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1995 - 1996
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| Bill Adams '95 is the production manager at Fairfield County Weekly and Westchester County Weekly magazines. He can be reached at spaceghost@fairfieldweekly.com |
| Wendy Cahill '95 owns and operates a coffee house in Bethel, Molten Java and would love to see her friends come by. She displays the art work of local talent on the walls and is looking for her fellow artists to show their work for a month at a time. She can be reached at microgroov@aol.com. |
| Janet DeCarlo
'95 runs her own artist
representation agency called StoryBook Arts, Inc. tel: (845) 877-3305; fax: (845) 877-3307; e-mail: storybookarts@msn.com She has recently added 5 new artists and will begin adding their work to her "under construction" website at: www.storybookartsinc.com She is accepting submissions from artists interested in working in the children's illustration field and asks that they have a fairly consistent portfolio in place that applies to the children's illustration markets, have some experience working to deadlines and have some proficiency on the computer. They can send queries or samples to the info listed above. She works with all major publishers throughout the United States creating works in the text and trade book markets. |
| Heather Derocher '95 is
living near Boston and working at Harvard Medical School. She puts out 5
newsletters a month for Harvard Health Publications: Harvard Mental Health
Letter, Harvard Heart Letter, Harvard Health Letter, Harvard Women's Health
Watch, and Harvard Men's Health Watch.
She is Production and Design Editor and was hired to help with redesigning the newsletters, and to bring them to a higher level graphically. Heather can be reached at heather_foley@hms.harvard.edu |
Jolie (Konopaske)
Fabrizio '95 is putting her career as a Program Director for
Creative Services,
PSG on hold to raise her son. She continues to attend school in the
evening at University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Masters program
for a degree in Education. Jolie can be reached at
joliekonofab@go.com |
Vincent
Giannotti '95
completed his Masters of Fine Arts at Texas Tech University in
printmaking with a minor in sculpture and drawing. Texas Tech has a
web site to view his
portfolio.
Vincent is in Stillwater, Oklahoma and working at OSU as a staff TV producer/director on a daily show aired on the public TV station. He also spends time on interactive multimedia authoring and some digital asset management. He has a workspace half set up to do some prints, drawing, video. He can be reached at vnii@hotmail.com. |
| Yvonne Grabowski '95 is an art director at Clarion Marketing and Communications in Greenwich, CT. She works on promotions for the bottled water industry and various marketing sponsorships, many in-house print promotions. Yvonne can be reached at ygrabows@clari.com. |
| Claire Jennings '95 is doing credit collection and customer service for a firm that provides safety testing and ISO licensing. |
| Kevin Lane '95 is a graphic designer at Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), (www.jupitermedia.com) headquartered in Darien, CT and can be reached at klane@jupitermedia.com |
Nicole (Smith)
London '95 is the Manager of
Creative Services at The News Times
in Danbury, CT.  Nicole
can be reached at nsmith@newstimes.com |
| Juan
Moreno '95, MFA '02 is a self
contracted textbook salesman while he freelances at his art. He continues to
paint, draw and work in stone and is currently in the Western MFA program.
Juan studied at The Art Students League of New York from 1987 through 1996, receiving various awards and scholarships and is now a life member of the League. He also studied at Taller De David Manzur in Bogota, Columbia from 1985 through 1986. Juan can be reached at juan@moreno.net. |
| Mike Moskal '95
is working at The Graphics Foundry, a
company he helped establish doing various jobs including project management,
customer service and technical troubleshooting. The Graphics Foundry
specializes in short runs of 4-color printing, delivery of finished jobs on
very tight deadlines and one of a kind projects.
Mike can be reached at moskal12@allvantage.com. |
| David Pineault, '95 is the art director at Grolier, Inc in the interactive department. He can be reached at DPineault |
| Jennifer Robertson '95 is living in Stamford, CT and is a seventh grade art teacher with the Stamford Public School System at Scofield Magnet Middle School. She received her masters in art education at the University of New Mexico. Jennifer can be reached at jenniferrobertson@yahoo.com. |
| Sebastian Smith
'95 and his wife Kerin are working in collaboration at their
business Em Space Studios in
Skokan, NY. Their services include music, technology, design and
letterpress printing.
