ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Margaret Adachi, M.F.A, 1991, had
artworks on display in “double take”
at The Brewery in Los Angeles from
September 11 through October 8.
Nena Amsler, M.F.A., 1994, and Bill
Rabe, M.F.A., 1993, have created
Haus, an alternative exhibition space
in Pasadena, California, offering solo
exhibition opportunities for emerging
and underexposed artists. Additional
information is available at
www.hausgallery.com.
Ted Baker, M.F.A., 1967, had work
featured in an exhibition at Gallery
415 in Chicago from September 10
through December 3.
Lance Marshall
Boen, M.F.A., 1997,
displayed his work
at the Wildlife Art
Show held at the
Grants Pass Museum of Art in Grants
Pass, Oregon. Boen and his wife,
Jennifer Boen, Elementary Credential,
1997; M.A., Teacher Education, 1997, son
Marshall Psalms, who is two and a half,
and new daughter, Nekoda River, live
in Carmel Valley, California, where he
runs a studio gallery. Boen is known
for his fine leather fish sculptures. His
sculptures and paintings are on display
in galleries throughout the United
States.
Kris Carlisle, D.M.A., 1996, has
released a new CD. Carlisle has won
many awards, including the Los
Angeles Liszt competition, the Rome
Festival competition, and a Martha
Fischer-Tye Foundation Award. He
has performed as a soloist and collabo-
rator all over the world and has held
residencies at the Banff Centre for the
Arts and with the Rome Festival
Orchestra.
Gary Cassidy, M.F.A.,
1984, was appointed
museum director of
the Phippen Museum
in Prescott, Arizona.
Cassidy is a retired colonel whose total
Army service exceeds 31 years. Cassidy
was appointed to the Infantry Officers
Candidate School Hall of Fame and
served as the Army’s Artist in Bosnia in
1998 and 1999. His military artworks
have been displayed at the U.S.
Capitol, the Pentagon, Mac Dill Air
Force Base in Florida, and the U.S.
Army War College in Washington, D.C.
Charles Robert Cole, Ph.D., History,
1971, has written A Traveller’s History of
Germany (Interlink Books, 2004). He is
completing a study of American and
British propaganda aimed at Ireland’s
neutrality during World War II. He
has written seven books, including
traveller’s histories of France and Paris,
an intellectual biography of British
historian A.J.P. Taylor, and a study of
war propaganda, Britain and the War of
Words in Neutral Europe, 1939-45: The Art
of the Possible. Cole has published more
than a dozen journal articles, present-
ed papers at academic conferences,
and reviewed books for major histori-
cal journals. He created and directed
the British and Commonwealth studies
program at Utah State University and
was invited to present two lectures on
French history in Paris in 2002.
Lewis deSoto, M.F.A., 1982, was one of
10 recipients of the 2003-04 Flintridge
Foundation Awards for Visual Artists
and will receive a $25,000 grant. The
awards honor California, Oregon, and
Washington artists working in fine arts
and crafts media for 20 or more years.
deSoto has created numerous public
art projects, including the floor design
for the international terminal at San
Francisco International Airport and a
suspended aluminum labyrinth for the
entrance to the University of Texas at
San Antonio. He teaches art at San
Francisco State University.
Barbara
Edelstein, M.F.A.,
1984, recently
participated
in “Urban
Sculptures for
Shanghai
Pudong,” an
exhibition in
Shanghai, China.
Her project, an urban sculpture for the
city of Shanghai, was featured in arti-
cles in the Shanghai Morning Post and
the Oriental Morning Post. Edelstein’s
installation, “Garden of Wishing
Trees,” opened in Gwangju, Korea on
September 10. Her “Leaf Book” was
shown at Plum Blossoms Gallery’s
“Artists Do a Book” exhibit in New
York on September 14. The article
“Eternal Harmony: Sculptures by
Barbara Edelstein” appeared in the
March 2004 issue of Quality magazine.
Ann Fisher-Wirth, M.A., English, 1972;
Ph.D., English, 1981, won the 2004
Rita Dove Poetry Award for her poem
“Rain.” She has written more than
70 poems for online and literary
journals. Fisher-Wirth was chosen for
the Fulbright Distinguished Chair
of American Studies at Uppsala
University in Sweden in 2002-03. For
the past 16 years she has taught
creative writing at the University of
Mississippi.
