Alumni Update

2000 - Present

Jillian Neilson, BA, June 2011, receiving a dual major in Italian and Art History, has exciting post graduation plans.  She has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim internship in Venice next year.  

Laurel McMechan, received her BFA degree in 2004, and she also worked in our main office. Currently, she is part of a new group exhibition in Brooklyn. Laurel finished her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art and holds adjunct positions a several colleges in the Boston area.


"BESTIES/FAVES is an exhibition of my best friends from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design who also happen to be some of my favorite artists," says curator and host Sarah Alice Moran. "We drank too much coffee, and made peanut butter sandwiches every day: they are the most trusted eyes and opinions of my studio practice. When grad school ended our studios were no longer shouting distance from each other -- and we were damned to sit in a room by ourselves for hours, then days, to make work with no one to distract us but ourselves and our day jobs. My goal in having this show is purely selfish: I miss my friends, their work, and their opinions.  I want to bring everyone together again for a show that demonstrates how our work is connected through such a critical time in our collective art making process."


Sarah Lubin, Laurel McMechan, Sarah Alice Moran and Elizabeth Thach employ different artistic strategies and media including painting, drawing and sculptural installation. Collectively they share a preoccupation with addressing the complex nature of individual contemporary experiences: relationships among groups, between individuals, and within oneself, as well as the underlying currents that spur creative expression.


Here's a taste of some of the pieces in the exhibition:

1990-2000

1980-1990

Before 1980:

DAVID ALLEN YEAKLEY, age 77 of Denver, died January 29, 2012. There were no funeral or memorial services (per his wishes). He was born at Carthage, Mo. September 11,1934. There were no survivors, and Mr. Yeakley was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas Barrett Yeakley and Berniece (Box) Yeakley. He was a retired interior designer. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Denver in 1958 and awarded his Master of Arts from the same institution in 1961. Mr. Yeakley headed the Department of Interior Design at the university from 1958 through 1962. He was a member of the Colorado Council of Arts and Humanities. He served on the board of the Asian Arts Association of the Denver Art Museum. Mr. Yeakley was a member of the Interior Design Educators Council and of the American Society of Interior Designers, all during the decades of 1960 through 1980. Mr. Yeakley served in the United States Army 1954 through 1956.