Alumni Accomplishments - 2D Studies

2009

Kim Bissett
Drawing, MFA 2009
Cleveland Institute of Art: Adjunct Faculty- Foundation Drawing International Drawing Annual 6, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Publication: INDA 6. 2011

Sara Schleicher
Printmaking, MFA 2009
2008- Sara Schleicher received a First Place Award in the 16th Mini Print International Exhibition, held this year at the Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY.

Mini Print International

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2008

Lena Ellis-Boatman
Painting, BFA 2008
Artomatic 419 Exhibition, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo (exhibition)

Rachel Greenfield
Painting, BFA 2008
Artomatic 419 Exhibition, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo (exhibition)

Ruth Snyder
Painting, BFA 2008
Artomatic 419 Exhibition, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo (exhibition)

Sean Morrissey
Printmaking, BFA 2008
Full Graduate Assistantship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Creative Quarterly, Issue #11, gold medal 2008 Harnett Biennial of American Richmond, VA
2008 North American Graduate Art Survey, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Printmaking Today, Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, Abruzzo, Italy
American Impressions: Contemporary American Printmaking 2008, Wayne, NJ
Open Portfolio session, Mid-American Print Council conference, Athens OH (exhibition)

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2006

Angie Zielinski
Painting, MFA 2006
Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo, OH
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

Michelle Carlson
Printmaking, MFA 2006
Programs Coordinator, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo, OH, July 2006-present
Honorary Board Member, Medici Circle, BGSU

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2005

Kim Adams
Painting, BFA 2005
Midwest National Abstract Exhibition, Indianapolis, Indiana

Rebecca White
Painting, BFA 2005
Research internship at Ellen Frank Illumination Arts, Inc., New York, New York

Matthew Krueger
Printmaking, BFA 2005
Graduate Student with assistantship, Ohio University

Jeremy Plunkett
Printmaking, BFA 2005
Graduate Student with assistantship, Ohio University

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2004

Cheri Charlton
Painting, BFA 2004
Research Internship, Art Institute of Chicago

Kara Daving
Painting, BFA 2004
CEPA Gallery Annual Members Exhibition, Buffalo, NY
So Far, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY (exhibition);
Terramorphism, One Hour Gallery, Buffalo, NY (exhibtion)

Ken Demich
Painting, BFA 2004
Instructor at Kellogg Community College, Michigan

Kenneth Demich
Painting, BFA 2004
MFA Kendall College of Art and Design. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

John Hrosko
Printmaking, BFA 2004
Employed as an architectural illustrator with Howard Architectural Models, Toledo, OH.

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2002

Ryan Rasmussen
Drawing, BFA 2002
After graduation, Ryan Rasmussen used the skills he learned in the BGSU Fine Arts program to rethink branding and marketing innovation. From 2003 - 2007 his work consisted of developing new standards for social marketing and new product development with online influencers across blogs, forums, social media, and virtual worlds.

Traditional marketers and communications consultants took note, with much of his innovation chronicled in some pivotal marketing texts including "Word of Mouth Marketing - How Smart Companies Get People Talking" (Sernovitz 2006) In 2008, Ryan transitioned to the agency world of consulting to share the best practices and techniques he had pioneered on a much broader scale.

Ryan currently serves as Vice President & Director of Insights & Analytics at Zocalo Group, a word of mouth marketing agency based in Chicago. In addition to providing strategic marketing & creative counsel to domestic and international clients such as Dell, Unilever, Nissan, and Subway, Ryan developed a suite of industry award winning online and offline measurement tools, including the Recommendation Index, Earned Digital Engagements, and Digital Footprint Index - receiving awards from SNCR at Harvard (2009), Stanford (2010), and two SABRE awards for Measurement Innovation (2010) & Product of the Year (2011.)

Ryan frequently speaks to academic, trade, and private audiences about social marketing, the role of innovation and creativity within an organization, and about technology Futures per his work with the Long Now Foundation. When asked about his unique path and the role that his BFA provided in shaping his career, Ryan credits BGSU and the Fine Arts Department with teaching him to see.

Earlier this year, Ryan was accepted into the Kellogg MBA program.

Julianne Prenoveau
Photography, BFA 2002
Will be starting graduate school in Fall 2007 at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA for Museum Studies and living in San Francisco.

