Shawn Bachtler

Jane Buckman

Vicki Clayton

Tanner Hawkins*

John Merner*

Robert & Catherine Morrow

Jeffrey & Suzanne Riddell

Philip Talmadge

Allyson Vanstone & Peter Pendl

Richard E.T. White & Christine

Sumption

ENDOWMENT & SPECIAL

PROJECTS

$100,000 & ABOVE

Kenneth & Marleen Alhadeff & the

Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff

Charitable Foundation

The Hearst Foundations

Kreielsheimer Foundation

Edmund W. Littlefield Jr., Laura

Littlefield & The Sage Foundation

Sherry* & James Raisbeck

The Jon & Mary Shirley Foundation

David Skinner & Catherine Eaton Skinner

$25,000–$99,999

Eve & Chap Alvord

Estate of Peter Vinikow

John Goodlad

Carol & Brian Gregory

Judith Kindler & Kyle Johnson

Thelma Lehmann+

Douglas & Kimberly McKenna

Stanley & Fumiko+ Sparks

Evelyn Steen

Irving Williams & Susan Barash Williams

$10,000–$24,999

Estate of Gwenn Barker Harsh

Boeing Gift Matching Program

Sally Behnke

Zel Brook* & Brad Whiting

Joseph & Maureen Brotherton

John Gordon Hill & Ellen Hill

Patricia Hon & James Bates

Jon Howe & Tyler Howe

Steve Jensen*

Microsoft Giving Campaign

Janet Penna Crane & Tom Crane

Ann Ramsay-Jenkins

Brian Schilling-George* & Susan Tucker

Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts &

Sciences

Mark & Susan Torrance

Wells Fargo Community Support

Programs

$5,000–$9,999

Elias & Karyl Alvord

Sophia & Marc Boroditsky

C. Kent & Sandra Carlson

David & Judy DeMoss

L. Robin Du Brin & Douglas Howe

Janet Frohnmayer & David Marques

Natascha Greenwalt-Murphy*

and Ryan Murphy

William & Ruth Ingham

George Kropinski

Cynthia & John McGrath

Candy & Monte Midkiff

Robert & Annette Parks

Oliver & Yolanda Pardo

Robert & Elizabeth Pardo

Joan & Paul Poliak

PONCHO

James & Bonnie Reinhardsen

Riley & Nancy Pleas Family Foundation

Robert Sandberg

Soros Fund Charitable Foundation

Matching Gifts Program

Gloria & Donald Swisher

Douglas & Janet True

The Wachovia Foundation

David Williams

Virginia Wyman & Joe McDonnal+

$2,500–$4,999

Anonymous

The Bullitt Foundation

Cornish Players

Lawrence & Hylton Hard

Spencer Curtis & Kristen Hoehler

Heather Howard & Roderick Cameron

Julie & Gordon+ Hungar

Marilyn & John Klepper

Amber* & Sam Knox

Marguerite Casey Foundation

Edward & Katherine Marinaro

Sean V. Owen* & Tricia McKay

Laurel Tanner

Dave & Linda Tosti-Lane

Stephen Walker+ & Deborah Weasea

Gary & Karla Waterman

$1,000–$2,499

Michael & Marjorie Alhadeff

Dr. + & Mrs. Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr.

Katharyn Alvord Gerlich

Ameriprise Financial Employee Gift

Matching Program

Robin & Dana Amrine

Glenn Amster & Shelly Shapiro

Virginia Anderson

Roger Bass & Richard Nelson

Francesca & Bruce Berger

John & Diahann Braseth

Bruce & Kathleen Bryant

Peter Cairo & Kathy DeJardin

Ellen & Al Carlin

Bonnie Cohen & Mel Baer

Gene Colin & Susan Janus

Computer Associates International, Inc.

