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Liz Geller, Art & Technology Major, Class of 2005, has pursued a career in the gallery and museum worlds. She worked with Boston contemporary fine arts as Gallery Manager of Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA for a year and is presently Exhibitions Manager of the Corporate Program at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.

She writes, "As Exhibitions Manager, I put together an exhibition to be installed at the offices of each Corporate Member. We highlight the public spaces of each office by hanging paintings in reception areas, conference rooms, boardrooms and lobbies. The paintings I choose from are on loan to the Corporate Program by Boston area artists. Examples of Corporate Members include CB Richard Ellis, Bright Horizons, Eisai Research Institute and Cornerstone Research, a company founded in Boston by Allegheny College Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ms. Christine Nelson.

As an Art and Technology major, I was enrolled in several Seminar courses that focused hours of class time to in-progress critiques. I enjoyed learning how to talk about what I was seeing and feeling in the work of other artists. The dialogue that was encouraged during these studio courses has become an asset for me when presenting artwork to Corporate Members."
On April 11, 2008, Joey Groves, Art & Technology Major, Class of 2004, visited the Allegheny College Art Department to speak on his highly successful career since leaving Allegheny.

Groves was promoted in June, 2008 to Manager, HSC Web Services for West Virginia University School of Medicine. In this capacity, he is responsible for all Health Science Center Web sites and a team of six Web developers.

 
After completing her BA at Allegheny in Art & Technology, Katie Lauffenberger, Class of 2005, was accepted into the prestigious graduate program in digital arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she completed her MFA in 2007.

Katie, shown here with her co-workers and actor Patrick Swayze who was visiting her firm, is a digital artist and graphic designer at Resolution Digital Studios in Chicago. She writes, "my boss is a really cool guy. I've been encouraged to work on my own projects. I can use the equipment and the professional editors and audio guys to complete a full-blown professional-level stop-motion animation, which I also studied at SAIC. He also wants me to use my stop-motion skills to do some animated countdowns and internal marketing for the company. So overall, I think I am in a good place right now, and exactly where I need to be.
 
Left to right are Professor Amelia Carr, J. Arvid Klein, Class of 1954, and his wife Cynthia Crimmins. Klein was the alumnus featured in the 2006 faculty and alumni exhibition.

The building in the photo mural behind them is the Williamsburg Community Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of the projects designed by J. Arvid Klein's New York City-based architectural firm Pasanella + Klein Stolzman + Berg of which Klein is a founding Principal. The building received the "Best Public Building in New York City" 2005 award from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

During Klein's visit to campus, he met informally with Allegheny students and faculty to discuss his distinguished career in architecture.


Updated July 16, 2008