CLASS NOTES

Sydney Vernon A'21

Sydney Vernon A'21 has an exhibition, "Interior Lives," on view at Phillips@THEARC in Washington, DC through June 6. Featuring new and recent works that combine elements of painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking, this exhibition invites viewers into Sydney Vernon’s world. Since 2018, Vernon has been superimposing and altering personal family photographs with both real and imagined histories from Black American culture to explore the Black femme experience. After a period of researching and sketching, Vernon projects the images onto paper to create an underdrawing, silkscreens selected areas of patterns, then uses pastels and charcoal to render faces and other details. By reinterpreting the poses and postures of her family members in vintage photographs in her own style, Vernon blends memory and history in new forms.

Free / In-Person

Arthur Singer A'39

ARTHUR B. SINGER, WWll VETERAN TO BE AMONG RECIPIENTS
OF CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL AT MARCH CEREMONY

Arthur B. Singer to Posthumously Receive High Honor for his Role in Secret Ghost Army

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The long-awaited ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the Ghost Army, the secret WWII units that used creative deception to fool the enemy, will take place at the Capitol on March 21. Among those posthumously recognized will be Arthur B. Singer of New York State, who served in the Ghost Army as a member of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, 603rd Camouflage Engineers.

Alan Singer A'72

“Our Nature” is a survey exhibition of fine and applied art created over many decades by the Singer family, Arthur A'39, Judy A'39 and their sons, Paul and Alan. Each of the family members is given space for their creative paintings, their illustrations which grace the pages of numerous commissioned books, plus a sheet of best-selling American postage stamps.

“Our Nature” draws its title from the artists’ source of inspiration found in the birds, plants and animals in our natural environment. The Singers all are native New Yorkers who grew up in New York City and Long Island. They all enjoyed a thorough education in the arts, making their living from their creative skill sets.

Peter Lynch AR'84

Peter Lynch AR'84 is participating in "Nuance and Intimacy in the Architecture of the City" on March 5 at Architecture Association London. The event is a celebration of the late Professor Diane Lewis.

The event was organized by alumna Yael Hameiri Sainsaux AR’10. Anna Kostreva AR’09 and Holger Kleine AR’90 will also make presentations. It is a continuation of Yael's  "Conceiving the Plan" project, dedicated to Diane. Projects in her memory were exhibited at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale and published by Skira Editore. There was an exhibition and symposium in the Houghton Gallery two years ago.

To view a livestream of the event, please click here.

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