Matthew Bachtell (art history, 2000), is currently the research assistant/webmaster of the Sloane Art Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is finishing his master's degree in Information and Library Science with a concentration in information management.

Keith Backhaus (art history, 2004) is the slide library assistant and studio manager for the Art and Art History department. He is also pursuing his MFA in creative writing at Goddard College’s Plainfield, VT residency program.

Letitia Baylor (art studio, 1999), is currently working and living in Los Angeles. After working as a photographer, she shifted to the entertainment industry, and is now an executive assistant for the vice president of a television production company.

Melissa (Missy) Beck Lemke (art history, 1992) is the cataloguer of Italian Art for the Library Image Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (http://www.nga.gov/resources/dpadesc.htm)

Mariel Berry (art history, 2005) has recently accepted a position with Volunteer San Diego. She’s working with the Youth Sevices program, helping to promote and find new service opportunities for community youth.

Elizabeth Botten (art history, 1999) is an Archives Technician at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., where, amongst myriad duties, she assists researchers with primary documents and artworks.

Allison Bryan (art studio, 2000) is working as a freelance photographer in Los Angeles, doing heaadshots, fashion, promotional and interior shots. She is working with a top modeling agencies and doing what she loves!

Jen Dohne (art studio, 2002) recently completed her MFA in the sculpture program of the School of the Visual Arts in New York

Kimberly Gladfelter (art history, 1991) is the director of the George Hemphill Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Gina Gwiazdowski (art studio, 2000) is a graphic designer for Booz-Allen Hamilton here in southern Maryland. She handles the formatting and graphics for briefs, slick sheets, and multimedia presentations, and in her spare time walks her puppy.

Katie Hammond (art history, 2000) is working as a research assistant in Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and thinking about pursuing a Masters in Public Health to start a career in women's health.

Gabriel Hodge (art studio, 1993) is an architect with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects in Pennsylvania. Since his time at St. Mary's he has worked on a variety of design projects including the St. Mary's College campus master plan, and a new student center for Catholic University in D.C.. He is also pursuing interests in graphic design and is writing and illustrating a children's book. Gabriel lives in Wilkes-Barre with his wife, Lisa (Chaney, SMCM '93) and their two sons, Aidan and Cohen.

Meredith Johnson (art history, 1999) switched coasts and is pursuing an MA in Curatorial Practice at CCAC (California College of Arts and Crafts), to finish in Spring 2005. She is also working at a gallery in San Francisco, and doing some independent curatorial and writing projects in addition to school.

Mike Johnson (art studio, 1996) Mike Johnson is an audio-visual technician at University of Baltimore and an adjunct professor at George Washington University in DC, where he has taught classes in video installation and photography. Mike continues to make both electronic and object based art, including assemblage, experimental electronic music, video installation, performance, and photography. Most recently, Mike’s sound pieces “You Are Not Alone” were included in The Department of Ecology, Art, and Technology’s “Wild Information Network” site-specific installation and his video work was included in the exhibition "Dynamic Field" a group exhibition curated by SMCM alumn Jayme McClellan at the Warehouse Arts Complex in DC.

Timothy Johnson (art studio, 1999) is currently in Boston reading, thinking, and making art. He plans to return to New York to pursue work at the Studio School, where he spent the summer of 1999.

««Karley Klopfenstein (art studio, 1997) is currently the director of Sculpture Key West, an annual outdoor sculpture exhibition that takes place every winter in Key West, Florida. This is a work she made as a partici-pant in the exhibition titled Red Tree, 2005

Amanda Lamont (art history/psychology, 2005) is pursuing her master’s degree in clinical psychology at Towson University.

Jacob Lewis (art history, 2002) is pursuing his Master’s degree at the Williams/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College.

Emily Macenko (art history, 2005) is Administrative Assistant in the Development Office of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Ama Mills-Robertson (art history, 2002) is currently completing an MA in art history at the University of Denver. (her email address is: ama_1129@yahoo.com)

Erika Myers-Bromwell (art studio, 2002) is the Assistant Director of the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art in New Harmony, Indiana.

Julia Oldham (art history, 2001) has been working in Washington D.C. at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, teaching various studio and history courses. She is off to Hyde Park in fall 2003 to attend the University of Chicago's art studio and theory program.

Casey Page (art studio, 1997) is an assistant director at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore.

«« Kevin Patrick (art studio, 1992) is an adjunct professor of art at Alabama State University. He earned an M.F.A. in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2001. In addition to teaching, he is "attempting to create the great American graphic novel."

Katherine Rizzo (art studio and biology, 2002) completed graduate work in the Scientific Illustration program at UC Santa Cruz. She is currently teaching part time and continuing to do freelance art/illustration for various clients including Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, the Trust for Public Land, and private individuals.

Julia Robey 's (art studio, 2000) work has been displayed in numerous Art League juried exhibits and she has done illustration work for Voice of the Hill newspaper and The Parishoner. In June 2002, her family purchased and renovated an old restaurant on H Street, NE turning it into what is now the H Street Playhouse, a full-scale theater. The Playhouse is home to Gallery H, of which Julia is the Director and Curator. The first exhibit in this new space was "Shift," a series of works by fellow St. Mary's Art graduate Julia Oldham. In her spare time, Julia sings and plays keyboards for the jam-band Serious Lee and for a side project, 33 1/3 and she writes a monthly column for Voice of the Hill newspaper. Julia lives just outside of DC in Mt. Rainier, MD.
 

Kirk Saunders (art studio, 2003) is getting his masters in a progarm called eco-dwelling at the New College of California in San Franscisco. He is also working with an organzation called City Repair doing community organizing and resource localization in the Bay Area and co-developing a prototype disaster refief home for victims of natural devestations. His email is ksaund1@yahoo.com

Amy Odem (Sehman) (art studio, 1998) earned a second bachelors in Art Education from Towson University right after St. Mary's. She is currently getting a masters in "Curriculum and Instruction: Integrating the Arts" from Lesley University. She lives in Limerick, Maine and has been an elementary art teacher for two schools in South Portland since 2000. She'd be happy to correspond with St. Mary's students who have questions about becoming an art teacher.

Kim Thorpe (art studio, 1994) presently lives and works in Washington D.C., where she has exhibited in several important group shows. She went straight from undergraduate to graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned an M.F.A. in 1998. She has also been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center.

Beverly Wise (art history, 1995) completed a master's program in Decorative Arts at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and has now returned to the states to pursue a museum-oriented career. Click here for her personal Webpages.

Jess Wolfley (art history, 2003) is director of public relations for Visions theater in Washington, DC. (her email address is: jessica@visionsdc.com

Many of these alums are happy to chat with current students about careers and the world out there—contact the Office of Career Services for a list of former art and art history majors who have signed up as career mentors!

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