Where Are They Now?

SCAD: Savannah, Atlanta and eLearning - 2011

 

Ruben Acosta (M.F.A., architectural history, 2011) is a history instructor at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. (updated 05/15/11)

Justin Adu (M.A., advertising design, 2011) has accepted a full-time art director position with TracyLocke Advertising Agency in Dallas, Texas. (updated 03/30/11)

Bradley Allen (B.F.A., architectural history, 2011) completed an internship with the Historic American Building Survey in Washington, D.C., where he documented the history of WPA-era projects. Allen is seeking a Master's of Architectural History degree at the University of Virginia. (updated 10/31/11)

Adrienne Birge-Wilson (M.F.A., historic preservation, 2011) accepted a position as marketing project manager with Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, a non-profit, four-state partnership dedicated to raising awareness of the unparalleled American heritage in the region running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, through Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. (updated 10/04/11)

Kaitlyn Brouwer (B.F.A., historic preservation, 2007; M.A., historic preservation, 2011) wrote, "After working in the cultural resource management field in Gainesville, Florida, for over three years I decided to shift my career focus to an area where I could 'make more of a difference.' I now work in development and fundraising as the research and proposals manager at Armstrong Atlantic State University, conducting research on individuals and foundations. I write grants and proposals in an effort to secure funding for various programs as well as student scholarships. I never thought that my degree in historic preservation would enable me to work in my current position, but the skills that I learned in school have proved to very much align with the skills needed for this position. I am very happy with my career change, and happy to be back in beautiful Savannah, Georgia." (updated 10/14/11)

Caila Brown (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as online communications manager at Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia. (updated 06/06/11)

Jake Burk (M.A., advertising, 2011) has accepted as position as art director with Sagepath in Atlanta, Georgia. (updated 05/23/11)

Kimberly Caltagirone (B.F.A., accessory design, 2011) accepted a position as handbag and SLG assistant technical designer at Kate Spade in New York City. (updated 08/17/11)

Jim Carrington (M.A., historic preservation, 2011) has been appointed to Preservation Oklahoma board of directors. (updated 06/19/11)

Alistair Casillas (B.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a summer internship with Urban Influence in Seattle, Washington. (updated 06/13/11)

Elizabeth Cassidy (B.F.A., fibers, 2011) accepted an internship with Judy Ross Textiles in New York City. (updated 10/28/11)

Caitlin Chamberlain (M.F.A., historic preservation, 2011) received a student scholarship to present a paper at the Association for Preservation Technology International annual conference in Victoria, British Columbia this October. (updated 08/17/11)

Arielle Chorman (B.F.A., illustration, 2011) accepted a position at Doré Design as professional stoner and assistant designer in Cape Coral, Florida. Doré produces exquisite gowns adorned with Swarovski crystals worn by professional dancers all over the world. (updated 09/15/11)

Michelle Coan (B.F.A., advertising, 2011) accepted a position as a graphic designer with Twenty Days in Suwanee, Georgia. (updated 08/06/11)

Kelsey Coffey (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as associate industrial designer/package designer with Berry Plastics in Evansville, Indiana. (updated 08/17/11)

Daniel Comite (B.F.A., advertising, 2011) will move to Washington, D.C., to work for the Discovery Channel as a designer after completing his internship with Oceans Research in Mossel Bay, South Africa. (updated 07/11/11)

Sam Connelly (B.F.A., illustration, 2011) has been named one of Communication Arts Magazine's Fresh Talents. In addition to that honor, Connelly is also currently featured in the August 2011 issue of PLAYBOY Magazine with a full-page illustration accompanying a short story written by author Chuck Palahniuk, best known for the award-winning novel "Fight Club." (updated 07/26/11)

Michelle Cornelison (B.F.A., printmaking, 2011) accepted a summer apprenticeship on an organic farm in Michigan where she will learn about gardening, beekeeping, caring for sheep and chickens and spinning yarn from wool sheared from the sheep. (updated 06/08/11)

Alexandra Coward (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as illustrator with Floyd County Productions in Atlanta, Georgia. (updated 08/05/11)

Billie Jean Curvan (B.A., visual communication, 2010; M.A., design management, 2011) accepted a project management position with Starbucks Coffee Company's Store Design East department. (updated 07/13/11)

Lauren Demarest (M.F.A., advertising, 2011) accepted a full-time position as a copywriter with McCann Erickson in New York City upon completing her summer internship with the company. (updated 08/23/11)

