IMAgECOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN SPRINg 2013 MAgAzINE

TEN TO WATChPlUS+CCAD ILLUSTRATORS RULE THE BESTSELLER LISTS

JENNIFER PORRECA FAUX LEADS AT TWEEN

THE ROI OF CREATIVE EDUCATION

YEAR ONE

Given that we’d already doubled last winter’s snowfall by the end of January this year, spring’s swelling buds and rising temperatures could not be more exciting to us here in Columbus. To add commencement, the Senior Fashion Show, and our 134th Annual Student Exhibition on top is a “spring fever enabler,” for sure.

But we’re happy with that. (“Columbus College of Splendid Spring” sounds good, eh?)

As with every spring, though, some of us are channeling our vernal excitement into finding our feet professionally with new BFA or MFA degrees. Along those lines:

• Did you know that creative-degree graduates are more satisfied with their jobs and more able to pay off their loans than grads in other majors? Now you do. For more, see “The ROI of Creative Education” on page 18.

• As promised, we catch up with ten top members of last year’s graduating class in “Ten to Watch” on page 6.

• And, to add a few more data points to your CCAD Career Paths graph, meet Tween Specialty Design Director Jennifer Porreca Faux (page 14) and three CCAD-connected illustrators who have recently found high perches on the nation’s bestseller lists (page 15).

Before I let you go, one last shout-out: don’t miss this year’s visual “thank you” to our donors by junior Heidy Dianakurniawan, on page 26. Need we say more?

Warm regards,

Dennison W. Griffith President

Robert P. Restrepo Jr., chairJames E. Kunk, vice chair Michael J. Fiorile, immediate past chairJerry O. Allen, treasurerPatricia R. Hatler, secretary

Mitch AcockJeni Britton BauerJohn C. BeelerBeverly BethgeMark CornaLynnda Maria DavisFran HorowitzR. Andrew JohnsonJohn S. Kobacker

Eileen A. Mallesch Kelly MooneyJane RamseyMichael W. Rayden Lee Szykowny, M.D.Edward J. Yen

And now, a word

FROM OUR PRESIDENT

Columbus College of Art & Design prepares tomorrow’s creative leaders for professional careers. With a history of commitment to visual arts fundamentals and quality, CCAD advances a distinct, challenging, and inclusive learning culture that supports individual development in art, design, and the humanities. CCAD

BOARD OFTRUSTEES

2012–2013

ON COVER: Interior Designer Sarah McCance (CCAD 2012), one of our “Ten to Watch,” in her office at Wilson Associates in Dallas. Photo: Kevin Brown

©2013 Columbus College of Art & DesignSend questions or comments to communications@ccad.edu or 614.224.9101.

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VICE PRESIDENT FOR ENROllMENT MANAgEMENT & COMMUNICATIONS: Jonathan W. Lindsay

DIRECTOR OF MARkETINg & COMMUNICATIONS: Robin Hepler

EDITORIAl DIRECTOR: Laura Bidwa

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Lindsay Kronmiller

PROjECT COORDINATOR: Jaclyn Little

DIRECTOR FOR WEB MANAgEMENT: Lacey Luce

ONlINE COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR: Katlin McNally

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CONTENTS SPRINg 2013

CAMPUS NEWS 02 Creative Briefs

AlUMNI 06 Ten to Watch: Year One

12 Fashion, Forward: Jennifer Porreca Faux

15 Sittin’ on Top of the World: CCAD Illustrators 24 Alumni Reports from the CCAD News Blog

ACADEMICS 18 The ROI of Creative Education

20 Next Stop, the World: Michael Goodson at CCAD

22 Here Comes the 2013 Senior Fashion Show

PhIlANThROPy 26 Thank You to Our 2012 Donors

31 President’s Circle: The Kick-Off Year

INFORMAl CRITIqUE BlOOMS ON CAMPUS

Want to get unvarnished opinions about your art? Ask your peers.

That’s the approach Fine Arts alum Erin McKenna (CCAD 2012) adopted for a student-driven critique program she started at CCAD.

During her junior year, she participated in the semester-long New York Studio Residency Program. “There were kids from all over the United States,” McKenna says. “Nobody knows anybody when you get there. We decided that on Wednesday nights we’d make dinner together and walk around the studios, giving critiques. It was at night, much more relaxing; there were no professors there. We listened to each other. I learned a lot; it was nice to have the perspective of a peer.”

McKenna liked the idea so much she brought it back to campus, organizing evening critique sessions for students during her senior year. Up to 30 participants, mainly Fine Arts majors with some from Illustration and Advertising & Graphic Design, visited studios. “I had a lot of people come up to me after they had their critique and say it was very helpful.”

“It’s still going on Wednesday nights and has even more people,” she says.

For more on McKenna’s current doings, see page 10; she’s one of our “Ten to Watch.”

’TWAS ThE SEASON—FOR A hOlIDAy CARD CONTEST WINNER

CCAD teamed up with the Columbus Partnership last year to create a new tradition— a holiday card design contest.

The Columbus Partnership is a nonprofit, membership-based organization of 49 CEOs from Columbus’ leading businesses and institutions. Its primary mission is to improve the economic vitality of the Columbus region.

“Partnering with CCAD was a great opportunity to support an incredible educational asset in our community and work with the creative student innovators of Columbus who help drive our economic growth,” said Stephen Lyons, vice president of member services and community engagement at the Partnership.

A jury reviewed 38 entries and selected Illustration senior Alexa Carson’s design.

Carson received a $1,000 cash prize, and the card, which included her name and contact info, was distributed to more than 3,000 Columbus Partnership clients and friends.

CREATIVEBRIEFS

Students meet for an informal evening critique last fall. Photo: Jacob Augenstein (CCAD 2015)

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FINE ARTS FACUlTy MEMBER kEEPS ACTIVE PRACTICE

Danielle Julian Norton’s approach to artmaking? Two words: keep moving.

Norton, a 1999 Fine Arts alum and now an assistant professor of fine arts and graduate studies, is keeping up an almost dizzying itinerary of residencies and exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

This includes stints last fall at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, and last summer at I-Park in East Haddam, CT.

A year earlier, she did residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, and in Dresden, Germany, under the sponsorship of the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

Her exhibition schedule last year ranged from the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster to the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, to the

Cynthia-Reeves Gallery at Art Miami. A show at Ohio Dominican University will have just closed as this magazine mails.

“To grow as an artist I feel it’s important to meet other artists and go outside my comfort zone.” Norton says. “Each time I go and meet a new art community and group of artists, it’s like a mini-graduate school; you learn new approaches to art-making.”

“I think it works well in the classroom,” she says. “I can give [students] real-world examples. A teacher should also be an active artist.”

Norton calls her work interdisciplinary, “a cross between sculpture, photography, and performance.”

Next on tap: I Forgot to Forget, a June 15– July 20 exhibition she is curating at the Urban Arts Space of Ohio State University.

CCAD-DESIgNED lICENSES AND PlATES hIT ThE ROAD

It was a pretty big deal when Gov. John Kasich asked CCAD to help design new driver’s licenses and license plates for the Ohio BMV. And ever since the selected designs were unveiled in November 2011, we’ve been itching to see them out in the real world. Well, that time has come. The new driver’s license went into circulation in January, and the new plates are due to come into use as this magazine hits the mail. So watch the wallets, purses, and bumpers near you for clean, elegant

new designs by CCAD’s very own Aaron Roberts (Advertising & Graphic Design 2012)!

See more photos at www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=19941.

Danielle Julian Norton Forth Wall, 2012, pigment print, 40 x 30 inches

Ohio Governor John Kasich with winning designer Aaron Roberts; students helping to produce the first license plates with the new design; a gift to CCAD from the state of Ohio. Photos: Kelsey McClellan (CCAD 2012) and Luke Kramer (CCAD 2014). Two center images provided by the Ohio Department of Public Safety.

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STUDENTS EMBARk ON TWO-yEAR PROjECT WITh ElECTRONICS COMPANy

market, product, and competitive landscape analysis.

This spring, they’ll incorporate that research into a redesign of InPower’s product packaging.

InPower will continue to tap into CCAD talent throughout 2013–2014, focusing on work to fi nd new avenues for their products.