Judy & William Courshon

Jody Cunningham & Mark Mennella

Carole Fuller

Michael & Katharine Gibson

Joanna* & Gary Goodman

Richard & Betty Hedreen

Intel Corporation

John Jordan & Laura Welland*

Saleh & Lucy Joudeh

Richard & Rachel Klausner

Nina Ferrari LaSalle

Walter & Conny Lindley

Vincent Lipe

Ellen & Mark Lipson

Dianne & Steve Loeb

Kaaren & Richard Marquez

Lawrence & Karen Matsuda

Kirby & Diane McDonald

Tim & Paula McMannon

John Merner*

Michael & Phyllis Mines

THE CAMPAIGN FOR CORNISH

Gifts and pledges from the following donors have been

recognized cumulatively from January 1, 2002 through

May 31, 2012.

A special thank you to all of the donors who have made a gift

to The Campaign for Cornish. These gifts are a significant

investment in creating and building an educational environment

that stimulates and nurtures artistic & academic excellence.

The impact of your gifts will be felt for many years and

generations to come.

+ deceased *Alumnus/Alumna

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IMPACT—REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

Carol & William Munro

Carl & Marian Pruzan

Ann Reinking

Jeff & Suzanne Riddell

Hal Ryder

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

David & Stacya Silverman

Tom Skerritt & Julie Tokashiki

Benjamin Smith & Elizabeth Torrance

Jane & Roger Soder

Julie Speidel* & Joseph Henke

Bobbie* & Michel Stern

Betsy+ & Kirby+ Torrance

Kirby & Heidi Torrance

Touchstone Corporation

Maurice & Rhoda Tritschler

Sergei P. Tschernisch & Kate Purwin

Carolyn & Glenn White

Deborah Winchester

Marylin & Cliff Winkler

Wyman Youth Trust

UP TO $999

Anonymous (10)