Sebastian can be reached at seb@emspacestudios.com |
| Kurt Snyder '95 is substitute teaching in the greater Danbury area. He continues to produce art work and can be reached at ksnyder7@comcast.net. |
| Marnie (Uliasz)
Lyons '95 is the Visual Merchandising Manager of Restoration
Hardware in Peabody, Massachusetts.
Marnie can be reached at marnienatasha@hotmail.com |
| Tony Vas '95 is a network support specialist. He installs and maintains networks for people and provides graphic design and internet services. Tony can be reached at ctvas@yahoo.com |
| Sandra Violette '95 has her own photography studio "Positive Images" specializing in youth sports and school photographs. To contact Sandra in her studio, call 860-355-8459 or by email at : posimage@rcn.com. |
| Stephen Bean '96
is a freelance graphic designer. He creates moods with color and
design. His work can be seen at
www.taomonkey.com He can be reached at bean@taomonkey.com |
| Kristin (Eddy) Beylouni '96 has her own advertising agency, K B Advertising. She can be reached at kristinb@webquill.com |
| Daniel Bishop
'96 works on character development projects for
Walt Disney and operates his own freelance studio. He is the founder
of the Gasball Arts and Music Festival in Danbury as well as Gallery
Thirteen on Library Place in Danbury. Dan can be reached at drbishop@snet.net. |
Nancy White Cassidy '96
is a children’s book illustrator,
fine artist and fine arts instructor. Nancy is a faculty member of the Washington Art Association as well as the Brookfield Craft Center and Fletcher Farm School for the Arts & Crafts in Ludlow, VT, where she is conducting workshops in Perspective and Drawing this summer. She designed, and is webmaster for, the Washington Art Association and the Brookfield Craft Center. She is also teaching at Naugatuck Community College. Her work has been published by Barbour Publishing, Harcourt Brace, Scott-Foresman, among others. She has advertised in the Directory of Illustration, volumes 15 through 17 and will appear in Picturebook in the fall of 2001. She operates and teaches at her studio, House on the Hill Studio, in New Milford, CT. To view Ms. Cassidy’s site or to contact her, click here at Nancy White Cassidy. |
| Nicole Cossitt-Levy, '96 owns her own business and provides a unique a line of wedding invitations. Each invitation is custom designed to fit the personalities of the bride and groom. Nicole's designs can be viewed at You're Invited and she can be contacted at nicole@youreinvited.net |
| Elisa DeLand
'96 continues to paint and has received her
masters in education.
Elisa was born in Peru. Her interest in art was developed because she decided to take classes upon her arrival to the United States. She won an award during her first exhibition and loves to look at the world through the eyes of an artist. Her work can be viewed on line at http://www.geocities.com/deland_ct/ She is now working as a health aide for the elderly, ensuring that they are cared for and taking the proper medications. Elisa has exhibited her work in the Newtown Library, Pin Gallery in Shelton, CT and The Art Center in Milford, CT. She can be at Elisa.Deland@netzero.net. |
Marsha Doran
'96 was accepted into
Vermont Studio Center for their residency program while
 at
Western. During the program she studied with Neil Welliver and Susanna
Coffey. She then went on to study one year in the Masters program at
SUNY Purchase and continued her studies to get her Masters in painting at
Boston University. She studied with John Moore, John Walker, Alfred
Leslie and Hugh O'Donnell. While in grad school she began teaching at
Belvoir Terrace, a visual and performing arts camp for girls in Lenox, MA.
After graduating Marsha began teaching at different schools and centers in
CT and NY. She has taught at Naugatuck Community College, Teikyo Post
University, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, and with Danbury Adult
Education.
As well as running an open life drawing session at Washington Art Association, she is currently teaching at Tunxis Community College in Farmington and at Maimonides Academy in Danbury (in affiliation with WCAC). Marsha continues working on her artwork in her studio located in Danbury, CT. Her work is in numerous private collections and is shown locally. She can be reached by email at Createmd13@yahoo.com . |
| Leigh Haeger
'96 is the senior illustrator and
designer at Weekly Reader in
Stamford, CT. He provides in-house illustrations for the many issues of
Weekly Readers that range in availability from Pre-K through High School. To
contact Leigh by email, click
lhaeger@weeklyreader.com .
