Tag: antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 17, 2010 – Mark Roosevelt, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools system, is the new president of Antioch College, effective January 1, 2011.

“The board voted unanimously to appoint Mr. Roosevelt to the college presidency. He has spent his career as an advocate and an agent of institutional change,” said Lee Morgan, chair of the Pro Tem Board of Trustees. “The Board is confident it has selected a strong leader who will guide the College on its road to revival.”

“I am honored to become the next president of Antioch College and inspired by its history and the many people who made the College such a remarkable place to learn and work,” Roosevelt said. “The Pro Tem Board of Trustees, Matthew Derr, the College staff and the alumni have made extraordinary progress in preparing Antioch College for a successful reopening in the fall of 2011. I am committed to working with this extraordinary group to forge a future that honors that history and also explores innovative new directions for liberal arts education.”

Roosevelt succeeds Interim President Matthew A. Derr, who was instrumental in the negotiations for the College’s independence and the work to revive the College over the past year. Derr, a 1989 graduate of the College, will continue as its chief executive officer until Roosevelt’s arrival.

“The appointment of Mark Roosevelt as the next president of Antioch College is an important moment in the history of the College. I look forward to supporting Mark as he takes on this opportunity,” Derr said.

In January, Derr will join the Great Lakes Colleges Association as its first Visiting Fellow. The appointment was made at the recommendation of the 13 presidents of the GLCA member colleges.

Roosevelt holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. He is a graduate of the Broad Urban Superintendent’s Academy, an executive management program designed for educators and professionals from other fields to lead large city school systems. He has taught political science at Brandeis University, where he was also the director of the Gordon Public Policy Center, and currently teaches a course on the intersection of American history and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz Graduate School of Public Policy.

As a Massachusetts state representative, Roosevelt chaired the Education Committee, where he guided passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993, legislation providing the equitable resources and accountability measures necessary for school improvement. Roosevelt was also the lead sponsor of the 1989 Massachusetts Gay Rights Bill. In 1994, Roosevelt was the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts.

As superintendent of the Pittsburgh Schools, he pursued an aggressive reform agenda called “Excellence for All.” Four years later, the district has a comprehensive plan to maximize effective teaching that is one of only four such efforts to win support through a highly competitive $40 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the founder of The Pittsburgh Promise, an initiative that has already raised $150 million to guarantee as much as $10,000 per year in college scholarship dollars for PPS graduates who earn a GPA of 2.5 or better. The Promise now provides scholarships to over 1800 PPS graduates from the 2008 and 2009 graduating classes.

About Antioch College

Originally founded in 1850, Antioch College redefined liberal arts education in the 20th century by initiating an entrepreneurial and experiential curriculum through the development of its hallmark cooperative work program. Many of the now-common elements of today’s liberal arts education – self-designed majors, study abroad, interdisciplinary study, and portfolio evaluation – had an early start at Antioch College. Ownership of Antioch College was transferred from Antioch University to the Antioch College Continuation Corporation in September 2009. The newly independent College will admit its first class in the fall of 2011.

MEDIA CONTACT
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 17, 2010 – Mark Roosevelt, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools system, is the new president of Antioch College, effective January 1, 2011.

“The board voted unanimously to appoint Mr. Roosevelt to the college presidency. He has spent his career as an advocate and an agent of institutional change,” said Lee Morgan, chair of the Pro Tem Board of Trustees. “The Board is confident it has selected a strong leader who will guide the College on its road to revival.”

“I am honored to become the next president of Antioch College and inspired by its history and the many people who made the College such a remarkable place to learn and work,” Roosevelt said. “The Pro Tem Board of Trustees, Matthew Derr, the College staff and the alumni have made extraordinary progress in preparing Antioch College for a successful reopening in the fall of 2011. I am committed to working with this extraordinary group to forge a future that honors that history and also explores innovative new directions for liberal arts education.”

Roosevelt succeeds Interim President Matthew A. Derr, who was instrumental in the negotiations for the College’s independence and the work to revive the College over the past year. Derr, a 1989 graduate of the College, will continue as its chief executive officer until Roosevelt’s arrival.