Don+ & Jane Abel

Alan Stephenson Boyd Family Trust

Robin Albee-Kesich* & Frederick Kesich

Alex Alben

Jennifer Albright

Leah Alexander

Robert Alexander

Phyllis Allport

James & Karen Almon

Altria Group

Adele & Grover Anderson

Angela Anderson*

Eliza Anderson*

Kjerstine Anderson*

Lloyd Anderson

Dollie & Hubert Armstrong

Sarah Armstrong

Sally & Herbert Arnstein

Joselito & Faye Asence

Hilery Avritt

John Aylward & Mary Fields

Sarah Azzinaro*

Karrie Baas* & Margaret Smith

Muriel Bach Diamond & Josef Diamond+

Donald & Janet Backman

Irena & Doug Baker

Brett* & Dage Baker

Mary Bakke

Stewart Ballinger+

Wade Ballinger & Paul Skinner

Joslyn Balzarini* & Kash Wimer

Linda Banning*

Gwenn Barker Harsh+ & Roy Harsh

Jeffrey Baron & Janet Skeels

Cynthia Barrientos

Cynthia Bartels

Margaret Barto

Patricia Bauch

Steven & Cathleen Baugh

Kurt Beattie & Marianne Owens

Jaquelyn Beatty & Warren Wilkins

Paula Becker & Barron Brown

Bonnie & Moses Beerman

Max & Teresa Beery

Didzis Beitlers*

Morgen Bell* & William Love

Tamara Belland*

Edmund Belsheim & Lisa Ravenholt

Ralph Berkowitz

Lois Berry

Kevin & Sarah Beshlian

Victoria Bettes

Rhea Bez*

Tawnya* & Sanjiv Bhattacharya

Bonnie Biggs

Amy Bingaman

Marcia & David Binney

Brandon Bird

Ariana Bird

Karen Bloomquist

Bruce & Ann Blume

William Bolcom & Joan Morris

Rebecca & David Bolin

Dorothy Bollman

Penelope & Vernon Bolton

Adrienne Bolyard & Gene Thorkildsen

Leonard* & Margaret Bonifaci

Skye Borgman* & Matt Zattell

Elisabeth & Edgar Bottler

Meredyth Branaman*

Frank & Dorothy Brancato

Jane+* & Ernest+ Brazas

Jason Bready* & Audrey Folk

Jeffrey Brice

William & Barbara Brink

James Brinkley & Mary Jane Burns

Jodi Briscoe*

Jonathan Broadus*

and Andrea Soelter Broadus

Sigrid Brorson

Gary & Kathleen Brose

Beau Brower*

David Brown*

Michael Brown

Nate Brown*

Barbara Buford

Margaret Bullitt* & Andrew Schmechel

Donne Burgess & Jose Jimenez

Dr. Gloria & John Burgess

John Burrow* & Meike Kaan

Terry & John Bursett

Eugene Burt

Paul Butzi

Vania Bynum*

Donald Byrd

Karen & Craig Bystrom

Timothy Cahill

CairnCross & Hempelmann

Ann Callaway

Liz Callaway & Dan Foster

Diana & Chuck Carey

Kristofer Carlson*

Kathy Carlson

Heidi Carpine

Danielle & John Carr

Omar* & Rachael Carrasco

Lisa Carswell*

Sara Carter

Texanna Casey-Thompson

Steve Casteel*

Kristin Ceresola

Robin Chase*

Aleah Chapin*

Zoe Chow

Royce & Aggie Church

Phillippe & Rosa Claringbould

Richard & Rosemary Clark

Vicki & Jessica Clayton

Margit Clifford

Susan Clifford

Timothy Clifford

Jill Clymer

David & Margaret Coats

April Cody

Ida Cole

Donna Cole-Dolbeer

Kathleen Collins & Andrew Elston

CollinsWoerman

William & Marilyn Conner

Beth Cooper*

Carol Corbus & Patrick Howe

Lawrence & Amy Corey

Derald & Helen Cornelius

William & Jan Corriston

Raymond Cox* & Jerald Olsen

Gary & Athene Craig

John & Diane Crim

Miriam Crowell*

Elcena+ & William Croyle

Sean Cryan & Laurel Rech

Casey Curran*

Charlie Curtis & Jane Harvey

Donald & Suzanne Dally

Arthur & Nancy Dammkoehler

Kitty Daniels

Lloyd David & Michelle Marshall

Linda Davidson

Bob & Kathryn Davis

Don & Ann Davis

Michael Dederer

Daphne Dejanikus & Julian Simon

Jacqueline Delecki & Howard Uman

Emilio & Carol Delgado

Laura DeLuca

Renko & Stuart Dempster

Carol DePelecyn