“As an engineering-based organization, InPower provided an opportunity to expand the types of companies we serve,” Gravino says.

“The only difference [from the real world] is we are doing it within the safe confi nes of the college,” Gattis says. “Students have expert guidance from faculty and can try a lot of things and really explore

concepts that in a corporate setting would be a bit too risky.”

The CCAD MindMarket’s DesignLab is giving students the chance to dig into an extended design project with the advanced electronics company InPower.

“InPower reached out to CCAD after learning about some of the offerings CCAD has for Industrial Design,” says Cynthia Gravino, CCAD MindMarket director. “We determined that a DesignLab partnership would best serve their needs and would provide a great hands-on opportunity for our students in a client-based project setting.”

Tom Gattis, dean of the School of Design Arts and chair of Industrial Design, stepped in to lead the project.

For the fi rst semester (fall 2012) students conducted a comprehensive

Behind the scenes of the CCAD DesignLab’s project with InPower. Photos provided by Tom Gattis

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Chris Oatley (CCAD 2001), a former Disney character designer who now runs an online art academy, held a session with students last semester. “Chris is a phenomenal speaker,” Jackson says.

Jackson hopes to have Skype sessions with three guests during spring semester. He says the sessions have an impact.

“With Chris, a lot of people sent us messages or talked with us afterward. They said it was really inspirational. Students made some artwork right away because they were inspired.”

SCIENCE ChAIR’S RESEARCh PRESENTED

CCAD Chair of Science Julie Posey has worked with Ohio State University’s Division of Infectious Diseases since 2010 to create a tracking profile for a specific strain of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Posey’s research studied nearly 500 positive cases of MRSA.

The resulting paper, Development of Bio-informatics Research Network for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Blood Stream Infections (BSI): A Multicenter Regional MRSA Surveillance Collaborative for Genotyping, Geocoding, and Data Collection for Outbreak Investigation, was presented by OSU researchers at the Infectious Disease Society of America conference last fall.

ANIMATION STUDENTS SkyPE FOR ADVICE

For members of the Animation Student Collective at CCAD, professional advice is only a Skype away.

Skype, an Internet voice and video service, links the student animators to professionals, including CCAD alumni. Animation senior Rico Jackson, president and founder of the Animation Student Collective, explains: “Most of the professionals are in California because that’s where the animation industry is, the bulk of it. We can’t bring them to Ohio because that would cost entirely too much money.

“Instead, we Skype them.”

The group meets in Kinney Hall. Using a computer linked to a video projector, Jackson asks the guest animator questions; other students also can come up to the computer’s camera and pose questions as well.

Alumnus Chris Oatley (CCAD 2001) advises students by Skype. Photo: Bethany Craig (CCAD 2013)

CCAD Science Chair Julie Posey in the lab. Photo provided by Julie Posey

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Chavilah Bennett was warned she’d be a coffee girl or a

“pair of hands” at her fi rst job. “That was a lie,” she says. Already, at S77, she’s designed the opening titles for a CeeLo Green/Muppets holiday video, worked post-production on a “T.I. featuring Lil Wayne” music video, and helped to direct and shoot footage for a series on the Bio Channel. Bennett’s job is in motion graphics, though her training is not. When she was hired—because of “people saying nice things about me behind my back”—it was with the understanding that she’d be learning on the job. No problem: “The great thing about CCAD,” she says, “is it teaches how to think creatively, how to problem-solve, and how to work effi ciently, and those are qualities that transfer to any career.”

Chavilah

BENNETT

Images provided by Chavilah Bennett

BFAAdvertising & Graphic Design

CITyColumbus

POSITIONMotion graphics designer at S77

CAUSEThe Maximin Project

gO-TO FOODAvocado

For new CCAD graduates with a creative degree in hand, the horizon is vast, and to each destination lay myriad paths. This is both super exciting and—we’re not afraid to say it—daunting. Between launch and land there will be a bit of unknown, which is why we decided to contact 10 of our top 2012 grads and ask them how things are going.

From these 10, we found that two have formed LLCs, four have shown in galleries, one has “gone viral,” and, among them, there are nine cats, two dogs, and one “very handsome” fi sh named Columbus. Their workplaces are diverse: while one is at an international clothier, another might spend all day in a urethane-casting lab.

To what do they owe their successes so far? CCAD comes up—the inspired friendships, life-altering classes, and amazing professors are too many to list—but so do hard work, integrity, connections, knowing one’s priorities, curiosity, and gumption.

They are a grateful bunch. Asked to be specifi c, classmates and sweeties get a mention, and from Alex Trimpe, “Just being alive is pretty nice, wouldn’t you say?” But overall, their greatest gratitude is to mom and dad. (Awww…)

May we introduce: our Ten to Watch.

TEN TO WATChYear OneBy Kendra Hovey

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Rachel

CASSLian

DzIURA

Images provided by Rachel CassImages provided by Lian Dziura

Talent, skill, and education are all key to landing a dream job, but for Rachel Cass, so were patience and confi dence. Certain she’d fi nd the right job, she looked at a lot of companies, even turned down some. Then she applied to AEO. “I left my interview knowing I would work there,” she says. Sure enough, she’s now in New York designing denim jeans and jackets. The transition was smooth, something she credits to all her hard work at CCAD. She plans on growing with AEO and looks forward to

“seeing where my adventure takes me.”

A day at work for Lian Dziura might be spent assisting photographer Michael Cogar on-set, editing and color-correcting fi nal images, photographing an edible tableau for a freelance client, or maybe even working on her own collages. Since graduating, she’s shown in two galleries, including the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, where she received an honorable mention. While she wasn’t sure what to expect post-college, to have a job she enjoys and to show and sell work “is a great feeling,” she says. “I’m glad it’s turned out the way it has.”

BFAFashion Design

CITyNew York

POSITIONAssistant designer at American Eagle Outfi tters (AEO)

FAVE CCAD ClASSCollection (“the class where all the hard work pays off”)

WORDS TO lIVE By“Grow or die.”

BFAPhotography

CITyColumbus

POSITIONFreelance photo assistant for Michael Cogar at Lane Bryant

FAVE CCAD ClASSStill-life photography

INSPIRED ByMedieval and Renaissance art

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“It may be corny,” says Jake LaBombarbe, “but to hold something you’ve designed as a tangible object is still one of the greatest feelings in the world.” At Concept, LaBombarbe does design, research, product testing, and modeling; he’s overseen a new silicone and urethane casting lab; and he’s the go-to guy about additive manufacturing and prototyping capabilities. Owens Corning is a big client, but potentially so is anyone with, as he says, “great concepts but no idea how to make them.” His ultimate aim is the toy industry (and he’s developed some ideas, so keep an eye out on Kickstarter). Although he had a job ready and waiting after graduation, his advice is to never take anything for granted. Also, “do right by others,” and, sharing a tip once given to him, “don’t ever point out a fl aw in your own sketch: chances are, only you see it.”

Images provided by Leah Fisher

BFAPhotography

CITyColumbus

POSITIONArchivist and evening supervisor at CCAD’s Packard Library

gO-TO FOODGatto’s Pizza

CREATIVE jUMPSTARTCrossword puzzles

“DO RIghT By OThERS”

— jAkE laBOMBARBE

Leah Fisher didn’t look for a job—she already had one. Since 2007, she’s been transforming a roomful of boxes into a digitized, cataloged, and shared archive about the history of CCAD. She’s added to that history by, for instance, replicating old photos for a Then-and-Now exhibit. It’s the kind of project that keeps her passionate. Fisher also remains focused on her art. Nine of her “drive-bys” (photos she takes from a moving vehicle) are part of Image Ohio 2013, one of those won an Honorable Mention in that exhibition, and she’s applied for a show at the Urban Arts Space. “Life right now feels great,” she says.

BFAIndustrial Design

CITyColumbus

POSITIONLead industrial designer at Concept Engineering

CAUSEToys for Tots and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

hOBBy“I am a connoisseur of terrible movies.”

