Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein received his B.F.A. from Ohio State in 1946, and his M.F.A. in 1949. He came to be known as perhaps the most sophisticated of the artists in the "Pop Art" movement. By blending devices like Ben-Day dots, lettering and speech balloons, he created larger than life cartoons and murals. In 1965 he had a one-man exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. In 1963 he moved to New York. He was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format paintings. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland. He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1966, 1968 and 1970. In 1967-68 Lichtenstein had a retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, also shown at Minneapolis, Amsterdam, London, Berne and Hanover. In 1979 he received his first public commission for a sculpture. In 1987 he had a retrospective of his drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1988. Lichtenstein died of pneumonia in 1997.

Nancy Currie
Nancy Currie received a bachelor of arts degree in biological science from Ohio State in 1980. At last count, as part of three space shuttle missions for NASA, she has orbited the earth 482 times. On her first spaceflight, STS-57, Dr. Currie served as the flight engineer and operated the Shuttle's robotic arm. Dr. Currie's primary role during her most recent mission was to operate the Shuttle's 50-foot robotic arm to retrieve Zarya and connect the first two station segments. Dr. Currie also operated the robot arm during the space walks. During the mission, the STS-88 crew ingressed the International Space Station to complete systems activation and installation of communication's equipment. Nancy and fellow Ohio State alum, Richard Linnehan, will take part in a shuttle mission in February of 2002. Read an interview that Ohio State Research News conducted with the two on the eve of the mission.

Leslie H. Wexner
Chairman and founder of one of the world's largest fashion empires, Leslie H. Wexner (B.S. '59) founded The Limited, Inc., in 1963 with one women's apparel store in Columbus. Since those early days, Mr. Wexner's company has built a family of the world's best fashion brands, including The Limited, Lerner New York, Lane Bryant, Structure, Henri Bendel, Victoria Secret and many more. The company presently operates over 5,300 stores. Mr. Wexner was also a major donor and instrumental in the creation of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State, one the world's only multidisciplinary contemporary arts centers.

Leonard Downie, Jr.
Leonard Downie ('64, '65 M.A.) has held the position of executive editor of The Washington Post since 1992. He joined The Post as a summer intern in 1964, and he went on to serve as an investigative reporter and editor on the Metro staff for 15 years, where among other things, he helped to supervise the paper's award winning Watergate coverage. Mr. Downie is also author of four books, including The New Muckrackers, and the recently published work, The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril. Read more information about Downie's upcoming visit to Ohio State.

Diane Kesling Silberstein
Since her days at Ohio State, Diane Kesling ('78) has gone on to distinguished engagements with many of the world's leading houses: The Metropolitan Opera, l'Opera de Nice, Houston Grand Opera, La Scala, Seattle Opera, Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony as well as the Kennedy Center. Ms. Kesling has performed in over forty productions at the Metropolitan Opera, including Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, and Wellgunde in The Ring of the Nibelung with James Levine conducting (which was internationally telecast and subsequently released on the Deutsche Grammophon label).

Chris Wedge
Chris Wedge, an alumnus from OSU’s College of the Arts, is is an Oscar-winning director and founder of Blue Sky Studios in New York. He's the creative force behind the new 20th Century Fox box office hit, Ice Age. The first computer-generated animation feature made on the East Coast, Ice Age is a light-hearted look at the icy world of woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed tigers. Wedge won an Academy Award in 1999 for his short animated film Bunny. He earned a master’s in art education at OSU in 1985 and studied at Ohio State’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). He was assisted on the film by two other Ohio State alumni — co-producer John Donkin (MA in Art Ed, 1986) and technical director Wooksang Chang (MFA, art & technology, 2000). Read more about Chris Wedge and Ice Age on the College of the Arts site.

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