Rik* & Kim Deskin

Benjamin Dietzen*

Colleen Dishy Wes & Colin Wes

Jade Dodd

Grant Donesky

and Rossitza Skortcheva Donesky

William & Virginia Donley

Charles Douglas & Donna Handly

Jonathan & Paula Drachman

Daniela Dron*

Donna & Robert Dughi

S. Wayne Duncan & Pamela Van Dalfsen

Phyllis Dunn

David & Donna Dunning

Larry & Lynda D’Urso

Vasiliki Dwyer

Phyllis & Eldon Edmundson

Anna Edwards

John Eicher

Ellis, Li & McKinstry PLLC

Gene & Pat Engle

Tamsin & Jim Erickson

David Esbjornson

Heinz & Edith Ettner

Sandra Everingham*

Jane & J.J. Ewing

Jean Falls

Ryan Fedderson*

Federated Department Stores Foundation

Gary Fenstermacher & Virginia Richardson

Deborah & Keith Ferguson

Gerald & Mae+ Florence

John & Janet Fogle

Leone Fogle-Hechler

Daniel & Rosemary Folan

Joan Fong

Cristin Ford*

Ann Foster

Foster Pepper PLLC

C. Douglas Francis

and Marianne Sorich Francis*

Shary & Michael Frankfurter

Jason Franklin*

Amanda & Geoff Froh

Theodore Galaday*

Helen Gamble*

Sandra Garriott-Antonacci

Brian & Lisa Gary

Julie Gaskill & Richard Carter

Richelle Gay*

Carmen & Carver Gayton

Christine & David Gedye

Brynne Geiszler*

Tavia Gilbert*

Karen Gjelsteen

Carl Glickman

Peggy & Raftis Golberg

Christopher Goodson* & Lindsey Walker

David & Jane Gorbet

Dale Gossett & Kathleen Kukowski

Anne Gould Hauberg

Kelsey Grafton*

Ron & Anke Greer

Jennifer Grigg*

Grimes Goebel Grimes Hawkins Gladfelter

& Galvano, PL

Tony Grob

Arthur & Leah Grossman

J. Guich

Max+ & Helen Gurvich

Michael Gustavson & Joan

Knutson-Gustavson

Ilana Guttmann

Richard Haag & Cheryl Trivison

John Hagman

Ryan Hamachek

Judith Hamilton

Mark & Susan Hardy

Sylvia Harelik

Courtney Harris*

Kiana Harris*

Lois Harris & Debra Crespin

David & Sharron Hartman

Patrick* & Debbie Haskett

Li He*

Paul Heckman & L. Montera

A.J.+ & Martha Rose Hedgcock

Mary Hedlin

Stephanie Helm*

Joy Helmer

Andrew Highlands

Amanda Hill

Henry & Mary Hill

Catherine Hillenbrand & Joseph Hudson

Dennis Hoffman

Kristine Holland

Penny Holland & Wallace Hume

Chirlee House

William House

Shawn Hove*

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Hub International

Margaret Huchting & Eric Brown

Diana Huey*

Greg & Linda Hughes

Beatrice & Robert Hull

Wallace Hume

Mary Ellen & William Hundley

Robert & Charlotte Hutton

Kristof Iverson* & Rose Tamburri*

Mattie Iverson Vadon* & Mark Vadon

J.C. Wright Sales Company

Bruce & Gretchen Jacobsen

Charla Jaffee

Aliana Jaqua*

Alton Jennings

Elizabeth Jennings*

Anchor Dewitt Jensen

Ellen Jeronimo

Elizabeth & Roger+ Johnson

Pam* & Ned Johnson

Rolf & Sarah Johnson

Barbara Johnston

Lois Jones

Christine & Armando Juarez

Glen & Lisbeth Juel

Laura Kaminsky & Rebecca Allan

Todd* & Bridget Kanyer

Joy & Dmitry Kaplan

David Kappler

Jack & Evelyn Kappler

James* & Cristie Kearny

Luke Kehrwald*

Christine Kellett & Jay Kuhn

Thorpe & Lucinda Kelly

Brian Kennedy

Jessika Kenney* & Eyvindur Kang*

James & Marjorie Kesl

Leroy & Anne Kilcup

Kim Dong

Kathy Kimball

Karen King

Freda Klein

William Klein

Anna Klepper

Natalie Kotar

Zsolt Kovacs & Iulia Metzner

Toby Kronengold

Henry Kuharic

Kathryn Lahey Costello

James & Susanna Lane

Frank* & JoAnna Lau

Madelyn Lawson

Christopher Laxamana*

Eric Layer*

Stephen Le Neveu & Lorraine Ketch

Leo Burnett Company

Charitable Foundation