James DeWitt (B.F.A. sequential art, 2011) lives in Guangzhou, China, and is currently teaching English while working on personal art and writing projects. (updated 01/17/12)

Mark Dorf (B.F.A., photography, 2011) has been accepted to Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. (updated 01/30/12)

Margaret Ellis (B.F.A., photography, 2011) accepted an internship with The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (updated 09/13/11)

Erin Fenley (M.A., design for sustainability, 2011) is the energy management communications specialist for the University of California, Berkeley. She is developing a campus-wide behavior change campaign focusing on energy reduction. (updated 12/15/11)

Jimmy Fisher (B.F.A., broadcast design and motion graphics, 2011) is freelancing in Chicago, Illinois, for Sarofsky Corporation and Demo Duck. (updated 06/29/11)

Marcus Fitts (B.F.A., advertising 20111) is currently working as an art director at TracyLocke in Dallas, Texas, and is getting his clothing line, dazed civilians, up and running. (updated 07/17/11)

Melanie Florencio (B.F.A., sequential art, 2009; M.A. sequential art, 2011) wrote, "I am currently working as an adjunct art professor at Charleston Southern University for the month of July and have been hired at Trident Technical College as an adjunct visual arts professor from August until December. I also am active with the Summerville DREAM organization as an assistant graphic designer for printed material for Town of Summerville, South Carolina events." (updated 07/09/11)

Milton "Aaron" Flores (B.F.A., industrial design, 2011) accepted a toy design position with Kids II at the U.S. corporate headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia. (updated 07/28/11)

Stephen Fortunato (B.F.A., sound design, 2011) has been hired as a media design associate with Walt Disney Imagineering in Orlando, Florida. (updated 04/30/2011)

Kris Fremo (M.A., digital photography, 2011) is an art instructor at Saint John's Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minnesota. She owns her own photography studio, Sunny Day Pictures, specializing in portraiture. (updated 01/03/12)

Billy French (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as junior designer at space150 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (updated 11/03/11)

Katie Glusica (M.F.A, fibers, 2011) exhibited work at the 2011 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, where she received best in show in 2010. (updated 12/01/11)

Will Gross (B.F.A., industrial design, 2011) wrote, "I am driven to work in the defense industry and plan to use my industrial design knowledge coupled with an engineering degree to come up with the best solutions and products possible. I am interested in the unmanned aerial vehicle field." (updated 10/18/11)

George Hamilton (B.F.A., performing arts, 2011) has been invited to Los Angeles, California, to appear as a competitor on the season premiere of American Idol. (updated 09/28/11)

Paul Hanna (B.F.A., industrial design, 2011) started his own design firm, Paul Hanna Designs LLC, and the company has launched its first product, Wrap'It Headphone Organizer. This headphone organizer stands out from other similar products on the market by attaching directly to the listening device using a suction cup and no adhesive. Hanna has created a Kickstarter project to further market and distribute this product.

Amy Hersch (M.A., interior design, 2011) lives in Augusta, Georgia, and will be an adjunct interior design instructor at Western Kentucky University, where she will be teaching online courses for the fall semester. (updated 08/16/11)

Erika Intscher (M.A., fibers, 2011) accepted a position with Loloi Rugs in Dallas, Texas. (updated 10/26/11)

Myra Iqbal (B.F.A., photography, 2011) was accepted into the 2011 Eddie Adams Barnstorming workshop. Only 100 participants are accepted worldwide. (updated 09/30/11)

Danielle Johnson (B.F.A., broadcast design and motion graphics, 2011) is a designer with ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. (updated 08/05/11)

Sara Keith (B.F.A., photography, 2011) has been selected as one of the top 50 photographers for the 3rd Ward Open Call. (updated 08/29/11)

Monique Kennedy (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) has secured freelance work with Royale Priesthood, Storkie.com, Brisbane Lashes, Apex Real Estate Investors, Source Creative and Alkishe. (updated 06/08/11)

Addie Kuhn (B.F.A., interior design, 2011) accepted a position as lighting designer with Fisher Marantz Stone in New York City. (updated 04/15/11)

"The Girl and the Fox" by Tyler Kupferer (M.F.A., animation, 2011) has been nominated for a prestigious Annie Award.