Leah

FIShERJake

laBOMBARBEImage provided by Jake LaBombarbe

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Sarah

McCANCE

“A SPONgE, ABSORBINgEVERyThINg” — SARAh McCANCE

Photos: Kevin Brown

Designing interiors for a palace in Abu Dhabi may not have been on Sarah McCance’s career to-do list, but because she made the most of opportunities while at CCAD, it’s one item she can now check off. “My company designs luxury,” she explains—often for high-end resorts, casinos, and, yes, palaces. After careful research, McCance applied to be a student intern at Wilson and, while there, was “a sponge, absorbing everything,” she says. Afterward, she prioritized those professional ties and was hired on full time after graduation. Time to set new goals: she’s now focused on professional certifi cations—and recruiting more CCAD students for Wilson internships.

BFAInterior Design

CITyDallas

POSITIONInterior designer for Wilson Associates

gO-TO FOODHot Cheetos

TOOl TO UNWINDJim Henson’s The Labyrinth

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“To see your work grow up and march out into the real world feels fabulous,” says Kattie Baker (even if, technically, her work is in the virtual world). At Fine Citizens, she’s in charge of responsive web design and is the “icon and vector graphics girl,” which means she gets to do fun stuff like animal illustrations for the Columbus Zoo’s online guide. Add in art direction and client presentations and “it’s a lot of hats,” she says, “but multi-tasking is a skill all CCAD grads acquire.” Baker and her husband just bought their fi rst house, and, as for the future, “it’s whatever keeps challenging me,” she says.

Erin McKenna wasn’t ready to give up the tools, materials, supportive community, and feedback she had at CCAD, so she problem-solved. McKenna formed an LLC and with 10 other artists (nine from CCAD) founded No Place Studios: 2,500 sq. ft. to make art, hold events, and foster community. “We’re very proud of this space,” she says. After an artist’s residency at Chicago-based ACRE and a related exhibition this spring, grad school is next up. Already, she’s been nominated for a scholarship.

BFAAdvertising & Graphic Design

CITyColumbus

POSITIONDesigner at Fine Citizens, a web design agency

CAUSEBig Sisters (“I’m a sucker for children.”)

TOOl TO UNWINDZumba

BFAFine Arts

CITyColumbus

POSITIONHost at Better Earth in the North Market; founder/manager of No Place Studios, LLC

FAVE CCAD ExPERIENCENY Studio Residency

WORDS TO lIVE By“If you want something done, do it yourself.”

Kattie

BAkERErin

MckENNA

No Place Studios, LLC

FAVE CCAD ExPERIENCEFAVE CCAD ExPERIENCENY Studio Residency

“If you want something done, do it yourself.”

Images provided by Erin McKenna

Images provided by Kattie Baker

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“Freelancing,” says Sara Diesel, “is a great way to network and work your way up the fi eld to larger clients.” But jobs don’t fall in your lap; it takes hustle, and “persistence, most of all.” Asked to brag, she mentions her work on the Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones card games, to which, she says, “it was an honor to add my voice.” She calls it “humbling and surreal” to have work in Spectrum 19, a publication full of her favorite illustrators. Though someday she might like to try her hand at game creation, she’s happy freelancing and excited to see just where it will take her.

With the ink on his diploma barely dry, December grad Alex Trimpe is the boss of his own motion graphics company, producing work (usually typography-based with illustrations) for clients around the globe. The “short story,” he explains: “A video of mine [The World Is Obsessed with Facebook] went viral. People wanted similar-style videos. Then, bigger people wanted videos.” Some of those bigger people are Samsung, Levi’s, and Cisco. But don’t just chalk up his success to luck. Trimpe asked for it. He messaged Vimeo: Hi...can you give me feedback...thank you...oh, and if you like it, maybe throw it on your staff picks. They did. His advice—along with “be kind but not a pushover, persistent but not annoying, and have a good reel”—is “simply ask, it works better than you’d think.”

Images provided by Sara Diesel

Sara

DIESEl

BFAIllustration

CITyPittsburgh

POSITIONFreelance illustrator

FAVE CCAD ClASSEntrepreneurial Illustration

INSPIRED By1980s sci-fi movies

BFAMedia Studies

CITyAkron

POSITIONProprietor of Alex Trimpe Motion Design, LLC

CAUSELongstride

CREATIVITy jUMPSTARTGoing outside

Alex

TRIMPE

Images provided by Alex Trimpe

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By Kristin Mack Deuber

Jennifer Porreca Faux

FAShION, FORWARD

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FAShION DESIgN AlUMNA Jennifer Porreca Faux (CCAD 2002) was always the person her friends turned to for fashion advice. Whether flipping through magazines or weekend shopping at thrift stores to embrace the ’90s grunge trend, she’s been interested in style and spotting the hottest trends since she was a little girl.

“Growing up, we didn’t have a lot of money to spend on fashion,” says Faux.

“I would do my best to save my money and beg my parents to buy me trendy clothes and accessories.”

In addition to fashion, Faux also had an interest in the fine arts—with artistic parents, art was a big part of her youth. She took Saturday Morning Art Classes at CCAD as a child, where she began to develop her creative skills. When the time came for her to choose a college, it was a lucky coincidence that CCAD was so close to home and had a great fashion program.

“I loved that CCAD’s curriculum focused not only on fashion, but also on fine art skills, including color concept, 2D and 3D figure drawing, and art history,” says Faux. “It made me a more creative fashion designer by providing me with the foundational skills that I could use to easily design any type of fashion including apparel, accessories, footwear, and lifestyles.”

AN UPWARD TRENDUpon graduating from CCAD in 2002, Faux landed a job as assistant designer of sweaters, active, and graphic tees for Justice, a label of the industry leader Tween Brands, Inc. Over the next four years, she was quickly promoted to associate designer of sweaters and accessories, and then to designer of accessories, footwear, and lifestyles. She rejoined Tween in 2009 as a senior designer of accessories and footwear.

Today, Faux is Tween’s director of specialty design, overseeing a team of

six designers and two interns.

The position calls for extensive travel to keep abreast of trends worldwide. But when Faux is in Ohio, business meetings are a big part of her day. She works with senior design and merchandising staff to align Tween’s design and sales strategies. She also meets with cross-functional partners, including the tech department, to check the fit of products she is creating and make sure the sampling and production of all products are flowing smoothly.

Jennifer Porreca Faux in her office at Tween. Photo: Luke Kramer (CCAD 2014)

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Back-to-school, because that’s when Tween designs its big collection of backpacks, messenger bags, and school supplies. “I remember the excitement of going back to school when I was a tween and how important it was for me to have a cool backpack,” she says. “Now I get to design them for tween girls all over the world!”

jENNIFER PORRECA FAUx’S FAVORITE SEASON?

Jennifer Porreca Faux and her team, from left: Somer Weber, Nikki Bagga, Faux, Shannon West, and Emily Rodgers. Photo: Luke Kramer (CCAD 2014)

Faux usually ends her day researching trends, visiting stores, and doing last minute trouble-shooting.

Being a fashion designer and traveling around the world may sound glamorous, but it can be taxing work. Faux often gets up at 4 a.m. to catch flights, works 12- to 14-hour days, hauls bags in and out of cabs (and trains and planes), battles jet lag, and eats on the run—all while staying in constant contact with her home office.

Over the past 10 years, Faux has seen many changes in the speed of fashion trend cycles and the way goods are sourced. “With social media and blogging, our customers have become extremely fashion savvy, wanting the hottest trends NOW,” she says. “Also, with all of the [political] changes happening around the world, sourcing new factories and obtaining competitive prices for goods have become increasingly challenging.”

ADVICE: gET IT AND gIVE ITDuring her time at Tween, Faux has cultivated relationships with several mentors, which she says has been the best part of working for the company.

Her favorite mentor advice is “know your business.” In other words, good designers can design absolutely anything, as long as they study their target market, understand the business side of the industry, and build a design strategy based around that knowledge.

She also values “speak with facts, not emotions,” because the facts make a stronger case that is less likely to be misinterpreted.

Her biggest piece of advice to today’s students? Network, network, network.

“To get a great job in the fashion industry it definitely helps to know the right people who can recommend you and help you get your foot in the door,” says Faux. “It’s important for students to put themselves out there early and take advantage of any opportunities that come their way. No job is too small or insignificant. If you do everything with passion, others will see that and want you on their team.”

