Alumni Archive
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![a green and yellow parrot looking backwards at the camera against a solid red background]()
Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler recalls her time as an art student at Cornell and getting started as an artist in New York City: I mostly resist interviews and personal profiles, not wanting to intrude on the reception of my work that I hope functions without me.
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![Abstract artwork in acrylic and charcoal on paper]()
Leslie Brill
Painter Leslie (Kirpich) Brill (B.F.A. ’71) grew up in the suburbs of New York City. Beginning at the age of nine, she took the train into “the city” on Saturdays to attend drawing classes at The Art Students League.
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![Neutral-colored leaf motifs over a colorful quilt-like background.]()
Jennifer Cecere
Visual artist Jennifer Cecere (B.F.A. ’73) has spent much of her 40-year career creating artworks that beautify public spaces while challenging traditional perspectives on “women’s work.”
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![Aerial view of a multistory red brick building.]()
Paul Mazzarella
Paul Mazzarella (M.R.P. ’79) fell in love with Ithaca as a graduate student in Cornell’s Department of City and Regional Planning. He earned his master’s degree and, as is often the case with graduates, moved away for work.
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![Title page of the book Street Signs to History]()
Constance Werner Ramirez
Constance Werner Ramirez (Ph.D. CRP ’75) became fascinated with architecture and historic preservation while exploring Annapolis as a child.
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![Detail of Community Matters book cover]()
Sigmund Shipp
Sigmund Shipp (Ph.D. CRP ’92) has devoted his career to understanding and improving Black communities nationwide.
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![Spherical pendant lights hang from a wood-clad ceiling, past a balcony.]()
Jon H. Alvarez
Jon H. Alvarez (B.Arch. ’77) spent much of his childhood meeting architects and talking with them about their craft.
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![Students walk toward the entrance of a red brick building. Windows and tan trim break up the brick exterior.]()
H. Alan Brangman
When H. Alan Brangman (B.Arch. ’75) talks about architecture, he doesn’t focus on design, construction, or engineering, although he certainly acknowledges their importance.
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![Four paintings depicting composite architectural imagery in heightened color placed side by side with transparent neutral color.]()
Maddy Rosenberg
Maddy Rosenberg (B.F.A. ’77) always knew that art would be the driving force in her life.
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![Dark blue lines form abstractly drawn ladders and buildings, over a soft background of varying shades of blue paint strokes. A sparingly used red appears at the base of a ladder and in a building window.]()
Deborah Addison Coburn
For Deborah Addison Coburn (B.F.A. ’74), art is an “exercise in controlled chaos.”
