Elliot Norquist, MFA '72, has a thing for shapes and colors. And, it makes sense, having settled in the Rocky Mountains, atop Missouri Heights, with towering triangular peaks permeating the horizon and the seemingly daily changes of colors.

Beginning October 12th, Venus Over Manhattan will debut Jack & Venus, an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based Japanese artist Susumu Kamijo, BFA '00, at the gallery’s 55 Great Jones Street. This presentation comprises one part of a two-venue show.

TILT! by Jennifer McIntyre, MEd '80, asks what happens when perspective tilts? The traditional still life painting changes dramatically as surfaces, objects and spaces relate in new and unfamiliar ways.

In any other year, Tina Kotek, BS '90, could expect the wind at her back running for governor in Oregon, a state that has chosen only Democrats for its highest office for more than three decades. But she appears instead to be in a much tighter race than the state’s current governor.

Sandy Baruah, BS '90, is a leader and visionary who the Detroit Regional Chamber will keep on as president and CEO for another five years after he recently signed his new contract with the country’s third-largest chamber of commerce, Crain’s Detroit Business reported.