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 chemicals to create a patina, giving the sense that it is old scrap metal. I then paint my images in oil on top of the patinas. I am trying to create a sense of...

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 in the cottage gardens around her home in Sparta, New Jersey.

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 to focus on 3-D stereoscopic photography, documentary filmmaking, and producing—and shooting the Morro Bay National Estuary Stereo Photo...

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 avid outdoorsman, David loves wildlife photography. He captured this photo of a boy peering out of a bird blind...

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 Minneapolis, became a copywriter instead of an English teacher, and left a steady job at an ad agency to start my own freelance business 10 years ago. I’m...