<Alumni News July 2005>

Alumni News

Guernsey Allen, Ph.D., M.A. Art History ’83, received the award for Outstanding Teacher for 2005 at Indiana University Southeast, where she is an associate professor of fine arts.

The SDSU Television and Film Department presented a screening of the 116-minute documentary "Ears, Shut. Eyes, Click," by Canaan Brumley in May at the Don Powell Theatre. Brumley started making the film in 2002 as an undergraduate film student at SDSU and completed the feature length work in 2005. The film depicts six weeks of rigorous, even brutal, boot camp at the San Diego Marine Recruit Depot and Camp Pendleton in the fall of 2002 just prior to the invasion of Iraq.

Brumley served as producer, director, cameraman and editor on the film while attending SDSU and working part-time as a military barber. His film is already gaining recognition, most recently in the Full Frame Documentary Festival held in Durham, N.C.

Cory Hibbs, B.M. Composition ’02, just finished his master’s in music composition from Boston University. His recent orchestral work, "Last Year, In New England," won the Concerto/Aria/Composition Competition and had its premiere performance in May by the Boston University Symphony. His piano sonata, "Commonwealth Sonata," won the Malloy Miller Prize. He will attend the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore for his doctorate in music and will study with Chris Theofinidis.

Shannon W. Martin, B.S., Criminal Justice ‘94, earned his law degree from the University of San Diego in 1998 and lives in Anchorage, Alaska. He works for Lane Powell PC.

Mark Morrison, B.A., Art ’96, lives in El Cajon and reports: "I enjoyed learning about art history and delving more deeply into drawing and intaglio printmaking during my years at SDSU. I continue to work on small drawings and prints to this day, but I earn my living as a teacher working with the most challenging of all media -- children! As a teacher I feel as though I am sometimes a performance artist acting out a role or a sculptor shaping the lives and character of my students. I am proud to be a graduate of SDSU!"

William Ponder, B.A. ’72, M.S. ’83, is vice president, student affairs, at Eastern Washington University. He was reappointed by the governor to a second term to the Statewide Combined Fund Committee, which raises millions of dollars for charities and agencies. He also was recently appointed to the Washington Boundary Review Board for Spokane County. In addition, he just finished a three-year term as a member of the Western Regional Council of the College Board.

Andrea Zittel

The Smithsonian American Art Museum named Andrea Zittel, B.A., Art ’88, as the fifth annual winner of its Lucelia Artist Award, established by the museum in 2001 to encourage leading contemporary artists. “Andrea Zittel has shown a sustained commitment to distinctive work that challenges conventional thinking and expectations about the nature of art, which is exactly what the Lucelia Artist Award is intended to celebrate and support,” said Elizabeth Broun, the museum’s director.

The award’s jurors noted that Zittel has become “a leading figure in the international art world and a strong influence on generations of artists worldwide."

Zittel’s sculptures and installations have been shown widely in the U.S. and Europe. After graduating from SDSU, she went on to earn an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. For more information, see the museum’s Web site .

Image courtesy of the Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY

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