INSIGHT THE CORNISH MAGAZINE

A Cornish College of the Arts education leads artists in

directions that constantly surprise and delight. Who could

have predicted that Jerick Hoffer, Joshua Kohl, Scott

Garner, Haruko Nishimura, Reilly Sinanan and Mary

Lambert—all seen in this issue of InSight—would come

out of Cornish? They weren’t educated specifically for

what they’re now making a name for themselves doing,

and perhaps they couldn’t have been. Each of them

was set free by their work here to identify currents, adapt

to them and master them.

Cornish helps artists develop their own ways of knowing

the world by making sure they have access to the widest

possible influences on their thinking. We insist that

students be educated broadly. Project-based, collaborative

education is one of our strengths. With each passing

year, Cornish has placed more and more importance on

the liberal arts and with it an increased emphasis on student

research. Writing and self-expression have become

increasingly valued at Cornish. In short, we work to provide

disciplined ways of connecting students to their futures,

and we hope to send our students out into the world to

change it. Our mission is a declaration of our hopes for

each of our students: Artist, Citizen, Innovator.

Cornish is well positioned to contribute to the art world,

which is in the constant throes of redefinition. From its

founding in 1914, the College has stressed collaboration

and work across disciplines. As a result, we don’t have

to alter our approach as we conform to the new realities of

the 21st century. From the start we were designed to be

responsive to them. Our small size, our dedication to under-

graduate education and the close, personal attention we

pay to each and every student also allow us to respond

quickly to changing times. Cornish teaches its students to

be confident, optimistic, open to the world and alive to its

possibilities. Each artist is respected for a particular kind of

creative resonance, and we do everything we can to allow

this individuality to come to fruition.

We as an institution and as individuals stand ready to listen

and respond to the voices that reach us from the world at

large. Beyond the walls of our campus, beyond the contours

of our home city of Seattle and beyond even the borders

of our nation lie a myriad of educational opportunities. Out

there are minds hungry to grapple with the issues of our

age, the issues that schools are created to illuminate, that

provide inspiration for new thought communities in which

our students will make their lives.

It has been said that Cornish is one of a small number of

long-established conservatories on the West Coast.

“Conservatory” can be a descriptor we go by, certainly.

But the term conservatory also conjures images of a

fragile, glass-enclosed space shut off from nature, built for

NEW PARADIGMS,GRAND POSSIBILITIES

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

PHOTO by Winifred Westergard

INSIGHT

THE CORNISH MAGAZINE

02 Monsoon Season

04 No Boundaries

06 Commencement 2013

07 A Toast to the Provost

08 Mary Lambert

09 Jonathan Lindsay

10 The Year in Photos

12 The Anti-social Medium is the Message

14 Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center

IMPACT 2012/13

REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

II Grand gifts

III Launching the President’s Circle

IV The Campaign for Cornish

VI Parent’s Making a Difference

VII Cornish Financials 2012/2013

IX Annual Operating

INSIGHT CONTINUED

15 Summer at Cornish

21 Dr. Gwendolyn Freed

22 Alumni Newswire

26 Faculty & Staff Newswire

28 In Memoriam

IN THIS ISSUE

the nurturing of rare and delicate flowers. In this limiting

sense, a “conservatory” is the last thing we are and

the last thing we hope to be. We don’t intend to raise rare

orchids that can only bloom under glass, but rather we

mean to plant hardy perennials, strong-rooted to with-

stand all seasons and all weathers—resilience is, simply

put, a defining part of the Cornish DNA.

Some conservatories do grow artists in very specialized

ways. There is a call for artists “finished” in this way

from some quarters and good reasons for it. But that

is not what we’re aiming for at Cornish. We want our

students, whether in the performing arts connected to

the conservatory model or any of the other disciplines

we teach, to be engaged in the world, to make a way

for themselves, to innovate, to be entrepreneurial. Every

year the boundaries of arts disciplines come under

increasing and healthy stress: change has become the

guiding light. We are charged with educating artists

who are brimming full of good and original ideas, who

can be nimble and absolutely ready to move when

opportunities present themselves.

We couldn’t be more proud or excited about the direction

our graduating actors, designers, technicians, musi-

cians, dancers and visual artists have taken: when our

artists leave Cornish, they are not “finished,” rather,

they are begun.

COVER Scott Garner (DE ’10), BeetBox, interactive mixed media, 2012, disassembled view. For full description, see page 31.

Dr. Nancy J. Uscher

President, Cornish College of the Arts

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FEATURE ARTICLE

CORNISH THEATER ALUM

JERICK HOFFER—AKA JINKX MONSOON—

TAKES THE WORLD BY STORMBY CHRISTINE SUMPTION

BACKSTAGE BETWEEN SHOWS at the 5th Avenue

Theatre, Jerick Hoffer sits demurely in his dressing room

armchair, sipping tea and chatting amiably as he relaxes

in a light dressing gown. Moments ago, he bestrode the

stage as Velma Von Tussle, the titanic stage mother in

Hairspray, but now the only remaining signs of the outsized

character are yard-long eyelashes, nails like buttah and

a colossal blonde wig teetering vertiginously atop his head.

It just works better for him to stay in all that makeup until

the next performance than to wash it off and start all over

again. And over the past few years, Hoffer has learned a

thing or two about what works. In his drag persona, Jinkx

Monsoon, Hoffer was recently crowned the winner of

RuPaul’s Drag Race, and he is currently wowing New York

audiences as Kitty Witless in a sold-out off-Broadway run

of The Vaudevillians.

When Hoffer graduated from the Cornish theater program

in 2010, he rapidly rose from the ranks of notable new-

comers to become a sought-after pro. He played Mistress

Quickly in Henry V at Seattle Shakespeare Company and

turned heads with his portrayal of a nine year-old boy in Red

Ranger Came Calling at Book-It Repertory. “This carrot-

topped actor epitomizes the fractious kid we’ve all

encountered,” wrote Misha Berson in her Seattle Times

review. “Every gesture, expression, whine, snarl and

look of wonder works to create a brilliant performance.”

An actor does not live by good reviews—or nonprofit theater paychecks—alone. To keep a roof over his head, food on the table and creativity flowing freely, Hoffer returned to what he’s been doing since the age of 15: drag.

Soon after, Balagan Theatre tapped Hoffer to take on the

troubled young Moritz in Spring Awakening in what Seattle

Gay Scene called “a cast of ridiculously talented young

actors.” When the 5th Avenue Theatre announced that they

were producing Rent, Hoffer was quickly snapped up to

play the drag queen, Angel, and was praised in the Seattle

Times for his “class and piquant grace in the plum part.”

He topped it off with an acclaimed run in the title role of

Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Moore.

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But an actor does not live by good reviews—or nonprofit

theater paychecks—alone. To keep a roof over his head, food

on the table and creativity flowing freely, Hoffer returned

to what he’s been doing since the age of 15: drag. Hoffer

began appearing as Jinkx Monsoon in Le Faux at Julia’s

on Broadway, where he sang, danced and wisecracked his

way into the hearts of fans and into a gig as the show’s

host. Wrote Adrian Ryan in The Stranger, “Hoffer sings, he

belts, he croons, and he sells a song with the confidence

of two Ethel Mermans in a bar brawl.”

“My grandma was the first person I ever showed my drag

to,” says Hoffer, who grew up in Portland. “I would tell my

mom I was going to spend the weekend with Nana, but

what I was really doing was going to my grandma’s house,

getting into drag, and then going out to dance clubs.”

I got up to the mic and I just did an impression of my mom.

“I always knew that I wanted to be a performer,” he continues.

“I started taking dance classes—ballet and tap—at age

eight, and I was studying to be a ballet dancer. My first

time doing drag in a club, I dressed up like a wind-up doll

and did the whole thing as the Vivandière doll from the

Russian Nutcracker,” remembers Hoffer with a chuckle. “I

had some kind of ballet music in a techno-remix, and I

would come out and do my thing in pointe shoes. Then

someone asked me to host the show. But I had never

spoken in drag before. So I got up to the mic and I just did

an impression of my mom. And that’s where Jinkx came

from. I made this big flip from being a wind-up doll, non-

human character to being a middle-aged, single-mother

character. And Jinkx became a bottle blonde dressed in

leopard-print stretch fabric.”

When he applied to study theater at Cornish College of the

Arts, Hoffer thought he was done with drag. His family had

cautioned him that he probably shouldn’t expect to play

female roles in plays. “They told me, ‘You don’t want to put

yourself in a situation where you get your feelings hurt,’”

he says. “So that’s the way I thought of it. ‘If I do drag, that

has to be there, and theater has to be here, and the two

shall never meet.”

1 Jinkx Monsoon, photo by Jose’ Guzman Colon.

2 Jerick Hoffer in Much Ado About Nothing, Cornish College of the Arts 2010, photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis.

3 Jerick Hoffer (Moritz) and Brian Earp (Melchoir) in Spring Awakening at Balagan Theatre. Photo: Ashley Bagwell.

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NO BOUNDARIESTHE DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE TAKES

AUDIENCES ON OTHERWORLDLY JOURNEYSBY CHRISTINE SUMPTION

A larval creature struggles to emerge from a translucent cocoon. (Or is it an

egg?) A strange figure struggles to support herself on platform shoes and

awkward canes as music rains down from possessed musicians in nests high

above. Is it dance? An art exhibit? Theater? Multimedia? Opera? Who cares!

Enter the space and be transported.

FEATURE ARTICLE

HARUKO NISHIMURA, DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE Photo: Steven Miller,stevenmillerphotography.com.

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OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, the Degenerate

Art Ensemble (DAE)—a partnership between Joshua

Kohl (MU ’96) and Haruko Nishimura (MU ’92–96) with

a close circle of collaborators—has generated an

impressive array of contemporary works that refuse

to acknowledge boundaries between the visual and

performing arts. Described by the Seattle Times as

“dream imagery free-floating on a sea of surreality,”

DAE works such as Sonic Tales, Cuckoo Crow, and

Red Shoes invite audiences to immerse themselves in

arresting worlds of sound, image and movement.

“Degenerate Art Ensemble treats contemporary perfor-

mance like a rubber band,” writes a critic in the

Downtown News (Los Angeles), “always expanding,

contracting, snapping, always helping us to listen

and look at life with curious dynamics.”

Joshua Kohl, co-founder, conductor, composer and co-

artistic director of DAE, traces the beginnings of his

work as a collaborative artist to his studies at Cornish

College of the Arts in the 1990s. “While I was at

Cornish, there was a short-lived wonderful class taught

by Jarrad Powell and Pat Graney that paired up dancer/

choreographers with composer/musicians,” he recalls.

“The class happened to be a great mix musically of

jazz and classical musicians, some studying composition,

others just people who were writing music. The really

brilliant part of this class was that we were required to

create an entirely new piece with a choreographer every

week for the entire semester. So there was this rhythm

established: the meeting with the dancer, talking over

ideas, and then very quickly we would have to commit

to one idea and make something. The composers

were ‘the band’ and the choreographers were ‘the dance

company’ for each of our pieces. It was this rhythm that

got started in me at that time that has basically continued

in my life since 1995. I haven’t gone a year without

composing new work for dance and theater since then.

It was really this amazing kick-start.”

Students gravitate naturally toward this ‘post-disciplinary’ space.

“Cornish’s roots lie in ground that supports the inter-

mingling of the disciplines,” says Dean of the College

Jenifer K. Ward, citing the collaboration between

Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the 1930s and

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COLLABORATIONS & INTERACTIONSPerformance groups of artists collaborating across traditional lines are on the upswing at Cornish.

Picture Cornish as a glacier. Over the course of four years,

students move slowly from the head to the terminus, finally

calving into the open water of a career. Mostly, smaller

columns of ice are dropping off the face of the glacier, but

increasingly, columns are sticking together as they slide

away from Cornish, forming great chunks of ice that are

moving off as massive bergs. The icebergs in this metaphor

are collaborative groups of students and alumni.

Collaboration is smiled on at Cornish. It always has been.

Certainly there have been any number of dance troupes,

theater companies, bands, orchestras and design partner-

ships that have come out of the College. Of particular

note, though, are collaborations in which the members come

from a number of different disciplines, for interdisciplinary

work has also been encouraged at Cornish. Lately, a number

of interdisciplinary collaborations have been instituted

which is, perhaps, a sign of the times.

The work of the Degenerate Theater Ensemble is covered

in the accompanying article. Saint Genet has also forged

a reputation for itself, recently invited to Donaufest in

Switzerland to perform Paradisical Rites. Wood recently per-

formed Mortar & Pestle at On the Boards. Pendleton

House just opened its first work at Velocity, A Beginning,

and The Sho will open its first in October, Filthy/Mockingbird.

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COMMENCEMENT 2013

ALL PHOTOS Michelle Smith-Lewis

4 Cricket, Deborah Ann Corrales, DA ’13. Choreography by Anna Lizette Connor, DA ’09, Music by Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata, Sempre Libera Degg’io. Sung by Maria Callas.

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3 Interim Provost (2012–13) Jenifer Ward, President Nancy J. Uscher and honorary degree recipients Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem; and Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt, David Harrington,John Sherba, Jeffrey Zeigler.

1 Student speaker, Miles Toland, AR ’13.

2 New graduates celebrate.

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5 Tango, Melissa Sue Achten, MU ’12. Composed by Carlos Salzedo.

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6 President Uscher and Interim Provost (2012–13) Ward with Teaching Excellence Award recipients Kate Myre and Tina Aufiero. Not pictured, recipients Bonnie Biggs and Roberta Russel.

A TOAST TO THE PROVOST

Moira Scott Payne brings a resume with some real heft to

her new position as provost and vice president of academic

affairs at Cornish College of the Arts. As provost, she is

in charge of all things academic, overseeing the College’s

curricula, faculty and research. It’s a complicated

business: enter her office at the wrong time and you’ll be

confronted with graphs of mind-boggling precision set

out in eye-watering, 4-point type charting what one must

suppose is the entire academic endeavor at the College

from now to the crack of doom. Kepler did not chart the

heavens with such assiduity.

Anything a business-minded person would want to know

about Mrs. Payne is answered at length in her official bio

on Cornish’s website. But everyone knows that such

biographies gloss over all the fun stuff. As an arts college

with a responsibility to being creative, it behooves us to

rather concentrate on it. It should be added that an explo-

ration of the fun stuff allows us to further gauge Moira’s

qualifications for the job.

Starting with proper forms of address, it’s “Moira” or “Mrs.

Payne” but for her official title, we’re to use “Provost

Scott Payne” not “Provost Payne.” This turns out to make

perfect sense. “’Provost Payne’ just sounds bad,” Provost

Scott Payne says, “not the sort of name to be known for.”

True, Provost Payne sounds like a character from Dickens,

and she is likely to be the sort to refuse a hungry under-

graduate another bowl of gruel. Cornish’s new provost

intends to foster warm relations with faculty and students

A FEW MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

CORNISH’S NEW PROVOST, MOIRA SCOTT PAYNE

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FEATURE ARTICLE

MARY LAMBERT:SHE KEEPS US WARM

The Macklemore song Same Love, featuring Mary Lambert, arose as the

anthem of those supporting same-sex marriage; with the release of She Keeps

Me Warm, Lambert reminds us what we’re fighting for.

BY MAXIMILIAN BOCEK

MARY LAMBERT Photo: Debora Spencer, hair by Jeremy Novak.

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JONATHAN LINDSAY

REFERENDUM 74, the legalization of same-sex marriage,

was put before the people of the State of Washington in

2012. Lost in the chilly legalese of the referendum process

and the horse-race language of the political campaign

were the simple human desires that gave the referendum

its deepest meaning: the desire for fairness, equality,

acceptance and, most of all, love. A new single by Mary

Lambert, a 2011 Cornish graduate in musical composition,

brings it all home. The song is called She Keeps Me Warm.

