Alumni News

Michael Rose ’13 Art History Major has been named 22 to Watch in Rhode Island in 2022 by Go Local Providence.

Will Hutnick ’07 Studio Art Major just opened the exhibition, QUEER HORIZONS, at the McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, OH. The exhibition is focused on the intersection of the natural environment, digital spaces, and queerness. “The disruption of a heteronormative sense of time—and by extension, sense of place—is inherently queer, oscillating in a present tense that is not fixed. We’re moving at a pace that is becoming ridiculously challenging to keep up with, which, it seems, has little hope of slowing down anytime soon. The present is right now and just out of reach,” Hutnick said. The exhibition is open through February 28th, 2025.

Marcie Revens ’03 Studio Art major co-curated an exhibit at City College of New York. Marcie is a graduate of the International Center of Photography and holds an MFA from The City College of New York. She teaches film and digital photography at the City College of New York (CUNY) and has taught at The Cooper Union.

Mark Mazzenga ’02 Art History major has published a book with Simon and Schuster. Mark teaches high school history at the American School in London, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He speaks conversational Klingon and is well-versed in all things geek.”

Stephen Forneris ’90, Art History major, was recognized in the AIARI 2018 Design Awards for Providence College’s Ruane Friar Development Center.

Rita Murphy ’19 Art History major is working at The Catholic University of America as an Admission Counselor. Currently in travel season, Rita is responsible for corresponding with and reading the applications of students from her assigned areas of the country. She is really enjoying working with high schoolers on their college journey, and learning more about Catholic University as well. Once November hits, she will be in reading season and will be reading all of the Early Action and Early Decision applications.

Josef Riccio ’18 Art History major is the Information Services Assistant, a hybrid Library and Institutional Technology position at the Library of Trinity College in Hartford, CT He plans to pursue an MA in Library Sciences.

Kaelynn Maloney ’16 Studio Art major is the Department and Curatorial Assistant at Tufts University Art Galleries. As department assistant, Kaelynn covers communications, scheduling, and administrative support for exhibitions for both gallery locations.

Amy Luke ’15 Studio Art minor in Photography recently accepted a position as Staff Photojournalist at New York State Assembly in Albany, NY.  

Alexandra Fallone ’13 Art History major, ’15 M.A. in Theology, is a Sales Operations Lead at Curalate in New York, NY. Prior to her current position Alex was a Sales & Service Operations Manager at adMarketplace in the New York City area.

Casey Cullen ’13 Studio Art major in Photography, minor in Art History. After graduating, Casey stayed in Providence and continued her education in a different field, through the RISD Graphic Design Certificate Program. She then pursued her love of photography even further, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Integrated Media through Lesley University. Her work focused on the unique connection between photography and memory. Using mixed media, she created an immersive experience depicting memories from her childhood home. Casey is a Lesley University Adjunct, having taught Introduction to Darkroom Photography, and photography workshops for underprivileged youth in Nagarote, Nicaragua through NicaPhoto. While in Nicaragua, she created a body of work which was displayed alongside her students’ in the “Look: Portraits of Nicaragua” Photo Fundraiser Exhibition at 22 Haviland Street Gallery. Casey then traveled to Cuba, visiting the Instituto Superior de Arte, where she created a photo essay on the city and people of Havana. She is currently working at Precision Images, Inc. as a Graphic Designer and Printing Technician, where she works with Phototool Films and Direct to Substrate UV Printing. Her portfolio can be found on her website.

Michael Rose ’13 Art History major is an art historian, gallerist, and appraiser based in Southern New England. Michael currently serves as the Gallery Manager at Providence Art Club, where he is responsible for all aspects of gallery administration, managing exhibitions in three unique gallery spaces.

Hannah Johnson ’10 and Lauren Cavalli ’11 Art History majors met with Dr. Thomas Strasser in Madrid recently. Hannah and Dr. Strasser took the opportunity to do a road trip to the north to view and study the cave art.

After working with the Peace Corp in Mali, Hannah took a job in DC working for the Peace Corp administration, where she met her husband. They have both taken the State Department exams and have moved into embassy work. Since then Hannah has been stationed in Frankfurt (2 years), and more recently (July 2018) were placed in Madrid.

Lauren currently lives in New York, writing for the Art Forum where she writes many fascinating stories of her publications.

