News Release
October 2006
Bethlehem,
Pa., October 11, 2006 — The Moravian College Alumni Association will feature works
by two outstanding Moravian art graduates, Katina Sossiadis Bozikis ’93, and Jason
Travers ’94, during the month of October to the 26th, in the gallery of the Haupert
Union Building (HUB), Main Street campus. A celebratory reception to honor both artists
is planned for Saturday, October 14 at 10:30 a.m. on Homecoming weekend.
Bozikis was the
recipient of the Daniel W. Tereshko Award for Most Outstanding Art Student at Moravian
while completing her honors project, Struggles and Triumphs: The Lives
of Three Women Artists, that explored the artists’ individual styles of paintings. Bozikis
then replicated the unique styles of the three artists in her own works that were exhibited
in a show at the Payne Gallery on the Priscilla Payne Hurd Campus.
After graduation, she
earned her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and was awarded a CGS teaching grant
to instruct a college-level painting course.
She worked at the Guggenheim Museum for director
Tom Krens, and has studied film at New York University’s School of Continuing Education. In addition, she has trained
with acting/directing coach Andrienne Weiss, who mentored actors Lili Taylor and Joan
Cusack. She co-wrote and co-directed a short film entitled Lynn’s Wake in
collaboration with her sister, Koula Sossiadis. The film was selected to be shown at
the Austin Film Festival, the International Women's Festival in France and various film
festivals here and abroad.
Bozikis has co-authored with her sister Koula, a feature entitled Rites of Winter. They
have joined forces with director of photography, Anastos Michos, whose credits include Mona
Lisa Smile, The Forgotten, and Man on the Moon. He
will direct the film to be produced by the sisters. Presently they are working with a
casting director to select actors for three other principal roles. Bozikis also
joined her sister on the production side of the film industry for the films, Far
From Heaven and Analyze That. Recently, she returned to the Lehigh
Valley to initiate a film program at The Baum School of Art in Allentown, and to serve
as adjunct professor of art at Lehigh University and Northampton Community College.
Jason
Travers graduated from Moravian College in 1994 and earned his MFA in Painting from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He teaches foundation courses and
plein-air painting since joining Lehigh University’s art and architecture department
in 1999; as well as digital design at Kutztown University since 2000. Travers was
awarded Best of Show in the 2002 Northeast Biennial for his painting, Sojourn. His
solo exhibitions include Recent Works at the David E. Rodale Gallery of the
Baum School of Art in the summer of 2004 and The Spirit of Myth at the University
of Scranton’s Hope Horn Gallery in January 2005. He participated in the Bethlehem
Steel Paint-Out in October 2004 and the subsequent Moment in Time exhibition
in Payne Gallery. Recently, his work was part of Some Serious Business: Art
of the Lehigh Valley at NCC Fowler Family Center in August-September 2005.