In the middle of the movement to get the referendum

passed, a kind of anthem arose, a tune by rapper

Macklemore called Same Love. A Seattle native,

Macklemore was just beginning to break on the hip-hop

scene, and he put this on the line to speak out on gay

marriage. In the song, he spoke from the outside, as a

sympathizer to the dilemma of gay couples who want

to marry. The lyrics were a meditation on hatred in the hip-

hop community and his response as a boy to sexual

stereotypes with an acknowledgment of his gay uncle

and his partner. The lyrics culminate with the lines “I

might not be the same, but that’s not important/No

freedom ’til we’re equal, damn right I support it.” In a

stroke of genius, Macklemore asked a young, gay

musician from Seattle, Mary Lambert, to add a voice from

the inside in the form of chorus to be heard between

rap verses. What she wrote for Same Love was a simple

love poem to her partner with the hook line “she keeps

me warm.”

The referendum did pass, and same-sex marriage became

legal in the State of Washington. But even though Same

Love contained specific references to the campaign, its

life did not end with the referendum’s passage. It has

continued to get solid airplay nationally and has become

the anthem for a wider legalization effort.

“I thought the song might get big around Washington

State,” Mary told Addicted, “because of our big vote on

gay marriage approaching, but never expected it to

have the global impact. I have to pinch myself every day.”

With the success of Same Love has come a growing

desire by fans to hear more from Mary Lambert; they

wanted a whole, stand-alone song to the “she keeps me

warm” chorus. This Lambert gave them on July 22nd.

“Releasing She Keeps Me Warm today is a massive and

scary step,” writes Lambert on her website, as she

As Cornish approaches its centennial year, it has big plans

for its second century. Key to these is enrollment: how

many students will come to Cornish? How will they fit in?

How will Cornish, reciprocally, fit into their hopes and

dreams? The person in charge of understanding these deep

questions and for matching the right students with a

Cornish education is the vice president of enrollment man-

age ment. As of September 3, there is a new one of these

to head Cornish’s recruitment and retention efforts:

Jonathan Lindsay.

Cornish President Dr. Nancy J. Uscher is unreserved in

her enthusiasm for Lindsay’s arrival. “Cornish College of the

Arts is very pleased to welcome Jonathan Lindsay as vice

president of enrollment management,” she says. “Jonathan

brings a wealth of experience in the enrollment area to

Cornish and he will be an outstanding member of the senior

leadership team of the college. We are thrilled to welcome

Jonathan to the Cornish community.”

“Two things have become apparent,” said Lindsay, at the

end of his second day on the job. “One, there is huge

potential here, and two, there is a lot to do.”

Lindsay comes to Cornish from the Columbus College of

Art & Design, where he was vice president of enrollment

management and communications. Before that, he served

as vice president for marketing and enrollment services at

the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Long before all of his work in college enrollment, Jonathan

Lindsay was a country boy in the county of Kent, southeast

of London. His father ran a large tree nursery there, and

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THE YEAR IN PHOTOS2012/2013

1 Beth Graczyk in John Cage’s STEPS, A Composition for a Painting, 1989, Cornish Collaboratory. The 2013 performance of STEPS was a collaboration between Jarrad Powell, Beth Graczyk and Robert Campbell, with assistance from Reilly Sinanan (AR ’14), Danie Allinice (AR ’14), and Matthew Matsuda, and with movement artists Corrie Befort, Shannon Stewart, Alia Swersky, and Mary Margaret Moore. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

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2 Design 123 Exhibition. Sarah Xanthakis (DE ’14). Photo: Winifred Westergard

3 EXPO 13/BFA Art Show. Deanna Wade (AR ’13). Photo: Scott Moore, bellevuefineart.org.

4 Cornish Opera Theater. Venus & Adonis. Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis.

5 Cornish Dance Theater, Fall 2012. Concerto Grosso, choreographed by Pat Hon. Photo: Chris Bennion.

6 EXPO 13/BFA Design Show. Chelsea Xavier (DE ’13). Photo: Winifred Westergard.

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EXPO ‘13/BFA ART SHOW Mat Daniluk (AR ’13). Photo: Winifred Westergard.

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THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGEBY MAXIMILIAN BOCEK

Marshal McLuhan famously said “the medium is the message.” If that’s the case,

the message of Cornish grad Scott Garner’s mobile app is coming through loud

and clear: enough, already.

FEATURE ARTICLE

SCOTT GARNER, PIANO GLOVES.Interactive mixed media, 2009.

The Piano Gloves are wearable, sculptural, input devices that allow the user to “play piano” on any hard surface. Each finger of the gloves is tipped with a button that, when triggered, sends data to a laptop through an Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform. On the laptop, a simple “sketch,” written in a language called Processing, interprets the incoming data and triggers the appropriate piano sample.

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SECRETLY, YOU HATE IT ALL: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,

the endless texting, the constant hammering your head

takes from the chronic over-exposure to social media. Join

the quietly grumpy club whose membership roll is appar-

ently exploding, people who just want to be left in peace.

Club members revel in empty in-boxes and believe, deep

in our hearts, that “friend” is a noun, not a verb and, more-

over, is used to refer to someone who is actually a friend.

It’s an unofficial club, of course, because no one of us

wants to face public censure as a neo-Luddite standing in

the way of progress. So we’ve been suffering in silence.

Up to now there hasn’t been a prophet to lead us out of

this wilderness.

Our wait is over. Cornish grad Scott Garner (DE ’10) is

emerging as the architect of the long overdue concept

of “anti-social media.” His counter-revolutionary agitations

against the intrusion of computer connections into

our lives has gotten him notice in news outlets like ABC,

Huffington Post, CBC and The Wall Street Journal, along

with interview requests from Ireland to India to Australia.

Garner’s opening salvo in the war on social media is the

mobile app he designed for smart phones, Hell is Other

People. Garner’s app cleverly piggy-backs on another

mobile app, FourSquare. FourSquare was designed to

make us available to our “friends” at every conceivable

moment. Using GPS, the app sends your location to every-

one you know and allows them to track your location on

a map. Properly appalled by this concept, Garner created

Hell is Other People to turn FourSquare on its head.

Garner’s app appropriates the FourSquare map, uses it to

pinpoint the location of a user’s “friends,” then plots the

best course to avoid running into any of them.

Both FourSquare and Hell is Other People originated in the

shop of NYU’s prestigious Interactive Telecommunications

Program (ITP) of its Tisch School of the Arts, where Garner

is a candidate for a master’s degree. ITP brings together

students whose passions fall somewhere between art and

technology. A serious student calls it a “multidisciplinary

digital media lab”; one a bit less so counters that ITP is

“like Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry for geeks.”

Playtime implications aside, a number of its graduates go

on to form successful high-tech startups.

Scott Garner started out in life a very, very long way from

either Cornish or NYU, in Amarillo, Texas. If there’s a prize

for being “nowheresville,” Amarillo might have been a

front-running contender but for eccentric millionaire

Stanley Marsh 3. Marsh was the master absurdist who put

Amarillo on the map with works like the iconic Cadillac

Ranch as well as The Floating Mesa and the Dynamite

Museum. This last work is not a building, as it sounds,

but thousands of fake road signs in and around Amarillo

bearing oblique, witty messages. Scott worked on

designing and putting up many of the signs, and there’s

not a little resonance with Marsh’s sly humor in his own

work. “Stanley and the gang were a huge influence on me

as a creative person and, really, as a person in general.”

Garner’s first jobs as a designer, techie and code-monkey

were with Marsh’s various companies in Amarillo. When

he left the Texas Panhandle to take one of many positions

as a programmer, it was the beginning of a peripatetic life

for him that he to some degree is still living. “After leaving

Amarillo and bouncing around the country for a few years,”

he says, “I found myself in Chicago for absolutely no reason.

During that time, I paid a few visits to the Northwest and

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HOME TO THE NEXT GENERATION of talented, innova-

tive artists, Cornish College of the Arts invites you to

immerse yourself in the wide range of artistic and cultural

experiences that we offer. Students, alumni and faculty all

contribute to a rich panorama of performances, exhibitions,

lectures and demonstrations.

Dance, music, theater, visual art—and extraordinary mash-

ups of different art forms—explode throughout the city.

All over our campus, you can experience all of the arts; in

South Lake Union at Raisbeck Performance Hall and Cornish

Main Gallery (and, sometimes, the surrounding streets)

and on Capitol Hill, in the PONCHO Concert Hall in historic

Kerry Hall.

We are thrilled to add the Cornish Playhouse—and Seattle

Center—to the Cornish campus. From theater, music

and visual art in the Playhouse, to site-specific dance across

the grounds, to performances and events in the Armory,

our students, faculty and alumni will add even more artistic

excitement to our region’s premier gathering space. We

hope to bring myriad artistic experiences out of the “class-

room” and across Seattle Center, indoors and out. As

our partnerships with Seattle Center and our fellow resident

organizations grow and evolve, we will explore even

more opportunities to engage and inspire visitors through-

out the Center.

We look forward to ensuring that the Playhouse continues

to welcome patrons who have come to love this intimate

per formance space, expanding existing partnerships with

organizations like Seattle Shakespeare Company,

Whim W’him and Intiman Theater Festival. We are also

actively reaching out to develop new relationships that

will intro duce artists and cultural experiences to new and

current audiences.

Come visit us at Seattle Center!

CORNISH PLAYHOUSE AT SEATTLE CENTER

BAT BOY: THE MUSICALProduced at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center by the Theater and Performance Production departments.

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IMPACT2012/13REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

Bobbie and Michel Stern donate their beautiful Bechstein to Cornish. Photo: Mark Bocek.

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Said Music Department Chair Kent Devereaux: “We're

fortunate to receive the gifts of three gorgeous pianos, each

so different in tone and character from one another, and

each with a remarkable story behind it. The 1926 Bechstein

piano embodies the best in early 20th-century piano

design and construction, while the 1962 Baldwin 9-foot

concert grand represents the pinnacle of mid-century

American piano design, a time when Baldwin frequently

bested Steinway as the top U.S. piano manufacturer.

The 1965 Yamaha grand exemplifies a new era—the emer-

gence of extremely high-quality Japanese pianos.” A

fourth piano, a 9-foot Steinway concert grand, has also

been added to the mix.

THE BECHSTEIN GRAND

A beautiful Bechstein grand piano has arrived at Kerry

Hall, the last stop of a long and often harrowing journey

that included an escape from Nazi Germany. It is a gift

from former Cornish trustee Bobbie Stern and her hus-

band Michel Stern.

Michel’s musician father, Gustav Stern, was a Kappelmeister

in Duisburg, Germany. The Bechstein was his piano. With

the rise of Nazism and its targeting of Jewish citizens, the

Stern family fled to Paris, where Michel was born in 1936.

The piano fled with them to France, but the Sterns and the

Bechstein did not find safety there; the German army

invaded the low countries and France, entering Paris in June,

1940. Secreting their beloved piano in a Paris warehouse,

the Sterns escaped to Vichy France, where they faced the

anti-Semitism of the Nazis’ tool, the Vichy government. They

GRAND GIFTS LIVING LEGACIES IN MUSIC

were, however, able to once again to make their escape,

and—with their uncle Herman Stern’s help—ultimately made

their way to the United States via Casablanca.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Herman Stern, Michel’s great uncle,

had been working tirelessly with State Department officials

and the U.S. Senator frome his home sate of North Dakota,

Gerald Nye, to bring more than 100 friends and relatives

to America from Germany. Michel, his parents and his brother

were among those saved. Herman's heroism is chronicled

in the riveting book, You Have Been Kind Enough to Assist

Me: Herman Stern and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, by

Terry Shoptaugh.

Herman Stern encouraged his nephew Gustav to follow his

passion for music, and so the family ultimately settled in

Seattle. Here, Gustav became a fixture in the cultural life of

the city until his death in 1989.

The Bechstein? After the war, happily for all, the family was

able to retrieve the piano from the warehouse in Paris and

Gustav Stern and his beloved Bechstein were reunited.

While it is poignant to pass along a musical instrument that

has been with the family through so much, Bobbie Stern

commented that the time for the gift is right and that Cornish

was the right place, “This is a gift of history to enable the next

generation to go forward and enjoy the magical sound of

music,” she said. The Bechstein will be used to train pianists

in the music department.

Late last spring in a strange confluence of fates, Cornish received no fewer than

four magnificent grand pianos, each with its own rich history and connection to

alumni and friends from different eras.

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Michel Stern echoed his wife’s thoughts and added,

“My father would have been proud and delighted that

our gift of ‘Herr Bechstein’ would benefit Cornish, its

faculty and its dedicated students. This piano, which

survived the Holocaust, if given tender and loving care,

will continue to bring pleasure to all who hear or play

it until its 100th year of existence in 2026 and, hopefully,

long after.”

THE BALDWIN GRAND

The late Maria Balagno Lundquist began studying piano

at the precocious age of four. At 16, she received a full

scholarship to study at Cornish. In 1941 she earned a

Junior Certificate as Teacher of Piano and then returned

to earn a Performer’s Diploma in 1947. She continued

performing and teaching music throughout her life.

When it came time to prepare her will, she named Cornish

as the recipient of her “magnificent piano.”

The stunning, 9-foot concert grand Baldwin was originally

used for performances during the 1962 World’s Fair

in the Seattle Opera House. It then traveled to Seattle

University, and, some years later, it was purchased

by Maria for her home studio.

When Maria’s daughter informed Cornish of this estate

gift, Music Chair Kent Devereaux determined that its

best use would be to support musical performances at

our new Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center. Forty

years later, Maria’s piano, with its Cornish connection,

has returned full circle to the Seattle Center.

THE YAMAHA GRAND

Genavie “Geb” Nichols studied classical piano at Cornish

in the 1960s with renowned pianist John Rowland

Cowell, who helped her select a piano to match her

style, a Yamaha grand. With her second husband,

Nichols later moved to Shaw Island, where they owned

and operated the Shaw General Store for a number

of years. A lifelong arts enthusiast, Genavie regularly

journeyed from Shaw to attend symphony, ballet and

theater performances in Seattle.

After Genavie’s death, her daughter, Sarah Whittaker,

reached out to Cornish to see if the Music Department

would be interested in receiving the piano. The answer

was an enthusiastic “yes.”

LAUNCHING THE PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE AT CORNISH

Following the 2013 Commencement at Benaroya Hall,

members of the newly organized President’s Circle

mingled with the celebrated honorary degree recipients

at a private party in a South Lake Union penthouse.

The President’s Circle was established to recognize and

honor friends of Cornish who contribute a minimum

of $5,000 annually. Circle members enjoy exclusive oppor-

tunities to personally engage with President Nancy J.

Uscher and with artistic innovators and thought leaders

when they visit the campus.

To learn more about how you can meet the artists, citizens

and innovators of our time by joining this exciting new

group, contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at

206.726.5064.

TOP Kronos Quartet member David Harrington enjoys the home of party hosts May and Wah Lui.Photo: Winifred Westergard.

BOTTOM President Nancy Uscher welcomes President’s Circle member Sherry Raisbeck, son Eric Valpey and friend Melanie Masson. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

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IN 2002, Cornish embarked on an ambitious and bold plan

to expand its campus and establish a firm foundation for

future growth. This plan was supported by the Campaign

for Cornish, the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken

by the college. Over a decade later, we are invigorated by

the opportunities we now have with an expanded campus,

anchored in the heart of urban Seattle, and a growing

endowment which will provide support to students and

faculty for generations to come.

Campaign leaders like Eve and Chap Alvord and James

and Sherry Raisbeck were among those who realized

extraordinary aspirations for the College, raising more

than $35 million. This directly supported campus

development initiatives and our endowment. We celebrate

the following accomplishments that have been made

possible by the generous support of the community.

A NEW CAMPUS IN THE HEART OF URBAN SEATTLE

Thanks to strategic foresight, the generosity of donors and

a pioneering spirit inspired by founder Nellie Cornish, we

were able to establish an early real estate footprint in the

newly revitalized South Lake Union neighborhood. This

shift to a more urban campus has set the stage for the future

of Cornish and provides an environment for students and

faculty that is energizing, dynamic and directly connected

to the next wave of growth and innovation in the region.

AN EXPANDED FOOTPRINT

No longer nestled humbly on Capitol Hill, Cornish now has

an expansive footprint in the city, anchored by the new

campus in South Lake Union. Over the past decade, we

have expanded our geographic and facilities footprint

to serve a growing student body. We’ve seen an increase

in enrollment as we’ve doubled our square footage.