Leila Ling (M.A., interactive design and game development, 2011) accepted a position as junior Web developer with T3 in Austin, Texas. (updated 07/27/11)

Yi-Hsin Liu (M.A., graphic design, 2011) has accepted a designer position with CreatIdea in Taiwan. (updated 05/09/11)

Maria Malavasi Lachner (B.F.A., art history, 2011) has been interning at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José, Costa Rica, and recently accepted a full-time position at TEOR/éTica, a private museum and gallery also located in San José. (updated 08/18/11)

Cliff Lummus (B.F.A. graphic design, 2006; M.F.A., writing, 2011) accepted a position with Atlanta Spirit LLC, the parent company of the Atlanta Hawks.

Melanie Markowicz (M.F.A., historic preservation, 2011) lives in Detroit, Michigan, where she is president of Preservation Wayne, a non-profit organization devoted to preserving Detroit's rich architectural and cultural heritage. (updated 01/17/12)

The Keku Cannery National Historic Landmark Preservation Plan by Robert Meindhardt (M.A., historic preservation, 2011) has been adopted by the Organized Village of Kake (OVK), the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office and the Secretary of the Interior, thereby establishing the first Tribal Historic Preservation Program (THPO) in Alaska. Meinhardt founded the consulting firm, True North Sustainable Development Solutions LLC. (updated 01/25/12)

Dan Molina (B.F.A., performing arts, 2011) accepted a position as full company member at the nation's leading Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Shakespeare, where he will appear, among other roles, as "Romeo" in "Romeo and Juliet". (updated 09/28/11)

Jacob Mundell (B.F.A., performing arts and dramatic writing, 2011) accepted a position as company member of Detroit, Michigan's Jewish Ensemble Theatre. (updated 09/28/11)

Veda Nagpurkar (M.A., graphic design, 2011) has accepted a summer co-op position with LPK in Cincinnati, Ohio. (updated 04/28/11)

Leigh "Ashley" Newsome (M.F.A., fashion, 2011) founded Haberdashery, a fashion/fibers/interior design company focusing on sustainable and affordable products, in Savannah, Georgia. (updated 05/15/11)

Elsa Padilla (B.F.A., interior design, 2011) accepted a full-time position with HOK in Washington, D.C. (updated 05/02/11)

Taylor Pemberton (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) is a creative director, designer and entrepreneur living in New York City. He currently leads creative direction at Wantful and most recently launched Cavalier, a line of men's products focused on the Americana lifestyle.(updated 01/11/12)

Michelle Poler (B.F.A., advertising, 2011) accepted a position as junior art director with The Bravo Group and will be working on the FedEx account. (updated 07/12/11)

Megan Proctor (B.F.A., metals and jewelry, 2011) accepted a winter design apprenticeship with Coach, Inc. (updated 01/28/12)

Celby Richoux (B.F.A., advertising, 2011) lives in Savannah, Georgia, and is an assistant content manager at BFG Interactive in Bluffton, South Carolina, working on accounts such as Coca-Cola. (updated 11/15/11

Norma Riehle (M.F.A., graphic design, 2011) wrote, "Because of my great experience at SCAD my daughter is working toward her M.A. degree in photography through SCAD eLearning." (updated 08/04/11)

Eduardo "Ed" Rivero Villalobos (B.F.A., animation, 2011) wrote, "My senior film, 'MOON: Prologue in Dreams', got into the Cannes Film Festival this year where I won an accreditation as a director and was able to learn a lot from different directors while attending the festival. I was also chosen to appear on ShortsTV, Europe's first channel dedicated to short films, to pitch my idea for my next film. Recently, I received an honorable mention in the student category of the Los Angeles Movie Awards for directing 'MOON: Prologue in Dreams'. Currently I'm working on my next short film, "Through the Looking Glass", here in Savannah, Georgia, while continuing the job search. I will travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, soon to assist at another film festival my film has been selected for." (updated 06/24/11)

Claudia Rosa-Lopez (M.F.A., architectural history, 2011) is serving as a architectural history lecturer in the architecture department of the Politechnic University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (updated 10/31/11)

Sherry Saunders (M.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a graphic designer position at Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Maryland. (updated 07/21/11)

Elle Scrase (B.F.A., interior design, 2011) accepted a job as an interior design and architecture assistant at Kemp Hall Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. (updated 12/19/11)

Wendy Shapiro (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as junior art director at Colangelo in Darien, Connecticut. (updated 07/28/11)

