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Second Place Fine Art: "Luncheon"
By Mary Jo Novotny Durand ‘71 "Luncheon" was conceptualized in 2006 and completed in 2008 and depicts a traditional birthday luncheon at which close friends share advice and support. The women, sitting...
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Second Place Poetry: "Bike in a Box"
(from a series called "The Only Time I Believed in God Was at Granma's House") by L’Oréal Reneé Joyce Snell ’04 My sister say I’m going get a bike for my birthday so I act like I don’t know when Mama...
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Second Place Photography: "Deep Creek"
by Joe Palmieri '53 I won a Nikon SLR in a sales contest in 1973. Although I have been taking photos since high school days, I really got into "shooting" with the prize Nikon. I shot the photo of my...
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First Place Essay: "Cement Phantoms"
by Jamie DeGregory Holaday '03 As we drive east through Togo in West Africa, leaving the capital behind, the countryside opens up. Vast coastal plains are tempered with towering mango trees hugging the...
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First Place Fiction: "The Wailing Wall"
by Steve Hill '03 It is the last week of July, and on CNN there is video footage showing thousands of Israelites and Jews from countries around the world making a pilgrimage to the Western Wall. The...
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First Place Photography: "An Italian Perspective"
by Kathryn Cooper '06 The outdoors is one of my favorite things to photograph, and when I was in Italy not long ago, I saw this opportunity and had time to snap just one shot. While on the serpentine...
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First Place Poetry: "The Grandmas"
by Fran Markover '71 In Gabon, when the grandmothers speak, the president listens. . . . —Bernadette Rebienot, Bwiti elder, grandmother of 23 In the Black Hills, on the back page of the Nation...
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First Place Fine Art: "Sassy Birch Teapot"
by Eric Serritella '85 Eric's "Sassy Birch Teapot" is entirely hand carved from stoneware first thrown on the potter’s wheel. It was inspired by a lifelong love of trees and the “big birch we dine...
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Mailbox: Arts Issue a Delight
Brava! And thank you for producing the 2008 arts and literary issue, IC(Point of)View! I have always felt that Ithaca’s excellent arts education and the rich body of work by students and alumni are...
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First Place Essay: Visitors
by Nina Boutsikaris ’09 Before I fall asleep I keep my eye on that spider, his body as big as a dime, legs spread out and gripping the wall of the wooden hut. I’m hot and itchy, and my eyes are swollen...
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Second Place Essay: "Conflict of Interest"
by Diana Cassar-Uhl ’95 I'm contemplating ending my career as a clarinetist. It's a choice I never expected to face. I thought I'd stay at my job until retirement. Music chose me -- I know I could...
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Third Place Essay: "On Solid Ground?"
by Tahirah Uqdah Falah '96 I found myself in Walgreens on Friday looking at canes. I was kind of in a trance, staring at them thinking, “Will I need a cane? If so, when? Do I need one now?” I held each...
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First Place Poetry: "Lack of Evidence"
by Wendy White Cleveland '70 Wrapped in a light orange veil she sits on a stone bench in a crowded courtroom in Katsina, its ceiling fans moving hot air like gossip passing over parched tongues....
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Second Place Poetry: "The Map"
by Samantha Tibbetts '10 The map I drew of Argentina in the 4th grade did not mention it was conquered by the Inca Empire in 1480. It was orange in ...
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Third Place Poetry: "Untitled"
by Kathryn Lorenzini '97 I sit on the sofa with Lucile, holding my poem, the award, trying to be the writer. I am eighteen, on the brink of it all. I am supposed to step out of this moment, once in a...
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Honorable Mention Poetry: "December Moon"
by Wendy White Cleveland '70 We retired to the Deep South with its switch grass and loblollies, drawled talk in dogtrot houses, winters without snow. Nearing solstice, I survey fields of spotty cotton...
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First Place Photography; "Leaving Hobo Station"
by Elizabeth Weismantel Sciola '00, M.S. 01' Elizabeth “Lisa” Weismantel Sciola ’00, M.S. ’01, lives in New Hampshire, where she works as an outpatient orthopedic physical therapist specializing in...
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Second Place Photography: "Singing Sands Mountain, Dunhuan, China"
by Nancy Shafer Felice '71 Nancy Shafer Felice ’71 says, “One of the most important lessons I learned at IC was how to take a leap of faith. That’s how I moved from a small town in central New York to...
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Third Place Photography (Tie): "Scared"
by David Mitrou '96 David Mitrou ’96 (also Photography, Honorable Mention, "Still of the Night") is a partner in the McCormack Firm in Boston, where he practices a wide range of civil litigation. An...
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Third Place Photography (Tie): "Truckin"
by Stefan Malner '03 Stefan Malner ’03, is currently living and taking pictures in the greater Boston area. Water, reflections, textures, shapes, patterns, street art, and night photography are...
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Honorable Mention Photography; "Black Crowned NIght Heron, Sweet Springs...
by Abram "Abe" Perlstein '79 Abram “Abe” Perlstein ’79, worked for 20 years in Hollywood as a film, TV, and music industry stills photographer. In 2000 he relocated north to California’s central coast...
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Honorable Mention Photography: "Bird Bath"
by Patricia Gross Curtis '85 Patricia Gross Curtis ’85, earned her IC degree in music education and has been a band director for 24 years. Her other passions include travel, photography, and gardening...