“The appointment of Mark Roosevelt as the next president of Antioch College is an important moment in the history of the College. I look forward to supporting Mark as he takes on this opportunity,” Derr said.

In January, Derr will join the Great Lakes Colleges Association as its first Visiting Fellow. The appointment was made at the recommendation of the 13 presidents of the GLCA member colleges.

Roosevelt holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. He is a graduate of the Broad Urban Superintendent’s Academy, an executive management program designed for educators and professionals from other fields to lead large city school systems. He has taught political science at Brandeis University, where he was also the director of the Gordon Public Policy Center, and currently teaches a course on the intersection of American history and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz Graduate School of Public Policy.

As a Massachusetts state representative, Roosevelt chaired the Education Committee, where he guided passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993, legislation providing the equitable resources and accountability measures necessary for school improvement. Roosevelt was also the lead sponsor of the 1989 Massachusetts Gay Rights Bill. In 1994, Roosevelt was the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts.

As superintendent of the Pittsburgh Schools, he pursued an aggressive reform agenda called “Excellence for All.” Four years later, the district has a comprehensive plan to maximize effective teaching that is one of only four such efforts to win support through a highly competitive $40 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the founder of The Pittsburgh Promise, an initiative that has already raised $150 million to guarantee as much as $10,000 per year in college scholarship dollars for PPS graduates who earn a GPA of 2.5 or better. The Promise now provides scholarships to over 1800 PPS graduates from the 2008 and 2009 graduating classes.

About Antioch College

Originally founded in 1850, Antioch College redefined liberal arts education in the 20th century by initiating an entrepreneurial and experiential curriculum through the development of its hallmark cooperative work program. Many of the now-common elements of today’s liberal arts education – self-designed majors, study abroad, interdisciplinary study, and portfolio evaluation – had an early start at Antioch College. Ownership of Antioch College was transferred from Antioch University to the Antioch College Continuation Corporation in September 2009. The newly independent College will admit its first class in the fall of 2011.

MEDIA CONTACT
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Delivered October 15, 2010, by Frances Degen Horowitz, Chair, 2010 Antioch College Presidential Search Committee

Members of the Presidential Search Committee were invited to serve on the Committee following the Board Pro Tem meeting in January 2010 and after the Board chose the firm of Isaacson-Miller to assist in the search process. The members of the Committee were selected from among members of the Board Pro Tem, non-Board alumni, and current Antioch College staff with the goal of forming a diverse committee and one that included different generations of graduates of the College.

The resulting fifteen member committee included: Frances Degen Horowitz ’54 (Chair), Jay Lorsch ’55, Joyce Idema ‘57, Ed Richard ’59, Steve Schwerner ‘60 (former Dean of Students and faculty member), Judy Voet ’63, Joe Foley ‘64 (Vice President of the Alumni Association), Barbara Winslow ‘68, David Goodman ‘69 , Tendaji Ganges ’71, Lisa Delpit ‘74 ,Shadia Alvarez ‘96, Shelby Chestnut ’05, College Director of Work Susan Eklund-Leen and Glen Helen Executive Director Nick Boutis.

To familiarize themselves with the campus and to better understand the challenges and opportunities that would face a new President, John Isaacson and Jamie Sands, from Isaacson-Miller, visited the campus in early March. They toured the campus and the village of Yellow Springs, and spoke with campus personnel, retired faculty, Board Pro Tem Chair Lee Morgan, and members of the Yellow Springs community.

The Committee began its work toward the end of February. The first task was to agree on the position description – referred to as the “scoping document” – to be used in advertising the position and with potential prospects and candidates. At the first in-person meeting of the Committee, in March, the Committee gave final approval to the scoping document. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to discussing our understandings and expectations as we embarked upon the search.

Among the matters addressed were the Committee’s desire to have the opportunity to consider a diverse pool of candidates; the importance of securing candidates who shared the Board Pro Tem’s determination that the revived Antioch College recruit a diverse student body, a diverse faculty, and a diverse staff; an interest in seeking candidates with a proven track record of effective fund-raising. The Committee focused on wanting candidates who would be able to understand the core values of Antioch College with its interlocking emphasis on the three hallmark features of an Antioch education – classroom, co-op, and community (as in community governance). We agreed that citing these as important for our future was not an expression of nostalgia for the past but a recognition that they have long constituted the basic reasons why Antioch College has had such a profound impact upon its students, why so many alumni, in how they have lived and are living their lives, have continued to win victories for humanity.