A GROWING ENDOWMENT

A critical source of support for any organization is provided

through a strong and growing endowment. During the

Campaign, we increased our endowment by more than 85

percent. While we still have room to grow, this source

of ongoing support for the College, made by possible by

hundreds of donors, is an essential part of our legacy. It is

all the more important as we continue to honor those for

whom named endowments have been established.

All of this represents a significant investment in the future

of Cornish, and the community we serve. We now look

forward to expanding on these investments to drive further

growth in enrollment and program expansion as outlined

in our newly adopted Strategic Plan.

We have some exciting projects coming up that demonstrate

this expansion. They include:

NEW STUDENT HOUSING

We will develop a new student housing project on property

currently owned by Cornish. The facility, slated to break

ground in 2014, will provide more than 400 beds as well as

communal facilities and student learning space. This will

be developed in partnership with Capstone Development

Partners, a leading developer of student housing in the U.S.

THE CENTENNIAL LAB

Centennial is the middle name of our founder, Nellie Cornish.

We will also celebrate our Centennial beginning in the fall

of 2014. Aptly named, the Centennial Lab is a transfor ma-

tional project for Cornish. This facility, which will be

developed as a renovation of a current building we own, will

function as a new home for the visual arts at Cornish,

but, it will be much more than that. It will be a facility open

to experimentation across all disciplines and media,

responding to the needs of emerging artists regardless

of major.

THE CORNISH PLAYHOUSE

Cornish began leasing the Playhouse in January of 2013.

Located in the artistic heart of the city, Seattle Center, the

Cornish Playhouse will be updated to current and emerging

standards of professional theater production. This theater

provides an unparalleled venue for student learning, profes-

sional practice and community engagement.

THE CAMPAIGN FOR CORNISH

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CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT

$1,000,000 and above Eve and Chap Alvord Building for the ArtsJohn Gordon Hill and Ellen HillThe Jon and Mary+ Shirley FoundationJohn W. Jordan and Laura Welland* Sherry* and James Raisbeck

$500,000–$999,999AnonymousKenneth and Marleen Alhadeff and the

Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation

Elias and Karyl AlvordGladmar TrustThe Norcliffe FoundationPaul G. Allen Family FoundationDavid and Isabel Welland

$100,000–$499,999Anonymous4CultureMichael and Marjorie AlhadeffDr. + and Mrs. Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr.The Boeing Company Katharyn Alvord GerlichJoshua Green FoundationEdmund W. Littlefield, Jr., Laura Littlefield

and The Sage FoundationPONCHOJames and Kalpana Rhodes

$10,000–$99,999Rick and Nancy AlvordVirginia AndersonRoger Bass and Richard NelsonThe Bravo Fund Joseph and Maureen Brotherton C. Kent and Sandra CarlsonSturges and Pam DorranceFoushee & Associates Co., Inc.Michael and Katharine GibsonHylton and Lawrence Hard FundHeather Howard and Roderick CameronWilliam and Ruth InghamPam* and Ned JohnsonRichard KaalaasDianne and Steve LoebWanda and W.A.+ LynchMichael and Barbara McKernanJoan and Paul PoliakJean RhodesElizabeth and Stephen RummageJulie Speidel* and Joseph HenkeStephen Walker+ and Deborah Weasea

$5,000–$9,999Glenn Amster and Shelly ShapiroBoeing Gift Matching ProgramMarianne Sorich Francis* and C. Douglas

FrancisJudith Kindler and Kyle JohnsonRichard and Rachel KlausnerDorothy and Sterling MillerCarol and William MunroLinda and Arthur PedersonEllen* and Joe RutledgeCarlo and Eulalie ScandiuzziSellen ConstructionDean Speer*Ellie SpragueBobbie* and Michel SternSergei P. Tschernisch and Kate PurwinMarcy Walsh

$1,000–$4,999AnonymousShary and Michael Frankfurter Wanda GregoryLois Harris and Debra Crespin

HasbroIBM CorporationJane+ and J.J. EwingLaura KaminskyGilbert Leiendecker, Jr. and Sally

LeiendeckerLawrence and Karen MatsudaMicrosoft Giving CampaignGail and Larry RansomJamie and Michael RawdingToby Whitney

Up to $999Anonymous Shawn BachtlerJane BuckmanVicki ClaytonTom CufleyTanner Hawkins*John Merner*Robert and Catherine MorrowRoss and Ava OhashiPONCHOJeffrey and Suzanne RiddellPhilip TalmadgeAllyson Vanstone and Peter PendlRichard E.T. White and Christine

Sumption

ENDOWMENT AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

$100,000 and aboveKenneth and Marleen Alhadeff and

the Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation

Hearst FoundationKreielsheimer Foundation Sherry* and James RaisbeckThe Jon and Mary+ Shirley

FoundationDavid Skinner and Catherine Eaton

Skinner

$25,000–$99,999Eve and Chap AlvordJoseph and Maureen Brotherton Estate of Peter VinikowJohn GoodladCarol and Brian GregoryJudith Kindler and Kyle JohnsonDouglas and Kimberly McKennaStanley and Fumiko+ SparksEvelyn SteenIrving Williams and Susan Barash

Williams

$10,000–$24,999Estate of Gwenn Barker HarshBoeing Gift Matching ProgramSally BehnkeSophia and Marc BoroditskyZel Brook* and Brad WhitingJohn Gordon Hill and Ellen HillNoel HonPatricia Hon, and James BatesJon Howe and Tyler Howe Steve Jensen* and Vincent LipeMicrosoft Giving CampaignJanet Penna Crane and Tom CraneAnn Ramsay-JenkinsBrian Schilling-George* and Susan

TuckerMark and Susan+ TorranceWells Fargo Community Support

Programs

$5,000–$9,999Elias and Karyl AlvordC. Kent and Sandra CarlsonCharles Simonyi Fund for Arts &

SciencesDavid and Judy DeMoss

WE WANT TO THANK THE FOLLOWING DONORS

FOR THEIR EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORT OF THIS

HISTORIC CAMPAIGN.

Gifts and pledges from the following donors have been

recognized cumulatively from January 1, 2002 through

May 31, 2013.

L. Robin Du Brin and Douglas HoweJanet Frohnmayer and David MarquesNatascha Greenwalt-Murphy* and

Ryan MurphyWilliam and Ruth InghamGeorge KropinskiCynthia and John McGrathCandy and Monte MidkiffOliver and Yolanda PardoRobert and Elizabeth PardoRobert and Annette ParksJoan and Paul PoliakPONCHOJames and Bonnie ReinhardsenRiley & Nancy Pleas Family Foundation Robert SandbergSoros Fund Charitable Foundation

Matching Gifts ProgramGloria and Donald SwisherSevert Thurston and the Thurston

Charitable FoundationDouglas and Janet TrueThe Wachovia FoundationDavid WilliamsVirginia Wyman

$2,500–$4,999AnonymousCornish PlayersHylton and Lawrence Hard FundSpencer Curtis and Kristen HoehlerHeather Howard and Roderick CameronJulie HungarMarilyn and John KlepperAmber* and Sam KnoxMarguerite Casey FoundationEdward and Katherine MarinaroSean V. Owen* and Tricia McKayLaurel Tanner Dave and Linda Tosti-LaneGary and Karla WatermanWm. D. and E.M. Lane Foundation

$1,000–$2,499AnonymousAEPHI SistersMichael and Marjorie AlhadeffDr. + and Mrs. Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr.Katharyn Alvord GerlichGlenn Amster and Shelly ShapiroLloyd and Pauline AndersonVirginia AndersonRoger Bass and Richard NelsonFrancesca and Bruce BergerJohn and Diahann BrasethBruce and Kathleen BryantPeter Cairo and Kathy DeJardinEllen and Al CarlinBonnie Cohen and Mel BaerGene Colin and Susan JanusComputer Associates International, Inc.Judy and William CourshonJody Cunningham and Mark MennellaCarole FullerMichael and Katharine GibsonJoanna* and Gary GoodmanRichard and Betty HedreenHeather Howard and Roderick CameronIntel CorporationPam and Ned JohnsonJohn Jordan and Laura Welland*Saleh and Lucy JoudehRichard and Rachel KlausnerNina Ferrari LaSalleKristin and Earl LasherWalter and Conny LindleyEllen and Mark LipsonDianne and Steve LoebKaaren and Richard MarquezLawrence and Karen MatsudaKirby and Diane McDonaldTim and Paula McMannon

John Merner*Michael and Phyllis MinesCarol and William MunroLeah Pallin-Hill and Bryan HillCarl and Marian PruzanAnn ReinkingJeff and Suzanne RiddellHal RyderCarlo and Eulalie ScandiuzziSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.David and Stacya SilvermanTom Skerritt and Julie TokashikiBenjamin Smith and Elizabeth TorranceJane and Roger SoderJulie Speidel* and Joseph HenkeBobbie* and Michel SternKirby and Heidi TorranceTouchstone CorporationMaurice and Rhoda TritschlerSergei P. Tschernisch and Kate PurwinStephen Walker+ and Deborah WeaseaCarolyn and Glenn WhiteDeborah WinchesterMarylin and Cliff WinklerWyman Youth Trust

Up to $999Anonymous (10)Jane AbelAlan Stephenson Boyd Family TrustAnne AdamsRobin Albee-Kesich* and Frederick KesichAlex Alben Jennifer Albright Leah AlexanderRobert Alexander Phyllis AllportJames and Karen AlmonAltria GroupAmeriprise Financial Employee Gift

Matching ProgramAdele and Grover AndersonAngela Anderson*Eliza Anderson*Kjerstine Anderson*Dollie and Hubert ArmstrongSarah ArmstrongSally and Herbert ArnsteinJoselito and Faye AsenceHilery AvrittJohn Aylward and Mary FieldsSarah Azzinaro*Karrie Baas* and Margaret SmithMuriel Bach Diamond+ Donald and Janet BackmanEmily BaderIrena and Doug BakerBrett* and Dage BakerMary BakkeWade Ballinger and Paul SkinnerJoslyn Balzarini* and Kash WimerLinda Banning*Roy Harsh+ Jeffrey Baron and Janet SkeelsCynthia BarrientosCynthia BartelsMargaret BartoPatricia BauchSteven and Cathleen BaughKurt Beattie and Marianne OwenJaquelyn Beatty and Warren WilkinsPaula Becker and Barron BrownBonnie and Moses BeermanMax and Teresa BeeryDidzis Beitlers*Aaron BellTamara Belland*Edmund Belsheim and Lisa RavenholtJoel and Maureen BenolielRalph BerkowitzLois BerryKevin and Sarah Beshlian

*alumnus/alumna +deceased V

Victoria BettesRhea Bez*Tawnya* and Sanjiv BhattacharyaBonnie BiggsAmy BingamanMarcia and David BinneyBrandon BirdAriana BirdAudrey BlochKaren BloomquistBruce and Ann BlumeJanet Boguch and Kelby FletcherWilliam Bolcom and Joan MorrisRebecca and David BolinDorothy BollmanPenelope and Vernon BoltonAdrienne Bolyard and Gene Thorkildsen Leonard Bonifaci*+Skye Borgman* and Matt ZattellElisabeth and Edgar BottlerMeredyth Branaman*Frank and Dorothy BrancatoJason Bready* and Audrey FolkJeffrey BriceWilliam and Barbara BrinkJames Brinkley and Mary Jane BurnsJodi Briscoe*Jonathan Broadus* and

Andrea Soelter BroadusSigrid BrorsonGary and Kathleen BroseBarron Brown and Paula BeckerDavid Brown*Michael BrownNate Brown*Barbara BufordMargaret Bullitt* and Andrew SchmechelDonne Burgess and Jose JimenezDr. Gloria and John BurgessJohn Burrow* and Meike KaanTerry and John BursettEugene BurtPaul ButziVania* and Brandon BynumDonald ByrdKaren and Craig BystromTimothy CahillCairnCross & HempelmannAnn CallawayLiz Callaway and Dan FosterDiana and Chuck+ CareyPhilip and Linda CarlKristofer Carlson*Kathy CarlsonHeidi CarpineDanielle and John CarrOmar* and Rachael CarrascoSara CarterTexanna Casey-ThompsonSteve Casteel*Kristin CeresolaZoe ChowRoyce and Aggie ChurchPhillippe and Rosa ClaringbouldRichard and Rosemary ClarkVicki and Jessica ClaytonMargit CliffordSusan CliffordTimothy CliffordJill ClymerDavid and Margaret CoatsApril CodyRochelle CohenIda ColeDonna Cole-DolbeerKathleen Collins and Andrew ElstonCollinsWoermanWilliam and Marilyn ConnerBeth Cooper*Carol Corbus and Patrick HoweLawrence and Amy CoreyDerald and Helen CorneliusWilliam and Jan CorristonRaymond Cox* and Jerald OlsenGary and Athene CraigJohn and Diane CrimMiriam Crowell*Sean Cryan and Laurel RechCasey Curran*Mary CurryCharlie Curtis and Jane HarveyDonald and Suzanne DallyArthur and Nancy DammkoehlerKitty DanielsLloyd David and Michelle Marshall

Linda DavidsonBob and Kathryn DavisDon and Ann DavisMichael DedererDaphne Dejanikus and Julian SimonSybil Del GaudioJacqueline Delecki and Howard UmanEmilio and Carol DelgadoLaura DeLucaRenko and Stuart DempsterCarol DePelecynRik* and Kim DeskinBenjamin Dietzen*Colleen Dishy Wes and Colin WesJade DoddGrant Donesky and

Rossitza Skortcheva DoneskyWilliam and Virginia DonleyCharles Douglas and Donna HandlyJonathan and Paula DrachmanDaniela Dron*Donna and Robert DughiS. Wayne Duncan and Pamela Van DalfsenPhyllis DunnDavid and Donna DunningRebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Leonard SuLarry and Lynda D’UrsoBarry Eben, Ph.D.Vasiliki DwyerPhyllis and Eldon EdmundsonAnna EdwardsJohn EicherEllis, Li & McKinstry PLLCGene and Pat EngleTamsin and Jim EricksonDavid EsbjornsonHeinz and Edith EttnerSandra Everingham*Jane+ and J.J. EwingJoan and Robert EwingJennifer Ewing-Thiel and Florian ThielJean FallsRyan Fedderson*Federated Department Stores FoundationGary Fenstermacher and Virginia RichardsonDeborah and Keith FergusonDon and Elizabeth FieneLaura FishmanHelen FlaumGerald FlorenceJohn and Janet FogleLeone Fogle-HechlerDaniel and Rosemary FolanJoan FongCristin Ford*Ann FosterFoster Pepper PLLCC. Douglas Francis and

Marianne Sorich Francis*Shary and Michael FrankfurterJason Franklin*Sharon FrielAmanda and Geoff FrohDorothy FullerTheodore Galaday*Simon and Michelle GaleHelen Gamble*Sandra Garriott-AntonacciBrian and Lisa GaryJulie Gaskill and Richard CarterRichelle Gay*Carmen and Carver GaytonChristine and David GedyeBrynne Geiszler*Tavia Gilbert*Karen GjelsteenCarl GlickmanPeggy GolbergMarilyn and Alan GoldbergLinda GoldsmithChristopher Goodson* and Lindsey WalkerDavid and Jane GorbetDale Gossett and Kay KukowskiAnne Gould HaubergKelsey Grafton*Melissa and James GrantLyndsey Gray*Alvin and Karen GraylinRon and Anke GreerJennifer Grigg*Grimes Goebel Grimes Hawkins

Gladfelter & Galvano, PLTony GrobArthur and Leah GrossmanRobert M. and Joan Gruber

DONOR LISTS continued

PARENTS MAKING A DIFFERENCEWhen parent Ric Spengler introduced himself at the summer

registration panel for parents, he shared his enthusiasm.

“Just like my daughter, I get a warm glow when I talk about

Cornish. It’s great to welcome new parents and give you

a preview of what’s ahead for your student and for you.”

“Cornish is a very special community,” Ric said. “Our

daughter has thrived here—she’s received great personal

attention, she’s mastered new techniques and she’s

really maturing into a dedicated artist.”

