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Barbara Anderman spent the 2007-08 year on sabbatical, researching the interaction of art, critical commentary, and politics in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century France. She gave a paper at the annual College Art Association conference in Dallas and submitted a journal article for publication. She also wrote a novel set in England after the Hungarian uprising, and traveled in Europe and northern India.

Karen Beall exhibited five new ceramic and felted sculptures at the Philadelphia International Airport in the fall of 2007. In early 2008 her work was included in an exhibition, "From the Ground Up," at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, in conjunction with the annual NCECA Conference (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), which she attended with Art Education major Angela Sollenberger. In September 2008 her work was on exhibit in Peekskill, NY, as part of a city-wide public art display sponsored by the Hudson Valley Contemporary Art Center.

Dan Massad exhibited recent work in a solo show, "Loading the Work," at the Palmer Museum of Art at the Pennsylania State University. The show, all pastel on paper, included Six Wooden Blocks, an image inspired by a poem by Sally McNall. An earlier work by Massad, From Toshiko's Garden, was acquired as a part of the permanent collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Michael Pittari exhibited sixteen new paintings in a solo show, "Chromatology," at the DOSHI Gallery of the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg during May and June 2008. The abstract paintings, all from 2007-08, contained thick encrustations of color as an exploration of personal and cultural meanings. In February 2008, Pittari traveled to Dallas to attend the College Art Association Conference.

Scott Schweigert is currently conducting research for two upcoming exhibitions at the Arnold Art Gallery on two American artists: William Trost Richards and N. C. Wyeth. In October 2007 he served as juror for the Adams County Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition. In April 2008 he presented a lecture series on aspects of the art world, including fakes and forgeries; art as loot; and museums, auction houses and collecting, for the Vistas group in Lebanon. He also served as a panelist on two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts review boards in Harrisburg and Reading.

Marie Riegle participated in Gettysburg College's Alumni art exhibition and artists' roundtable discussion in February 2007. Soon afterward she gave a guest lecture titled "'Reading' Non-Narrative Religious Art" in two of Dr. Louis Hammann's religion courses at Gettysburg College. In April 2007 she exhibited in the Annual Juried Exhibition at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery on the LVC campus, and in summer 2007 she had a work accepted into the Berks Art Alliance juried art exhibit at the Reading Public Museum. A new mixed-media piece, Cleft, was on display at the Lancaster Museum of Art in its annual Open Art Award Exhibit during the summer 2008. Riegle was featured in the 2007 edition of Who's Who in American Education.

Grant Taylor has been working on an art history essay titled "The Soulless Usurper: Reception and Criticism of Early Computer Art," which is to appear in Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Digital Computing in the Experimental Arts, edited by Hannah Higgins and Douglas Kahn (University of California Press). Taylor also completed an installation art project, "The Maze," which opened in September at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery on the LVC campus. Exploring seasonal phenomena, the installation examines church architectural structures, particularly the towering white steeples visible throughout the south-central Pennsylvania landscape. The "maze" consists of 65 clean, white steeples, each more than seven feet high. A variety of special lighting and audio effects envelop the viewer in a multi-sensory experience. More information...

Barbara McNulty joined the department for the Spring 2008 semester to teach a special topics art history course titled Portraiture: Constructing Identity, which was offered in conjunction with a studio portrait course taught by Michael Pittari. As part of the course McNulty and Pittari took students to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. McNulty is a doctoral candidate at Temple University, where she is researching portraiture in churches from the Middle Ages on the island of Cyprus.

Heather Shelley, a professional photographer specializing in portraits, taught photography in the Spring 2008 semester.

Nancy Williams joined the department after more than 17 years teaching 11th and 12th grade Advanced Placement Studio Art and Fine Arts Metals at Warwick High School in Lititz, PA.  She currently teaches drawing and art education.

Holly Trostle Brigham (Allentown, PA), a painter who incorporates art historical imagery into her contemporary self-portraits, lectured on her work to students in Barbara McNulty's course, Portraiture: Constructing Identity, during the spring 2008 semester.

Emily Brown (Philadelphia, PA) presented this year's Women Artist Lecture at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery in April 2008. Known for her large scale ink-brush drawings of subtle water surfaces, coastal landscapes, and the wintry woods of Maine, Brown has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, Portland (Maine), and Wilmington (Delaware). Brown received prestigious Pew Fellowships in 2000 and 2005, and the Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.

Susan Hauptman (New York, NY), a major U.S. artist specializing in drawn self-portraits, visited classes and lectured on her work in conjunction with the exhibition, "Scrutiny: Artist's Self-Portraits," at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at LVC.

Nate Nixdorf (Lebanon, PA), a ceramic artist and teacher at Warwick High School in Lititz, PA, conducted a raku workshop for students in ceramics.

Shandra Dohoney ('09) and Andrea Pitt ('09) undertook a large mural project for the Lebanon VA Hospital (Lebanon, PA). The three-part mural is on the theme of "wellness" and includes landscape images of the surrounding region.

Shandra Dohoney ('09) spent the Fall 2007 semester studying at the Umbria Institute in Perugia, Italy. While there she traveled to the neighboring cities of Florence, Rome, Sienna, and Venice, and enjoyed living among Italian neighbors and learning to speak Italian.

Becka Ache ('09) spent the Spring 2009 semester as a student at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. Her experience included plenty of hiking and trekking through the mountains.

During the Fall 2008 semester Erica Trapasso ('10) is studying archaeology in Italy, and Lisa Peifer ('11) is taking art and design courses in London. Alaina Smith ('10) is spending the semester at the Philadelphia Center, where she is interning with a graphic design firm while taking several courses.

Mallory Hane ('08) completed an internship in Lancaster, PA, at the Demuth Museum, which is devoted to the work of twentieth-century American artist Charles Demuth and his contemporaries. At the museum she conducted research for a 2009 exhibition and learned various aspects of operations at the Museum.

Four 2008 graduates - Monica Baebler, Mallory Hane, Rachael Plourde, and Lois Shupp - exhibited their senior work at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery in mid-May. The exhibition, "Commentaries and Visions," included paintings by Baebler and Plourde, photographs by Hane, and drawings and sculpture by Shupp.

Monica Baebler ('08) was nominated and chosen to show her work in the annual Women Create! exhibition in Harrisburg, September 2008.

Megan Kilcoyne ('07) has entered the graduate program in Art History at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Michael Layser ('07) has set up a ceramics studio in Carlisle, PA.

Michael Mikailek ('07) is taking ancient-language courses at the University of Delaware, with a view to applying to a graduate program in archaeology.

Laura Roberts ('07) is a costume designer for the American Music Theatre in Lancaster, PA.