ThE CCAD ANglEFaux enjoys supporting CCAD. She always looks to hire CCAD graduates because she knows they have strong

design skills. She also financially supports the annual senior fashion show, reviews student portfolios, and speaks to classes as often as her schedule permits.

Maintaining relationships with fellow CCAD alumni has benefited Faux’s own career. Many of her fellow fashion design alums have found successful careers in Columbus, New York, and beyond—and their paths constantly cross.

“I truly value the education I received at CCAD,” says Faux. “I love staying part of the CCAD community and continuing to build relationships with new CCAD students as well as alumni.”

A selection of Tween’s 2012 back-to-school accessories collection. Photo: Luke Kramer (CCAD 2014)

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CCAD IllustratorsBy Bill Mayr

A good place to start is the Children’s and Young Adult categories, where three illustrators with CCAD ties—graduates Tim Bowers and John Jude Palencar, along with faculty member C.F. Payne—have helped propel books to the top of the market since 2011.

To be sure, they aren’t the first CCAD-related illustrators to make the lists, and it’s a safe bet they won’t be the last. But the varied experiences of this trio reflect the opportunities, challenges, and joys of illustration, especially with works created for a younger crowd.

To keep up with illustrators from CCAD, just peruse the bestseller lists.

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authors like Stephen King. He knows the ways of the world, but his illustrations for young adults have a special resonance.

“You don’t realize how some people hang on to your image for the cover. Everything is kind of mulled over by these young kids. Being a freelance illustrator, we work somewhat isolated in our personal studios… [but] you never know, you may be influencing the illustrators of tomorrow.”

His paintings have a suave, 21st-century sensibility to them, but, the illustrator says, “I’m still an old dinosaur; I paint traditionally. I still think there is something noble and almost monastic when you work with your hands. I feel like an old Jedi knight: Don’t forget the old ways.”

C.F. PAyNEC.F. (Chris) Payne, CCAD’s illustration chair for a decade-plus and now distinguished professor of illustration, assuredly hasn’t forgotten the old ways. Payne created animal and outer-space scenes for Mousetronaut, a number-one

starts creating characters with pencil sketches, later transferring them to canvas or illustration board to paint with acrylics or oils.

jOhN jUDE PAlENCARBowers’ experience contrasts with that of his friend John Jude Palencar (CCAD 1980), a leading book-cover illustrator who spends only part of his time on young-adult books. Every cover in Christopher Paolini’s bestselling four-book Inheritance Cycle series—about a teenage boy, Eragon, and his dragon—has carried an elegantly rendered Palencar painting of Saphira the dragon.

Palencar says he has declined offers to illustrate entire children’s books. “You have to live with it for a while, trying to develop a character. I’m mostly a cover illustrator. I enjoy the variety of each new manuscript. I like doing symbol and allegory.”

Palencar has some 300 book covers to his credit and has worked with big-name

TIM BOWERSTim Bowers (CCAD 1979) made the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists in the middle of last year with Dinosaur Pet, a picture book by Marc Sedaka with a CD recorded by his Grammy Award-winning father, Neil Sedaka. That project came on the heels of Bowers’ 2011 success with Dream Big, Little Pig, written by figure-skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi.

Bowers devotes his entire practice to children’s books, a focus that started forming years ago. “The things you need to develop a picture book are things I’ve been interested in for a long time—storytelling, humor. Basically I’m a very narrative artist. Character expressions—I’ve been fascinated with that since I was a little boy,” he says.

Bowers has illustrated more than 30 children’s books. Usually, publishers who have accepted book manuscripts will seek out the illustrators. When he is offered a project, Bowers says, “I read through the manuscript and let them know if I think I’m a good fit.” Then he

BIRThPlACE Troy, OH

FAVE BOOk First, the Bible...other than that, it constantly changes. Right now it’s I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen.

CURRENTly lOOkINg AT The drawings of Heinrich Kley

BIg WINS New York Times bestsellers: Dream Big, Little Pig!, 2011 Dinosaur Pet, 2012

BIRThPlACE Fairview Park, OH

FAVE ARTISTS Hieronymus Bosch, Andrew Wyeth, Jasper Johns, Lucien Feud

CURRENTly READINg Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft

BIg WINS Book covers for Ursula K. Le Guin, P.D. James, Stephen King Illustrations for Time, Smithsonian, and National Geographic

BIRThPlACE Cincinnati, OH

FAVE ARTISTS Rembrandt, Norman Rockwell, Jack Davis

CURRENTly READINg The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth by Matthew Algeo

BIg WINS Time cover portrait of Barack Obama Mousetronaut, 2012 Rolling Stone illustrations

TIM BOWERS jOhN jUDE PAlENCAR C.F. PAyNE

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bestseller written by retired astronaut Mark Kelly.

A widely published editorial illustrator, Payne holds a can-do attitude and works in varied media: oils, acrylics, watercolor, colored pencils. “It is getting the drawing and color down right and making the picture look as good as you can possibly make it look,” he says. Payne says he and the other Illustration faculty teach that approach.

“I’m really proud of the department we’ve got. We have solid people who care about what they do. We want to be honest. Being an artist of any kind is a challenge, but it’s worth it,” he says.

ChAllENgES—AND REWARDSSo don’t make the mistake of thinking that illustrating books for younger readers is a piece of cake.

“A children’s book comes along and you have six months, three months, a year, and now you are in a crazy marathon and have to manage that time along with the other projects you’ve got,” Payne says.

“For most of them you’ll do 16 to 18 images. For an ABC book, there are 26 letters plus the cover and the title page, so it ends up being 28 images. It’s a grind, a ton of work. You make a dozen pictures and go cripes, I’m not halfway there yet.”

Such a big investment of time and effort has its rewards, though.

A magazine illustration might have a shelf life of a week and poof, it’s gone from the newsstand. “Whereas a children’s book can be around for a long time,” Payne says. He adds, “I’ve not walked out of too many children’s books saying I’ll never do that again.”

Being on the children’s book bestseller lists is a “wow” experience, Bowers says, but the real payoff is deeper.

“The best confirmation I receive is when I visit a school and the kids are really excited, familiar with the characters, and love the book. The bestseller list is great for my career, but the real joy is seeing the kids enjoying the book and enjoying the characters.”

Bowers, Palencar, and Payne are only three recent CCADers to reach the bestseller lists. How many more can you name? (A starting point could be AG Ford [CCAD 2007], who illustrated Jonah Winter’s 2010 bestseller Barack…) Submit your list of names and books at www.ccad.edu/forms/submit-news.

John Jude Palencar’s cover image for Eragon. Image courtesy of John Jude Palencar.

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ThE ROI OF CREATIVEEDUCATION

Let’s TalkBy Dennison W. Griffith

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ThE TERM “ROI” (return on investment) has entered the realm of higher education with a vengeance.

You can’t have missed it: As U.S. public funding for college education has contracted, students and families are shouldering a much higher portion of the cost—and they’re seeking reassurance that their sacrifice will be worth it.

It’s an eminently reasonable concern. Unfortunately, the recent tsunami of articles, reports, and online discussions has often lost a key nuance: How does one effectively evaluate the value of preparation for careers in professions that have radically different starting salaries?

While some fields—like engineering or finance—traditionally have high starting salaries, others—like education or law—do not, or may require extended internships or education after the bachelor’s degree.

Starting salary is simply a very limited indicator of a field’s ultimate value both to society and to the individual pursuing it.

AT ThE CENTERCreative education is a great example of this. The new app you just downloaded on your smartphone required a designer or illustrator and an animator along with the programmers. And a creative promotional campaign spurred you to download it.

What would the team that launched that new app say to school rankings that advise prospective college students that only the programmer’s future prospects are worth pursuing? The programmer may deliver the content—but artists and designers bring it to life and deliver the customer.

WhO’S gOT ANSWERS?As CCAD president, I led a national-level conversation on this question when I co-chaired a panel discussion at the 2012 annual meeting of NASAD (the National Association of Schools of Art and Design).

And as schools outside the United States start to field similar questions from their students, we’re there, too. I was one of just 15 leaders who met last fall in Hangzhou, China, for a conference of the International Art Presidents Network, where I was proud to contribute CCAD’s experiences to the international conversation about global best practices in the constantly changing realm of art and design education.

