Cristina Lorenzetti
Experience Designer / Copywriter
GRAIN TO GLASS
January 9, 2017 I by Cristina Lorenzetti I Michigan Today Contributing Writer
Entrepreneur Rob Cleveland, BA ’91, believes the “craft movement” is here to stay.
But he’s not looking to join the throng of craft brewers, a crowded industry segment that has virtually exploded in recent years.
Instead, Cleveland has opted for spirits. On Dec. 5, 2016, he celebrated the one-year anniversary of his Ann Arbor Distilling Co., tipping his glass to the date Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
TONI LEEDS: MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS
February, 2017 I By Cristina Lorenzetti I Penny Stamps School of Art & Design Contributing Writer
Meeting artist and educator Tonie Leeds was an inspiring and humbling experience. Vivacious and warm, Tonie continues to make art, travel, and live independently. A child of the Great Depression, Tonie sees this as instrumental in forming her subsequent life as an artist.
JIM COGSWELL: COSMOGONIC TATTOOS
April, 2017 I By Cristina Lorenzetti I Penny Stamps School of Art & Design Contributing Writer
First, the project.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is a two-site, adhesive vinyl window installation on the glass walls of the Kelsey Museum of Archeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), based entirely on objects found in their two collections. A concurrent gallery exhibition at the Kelsey will offer the public a glimpse into Cogswell’s process and a link to the project’s source material within the museum collection.
“I knew I wanted to be a journalist because it was the only exciting career I could think of that a woman had access to.”
What was it like to be a woman in the 1950s who wanted more than a husband? At StoryCorps, Cristina sat down with her mom, veteran Detroit News Journalist Ann Sweeney, to remember.
“The work itself was the payoff.”
Cristina learns how one of her mom’s Pulitzer-nominated stories helped create meaning social change. They sat down for StoryCorps to have their first conversation about what happened.
“So anyway, it was the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the storm on Lake Superior.”
All in a night’s work: the onset of technology in the newsroom causes a major mishap. Cristina gets the scoop at StoryCorps when her mom veteran Detroit News Journalist Ann Sweeney fesses up.
“There were gangsters and there were big, shiny cars.”
What was Detroit like in the 30s and 40s? Cristina and her mom, a lifelong resident and veteran journalist for the Detroit News, came to StoryCorps to look back. And to look forward.
This interview is archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.