Alumni Profiles

Tracey Halvorsen is a consultant, designer, painter, author, and speaker. Her background in visual art and computer-based technology and her hands-on style of leadership has helped Fastspot consistently create award-winning and industry recognized websites, applications and marketing campaigns.

Halvorsen and her partner Amy Goldberg co-founded creative agency Fastspot, and have a client roster unparalleled in the industry.

William Harper ’67, a New York artist whose works in metals and enamels are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, and The Hermitage Museum (among many others), talks about his CIA education, his career, and his approach to making art. Harper credits his CIA education with enabling him to create art not only in metals and enamel, but also in painting, works on paper, mixed media sculpture, bronze casting, and his unique assemblages.

Chris and Shelley (Slick) Harvan graduated from CIA in 1997 and currently are co-owners, designers and sculptors for Memento Memorials. After being inspired by a unique urn built for a family member, the Harvans began making urns and memorial boxes for people. Shelley works as an art teacher, and in her spare time works as a portrait artist for Memento Memorials.

Adam Holtzinger

Title Fabricator, Glass Company Founder
Major Craft + Design
Organization KEEP

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After receiving a BFA in Glass from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Adam Holtzinger moved to Brooklyn, NY to pursue a career in glass blowing. Adam began designing and fabricating work for designers and artists, as well as other glassmakers. Since 2003, Adam has taught, lectured and demonstrated glass blowing nationally and internationally at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, Urban Glass, Brooklyn Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Corning Museum of Glass & GlassLab, OSU, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, NOCA, 141 Penn Studios, Osaka Art University in Osaka Japan, and Tama Glass School in Tokyo Japan.

Adam served as head Gaffer for Niche Modern Design from 2003 through August 2014.

Adam currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he makes custom work for various clients and recently launched KEEP, a lighting company with partner and CIA grad Susan Spiranovich.

Patty Hume '97 creates multi-million dollar water features around the world and works on a scale she never thought possible. As a student at CIA she acquired skills in pattern and design that infuse her current work with a sense of chorography and a signature style.

CIA alums Chris Jungjohann and Tim Zeller started Recess Creative, a full-service digital advertising and marketing agency in Cleveland, in 2009. True to their name, Recess is a fun, creative workplace that specializes in everything from websites to cakes.

David Kegg is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based out of Boston, Massachusettes, working for some of the gaming industries biggest studios and publishing houses throughout my career, including Blizzard Entertainment, Blur Studios, Riot Games, Seismic Games, Fantasy Flight Games and many others

Read more about Kegg's work.

Kurt Koeplfe ’92 found a way to combine all of his interests – design, writing and new media – into one ever-transforming job. With a degree in Graphic Design, Koepfle has worked for Pentagram Design, the world’s largest independent design consultancy, as a manager of all things digital including the website, blog and social media.