Class of 2011

Since graduating, Rebecca Klassen has helped the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation inventory with their fiber collection. In July, she started a new job as associate editor at SoHo Publishing, where she primarily works on Vogue Knitting and Knit Simple magazines. She writes product reviews, non-technical feature articles, and a column on contemporary knitting and news from around the world. A vacation in Mexico City this past summer made great fodder for an upcoming issue of Vogue Knitting.

Class of 2010

Genny Cortinovis recently returned to the United States after spending over a year in Cambodia, where she had been designing eco-friendly clothing and textiles for a social enterprise, KeoK’jay, which employs and trains women with HIV. While living in Phnom Penh, she also taught design and fashion history at a local university and wrote a column on fashion trends and history for the magazine Asia Life. She is currently launching her own line of resort-wear that focuses on artisanal textiles called Bandini (www.dippedanddyed.com). For her first collection, she will be working with block printers and silk painters in Cambodia and India.

Quillan Rosen has been working in the American Art department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since the summer of 2010.

Class of 2009

Aleesha Nissen has been assistant registrar since January 2010 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, which will open on November 11, 2011. In December 2010, Aleesha became engaged and is planning a wedding for September 2012.

Class of 2008

Victoria Motlin (née Victoria Esterlis) is currently senior editor of Artnet’s decorative arts price database.

Class of 2007

After several years in curatorial positions at Michigan’s Cranbrook Art Museum, Emily Zilber joined the staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts in October 2010. As part of the team charged with opening the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art in September 2011—the MFA’s first permanent contemporary galleries—she worked to integrate contemporary decorative arts, craft, and design into the installation of the wing’s seven collections’ galleries, and curated Crafting Contemporary: Selections from The Daphne Farago Collection.

Class of 2006

Allie Stielau has a short article on early modern etuis appearing in the October 2011 issue of Kritische berichte, a German art history journal. She is beginning her fourth year as a PhD student at Yale.

Class of 2005

Jen Larson is currently the collections specialist for the Center for Book Arts in New York City. She recently wrote the introduction and entries for the Center’s exhibition catalogue for Multiple, Limited, Unique: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Center for Book Arts. Jen is also working as a freelance digitial project manager for the Fogelman Library at the New School, where she is leading the digitization of a collection of historic scrapbooks that chronicle the history of the New School from its inception through the 1950s. Additionally, following her work with Parsons the New School Kellen Design Archives as the project archivist for the Michael Kalil collection, Jen is continuing her independent scholarship about Kalil (1943-1991). Kalil was a noted postmodern, interior architect, and design educator who was known for integrating early digital technologies into residential and corporate spaces, and for creating a prototype of a living habitation module for the International Space Station (NASA).

Class of 2004

(Sara) “Gabriela” Allen recently moved to Austin, Texas and was chosen as a grand prizewinner of Harley-Davidson’s “My Time To Ride Contest” which included a new 1200C H-D Sportster and a visit to the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

Class of 2003

Scott W. Perkins recently curated Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home, an exhibition for Mid-America Arts Alliance about Wright’s design for the John E. Christian family (West Lafayette, Indiana, 1954), that will begin a national tour in 2012. At Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, he has been working with administrators from ten other Frank Lloyd Wright sites in attaining UNESCO World Heritage Site status. On November 1, he will begin a seven-month sabbatical from Price Tower to complete a draft of his dissertation on Eugene Masselink, Wright’s apprentice and secretary.

Class of 1999

Judith Gura continues to teach design history and theory at the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), where she is coordinator of courses in the department. In addition, she has taken on new responsibilities as their coordinator of public programs. In connection with this, she is co-curating an exhibition opening at NYSID on October 26 called Modern in the Past Tense: Revisiting a Landmark Exhibition commemorating “Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was” and she will be moderating panel discussions on mid-century modernism both at NYSID and at the Museum of Arts and Design. Her new book, Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010 will be published in November by WW Norton Inc.

Class of 1998

After 9 years, Michelle Hargrave has left the BGC and is now working as a curator of exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts in New York City.

Class of 1994

Alicia Priore is now the executive assistant to Mr. Frederick W. Beinecke at Antaeus Enterprises, Inc.