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First Place Fine Art: "Caravaggio Redux"
by Joan Segil Holleb '80 Joan Segil Holleb ’80, a full-time artist based in Highland Park, Illinois, has been working recently on copper. “I bend, fold, and mutilate it,” she says, “and then use...
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Second Place Fine Art: "Staten Island Ferry Moment #2"
by Dina Anchin '06 Dina Anchin ’06 (also Third Place, “Moment #8”), who majored in drama with minors in art and art history, works in a variety of media including graphite, oil paint, watercolor, and...
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Third Place Fine Art: "Moment #8"
by Dina Anchin '06 Dina Anchin ’06 (also Fine Art, Second Place, “Staten Island Ferry Moment #2”), who majored in drama with minors in art and art history, works in a variety of media including...
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Honorable Mention Photography: "Milkweed"
by Randi Millman-Brown Randi Millman-Brown is the visual resources curator in Ithaca College’s Department of Art History. She also teaches art history and the history of photography at TC3. She has a...
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Honorable Mention Photography: "Still of the Night"
by David Mitrou '96 David Mitrou ’96 (also Photography, Third Place [tie], “Scared”) is a partner in the McCormack Firm in Boston, where he practices a wide range of civil litigation. An avid...
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by Denise Reid, M.A. ’10 “I want to be an author.” My father was livid. “An author? Authors don’t make money! The boy in your class who has been making his own little books can go be an author. You...
View ArticleShort Fiction, Honorable Mention: "Checkmate"
by Stella Gilgur-Cook ’98 David walks down Ocean Parkway: benches full of old geezers like himself on one side, highway traffic on the other. The neighborhood children are running amuck, making their...
View ArticleHonorable Mention Short Fiction: "Carwash"
by Steve Hill ’03 As the garage door gate to the carwash rose up, the image that entered John’s head was one of graphic sexual content. It surprised him. So much so that he felt the heat of blushing...
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Honorable Mention Photography: "A View of NYC"
by Cheryl Petruzzi Sheridan '84 Cheryl Petruzzi Sheridan ’84, owner and founder of Inprints Photography, has been documenting private and corporate events in the New York City area for over 10 years...
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Honorable Mention Photography: "Cannonball"
by Betsy Uhler '04 Betsy Uhler ’04 has been living and working in Los Angeles since graduating from Ithaca College. One of her recent hobbies is experimenting with her new underwater digital camera....
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Honorable Mention Photography: Middle Earth
by Tim Szlachetka '05 Tim Szlachetka ’05 says photography is something he has recently gotten more interested in. “I took a few classes when I was in high school,” he says, “but never really pursued it...
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Honorable Mention Photography: "Falling"
by Keri Friedman ’98 Keri Friedman ’98 is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. By day she works for Lensbaby, which she calls “one of the coolest photographic companies around.” All other times...
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Third Place Poetry: "Coffee Shop"
by Katharyn Howd Machan He's fallen in love with her, the girl who cannot meet the eyes of strangers. From behind the counter where...
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First Place Poetry: "Elegy for the Perseids, To Bill"
by Gina Evers '05 I offer my weight again to the old pine — the soles of my feet remember us here, ...
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Third Place Essay: "Goggles"
by Rebecca Yaël Schorr '93 What purpose do a pair of goggles have if they have never seen the inside of a pool or been submerged in the ocean? Squirreled away in the upper-left...
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Second Place Essay: "What to Expect When Youre Not Expecting"
by Charna Mamlok Westervelt '00 The morning after my wedding — a mere 18 hours after I was...
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First Place Essay: "Please Be Advised"
by Michael Withiam '79 “Please be advised your son is missing in action.” ...
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Third Place Photography: "Tombstone Blacksmith"
by Heather Linton ’04 Heather Linton ’04 is a self-employed tourism marketing consultant who travels constantly with her camera. ...
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Second Place Photography: "School House Blues"
by Keri Friedman ’98 Keri Friedman ’98 is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. By day she works for Lensbaby, which she calls “one of the coolest photographic companies...
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First Place Photography: "Serenity"
by Christopher D. Tennant ’01 Christopher Tennant ’01 [Photography, First Place, Serenity] graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in physics and then attended graduate...
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Third Place Short Fiction: "Eggs Benedict"
by Grady Watson Goldberg '09 Joe, your mother, Mary, was quite attractive. I heard from a friend that she still is. Good for her, and I suppose for you, too. I’ve just thought about t...
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Second Place Short Fiction: "A Mustache with a Man"
by Sean Frasier '06 After his mother squirted him out into the doctor’s hands the baby sat...
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First Place Short Fiction: "Exodus"
by C.W. Accardo ’13 The first thing they dropped were the icons —...
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Third Place Fine Art: "West, Young Man"
by Steve Alpert ’73 Steve Alpert ’73 worked in television and theater for 30 years before switching careers 10 years ago to become a professional artist. Since then, his work has been...
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Second Place Fine Art: "Woman of Introspection"
by Jessica Guido ’11 Jessica Guido ’11 says her art “embodies the strength, emotion, and character that constructs a real woman. Body language and poise begin to fade behind the...
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First Place Fine Art: "Clementines and Eucalyptus with Vase"
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View Article2011 Arts and Literary Issue Announcement
We are working on some exciting improvements to the ICView magazine this year. We hope to enhance your experience with the publication by incorporating some new content sections and fresh feature...
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