Mary Weidner recently served as the juror for the Allied Artists of Johnstown 71st Annual. She also lectured on Issues and Trends in Contemporary Art at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Johnstown, PA. Mary will be presenting Beyond and Behind the Physical as part of a panel, The Psychological Space of the Studio Classroom, at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 29-November 1.

Clayton Merrell, Assistant Professor of Art, and Lance Winn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, are presenting Two Perspectives on Some Shifting Scopic Regimes as part of a South Eastern College Art Association Annual Conference panel entitled, Teaching Painting in the Post-Digital Era. The conference in Raleigh is co-hosted by North Carolina State University's Department of Art and Design and Meredith College's Department of Art, October 29-November 1, 2003.

Elaine A. King was the guest American Curator for the 7th International Biennial of Drawings and Graphic Arts in Gyor, Hungary that included works from over 26 countries. The exhibition runs from September 20 through November 16, 2003, King was also the President of the International Jury that awarded 9 prizes. Two American artists Chan/Schatz and M. Henry Jones received Honorable Mentions. In addition she gave a seminar at the Academy of Arts in Budapest focusing on the Art After Post--Lessons We Haven't Learned from Post-Structuralist Theory.

Anne Lopez (BFA '96) is exhibiting in Going in Circles at Fe Gallery through November 5. Fe Gallery is located at 4102 Butler Street, Pittsburgh. Call 412-860-6028 for more information.

Susanne Slavick will participate in a panel discussion, Justifying the Arts in Difficult Times?, at the National Association of Schools of Art and Design Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on October 17, 2003.

James Duesing, Professor of Art, won the "Best in the World" Prize for Tender Bodies in the 4th International Festival for Animation in Baden, Switzerland. The festival ran September 9 - 14, 2003 and is sponsored by Fantoche, dedicated to enriching the Swiss cultural landscape. Its bi-annual animation festival has developed into a multidisciplinary meeting point for visual media. The "Best in the World" Prize winner is selected by the festival audience. http://www.fantoche.ch

Ayanah Moor has been invited to the University of Connecticut Department of Art and Art History as a visiting artist for the graduate art seminar. She will lecture on November19 and will conduct individual critiques with graduate students.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) has a solo exhibit, Genetic Space(s): Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1992-1996, at Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, October 25 through December 10, 2003.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) served on the Veteran Feminists of America (VETS) committee that organized the exhibit, 55 Feminist Artists, at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South in New York City from November 2-9, 2003. The exhibit includes and recognizes artists who launched the Second Wave feminist movement from 1966 to 1980 and who "opened the world of art to women, brought great women artists of the past to our attention and created an important new genre of feminist art." Alumnae Susan Schwalb and Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) both have work in the exhibit.

Mary Ciani Saslow (MFA '71) exhibited in After the Hunt, an interactive installation presented by AFEW Artists' Collaborative at SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio, Texas in the summer of 2002. She is animating her photoshop "paintings" in After Effects.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) has a solo exhibit, Eyes of Fatima, at Hemphill Fine Arts, 1027 33rd Street, NW in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The exhibit opened on September 3rd and runs through October 18. Included in the show are recent paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs, and a monoprint.

John Currin (BFA '84) has a survey exhibition of approximately 40 paintings opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on November 20, 2003. This first solo museum show in the United States devoted to the artist's work was organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, where it made its debut in May, in collaboration with London's Serpentine Gallery, where it is currently on view through October 26. The Whitney exhibit runs through February 22, 2004 and will be accompanied by a catalogue - the artist's first major monograph - with color illustrations of more than 70 works, co-published by the MCA and Serpentine in association with Abrams. It includes essays by art historian Robert Rosenblum and Staci Boris, and an interview with Currin by Rochelle Steiner.
http://whitney.org/information/press/130.html

ROY's (BFA '84) Godzilla with Fez bracelet is represented in a color publication
Comic Release! Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., NY, available through Amazon.com. This traveling exhibition was curated by Barbara Bloemink (Curatorial Director of Smithsonian’s National Design Museum) and Vicky A. Clark (Carnegie Mellon University, Adjunct Professor, Independent Curator). Its current venue is University of North Texas, Denton, TX. For information contact: Diana R. Block, Director block@unt.edu ROY will exhibit her NURTURE bracelet in the Charmed Lives exhibition at Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, curated by Gail M. Brown. The show opens October 9 and runs through October 30. 1420 5th Ave., #108, Seattle,WA 98101. For more information: Facereart@aol.com. ROY will exhibit a rag and metal doll entitled, NURTURE doll at the Artists Play Dolls show at the OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD, October 4-November 19, OXOXOgal@aol.com. She will also create a one-of-a-kind brooch for the show Please…Knock Me Off! an invitational brooch exhibition of 100 artists at Gallery I/O, New Orleans, LA. Anniversary@Thomasmann.com, October 4-November 1, 2003.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) is among 60 artists contributing to Copy Cat at the gallery of the Art Academy of Aarhus, Denmark through October 3, 2003 and at Mess Hall in Chicago early next year. From the press release: "Copy Cat relies on the free flow of art and information; projects are explicitly for copying and re-distribution. The recipients are asked to give the work an afterlife of their own choice. With its artistic shareware, Copy Cat seeks to activate others - make them feel like they have a stake in extending and adding new layers to the projects. In short, Copy Cat projects are at the same time activist and intimate. There are many historical examples of this kind of initiative, distribution ethos and culture. This strategy is not ours, but copied. We feel compelled to give energy back to systems of distribution and reception that aren't for personal profit or gain."

Karen Liebowitz (BFA '97) entered the UCLA MFA Program in Painting this September.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99), Franklin Furnace Future of the Present winner 2003, participated in The Wireless Park, exhibitions and workshops presented by NYCwireless and Eyebeam to celebrate wireless data networks in the NY Metro area at Liberty Park on September 19 and 20. The Wireless Park explored how the park, as a shared, public space, could be expanded into the online world through the use of an on-location wireless network, and how that network allowed the virtual world to inhabit the real, physical space of the park. With help from the Franklin Furnace and sound engineer Jan McLaughlin, Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga presented The Public Broadcast Cart, a shopping cart that has been outfitted with a microphone, speakers, an amplifier, a personal computer and a miniFM transmitter to establish a mobile radio station that simultaneously broadcasts to an online radio station, FM frequency and the immediate area via the speakers. For more information: http://www.ambriente.com/wifi/index.html
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/links03.html

Ruth Stanford, third year graduate student in Art, had her Contemporary Art Celebrating Life project in Allegheny Cemetery discussed and illustrated in Here: In Allegheny Cemetery by Lillian Thomas in the September 21 issue of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. For more information:
<http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20030921herel3.asp>

Fereshteh Hamidi-Toosi and Carolyn Lambert, third and second year graduate students (a.k.a. Macauley Brooks and Cat Furman), had their Fourth River Project featured in Four's a Crowd by Marty Levine in the September 18 issue of City Paper. For more information: http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/views/story.cfm?type=Levine

Yu Yan Tiffany Sum, first year graduate student, has been awarded $500 in Graduate Student Assembly Conference Funds to attend the 6th NYU International Student Film Festival October 27- November 1 in New York City. Her film, Fingering: The Lover's Concerto, was selected for screening in the festival. Graduate Conference Funding funding enables more Carnegie Mellon graduate students to either attend or make presentations/exhibit their work at key conferences/exhibitions in their fields.

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