July 17, 2002

Design Detailings: A look into the art of a curator

Corrin

Lisa Corrin, SAM's deputy director of art, and Jon and Mary Shirley, curator of modern and contemporary art, will present a free lecture at SAM downtown at 7 p.m. Thursday. They will discuss the innovative thinking of several artists, curators and institutions who have made the museum the subject of their work.

Prior to her arrival at SAM in September 2001, Corrin was chief curator of London's Serpentine Gallery, one of Europe's premier venues for modern and contemporary art. Corrin has curated exhibitions of the work of distinguished figures such as Brice Marden, Bridget Riley and Felix Gonzalez-Torre. Corrin also served as chief curator and educator of The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, which she developed with its founder George Ciscle in 1989.

Fromherz wins as Young Engineer

Transpo Group transportation engineer Kerensa Swanson Fromherz has been named by the Washington State Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers as this year's Outstanding Young Engineer for her hard work in the field.

Holly Parsons, one of Transpo’s principals, presented the award in her capacity as past president of the ITE Section. Parsons highlighted Fromherz's recent project accomplishments at Transpo, her service to ITE at the local and national levels and her leadership in the Women’s Transportation Seminar.

Fromherz has been an active member of the Women’s Transportation Seminar since 1997, and was awarded the Puget Sound Chapter’s Annual Achievement Award in 1999. She is currently serving her second term as chapter president. Her work as a traffic engineer at The Transpo Group includes traffic impact analysis; intersection control and operations analysis; channelization and traffic signal design; traffic calming; and multimodal and non-motorized system planning, analysis, and design. Kerensa has worked for a variety of both public and private clients.