Over the course of the next six and a half months the Committee met thirteen times in person and via phone conference calls as a whole group and in sub-sets of Committee members. The Committee reviewed the resumes of a large number of interesting prospects and potential candidates. Isaacson-Miller provided background information and initial reference checks for all candidates of interest to the Committee. Ultimately ten individuals were invited to be interviewed by the Committee – to be semi-finalists. Two among the semi-finalists were women; two were members of minority groups. Two of the ten semi-finalists, for personal reasons, elected not to proceed with the interview. With each candidate, we asked questions that explored how they’d build a team; their management style; their views on liberal arts education, co-op, shared governance and their commitment to diversity; how they would go about recruiting students; and living in Yellow Springs. We researched each extensively to get a sense of each individual, and we discussed fund-raising, fund-raising, fund-raising.

Of the eight semi-finalists, four who were not familiar with Yellow Springs and the Antioch campus were asked to go to Yellow Springs to see the campus to learn more about the current stage and state of the College; some of the semi-finalists were interviewed more than once. In the end, the Committee chose two individuals as finalists – each to be recommended as suitable contenders for being appointed President of Antioch College.

The original plan was to invite the finalists to campus for meetings with campus personnel and to participate in an open forum prior to their meeting with the Board Pro Tem. In the course of the search process it became clear that the candidates in whom the Committee was most interested were reluctant to participate in the public forum without having first met with the Board Pro Tem. Accordingly, the Committee decided, and the Board agreed, that all finalists would be asked to meet with the Board prior to the public phase of the search.

The members of the Board Pro Tem interviewed the two finalists and determined that each should be sent to the campus as a finalist for the Presidency of Antioch College. One of the finalists subsequently elected to withdraw as a candidate. The remaining finalist, Mr. Mark Roosevelt, proceeded.

By the time this report is made, Mark Roosevelt will have visited the campus, spoken with a wide range of campus personnel, participated in a public forum streamed to interested alumni, and met with the Alumni Board. The Board Pro Tem will be receiving feedback from campus personnel, attendees at the public forum, members of the Alumni Board, interested alumni, and others. The Board will then decide whether or not to offer the position of President of Antioch College to Mark Roosevelt. In the event of an affirmative decision by the Board Pro Tem and Mr. Roosevelt’s acceptance of the offer, the Search Committee will have completed its work.

In concluding this report, it is important to observe that, at the outset, both the Board Pro Tem and the Search Committee understood that this would be a challenging search: the College was closed; its financial future was a work in progress. During the course of the search, the reality of our understanding was made clear. Isaacson-Miller reported, with some frequency, that those contacted for names of possible candidates, as well as potential candidates themselves, mentioned Antioch College’s recent difficulties, its reputation for tangled politics, and the challenging nature of any re-start-up effort. Nevertheless, the Search Committee had the opportunity to consider a strong candidate pool. It made its recommendations to the Board with confidence that each of the finalists believed deeply in our mission, was optimistic about our potential, and had the requisite skills and background to lead a successful revival of this quite exceptional institution that has been and will be Antioch College.

I wish, as chair, to express, on behalf of the Search Committee, to John Isaacson and Jamie Sands, and to their colleagues at Isaacson Miller, appreciation for their services to the Committee and to Antioch College. Their professionalism and experience, their commitment to identifying and encouraging viable candidates, and their skillful shepherding of the search process were of inestimable value to the work of the Committee. A hearty “thank you” also goes to Joyce Morrissey. Her quiet, thoughtful, and capable presence as staff to the Search Committee facilitated our efforts at every turn as we went about our task.

