Alumni Updates: 2010s

Below are archived updates for Art & Art History alumni graduating since 2010. Visit the main Alumni Updates page for updates received this year.

Kelly Bodie, ’10 (Studio Art) Kelly writes: In 2017, my silkscreen prints were selected into two juried group shows and two solo exhibitions in North Carolina. The solo shows "Nevertheless She Persisted" and "From Nature to Abstraction" opened in September. (more about "From Nature to Abstraction" here: http://townofcary.uberflip.com/i/848284-program-guide-fall-2017/24) I work full time as a nonprofit professional and enjoy working from my small home "studio" as much as I can. (Oct 2017)

J.T. (Jonathan) Carter '11 (Studio Art) J.T. writes that he is "currently working full time with ANHAM USA, Inc. a Government Contracting Company in the Contract and Billing Department and Equinox Fitness as a Front Desk Associate." (2011)

Briana Chaney, ’15 (Marketing/Art) Briana writes: I just moved to Colorado in July, and I am working as a Marketing Coordinator for a subcontractor in the booming Denver market. I create digital designs for our business collateral, take progress and completed project photos, and I write content for press releases and social media. (Oct 2017)

Catherine Cole '11 (Studio) Catherine won first place in the Second Annual Excellence in Printmaking, a jurried show at Washington Printmakers Galler in Silver Spring, Maryland. (2012)

Kristen Lied Peyton, '12 (Studio Art) Kristen sent Art Professor Brian Kreydatus an email, thanking him for "being an engaged and dedicated teacher and creator...an essential role in my development and maturity as a painter/printmaker". She also included an "indirect shout-out" extended to Studio Art professors, Nikki Santiago, Elizabeth Mead and John Lee. Her contribution to W&M can be visibly experienced in the mural, painted in 2015, within the English department's outside courtyard of Tucker Hall.
She will be showing some of her latest work in her upcoming thesis show at the University of New Hampshire. See also an article by UNH featuring Kristen.
(April, 2017)

Katie Wood '14 (Studio Art) Katie writes: I just completed a one day residency in a mobile studio in Charlottresville where I made one drawing every hour for 24 hours. Here's a bunch for photos and an interview!