Kate (Laberge) Bergeron ’10 Studio Art major, Photography concentration and a minor in Dance. After college, Kate attended Tufts University and The School of Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), where she received her Masters in Education in 2013. Kate has been teaching Digital and Analog Photography to beginner, intermediate, and advanced students at Needham High School since she began her teaching career; she has proudly built the photography program to include Advanced Placement applicants in her time there. In addition to Photography, Kate teaches 2D & 3D fine art courses that include Senior Studios for advanced students who have applied to the AP College Boards and are looking to further their art careers. She is inspired to instill a mindset of creative thinking in all students that come through her classroom, not just those who perceive themselves to be ‘creative’! In her personal time, Kate enjoys being outdoors with her husband and young daughter, making her own artwork, and traveling. She always has her camera at the ready.

Marie-Louise Winther ’10 Psychology major and Studio Art minor Photography concentration. Marie-Louise is currently working as a Designer + Assistant Creative Director at Dagne Dover, a NYC based brand that is redefining handbag design, focusing on functionality and aesthetic. In her role, she develops seasonal creative, heads up product design and drives creative direction for editorial campaigns. While at Dagne she has launched 4 seasonal collections, a Tech Capsule (currently sold at Apple) and a Baby Bag Capsule. Her design ethos focus around clean aesthetic, functionality and sustainability.

Prior to her current role, Marie-Louise was an editorial and runway photographer. After Providence College she went on to attend Parsons, The New School in NYC, for fashion design, being awarded the Best Portfolio Award of her graduating class and being selected for the Cannes Lions Festival of 2016.

Samantha Cataldo ’10 Art History major was recently named Curator of Contemporary Art at the Currier Museum of Art. Cataldo graduated in 2010 from Providence College with a degree in Art History, earning a certificate in Business Studies and minoring in Women’s Studies. Cataldo holds an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University’s joint program with the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Cataldo was the Koch Curatorial Fellow at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA. There, she curated exhibitions including The Social Medium, a survey of social photography, and managed sculpture park commissions such as Oscar Tuazon’s Partners.

Mary Pelletier ’09 English and Photography major is a Senior Photography Specialist at the Qatar Museum in Doha, Qatar. Pelletier studied Historical and Contemporary Photography at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, earning an MA. After graduating she resided in London as a photographic historian and dealer. She worked with the Bonhmas Photography Department and managed the James Hyman Gallery which  specialized in nineteenth-century French and contemporary British photography.

William Ruggiero ’08 Art History major accepted a position in 2018 as Coordinator/Assistant at the Trust for Public Land in Chicago, IL. Wil is an art historian, curator, and administrator working in Chicago, Illinois. His main area of research is in contemporary Latin American art, focusing on critical theory, media, urbanization and the dynamics of the state. 

Molly Narloch ’04 Art History major recently visited Professor Deborah Johnson in Providence. Molly is the product manager for a tea company in NYC and is studying to become a Life Coach.

Dr. Michelle Tolini Finamore ’91, Art History major, found inspiration at Providence College for her career as a fashion curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Dr. Maura Reilly ’90 BA has been appointed Director of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Dr. Reilly is the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she developed and launched the first exhibition and public programming space in the United States devoted entirely to feminist art. While there, she organized several landmark exhibitions, including the permanent installation of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party and the blockbuster Global Feminisms (co-curated with Linda Nochlin), among others.

Alley Harbour ’17, Biology major and Studio Art minor with a concentration in Photography, began an MFA program in Photography & Integrated Media at Lesley University in fall 2018.

Patricia Krupinski ’16, Art History major, ’18 M.A. in History, pursued an M.A. at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, with an anticipated graduation date of May 2021 and plans to apply to Ph.D. programs. At the time of this update, she also taught Latin Honors and Freshman English at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Edison, NJ.

Rachele Romano ’15, Studio Art major, began pursuing an MFA at Parsons School of Design in fall 2018.

Althea Ruoppo ’11, Art History major, pursued doctoral studies in art history at Boston University. In October 2018, she presented “Windows to the World: Isa Genzken’s Holocaust Denkmal (1991), An Unrealized Design Proposal for the New England Holocaust Memorial” at the 44th Annual Cleveland Symposium, “Built Environments and Performances of Power.” Organized by Case Western Reserve University and hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the symposium recognized Althea as one of three recipients of the Cleveland Symposium Paper Prize, awarded by the museum’s Friends of Art.

In April 2019, she presented “Obstructed Vision: Re-Viewing Isa Genzken’s Airplane Window Panels” at the Nasher Prize Dialogues Graduate Symposium at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Her essay was slated for publication in the annual Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium compendium. The conference trips were supported by travel grants from Boston University’s Department of History of Art & Architecture and the Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association, respectively.