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Alumni Successes

  • Rochelle Alfaro -Formally a graphic designer with the Gambit, Rochelle has been collaborating with Daniela Marx and shown at several galleries around New Orleans.
  • Elizabeth Bick- Photographer- affiliated with Soren Christensen and The Darkroom
  • Deneise Bizot - represented by DOCS and RHINO
  • Loren Breithoff - MA/Art Therapy - Notre Dame (1998)
    Currently runs an Art Therapy program at a women's prison in San Diego, CA
  • Andree Carter - MFA/UNO
    Working artist and part-time faculty at the Art Institute of Seattle
    Solo Show at Sylvia Schmidt August 2004
  • John Castillo - MFA/Painting RISD
  • Kari Cesta - MFA Graphic Design LSU
    Working for the Laboratory for the Creative Arts & Technologies
  • Mark Dedeaux - Art Instructor and Record Producer, Gulfport, MS
  • John Donovan - Studio Artist and Instructor, Nashville, TN
  • Jenny Doussan - MA/History of the Decorative Arts/Parsons School of Design(2002)
    Jenny is currently working on her MPhil/PhD in Art History/Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2002 she completed an MA in the History of the Decorative Arts and Design at Parsons School of Design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. During this time she interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and has since been employed by Sotheby's, the Museum at FIT and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently Jenny worked with a prominent corporate contemporary art collection for over three years where she reached the level of assistant vice president. Jenny continues to write and frequently collaborates on art and performance projects.
  • Angela Driscoll - MFA/Book Arts/Printmaking, American University, Philadelphia
    Angela is currently an adjunct professor in the art department at Loyola. She was invited to do Artspeak at the CAC in January 07.
  • Sarah Grumbling, BFA '05, has been chosen by Sculpture Magazine and the ISC to receive one of the International Student Sculpture awards.
  • Dan Furbish has just finished teaching art to inner city children in Brooklyn (3-8th grade), he is currently in Nashville, TN doing Outward Bound Discovery.
  • Lisa Finnan- BA (98) Graphic Design. Senior Art Director for the New Orleans Publishing Group
  • Shannan Hayes- Shannan has been featured in the CAA MFA exhibition in NYC, as well as
    several issues of the Brooklyn based contemporary art magazine Art
    World Digest. She is currently a MFA candidate and Instructor of
    Record at Stony Brook University, located on Long Island. Shannan has
    worked as the Director's Assistant at Zone Chelsea, Center for the
    Arts in NYC, where she acted as the proposal writer and chief editor.
    She has received several grants for exhibition funding, as well as
    funds to bring in guest lecturers. Shannan plans on visiting Loyola
    in the Fall of '07.
    She also just got approved to do a performance of the sidewalk chalking
    for a month in a show called Art Healing Space on Long Island. She
    was invited to apply for a show in Berlin. Shannan attended the SVA Art Criticism and writing program.
  • Nessim Higson - Senior Art Director for design firm Interactive in Los Angeles
  • Takashi Horasaki - MFA in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis. May, 2005
    P performance/installation at the Elliot Smith Art Gallery in St. Louis. Takashi has visited the Visual Arts Dept. and given a lectures on his current work and his experience in graduate school. Living in New York. Takashi was a tour guide to our Spring 07 NY trip http://socialdress-neworleans.blogspot.com/ He is currently in New Orleans working on a project for the Socrates Sculpture Park in NY.
  • Rachel Gaudry-BFA '06, One person show of her paintings at Convergence Gallery, NOLA, 2007
  • Annita Stacey Johnson- BA'92, MFA Ceramic Sculpture, University of Georgia 1996
    Sculpture instructor Good Dirt Ceramic Arts Workcenter 2000-2003
    Ceramics instructor, Heidelberg, Germany 2003-2005
    Currently working as a studio artist
  • Evelyn Jordan - Studio Artist, New Orleans
  • Sam McCarty - Art Instructor, Covington, LA
  • Trish Maud - MFA in Digital Media from Columbia, 2005
    Trish has been featured in the AAF Pier 92 Show in NY, and "Strange Animal" at L.A.C.E. In LA. She spoke about her graduate school experience and gave a workshop on digital microprocessor building as part of the Biever Guest lecture series
  • Butch Merigoni - MFA/Painting, NYU, "No Dead Artists", 2006, Butch recently visited New Orleans and spoke with our students and was an outside assessor for a departmental critique. While in NO he did a performance piece http://visualartsneworleans.blogspot.com When we visited NY he and his friend Kimberly were essential to our gallery visiting experience.
  • Rachel May - MA/Museum Professions (2003)
    Currently employed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and doing Documentary Photography
  • Kristy May - Photographer for The Courier in Houma, LA.
    Kristy recently received a one year Fulbright Fellowship to study Photography in Germany
  • Dan McKernan - School of Visual Arts in New York, MFA, Digital Media. Chosen for "No Dead Artists" Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 2005, "No Dead Artists", 2006
  • Mitch Paone-Currently in New York.Freelance Designer & Director working Motion Graphics studios. Some studios include: Brand New School, Logan, Prologue Films, Stardust, Shilo... recently awarded "cream of the crop" on www.motionongrapher.com which is a list of the 30 top individuals in Motion Graphics. He is currently published in 4 graphic design books (Tres Logos, Play Loud, Human?, and We Are Constance) . His work can be seen on TV for many clients including, MTV, VH1, Apple, Old Navy, and Food network to name a few. http://www.dreamersinkaesthetics.net/
  • Allison Petit- www.silverfish.us
  • Brett Reif - MFA/University of North Carolina/Sculpture
    A tenure track faculty member at Kansas City Art Institute, Brett recently had a one person exhibition "Fried Times" at Gallery in Kansas City and installed a commissioned sculpture at UNC
  • Analia Saban - MFA in New Genres from UCLA, 2005
    Featured in a group show at Patricia Faure Gallery in LA with Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden, John Baldessari, Frank Gehry and others. See her work at www.patriciafauregallery.com/Paper/Saban-30.ht. Analia gave a lecture on her most recent work and her experiences in graduate school as part of the Biever Guest Lecture Series. Part of the "Show Meat" group exhibition.
  • Samia Saleem - A Graphic Design graduate, Motion and Web Designer for Peter Mayer Design, New Orleans She has served as an adjunct professor in the Graphic Design area. She is currently working in the Pacific Northwest. See her latest work at www.nojo.com. Samia has just published "Degrees of Separation" http://www.degreesnola.com
  • Robert Santee- MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
  • Trish Sills - MFA/Florida State University/Digital Media
    Tenure track faculty member at Xavier University in New Orleans
  • Valerie Simpson - Internet Architect & Senior Designer for Mudbug Information Systems
  • Jamie Slomski - Creative Director at DesignLab in New York
    Recently nominated for an Emmy for his internationally acclaimed motion media work, Jamie recently led the creation of CBS's branding package for Super Bowl XXXVIII
  • Elizabeth White - MFA/Electronic Media Design, Parsons, New York
  • Alex and Cindy Williams - Owners of Pots-A-Lot Studio and Gallery, New Orleans
  • Annie Yalon- MFA candidate, SFAI, Annie has visited several times and has been active in our critiques. She has also donated time and money to the rebuilding of NOLA and been essential encouraging our students. Check her out on Flickr

Updated November 20, 2007