Ric’s wife, Alysse, recalled how she felt when their daughter

first registered a few years back. She remembered sitting

in the audience, hearing another parent describe how to

make the most of the Cornish experience. “The time goes

by so quickly—try to take everything in—the performances,

the exhibitions. It’s a very precious experience.”

In addition to volunteering their time, Ric and Alysse have

been generous financial supporters of Cornish. For the

past two years, they’ve attended our annual fundraising

gala, Cornish Celebrates an Evening of the Arts, where

they’ve raised their bidding paddle to support the Scholar-

ship Fund. For this year’s gala on November 17th, they’re

organizing a table with fellow parents and supporters. If

you would like to join them or receive an invitation to the

gala, call the Office of Institutional Advancement at

206.726.5064.

Ric Spengler, center, and his wife Alysse (with microphone). Photo: Mark Bocek.

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John GuichHelen Gurvich+Michael Gustavson and Joan

Knutson-GustavsonIlana GuttmannRichard Haag and Cheryl TrivisonJohn HagmanSusan and Michael HahnRyan HamachekJudith HamiltonMark and Susan HardySylvia HarelikCourtney Harris*Kiana Harris*Lois Harris and Debra CrespinDavid and Sharron HartmanPatrick* and Debbie HaskettMichele and David HassonLindsay HastingsLoryn HattenLi He*Paul Heckman and L. MonteraMary HedlinGail Heilbron and Edgar SteinitzJerry Hekkel and Garrison KurtzJoy Helmer*Andrew HighlandsAmanda HillHenry and Mary HillCatherine Hillenbrand and Joseph HudsonDennis HoffmanKristine HollandPenny Holland and Wallace HumeChirlee HouseWilliam HouseShawn Hove*Hub InternationalJan Hubert and Scott Anderson

Margaret Huchting and Eric BrownGreg and Linda HughesBeatrice* and Robert HullWallace HumeMary Ellen and William HundleyRobert and Charlotte HuttonKristof Iverson* and Rose Tamburri*Mattie Iverson Vadon* and Mark VadonJ.C. Wright Sales CompanyBruce and Gretchen JacobsenCharla JaffeeAlianna Jaqua*Alton JenningsElizabeth Jennings*Anchor Dewitt JensenEllen JeronimoDan Johnson and Jill ChelimerElizabeth JohnsonRolf and Sarah JohnsonBonnie JohnsonBarbara JohnstonLois JonesChristine and Armando JuarezGlen and Lisbeth JuelLaura Kaminsky and Rebecca AllanJoy and Dmitry KaplanDavid KapplerJack and Evelyn KapplerRobert and Eleanor KarrerShelly KassenAdrienne and Alan KayeJames* and Cristie* KearnyLuke Kehrwald*Christine Kellett and Jay KuhnCarolyn KellyThorpe and Lucinda KellyBrian KennedyJessika Kenney* and Eyvindur Kang*

James and Marjorie KeslCarolyn KesslerCharles and Helen KettemanLeroy and Anne KilcupKim DongKathy KimballKaren KingFreda KleinWilliam KleinAnna KlepperNatalie KotarZsolt Kovacs and Iulia MetznerCindy and Jerry KramerCarol KramerToby KronengoldHenry KuharicSharon LaddKathryn Lahey CostelloJames and Susanna LaneFrank* and JoAnna LauMadelyn LawsonChristopher Laxamana*Eric Layer*Ritchie and Ronald LaymonStephen Le Neveu and Lorraine KetchLeo Burnett Company

Charitable FoundationDorothy Lemoult* and Jeremy KahnDavid and Maria LeonardGerard Letterie and Jan ChowBrian LeversonMark Levine and John KeppelerRandy Signor and Jane LevineHeartha LevinsonSteve and Suzanne LewisShirley LincolnJeff and Kathy LindenbaumAnn Lindsay

Frank and Lynn LindsayAlexander Lindsey and Lynn ManleyBarbara LippertVivian Little and Jeffrey BowerDorothy LloydBrenda LoewClarice LolichMari London and Mark PopichFaustino Lopez* and Elizabeth

Frederickson LopezDorothy Lord and James CantwellBetsy and Brian LoshWanda LynchUrsula and Dwight MamlokAlexander and Bette MandlDorothy MannDrew Markham and Steve MashudaDorothy MarkingJane MartinKristin MartinMary Anne and Chuck MartinLinda Mason and David DevineDavid McCallumStanley and Janet McCammonJohn and Janet McCannLodi and Regan McClellanKathleen McCormickJames and Carole McCotterKathleen McDonaldLaurie McDonald Jonsson and Lars JonssonCarl and Judy McEvoyJohn McHale and Marcie Campbell McHalePaul D. McKee* and Michael LaneDon McKenzie and Elizabeth

Buzzell-McKenziePatricia McNamaraCynthia Mennella*Bob Merrill and Melanie Williams

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT2012/13

10% Gifts and Grants

8% Other

Income

82% Tuition

and Fees

6% Auxiliary Services

10% Buildings

9% Depreciation/

Interest

13% Institutional

Support

18% Scholarships

44% Academic Programs

WHERE THE

MONEY COMES FROM

WHERE THE

MONEY GOES

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DONOR LISTS continued

GIFTS IN MEMORY

Merce CunninghamViola Stevens BarronJane EwingJane Francis SchultzJoan Franks WilliamsJon GierlichLynn Goodlad Gwenn Barker HarshLawrence HalpernChris HollandChristine HoweJeanne-Marie KlepperThelma LehmannDeborah Ann Penna (AR ’00)Betsy Torrance Kirby TorranceThomas Stone TorrancePeter VinikowStephen WalkerEva Wilcox

GIFTS IN MEMORY/HONOR

Over the years, gifts to the endowment have been made

in memory or honor of some very special people who

continue to have a lasting imprint on Cornish and the

community we serve. We join donors in honoring and

celebrating the individuals listed below.

GIFTS IN HONOR

Zel Brook (AR ’96)Yvonne BeatonBonnie CohenDavid DeMossLaMar and Marlys EfawJeff Holland and Kate ZylstraPatricia HonSteve Jensen (AR ’82)Judith Kindler Ellen LaneTodd and Char RawlingsTerry SparksPaul TaubSergei P. TschernischIrving Williams and Susan Barash

Williams

Every gift is important to us, and we strive to keep

accurate records. We apologize if we have inadvert-

ently omitted or incorrectly listed any names. Please

call us at 206.726.5064 to advise us of any errors

so that we can correct our records. Thank you.

Rachelle and Bob MezistranoDorothy and Sterling MillerKathy MillerMichael Minney*Craig and Stefania MitchellErin Mitchell* Kabby MitchellJonathan Mitten* and Timmie Marsden*Ramiz Monsef*Dan and Lis MontgomeryMary and Richard MossAnne* and Jeffrey MotlPhyllis MullinsLori Neig Wilwerding* and

Geoff WilwerdingHollis Near and Anna SeabergCarla Negrete Martinez*Herbert and Marilyn NelsonMarywilde NelsonWilliam and Barbara NelsonHans and Ann NeumaierAnn NewAkiko and Jonathan NewcombDavid and Shirley NewellBenjamin NiuJack and Lollie NormanVictoria North and Alan CaplanSharon NovStella NovitJosh Oakley*Heather Dew Oaksen and Gregory OaksenArthur OlsenCraig Olsen* and Richard KonigsbergSara Orr-SmithBeverly Page and Michael VerchotRichard PageJoshua Palmer*John and Linda ParazynskiL. Rosario ParkerScott ParkerKasia Pawluskiewicz*Richard PeacockLinda and Arthur PedersonHelen PeltonCheryl Penttila*Charles and Angelica PepkaDavid Perez*Marlene Perrigo Kennedy* and

Bob KennedyMimi PetkoffJames and Muriel PhillipsJulie PickeringMargaret PickeringJennifer and Manuel PinedaKevin Pitman*Steve and Cait PlatzJames PolicarSusan and Marcos PolicarJohanna Polit*Martha and Seymour PomerantzWilliam and Sherry PortueseJarrad Powell* and Molly ScottElin PrattGeoffrey PrentissMarilyn and Wallace PrestboBob Priest and Claire SykesFrank PritchardSteve Pruzan and Janet AbramsDaniel PurdomSherrie QuintonDebra RaabJoan RaabKathleen Rabel and Stephen Hazel+Jennifer Rainbolt*Dennis Raines*Hugh RamseySchelleen and Charles RathkopfLois Rathvon*Dave Rawlyk and Launi SkinnerDouglas and Brenda RedfernGinny RedpathThe Reeve FamilyPattilou Reeves* and Chris DavidsonShelagh and Terrence ReganLaura and Jim RehrmannKarlis RekevicsErnest Rhoads*Richard and Pamela RhodesConstance and Norm RiceThe Ridge Women’s Golf CourseChristine and John RileyJean and Alex RitzenBurton and Norita RobbinsJeff Robbins and Marcy WingCarol Robinson

David Rollison*Bob and Laura RookstoolNichole and Martin RoseWilliam Rose*Judy RottersamDonald K. RouthGregory Ruby*Allison and Chris RuettgersEllen* and Joe RutledgeLena and Maher SabaRuth SaekerToru and Kiyo SakaharaJulie and Eric SalatheMonica Salazar*Courtney Sale*June SaleDaniel SalinsAlbert and Frances SalopekIrwin and Thelma SameghWerner and Joan SamsonCarol SandersMurl Allen Sanders and Janet HessleinPolly Sanford*James and Lisa SargeantCindy SaulPeggy ScalesKatherine Scharhon*Karen ScherwoodJill Scheuermann and Russell PaquetteEric Schonleber*Karen and Jack SchwartzMolly Scott and Jarrad Powell*Patricia ScottJ. Randolph and Lynn SealeySeattle Golf Club Ladies DivisionRonnee SegalJack Seifert and Cynthia BurrellQadriyyah Shabazz*Stephanie Shadbolt*Daniel and Alicia ShaferLora and Omar ShahineChristopher Shainin* and Hope WechkinSydney SharplesKristina Shellie-Cahn and Timothy CahnCynthia ShellyJianping ShenRoxanne Shepherd and Gerald KroonKay Shirley-Nilsen and Wendy SantamariaRita ShtullHarro and Sandra SiebertMary Lou SiebertDavid and Jennifer SilverShirley and Jack SilverRobert and Robin SimpsonShirley and Maurice SkeithMax and Jane SladeNancy and Jack SlaterDouglas Smith and Stephanie Ellis-SmithErminia SmithHarriette SmithMaggie SmithWilma and John SmithSnoqualmie Entertainment AuthorityNelly and George+ SoferSanjiu and Diuya SomanDean Speer* and Francis TimlinStuart and Patty SpencerHoward and Patricia StamborMarsha StantonSharron and Stephen StarlingBonnie and Alan SteeleAnne StevensonMarvel and Philip StewartChris StolleryLeslie* and Jeffrey StonerWilliam and Barbara StreetJustine SuNicole Sumner*Harald SundPeggy and Michael SwistakAnn Tagland*Laura and Michael TargettJoshua TaylorJoel TeppHoward TharpRicky TharpeBoyka Thayer*Thomas and Marilyn ThiesJohn and Barbara ThomasDiane ThomeJames ThompsonAnne and James ThomsonThe Threshold Group, LLCJanice TippRuth and John Tomlinson

Estelle and Francisco TordillosAlexandra Torrance and Paul OknerAndrew and Diane TorranceJohn and Marie TorranceJoanne TorranceWilliam and Pam TorranceDan and Sandy TrainorLiz Tran*Susan Trapnell and Erik MullerAnn TritschlerCharles and Dale TritschlerDonald and Polly TritschlerCatherine Tsai and Jason YoungJunichi Tsuneoka*Nancy Uscher and William BarrettSusan ValenciaDelia and Norman Van BruntVan VinikowChas. and Anne von RosenbergNicole Von Suhr and Fred JacobsHenry and Gloria WachsJoan Waiss and Steve WellsStephen WalkerLou* and James WallMildred WalshJean WangJenifer WardHazel WarlaumontAngel Weaver* and Kelly BrowningChristine Weh*Scott and Michele WellerAmy WellsKelly WergelandWells Fargo Bank, N.A. Wellspring Family ServicesWellspring Group

Stephen West and Pamela YorksPeter and Suzanna WesthagenNancy and Bruce WhitcombRichard E.T. White and Christine SumptionWilliam WhitenerThomas WhitlockDan and Minori WhitneyAnn WicklineEdith WielandJane Carlson WilliamsEmily and Todd WilliamsMichele and Richard WilliamsCynthia WillseyNora WilmarthJean and Craig WilsonHoward WilsonJohn WilsonThomas WilsonRoan and Tara WinchesterNathan Winkel*Linda and Holden WithingtonDeborah WolfMalcom and Mary WolfsonJanet WolvertonJasmine Woo*Alan and Wei-ping WoodLaVerne Woods and John ZobelMarion WoyvodichCarol WrightMary and Frank WyckoffTom and Margo WyckoffSako and Ryan YasudaJake Ynzunza*Lisa and Jack YoungAndrew and Borbala Zaborski

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ANNUAL OPERATINGJUNE 1, 2012 – MAY 31, 2013

THANK YOU to the many community members who made

gifts to the Cornish Annual Fund, as well as to scholarships,

student support and academic programming. We are

especially delighted to acknowledge first-time donors and

those who have increased their giving. Your contributions

sustain the outstanding educational and artistic environment

essential to the development of our students.

$25,000 & AboveBehnke FoundationLinda Brown & Larry TrueSharon Cornish MartinEdward F. Limato FoundationEd & Laura Littlefield

$10,000–$24,999Eve & Chap AlvordElias & Karyl AlvordAmazon.comBlick Art MaterialsBob & Eileen Gilman Family FoundationJoseph & Maureen BrothertonErnest Lieblich FoundationJohn & Ellen HillMary Kay McCawCamille McCrayGladys Rubinstein

$5,000–$9,999Virginia AndersonJody Cunningham & Mark MennellaL. Robin Du Brin & Douglas HoweFidelity Charitable Gift FundFoster Pepper PLLCKatharyn GerlichMichael & Katharine GibsonLawrence & Hylton HardWilliam & Ruth InghamJohn Jordan & Laura Welland*KeyBankKeyBank FoundationDianne & Steve LoebThe Loeb Family Charitable FoundationsMerriman, LLCNorthwest Security Services, IncOlive Kerry TrustJoan & Paul PoliakThe Rainier GroupDoug & Denise RegnierEllen* & Joe RutledgeNancy Uscher & William BarrettUtrecht Art SuppliesVulcan Inc.