And, finally, I wish to express my personal appreciation to and admiration of each and every one of the members of the Search Committee. They gave of their time, they attended meetings in person and on the phone, they read supporting materials and documents, they travelled, they re-scheduled commitments and re-arranged plans in order to participate in the meetings and interviews. Each brought a sensibility to our deliberations that enriched the process. And each also maintained an unshakeable commitment to the candor and confidentiality that are so essential for the integrity of a search process. All of us owe a sincere debt of gratitude to this group of individuals for their selfless service to our purposes.

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 14, 2010 – Beth Krisko, director of the Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center, was one of two Ohio environmentalists to receive a national conservation fellowship to empower and energize children to make a difference.

Krisko and Nicole Conrad, an Audubon naturalist, were named 2010 TogetherGreen Fellows. Supported by a conservation alliance of Audubon and Toyota, the TogetherGreen Fellowship offers specialized training in conservation planning and execution, the chance to work and share best practices with gifted conservation professionals, and assistance with project outreach and evaluation.

Each Fellow receives $10,000 towards a community-focused project to engage local residents in conserving land, water and energy, and contributing to greater environmental health.

Krisko will use her TogetherGreen fellowship to create a new program at Antioch College's Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center, a residential environmental learning center serving students in grades 4-6 from 40 Ohio schools, many from the Miami Valley. Her project focuses on climate change and encourages energy conservation practices.

The program will empower the students and teachers that visit the center to make everyday choices to help protect the environment. Using solar thermal panels as a demonstration of an alternative energy source, students will interact with the technology and learn what they can do in smaller ways to reduce carbon dioxide emission. At the end of a Glen Helen visit, teachers will be given tools to take the message back to the classroom by leading energy-reducing initiatives.

By reaching over one thousand local students each year, Krisko believes that this project has will contribute to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the Miami Valley. Krisko has demonstrated her commitment to conservation throughout her career at Glen Helen, holding a variety of leadership positions while motivating diverse groups of people to achieve conservation results. As Volunteer Coordinator, she organized stewardship activities for both university and elementary students, including a “Bioblitz,” a 24-hour science and educational event. She is now the Director of the Outdoor Education Center and continues to empower others to make positive differences.

“Nicole and Beth are the kind of people who can make a real difference in the health of our environment and the quality of our future,” said Audubon President David Yarnold. “Each of our TogetherGreen Fellows demonstrates exceptional environmental understanding and commitment, combined with tremendous potential to inspire and lead others. Together, they represent the talented and diverse leadership the environmental community will need to tackle the huge challenges and opportunities confronting us today and in the years to come.”

“TogetherGreen has given me the tools, inspiration, and the motivation to incorporate a program into Glen Helen’s environmental education lessons that not only teaches students, but actually motivates and inspires them to make positive environmental choices in their everyday lives,” Krisko said. “TogetherGreen is helping me localize a global crisis to actually make a real difference in my community.”

Krisko earned a master's in environmental science and a bachelor's in communications from Miami University of Ohio. She received her Ohio teacher licensure through Antioch University. She has played a variety of roles in conservation driven projects, including scientific research, land-use planning, and educational outreach.

Fellowship recipients were chosen from a large pool of highly qualified individuals. All were required to have at least six years of experience in conservation, environmental education, policy, or related issues; a demonstrated passion for conservation and a proven track record of reaching previously underserved audiences. Applicants also need to express a desire to learn and grow. An advisory committee composed of conservation professionals and experts in environmental education, communications, outreach, and conservation planning made selections.

A complete list of the 2010 TogetherGreen Fellows can be found at www.TogetherGreen.org/fellows.

 

MEDIA CONTACT  
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 14, 2010 – Mark Roosevelt, the finalist for the presidency of Antioch College, spoke October 13 to a room of alumni, former and retired faculty, staff and community members about his work as a legislator and education administrator, and about his desire to lead the college to full revival.

Roosevelt, the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools system, told the audience of 125 gathered in South Hall's Herndon Gallery that he believed “something pretty wonderful” is possible with the reopening of the College. But he warned expectations must be realistic and not simply aspirational.

“A large part of our work will be in defining the new Antioch,” Roosevelt said. “Honoring Antioch’s incredible history and legacy, but defining Antioch’s competitive place. What is the niche?”

Roosevelt said Antioch must “reassert its absolute dedication to excellence in every single way.”

