Jenny Strayer, Director of the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, was awarded an Alcoa Foundation Leadership Grant for Arts Managers to attend the American Association of Museums conference this year in Chicago.

Ayanah Moor will have a solo exhibition, Our Radio is Bigger than Yours, on view at Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, MD, from January 23 - February 16. There will be an opening reception on January 23 from 7:00-9:00 p.m, http://www.ayanah.com.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) exhibits in Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts, a show that concludes its national tour at the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery at SUNY Cortland, January 30 - March 17, http://www.cortland.edu/art/html/gallery.html; http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/geninfo/calofevents/breaking_boundaries.htm.

Philip Morsberger (BFA '54) has a solo exhibit at Romo Gallery in Roswell, GA, January 3 - February 3, http://www.romogallery.com/.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) exhibits in a two-person show, Control/Chance: Susan Schwalb & Rainer Gross, at Gráficas Gallery in Tuscon, Arizona, January 18 - February 15, http://www.gallerygraficas.com.

Katherine "Kay" Morgan's (CFA '67) photograph, "Elements", won First Place in Photography at Artful Gardens Gallery, New York Times' Journeys II Exhibit on January 6. She won the Best in Show at NYT Journeys I exhibition last year (2006) with her image of "Cooperation".

Sandi Seltzer-Bryant (BFA '74) presents a solo exhibit of new paintings at McMurtrey Gallery in Houston, TX, January 13 - February 10, http://www.mcmurtreygallery.com.

Peter Stanick (BFA '75) has a solo show at Go Go Gallery in Miami, FL, January 13 - February 9, http://www.gogogallery.com.

Alison Safford (BDFA '88) will be in the two person show Purpose Considered at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery in Fall River, MA from January 25 - February 23. It will include a kinetic installation, sculptures, and drawings.

Marc Fischer (BFA ¹93), with Temporary Services, participates in Distribution Religion, a group show at The Art Gallery of Knoxville, TN, on view January 1-27. Beyond Green: towards a sustainable art just closed at the University Art Museum, CSLUB, Long Beach, California and now travels to Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, February 2 - April 15. Temporary Services also contributed to the book, "Self-Organisation/Counter-Economic Strategies", published by Lukas & Sternberg, Berlin/New York. They also produced Booklet #73, "11 People 16 Spaces/How To Guerilla Art" at Columbia College in Chicago last November, http://www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com; http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/; http://www.temporaryservices.org/double_booklet.pdf.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) will exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC) in the Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting show curated by David McFadden from January 25 - June 17. She will also exhibit in Thread at Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, guest curated by Michele Thursz from January 26 - March 31. Recently she presented a closing exhibition, Knit for Defense, at the culmination of her residency research at Three Walls and also gave an artist¹s talk in conjunction with Open Node, http://www.three-walls.org/.

Becca Goldman (BFA '99) had her first solo show last spring at Art21 Gallery in Palo Alto, California, featuring her new series, "Flora & Fauna."

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) has a solo exhibit at Herald St. Gallery in London, January 20 - March 4, http://www.heraldst.com/.

Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) presents Rhythms of Displeasure at the Martha Gault Gallery at Slippery Rock University, January 22 (opening 6-8pm) - February 15, http://www.carolinaloyolagarcia.net.

Theresa Marchetta (BFA '02) presents Retreat, a solo show of new paintings at Women and Their Work in Austin, Texas, January 11 - February 17, http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/current.htm.

William Kofmehl III (BFA '02) is teaching at Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in France this spring, http://www.pontavensa.org/postbac_fac.html.

Sarah Beitler (McNeer) (BFA '03) presented a solo show this past December, Vistas: New Work by Sarah Beitler, at 707 Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. This spring he will exibit her work in the 10th International Open, March 2 - 29, at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, http://www.womanmade.org; http://www.sarahbeitler.com.

Amanda Fisk, Brant Murray and Jim Kempf (all BFA '03), contributed to the 2006 holiday window display at Macy's in New York this December. The windows featured mechanical pop-up books that opened to reveal New York holiday scenes. Kempf provided the engineering, Murray the lighting, and Fisk the design and graphics. Her work on the 2005 holiday windows was featured in a short documentary aired on HGTV in December 2005. The "It's Christmas Time In The City" windows were awarded The Platinum Award, Top Prize Winner by Display and Design Ideas sixth-annual Winning Windows Contest. Fisk pursued her MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt in NYC, http://dda.pratt.edu/student_news.ph.

Jimmy Mathew (BFA '03) has moved to California to pursue a film career. He works for Hip Hop Gagming League within Global Gaming.

Blithe Riley (MFA '05) co-organized Feedback:The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews with MOMA Assistant Curator of Film, Sally Berger, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, January 25-31. Her video interview project, "Belief Objects" travels to Brooklyn College this year, http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2007/Feedback.html; http://www.interviewart.net/_about.html.

Jan Descartes (MFA '07) collaborated with 12 other artists on 8 Hour Drawings, a drawing installation on the walls of the Allegheny College of Art Galleries, Meadville, PA. Their work will be on view from January 23 - March 6.

Julia Stein (BHA '08) aka JULIACKS and Ben Bigelow (BFA '08) of the Performance Duo "Thee Coyote" will be performing and exhibiting Antelope Eater at the Numina Gallery in Princeton, NJ, on January 19, 2007. For more information visit http://www.JULIACKS.com.

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