$2,500–$4,999Alex AlbenRoger Bass & Richard NelsonThe Boeing CompanyBoeing Gift Matching ProgramBon AppetitC. Kent & Sandra CarlsonHeidi Charleson & Louis WoodworthJane & David DavisKent De vereaux*Lindsey & Carolyn EchelbargerErnst & Young FoundationJames & Gretchen FaulstichCarol & Brian GregoryElizabeth HebertDonna & Mike JamesKantor Taylor Nelson Evatt & Decina PCWilliam & Jane Lewis

Alexander Lindsey & Lynn ManleyDorothy MannLawrence & Karen MatsudaCarol & William MunroThe Presser FoundationSherry* & James RaisbeckThe R.B. and Ruth H. Dunn Charitable

FoundationMaria Renz & Tom BarrMansour SamadpourJulie Speidel* & Joseph HenkePeggy & Michael SwistakBing & Sandia TangWeinstein A|U Architects + Urban

Designers, LLC

$1,000–$2,499Glenn Amster & Shelly ShapiroAltria Group, IncIrena & Doug BakerJoan Baldwin & James WalshWilliam Block & Susan LeavittNick & Kami BohlingerGloria BrowningGrady & Nancy CunninghamPeter DaneloAllan & Nora DavisEd & Carol DeanDee DickinsonGary & Carrie DodobaraWilliam DonnellyGary & Manya DrobnackVasiliki DwyerPeter & Aranca EhrenwaldEmily Evans & Kevin WilsonC. Douglas Francis & Marianne Sorich

Francis*Gwendolyn & Kenneth FreedDavid & Patricia GellesPenelope & Robert GeniseRandy HalberstadtChristopher Harris & Christine CrandallRay Heacox & Cynthia HuffmanHarold & Mary Frances HillSteve HillLeRoy & Valerie Logan HoodMark Houtchens & Pat HackettHeather Howard & Roderick CameronPhen HuangJane & Randall HummerIA Interior ArchitectsAndrew & Elana JassyAngela & Ted LejaLynn LoackerMarguerite Loader & Raven Erling

JohnsonMahlum ArchitectsDave & Julie MasinoMarcia MasonMichael & Rosemary MayoJaimy McCarthy* & James EnglandCynthia Mennella*Susan Mersereau & Phil WhiteMicrosoft Giving Campaign

Karen Mudd & Monica E. de Baca M.D.George & Gloria NorthcroftMariette & Jim O'DonnellRichard Omata & Carol MoodySean Owen* & Tricia McKayTodd & Julie PatrickKathy Patterson & Chuck MontangeNancy & Mark PellegrinoRobin Rakusin & Kate WhittleyScott Redman & Shawn AndersonLonnie Rosenwald & David RoweSellen ConstructionRic & Alysse SpenglerThe Standard Employee Giving CampaignDavid & Monica StephensonMel & Leena SturmanLyn Tangen & Richard BarbieriPolly & Jason ThompsonSevert ThurstonThurston Charitable FoundationJudy Tobin & Michael BakerRichard & Linda Tosti-LaneTheodore TuttleVetrans LLCVirginia Vorhees WilcoxLinda Waterfall & Robert SearleNancy WeintraubEileen Whalen & Bob HeiligMelisa & Jeffrey WilliamsSusan Winokur & Paul LeachVirginia Wyman

$500–$999AnonymousTom & Mary AbbottMyron Apilado & Dyane HaynesCarol BainSam BakerKraig Baker & Lora Marini BakerDavid & Corry BarrKristin Barsness & Ed CrossanPamela & A. BendichRebecca BogardTerry & John BursettVania* & Brandon BynumMichael & Cathy CasteelVicki & Jessica ClaytonGranger & Tina CobbLawrence & Amy CoreyGary & Athene CraigJill Cunningham & Michael GallanarDeborah Daoust & Randy ApselMargaret & Luino Dell'OssoLaMar & Marlys EfawKristi & Barry FederLaura FinnJohn Forsen & Gayle PodrabskyPatrick & Marsha FreenyCharles Frischer & Abigail FrancisHelen Gamble*Jean GardnerCarmen & Carver GaytonJeanne & Raymond GivensJoie & Pat Gowan

Richard GromanLois Harris & Debra CrespinHamilton Hazlehurst & Pamela BekinsGail Heilbron & Edgar SteinitzMegan Hill*Michael Hill & Liz BerryHolly HirzelJudith & John HolderJohn Holt & Susan Trainor HoltWendy Hsu & Alex HsiJoe Iano & Lesley BainSusan Jones & Marco ZangariMark Kantor & Jane ZalutskyChristine Kellett & Jay KuhnE. Peter KellyLeroy & Anne KilcupCraig KlinkamClaire KlinkerTiffany Koenig & John OstolazaEdie LacklandVivian LeeSusan Levy & Mac KennedyLaura & Roy LundgrenTimothy ManringJoe McDonnell & Maryann JordanVictoria MillardMike & Julie MorrisLynn & Steve MoweSharon NelsonLee & Deborah OateyDana Persson Taft*Douglas Petrie & Mark SandiferPort Blakely CompaniesGretchen & Gordon RaineAnn Ramsay-JenkinsJeffrey & Suzanne RiddellBruce RitzenSusan & William RivesJeanne RobertsMichelle & Ian RubeschKim & Sid RundleJill Scheuermann & Russell PaquetteGary & Kit SeversonStephanie Shadbolt*Lori SilversteinDean Speer* Lee & Judith TalnerAnne & James ThomsonAlan Veigel & Laura Parma VeigelJill WakefieldKatherine Walker*Jenifer WardJane Wells & Jeff BairSally Ann WilliamsDeborah Wolf & Roger CurtisSara & Thomas WoolseyNancy Worssam & Bill Seach

$250–$499AnonymousADP FoundationCharles Alpers & Ingrid PetersonAmeriprise Financial Employee Gift

Matching Program

For information on how you can support Cornish and the

future of the arts, please call the Office of Institutional

Advancement at 206.726.5064.

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Arnot Glass Studio, LLC*Bill & Nancy BainBellevue Art MuseumRichard & Deborah BergerPilar BinyonHarold BookerJohn BradshawDevra BreslowKaren & Craig BystromRobert CampbellSharon & Craig CampbellVictor & Valerie CollymoreJayne DeHaanDennis & Bernadene DochnahlGrant Donesky & Rossitza Skortcheva

DoneskyDonna & Robert DughiJohn EricksonRyan Feddersen*Leonard GarfieldRobin Goldstein & Tim RootMark & Deborah HambyLenore HanauerMichael & Alison HarrisPatrick Haskett*Jerry Hekkel & Garrison KurtzConnie HellyerJan Hendrickson & Chuck LeightonOlimpia HernandezMichael & Martha HeschJohn & Cynthia HoweC. David HughbanksSally HurstJonelle JohnsonKatrina JonesKay JudgeAllan & Mary KollarChris & Kathleen KosmosCynthia & David KrepkyMangetout CateringDavid & Helen MarriottRobin & Clay MartinStephanie MartinRaymond MaxwellMay McCarthyJohn McHale & Marcie Campbell McHaleJohn Mettler & Anne Shinoda-MettlerMauricio Miozza & Elisabetta ValentiniSusan Nevler & Steve GattisSheila B. Noonan & Peter HartleyRichard & Karla ObernesserMarc OliverBeverly Page & Michael VerchotLinda & Arthur PedersonDeborah PersonJudith PigottPONCHOPamela PoserEugene Reddick*Pamela RolfeFrank & Regina RoutmanCathy SarkowskySeattle Theatre GroupCharles SitkinPhilip Smith & Mimi KatanoSharron & Stephen StarlingTracy SteenBobbie Stern*Christine StolleryMerideth TallBarbara Timms & Daryl SchlickGuy & Michelle WeisenbachSheree WenRichard E.T. White & Christine SumptionJan & Bob WhitsittRobert WilkusRobert Williams & Laurie NicholsJack WimpressEvelyn Yenson

$100–$249Anonymous (3)Edward Abbott*Susan AdamsMaxwell Adkisson*Natalya Ageyeva-Traficante & Ranan

TraficanteKay AndersonCharles & Sharon AndersonAvery Armstrong*Stephen BeckettGreg & Ronna BellMarah Blake*Doug & Elaine BreadyKristinn Cairns*

Julia Camp*Manuel CawalingSteven Cockrill*David Conley*James & Margaret CorbettJane Cowles & Ann StephensMichael & Linda CummingsMargaret DavisDyer & Beth DavisMichael DedererSean DrewDux Architects LLCBarry EbenRachel Elder*Margo Fagerholm*Betina FinleyMorgan & Marney FreelandDorothy FullerSeumas Gagne*Christine & David GedyeSuzanne GriffinLeo GriffinRoy & Debra GursliJana Hawley*Paul & Toni HeppnerAngelia Hicks MaxieWilbur Highleyman & Charlotte PinedaSteve Hilbert & Lisa IlandStephanie HilbertDawn HoffMargaret Elizabeth Howe & Chris EckleyJanette HubertEdward IntravartoloBill IrwinKelly & Kimberly JacksonDebra JensenBarbara Johns & Richard HesikMarjorie JohnsonJane Jones & Kevin McKeonMichael KellyEugene Kong*Krystal Kono*Barbara & Jesse LeeBen LeeEleuthera Lisch*Douglass & Louise LoganLoyola House Jesuit CommunityKevin ManringKim Marking*Marsh & McLennan Companies Matching

Gifts ProgramLinda & Charles MauzyRyan & Carlie McAninchKyle McAuley*Laura McKeeDonald McKenzie & Elizabeth BuzzellThe Meredith Corporation FoundationCharles MitchellGary & Mary MolyneauxRalph & Mary Ann MontyBenjamin MooreChristina & Marcus MorenoBrandon MorganTomio & Yan Jenny MoriguchiEd & Erin MoydellIrene MyersMarienne O'Brien*Felicia Oh*Thomas & Carol OzanichMaria ParmleyJared Pechacek*Timothy PiggeeChristi PinedaMyra Platt & Dave EllisBrad & Rochelle PratherMarlene PriceAnn PrydeColin & Merlyna RadfordShelagh & Terrence ReganSarah ReynoldsJoyce RivkinBetsy & Keith RogersChristopher SandeMartha & Robert L. Sander*Barbara Santana-Alvarez & Samuel

AlvarezMorris ShepherdCarol & Jim SimmonsMika & Jennifer SinananDonald SirkinMarilyn SloanMary Stevens & John AkinLaura & Chuck StowersTimothy Summers & Linn GouldEric Swangstu

Chandler Symmes*Laurel TannerToni & Michael TibbitsHeather Timken*Susan TomitaRuth & John TomlinsonPatty & Jim TostiSergei Tschernisch & Kate PurwinUS Bancorp Foundation, Matching GiftsRowena & Andrea VerdanJ L VinikoDavid & Shiela WallaceFiona WangFrida WeismanSarah & Alexander WienerDianna Winterbauer*Marsha WolfJeffrey WybornyJohn & Joan Xanthakis

Up to $99Molly AbbeyJames & Judith AdamsJudith AllenJudith Altruda*Heidi AmesJuan AmezagaPatrick & Therese AndreChristina AndreenAlfredo Arreguin & Susan LytleTina AufieroBrett Baker*Dylan Baker*Laurie Barker*Dorcas BeanMark BeauchampGeorge BeemanRena & Dana BeharPhil & Lissa BenezraLucy BennettRuth Berge*Brian Bermudez*Daniel BernhardMelisa BerntsonJaneill BeseckerAntoinette BlakeleyCatherine BlaylockLisa BlochAdrienne Bolyard & Gene ThorkildsenHarry BranchChristine BrentBrian BritiganJonathan Broadus*Nicole BrodeurMike BrowneMargaret BullockBrooke BussoneJulia CalkinsIris CalpoFreeman Carmack & Iris OberleitnerEileen CaslerSteven Casteel*Christopher CastilloCharles ChadwickTina & Kevin ChamberlainKaren ClewellTamera CliffordKathleen Collins & Andrew ElstonAimee CommonsTamara CorcoranBeth & Marc CordovaKenny Corsberg-Araneda & Lisa AranedaEdith CouncilmanAnatalia CountissStefania CrisciRaymond & Judith CromerKatharine & Jonathan CrossleyLauren Currie*Kathryn DanielsKathy & Gerry DavisDenise & Thomas DawsonJennifer DeanJohn & Elena DeanGrace DelapenaMiriam DoyleAngela Driscoll*Pamela Dughi*Emma Engle*Jennifer EtterKathleen Faulkner*Melissa FeldmanJoseph & Carol FieldingJennifer FinkeAnne FockeIrene Folkerts*

Jay FordTory Franklin*Petra FranklinGuy FreemanChristopher French*Sarah & Naud FrijlinkKiren GheiVeronica GiannottaTamara GoddardJean GoddenRon & Renee GonzalesChristopher Goodson*Donald GordonPatricia & John GoudgeMelissa & James GrantAngela GunnLaurell HaapanenRyan HamachekEric HardeeSarah Harlett*Ray & Linda HarrisSharon Hartnett & Robert MajcherElizabeth HeffronHenry HeidtmannHoward & Judith HerrigelLeigh HofheimerJohn HuddlestunKrista HudsonEmber HydeAlexa Ingram CauchiBrian JohnsonGregory G. JonesChristi KarlsgodtLaura KielyMaya Kimmel*King County Employee Charitable

CampaignJill KirkpatrickMelissa & Scott KlevenFrancesa Kobe-Smith*Lori KoshorkHenry KuharicJennifer La CuranMark Levine & John KeppelerJoan LibertyHoward LitwakMari London & Mark PopichKristian LondonJessica LowHeather LukeGlenn MaarseAndy & Karen MacLeanJudd MagwireMark & D'Lea MartensGwen Maxwell-WilliamsMichael MayerJanet McAlpinWilliam F. McAlpine*Laura McCabeMarie McCaffreyLyn McCracken*Michael McNearyJoan & Michael McNearyDiane McQuesten*M.G. & Karen MefferdElizabeth MillerAndrew Miller & Karen WiebeAllison MillsHenry & Jill MillsAna MojicaDick & Chizuko MomiiMatthew & Donna MonsoorJudy MooreJames Moran*Pam MorganMaria Mow & Milton SchroederCynthia Nawalinski*Hollis Near & Anna SeabergCarla Negrete Martínez*Margaret NewcombTraci NewmanJill NishiKaren & Yosh OhnoMary O'Horo*Gloria Lorena Olguin-SalazarNorman Ose*Donald & Kathy ParksJennifer Paros*Colleen PattonJohn PaulEric R. PedersenRichard & Amy PetersonChelsea PhippsMichelle PiersonGary & Carol Pniewski

*alumnus/alumna +deceasedX

Anita ProudfootFerdinand & Elvira RafaelRichard RahnDennis Raines*Lynne Randall*Robin Reichelt & Paul BurnsBrice ReinhardtKarl Richey*David & Wendy RobinsonBarbara RoperJulie & Eric SalatheJeff & Teresa SanterreTheodore & Kathy SaylerHoward Schanzer*Samantha ShimogawaReeder & Janis SinglerMeredith & Perry SkeathMatthew SmuckerTeresa SparlingVeronica StaatsAbigail StahlAlison StaplinMichele Steinwald*Tanea StephensGary StewartLinda & Peter StonerCharlotte SweetAlia Swersky*Thaswan TangsuratBrittany Taylor*Emily TestaBoyka Thayer*Monique TheriaultPaola ThomasPhelicity Thompson*Harry & Ariska ThompsonChristian ThomsenJohn & Nancy ThorntonSue TongEstelle & Francisco TordillosThomas ToscasCatherine Tsai & Jason YoungEvan TuckerMichael & Emilia TurtaJessie Underhill*Julia Valencia DrakeDell* & Rebecca Wade*Kelly WalkerSara WardRobin WarrenNils & Jean WedinHeather WeinlandDenise Weir*Norma Wengelewski*Ken WiebeSarah WilkesJessica WilksClaire WilsonVeronica WindellMargaret WintermutePhillip Wood*Alice WoodwardKarin Zaugg BlackMary Zimmer

GIFTS IN HONORJane EwingNancy Uscher & William Barrett

Irwin & Lena HalberstadtRandy Halberstadt

Hannah & Molly CoreyLawrence & Amy Corey

Cornish Junior Dance CompanySheila B. Noonan

Lindsay CorbettJames & Margaret Corbett

Gail & Edgar Steinitz’s 35th AnniversaryBeth & Marc Cordova

Mariah Martens*Mark & D'Lea Martens

GIFTS IN MEMORIAMLester BreslowDevra Breslow

Kevin Goeltz*Port Blakely Companies

Hank StampfKay AndersonRalph & Mary Ann MontyJames & Judith AdamsRaymond & Judith CromerHenry HeidtmannM.G. & Karen MefferdDick & Chizuko MomiiRichard & Amy PetersonGary & Carol PniewskiRichard RahnNils & Jean Wedin

Helen GurvichMark Levine & John Keppeler

Jesse JaramilloBeth & Marc CordovaKathryn Daniels

Thelma McAdooMarjorie Johnson

Steven J. Russel*Edward Intravartolo

GIFTS IN KINDAnonymousBainbridge Organic DistillersNiall BloomCarl Bronsdon*Ralph BurwellGary Craig & Athene CraigThe Cunningham FoundationElizabeth Darrow & Jim WalsethColleen Dishy Wes & Colin WesEmily DoolittleJenny GardenBernadine GriffinMK GuthKaren Guzak*Lois Harris & Debra CrespinConnie HellyerHenry Art GalleryIA Interior ArchitectsJohn KingEstate of Dale LehrmanSteven LoweWah Lui & May LuiEstate of Maria LundquistHolly MagowanLodi McClellan & Regan McClellanKathleen McHugh*Kristina Meyers*Joan MilnerChristopher NaurothSean Owen* & Tricia McKayPacific Northwest BalletOliver Pardo & Yolanda PardoGloria PeckSkyline Resident AssociationDavid StenersonDavid Taft & Dana Persson Taft*Tim TaftRichard Tosti-Lane & Linda Tosti-LaneAngelique Traverso*Karen TsaoGeoff TuckerJenifer WardSheila WarsinskeLinda Waterfall & Robert SearleLeah WebsterRichard White & Christine SumptionRonald Williams & Constance WilliamsMike Winters

