Cornell Council for the Arts

THEATRE ARTS

Bridget Saracino, Bachelor of Arts candidate '11

Bridget Saracino, a native of Clifton Springs, NY, is a senior in the School of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University,majoring in theatre arts. After undergraduate studies, Bridget hopes to pursue a graduate degree in acting. Her future goals are to teach acting, participate in theatre for social change, and form a theatre company that supports young artists. Bridget’s passion for theatre stems from its ability to bring people together, to facilitate dynamic change within a person, and for the truth it can reveals in each of us.

During her time as a Cornell undergraduate, Bridget has participated in a wide range of theatre experiences ranging from student directed projects to main stage Schwartz Center productions. She was most recently seen as Lydia in Cornell’s production of Big Love and is currently in rehearsals for Our Town. Her Cornell credits include Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), The Government Inspector (Dobchinsky), Hernani (Hernani), Soiree Cabaret, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some of her non-Cornell work includes A Day In The Death of Joe Egg (Shelia), Beauty and the Beast (Belle) and Mame (Mame).

When not working on a theatrical project, Bridget enjoys Bikram yoga, ceramics, and playing her ukulele.

“Bridget is one of the most gifted actresses I've encountered in a long time,” says Melanie Dreyer-
Lude, Professor of Theatre Arts. “She has rock solid instincts about how to approach a role, takes
direction like a bandit, and is always a humble member of any cast. Her professionalism is
unparalleled."

Cornell News Nov10/ Theatre Major Bridget Saracino earns Murray arts award

APPAREL DESIGN

Nicole Castelli, Bachelor of Science candidate '10

Nicole Castelli, a native of Chestertown, Maryland, has been an active member of the Cornell Design League, an extra-curricular club that allows students to create original garments for, and assist in planning, a student fashion show.  As a fourth-year member, Castelli will present a full line of 8-11 looks for the April 3, 2010, show in Barton Hall.

Nicole has received two Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation scholarships– a national competition that allows for the creation of wearable and fiber art. With this support, Nicole presented in two exhibitions on campus. One piece was accepted into the Surface Design Association Student Textile Exhibition: Points of Departure.  “Nicole Castelli has been an outstanding student in every respect, both in her academic performance and in her outside activities” said Professor Charlotte Jirousek. “She was selected as an outstanding junior by the FS & AD department, is an outstanding textile designer, and was invited to TA in two of our courses in Fiber Science and Apparel Design.”

After graduation, she plans to find work in the textiles and apparel industry, in either apparel or textile design.

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Cornell Chronicle 10.22.08 student interns
Cornell Chronicle 04.01.09 / Menswear.pdf
 

ARCHITECTURE

Nicholette Chan, Bachelor of Architecture candidate ’10

A Third-year architecture student, Nicholette is studying architecture and design in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning’s Rome Program this semester. In May 2007, Nicholette and two team members won first place in the fourth annual AIAS/ICPF (American Institute of Architecture Students / International Corrugated Packaging Foundation) Chair Affair Student Design Competition, in which students design chairs utilizing corrugated board and glue. Selected from 176 entries from 56 universites, six finalists' chairs were displayed in the AIAS Student Lounge and Gallery in San Antonio.

Nichollette has been active as a staff member and contributor to AWKWARD MAGAZINE, an artistic lifestyle publication. The magazine addresses matters that relate to Cornell undergraduate campus life through various means including but not limited to physical, visual and literary expressions.

VISUAL ARTS

Deborah Chang, BFA ’09 in Printmaking and Electronic Imaging

As a student at Edgemont High School, Deborah Chang’s increasing affection for art led her to take art classes at an independent art establishment called Manhattan Arts, which focused on the technical aspects of art making. Once at Cornell, Chang was exposed to many more techniques, and various schools of thought, philosophies, and material resources. As a first year student, she was encouraged to attain an understanding of all the basic mediums—one of which was printmaking. Lithography was the first medium in which she could “feel her pulse as an artist.” The physicality of the process became for her an intensely meditative and deeply concentrative process. The medium of printmaking continued to lend itself to the theories and ideas that Chang has been generating and manipulating. Her primary interest is related to the concepts of nationalism and patriotism, and their social construct. In her final year at Cornell, Chang investigated the process of investigating a manifold of the consequences they invoke, such as racism, mass mentality, and propaganda.

At Cornell, Deborah was active with Art Beyond Cornell, a club that conducts art lessons as a therapeutic and creative outlet for young women at the Lansing Residential Center. She was a staff photographer for the Cornell Daily Sun, and the Cornellian yearbook. She was recipient of the David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts, a scholarship that was established by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bean in memory of their son, David R. Bean ’71, which is presented to selected
students who plan to study in Rome. Deborah planned to continue to learn and hone her skills as an artist and printmaker at a graduate program, and at press shops.

CREATIVE WRITING

Maria Adelmann, BA '07, dual degree in Psychology and English, with a concentration in Creative Writing

Her work Bad Training: A Collection of Stories about High School, won the 2005 Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction and her short story mental health has been published in Cicada magazine. She co-wrote a CollegeProwler guidebook, Cornell University: Off the Record. Additionally, she is an editor of The Public Journal.

