News and events for alumni + friends of CIA
News and events for alumni + friends of CIA
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CIA celebrates new President + CEO 

Photo by Amber N. Ford '16
CIA recently celebrated the historic occasion of Kathryn J. Heidemann's presidency at an investiture ceremony that culminated with the formal installation of Heidemann as CIA's first female president in more than 100 years. View photos from the event here. A recording of the ceremony is available here

Share your thoughts in the SNAAP survey this fall

CIA is participating in the 2022 Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP)—a one-of-a-kind survey that explores the lives of arts alumni nationwide. SNAAP gathers, analyzes and reports on survey data from arts alumni to better understand their professional success, educational satisfaction and personal fulfillment. SNAAP survey data delivers a national profile of how artists living in America prepare for their careers and allows for a deepened understanding of what constitutes success in the arts, and the extent of artists’ contributions to culture and society.
Your valuable input can help CIA learn about post-gradate experiences, develop the curriculum, and hear about what skills were useful in you education. Look for an email invitation regarding the online SNAAP survey in mid-October. 

Visit We Want More pop-up exhibition 

Reinberger Gallery will host We Want More as part of the Mid America Print Council Conference
taking place October 14-16 in Cleveland. We Want More is an extension of We Want Everything, an interactive exhibition by print artist Josh MacPhee that opened at CIA in spring 2022. MacPhee will present a keynote lecture for the conference at CIA's Peter B. Lewis Theater on October 16. More details here.

CIA Disney connections featured by Ideastream

Ideastream Public Media published a piece on the Animation Department's ties to Disney and Pinocchio, which includes animation senior Alasia Gordon.

Join us for the annual Fall Career Fair

It’s that time again! Career Services is hosting the annual Fall Career Fair on Monday, October 17 from 4 to 6pm at CIA. The Career Fair is a great opportunity for you to meet employers, safely face-to-face, and learn about their various opportunities. Alumni registration for the Career Fair is now open! Please go to this link to register by October 12.  As always, we encourage you to schedule individual appointments with Career Services by logging onto College Central and clicking the ‘Appointment’ tab. Alumni who are interested in registering as employers at the fair can contact the Career Center at careers@cia.edu.

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Alumni News
Julian Stanczak '54* was featured in an article with cleveland.com that discussed Julian Stanczak: To Catch the Light, a documentary about his life and work that received its world premiere at the Cinematheque. An encore presentation of the film will screen as a part of CIA's Lunch on Fridays series on November 4 in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. 
Ron Testa '65 has work in Visions of Photography: Stories of Now at Colonel Eugene Myers Gallery at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota from October 17 to November 3. 
Bruce McCombs '66 has a solo show Bruce McCombs: City Journeys at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan through November 6. 
Richard Heipp '76 had work in a solo show, Museum Reflections: Artists, Devils and Saints, at Valdosta State University’s Maranville Art Gallery in Valdosta, Georgia. 
Babs Reingold '78 has work in Address: Earth at Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, New York through October 30.
William Moore '84 was recently interviewed by Observica magazine. The article begins on page 62. Moore will also show work in Art Comes Alive 2022 at Art Design Consultants in Cincinnati from October 29 to December 30.
Judy Takács '86 has work in the Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize at the Ashtabula Arts Center in Ashtabula, Ohio. The show will open with a reception on October 8 from 6 to 9pm. 
Linda Zolten Wood '87 was recently interviewed by WKYC in Cleveland
Yuko Kimura '94 recently showed print work in Cosmic Collages, as part of the 2022 Fulcrum Arts Festival in Los Angeles.  
Libby Black '99 has a solo show, The Way Things Also Are, at 500 Capp Street Foundation in San Francisco. 
Amy Casey '99 was featured in the Akron Beacon JournalHer exhibition, Continued Continuing, remains on view through October 30 at the Canton Museum of Art.
Branden Koch '01 has work in solo show, Heavy Light, at Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh from October 14 to December 15. 
Scott Krugger '01 was featured in The Detroit News.
Scott Goss '06 has work in Scott Goss: Rise and Fall at Youngstown State University’s McDonough Museum of Art through October 29.
Julianna Miller '07 was recently named the Design Director of Smart Design in New York City.
Tim Hayes '07, founder and CEO of Cardboard Helicopter in Cleveland, recently designed the NERF Paddlepong  and the NERF Spiral Grip Football.
Anthony Zart '08 will have a pop-up show, What Do We Know About Margaret, on view October 15 from 6 to 9 pm at Biographie Studio in Lakewood, Ohio. 
Josh Greiner '09 designed the interior of the newest Ford Mustang.
Ashley Pastore '10 has work in Alter/Altar at Allegheny Art Galleries in Meadville, Pennsylvania through November 12. 
Leigh Brooklyn '11 has a solo show, All of Me, at Kaiser Gallery in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. An opening reception will take place October 7 from 6 to 9 pm. 
Nikki Woods '12 and Katy Richards '11 are part of a three-person group show, A Painter’s Table, that opens from 6 to 9pm Friday at Waterloo Arts in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood.
Kimberly Chapman '17 will have an artist talk with the Erie Museum of Art on October 20 from 6 to 7pm. Traveling show, Eighty-Six Reasons for Asylum Admission, will be on view at the museum from October 20 to May 14. Her feature article, "Out of the White Cube," published this month in Ceramics Monthly Magazine.
Orlando Caraballo '18 has been named the McDonough Emerging Artist for this fall at the McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown State University. A solo exhibition, Capicú, was on view at the museum. 
Seneca Kuchar '21 was featured in CAN Journal
Madeline Davis '22 was awarded Best In Show in the Grand Exhibition Art Competition: Embodying Masonic Values 2022 in Philadelphia.
Violet Maimbourg '22 will take part in an artist residency with arteventura in Spain in 2023, as well as a virtual residency with School of Visual Arts in New York.
Congratulations to Valerie Mayen ’05, Charmaine Spencer ’05, Kayli Salzano ’18 and Erykah Townsend ’20, who were announced as members of the 2022-23 Arts Leadership Residency Cohort by Assembly for the Arts in Cleveland. 

Jobs and Opportunities

  • CIA is hiring! Current job openings can always be viewed at cia.edu/careers-at-cia.
  • Arts Impact is hiring artist educators. View the job description and apply here
  • Mirabo Press, co-founded by Rachel Shelton '11, is hosting the 2022 Screenprint Biennial & Symposium, a free, two-day event that includes screenprint demonstrations, artist talks, an open portfolio session, and various print shop and collection tours around Buffalo. For more information and to register, click here
  • Valley Art Center seeks entries for its 51st Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Artists who live within a 250-mile radius of Chagrin Falls are invited to submit artwork. Deadline is 4pm Friday, October 7. Details here.
  • Citizens Academy Glenville Charter School in Cleveland would like an artist guest speaker to talk with K–5 students about working as a professional artist. Interested alumni can contact alumni@cia.edu.
  • American Greetings is seeking a graphic artist
  • The Massillon Museum's Studio M is calling for Northeast Ohio studio art majors to apply for its winter 2023 exhibitions. Deadline is Wednesday, October 26. Details here.
  • The Morgan Conservatory has an open call for curatorial or group exhibition proposals for 2023–2024. Deadline is rolling. Details here.
  • CIA alumni can check out CIA’s College Central for freelance, internship, and part- and full-time listings. Click on "Sign Up" to get started.
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