Kristen Martincic
Printmaking, BFA 2002
Instructor, Relief Printmaking, Holter Art Museum, Helena, MT
Adjunct Instructor, Elementary Printmaking, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE
Another Layer of Skin , Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (sol

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2001

Elizabeth Gauthier (Kissonergis)
Drawing, BFA 2001
While at Bowling Green I was given an assignment to illustrate a childrens book in one of my drawing classes. Always interested in the idea of doing my own book I was intrigued by it. Little did I know that six years after getting my BFA the idea would become so embedded in me that I would begin my own publishing company, Gauthier Publications. I am now the Creative Director of Frog Legs Ink, our childrens division. In October of this year we released our first title Out of the Nursery, one of my own. We are set to release three more titles in the next few months and fifteen next year (one of which will be mine). I am very proud to say we print and bind everything in the USA and that we will soon have to do a second run of Out of the Nursery. If it wasn't for my classes at BGSU and the variety of skills I learned in the art department, from different drawing techniques to layout I wouldn't be where I am today. www.FrogLegsInk.com

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1992

John Nolan
Painting, BFA 1992
Curator, 1997-present, Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Inc., Greenville, SC, www.bjumg.org

Owner, August, 2006-present, Greenville History Tours, Greenville, SC, www.greenvillehistorytours.com

Paper Presentation:
Toward a New Interpretation of St. Joseph in Early Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish 'Holy Family' Paintings, co-presented with Ruth Grim (Curator of the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL) at the College Art Association's 93rd Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, 2005.

Publications:
Nolan, John M., Strehlke, Carl B., Deimling, Barbara, Discovering a Pre-Renaissance Master: Tommaso del Mazza, Bob Jones University Press, Greenville, SC, (forthcoming, May, 2009)

Nolan, John M., Civitali [Civitale], Matteo (di Giovanni), Grove Art Online,
[Note: revised article, 2008]

Nolan, John M., A Guide to Historic Greenville, South Carolina, 144pp., History Press, Charleston, SC, 2008 ISBN 978-1-59629-340-3

Nolan, John M. Selected Masterworks from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, 175 pp., Bob Jones University Press, Greenville, SC, 2001. ISBN 0-9713368-0-6

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1990

AnnMarie LeBlanc
2D Studies, MFA 1990
Director and Professor School of Visual Communication Design Kent State University

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1988

Emily Christoff
Drawing, BFA 1988
After Graduation with my BFA in 1988, I was hired as the park manager for Kaman's Art Shoppes at Busch Gardens, Virginia. My job included teaching drawing and managing the portrait and caricature operation for about 40 artists. I eventually became the national portrait trainer for the company and wrote their national portrait training guide which is still in use in many amusement parks all over the country. I eventually left the company to be a self employed studio artist. I supported myself and my kids by drawing portraits from life and from photos as well as teaching art privately. I am currently the artist in residence at the Historic Powhatan Resort in Williamsburg Virginia. I draw portraits, create and teach all of their adult and children's art classes. I hope to return to BGSU to get my masters in Fine Art in the near future so that I am able to advance my career as a professional artist and art teacher.

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1984

Amie Oliver
2D Studies, MFA 1984
Amie Oliver, MFA '84 has been awarded a two month residency fellowship at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris during May and June of 2013. Prior to her departure to France, Oliver's solo exhibition Astral Garden will open at the Chroma Projects Art Laboratory in Charlottesville, VA on April 5. Work from this series will also be included in Anarchistic Abstraction at The University of Mary Washington Galleries during the fall of 2013. Amie Oliver maintains a studio in Richmond, VA where she is a lecturer for graduate classes and workshops for Virginia Commonwealth University and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.

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1976

Debra Clem
Painting, BFA 1976
Debra Clem is a Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University Southeast, located in New Albany, Indiana in the metro Louisville area. She studied at Bowling Green State University where she was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Debra received a graduate assistantship to the Pennsylvania State University, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from that institution. She has shown her paintings in more than 60 group, invitational, and solo exhibitions and has been awarded five individual artist grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Debra received an Al Smith Fellowship, the highest individual award given to artists from the state of Kentucky and has been awarded fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a member of Indiana University's FACET (Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching). Debra was the recipient of IU Southeast's Distinguished Research and Creativity Award in 2006. Debra grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Her email address is: dclem@ius.edu

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