The good news that we share everywhere we go: there are plenty of data-based ways to describe the value of higher education in the creative fields.

WORkINg—AND hAPPyThe arts compare favorably to other majors in employability and job satisfaction:

• Even during the recent recession, creative professions have been adding jobs.

• Arts-related college graduates are finding work in their fields at higher rates than graduates in many science-related fields. Their unemployment rate is a third less than the national average. (And contrary to what Aunt Jackie might predict, only 3% are working in food service!)

• A recent national study found that 9 of 10 arts graduates were satisfied with the job in which they spend the majority of their work time. And 82% were satisfied with their ability to be creative in their current work.

Private creative education is a powerful investment that pays off.

• The average three-year loan default rate for private art and design schools

is barely half of the national average for all colleges.

• 80% of undergrad alumni from private art and design schools are now working or have worked in their professional fields after graduation, compared to only 64% from multidisciplinary schools.

• 71% of graduates from private art and design schools say their college education is relevant to their current work, compared to only 59% of alumni from multidisciplinary schools.

STAyINg ON TARgETBut value is, by necessity, a moving target. We listen closely to our students and their families. Our partners in the creative economy also help us keep our curriculum in tune with what hiring managers are looking for.

At CCAD we’re leading other art schools by:

• Providing real-life art, design, and entrepreneurship opportunities through the CCAD MindMarket’s DesignLab and the college’s Entrepreneurship Club. (20% of CCAD graduates will launch their own small businesses.)

• Infusing business knowledge throughout our curriculum. It’s not just important for those who start their own companies—even creative employees need to understand the bottom-line component of their work.

• Reworking our freshman year to allow broad, accurate exposure to different majors—ensuring right fit between student and his/her specialized training.

MORE ABOUT CAREERSWant to read more about the creative economy and what it means for graduates in the arts? Take a look at Columbus College of Loving What You Do, our newest publication at issuu.com: issuu.com/ columbuscollegeofartanddesign.

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NExT STOP, ThE WORlDMichael Goodson at CCADBy Melissa Starker

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According to Ric Petry, director of graduate programs and part of the search committee who hired Goodson, “He has brought an impressive group of artists and scholars to campus who have been meeting with the grad students—Stefan Sagmeister, Benjamin Anastas, Eleanor Heartney, Byron Kim, Donald Moffett, and Chris Ware, to name just a few from last semester. It’s been great.”

With MFA candidates, Goodson also shares the practical experience he acquired from conducting the day-to-day operations of a top-tier commercial gallery, from developing contacts to planning and physically installing exhibitions to marketing artwork.

Petry notes that Goodson has taken these lessons off campus as well.

“He has organized grad student visits to New York, where his network has provided studio visits and mentorships with a number of artists.”

At the same time, Goodson has challenged himself, branching outside of his existing network to connect the college with the finest international talents.

“Honestly, I’ve asked things of New York and Los Angeles and Hong Kong galleries since arriving here that have little if anything to do with previous connections through the New York art world,” he explains. “You ask things, respectfully and thoughtfully, and people say yes…sometimes.”

His efforts have yielded a diverse and

unassailably impressive slate of exhibitions and lectures for 2013. Among the artists scheduled to make an appearance at CCAD, whether in person or through their work, are Sol LeWitt, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Nari Ward, Jim Hodges, Fred Tomaselli, and Gary Panter, along with author and cultural

critic Greil Marcus (Lipstick Traces).

Such notable scores suggest an increasingly prominent role for CCAD in the art world, as well as for the city it calls home. The line-up is enough to whet the appetite of most contemporary art lovers, not just students and faculty, and holds the potential to make the college’s gallery exactly the kind of destination Goodson envisions.

“In my estimation, one reason to live in Columbus is the Wexner Center,” Goodson says. “I think that, given a little time and energy and growth, exhibitions at CCAD might be another reason.”

See more photos at www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=19939.

CCAD has been raising its profile in Columbus quite successfully over the past couple of years.

But Michael Goodson, CCAD’s director of exhibitions since August 2011, is looking ahead with something much broader in mind.

“My goal with exhibitions and visiting artists is quite simply to bring great contemporary art and artists to the school,” he says. “This will in turn make CCAD a destination for contemporary art—not only for patrons but also for great students and teachers from all over the U.S. and, ultimately, the world.”

Formerly exhibitions director of New York’s James Cohan Gallery and a professor of art at Hunter College, Goodson has also assumed a teaching role at CCAD. He guides students in the MFA program, leading discussions and presentations of their thesis work. But as he explains, “The exhibitions programming and visiting artists are my first thought as I drag myself to consciousness each morning.”

Goodson sees a distinction between his efforts in the classroom and in the Canzani Center Gallery and believes there’s educational value in developing thoughtful programming that doesn’t always fit seamlessly into school curriculum—but his two roles are organically entwined. Each strongly informs the professional development of CCAD’s artists in training.

By exposing students of all levels to the works and real-world wisdom of a stellar assortment of visiting artists, he’s expanding and strengthening personal connections between the student body and the global community of working artists.

“yOU ASk ThINgS, RESPECTFUlly & ThOUghTFUlly, AND PEOPlE SAy yES…SOMETIMES.” — MIChAEl gOODSON

Previous page: Michael Goodson (standing, with glasses) in a group critique with MFA students. Photo: Luke Kramer (CCAD 2014)

Above, left: Designer Stefan Sagmeister, Goodson’s first fall 2012 Visiting Artist guest. Photo provided by Stefan Sagmeister.

Above, center: Byron Kim photographed in front of his painting Grunion Run (2001, oil on canvas, 90 x 92 inches). Kim, a fall 2012 Visiting Artist, also had an exhibition in Room, the Canzani Center Gallery’s project space. Photo © Byron Kim

Above, right: Spring 2013 Visiting Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock showing an image of one of his early performances. Hancock also had a show in Room, the Canzani Center Gallery’s project space. Photo: Danielle Ford (CCAD 2013)

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CCAD FAShION gETS SERIOUS

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Photos: Danielle Ford (CCAD 2013) and Luke Kramer (CCAD 2014)

We’re counting down the days to the 2013 Senior Fashion Show on May 10—and needless to say, both the excitement and the exhaustion are building. Enjoy this peek behind the scenes.

Don’t have your tickets yet? Visit www.ccad.edu/fashion/event right away!

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AMINAh ROBINSON

ROBINSON INDUCTED INTO COlUMBUS hAll OF FAME

Alumna Aminah Robinson (CCAD 1960) has been inducted into the city of Columbus’ Hall of Fame by Mayor Michael B. Coleman.

Robinson combines traditional fine art media with found objects and everyday materials such as buttons, cloth, leather, twigs, shells, and music-box workings to create strongly narrative 2D and 3D works of art.

She has exhibited throughout the United States and received numerous awards and grants. In 2004, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as a genius grant.

MANSOOR PART OF CONTEMPORARy ARTS CENTER ShOW

Fine Arts alumna CV Mansoor (CCAD 1977) exhibited work at the Contemporary

Arts Center in Cincinnati last year in Green Acres: Artists Farming Vacant Lots, Greenhouses and Fields.

Mansoor submitted work through Homeadow Song, a center that actively promotes experiential learning through integration of practical work, artistic experience, and celebration of community.

The show presented farming as art and included work from 23 artists and organizations.

SWINDEll’S BOOk REVIEWED IN FOOD AND CUlTURE MAg

The illustrated cookbook They Draw & Cook, co-created by alumna Salli Swindell (CCAD 1981) and her brother Nate Padavick, was reviewed in the fall 2012 issue of Gastronomic, a magazine of food and culture.

The idea for They Draw & Cook originated from Swindell and Padavick’s website of the same name, which invites artists to submit illustrated recipes ranging from simple family traditions to more complex and elaborate dishes.

“Here is a cookbook that Andy Warhol would have enjoyed,” the reviewer, Stefanie S. Jandl, says. “The presentation of the recipes is as diverse as the dishes; they are witty and whimsical, serious and sophisticated, and sometimes deeply personal.”

