News & Events

Alumni Successes

Spring 2008

Gwen Gutwein’s (’82) “Barns of Indiana” 2008 calendar is now available. The calendar contains 13 barn paintings and their histories from 13 different counties throughout Indiana. Barn paintings and
information on ordering a calendar can be found on her Web site at www.ipfw.gwengutwein.com.

Elizabeth Bradford (’06) is teaching art to 5–12 grade students with Argos Community Schools in Argos, Ind.

Jenifer Brown (’06) was accepted into the Ph.D. program in art history at the University of Iowa.

Jonathon Burns (’07), who now lives and works in Bend, Ore., took Best of Show at the Wildfire Pottery Showcase.

Derek Decker (’06) was accepted into the 2007 summer residency of the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.

Leah Fleetwood (’07) is an art teacher at Heritage Junior/Senior High School in Monroeville, Ind.

Brandon Furniss (’06) was accepted into the M.F.A. ceramics program at Kent State University.

Andrew Lemmon (’07) was accepted into six M.F.A sculpture programs including Pratt Institute, Montana State University, New Mexico State University, University of Notre Dame, Bowling Green State University, and Kent State University. He is currently attending Kent State University.

Deborah Robinson Miller (’06) was the featured artist this fall at La Salle Gallery in Fort Wayne.

Kim Rorick (’02) has her work featured in the 2007 book 500 Cups published by Lark Books.

Matt Shaffer (’03) exhibited his ceramic work in September in a show titled Muse of Fire in Fort Wayne; in October 2007 at the Thornbrook Art Festival in Gainesville, Fla.; and in November at the exhibition Tell
Me a Story in Santa Fe, N.M. Shaffer also taught a hand-building workshop in October in Gatlinburg, Texas. A ceramics and sculpture professor at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Fla., Shaffer received an M.F.A. from the University of Florida in 2005.

Jason Stopa (’07) has been hired as education coordinator by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.