Mike Forbes, M.A., English, 1985, is
working on a series of books titled
Blue Genes, the first of which is
Surviving the American Medical System in
the 21
st
Century. This series is a study
on American citizens living with
expensive chronic disorders. The book
was inspired by his own family. Five
of Forbes’ six children have severe
hemophilia. Forbes has started a
nonprofit organization called Forbes
Research International.
Morgan S. Grether,
Ph.D., English, 1999, has
a new baby, Olivia Jane
Grether, born May 21.
Barbara Kaleta, M.F.A., 1998,
participated in an exhibition at
the Metro Gallery in Pasadena,
California, from October 9 through
November 5.
Neil Kramer, M.A., History, 1974; Ph.D.,
History, 1978, is in his third year as
founding dean of faculty at New
Community Jewish High School in
West Hills, California. Kramer is also
chair of the history department and
lacrosse coach at the school.
Marcel Raymond L’Esperance
, M.A.,
Music, 1966, recently conducted the
Tokyo International Singers and Tokyo
New City Orchestra. L’Esperance also
conducted a Russian music concert
with Tokya Balalaika Ensemble.
L’Esperance is the founder of Tokyo
International Singers, Tokyo Inter-
national Women’s Chorus, Chiba,
Japan International Singers, and
L’Esperance Singers, a professional
ensemble.
Terry Mathis, M.A., Philosophy, 1980;
Ph.D., Philosophy, 1984, is beginning his
sixth year as campus minister at the
University of California, Riverside.
While in the Army during the Vietnam
War, he served as a chaplain’s assistant
at the Presidio of San Francisco
and led activities at the Religious
Education Center on post. He has
been to Antarctica three times with
the United States Antarctic Research
Program. His pastoral experience
includes counseling and university
outreach and focuses on interfaith
dialogue and promotion of inclusivity
between major religions. In addition to
his M.A. and Ph.D. from CGU, he
earned the Master of Divinity degree
from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Douglas McCulloh, M.F.A., 2003,
recently participated in five photo-
graphy exhibitions throughout
Southern California: “Direct Exposure:
Perspectives on the Southern
California Landscape,” an exhibition
at Ontario International Airport; “Dog
Days of Summer” at the California
Museum of Photography; “Glass Sky,
Celluloid Moon” at CGU’s East Gallery
and Peggy Phelps Gallery; “Speculative
Terrain: Recent Views of the California
Landscape from San Diego to Santa
Barbara” at the Laband Art Gallery at
Loyola Marymount University; and
“Mean Times Back at Home” at BC
Space Gallery in Laguna Beach. He
has also curated exhibitions of student
art for the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art.
Edith Pattou, M.A.,
English, 1979, is one of
this year’s Ohioana
Library Association
Award recipients,
bestowed upon Ohio residents for
outstanding contributions to literature,
the arts, and the humanities. Pattou
was honored for her book East. Nobel
Prize winner Toni Morrison was
among the other winners of this year’s
awards.
Matt Reed, M.A., History, 1997; Ph.D.,
History, 2002, is the assistant to the
president at The John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in
Chicago. He recently wed Maryse
Renier at Schloss Leopoldskron in
Salzburg, Austria.
Greg Rose, M.F.A., 1997, recently
exhibited his work in a show titled
“Swimming Holes” at the Carl Berg
Gallery in Los Angeles. He had his
first museum solo exhibition at the
Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art in Kansas City in 2003. This show
was reviewed in ARTnews in October
2003. Over the past four years, Rose
has had solo art exhibitions in Santa
Monica and San Francisco and has
been included in various group shows,
including “New Economy Painting”
at ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, and
“L.A. Scene” at Numark Gallery,
Washington, D.C. Rose had another
solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery in
San Francisco. In addition to ARTnews,
Rose’s work has been reviewed in the
Los Angeles Times, Art Issues, LA Weekly,
Artweek, the San Francisco Chronicle,
ArtNet, and the Kansas City Star.
Jen Schneider, M.A.,
Cultural Studies, 1999;
Ph.D., Cultural Studies,
2004, was recently
hired as lecturer in
the Division of Liberal Arts and
International Studies (LAIS) at the
Colorado School of Mines and as
coordinator of first year writing
and the LAIS writing center. She is
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