Dorothy Lemoult* & Jeremy Kahn

David & Maria Leonard

Gerard Letterie & Jan Chow

Brian Leverson

Mark Levine & John Keppeler

Jane Levine & Randy Signor

Heartha Levinson

Steve & Suzanne Lewis

Shirley Lincoln

Jeff & Kathy Lindenbaum

Ann Lindsay

Frank & Lynn Lindsay

Alexander Lindsey & Lynn Manley

Barbara Lippert

Vivian Little & Jeffrey Bower

Dorothy Lloyd

Brenda Loew

Clarice Lolich

Faustino Lopez* & Elizabeth Frederickson

Lopez

Betsy & Brian Losh

Sally+ & Kenneth Luplow

Wanda & W.A.+ Lynch

Justin Lytle* & Nicole Fierstein

Ursula & Dwight Mamlok

Dorothy Mann

Drew Markham & Steve Mashuda

Dorothy Marking

Timmie Marsden* & Jonathan Mitten*

Kristin Martin

Jane Martin

Mary Anne & Chuck Martin

David McCallum

Stanley & Janet McCammon

John & Janet McCann

Lodi & Regan McClellan

Kathleen McCormick

James & Carole McCotter

Kathleen McDonald

Stanley & Barb McDonald

Laurie McDonald Jonsson

and Lars Jonsson

Carl & Judy McEvoy

John McHale & Marcie Campbell McHale

Paul D. McKee* & Michael Lane

Don McKenzie & Elizabeth

Buzzell-McKenzie

Patricia McNamara

Cynthia Mennella*

Bob Merrill & Melanie Williams

Dorothy & Sterling Miller

Kathy Miller

Michael Minney*

Craig & Stefania Mitchell

Erin Mitchell*

Kabby Mitchell

Ramiz Monsef*

William Morrow*

Gary & Mary Molyneaux

Dennis Moss*

Mary & Richard Moss

Anne* & Jeffrey Motl

Phyllis Mullins

Lori Neig Wilwerding* & Geoff Wilwerding

Hollis Near & Anna Seaberg

Carla Negrete Martinez

Herbert & Marilyn Nelson

Marywilde Nelson

William & Barbara Nelson

Network for Good

Hans & Ann Neumaier

Ann New

Akiko & Jonathan Newcomb

David & Shirley Newell

Wilma Nichols Dick

Benjamin Niu

Jack & Lollie Norman

Victoria North & Alan Caplan

Stella Novit

Josh Oakley*

Heather Dew Oaksen & Gregory Oaksen

Arthur Olsen

Craig Olsen*

Sara Orr-Smith

Beverly Page & Michael Verchot

Richard Page

Joshua Palmer

L. Rosario Parker

Scott Parker

Kasia Pawluskiewicz*

Richard Peacock

Cornelius+ & Gloria Peck

Linda & Arthur Pederson

Helen Pelton

Lauren Pence*

Cheryl Penttila*

Charles & Angelica Pepka

Performance Sound

David Perez*

Marlene Perrigo Kennedy* & Bob Kennedy

Mimi Petkoff

James & Muriel Phillips

Julie Pickering

Margaret Pickering

Jennifer & Manuel Pineda

Kevin Pitman*

Steve & Cait Platz

Johanna Polit*

Martha & Seymour Pomerantz

William & Sherry Portuese

Jarrad Powell* & Molly Scott

Elin Pratt

Geoffrey Prentiss

Marilyn & Wallace Prestbo

Bob Priest & Claire Sykes

Frank Pritchard

Howard+ & Inga+ Pruzan

Steve Pruzan & Janet Abrams

Daniel Purdom

Sherrie Quinton

Debra Raab

Kathleen Rabel & Stephen Hazel

Reshard Radford*

Jennifer Rainbolt*

Dennis Raines*

Hugh Ramsey*

Schelleen & Charles Rathkopf

Lois Rathvon*

Josh Rawlings*

Dave Rawlyk & Launi Skinner

Douglas & Brenda Redfern

Ginny Redpath

Pattilou Reeves* & Chris Davidson

Shelagh & Terrence Regan

Vija+ & Karlis Rekevics

Ernest Rhoads*

Richard & Pamela Rhodes

Constance & Norm Rice

The Ridge Women’s Golf Course

Christine & John Riley

Jean & Alex Ritzen

Burton & Norita Robbins

Jeff Robbins & Marcy Wing

Carol Robinson

David Rollison*

Bob & Laura Rookstool

Nichole & Martin Rose

William Rose*

Donald K. Routh

Gregory Ruby*

John Ruszel*

Ellen* & Joe Rutledge

Lena & Maher Saba

Ruth Saeker

Toru & Kiyo Sakahara

Julie & Eric Salathe