CORNISH PARENTS FUNDAnonymous (2)Charles & Sharon AndersonPatrick & Therese AndreRena & Dana BeharPhil & Lissa BenezraMelisa BerntsonAdrienne Bolyard & Gene ThorkildsenDoug & Elaine BreadyFreeman Carmack & Iris OberleitnerDonald & Karen ClewellTamera CliffordJames & Margaret CorbettKenny Corsberg-Araneda & Lisa AranedaEdith CouncilmanMichael & Linda CummingsKathy & Gerry DavisMargaret Davis

Dyer & Beth DavisDenise & Thomas DawsonJohn & Elena DeanLisbeth DickensWilliam DonnellyDonna & Robert DughiWilliam & Terri DuxLindsey & Carolyn EchelbargerGina Fountain & John EdmondChristine & David GedyeKiren GheiRon & Renee GonzalesPatricia & John GoudgeRoy & Debra GursliMark & Deborah HambyRay & Linda HarrisChristopher Harris & Christine CrandallSharon Hartnett & Robert MajcherOlimpia HernandezMichael & Martha HeschAngelia Hicks MaxieWilbur Highleyman & Charlotte PinedaJohn & Ellen HillJohn Holt & Susan Trainor HoltJane & Randall HummerKelly & Kimberly JacksonJohn Jordan & Laura Welland*Melissa & Scott KlevenCynthia & David KrepkyBarbara & Jesse LeeEd & Laura LittlefieldDouglass & Louise LoganAndy & Karen MacLeanMark & D'Lea MartensLawrence & Karen MatsudaRaymond MaxwellCamille McCrayJohn McHale & Marcie Campbell McHaleJoan & Michael McNearyJohn Mettler & Anne Shinoda-MettlerAndrew Miller & Karen WiebeCharles MitchellAna MojicaMatthew & Donna MonsoorChristina & Marcus Moreno

Pam MorganMaria Mow & Milton SchroederPeter Murphy & Judy Arndt-MurphyKaren & Yosh OhnoGloria Lorena Olguin-SalazarThomas & Carol OzanichDonald & Kathy ParksMaria ParmleyGrace & Steve PhillipsChristi PinedaColin & Merlyna RadfordFerdinand & Elvira RafaelRobin Rakusin & Kate WhittleyDoug & Denise RegnierRobin Reichelt & Paul BurnsDavid & Wendy RobinsonBetsy & Keith RogersLonnie Rosenwald & David RoweKim & Sid RundleJulie & Eric SalatheBarbara Santana-Alvarez & Samuel

AlvarezTheodore & Kathy SaylerMorris ShepherdLori SilversteinMika & Jennifer SinananReeder & Janis SinglerMeredith & Perry SkeathRic & Alysse SpenglerSharron & Stephen StarlingCharles & Laura StowersCharlotte SweetHarry & Ariska ThompsonPolly & Jason ThompsonJohn & Nancy ThorntonCatherine Tsai & Jason YoungMichael & Emilia TurtaRowena & Andrea VerdanDavid & Shiela WallaceFiona WangSara WardGuy & Michelle WeisenbachNorma & Steve WengelewskiSarah & Alexander WienerMelisa & Jeffrey WilliamsJohn & Joan Xanthakis

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE NELLIE CORNISH LEGACY SOCIETY

Glenn AmsterGwenn Barker Harsh+Roger BassJody CunninghamKathryn DanielsKaren GjelsteenCarol GregoryKaren Guzak*Gladys Harrington+Carol Hobart*Steven Jensen*Pam JohnsonThelma Lehmann+Dale Lehrman+

Mark LevineMaria Balagno Lundquist*+Dorothy & Sterling MillerCarol MunroSean Owen*Oliver & Yolanda PardoJoan PearsonLinda PedersonSherry Raisbeck*Donna Shannon*Bobbie Stern*Dorothy Stevens*+Robert WilkusMargaret L. Wesselhoeft+Irving Williams & Susan Barash Williams

NELLIE CORNISH LEGACY SOCIETY

The Nellie Cornish Legacy Society recognizes those

individuals who have included a bequest or other planned

gift arrangements for Cornish College of the Arts in their

long-range financial plans.

By including a charitable gift to Cornish in your financial

planning, you help to perpetuate the legacy of founder

Nellie Cornish and her vision for arts education. Your gift will

help Cornish provide an educational program of the highest

possible quality in an environment that nurtures creativity

and intellectual curiosity, while preparing students to contrib-

ute to society as artists, citizens and innovators.

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After it arrived in Kerry Hall, Sarah reminisced about the

impor tance of music for her mom. “At the celebration of

her life, “ she said, “we shared the story that any one of us

five kids could come home from school and present her

with a snake, or the house could be burning down, and if

she was on her piano, she was focused, intent, not hear-

ing any of us nor any of our blather or demands. This is a

memory that holds clarity to this day for all of us.”

STEINWAY D CONCERT GRAND

In recent years, Cornish has taken great strides to enhance

its classical piano program, starting with the addition to its

faculty of two nationally renowned pianists—contemporary

music virtuoso Cristina Valdés and Byron Schenkman,

a pianist and harpsichordist specializing in early classical

repertoire—to join long-standing Cornish faculty member

and Steinway Artist, Dr. Peter Mack.

However, one crucial ingredient was missing: a Steinway

concert grand piano. The College had owned a number of

top-quality Steinway, Bosendorfer, Baldwin, and Kawai

grand pianos over the years, but never a Steinway Model

D, 9-foot concert grand piano, long considered the

preeminent piano in the world. Steinway pianos of this

caliber routinely sell for more than $125,000 new, and

seldom become available used.

So, when the Music Department received news earlier this

year that a recent model Steinway D piano was available

for sale, Music Department Chair Kent Devereaux and

Professor of Piano Dr. Peter Mack quickly formulated a

plan. Less than 90 days later, with the help of some very

generous individuals, Cornish finally took delivery of its

very first Steinway Model D concert grand piano.

Purchase of Cornish’s first Steinway Model D concert grand

piano was made possible by contributions from the following

individuals and foundations: Carol and Brian Gregory, Sharon

Cornish Martin and Tom Martin, Camille D. McCray, Melisa

and Jeffrey Williams, Albert and Irene Fisher, Susan Winokur

and Paul Leach, Mary Kollar, Stephanie Shadbolt, Natalya

Ageyeva and Ron Traficante, Anonymous (in memory of

Constance H. Hellyer) and the Juniper Foundation.

GRAND GIFTS continued

LEFT TO RIGHTByron Schenkman, Peter Mack and Christina Valdés, with Cornish’s new Steinway D. Photo: Mark Bocek.

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SUMMERAT CORNISH

1 Modern Dance. Photo: Mike Urban.

More than 470 young artists participated

in Summer at Cornish 2013.

2 Figure Drawing. Photo: Ashleigh Robb (AR ’14).

3 Chamber Ensemble Intensive. Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis.

4 Pinhole and Experimental Photography. Photo: Ashleigh Robb (AR ’14).

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the work of groups such as DAE. “But it is not simply a

matter of history: students gravitate naturally toward this

‘post-disciplinary’ space—the work they are creating is

fed deeply by disciplinary training and often transcends

those boundaries in collaborative and innovative ways.”

“I have developed some pretty hard-core collaboration

skills over the years,” says Kohl. “I think that means

knowing when to go with the flow of what others are

bringing to the table and when you have to stick to your

guns and fight for your important ideas. Collaboration

forces you to constantly be on your toes and keep your

sense of perspective sharp.”

“Jarrad Powell basically blew my mind,” says Kohl of the

longtime Cornish Music faculty member and artistic

director of Gamelan Pacifica. “Instead of introducing me to

‘music theory,’ which in our usual talk means ‘European

music theory,’ he introduced me to many music theories

from different parts of the world. Gamelan structures,

Indian scales, different tunings. This approach really freed

my mind and told me that I don’t have to judge myself

based on other people’s ideas of what is correct music.”

For Kohl, one of the benefits of studying at Cornish was

the opportunity to encounter and build relationships with

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MONSOON SEASON continued

“It took a lot for me to get to go to Cornish,” says Hoffer of

the financial sacrifices he and his family made. “I had

incentive grants the first two years. I worked as a janitor.

My aunt gave me some money out-of-pocket from her

social security. When my grandma passed away, we sold

her house to help pay for Cornish. Then, once I made it

past sophomore year, my aunt was like, ‘We’re going to do

whatever it takes to make sure you graduate, because

you’ve put too much into it. But, I swear to God, if you f--k

around while you’re there, you’re going to have the guilt of

the Hoffers to deal with!’”

Hoffer’s family needn’t have worried—he was a straight-A

student. “The difference between talented people and

great artists is discipline,” says Cornish Theater faculty

member Keira McDonald. “Jerick is a talented person

who also has a high degree of discipline.”

It was in David Taft’s clown class at Cornish that Hoffer

began to recognize the connection between acting and

drag performance. “The more we examined clown form,

the more I saw the parallels with drag,” he says. “I made

a conscious decision to treat my drag personas as clown

forms. Each of my drag personas has a certain aesthetic

and certain things that need to be in place physically to get

into the form, and then I volley back and forth between

the physical form and the mental form of the drag persona

and treat it like commedia dell’arte. I don’t think your

average drag queen does that.”

His experience at Cornish encouraged Hoffer to see drag

as part of the larger continuum of theater and performance.

“The kind of drag that makes me most excited is creating

a character with her own backstory and her own life,” he

says. “It’s not just you in drag, but it’s a character you’ve

created, and you just happen to play the opposite gender

to portray it.”

Over time, he began to consider how to combine drag with

serious acting. He even crossed swords with an instructor

who insisted that the notion of Hoffer playing a female role

in Hamlet was inherently comical. “He told me, ‘They’d

never be able to take you seriously as Queen Gertrude

because you’d be a man in a dress.’ And I said, ‘Well,

you’ve never seen me in a dress!’”

In addition to Jinkx Monsoon and Kitty Witless (a character

he developed for The Vaudevillians, the hit show he created

with fellow Cornish alum Richard Andriessen (TH ’10), Hoffer

has created a bevy of drag personas that are making it

to the stage one by one. “Dierdre A. Irwin is my Southern

psychic character,” he says. “She’s a Southern trans-

vestite, well, transsexual—she’s post-op. She’s a medium,

and she channels dead celebrities to put on a cabaret show

with their voices. I have a Russian spy character named

Pretty Pistoff. And then there’s one in development that’s a

French-speaking drag queen named Madame Guillotine.”

Jerick Hoffer’s ambitions go beyond performing in drag clubs.

“Not all drag has to be glamour-based, and not all drag

has to be campy and over-the-top,” he says. “Sometimes

you can just authentically play a female character.” His

dream is to play the Witch in Into the Woods, Mrs. Lovett

in Sweeney Todd, and perhaps even Blanche Dubois in

A Streetcar Named Desire. Producers, are you listening?

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other engaged, inspired, skillful artists who were also

students at the time. [Violinist] “Eyvind Kang is a great ex-

am ple,” he says. “He was just on fire when we were at

Cornish together. His attitude about music—his open mind,

his relentless work ethic really affected me.” He also

notes longtime collaborations with cellist/singer/composer

Brent Arnold and violinist/composer/choreographer Paris

Hurley, among many others.

“Ever since graduating Cornish I have been guilty of kid-

napping a steady stream of pre- and post-graduates for

our projects,” says Kohl, who recently invited current

Cornish art student Reilly Sinanan to join DAE and hired

former Cornish art student Brooke Jacobovitz to manage

DAE’s online presence. “I have probably not had a year

that I didn’t collaborate with someone who was at one

time at Cornish.”

Presented locally by On the Boards, Seattle Theatre Group,

and the Frye Art Museum, DAE has also toured to venues

in Berlin and dozens of other cities around the globe. Like

any boundary-pushing artistic group, DAE is not without

its detractors—including The Stranger’s Brendan Kiley, who

referred to DAE as “spectacular, clanging, and unerringly

pretentious”—but their work has also been embraced by

major cultural icons. They were recently invited by the

HARUKO NISHIMURA, DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE Photo: Steven Miller, stevenmillerphotography.com

legendary director Robert Wilson to create a new piece

based on his seminal work, Einstein on the Beach. And

they are currently developing The Warrior, a new work with

Kronos Quartet that will be presented at the Neptune

Theatre in November.

Collaboration is not just a way of making art, it’s a way of being.

For Kohl, collaboration is not just a way of making art, it’s

a way of being, a metaphor for utopia. “It’s crazy how

similar a bad collaboration can be with the larger problems

we have in society,” he says. “People often just don’t

play well with each other, and so much of the time it comes

down to egos. We have to know what is important for

the larger work, not just what is important to ourselves. So

when a collaboration goes well, I feel a deep sense of

communion and satisfaction, and hopeful about the poten-

tial for what people are capable of. In a larger sense of

humanity, if we can’t get along in making art, then there is

certainly no hope of us getting along in the more compli-

cated aspects of our existence.”

MARY LAMBERT continued

released the single. “Simply because this song is not political.

It’s not about oppression or marriage equality. This song

is a love song. That’s all it is. It’s an honest love song, an

extended version of my chorus from Same Love. It’s

another side of the story.”

Music aside, it’s the writing that the great number of inter-

viewers want to ask Lambert about. And there’s a good

reason for this: her writing is fearless, lacerating, a punch

in the gut. Find her song I Know Girls (bodylove) from her

EP Letters Don’t Talk. Mix the raw emotions of her spoken

words with sweet interludes of her singing and you find

yourself moved over a lot of emotional territory. So the

warmth and satisfaction of She Keeps Me Warm is perhaps

the beginning of something new and important for

Lambert personally.

“I have made a bit of a departure,” she says. “I feel like I’ve

been in the industry for a solid year and I’ve learned a lot,

and I wanted to make a pop song. I wanted to make some-

thing that I could hear on the radio and that didn’t sacrifice

integrity. So I’m really proud of She Keeps Me Warm.”

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Just as Lambert is at pains to separate her new song from

politics, she’s leery of being thought of as a pioneer, “first

man on the moon, and all that.” But in her quiet way and

with a personal love song, she is doing something new and

special. What’s in a pronoun, “she”? A whole lot. Maybe it’s

a revolution. It makes it clear that a woman is singing about

a woman in this song. “There were occasional songs where

I used ‘she’ but I kept it pretty vague as far as pronouns go,”

she says, “and I usually just use very general pronouns.”

What’s in a pronoun, “she”? A whole lot. Maybe it’s a revolution. It makes it clear that a woman is singing about a woman in this song.

“Doing Same Love sort of gave me that strength and it was

like, ‘People can handle this,’” Lambert continues. “I don’t

know why everybody is so scared to do this. I get it. I was

scared to do it. It wasn’t so much being afraid that people

wouldn’t like it, it was more that I didn’t want to alienate an

audience. Because if you’re somewhere as a performer,

you don’t want to isolate or pigeonhole yourself as a gay

artist or as whatever.

“I think the turning point for me was hearing women of all

ages singing ‘she keeps me warm,’” Lambert says, and

she clarifies that she means both gay and straight women.

“Up until that point, I’d been sort of scared to [use ‘she’].

But after hearing so many people enjoy it … I mean, as a

lesbian, I watch The Bachelor, and I don’t care! Because

it’s about love, and I’m excited! I love romantic comedies,

and it doesn’t matter that they’re a straight couple, be-

cause love resonates.”

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MARY LAMBERT continued

really liked it, so I began considering going to school there.”

Someone he knew was applying to Cornish at the time,

so he allowed himself to fall into this gravity well and sub-

mitted his own application. He was accepted into the

design department.

