to the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Kalup Linzy, MFA Studio Art 2003, has received a Creative Capital Foundation Grant, and his video performance artwork is included in the current Whitney Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Creative Capital supports artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. The Sunday "New York Times" (January 6) featured several reproductions of Linzy's video stills along with text references in the Arts & Leisure section's first-page article, "Video Art Thinks Big: That¹s Showbiz" by Holland Carter.

Andrea Satterfield, MA Art History Spring 2007, is a winner of a USF Graduate School’s Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis entitled, “The Assimilation of the Marvelous Other: Reading Christoph Weiditz’s Trachtenbuch (1529) as an Ethnographic Document.” The Outstanding Thesis Awards will be presented at the Graduate School’s Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Awards Reception to be held in January.

Maria P. Colaco, USF dance alumni 2001, and founder and artistic director of the New York City - based MariaColacoDance company, was mentioned in the December 2, 2007 Sunday edition of the New York Times. Maria's company has just become the resident company for Evolution Dance Theater, which opened in Westchester, NY, in September and includes a dance school, a performance venue for professional companies, and ongoing exchanges with dance professionals, students, and the community through classes, open rehearsals, and educational events. “DUKE In December; Not Just A Nutcracker” will be performed by MariaColacoDance in the Evolution Dance’s 77-seat theatre in December. Ms. Colaco is excited to be part of building a modern dance community in Westchester and hopes to help create a new cultural institution that will be around for years to come. Click here to read the New York Times article.

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