CCAD ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE TO CElEBRATION

Many CCAD alumni, students, faculty, and staff participated in FOTOFOCUS, a monthlong celebration of photography in Cincinnati.

Professor and Illustration alumna Helen Hoffelt (CCAD 1982) showed work in the Midwest Society for Photographic Education Members Exhibition at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, KY. Hoffelt also had work in Images of the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of Ohio 1935–2010

AlUMNI REPORTS FROM ThE CCAD NEWS BlOg This is just a sampling of all the CCAD alumni news. To see everything—and sign up to receive each item as it is posted—visit www.ccad.edu/blog/category/ccad-news.

Have an item to submit? Visit www.ccad.edu/forms/alumni/classnote.

jUlIE ABIjANAC

ABIjANAC’S WORk SElECTED FOR INTERNATIONAl ShOW

Assistant professor and Fine Arts alumna Julie Abijanac (CCAD 1992) had her piece Disease Mapping selected for Fiberart International 2013, to be presented April 19–Aug. 18 at the Society for Contemporary Craft and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Fiberart International includes work rooted in traditional fiber materials, structure, processes, and history. It explores the unexpected relationships between fiber and other creative disciplines.

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at the University of Cincinnati’s Sycamore Gallery.

Media Studies alumna Rachel Girard Reisert (CCAD 2002) had a solo exhibition, Tropism, at 1305 Gallery. Reisert also presented at the Midwest Regional Society for Photographic Education Conference.

Photography senior Kayla Holdgreve exhibited two pieces in Current: The MW Society of Photographic Education Student Juried Exhibition at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Photography alumna Lian Dziura (CCAD 2012), Cinematic Arts junior Tom Hoying, MFA alumnus Cosby Lindquist (CCAD 2012), Photography alumnus Marcus Morris (CCAD 2012), Photography junior Henry Scott, and MFA alumna Crystal Tursich (CCAD 2012) participated in the juried invitational exhibition Thunderdome at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. Lindquist was one of three award winners, and Dziura received an honorable mention.

AlUMNI WORk ON OSCAR-NOMINATED FIlMS

With so many CCAD alumni in the movie industry, it’s no surprise that several Oscar-nominated films had CCAD talent in their credits.

Media Studies alumnus Steve Hubbard (CCAD 2010) worked on the animation for Life of Pi, which was nominated in eight categories. It won for Visual Effects (go, Steve!), as well as four other categories.

Illustration alumnus Alex Alvarado (CCAD 2011) and Media Studies alumnus Joaquin Baldwin (CCAD 2006) worked on Walt Disney’s Wreck-It-Ralph, which was nominated in the Animated Feature Film category.

And finally, Illustration alumnus Ben Lane (CCAD 1996) worked on The Longest Daycare, which was nominated for Short Film (Animated).

gUNDlACh DOES SPlAShy PROjECT

Industrial Design alumnus and professor Joel Gundlach (CCAD 1986) just completed a unique design project for New Albany High School’s natatorium—he redesigned the pool’s starting blocks.

After talking with the swim team, Gundlach realized that swimmers in the last lane often cannot hear the judge start the race, putting them at a disadvantage. So he included speakers in the blocks, as well as a strobe light that goes off when the race starts.

Gundlach also incorporated fins to add traction for the swimmers, similar to those on a runner’s sprinting block, and a compartment to hold volunteers’ timers.

Gundlach has created custom furniture since 1985 and has worked on projects for CCAD including drawing horses for the Fine Arts studios and tables for the ceramics classrooms.

AMANDA ROUSE

ROUSE BUSy IN 2012

MFA alumna Amanda Rouse (CCAD 2012) currently has work in the group exhibition Taking Home with You, which originated in New Orleans and is now traveling to cities in Ireland including Belfast, Bangor, and Limerick. She also had two prints exhibited at the Artist’s Alley in San Francisco.

She has successfully entered three juried exhibitions, including Boundless: New Work in Contemporary Printmaking in New Haven, CT; Hand-Pulled: Ohio Printmakers at Art Space in Lima, OH; and Movements, an exhibition at the Tuska Museum in Lexington, KY.

hIROShI hAyAkAWA

hAyAkAWA FEATURED IN PhOTO MAg

Associate Professor and Photography alumnus Hiroshi Hayakawa (CCAD 1985) is featured in the fifth annual edition of the magazine Diffusion: Unconventional Photography.

The magazine discusses Hayakawa’s unique way of processing his photos: printing his images on oxidized sheet metal through the application of liquid photo emulsion (Liquid Light) onto the surface.

The magazine is an independent, contributor- and reader-supported annual that highlights and celebrates unconventional photographic processes and photo-related artwork.

BhATAWADEkAR WORkS ON RISE OF ThE gUARDIANS

Media Studies alumna Sucheta Bhatawadekar (CCAD 2005) worked as a lead lighter on Rise of the Guardians, a DreamWorks Animation movie released last fall.

Bhatawadekar worked on Rise of the Guardians for five months and then jumped into working on another upcoming DreamWorks movie, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, to be released in November.

She has worked with DreamWorks Animation for nearly five years on projects including Kung Fu Panda 2, Megamind, and Monsters vs. Aliens.

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Heidy Dianakurniawan (CCAD 2014)

ThANk yOU TO OUR 2012 DONORS

We acknowledge and thank the following annual contributors who invested in the college and our students during the 2012 calendar year. Please note that this list refl ects outright gifts and pledges made during this time frame, rather than pledge payments.

If you would like to learn more about the many ways to support CCAD, please contact the Development Offi ce at 614.222.3230 or development@ccad.edu.

$50,000+Huntington BankLimited Brands Foundation

$25,000–$49,999Beverly BethgeBig Lots Inc.Easton Community Foundation

of the Columbus FoundationAlexis A. JacobsOhio Arts CouncilState Auto Insurance

Companies

$10,000–$24,999Abercrombie & FitchAnonymous (2)Pamela & Jack BeelerCapital StyleCorna · KokosingMark CornaLoann W. CraneThe William H. Davis,

Dorothy M. Davis and William C. Davis Foundation

EXPRESSMichael J. & Karen G. FiorileGreater Columbus Arts CouncilBeth Fisher & Denny Griffi thPatricia Hatler, Esq. & Howard

Coffi nSandy & Bill HeifnerIngram-White Castle Foundation

JusticeThe Jerome Kobacker

Charities FoundationJohn S. & Catherine Chapin

KobackerKelly Mooney & Scott

HenningsenNationwideJane & Rich RamseyDiane Nye & Michael RaydenBob & Mary Frances RestrepoSusan SchererDanielle & George SkestosDr. Lee S. Szykowny &

Thomas E. SzykownyVictoria’s Secret StoresEllen & Ed Yen

$5,000–$9,999Anonymous (3)Steve & Lynnda Maria DavisLane BryantThe LimitedMacy’sEileen Mallesch & George MrusNancy Wolfe Lane Family

Fund of the Columbus Foundation

Nordstrom, Inc.Polaris Fashion PlacePorter Wright Morris &

Arthur LLP

R.G. Barry Corporation/Dearfoams

Pamela M. & Thomas E. Workman

$2,500–$4,999Dana & Mitch AcockJacqueline & Jerry AllenAnonymousFran Horowitz & Michael

BonadiesCheryl Bricker Ciampa &

Keith CiampaThe Columbus Food &

Wine AffairMelinda & Kevin ConlonBeth Crane & Richard McKeeBev & Bob DarwinFrancine & Thomas DurkeeNanette & Hiroshi HayakawaNancy & Tad JeffreyAndrew JohnsonDee Dee & Jim KunkStephanie & Adam LewinPeg Mativi & Donald DickPMM AgencyArlene & Michael Weiss

$1,000–$2,499Paul D. AllenMary & Wayne BallantyneJohn Behal & Jim ElliottBlaine Byers

Phil CassW. D. CordrayCrane Group, Co.Jameson CraneMichael & Paige Crane Fund

of the Columbus FoundationSarah W. Crane Family Fund

of the Columbus FoundationPam & Steve D’AmicoThe Diamond CellarJulie & Roger EscolasAbby & Jeff FisherErica & Micky FullenSylvia & Robert GoldbergCarl GarantGeorge J. Kontogiannis & Assoc.DeeDee & Herb GlimcherKaren E. Johnston (Porotsky)Suzanne KarpusJava & Mark KitrickKathy & John AldenMary & Robert Lazarus, Jr.

