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Additional Alumni Achievements


Featured Alum
Lindsey Merrell, '07
Major: Art

Current position: Marketing coordinator for Allied Arts of Yakima Valley. Responsible for promotional materials, press releases, graphic and print needs, the website and monthly e-news updates, as well as for coordinating gallery openings and exhibiting artists. As a printmaker, Maloney had her works featured in the 41st annual Juried Art Exhibit at the Peggy Lewis Gallery, in Yakima, Wash., in June 2008, and in "Venus: Women's Art Today" at the Red Art Gallery, in Yakima, Wash., in August 2008. She also served as artist-in-residence, Goathead Press, in Tieton, Wash.

Why Whitworth? "I was drawn to Whitworth's close community. When it came time to decide on a school, the freedom I found within Whitworth's art department sealed the deal. Everyone is allowed (and encouraged!) to have his or her own style."

Whitworth Activities: Lead assistant printer of Whitworth's Loop Press, public relations officer of the Artists' Guild (Whitworth's art club), student representative on the committee for the new center for fine arts

Quote: "Whitworth taught me how to discuss and write about my artwork in an intelligent manner. Being able to convey my visual work verbally has helped me to develop and refine my artist statement, my goals, and my work. It also makes it easier to explain to others what it is that I do and hope to do."

Influential Whitworth Experiences: Working as the lead assistant printer for Whitworth's Loop Press. "Not only did this job allow me to practice my printmaking skills; it exposed me to new and different printmaking techniques. It also allowed me to work one-on-one with professional artists. My faculty mentor, Scott Kolbo, also influenced me in many ways. He sparked my interest in printmaking and answered my questions regarding printmaking, art in general, and what it means and what it takes to be a professional artist. Scott inspired me to create and learn, and to strive for what I want out of life."

Career Goals: "To pursue my art and printmaking, perhaps going on to earn an M.F.A. in printmaking"

Here's what some recent Whitworth graduates are doing with their art degrees:

• Maddison Colvin, '08, was accepted to the MFA program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her works and led a workshop at the Tinman Gallery, in Spokane

• Charlie Fornia, '02, earned an M.F.A. at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an art teacher at Montesano Junior-Senior High School.

• Betty Gardner, '08, has had works accepted to a number of juried exhibits and is working on a commission with sculptor Sister Paula Turnbull.

• Marco Tulluck, '05, had his acrylic and mixed-media paintings and drawings featured in a 2006 exhibit, "Inner Darkness," at the Infohazard Gallery, in Seattle.

• Meagan Stirling, '02, earned an M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007; she serves as art lecturer and director of the Bryan Oliver Gallery at Whitworth.

• Laura Crist, '04, launched a graphic-design business specializing in websites and web-ready videos.

• Nathan Timpano, '02, is earning a doctorate in art history at Florida State University.

• Esme (Carson) Guenther, '02, earned an M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2005. She served as visiting professor of art at Whitworth in 2006.

• Jennifer Ahre, '07, had her artwork featured in an emerging-artists exhibit at the Kress Gallery, in Spokane.

• Jason Reynolds, '03, is graphic designer/production manager for the newspaper Northwest Prime Time.