Monica Salazar*

Courtney Sale*

June Sale

Daniel Salins

Albert & Frances Salopek

Irwin & Thelma Samegh

Werner & Joan Samson

Carol Sanders

Murl Allen Sanders & Janet Hesslein

Polly Sanford*

James & Lisa Sargeant

Peggy Scales

Pauline Schairer+

Katherine Scharhorn*

Karen Scherwood

Jill Scheuermann & Russell Paquette

Eric Schonleber*

Patricia Scott

J. Randolph & Lynn Sealey

Seattle Golf Club

Jack Seifert & Cynthia Burrell

Qadriyyah Shabazz*

Daniel & Alicia Shafer

Lora & Omar Shahine

Christopher Shainin* & Hope Wechkin

Kristina Shellie-Cahn & Timothy Cahn

Jianping Shen

Kelly Sheridan* & Brent Giese

Kay Shirley-Nilsen & Wendy Santamaria

Rita Shtull

Harro & Sandra Siebert

Robert & Robin Simpson

Shirley & Maurice Skeith

Max & Jane Slade

Dylan Sladky*

Douglas Smith & Stephanie Ellis-Smith

Erminia Smith

Harriette Smith

Maggie Smith

Wilma & John Smith

Snoqualmie Entertainment Authority

Sanjiu & Diuya Soman

Dean Speer* & Francis Timlin

Stuart & Patty Spencer

Howard & Patricia Stambor

Sharron & Stephen Starling

Bonnie & Alan Steele

Anne Stevenson

Marvel & Philip Stewart

Chris Stollery

Leslie* & Jeffrey Stoner

William & Barbara Street

Althea Stroum+

Justine Su

Nicole Sumner*

Harald Sund

Peggy & Michael Swistak

Ann Tagland*

Laura & Michael Targett

Joshua Taylor

Joel Tepp

Howard Tharp

Ricky Tharpe

Boyka Thayer*

Daniel Theyer*

Thomas & Marilyn Thies

John & Barbara Thomas

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Diane Thome

James Thompson

Anne & James Thomson

The Threshold Group, LLC

Severt Thurston & the Thurston

Charitable Foundation

Margriet Tindemans

Janice Tipp

Ruth & John Tomlinson

Ian Toms*

Estelle & Francisco Tordillos

Alexandra Torrance & Paul Okner

Andrew & Diane Torrance

John & Marie Torrance

William+ & Joanne Torrance

William & Pam Torrance

Liz Tran*

Susan Trapnell & Erik Muller

Ann Tritschler

Charles & Dale Tritschler

Donald & Polly Tritschler

Catherine Tsai & Jason Young

Junichi Tsuneoka*

Nancy Uscher & William Barrett

Susan Valencia

Delia & Norman Van Brunt

Josef Vascovitz*

Van Vinikow

Nicole Von Suhr & Fred Jacobs

Henry & Gloria Wachs

Erin Waddington*

Joan Waiss & Steve Wells

Hilary Waite*

Stephen Walker

Bonnie Lou* & James Wall

Mildred Walsh

Jean Wang

Jenifer Ward

Hazel Warlaumont

Christine Weh*

Scott & Michele Weller

Amy Wells

Naekkae Wells*

Kelly Wergeland

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Wellspring Group

Margaret Wesselhoeft+

Stephen West & Pamela Yorks

Peter & Suzanna Westhagen

Richard E.T. White & Christine

Sumption

William Whitener

Thomas Whitlock

Dan & Minori Whitney

Ann Wickline

Edith Wieland

Michele & Richard Williams

Cynthia Willsey

Nora Wilmarth

Jean & Craig Wilson

Howard Wilson

Thomas Wilson

Roan & Tara Winchester

Nathan Winkel*

Linda & Holden Withington

Deborah Wolf

Janet Wolverton

Jasmine Woo*

Alan & Wei-ping Wood

Carol Wright

Mary & Frank Wyckoff

Jake Ynzunza*

Dana Young*

Lisa & Jack Young

Jake Ynzunza

Andrew & Borbala Zaborski

GIFTS IN MEMORY/HONOR

Over the years, gifts to the endowment

have been made in memory or honor of

some very special people who continue to

have a lasting imprint on Cornish, & the

community we serve. We join donors in

honoring & celebrating the individuals

listed below.

GIFTS IN MEMORY

Merce Cunningham