Fund of the Columbus Foundation

Anne & Noel MelvinNancy & Jack Edwards FundNeil & Susan Rector FundDavid W. PatchPNCSteve RasmussenJamie & Bill ReinboltCordelia Robinson & Grant

Morrow

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Elizabeth RossAlex Fischer & Steve Lyons,

Columbus PartnershipRocky & Susan SaxbeDavid R. SchoolerJacqueline & Chris SnellSolutions StaffingSpeer MechanicalGail & Mark StorerLaurie Beth & Ryan SweeneyJulie Taggart & John KortlanderDwayne Todd & Steve CrawfordSusan Tomasky & Ronald J.

Ungvarsky Family Fund of the Columbus Foundation

Union CafeB.J. Van de VeldeNancy & Scott VaughanThe Robert J. Weiler Family

Fund of the Columbus Foundation

Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc.

Chilin Yu

$500–$999Ira & Mary Lou Alpert

Foundation, Inc.AnonymousRandy Arndt & Jeff BakerBelle BolesKelly & Chuck BosoDominique Reighard &

Brian BrooksMichael BrownKelly Carter & Matthew KallnerSusan CassPeggy & Dennis ConcillaTodd N. CorbittShannon & Rob CraneMimi DaneGigi & Sam FriedKelli GargaszJames P. Garland & Carol

J. Andreae Fund of the Columbus Foundation

Mary L. GeorgeMary Jo GreenThe Hinson Family TrustCharleen Hinson

Jacqueline & Russell HodgeDavid JohnsonPatty & Jerry JurgensenJanet KaplanKatie & Brett KaufmanAngela KellyBernadette & Michael KrousePamela & David KrutzMr. Jonathan W. LindsayKatherine W. LloydFran LuckoffCandice MarzetzPatrick J. & Kathleen D.

McCurdy Family Foundation of the Columbus Foundation

Susan & Bill McDonoughSandra & Stewart McKissickMiddle West SpiritsRhonda & Mike MurnaneJoseph NealCandice & RJ NowinskiOlogieNBBJ—Doug Parris, PartnerDebra & Charles PenzoneDouglas PreisseSeth ProtusAmanda B. Ramseyer (‘02)Lynn S. RansbottomResource InteractiveRobb Shirey PhotographyJoyce & Charles ShenkLee SmithLinda & Lawrence StearnsU.S. Bancorp FoundationMr. & Mrs. Rodney H.

Wasserstrom

$250–$499LeAnn AllmanAnonymous (2)Nikki BenvenutiMary Beth & Ron BerggrenNatasha BoltonCheryl & Tim BoltonBruce & Nancy Meyer

Philanthropic FundRobert BurkeBill CalvertChris Cole (‘89)

Mrs. Georgeann C. CoreyTara CuprisinBarb & Donald DavisSue DoodySandy FeketeMatthew FlegleNicole FoxSamuel FreemanAlice A. FrenzJules & Judy GarelAida GarrityThomas GattisThom GlickJami GoldsteinDon & Lisal GormanRita GrayKari HillSherman & Hiteshew

Design, Inc.Mark KiddSandra A. KightJake KuhnKim & David LandsbergenKaren LloydDeborah Martin AlbuckerDiane L. MierAnnjenise NicholsTucker PetersonBarbara PrudenJanet RadakovichKathy & Fred RansierJean ReaDouglas Reisinger

Saks Fifth AvenueDiane & Ron SaksAndrea SchmittDaniel J. ServatyMary E. ShipleyVictoria SimmonsStephen SmithHarriett StearnsDavid StockwellStudio 33 Salon & SpaRebecca & Dan TerribleThe Jaffe Family FoundationLisa ThiergartnerDeanna K. Ware-DavisHugh Westwater Fund of the

Columbus FoundationDavid Whitaker & Roger BarkerDarren WinklerMabi Ponce de Leon &

Christopher Yates

UP TO $249Ms. Julie M. Abijanac &

Mr. Travis S. MoyerDale AbramsMr. & Mrs. Stanford M. AckleyMs. Susan AdamsJames A. AllenKelly AllerMartha AllisonJarod K. AndersonAnonymous (13)Mr. & Mrs. John C. Arechavala

“I hAD A REAlly gREAT TIME AT CCAD. I ThINk IT’S A WONDERFUl SChOOl. WhENEVER SOMEONE SAyS ‘My DAUghTER OR My SON gOES ThERE,’ ThERE IS INSTANT RECOgNITION. All ARE VERy IMPRESSED WITh ThE EDUCATION ThAT ThEy gET.” — AlICE INgRAM (CCAD 1964)

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Vanessa & George ArnoldJoan & Richard AschenbrandThomas BairdRobbie BanksDorothy G. BarnesJon & Jenny BarnesDarlene BaronSharon & Carlo BattagliniKitty & David Michael BeckCharlotte BellandAgnes BenedictSimrit BhullarLaura BidwaBradd D. Birmingham (‘01)Hilary BlakemoreDennis & Jane BlankArt & Connie BodnarKate & Doug BoschAngela BosworthKorki Bowen (‘89)Paul & Bobbi BradfordHeather BrayCarrie & Kenneth BrazellSecure Benefit Solutions, LLCDavid BrowningMr. & Mrs. Patrick A. BurnsTrish & John CadwalladerCameron Mitchell Catering

CompanyVince & Laura CampisePhil & Linda CanupJohn A. CaprioLa Senza Design GroupCharles F. & Alice G. Salt

Foundation of the Columbus Foundation

Suzie ChildsVeronica ChorocoAlison J. CircleBarbara & Steve CollinsColumbus Jewish FoundationDenise ConnellyRobert & Amy CoughlinJoseph CoulterMr. & Mrs. Orlan CowanJeffrey CoxJoshua CrossDana K. Bateman DentistryBetsy & Nick DeFuscoKathleen & Philippe Devillebichot

Kelly DeVoreTeresa DiazMary Kay & Bill DickinsonKiley R. DishonAmy DullPatrick G. Eastlake (‘76)Caroline C. Elbert (‘08)Beatrice Wolper &

J. Richard EmensLori FaistSarah FergusonSamantha R. FernedingJerrica A. FieldsShaunte FieldsCharlene FixRichard & Louesa FosterTimothy FultonAmy GallagherIsabella Hidalgo GasiaAdele GegenheimerAaron GeiserPaul & Mary GeorgeMolly GilbrideKanisha GoffVicki & Frank GoldenClyde GosnellJoe E. Grey II (‘50)Daniel N. GroseJoel GundlachGail B. HallJoshua HamrickHarmon Family

Philanthropic FundMickey HartNathan HaydenLaVetta HelserRobin HeplerChristopher HeronHelen HoffeltJennifer HolmesMarion A. HolmgrenEric HomanPatricia T. HowlandChad A. HughesElaine HulinDr. Beth Sterner Hunker &

Mr. Henry L. HunkerW. James HutchinsBillie Harris IngramPaula Jackson

Frank JamesJeffrey JohnsonKiehner JohnsonRosemary & John JoyceKojo KamauAnn KarpenSophia KartsonisAnne B. KauffmanRock KauserRuth KeckPaul KeeferDot KeilMargaret M. KelleyDawson KelloggMichele KiblerTamara & Walter KingKirsten Knodt & Mairead ReddyRobert M. KnottsJeannine KraftJane KrastelMr. & Mrs. Edmund K. KuehnWilliam LaneDianna Lathrop &

Robert MartinyR. Jane LauBeverly West Leach &

Edward LeachLyman L. LeathersGordon Lee

Susan M. Lehman (‘94)Susan & Lawrence LewandowskiTara V. LubonovichSheri LucasLacey LuceNancy M. Lucks (‘61)Cathy Haldeman & Bill LutzSusan & Peter MacGillJanet & Kenneth Maddox, Ph.D.Barb & Terry MartyKelly & Jerry MasleyRyunosuke MatsuiLisa McClanahanMr. & Mrs. Allan B. McFarlandKathy L. McGheeJennifer McHaleEvelyn & Jeff McKitrickSusan McLaneSara & Jeff McNealeyDavid E. Merz IIIMr. Richard L. MickelsonRobert MicklerPatricia & Robin MooreCarol Ellies MooreheadPaul & Marie MooreheadKymberly Moreland-GarnettAnn MorrowMichael B. MusserLaura Neff

