Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art, received a Berkman Faculty Development Grant toward the promulgation of The Toronto Manifesto, which he authored to promote the right to historical memory.

Suzie Silver, Associate Professor of Art, and Hilary Harp, former Visiting Faculty, present The Happiest Day, a video installation and objects at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, January 7 through February 13. The opening reception is Friday, January 14, 7-9pm. http://www.pghfilmmakers.org.

Melissa Ragona, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, is presenting on a panel, Sculpting in Time and Place: New Approaches to Sculpture and Film, at the Annual College Art Association Meeting this February in Atlanta.

Luis Valdovino, former Visiting Faculty, is presenting Themes with Dan Boord at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through January 31, 2005.

Ayanah Moor, Assistant Professor of Art, has a solo exhibition at the A+D 11th St. Gallery at Columbia College in Chicago, January 18 through March 2, 2005.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) is now represented exclusively at Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York City. http://bettycunninghamgallery.com. He was interviewed by The New Criterion’s poetry editor in the Janauary 2005 issue. His solo exhibit, An Economy of Specific Bodies and Particular Objects: Philip Pearlstein Drawings is on view January 7 - May 1, 2005 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA. He is also exhibiting in the Western Biennale of Art: Art Tomorrow at Natsoulas Gallery in Davis, CA, February 2 - March 27, 2005 with an opening reception on March 5th, 7-9pm. http://www.fryeart.org/pages/Pearlstein.htm; http://www.artnews.com.au/details.php?e=586.

Mel Bochner's (BFA '62) work will be discussed by Mary Keane Leclère of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She will lecture on Mel Bochner’s Word Portraits, or the Unmaking of Portraiture on the Conceptual Portraiture panel at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, on February 18, 6-8:30pm.

Nancy Hagin (BFA '62) exhibited in Artists Talk: Five Years last fall at Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, CT.

Jonathan Borofsky (BFA '64) is exhibiting in Tear Down This Wall: Paintings from the 1980s, an exhibition featuring significant European and American paintings from MOCA's permanent collection at MOCA Grand Avenue in Los Angeles through March 1, 2005. He is also exhibiting with Philip Pearlstein and Andy Warhol (both BFA '49) in The Great Print Event II at Russell Bowman in Chicago, IL through January 29.
http://www.bowmanart.com/exhibitions.html.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) is exhibiting in Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish Women Artists and the Transformation of American Art in the Singer Gallery at Mizel Center for Arts and Culture in Denver, CO, January 13 - March 27, 2005. The opening reception is January 13, 5-7:30 p.m. http://www.mizelcenter.org/exhibitions.htm.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) is exhibiting her silkscreen of Cindy Sherman in Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, at ICA Boston, January 19 - May 1, 2005. Her work will also be included in Trade, curated by Matthew Higgs, at White Columns in NYC, February 4 - March 2005.
http://www.icaboston.org/Home/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Current/Likeness; http://www.whitecolumns.org/.

Sandi Seltzer Bryant (BFA '75) has a solo exhibit at McMurtrey Gallery in Houston, Texas through February 5. http://www.mcmurtreygallery.com/CurrentExhibition.asp.

Margery Amdur (BFA '79) is exhibiting in Between the Lines through January 22 at Hyder Gallery in Philadelphia. She will also be participating in the 2004-05 Residency/Seminar/Budapest. http://www.hydergallery.com/Amdur.htm;
http://hungarian-multicultural-center.com.hosting.domaindirect.com/id25.html.

Charles Ritchie’s (MFA '80) Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie, an exhibition organized by Richard Waller, Director of University of Richmond Museums, and originating at the university’s Marsh Art Gallery travels to the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland (January 31-March 27, 2005) and the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, (June 18 - August 14). A 72-page full-color catalogue coauthored by the artist and writer/critic Peter Turchi accompanies the show. http://www.charlesritchie.com/.

