Clayton Merrell has work in In Transition, at the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus, which opened on Wednesday, October 4.

Golan Levin's interactive visualization "Dumpster" currently appears in Further Processing: Generative Art, Open Systems at the Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, and will also appear at the First IEEE InfoVis Art Exhibition on October 25 in Baltimore. Levin will give artist's presentations in the "Meet the Media Guru" lecture series, on October 20 in Milan at the Mediateca Santa Teresa; in Progetto INnet, at Villa Olmo Como, on October 21; and in DesignWeek Monterrey, November 13 in Mexico. In November, he will present a paper at the International Conference on Computer Music, in New Orleans, and his installation work "Messa di Voce" will appear at the First Taipei International Digital Art Festival in Taiwan.
http://www.medienturm.at/mt.php?id=2&sid=225&k=full&_pid=412; http://vis.computer.org/vis2006/; http://www.meetthemediaguru.org/MTMGgolanlevin.html; http://www.didstudio.org/innet/; http://www.dwm.org.mx/dwm06_golan.php; http://www.icmc2006.org/; http://www.meetthemediaguru.org/MTMGgolanlevin.html .

Kim Beck will be showing work in an exhibition at the Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. The exhibition, Land Tracking Land, investigates the environments in which we live, from our perception and relation to their utility to how we create amid them. The exhibiting artists approach this topic via constructing, reconstructing, or inventing buildings and land/city scapes as their interpretation of environment. The exhibition will run from October 20 - November 19.

Ting Chang, Assistant Professor in Art History, was invited to participate among major scholars in the history of Chinese art and archaeology at the conference “Collecting ‘China’ Objects, Materiality and Multicultural Collectors," held by the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, September 28-29.

Suzie Silver and Kim Beck were featured artist-presenters as part of the Symposium on Light, held October 7. Sponsored in collaboration among the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts with the Pittsburgh Glass Center and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, this symposium gathered area artists and curators to discuss the importance, meaning, and use of light in the visual arts.

Lowry Burgess' video of the zero-gravity flight of the "Seed of the Infinite Absolute" was shown at the opening of the new Roundhouse in London in the exhibition Space-Soon. Later this month, the International Museum of Photography in Paris will exhibit his short-wave radio holograms entitled "Moon-Bounce" in the exhibition Corp Elecromatique as part of its Outsiders Festival. He continues to meet in Washington and Paris on his proposals to UNESCO and the World Bank for the protection of abandoned and endangered cultural/historical sites worldwide: one of the seven provisions of the "Toronto Manifesto, the Right to Human Memory" of March 2001.

Elaine A. King, along with co-editor Gail Levin of CUNY, had the anthology "Ethics and the Visual Arts," published in September by Allworth Press in New York. This volume, comprised of 19 essays, explores a diverse range of topics about ethics in the visual arts. It examines and showcases the unethical practices of such institutions as the J.P. Getty, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, as well as Native American artifacts and the Holocaust. This book is available on Amazon.com.

James Duesing will give a public presentation of his work and meet with graduate students at the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus on October 11 and 12.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) and Alfrad Jensen exhibit in Homage to Pythagoras, a two-person show at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Los Angeles, October 21- December 1, 2006. http://www.marcselwynfineart.com.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) has a solo show at Salem State College, September 26 - October 19. The exhibition will travel to Simon Gallery in Morristown, NJ, November 14 - December 2. A reception will be held on November 17 from 6-8pm and the catalogue is available by request via: http://www.susanschwalb.com.

Tom Norulak (BFA '71) currently has work on display at Celebrating Contemporary Printmaking on view at Hudson Gallery in Sylvania, OH and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art Juried Regional Biennial in Greensburg, PA. He will present a Solo Show at Slippery Rock University from October 30 - November 2.

Patricia Colvin Burson (BFA '71) has been honored with an artist residency fellowship in New Delhi, India from November 3 - January 31, 2007, culminating in a solo exhibit there. She is currently represented in galleries in Boston, Martha's Vineyard, and New Hampshire.

Joel David Abramson (BFA '78) is currently working with the Midwest Special Services running an art program and using adaptive computer technology hardware to enhance the lives of young adults with developmental and physical disabilties. He also works on pen-and-ink commissioned house portraits, http://www.joeldavidabramson.com.

Greg Kwiatek (BFA '79) will participate in The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Center Open Studios at 323 W. 39th Street in NYC on October 19, 6-9pm and October 21- 22, 2-6pm. http://www.efa1.org.

Kathy Skerritt (Mead) (BFA '80) presents a solo exhibit, Transcendental Topographies, at the Beachwood Arts Council's new gallery space in Beachwood, Ohio. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 21, 5-9pm and an artist's demonstration on October 22 at 2pm. The show is on view from October 22 - November 4. In 2004 Skerritt was invited to participate as one of only 20 artists from around the world to be featured in the extraordinary International Portfolio Project being developed by the Colours of Freedom Foundation of Toronto, Canada. http://www.kathyskerritt.com.

Deborah Hosking (BFA '81) will be presenting her work in digital photography at the 96th Associated Artists Annual exhibition, to be held at the Carnegie Museum of Art , from October 26 - January 15.