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| Michelle Hall '96 is an art director at Alliance Marketing Group in Fairfield, CT. Some of her duties include magazine ads, mobil marketing, graphic vehicles and web banners for clients, as well as direct mail when necessary, She can be reached at mhall@amgmarketing.com . |
Dino
Ianniello '96 has
his own design and interactive firm, ThincFactory (www.thincfactory.com)
in Atlanta, Georgia. He
serves a client list of regional and national mid-size to Fortune 500
companies including ChoicePoint, Georgia-Pacific, Intercontinental Hotels,
and CheckFree. His company specializes in brand/identity development, print,
interactive, multimedia, and video. Dino also serves on the board of the
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Atlanta Chapter and is a member of
the American Marketing Association (AMA), as well as the International
Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
 Dino
has received many awards for his work in print and interactive design, most
recently taking merit in the First Annual AIGA SEED Awards. His website is
www.thincfactory.com or he can be contacted by email at dino@thincfactory.com. |
| Patricia Kakos '96 is a graphic designer in the advertising/direct mail department at Cendant Mobility in Stamford, CT. She can be reached at pkakos@cms.cendant.com |
Judy Kaplin '96
is taking art courses and actively painting. She is hoping to do some
freelance
graphic design work and can be reached at
jskaplin@cox.net
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| Kevin Kelly '96 is a correction officer for the State of Connecticut and is based in a facility in Hartford, CT. |
| Alyson Knecht '96 is a graphic designer at the New Haven Register. She designs feature pages, does layout on the front page, logos and maps, as well as designing that is needed to complete a paper. She can be reached at alysonknecht@yahoo.com. |
| Nicole (DellaRatta) Kulis '96 is a second grade teacher in Southbury, Connecticut. She can be reached at pnkulis@bestweb.net |
 ShawnaLee
(Waterbury) Kwashnak '96 has merged her love of horses and her
love of art to provide portraitures of horses, people, pets and places. She
accepts commissions in a variety of media including, but not limited to:
fine oil paintings, graphite drawings, acrylics, watercolors or pen & ink.
To view ShawnaLee's work, click on
Equestrian Portraits. To contact
ShawnaLee by email:shawnalee@teacher.com.ShawnaLee is working on hand-painted platters as gifts for housewarming parties or special occasions. Other ceramics are also available. ALL Fired Up! |
| Sam Maladouangdork '96 works as a Youth Service Officer for the State of Connecticut and is living in New Britain. |
| Franco Malagisi 96 is a graphic designer at LaBatt USA, a beer importing company. He has his own web site to showcase his portfolio at Fortune City/Dali . Franco can be reached at malagisi@netscape.net |
| Keith Martin '96 works at O'Halloran Advertising in Westport. He designs the yellow pages ads and determines placement for national circulation. Keith can be reached by email at : keith@ohalloranagency.com |
| Andrea Moyher '96 is working as a graphic designer at PPINetwork.com . She designs in-house advertising and brochures for PPINetwork.com, a business-to-business portal for the promotional products industry designed to help suppliers and distributors work more efficiently, increase profits and deliver enhanced value for their customers. Andrea also does freelance work when asked. Andrea can be reached at amoyher@ppinetwork.com. |
| Donald Peronace '96 is the art director at O'Halloran Advertising Agency in Westport, CT. He can be reached at don@ohalloranagency.com. |
Chris Rigdon '96
is working at Boehringer Ingelheim in
Ridgefield, CT in the INet Development center
designing and developing various web apps and websites. He can
be reached at
rigo56@yahoo.com
has a website
www.studio50six.com. |
| Suzanne Sturla '96 is working as a graphic designer for an archaeological consulting firm, Margaret Gowan and Company, Ltd. in Dublin Ireland after designing CD-ROM ads for Thomas Regional Directories in Manhattan. She can be reached at Suzanne_Sturla@hotmail.com. |
Ian Williams
'96 is a graphic designer at The Media Group. He works on
packaging, advertising,
business to business and maintains their web site. Ian also has
his own site and can be reached
at iwilli1025@aol.com |