Mark Sheppe (B.F.A., painting, 1994; M.A., graphic design, 2011) is a graphic designer at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida. (updated 11/13/11)

Christopher Smith (B.F.A., writing, 2011) accepted a posiion as marketing assistant with Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau in Dalton, Georgia. (updated 07/29/11)

Rebecca Snyder (B.F.A., advertising, 2011) was offered and accepted a position as junior art director upon completing her summer internship with Cramer-Krasselt in New York City. (updated 07/29/11)

Chelsea Spratling (B.F.A., advertising design, 2011) accepted a position as junior copywriter with McGarry Bowen in New York City. (updated 08/29/11)

Alex Steele (M.Arch, 2011) accepted a position as architectural designer at Gensler in Atlanta, Georgia. (updated 08/24/11)

Kristine K. Stevens (M.F.A., contemporary writing, 2011) has been promoted to senior Web content manager at SCAD Savannah. (updated 08/24/11)

Chelsea Steverson (B.F.A., performing arts, 2011) is working as an actor at the Actor's Express Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. (updated 09/28/11)

Maggie Stewart (B.F.A., photography, 2011) lives in New York City and is interning with Paul Aresu Photography. (updated 10/01/11)

Mark Stewart, Jr. (B.F.A., film and television, 2010; M.A., motion media design, 2011) lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, and accepted a position as video production editor with the Miami Marlins Major League Baseball organization. (updated 01/08/12)

Heather Stovall (B.A., visual communications, 2011) is a graphic designer at Never Boring Design Associates in Modesto, California. She is engaged to be married in May 2012 and lives in Valley Springs, California. (updated 01/29/12)

Kellan Stover (B.F.A., illustration, 2011) has accepted an animation position with Powerhouse Animation Studios in Austin, Texas. (updated 07/05/11)

Carly Strickland (B.F.A., illustration, 2011) and Kyle Strickland (B.F.A., professional writing, 2008), illustrator and writer respectively, have published their first children's book "Sunshine's Night Out," available on Amazon.com. (updated 10/24/11)

Christopher Talbot (B.F.A., photography, 2011) accepted an internship with Steve McCurry Studios in New York City. (updated 09/21/11)

Ramona Todoca (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted an art director position with Ogilvy + Mather in New York City. (updated 06/13/11)

Works by Kasandra Torres (B.F.A., photography, 2011) were exhibited at Butter Gallery as part of SCOPE Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. (updated 01/02/12)

Capricia Townes (M.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as art director at Progress Energy in Raleigh, North Carolina. (updated 06/07/11)

Catherine "Katy" Van Doninck (M.A., historic preservation 2011) is the town planner for Edenton, North Carolina, handling planning needs and acting as a liaison with the historic district commission. (updated 01/25/12)

Erin "Michael" Walker (B.F.A., animation, 2011) lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a full-time animator for Floyd County Productions (Archer, FX) and is currently working on their new television series, "Unsupervised," which premieres Jan. 19, 2012. (updated 12/15/11)

Xiaoli Wang (M.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted an internship with LPK in Cincinnati, Ohio. (updated 05/05/11)

Jessica Wei (B.F.A, graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as a Christian greeting card designer for DaySpring Cards (a subsidiary of Hallmark) in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. (updated 04/20/11)

Daniel Woodling (B.F.A., animation, 2011) recently completed an artist internship with Leapfrog Enterprises in Emeryville, California, and currently is as a junior game artist at Self Aware Games in Oakland, California.

Megan Wright (B.F.A., interior design, 2011) accepted an internship with J Banks Design Group in Hilton Head, South Carolina. (updated 04/19/11)

Sean Wright (B.F.A., photography, 2011) was awarded first place in PDN's World In Focus 2011 contest's Spontaneous Moments amateur category. (updated 01/25/12)

Amanda Yoder (B.F.A., historic preservation 2011) is an intern with the City of Los Angeles' Office of Historic Resources in the city planning department. (updated 01/25/12)

Andrea Yu (B.F.A., fibers, 2011) accepted a position in the product design department at Martha Stewart Living in New York City. (updated 09/30/11)

Mark Ziemer (B.F.A., graphic design, 2011) accepted a position as graphic designer in the creative services department at Atlanta Magazine in Atlanta, Georgia. (updated 07/07/11)

Paulina Zymon (B.F.A., advertising, 2011) accepted a creative internship at Draftfcb in Chicago, Illinois, for the summer. (updated 06/05/11)