The first two years at Cornish were rough. He had to take

all the required courses, even though he was older than

most freshmen and had a lot of work experience. On top

of that, he was enrolled in what was then a new subject

area in the department, motion design. Following a pattern

in his work that he readily admits to, Scott turned his

problems and frustrations into art. This took the shape of a

serial pranking of design department coordinator Brian

Kennedy, the person charged with ensuring design students

met departmental requirements. The pièce de la résistance

of this series was a response to the annual art and design

B.F.A. exhibition, an anti-show, which Garner christened

the B.F.K.—as in “Brian Freaking Kennedy.” Design students

were encouraged to create works based on surreptitiously

obtained photos of Brian provided by Scott and the “show”

was set up on the sly in one of the empty studios.

Garner’s own contribution was a rendering of Kennedy in

the manner of a church window, replete with halo, titled

The Martyrdom of Saint Brian.

“Scott was a prankster, the department’s Pied Piper,” says

Kennedy today, with something like a parent’s proud

smile. “He was a real pain in the ass—I wish we had more

students like him. … He was incorrigible. I respected it,

I enjoyed it, and, to some degree, I was in on it.”

Love resonates, Lambert believes, with everyone, gay or

straight, woman or man. She dreams of a universal love

that everyone shares, so that anyone hearing her specific

love song to her partner feels an immediate connection

to his or her own experiences. She understands that the

song can’t be removed from its context, but take away

the novelty of hearing a gay woman artist sing freely about

her relationship, and what you’re left with is the pure

emotion we all feel, the emotion that makes “she keeps me

warm” such a good hook.

“It was inadvertently political,” she says, “but my intention

was to show the idea of universal love, and that there’s

someone who keeps us warm. That’s love.”

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Throughout his four years at Cornish, Scott more than made

up for his pranks with a string of well-thought-out, tech-

savvy and highly finished pieces, especially as he got past

the department’s requirements. “During my junior and

senior year,” says Garner, “things began to really open up

and many of my instructors were extremely accommo-

dating as I began to look for ways to bring interactivity into

my work, as seen in … my thesis project, Heartache as a

Masterpiece. I was also able to use a directed studies class

in the humanities and sciences department as a crash

course in basic electronics, which resulted in the creation

of the Piano Gloves.”

Scott also made full use of Cornish’s rich humanities and

sciences program by focusing on classes taught by

philosophy prof Raymond Maxwell. “My last semesters at

Cornish I kind of majored in philosophy by just taking

all of Raymond’s classes,” says Garner. As the title of

Garner’s anti-social app is taken from Jean Paul Sartre’s

play No Exit, he has directly benefitted from the class

on existentialism, at any rate.

Now as a graduate of Cornish, Scott hopes to carve out

an unusual niche for himself, working only on special

assignments. On his site, scott.j38.net, he writes: “I am

basically unemployable in a conventional sense and have

very little interest in working on commercial projects.” It’s

a statement that would spell the end of many careers, but

for Garner, you’ve got to believe he’s got it worked out.

And now that he is, fleetingly at least, a media darling, it

seems there may definitely be a method to this madness.

He finds this sudden bit of fame ironic, given that the whole

impetus for creating Hell is Other People was to avoid

social interactions. “That’s the most ridiculous part,” says

Garner, “that on the surface, this project has been a mas-

sive failure, because I’m interacting with people much more

than I was before.

“It’s fine,” Garner continues. “I think that there’s something

in the air as far as people getting fed up with social media

and starting to think about it a little bit more critically. I

think the project was a catalyst for people to start talking

about those ideas, and it provides something concrete

to focus on.”

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1 Map view of Scott Garner’s anti-social media app, Hell is Other People.

2 Scott Garner, Heartache as a Masterpiece, single frame from an interactive kiosk, 2010. The kiosk featured a number of “paintings” of famous artists and thinkers which, on click, showed animated views with quotes; in the example, an image of Sigmund Freud is shown with accompanying quote.

3 Scott Garner, BeetBox, interactive mixed media, 2012. BeetBox is a sculpture that doubles as a musical instrument and triples as a visual pun. By touching the each actual beets suspended in the poplar enclosure, the user initiates the replay of a series of sound files. Touch sensing is handled by a capacitive touch sensor controlled by a circuit board and a custom code set.

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alike, and an invitation to “visit Provost Payne” sounds

like the lead-in to a scene from Mad Max: Beyond

the Thunderdome.

Her official bio covers her Scottish background, including

her time at Glasgow School of Art and the University

of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art and

Design. But that’s not the Truly Interesting Part—which

is actually in two parts. The first part of the Truly Interesting

Part is that her family hails from the Outer Hebrides, the

string of islands in the remote northwest of Scotland, the

one last area of the country where Scottish Gaelic is

com monly spoken. Scott Payne has studied the language

extensively, and though she claims not to remember it,

this is no doubt false modesty; one and all are invited to

engage her in Gaelic whenever the opportunity arises.

The second part of the Truly Interesting Part is that, having

pointed out the first part of the Truly Interesting Part, she

didn’t actually grow up in the Outer Hebrides—nor, in fact,

in any part of Scotland. No, her father was a tea planter

in India, and she grew up on the other side of the world.

Moira’s accent, which sounds so authentic to American

ears, was thus acquired by unknown means. As the

daughter of a tea planter, she is, not surprisingly, very par-

ticular about her tea. For some reason, she has been

forced to borrow a local teapot, since her personal pot

has still not arrived from the U.K. (perhaps the absolutely

perfect residue in the pot is covered by the Official

Secrets Act).

A provost must be the sort to look to the future—and must

plan accordingly. Even as a young artist, Moira Scott had

great abilities in this direction not displayed in her official

biography. Her positive glut of awards is exhaustively

noted in the official bio; one of these was a residency at

prestigious Hospitalfields House. Many young artists

would have looked at a grant to spend time painting land-

scapes at Hospitalfields House as an end in itself, but

that shows their lack of initiative and enterprise. Young

Miss Scott apparently sized up the beautiful estate and

the handsome man running it, William Payne, and said,

“Right, I’ll take one of each.” And Hospitalfields House is

where, in fact, she lived until her husband William’s

retirement a few years back.

Mrs. Payne is in no way a reluctant transfer to the United

States. In fact, she has been plotting a move here for

some time. Cornish provided the perfect opportunity, along

with William’s retirement. She believes that the College is

on the verge of greatness. The ability to understand great

opportunities is a family trait. Moira reports that her

daughter, Lauren, is a lawyer in London who specializes in

“air and space law.” You read that last part correctly, Lauren

is an expert in legal matters pertaining to outer space. It’s

a brilliant choice, actually, as outer space is, for all intents

and purposes, endless. Not only is the universe expanding,

the expansion is accelerating, we are told. There is quite

literally nowhere to go but up in this specialty.

Finally, a college provost must be willing to make deals to

get things done. Moira has displayed her fitness in this

area by having purchased her son’s acquiescence to the big

move to Seattle by promising James he could choose

the family’s car on arrival. In practical terms, this apparently

means she won’t be getting the Volvo she wants. On the

plus side, we imagine she’ll look good behind the wheel of

a Porsche.

With the addition of this unofficial biography to the official

entry, the reader should, at last, appreciate the full scope

of the talents of Cornish’s new provost. At the very least, it

should provide the stuff for many conversations—in Gaelic,

one hopes.

–Maximilian Bocek

A TOAST TO THE PROVOST continued

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DR. GWENDOLYNFREEDDr. Gwendolyn Freed joined Cornish College of the Arts as

Vice President for Institutional Advancement in June. She

serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet, overseeing

fundraising, alumni relations, marketing, communications

and public relations.

Dr. Freed has a background in external relations, higher edu-

cation and the arts. She came to Cornish from the

Minneapolis-based scholarship foundation, Wallin Education

Partners, where her primary focus as Executive Director

was donor development. Previously, she served as Vice

President for Marketing and Communication at Gustavus

Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. She also

worked as a major gifts officer at the Minnesota Orchestra.

An oboist and former journalist, Dr. Freed has written about

the arts for such outlets as the Wall Street Journal and

the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She holds a bachelor of music

degree from Oberlin Conservatory and a master of music

degree from The Juilliard School. At the University of

Minnesota, she earned a master of public affairs degree in

public and nonprofit leadership and management and a

Ph. D. in educational policy and administration.

“We are excited about Gwen’s arrival,” said Cornish President

Nancy Uscher. “She brings a strong combination of skills

and experience for Cornish. She has high energy and

passion for our mission. We are grateful that Gwen has

relocated her family here from Minnesota.”

“Seattle is spectacular. I appreciate the warm welcome

I have received from the Cornish community,” said

Dr. Freed. “I look forward to partnering with trustees,

administrators, faculty, students and alumni to advance

the College.”

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ALUMNINEWSWIRE2012In December of 2012, Irene Beausoleil (DA ’12) and her artistic collaborator Scott Sutherland successfully published their first photo-collection titled Moments of Truth, an e-book available online at the Amazon Kindle Store. They have been diligently working on new material since then and have expanded the scope of their project to include live performances. This manifested itself during March 2013 with the premiere performance of The Crux’s New Summer Time in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood.

Nina Malevitsis (DE ’12) has just accepted employment at Teague in Seattle as an interior designer.

2010Kelly Ehlert (TH ’10) played The Loud Stone in Eurydice at A Noise Within Theatre Company in Pasadena, Calif.

Giuseppe Ribaudo (TH ’10) appeared as Richard in Fuddy Meers, David Lindsay-Abaire’s quirky character comedy at City Lit Theater in Chicago, Ill.

Yevtushenko, Amber Schein’s (MU ’10) indie-rock band, released two EPs, Do and Patient(s) Zero, in 2013 and followed them up by suc-cessfully raising enough money to record their first full-length album.

Charles Spitzack (AR ’10) is now being represented by Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Wash.

2009In addition to appearing in The Huffington Post, Juxtapoz, Harpers Bazaar, Artists and Illustrators Magazine, and American Artist as one of their “25 Artists of Tomorrow,” Aleah Chapin (AR ’09) also celebrated her first solo show at Flowers Gallery in New York, N.Y.

Justice Theater Project’s February 2013 production of Julius Caesar featured Cornish alumna Michelle Johnson (TH ’09) as she portrayed Portia for the people of Raleigh, N.C.

Mariel Neto (TH ’09) appeared in the Erickson Theatre’s production of Caryl Churchill’s play The Skriker, the story of a shape-shifting being chasing two teens in London. Mariel played one of the two pursued teens.

Starbucks Coffee Company scored a real win when they hired Tobi Wray (DE ’09), formerly Tobi Seagran, back in July 2009 as an interior designer. Since then she has done outstanding work for them including her latest project at their first ever TAZO Tea store in University Village, Seattle, which opened November 2012.

2008In addition to completing her masters of music in jazz performance from New York University (NYU), Kelly Ash (MU ’08) has been hired as adjunct piano & voice faculty (jazz/pop) at NYU and by the New York Jazz Academy as vocal faculty. In Summer 2013 Kelly’s band released a full-length album and has been touring the U.S. and playing in New York, N.Y.

Melissa Henry (TH ’08) graduated from the year-long accelerated M.A. program in performance studies at New York University, and she will receive the award as an “Emerging Scholar.” She was also in Seattle as one of the dramaturgs for Saint Genet’s performance at On The Boards, Paradisiacal Rites in May 2013.

2007Ezra Dickinson’s (DA ’07) Mother for you I made this, presented by Velocity Dance Center as part of its Made in Seattle series, was aimed at activating a conversation about the failed mental health care system in America through memories of Dickinson’s childhood with his schizophrenic mother. Audience members were taken about the forgot-ten places of Seattle, each equipped with a personal audio tour that brought together conversations between Dickinson and his mother with sounds from the actual landscape.

Nicholas Robbins (TH ’07) has been hired as the managing director of Rogue Artists Ensemble in Los Angeles, Calif. Rogue Artists Ensemble is a collective of multidisciplinary artists who create hyper-theater, a hybrid of theater traditions, puppetry, mask work, dance, music and modern technology. With an emphasis on design and story-telling, the Rogues create original, thought-provoking perfor mances. He is also co-founder, along with Taylor Maxwell (TH ’07), of the Silver Lake Picture Show, a free outdoor community event, which this summer has opened up for a second season. The Picture Show screens a popular feature film at the public plaza in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, and invites the community at no cost. Before every feature, they screen a short film by a local filmmaker and give them an oppor-tunity to tell the viewers about their process.

After graduating from Cornish, Leah Snyder (DE ’07) pursued a legal education at Seattle University School of Law. She recently passed the Washington and Massachusetts bar examinations and joined Kroontje Law Office PLLC, a small firm that practices civil litigation and dispute resolution in downtown Seattle, Wash.

2006In February 2013, Casey Curran (AR ’06) exhibited work in Dissymmetry at Roq La Rue in Seattle, Wash. and in Kinesthetics: Art Imitating Life at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City. His work also made an appearance the next month in Introductions at SAM Gallery in Seattle, Wash.

The Cornish alumni presence was felt across the pond in November 2012 when Franni Donohoe (DA ’06) and co-director Olivia Preye premiered their work Fish Tales of Alaska at The Yard Theatre in London. This multidisciplinary, collaborative performance explores man’s relationship with the sea and pays homage to the tradition of story-telling and its place in human culture.

Jaime Navarro (TH ’06) has been promoted from lead generation account executive to account executive at Fierce, Inc., leadership development and training experts. She will join the business’ development team and work directly with clients to build brand awareness and drive sales. Jaime first joined Fierce in 2010.

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In her final year at Brooklyn College’s PIMA Graduate Program, Tinu Oyelowo (TH ’06) along with the rest of The Robot Immigrants created a performance installation entitled My Heart Is a Traveler that was performed during April 2013 in Brooklyn, N.Y. This piece explores personal stories of immigration across multiple generations and cultures set against a backdrop of perpetual technological change.

Adam Spencer (AR ’06) started a new business, Cellar Door Mercantile. It specializes in print art and design, including clothing, house goods, art and much more. All products are produced responsibly and from local sources, when available. Selling in local Seattle street markets and online, the staff of Cellar Door Mercantile gives back to the com-munity by donating their time and money to nonprofits throughout the city. Adam has also been busy in his studio and exhibits once or twice a year.

2004Saying goodbye to his old job and many great memories, Andrew Hock (TH ’04) will now be teaching language arts, social studies and acting at the Academy of Arts and Academics in Springfield, Ore.

Dana Young (TH ’04) is currently working at Carbine Studios as part of the newly announced WildStar project. Initially employed as part

of the QA team, she was promoted to the design department in September 2011. She’s loving the work she does, being creative and having a chance to be a part of the design team.

2003Playwright Mallery Avidon (TH ’03) premiered Breaks & Bikes with Chicago’s Pavement Group in November 2012, quickly followed by another new play O Guru Guru Guru or why I don’t want to go to yoga class with you in March 2013 at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Ky.

The House of Von Macramé, Joshua Conkel’s (TH ’03) new, full-length musical, opened January 23 at The Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, N.Y. This pop horror fashion show is a celebration of stylish European horror films from the ’60s and ’70s, an extravaganza of design and spectacle, and an exploration of iconoclasts.

2002Margot Bordelon (TH ’02) graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A in theater directing. She recently directed Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine at the School of Drama in the Iseman Theater. Other work at the school includes Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra; A Duck On A Bike by Amelia Roper; and Game Room by Justin Taylor.

1 Irene Beausoleil from the cover of her book Moments of Truth; co-authored and photo by Scott Sutherland.

2 Kathryn Altus, Salish Geometry, 18 x 12”, water soluble oil on birch panel.

3 Image from Velocity’s Made In Seattle: Ezra Dickinson, Mother for you I made this. Photo: Anthony Rigano.

4 Bette Burgoyne, Forest (detail) 2012, black paper white pencil. 8.5”h (12.5”section)

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Liz Tran (AR ’02) journeyed to Iceland to take part in the SIM Residency, returning in November 2012, at which point she spent the better part of her winter hunkering down at the Seward Park Clay Center working on, among other things, the exhibition Symbiosis.

2001Body in Balance welcomed Erin Ranta (DA ’01) as a partner, bringing a new level of excellence and versatility to the studio’s fitness offerings. In addition to ballet and Pilates, Ranta is the only instructor on Maui teaching an exciting form of fitness called “Booty Barre” that combines all the principles of ballet, Pilates, yoga and weight training.

