GRAD CHECK
Each year students make the legendary walk through the Campanile, down The Hill and into the real world. We're here to check in on them.
Julie Green
Julie Green
Year: Bachelor's, 1983.
Master's, 1996
Hometown:
Yokohama, Japan
Degree: Bachelor of Fine
Arts in design; Master of
Fine Arts in painting
Back in the day: After graduating in 1983, Green moved to New York City to work as a designer for Time/Life Inc. She designed for Time/Life by day while trying to squirl away some of her creative skills to her true passion — painting. After a year, however, she found that her artistic creativity was being drained by her commercial work
she kissed her office on the 33rd floor of Rockefeller Center goodbye in favor of the life of the staring artist.
Herfirst solo exhibition 'A Bird in the Bush Painting by Julele Green,' was shown in 1991 at the Jazzhouse, 926 Massachusetts St., where she worked as a bartender and waitress.
No stranger to the road (the wife was born in Japan, and her family moved frequently while she was growing up). Green spent the next decade or so moving back and forth between California and Japan, working various jobs, painting and seeing the world. "Instead of taking vacations, I moved," she says.
Whether you're singin' along, groovin' by yourself or
In 1993 Green returned to the University for graduate school and earned her master's degree in painting in 1996.
Today Green, 45, is an associate professor of art at Oregon State University, and lives with her husband Clay Lahman in Concordia, Ohio.
Her ongoing series, "The last Supper," on展会 this fall in the Art & Design building at The Metropolitan plateans on which Green
illustrated the final meals of 343 U.S. inmates sentenced to death. She is continuing an address and says she plans to keep going as long as the limited prison powers remain, heavily, which she opposes.
Though the exhibition is no longer on display at the University, the plates can be viewed online, along with Green's other work at www.greenule.com.
Frank Tankard
MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU
Listener Arieb Niebirach,
Blue Springs, Mo, junior
Tune: "Hetter Skeiler" by
The Beatles.
Action Heading to
Spanish class in Wescow
He says: "They've always
been my favorite group.
I think they're the best
rock 'n' roll band ever."
Listener: David Hodges,
Toneka junior
Topper* junior
"Tune Back" together by
Citizen Care
Walking to
Science Research
Library to do research
He says "till, chilly, it's
like of a soulful funk
thing."
Listener Jake Hartman,
Logan, Utah, senior
All-Touch Through
Action Heading to work
Action Heading to work
at the Spencer Museum
of Art
He says 'its cold outside, so need some motivation to get to class and to work, and nothing that does better than a little Ceydi.'
*Justen:* Nicole Rome, Hays freshman
*Tune:* "Kiss Mysssurely"
*Goodbye!* By the All-American Reboot
*Action* Action to Mrs. Funk's request
She says: "Whenever you're in a bad mood, it always just takes out your frustration."
Frank Tankard
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