Ms Adelmann is an office assistant and amateur graphic design artist for the Student Activities Office and the Office of Student Support at Cornell. Her work as an employee, as well as a student volunteer in the area of student support, led her to receive the 2006 Daniel F. Mahaney Award and a Cornell Tradition Fellowship. After graduation in May 2007 Ms. Adelmann planned to work in the field of creative arts and publish new works.

Cornell Chronicle Press Release Dec06

INTERIOR DESIGN

Abigail Huber, BS '06, Interior Design in the Department of Design & Environmental Analyis

During her junior year at Cornell, Abigail studied at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland concentrating on retail and exhibit design. The following summer she completed a design internship at Jackson Galloway Architecture in Austin, Texas, specializing on places of worship. These two experiences presented Abby with an understanding of how to create environments, which inspire people on an emotional level. 

While at Cornell, Abigail worked on experimental research that explored alternate and sustainable paper materials. For three years she participated in the Cornell Design League and currently works as a teaching assist for DEA 251: History and Theory of the Interior. “An Engaged and passionate learner, Abby is deeply committed to her educational career and consistently asks the most poignant questions in class. She's a very proactive student, taking the time to meet outside of class to discuss how she might take her work to the next level. A team player in studio and a support to anyone facing challenging circumstances, her heart is immense and this makes her a joy to teach.

Abby was keenly aware of the power of design and the ways in which it can create change. She choes this field so that she can use her skills and her compassion to help create humanistic environments upon her graduation.” Rhonda Gilmore, advisor, Design & Environmental Analysis
After graduation, Ms. Huber planned to work in a multidisciplinary firm that encompasses her interest in creating environments that shape human behavior.

Cornell Chronicle Press Release Oct05

FILM

Sarah Ruth Jacobs, AB '05, Film and English

Sarah Ruth Jacobs  utilized dark subject matter in three experimental shorts at Cornell, and her first chapbook of poetry, Valence, is coming this fall from Flarestack Press, U.K. She planned to work in publishing and to pursue an M.F.A. in poetry after graduation.

Sarah received an Individual Artist Award from the Cornell Council for the Arts in May 2004 to create
an experimental short 16mm film shot in black and white with non-synchronous sound on location, with poetry and original music. The film explored the question of moral decay and how it relates to tolerance and territory. Jacobs presented the film in December 2004.

Sarah is the author of Valence, a poetry chapbook from Flarestack Press in the UK. Her writing won awards after leaving Cornell, most notably from The New York Times and Poets & Writers. She currently lives in New York City where she works a the Assitant Graduate Poetry Coordinator at The New School

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Elizabeth Violet Jones, BS '05, Landscape Architecture

After two years at TC3, Jones applied to Cornell with a concentration in Urban Landscape Ecology. In the spring of 2004, she enrolled in Cornell's Landscape Architecture program. In 2002, Jones was an Arboretum Intern at the Cornell Plantations, and began an internship at Trowbridge and Wolf Landscape Architects in Ithaca, NY.

Jones was involved with the Ithaca Community Gardens, was board member and president. Her plans after graduation were to work on designing master plans for cities that incorporate nature and environmental sustainability. Ms. Jones currently works on Anaheim, CA, for Landscape Designer, Hirsch & Associates.

Cornell Chronicle Press Release Dec03

MUSIC

David Kim, BA '03

David Kim came to Cornell in 1999 as a Presidental Scholar, to study the piano with Professor Malcolm Bilson. Bilson saw immediately that Kim was not only a first-rate pianist and musician, but that he also had a keen mind which questioned everything and desired real understanding. This quest for meaning catapulted Kim into serious academic studies in music with Cornell's musicology and music theory professors, studies at which he also excelled. In this way, he is a model of what the study of music at Cornell has long been-a mixture of the applied and theoretical.  David received an Masters of Musicology degree from Yale University in 2006.

Honors / Awards
National Merit Scholar_Cornell Presidential Research Scholar_Otto R. Stahl Memorial Prize (2001, Music Dept)_Ellen Gussman Adelson Music Scholarship (2002-03)_Urkunde Certificate from the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany (2002)_American Musicological Society Minority Travel Fund Fellowship (2001)_Rose Hanus Scholarship, Adament School of Music (2000) 

Cornell Chronicle Press Release Dec02

TEXTILES & APPAREL

Melissa Burchett, BS '02, Textiles & Apparel, College of Human Ecology

Melissa Burchett participated each year in the Cornell Design League Show and developed interests in world dress and traditional textile design and production during her student career. During spring 2002, she conducted an independent research project in Nepal on Nepali traditional textiles.
She is interested in applying traditional textile designs to sportswear and hopes to work for an environmentally sensitive apparel company where she can apply her skills to outdoor and athletic wear. In 2007, Melissa presented her thesis, titled "Textiles," to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University. She is a 2007 Fellow of the Institute of Textile Technology, and currently employed at Milliken & Company, in South Carolina.

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