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Noah Hudson (BFA ’21)
Hudson is creating engaging content for social media as well as capturing and editing photo and video of school events at the Science Academies of New York, a family of public charter schools serving students from K-12 in Syracuse, Utica, and coming soon to Rochester and Buffalo.
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Greg Guma (BS ’68)
Guma has been a writer, editor, historian, and manager for half a century, leading businesses and campaigns in Vermont, New Mexico, and California. Work with Bernie Sanders led to “The People’s Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution.” Other books include the novels “Spirits of Desire” and “Dons of Time” and such non-fiction as “Fake News” and the forthcoming “Restless Spirits & Popular Movements: A Vermont History” in October 2021. View his Amazon page.
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Robin Brailsford (BFA ’75)
Brailsford has a new website, www.robinbrailsford.com. Taking a break from LithoMosaics, she and Marsha Pels (MFA ’74) are traveling through Arizona in September. Arcosanti and Taliesin are in her professional sights, as well as back-country chilling with Navajo friends and Beaver College artists. Both artists will have work at Art Basil, Miami. Brailsford is publishing a book of photographs and will have a four-month jewelry show with painter partner Wick Alexander and pal Fritz Liebhardt in the largest state park in the country, Anza Borrego, starting in September. Pels was the toast of New York City with her 2021 show at Lubov last spring; see her website for New YorkTimes and Artforum raves.
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Stephanie (Gruskin) Scalise (BFA ’94)
Scalise is a five-year breast cancer survivor. After her first surgery her three daughters started the 501c3 nonprofit Strides for Survivors to give the gift of rehabilitation to other survivors. She invites those in Atlanta to support their annual walk each February; the sixth annual walk will be on February 5, 2022 with in-person and virtual opportunities.
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Semaj Miller (BFA ’09)
Miller is writing and producing “More Life, ” a short film that chronicles Makai Thomas’ journey towards healing. Makai, like many of us, suffered a number of devastating losses last year, and as the world rushes to return to “normal,” he’s not ready. He struggles with how to re-engage society and literally finds himself in a place where he must choose “More Life.” Follow on Instagram @MoreLife_Film.
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Aviva Gold (BFA ’62)
Gold’s book, “Painting from the Source: Awakening the Artist’s Soul In Everyone” was published by Harper Collins in 1998. Aviva now resides in Oracle, Arizona, where she facilitates healing painting retreats and she also teaches nationally and internationally. Visit her website.
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Reid Watson (BFA ’15)
Watson recently earned an M.F.A. in theatre-directing at the University of Alabama.
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Nora Carrol (BFA ’71, MS ’91)
After careers in direct response marketing/development and adult education, Carrol is beginning a third…retirement is neither interesting nor profitable. Interests focus around digital communications, specifically their impact on knowledge diffusion and business incubation in emerging markets. She earned a second degree at Syracuse University (M.S. adult education, 1991) and just completed a certificate in public policy analysis via the London School of Economics. She is president of Educative, LLC.
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Jonathan Hoefer (BFA ’91)
Hoefer shares a timeless story of love, loss, friendship, and finding true colors, inspired by two children and the connection they forever share, in his children’s book “Avery’s Gift.” (Mascot Books, June 2021). This book is reminiscent of fables told long ago, with rhyming prose written by Hoefer, and watercolored imagery illustrated by Milana Samarskaya. “Avery’s Gift” is inspired by Hoefer’s Syracuse fraternity brother (SAE, NY Delta) Mike Toole and the health complications of his daughter, Avery, who ultimately required a heart transplant at the age of five. While “Avery’s Gift” does not talk specifically about organ donation, it illustrates how two lives are interconnected and can spark a conversation with readers of all ages.
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Marty Wimmer (BM ’86)
Wimmer recently retired from a 34-year career as a public school music teacher, band director, and choral director. He is also a veteran classical music radio host on WNED Classical Buffalo/Toronto and an anchorman on WNED-PBS working on both local and national broadcasts. A gifted writer, he frequently blogs at www.wned.org/classical. He is also a published composer of music for school bands and choruses. His recent work titled “Through Music” is included as a competition piece in the new NYSSMA Manual. Currently he serves on the board of directors of Buffalo Opera Unlimited.
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Harriete Estel Berman (BFA ’74)
Berman recently had an eight-page article and images about her jewelry from recycled materials in Ornament Magazine. (Jewelry from tin cans as social and political commentary.) Look for the 26-foot-long necklace from black plastic as a commentary about plastic in our oceans.
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Leslie Bruning (MFA ’72)
Bruning, a sculptor, has been working professionally since his first sculpture commission in 1968. Not only is he continuing to be a creative artist, he also runs a bronze foundry and fabrication studio that produces work for sculptors across the country. He still goes to his studio and works every weekday. “It is still the most fun thing I do,” he says. Visit www.bruningsculpture.com.
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David Greenham (BFA ’83)
In January 2021, Greenham was appointed executive director of the Maine Arts Commission. At the time of the appointment, Maine Governor Janet Mills said “David knows how to work with a variety of personalities and how to get things done. He’s a consensus builder. He will lead in a good direction.” The initial appointment was made for “at least two years” by the Commission’s Board and started in March 2021. The Maine Arts Commission is the state agency that is charged with supporting artists, arts organizations, educators, policy makers, and community developers in advancing the arts in Maine.
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Taye Diggs (BFA ’93) and Shane W. Evans (BFA ’93)
Diggs and Evans are the writer and illustrator, respectively, of the new children’s book “My Friend!” (Feiwel & Friends), a real and rhythmic look at friendship. Diggs and Evans also teamed up to write and illustrate the children’s books “I Love You More Than….,” “Mixed Me!,” and “Chocolate Me!”
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Wendy Goldstein Tulman (BS ’95)
Tulman makes clean-burning soy wax candles with custom wording. The elegantly scented candles are sold in boutiques in three states (featuring local zip codes and either “Home Sweet Home” or “Our Happy Place”) and online at www.jeanrosscandles.com. A portion of the proceeds is donated to mental health research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Please follow and say hello @jeanrosscandles. -
Ken Rush (BFA ’71)
Rush is showing “Poolside,” a new collection of work, through March 10 at Court Street Collective. Over the decades, Ken has periodically returned to pool imagery, but it took the isolation of last summer for him to embrace the work he had started in 1970.
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Evan Weinstein (BFA ’84)
Weinstein had a busy 2020, despite the pandemic. He oversaw hidden camera production for the Quarantine House Segment of the hit movie “Borat Subsequent Movie Film” and was
showrunner for “Disney Holiday Magic Quest,” a celebrity reality competition special airing throughout the month of December on Disney Channel and Disney+ Streaming.
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Robin Slavin (BS ’85)
Slavin currently serves as a career counselor at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Lauren Braun (BFA ’99)
Braun was the featured February artist for Buffalo Obscura’s Record Theatre Window Project in Buffalo, New York. The project makes art accessible to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic while maintaining social distancing guidelines.
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Patricia Cain Beyle (BM ’56)
Beyle made her silver screen debut in the short documentary “Show Must Go On!” (SMGO). Pat, Mary Crabill, Karen Cooper, and Jane Hauser are a part of Hot Stuff, a group of 80-year-olds who perform in a comedy variety group. “SMGO” follows them as they prepare for their final performance in their retirement community. Performing in front of sold-out audiences, the ladies embrace life, discover themselves along the way, and encourage others to do the same.
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