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Student Successes

Spring 2008

Seniors Amanda McConnell, Andrew McMillen, and Ryan Pape received top honors in the fall 2007 B.F.A.Visual Communication and Design Senior Exhibition. The Outstanding Senior Award went to
McMillen. The Best Senior Exhibition Award was shared equally between McConnell and Pape.

Erica Coffing has been involved with the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) to help clients such as Expo East attain its graphic and industrial design goals. She worked with LacPro International
on the launch of its new product, pro.bio.MAX. She also worked with Schwartz Biomedical to produce surgical illustrations of the company’s Meniscal Fixation Device.

Dawn Turner received an internship at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne.

Richard Wanjema won a logo design competition for the IPFW Black Collegian Caucus.

Senior Amanda McConnell completed work on the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics’ Indiana courthouses calendar as part of an internship. The photographs in the calendar were chosen from
submissions of historic courthouses from photographers statewide. McConnell was responsible for all design work, photo retouching,
and layout.

William Baulkley has two of his recent fashion show photographs on the Jefferson Pointe Mall Web site, www.jeffersonshopping.com. Baulkey also presented an exhibition of the Seven Deadly Sins at
Henry’s Restaurant in Fort Wayne during April 2007. Greed, pride, lust, wrath, sloth, envy, and gluttony were represented, each with its own portrait-based photograph. In addition, his photograph “Submission Silenced,” a black and white self-portrait, was included in the Self-Portrait Exhibition at Artlink in Fort Wayne in December 2007.

Dan Dienelt and continuing lecturer Jim Gabbard both had photographs accepted in the Artlink’s Fort Wayne Photographers in the 2007 exhibition.

Libby Huffer was hired by the Allen County Education Partnership to produce photographs for marketing its literacy programs.

Rebecca Koverman’s digital photograph titled“Blue and Red” was used on the recent cover of the IPFW Spring 2008 Schedule of Classes.
Nic Pyle and Chad Ryan had their photos published in The News-Sentinel in spring 2007. Pyle is an intern there, and Ryan, who also covered the Super Bowl, is an employee of the paper.

Lisa Schwaberow had two digital photographs exhibited in Stacked: Art Work Influenced by Reading Material in the new Jeffrey R. Krull Gallery in the Allen County Public Library in October 2007.

William Baulkey, Debra Crouch, Libby Huffer, Anita Kramer, Barbara Mendez, Angela Roberts, Malina Sanfilippo, Daniel Scheerer, and Megan Strouse had work accepted in the fall 2007 Helmke Library Student Art Exhibition. First place went to Baulkey for “Surrealist City Pt II,” Scheerer won second place for “Simplicity,” and Strouse won third place for “Untitled Still Life #3.”

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