“I ThINk IT IS IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS IN ThE ARTS TO gET ThE BACkgROUND AND TO hAVE ThE START ThAT IS NEEDED. CCAD IS A TERRIFIC SChOOl. DENNy gRIFFITh IS ThE BEST. IN ADDITION TO BEINg AN ADMINISTRATOR, hE IS AN ARTIST hIMSElF, SO hE hAS A TRUE UNDERSTANDINg OF WhAT ThE STUDENTS DO AND NEED.” — DEEDEE glIMChER

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Tim & Cindy NewcomeChar NormanDoug NormanBrian NoschangMs. Barbara OberlyBrad OstroffPaul J. PapiBetty ParksRoxanne Paugh-HolonitchMarilyn PaulsenJohn PearlRosanne PercivalleKrista L. PetersonTam Peterson & David

BartolomucciNancy & James PetroKonstantin PetrochukEvangelia PhilippidisJeffrey L. Phillips (‘82)Steven E. PhillipsCarolyn PikoulasBrenda K. Pinnell (‘82)Djahangir PirastehTerri PlanteJulie PoseyAnne Powell-RileyBarbara Powers & Tom WolfKevin W. Preston (‘73)Ramon QuinonesJosh & Sue RaglandRobert RamseySusan Reagan Scialabba &

Frank ScialabbaMichael D. ReuterRyan RichmondTamara & Tim RietenbachTabitha RoachMickie Roberts (‘07)Kent RobertsRobert H. RoseRosanne & Mark RosenLane & John RothschildAndrew G. RozyckiDeborah W. Rubenstein (‘95)Vicki RuppleRachel Ruth & Paul GorgenAmber & Adam ScottTaja SellersSandy & Bernie SenserPatricia & Walton Silver

Mr. Timothy J. SimmonsElizabeth J. SmithGary L. SmithDuncan J. SnyderPaul StankiewiczRupert “Twink” StarrRomaine M. StawowyLaurinda B. Stockwell (‘79)Virginia C. StoltzPaula StrangesMr. Joseph E. SuiterSandra SwansonAlissa SwayRebecca & Sheldon TaftWallace TanksleyMolly & David TannerLana & William TettelbachJim ThimmesCarol ThuneMarc TischbeinMarty Anderson & Warren TylerMelissa M. Vogley-WoodsPeter A. WachtelTeresa WalkerMichele C. WatsonPat & Randy WaxSarah WeinstockMark WemerMr. Brian V. WestVanessa K. WhitemanRobin WhittingtonJulie WiegandSara & Randy WilcoxSara Jean WilhelmCeleste & Bill WilliamsMarti WilsonJanice & Herbert WolmanChristopher WootenPeter WrayPatricia & Bruce WrightPamela YostWeihua Zhang

IN kINDCCAD accepts in-kind donations that assist in meeting its mission.Anonymous (2)Joan & Richard AschenbrandBaesman

Cameron Mitchell Catering Company

Capital StyleCarlile Patchen & MurphyCD102.9Christine Cooper Hill &

Nicholas HillLoann W. CraneDiamond CellarDonatos PizzaFoot PetalsFOURISH bespoke floral &

event stylingNancy & David GillSylvia & Robert GoldbergHeidelberg Distributing

CompanyJohn S. & Catherine

Chapin KobackerMonica & Douglas KridlerLasting Impressions

Event RentalsSusan S. LevinLimited BrandsLive! Technologies LLCMiddle West SpiritsMukha Custom CosmeticsMumm NapaOlogiePepsi-Cola Bottling Co.

of ColumbusS77

Speer MechanicalStudio FoveroStudio TUnion CafeWCBE 90.5 FMRainer Ziehm

MATChINgMatching gifts enhance the generosity and thoughtfulness of donors. CCAD is indebted to generous companies that offer this benefit.Nationwide FoundationNuclear Electric

Insurance Limited

IN hONOR OFlOANN CRANE’S BIRThDAySharon and Carlo Battaglini

PAT hATlERNationwide Foundation

ED lAThyKim & David Landsbergen

ABISh PIRASTEhDjahangi Pirasteh

MIChAEl RAyDENThe Jaffe Family Foundation

“ThE AllEVIATION OF AN OPPRESSIVE FINANCIAl BURDEN gAVE ME FREEDOM TO FUlly ExPERIENCE PERSONAl, CREATIVE, AND EMOTIONAl gROWTh DURINg My yEARS AT CCAD. AND ThAT gIFT OF SUCCESS WAS gIVEN TO ME By SOMEONE WhO DIDN’T kNOW IF I WOUlD EVEN BE SUCCESSFUl.” — MIChEllE ROSS (CCAD 2001)

30 SPRINg 2013

WIllIAM & ChRISTINE BElhORNBarb & Donald DavisRoger & Julie EscolasTabitha Roach

ChUCk hERNDONMatthew FlegleDawson R. KelloggTeresa Walker

BERNARD R. STOCkWEllTom GattisJoel GundlachDavid Stockwell

lOWEll TOlSTEDTAnonymous

IN MEMORy OFANN hUghES AllENPaul D. AllenTamara & Walter King

jOhN BEllANDCharlotte Belland

DANIEl E. BRICkERCheryl Bricker Ciampa & Keith

Ciampa

ROBERT BRUCkENJoan & Richard Aschenbrand

jOSEPh CANzANIDavid BrowningThom Glick

DEBRA lOUISE glANNMs. Julie M. Abijanac & Mr.

Travis S. MoyerMickey HartTamara & Walter King

ChARlES hAllCharlene FixGordon Lee

MARy & FRANk hOFFElTHelen Hoffelt

ROBERTA kUhNMarti Wilson

E. gENE lAThROPDianna Lathrop & Robert

Martiny

jEFF lINkJeannine KraftSandra & Stewart McKissick

ABISh PIRASTEhDjahangir Pirasteh

jOSEPh SIEgRISTAmber & Adam Scott

jEAN STEARNSHarriett Stearns

MAUDIE WOODSMelissa M. Vogley-Woods

President’s Circle:

ThE kICk-OFF yEAR2012 was a great year for the CCAD President’s Circle. Founding co-chairs Bill and Sandy Heifner and John and Cathe Kobacker presented longstanding CCAD supporters with the opportunity to join the unique group—and 17 households joined.

ThE CIRClE’S WORk hAS ThREE IMPACT AREAS:• embedding the art and practice of

business into CCAD’s curriculum

• marrying art and design with technology

• increasing student retention through need-based fi nancial aid for high-performing students

The group continues to recruit new members. Next up, it plans to hold a private event where supporters will meet a national art scene VIP and receive a sneak peek into new and exciting things happening on campus.

Interested in becoming a member? Please contact Laurie Beth Sweeney, vice president for advancement, at lsweeney@ccad.edu or 614.222.3268.

PRESIDENT’S CIRClE MEMBERS:Pamela & Jack BeelerBeverly BethgeLoann W. CraneMichael J. & Karen G. FiorileBeth Fisher & Denny Griffi thPatricia Hatler, Esq. & Howard Coffi nSandy & Bill Heifner

John S. & Catherine Chapin KobackerKelly Mooney & Scott HenningsenJane & Rich RamseyDiane Nye & Michael RaydenBob & Mary Frances RestrepoSusan SchererDanielle & George SkestosDr. Lee S. Szykowny & Thomas E.

SzykownyEllen & Ed Yen

The President’s Circle is a select group of CCAD friends who share their passion for advancing CCAD by making an annual investment of $10,000 for the college’s president to use for innovation opportunities tied to our mission and vision. Members of the President’s Circle receive regular communication from President Griffi th and participate in special events with him—in short, acting as true partners.

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CCAD Now. Lee Stoetzel’s VW Bus in the Canzani Gallery. Photo: Luke Kramer (CCAD 2014)

Office of Advancement60 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215www.ccad.edu