2000A year has passed since Rebecca Smedley (DA ’00) got married, and she’s excited to report that she and her husband are expecting a boy in November 2013. This heralds a new chapter in Rebecca’s life, as she also winds down her seven years of running the dance course at Amersham & Wycombe College. She’s excited to see what the future holds!

1999Is this the Moon and other works by Kristy Tonti (AR ’99) were shown at Bainbridge Island’s Gallery at Grace, April 2013.

Amelia Zirin-Brown (TH ’99), AKA Lady Rizo, has led a busy, globetrotting life as she’s brought her glamorous cabaret performance from New York City to the West Coast of the United States, Australia and Europe.

1998Live Girls! Artistic Director Meghan Arnette (TH ’98) directs Macha Monkey Productions’ March 2013 presentation of award-winning playwright Allison Gregory’s Cliffhouse.

Seattle Art Museum invited Heather Hart (AR ’98) to install The Western Oracle: We Will Tear The Roof Off the Mother, the third in her oracle series, at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle as part of their Summer at SAM programming. Heather has also been keeping busy with her residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass.

1996Zel Brook (AR ’96) was granted an award through the Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant, as well as additional funds from the Ford Family Foundation, to help her fund her residency at the Vermont Studio Center.

1 Poster for Maya Soto’s Gathering Bones. Photo: Joseph Lambert.

2 Kristy Tonti, Is this the Moon, oil, paper, wax on wood.

3 Lady Rizo sings; photo courtesy of Amelia Zirin-Brown.

4 Christine Sandifur, Gmail 1.0, monoprint.

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1994Elizabeth Ely Moreno (TH ’94) announced that her play Cinderella or the Story of Bigfoot was published earlier this year by Pioneer Drama Service.

Christine Sandifur (AR ’94) participated in Visual Acoustics, a group exhibit exploring music and sound through visual representations at the Herberger Theater Center Art Gallery, Phoenix, Ariz.

Constellation – Mana, a piece by Kumi Yamashita (AR ’94) will be on exhibit through February 2014 at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Kumi is one of the finalists from the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

1993Erik Geschke (AR ’93) was selected to receive the Ford Family Foundation Fellowship for Oregon artists for 2013 at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, Calif. Among his recent exhibitions was Head, Shoulders, Genes and Toes at the Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts. Curated by Judith Rushin, this exhibition featured artists exploring the intersection of art, human biology and medicine.

The Austrian television detective series, Janus, stars alumnus Alex Pschill (TH ’93) as forensic psychologist Dr. Leo Benedict.

1992On January 6, 2013, Barbie Anaka (MU ’92) celebrated the release of her new album, Speechless, with an album release party at The Triple Door in Seattle, Wash. This marks her first CD release in nearly 10 years.

1990Pauline Smith (PP ’90) had the honor of designing the costumes for Kiyon Gaines’ new ballet, Sum Stravinsky, which premiered at Pacific Northwest Ballet in November 2012.

1987The West Australian Department of Culture and the Arts has awarded Wolfe Bowart (TH ’87) with the 2013 Creative Development Fellowship. January 2013 also saw the UK premiere of his production Letter’s End at London’s Southbank Centre.

1983Rose Cano (TH ’83) and eSe Teatro presented award-winning play-wright Luis Alfaro’s poetic urban drama, Oedipus el Rey in conjuction with A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) in December 2012.

December 2012 saw Cynthia Nawalinski (AR ’83) show some of her work in Infinite Possibilities: Science, Math, Book Arts at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Ore.

1981Myra Melford (MU) was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 to work on the multi-media piece, Language of Dreams, which will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, Calif. on November 8 & 9, 2013. She will also be starting a 2-year residency at YBCA through the Doris Duke Artists Residencies to Build Demand for the Arts, where she will be working with them to reimagine their jazz programming and initiatives. Finally, Myra was honored by receiving the Doris Duke Artist Award.

1979During May 2013 Kathryn Altus’ (AR) work was exhibited at the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle, Wash.

CORNISH ACROSS GENERATIONSWork by Ryan Aragon (AR ’11) and Allyce Wood (AR ’10) appeared at SOIL in Seattle, Wash. early in 2013 for their show, Plantbodies—Indicators & Reactors.

Sharon Arnold (AR ’06) opened the doors of LxWxH Gallery to the public in December 2012 during Georgetown’s monthly art walk, Art Attack! So far, LxWxH Gallery has featured the work of many talented artists including Bette Burgoyne (AR ’86).

Back in October 2012, Ben Gibbard, front man for Death Cab for Cutie, appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote his solo debut album with cover art designed by Drew Hamlet (DE ’10). The cover design project was undertaken at Hum Creative, which was founded by Kate Harmer (DE ’05).

Kris Iverson (MU ’78) and Ro Tamburri (MU ’79), along with Mary Jo Dugaw (MU), vocalist, performed during April 2013 in the Haller Lake Music Series.

Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE), led by co-founders Joshua Kohl (MU ’96) and Haruko Nishimura (MU), won a Creative Capital Award and the International Music Theatre Now Award presented by the Germany-based International Theatre Institute. DAE has included numerous Cornish alumni collaborators over the years.

Circus Loversick, a piece cowritten by Annalyn Lehnig (TH ’06) and Alma Schneider (TH ’07), explores the disorder and the downfalls, the majesty and the mayhem of love, through monologues delivered by Annalyn as she takes on the roles of The Juggler and The Tight Rope Walker, among others. Originally produced in San Diego, Calif., Annalyn and Alma brought Circus Lovesick to the Howlin Wolf Den in New Orleans, La. during March 2013.

GUSFORD | los angeles is Kelsey Lee Offield’s (AR ’09) new contem-porary art gallery committed to representing emerging and mid-career local and international artists. Founded in February 2013 GUSFORD now represents and exhibits a dynamic selection of artists including alumna Dorielle Caimi (AR ’10).

Mikey Rioux (AR ’09), John Backstrom (AR ’10), Danielle Hammer (DA ’10), Ian Huddleston (MU ’12) and Kaitlin Webster (DA ’11) successfully raised the money for their new collaborative project. The Sho: Filthy / Mockingbird is a multimedia dance theater piece that explores the sense-making process and examines the underlying assumptions in the performance-making processes. The performance took place in October 2013 in Chicago, Ill.

Maya Soto (DA ’03) presented her new work, Gathering Bones, in May 2013. It featured a 60-minute dance work with original music composition by Seattle composer Paurl Walsh (MU ’05), as well as an interactive gallery space where the audience is invited to step right into the creation of the work. Among the performers were Teresa Hanawalt (DA ’03), Amy Johnson (DA ’11) and Carla Negrete Martinez (DA ’11).

In Sacramento, Calif., Capital Stage’s new adaptation of Stephanie Gularte’s Hedda Gabler featured two Cornish alumni, Michael Wiles (TH ’97) and Jessica Chisum (TH ’98), who played George Tesman and Thea Elvsted respectively.

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FACULTY & STAFFNEWSWIRECornish’s biennial Design Faculty Exhibition featured work by Stephanie Bower, Susan Boye, Jeff Brice, Rossi Skortcheva Donesky, Ellen Forney, Julie Gaskill, BeAnne Hull, Jacob Kohn, Mark Kornblum, Tiffany Laine De Mott, Julie Myers, Robynne Raye, Jenny Sapora, Dan Shafer, Hal Tangen and Junichi Tsuneoka (DE ’02).

Art Professor Robert Campbell was featured in Digital Art: A New Generation at The Gallery of the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts.

Campbell also received a 2012 GAP Award from Artist Trust to fund the services of Seattle composer and Cornish faculty member Jarrad Powell for the musical soundtrack of his experimental documentary, Pulchrior in Luce. Professor Heather Dew Oaksen, art, received a 2012 GAP to support the creation of a cohesive distribution package for the film, Minor Differences, which focuses on the powerful first-person narratives of five former juvenile offenders. The film premiered last fall at the Northwest African American Museum.

Dawn Cerny, art, was all over the Seattle area this past year, beginning with The rug pulled out from underneath; you lie on the floor at the Hedreen Gallery in the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University. She had a piece in a new publication by La Norda Specialo that was published in honor of Jeffry Mitchell’s retrospective at Henry Art Gallery. She also had work at Soil Gallery and Greg Kucera Gallery and in Short Run at the Vera Project.

Long time Cornish faculty member and current jazz history instructor Paul deBarros released a new book, Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland.

Music staff member and coloratura soprano Rachel DeShon starred in Seattle Opera’s new opera for youth, Our Earth: Heron and the Salmon Girl. She also performed in holiday concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.

Music Professor Emily Doolittle and Adjunct Professors Wayne Horvitz and Jessika Kenney received 2013 CityArtist funding from the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Seattle.

Professor Ron Erickson was featured in the program for La Cenerentola at Seattle Opera, where he also serves as head of wardrobe.

Design Faculty member and Stranger Genius Award-winner Ellen Forney published Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir to great reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, Curve, Bust, O Magazine, Sherman Alexie and more. Marbles was also named been named “One of The Season’s Best Graphic Novels” by TIME Magazine.

Performance Production professor Karen Gjesteen retired after more than 33 years at Cornish.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra commissioned Music Professor Janice Giteck to create a new piece involving the participation of Native American tribal communities around the Puget Sound region.

Art faculty member and gallery curator Cable Griffith had a solo show at The Kittredge titled Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start. At the Frye, Griffith was one of a group of prominent area artists commissioned by Scott Lawrimore to create “art work in response to musical compositions based on James Joyce’s volume of poetry entitled Chamber Music.”

Cornish faculty member and alum Gretta Harley lived another life in Seattle’s Grunge scene; it’s gone, but it flashed back in a brash new rock musical, These Streets, at ACT. The new work was created by Gretta and Sarah Rudinoff, in collaboration with Elizabeth Kenny.

1 Cover, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney.

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Ashani Dances, the company founded and headed by dance Professor Iyun Ashani Harrision, performed three original works: Artifact, Like Sand Between My Fingers, and After Snow in a June dance concert.

Cornish faculty members Natalie Lerch and Peter Mack are soloists for the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2013–14 season.

Julie Myers, design faculty, received the Educator of the Year Award in the 2012 Designer of Distinction award program from the Washington State chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.

Cornish Curator of Visual Resources Bridget Nowlin and Seattle photo grapher Laurel Schultz presented Collection in Focus: Early Photographic Processes, an exploration of early photography in the Henry Art Gallery’s collection. Nowlin, who is also registrar for the Monsen Collection at the Henry, focused on the scientific and artistic innovation behind each process and some of the key photographers working during the period.

Three-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto, master pianist, composer and arranger, teamed up with versatile duo partner, flute virtuoso Paul Taub at SFJAZZ Center in August. Both are members of the music faculty.

Cornish music faculty member Paige Stockley (cello) released a new album, August Ruins, composed by Peter Vukmirovic Stevens.

Christine Sumption, humanities & sciences and theater faculty member, served as dramaturg for the world premiere of Cheryl L. West’s Pullman Porter Blues at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and the annual Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival. The Festival also featured the work of actors Carol Roscoe and Terri Weagant, both members of the theater faculty.

Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Antony and Cleopatra featured theater faculty members Amy Thone and Terry Weagant.

With her installation Lost Long: a landscape, Cornish art professor Ruth Marie Tomlinson created the memory we all should have of the wide landscapes of Montana. The exhibition was the culmination of her residency there which included learning about field recording and sound editing. As a result of the residency, Lost Long includes her first audio component.

Wayne Rawley, Cornish graduate in Theater from 1992, received a Gregory Award for best new play for his script Live! From the Last Night of My Life. He had plenty of Cornish company; three of the other nominees in that category were grads or faculty. Also nominated were Richard Andriessen (TH ’10) for The Callers, Jessica Hatlo (TH ’08) for Stuck, and faculty member Stephanie Timm for Sweet Nothing. The winner for outstanding director, Desdemona Chiang, was the director of several Cornish productions. Chiang won for Jesus Hopped the A Train.

Other Cornish nominations included Gabriel Baron (TH ’00), outstanding director, Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Greg Carter, Performance Production faculty and artistic director of Strawberry Theatre Workshop, outstanding production, Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Carol Roscoe, Theater faculty, outstanding actress, Dirty Story; Matthew Smucker, Performance Production faculty, outstanding scenic design, First Date; Carol Thompson (TH ’10), outstanding supporting actress, The Callers; Connor Toms, (TH ’01), outstanding actor, Red; and Richard E.T. White, Theater department chair, outstanding director, Red.

2 Jacob Kohn, Golden Pond II, 2011, oil on canvas, 12 x 42 inches. Photo: Jacob Kohn.

3 Iyun Ashani Harrison and company. Photo: Joseph Lambert.

4 Ron Erickson recognizes Performance Production professor Karen Gjelsteen, who retired after more than 33 years with Cornish. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

5 Gretta Harley. Photo: Charles Peterson.

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Lindsay says he was driving a tractor long before he

could drive a car. After his schooling at venerable

Cranbrook, he formed a sensible plan to matriculate at

the London School of Economics. This intention was

derailed, however, by a fascination with America, a malady

from which a surprising number of Brits suffer.

Traveling about in the U.S., he fell into an education at a

teacher-training school. Needing money for his education,

he fell, in turn, into a work-study job in the school’s

financial aid office. It was this latter work with the needs

of students, rather than his training as a teacher, that

has guided Lindsay’s career.

Coming to Seattle, according to Lindsay, represents a

home coming of sorts for someone raised in the forest

country of Kent: “It’s a return to a city that celebrates the

outdoors.” He is looking forward to hiking in the area, as

well as to an increasing involvement in a vibrant arts scene.

–Maximilian Bocek

JONATHAN LINDSAY continued

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IN MEMORIAM2012/13

Please join us in recognizing these individuals who have

contributed to Cornish College of the Arts and our

community over the years.

Clayton Corzatte was a former Cornish theater faculty member and renowned actor, whose decades on the stage included a Tony Award nomination and roles at the 5th Avenue, Seattle Repertory, Village, Intiman and ACT theaters, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Jane Ewing retired from Cornish after 10 years as vice-president of institutional advancement and a distinguished career in fundraising including positions with Wellspring Family Services, UW School of Public Health and The Little School. She served as president of the Northwest Development Directors Association (NDOA) and Bellevue Schools Foundation boards and received the 2012 NDOA profes-sional achievement award.

George Fiore was a former music faculty member at Cornish, University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University; Seattle Symphony associate conductor for choral activities and Seattle Opera chorus master; and directed the Northwest Boychoir and numerous churches.

Dong Il Lee was a 2010 graduate of the Design Department's Interior Design program. He moved to the US from South Korea in 2002, completing high school in Pennsylvania. One of his projects in his junior year won a Northern Pacific regional student competition held by the International Interior Design Association.

1 Clayton Corzatte, King Lear. Photo: courtesy New City Theatre

2 Jane and JJ. Ewing. Photo: TeamPhotogenic

3 George Fiore. Photo: credit TBD

4 Dong Il Lee. Photo: courtesy Cornish College of the Arts.

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Nellie Cornish opened the The Cornish School of Music on

November 14, 1914 and look how far we have come! We are

looking forward to celebrating Cornish’s first 100 years—and

our next 100—beginning November 14, 2014 and run-

ning through November 2015.

You’re a part of the success. We want to know all about

your time at Cornish. Your story is our story. Send us your

stories and photos!

THE 100-YEAR ITCH:TELL US YOUR STORIES. SEND US YOUR PICTURES.

Why? We want to share as many of your stories and images

as possible. You’re one of the people who made all of this

possible, whether you are an alumnus, a current or former

faculty member, staff member or trustee, or simply a

community member whose life has been touched by Cornish.

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This year, we explore the ways in which creativity rooted in artistry can

bring new approaches to human health and wellbeing. From the health

of our communities and public lives to the very personal issues we

face, creative therapies and solutions can be found in the most

unexpected places.

Friday, January 31, 2014 Opening Night Party & Performances

Saturday, February 1, 2014 Day of Ideas

Please visit cornish.edu/creativesociety for emerging

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