Julie Bargmann (BFA '80) is lecturing on Toxic Beauty, as part of the Shouldice Designer Stone Lecture Series, on March 1, 2005 at University of Toronto, Room 103, 230 College Street at 7pm. Bargmann, a landscape architect and environmental advocate, sees our polluted national heritage as a responsibility we must all face, and Toxic Beauty: A Field Guide to Derelict Terrain is her manual on how to do just that. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, the book is scheduled to be released January 15, 2005.

David Gabbé (CIT '82) has recently opened a digital imaging studio, Digital Eye Editions http://DigitalEyeEditions.com. His personal work can be seen at: http://frame38.com.

ROY (BFA '84) exhibits in the Trashformations Competition, juried by Lloyd Herman, former founding director of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian. It opens at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, January 23 and runs through May 1, 2005. The show travels through 2008. ROY is also to exhibit five pieces including her newest Rubber Duckie bracelet at the .925 + Ingenuity=Art Jewelry Invitational, at The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, opening February 5 and running through May 2005. Additionally, ROY and Dave have a second baby girl, Sophia Nicole Parlour, born on September 10, 2004.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) will have work at the New York International Gift Fair; Jacob Javits Center, North Pavillion, booth #9263, January 29 - February 2, 2005. http://www.nyigf.com.

Katie Grinnan (BFA '84) has a solo exhibit at ACME in Los Angeles, January 8 - February 5, 2005.
http://www.acmelosangeles.com/Exhibitions/Present/present.html.

John Currin (BFA '84) will lecture on his work at the Hirshhorn's Ring Auditorium in Washington, D.C. on February 15 at noon. Robert Rosenblum, Henry Ittleson Jr. Professor Of Modern European Art at NYU will lecture on John Currin & The American Grotesque on February 24, 5:30-7:30pm at the Von Liebig Art Center in Naples, FL. Currin's work was included in Painting Now: Selections From the Permanent Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown San Diego, November 14, 2004 - January 5, 2005.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/programs/lectures.asp; http://www.naplesartcenter.org/events.asp;
http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/index.asp.

Kurt Von Voetsch (BFA '85) is Gallery/Installation Manager at Castellani Art Museum at Niagra University in New York.

Eunah Kim (BFA '88) is the resident photography teacher for Corcoran ArtReach Community Studios in Washington, D.C. and has been with the program for over three years. Eunah completed her M.F.A in photography from The School of Visual Arts, New York in 1994 and is presently pursuing a Masters in Education from George Washington University. http://www.corcoran.org/education/artreach_studio_artists.htm.

John Lysak (MFA '88) is exhibiting in the Annual Edinboro University Art Department Faculty Exhibition at the university's Bruce Gallery in Edinboro, PA through January 18, 2005.

Deborah Gibbon (BFA '90) lives in San Francisco where she is the Education Project Manager for a contemporary arts project called SPARK at KQED public television (Channel 9). SPARK includes a 1/2 hour weekly television program, a rich resource and archive Website, and extensive education and outreach. It focuses on Bay Area contemporary artists and organizations,and has produced features on several Carnegie Mellon alumni: Castaneda/Reiman (BFA '92), Ken Goldberg (PhD, Computer Science, '90),and Raymond Saunders (BFA '60), the latter to air in March 2005. Gibbon advises on stories, develops content, writes all of the profiles and educational content for the Web site, and produces the comprehensive, downloadable materials for educators for about half of the stories.http://www.kqed.org/spark/artists-orgs/castanedar.jsp; http://www.kqed.org/spark/artists-orgs/kengoldber.jsp.

Hope (Johnson) Hanes (BFA '92) exhibited paintings and drawings in two recent shows: Barns & Farms of Loudoun County at Franklin Park Performing and Visual Arts Center through January 3rd and at Round Hill Arts Center's 2004 Holiday Invitational through January 1st.

Edgar Um-Bucholtz (BFA Class of '93) curated The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, which ran through December 18 at Thommy Conroy's Gallery (formerly Penn Gallery), Pittsburgh. PA. This exhibition took its name and theme from Henry Miller's 1945 book about his travels across America after returning from many years of ex-patriation in France. The artists for this exhibition included faculty and alumni: John Riegert (BFA '92), Thommy Conroy (Class of '02) , Professor Bob Bingham, Terry Young (BFA '01) and others.

