CLASS NOTES

Jim Donnellan CE'92

The 3rd Annual Jim Donnellan CE'92 Charity Golf Outing, to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held on September 22, 2023 at the Dyker Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn, New York. Please see the flyer below for details:

Raviv Ganchrow AR'00

Raviv Ganchrow, AR’00, will be presenting a day-long sound installation at the French pavilion at the Venice biennial this year:

This coming weekend, he will be presenting his installation Lightning Ellipse at the French pavilion in Venice as part of the Radio Utopia series (August 1st to 5th 2023).

Above is the image of the site-specific circuit and sketch of the installation.

For a longer description of the work (installation will be up for one day), please click here.

Here is a short description of the work:

Felipe Baeza A'09

Starting Aug. 9, Felipe Baeza A'09, whose home base is Brooklyn, will be giving people something to think about during their own public transportation journey, or purgatory as the case may be. As part of a Public Art Fund program designed to reach people where they live or commute, Baeza will have eight of his mixed-media, collagelike paintings reproduced on some 400 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Boston and Chicago as well as Querétaro and Léon in Mexico. They will also appear on digital kiosks and newsstands in Mexico City.

Frank Jacobus AR'98

Frank Jacobus AR'98 has been named head of the Department of Architecture in Penn State’s Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture, effective July 1. An architect, designer, artist and educator, he has spent 16 years in higher education, most recently serving as associate department head in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design (FJSOAD) at the University of Arkansas. He is recognized by the American Institute of Architects and is currently the principal of SILO Architecture, Research and Design.

To read more about his new posting, please click here.

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