We are pleased to announce Adriane Powell as the director of Alumni Relations at Illinois Wesleyan University. Adriane has been an adopted Titan since 2010, and has lived in the Bloomington-Normal community for over 30 years. She loves to meet IWU alumni where they live, work, and play. Adriane has experience working with a diverse group of IWU alumni and is looking forward to continuing to connect with Titans all over the world! 

Self-portraiture work by Mel Keiser ’07 is part of an exhibit at the McLean County Arts Center that runs Jan. 9 through Feb. 28, 2015. Called “Self is a River,” the exhibit also features works by two other artists. Mel lives in Chicago.

“All of Mel Keiser’s work begins with images of herself,” wrote exhibit curator Melanie Scott-Dockery. “Although trained as a painter, she uses manipulation of photographs and video to record her investigation into her shifting identity. In the Mel-types, she tears away the surface of photos with tape, rubbing, and etching. Then coats the photos with encaustic. Her silhouette blends with the light and shadow of venetian blinds in Mel Mutations. Every piece removed and added to her subject is meant to show one more variation of herself.”

Photo: Chicago Reporter

Contrary to the images of violence from Ferguson, Missouri, there are organizers who have become faces of peaceful, organized action – and Charlene Carruthers ’07 is a prime example.

Diego Báez ’07 published “Torture and Stasis in American Sign” in The Acentos Review, a quarterly literary and arts journal that promotes Latino work. Báez writes regularly for Booklist. His poems, fiction and reviews have appeared in Luna Luna, decomP, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.