That is not to suggest that that has not always been Antioch’s sense of its self, he said, but the reopening, the rebuilding allows for a “rededication to the goal of excellence.”

After a six month search led by a Board-appointed committee of alumni and the hired search firm Isaacson, Miller, Roosevelt emerged as the sole finalist when a second candidate withdrew from the process. His public meeting came after a full day of meetings with key College staff, including: Interim President Matthew A. Derr, who he could succeed as CEO of the college; the Director of Work and the Morgan E. Fellows, former college faculty who are working with Derr to write a curriculum for the independent college; advancement staff, and others.

“I enjoyed interacting with the alumni, former faculty and employees of the college,” Roosevelt said following the one-hour forum at which he fielded a series of questions about his interest in the position, his work experience, and his plans for the college's future. “The interchange was insightful and engaging. Should I be appointed, I look forward to engaging this community as we work toward rebuilding this college.”

The Pro Tem Board of Trustees has asked Antioch College alumni and other members of the community to provide feedback by completing a survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Antioch-College-presidential-feedback.

Roosevelt holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. He is a graduate of the Broad Urban Superintendent's Academy, an intensive executive management program designed to prepare educators and professionals from other fields to lead large city school systems. He has taught political science at Brandeis University, where he was also the director of the Gordon Public Policy Center, and currently teaches a course on the intersection of American history and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz Graduate School of Public Policy.

As a Massachusetts state representative, Roosevelt chaired the Education Committee, where he guided passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993, a landmark legislation providing the equitable resources and accountability measures necessary for school improvement. Roosevelt was also the lead sponsor of the 1989 Massachusetts Gay Rights Bill. In 1994, Roosevelt was the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts.

After leading Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, a publicly and privately funded nonprofit economic development agency, and acting as the managing director for the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Roosevelt was appointed the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) in August of 2005.

Since that time he has pursued an aggressive reform agenda called "Excellence for All." Four years later, the district has a comprehensive plan to maximize effective teaching that is one of only four such efforts to win support through a highly competitive $40 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; a nationally recognized program to recruit, train, support and compensate principals as instructional leaders; a new, more rigorous curriculum; and several new school models, including eight "Accelerated Learning Academies" for many of the district's most underserved students.

He is also the founder of The Pittsburgh Promise, a ground-breaking initiative that has already raised $150 million to guarantee as much as $10,000 per year in college scholarship dollars for PPS graduates who earn a GPA of 2.5 or better. The Promise now provides scholarships to over 1800 PPS graduates from the 2008 and 2009 graduating classes.

About Antioch College
Originally founded in 1850, Antioch College redefined liberal arts education in the 20th century by initiating an entrepreneurial and experiential curriculum through the development of its hallmark cooperative work program. Many of the now-common elements of today's liberal arts education – self-designed majors, study abroad, interdisciplinary study, and portfolio evaluation – had an early start at Antioch College. Ownership of Antioch College was transferred from Antioch University to the Antioch College Continuation Corporation in September 2009. The newly independent College will admit its first class in the fall of 2011.

MEDIA CONTACT
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 13, 2010 – Emergent Visions: Antiochians Make Art, features paintings, prints, and works on paper and tile produced by six alumni artists with strikingly distinctive visual imaginations and original visions for the 21st century.

The featured artists graduated from Antioch College between 1996 and 2002, and they are now pursuing or have received MFA graduate degrees, and are developing their visual arts careers. Five of the artists will attend the artists’ reception at 6:00 p.m., Saturday, October 16.

The exhibition is curated by Arthur E. Morgan Fellows Anne Bohlen and Jean Gregorek.