Jeffrey Dorsey (BFA '94), Executive Director of Penn Avenue Arts Initiative, was featured in a Pittsburgh Post Gazette article on the Penn Avenue corridor's comeback, by Don Hammonds on December 12, 2004. http://postgazette.com/pg/04347/425269.stm.

Paul Snelson (BFA '96) has a new web site: http://www.paulsnelson.com.

Matt Keegan (BFA '98) is exhibiting in Log Cabin at Artists Space in NYC, January 18 - February 25, 2005 with an opening reception on January 18, 6-8 pm. Log Cabin features diverse artistic strategies that examine the impact of neo-conservatism on queer representations in America. Through explorations of alienation and social ghettoization, to neo-conservative tendencies within the queer community, Log Cabin stimulates dialogue about the shift in queer vernaculars provoked by the current political climate.
http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future_exhibition_bottom.html.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) is participating in inSite_05: Tijuana Calling, an online exhibition curated by Mark Tribe that explores the public spaces of the net through tactical actions that address issues specific to the borderlands of Tijuana/San Diego. http://www.insite05.org/internal.php?pid=15-358; http://www.ambriente.com/.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibited in Sleight of Hand through January 5, 2005 at lemon sky in Miami, FL. Sleight of Hand was curated by Emily Wei and Haan Yule Chau and organized by Hudson Clearing, NY. http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=423787874&cid=70171&rta=http://www.artnet.com&source=-1.

Jennifer Gibson (BHA '01) has been teaching art and art history in northern Mexico through the Tec de Monterrey school system. She has returned to Pittsburgh where she now works at WQED and studies in the Spanish department at University of Pittsburgh. She intends to pursue graduate study in art history.

Adam N. Drobotij (BFA '02) is a web designer and motion graphics artist for the Tissue Engineering for Life planetarium show. He designs, builds and maintains the show's website and the multimedia within. In addition, he assists in the editing and post-production of the show. Adam is currently a courtesy staff member at Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and a Principal Designer at the Pittsburgh-based design firm, Crutch Design.

Peter Burr (BFA '02) is living in Portland, Oregon, enjoying the mild winter. He spent the past summer touring and working in the residency world, traveling with a bookmobile project through French Canada, attending media conferences in the U.S., painting, sewing, making a film at the Hall Farm Arts Residency in Vermont and touring the resulting music video performance along the east coast.

Jill Palermo (BFA '02) and pre-college art instructor, Elizabeth Castonguay, had their works at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts reviewed in the December 13 issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04348/425975.stm.

Brooke Singer (MFA '02) is exhibiting in Cyborg Citizens and Unwitting Avatars in the New Langton Arts online exhibit through February 19 at: http://newlangtonarts.org/view_event.php?category=Network&archive=&&eventId=239.

Steve Shorts (BFA '04) is exhibiting at The HKan on the 2210 block of East Carson Street, Pittsburgh. PA.

Chris Savido, an alumnus of the School of Art Pre-College program , entered the national spotlight with his controversial painting, Bush Monkeys. See Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04355/429620.stm.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) and Carolyn Lambert (MFA class of '05) are exhibiting in BRI:AIR, Projects from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Program at the Boston Center for the Arts, opening with a reception on February 4, 6-8pm and running through March 27. Fereshteh will also be featured in Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Film Kitchen series on Tuesday, February 8 with a reception at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
http://www.bcaonline.org; http://www.teapartea.org/.

Seniors Luke Meeken and Andrew Negrey join graduate student Jacob Ciocci in presenting animations at Pittsburgh Filmmakers with filmmakers Tom and Jocob Burckhardt, Saturday, February 5 at 2pm. Suitable for ages 9 and up. http://www.pghfilmmakers.org.

Junior Samantha Laffey has several works selected for an exhibition entitled Landscapes of the Mind at the online Caladan Gallery. http://www.caladangallery.com.

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