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at her disposal – in contrast to her "DIY" years working with tiny, grass-roots arts organizations. She is looking forward to using her role to bridge the gap between performing and visual art. And she hasn't forgotten her doctoral dissertation, which she will be defending at New York University, "on Black experimental dance artists thinking through race and cultural specicity in unexpected or abstract ways," she explained. "ese are folks that I consider to be my peers, whom I am also pleased to be working alongside, as an artist." MARC SPIEGLER '85, global director of Art Basel – Zurich During his decade at the helm of Art Basel – founded in 1970 and now the world's biggest marketplace for contemporary and modern art fairs – Marc has become quite simply one of the most powerful people in the art world. To the huge annual fairs he was recruited to run in Switzerland and in Miami, he added a third in Hong Kong, and has quintupled the number of employees to nearly 100 around the globe. "What I do now is run an organization that drives patronage to artists in the form of galleries and fairs," he said. Marc is Zurich-based with his wife and two children. In some ways, art is in his blood. "My mom's French and was an artist, part of the Chicago Surrealists," he said. "So I was one of those kids dragged to museums from birth, and we spent a lot of time in Europe." His parents met at France's elite "Sciences Po" (Institut d études Politiques), where his mother received her doctorate. His father completed his doctorate at Oxford. His father, Dr. James Spiegler (now retired), was already teaching in the English Department when Marc joined Latin's Class of '85 for sixth grade through ninth grade. Latin's culture was a shock. e family had long lived in Hyde Park where Marc had attended a school with more ethnic and economic diversity than Latin had then. "It was a rough entry," he recalled. "e teacher who really lit things up for me was Ingrid Dorer," who has taught history and social studies at Latin since 1978. He fondly remembers former English teacher Karen Stevens and former geography teacher Dale Workman too. "But I think Ms. Dorer recognized the type of intellect I had and made me feel for the rst time that who I was and how I thought was something to be celebrated," he said. anks in part to her encouragement, "I went from being a struggling student to honor roll." With a master's in journalism from Northwestern, he spent 15 years writing and editing on art, business, books, technology, politics and culture for Wired, New York, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Magazine, e Art Newspaper and dozens of others before joining Art Basel. Now he has embraced teaching too, speaking widely on the global art market and serving as a visiting professor at Milan's Bocconi University, Italy's top private business school. "It's part of the family tradition," he smiled. And, he added, with pride, "I've always stayed close to artists, journalists and people who work in nonprots." He said that perhaps Latin's largest lesson – given that he now counts some of the world's most prominent collectors, gallerists and artists as clients, peers and friends – is this: "Latin taught me to be unimpressed by people's nancial status – being wealthy doesn't make you happy or better. I learned fast that if I only allowed myself to be validated by that, then I'd never win." JESSICA JACKSON HUTCHINS '89, artist - Portland, OR Jessica Jackson Hutchins' artwork has long explored domesticity and femininity, labor and craft – most often through free-standing and wall sculptures that make use in a deliberately devil-may-care manner of common materials like clay, papier-mâché, cement, commercial textiles in various states of disrepair, and household furniture that has seen better days. New York magazine's esteemed art critic Jerry Saltz called her "among the best artists working today." Her work is collected deeply and broadly, including by MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art just acquired a sculpture that she debuted in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. And MCA Chicago made its rst acquisition of her artwork with "Leaning Figure" (2010), which the museum exhibited in its 2013 show "Homebodies" of artwork examining domesticity by more than 40 of her peers across six continents. For her show late last year at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York and her current show at e Pit in Los Angeles (through Feb. 18, 2018) she used the new-to-her medium of fused glass, whose prettiness she wields like a weapon in a body of all new work she has made in response to the social and political tumult since the 2016 elections. "I found myself working in this beautiful new medium at the time when the political climate in the United States was beginning to change drastically," Jessica explained. e beauty of the colored glass "was as overwhelming as the political upheavals and injustices." Taking full advantage of the ecclesiastic associations of "The teacher who really lit things up for me was Ingrid Dorer. Ms. Dorer recognized the type of intellect I had and made me feel that who I was and how I thought was something to be celebrated. I went from being a struggling student to honor roll." – Marc Spiegler '85 "I think Greg Baker was right about Ulysses being read by teenagers. Because I remember having my heart explode from one line and writing about it in my journal." – Jessica Jackson Hutchins '89 32

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