| 2005Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Amber Mace assistant secretary for coastal matters and executive director of the California Ocean Protection Council, effective in November. She previously worked as executive director of the nonprofit California Ocean Science Trust, where she increased their annual budget from $80,000 to $2 million. • Cara Peck, M.S., was recently chosen as a finalist for a Service to America Medal (Sammie), by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service based in Washington, D.C. The awards honor federal employees who have made significant contributions to the country. Peck, a life scientist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, helped start a pilot project in the Bay Area to turn 73,000 tons of food waste into electricity. |
| 2006Candice Macintyre married Adam Gaeddert last August in Moss Beach. Ruth Sarah Sherriffs ’07 was the maid of honor and Jessica Meinke was a bridesmaid. MacIntyre works at Mercy’s Trauma II Medical Center in Redding, where she and her husband have bought their first home. • Steve Lambert was featured as an alumni spotlight in the winter 2010 edition.
Steve Lambert
By Elizabeth Stitt
Occupation: Artist, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center senior fellow, teacher at Hunter New School.
Extra, extra: For Steve Lambert, art is about more than hanging a painting up on a wall. “Art is a bridge that can connect uncommon and radical ideas with every day live,” he said. “It can show you another way of looking at the world without a real trauma that reality gives us.” And last year, Lambert was able to make that connection with his most popular piece yet—a “special edition” of the New York Times. After nine months of planning with the help of 1,200 volunteers, he released thousands of replicas of the newspaper with phony—but hopeful and positive—stories and distributed them all over New York City, creating a whirlwind of controversy and giving him worldwide media attention. According to Lambert, his goal wasn’t to trick people, but to have them think of how the world can be different. “It was seeing another way the world can be that isn’t a fantasy world with flying cars, but our world with a few changes. And they can still be who they are. They don’t have to be some kind of superhuman.”
Galleries and streets: Lambert’s work has been put on exhibit all over the United States and around the world during the past 10 years. However, his work goes beyond the boxed walls of galleries, including more mundane places, like the Internet or stores. His other projects include a computer program that blocks out advertisements with pieces of artwork, and stickers created for grocery store products to examine the exploitation of labor. “You get a different audience—one that isn’t self-selecting—and you can catch people unexpected,” he said. “I want to reach people, and most people don’t go to art galleries.”
Lambert currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and more information on him and his art can be found at visitsteve.com.
“A part of being an artist is having this strong desire to communicate things to people. I see art as a speech, but it’s in another language.”
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