The Artists:

Asha Canalos received her BA in Visual Arts in 1999. Since then she has been living in Brooklyn, New York. In 2008, Canalos completed a dual degree at Pratt Institute, receiving a MFA in Painting, and a MS in Theory, History, and Criticism of Design, Art and Architecture. Asha’s work has been exhibited at prominent art venues such as the PULSE Miami Art Fair and the Bronx Museum of Art; her work has also been shown at college and university galleries, including Antioch College, Pratt Institute, and Pace University. In 2009 Asha was the recipient of the Dyson Artist’s Residency at Pace University and in 2008 she received the Juror’s Pick Award at GEISAI, Miami and was awarded the Pratt Circle Award of Distinction. She has published articles on artists and the arts in the AIM 29 (Catalogue) at The Bronx Museum of Art, the Collector Circle Review, The Luxury Lifestyle Resource and Art Daily. Her work has been featured in articles in The New York Times Style Magazine, Artopic & Arcademi, Decayenne/Whitewall Magazine, The Miami Sun Post and Artinfo.com, and has been included in collections in Yellow Springs, and in the Elisabeth and Henrik Von Dehn Collection in Munich, Germany.

Karsten Creightney received his BA from Antioch in 2000. Post graduation Karsten returned to his hometown, Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he completed the Professional Printer Training Program at The Tamarind Institute of Lithography in 2001. He received his MFA from the University of New Mexico, where he also teaches drawing. There have been exhibitions of his work in Albuquerque, NM, Kyoto, Japan, Kansas City, KS, and Yellow Springs, OH. Karsten’s work is included in the collections of the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield MO, The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, the Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, KS, the Belger Art Center in Kansas City, MO and the Tama University Art Museum in Kyoto, Japan.

Beatrix*Jar is a conceptual electronic music duo with sound artists Antioch alumna, Bianca Pettis, and Jacob Aaron Roske. Since 2005, in over 230 conceptual art sound performances and hands-on Circuit Bending workshops, Beatrix*Jar have traveled extensively spreading the message of DIY (Do It Yourself) with electronics and experimentation. The duo have been featured in art museums, nightclubs, universities, libraries, hacker spaces and art galleries worldwide including the Walker Art Center, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Arts in San Diego, The High Art Museum, and The American Visionary Museum. The duo has been featured on MAKE TV (PBS) and on ABC’s Nightline. They have also collaborated on a series of collage art projects that will be included in the show. As part of the exhibit, The Herndon Gallery will also sponsor a Circuit Bending workshop with the duo while the show is on exhibit.

Emily Noelle Lambert received a B.A. Visual Art from Antioch College in 1997 and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College in 2007. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Anchorage, Washington DC, Roanoke, and Pittsburgh, and she has had four solo exhibitions in New York, Seoul, Korea, Chicago and Wageningen, The Netherlands. She has been an Artist –in Residence at the Fountainhead Artist Residency, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Platte Clove Artist Residency, the Yaddo Foundation, the Woodstock/Byrdcliffe AIR , the Anderson Ranch Art Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and Penland Center for Craft. Emily has also taught at has taught at Fordham University, Parsons School of Design, the Pratt School of Art and the Guggenheim’s Learning Through Art program. Her work has been written about in New City Chicago, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, Art USA and New York Magazine and artforum.com.

Kelly Medford is a traditionally trained oil painter who specializes in landscapes but loves to experiment with a wide range of subject matter including still lives and interiors. She has lived in Florence, Italy for the past 5 years and has traveled extensively through the United States and Europe painting. Kelly has studied and shown in both Italy and the United States and has completed a number of private commissions this year. She has placed in the top 3 for plein air paint outs in Italy over the past 4 years and has shown with the Florence Academy of Art for 2 consecutive summers. She is currently preparing for a show of Alaskan landscapes with The Gallery in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Jules Rochon graduated from Antioch in 2002 with a BA in Painting. He also studied drawing at the NY Studio School. He received an MFA in Painting from The University of North Carolina, where he received the Holderness Fellowship and both the Helen Thrush and Howard scholarships. Jules’ teaching career began at Antioch where he was an assistant instructor in art history, museums and painting. At the University of North Carolina- Greensboro, Jules was an assistant instructor in Painting, Drawing, and 3D Foundations, and he also served as a Foundry, Woodshop and Printshop Technician, and was a Preparator at the Maud Gatewood Gallery. Jules’ awards also include the Madonna Daniel Award from the Harwood Emerging Artist Fund and recent nomination for a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. This year Jules was an Artist-in-Residence at The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Past Exhibitions include galleries throughout North Carolina, Ohio, New York, Vermont and New Mexico, and his work has been included in private collections across the country.

MEDIA CONTACT  
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org