Viola Stevens Barron

Jane Francis Schultz

Joan Franks Williams

Jon Gierlich

Lynn Goodlad

Gwenn Barker Harsh

Lawrence Halpern

Chris Holland

Christine Howe

Jeanne-Marie Klepper

Thelma Lehmann

Deborah Ann Penna (ART ’00)

Betsy Torrance

Kirby Torrance

Thomas Stone Torrance

Peter Vinikow

Stephen Walker

Eva Wilcox

GIFTS IN HONOR

Zel Brook (ART ’96)

Bonnie Cohen

David DeMoss

LaMar & Marlys Efaw

Jeff Holland & Kate Zylstra

Patricia Hon

Steve Jensen (ART ’82)

Judith Kindler

Todd & Char Rawlings

Terry Sparks

Paul Taub

Sergei P. Tschernisch

Every gift is important to us and we strive

to keep accurate records. We apologize if

we have inadvertently omitted or incorrectly

listed any names. Please call us at (206)

726.5064 to advise us of any errors so that

we can correct our records. Thank you.

For information on how you can support

The Campaign for Cornish, please call

the Office of Institutional Advancement at

206.726.5064.

JOSHUA GREEN

Cornish is an institution with deep roots in the community. As

we prepare to celebrate our Centennial, it’s important to

acknowledge the people that have been a consistent source

of support over the years. Joshua “Jay” Green is a perfect

example. Jay joined the board of trustees of the Cornish Allied

Arts School in the early 70s and along with his colleagues,

helped shape a pivotal transformation that paved the way for

Cornish to become the fully accredited College it is today.

Through the Joshua Green Foundation, Jay and his family con-

tinue to provide transformational support to the College. They

have given over $300,000 to The Campaign for Cornish and

have been essential and instrumental in the expansion and

development of the new Cornish campus in the heart of urban

Seattle. Their most recent gift will go to the development of a

new Visual Arts Complex, home to the sculpture program and

Art Department Senior Studios.

Here’s how Jay illustrates his history with Cornish, “[Paul]

Friedlander asked me to serve on the initial Cornish School

board. Our principal objectives were to establish independence

from the Music and Arts Foundation which viewed Cornish

primarily as a source of entertainment at their meetings and to

improve finances. Cornish’s accomplishments since then

have been incredible. Purchasing the St. Nicholas school for

expansion, accreditation, the move to the new downtown

campus, impressively conservative management of finances

and constantly improving curriculum, it’s hard to believe this

is the same organization I knew in the nineteen seventies. The

trustees of the Joshua Green Foundation are very impressed

with Cornish and enthusiastically approved our second recent

grant for their capital campaign.”

Deep roots indeed. Thank you to Jay and the trustees of the

Joshua Green Foundation.

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TOP LEFT: Melvin Strauss, Cornish College of the Arts President 1975-85. TOP RIGHT: Jesse Jaramillo, Cornish Dance Department, Adjunct Faculty.

BOTTOM LEFT: Stephen Hazel, Cornish Art and Design Departments, Faculty. BOTTOM RIGHT: Stephen P. Walker III, Cornish Board of Trustees.

Please join us in recognizing these individuals who contributed to

Cornish College of the Arts and our community through the years.

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