Jamie Adams (BFA '83) will present a solo exhibit of paintings, I Dream of Jean, at Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, 487 Driggs Ave., Williamsburg, New York, November 17 - December 23. http://www.jackthepelicanpresents.com/.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) has had his work recently collected by Jerry Seinfeld, the Kendall School of Art, Racine Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery's Furniture Collection, and the Museum of Art + Design and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, both in New York City. He has also worked on commissions for Cranium, Inc., Enterprise-Rent-a-Car and Jay Leno. His work is currently on view in exhibitions at the Cooper Hewitt in NYC and the Lancaster Museum of Art in PA.

John Currin (BFA ’84) is included in an exhibit inspired by the heroines of The Metropolitan Opera’s six new productions. Curated by Dodie Kazanjian (The Met’s new contemporary art advisor), the exhibit this fall is part of the Met's effort to to reconnect itself to the contemporary visual arts world. It is creating a new gallery space in its lobby to display works of art by major artists connected to the repertory of the company’s 2006-07 season.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/detail.aspx?id=165.

David French (BFA '87) exhibited his paintings and sculpture over the past year at Monmouth Muesum, Lincroft, NJ, and has had featured solo exhibits at Beaureguard Gallery in Rumson, NJ; Montage Gallery in Baltimore, MD; and Bob McKay Imaging in Red Bank, NJ. His work can also be seen at Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA.

Dan Kaplan (BFA '87) teaches art at an elementary school and resides in Willimantic, CT and contiues to make art and music.

Matt Wrbican (BFA '81 and MFA '89) is organizing a small show about wiretapping in the Archives of the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh entitled, Buggin': Taps for Justice. He is also organizing a show tentatively titled, Six Billion Perps Held Hostage: Artists Address Global Warming, for March of 2007, also at the Warhol. http://www.warhol.org.

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) had an article published on her work in September by Taipei's PPaper, a bi-weekly print magazine published in Chinese for creative people, http://www.ppaper.net. Her cover illustration for a Lands End catalog was accepted into Communication Arts Illustration 47th Annual this summer. She has also been commissioned in recent weeks to do work for: Travel + Leisure magazine; NY Life; More magazine, Harvard University; American Express; Nick Jr magazine; Body + Soul magazine; and Wired magazine.

David Yu (MFA '89) presents a solo show, Epifania: A Selection of Paintings + Prints, at Cupping Room Cafe in NYC. Opening reception: 5:30 –7:30pm, Tuesday, October 10. For more information, email: davidyufineart@gmail.com.

Becky Smith (MFA '91), director of Bellwether Gallery in New York City, launches a new season with works by artists including alumni Shana Moulton (MFA '04 ) and Peter Coffin (MFA '00). http://www.bellwethergallery.com/.

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) exhibits in two Massachusetts group shows: the 13th Annual Juried Exhibition at Zullo Gallery in Medfield, September 16 - October 29; and in Rock, Paper, Paint, A Juried Show of Mixed Media in the Time Warner Gallery at LynnArts in Lynn, September 23 - October 20 with a reception on Saturday, September 30, 2-4pm. art@zullogallery.org;
http://www.lynnarts.org.

Yaalieth Simpson (BFA '93) is the 2006-07 Visiting Assistant Professor of Arts Education and Arts Administration in the Department of Art Education in the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

James Thurman (BFA '93) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the national metalsmithing organization, SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths). He has also had 3 pieces and an essay included in new book from Lark Publishing, 500 Necklaces, as well the essay "Integration of Teaching and Research through Digital Fabrication Projects in the Curriculum" in the Council on Undergraduate Research's "Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Undergraduate Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Curricular Practices from Faculty and Institutions Engaged in Undergraduate Research." Currently his Solo exhibition, Turning Out: Sculptural Revelations through printed media, is on view at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg, PA, from September 9 - November 10. He will also be the Visiting Artist at the University of North Texas, October 12 -15, lecturing on "Genre Hybridity: What is it and why should we care?" and will offer technical demonstrations of lathe-based metalspinning. He has also been invited to be a Guest Lecturer at the Velvet da Vinci gallery in San Francisco, CA, on November 4.

Melissa Thorne (BFA '93) participates in Fair Exchange, a group show at Millard Sheets Gallery at the L.A. County Fair, September 8 through October 1. She also sings for the band, Bedroom Walls, which has a CD out, "All Good Dreamers Pass This Way." http://www.millardsheetsgallery.org

Daniel Anthonsien (BFA '94) has a solo exhibit, Moved by the Water, at Travis Gallery in New Hope, PA, opening October 7 (5-8pm) - October 28, http://www.travisgallery.com.

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94) presents a solo exhibit, Never Odd or Even at Vous Etes Ici in Amsterdam, October 14 - November 18. he also participates in USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington Gardens, London in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, opening October 6. His work is included in many collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Norton Family Foundation, and the Saatchi collection. http://www.vousetesici.nl/; http://http://www.saatchigallery.com.

Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94) exhibited his new video installation called MISSION A at the SKAM Gallery in Hamburg, Germany. MISSION A is a series of video projections that allow us to look at the “connecting tissue” of the video frame to imagine, raise questions and propose new meanings about the relationship between opposing ideological forces of our civilization. His video, Terminal was presented in State of Exception a show of experimental film and video at Studio 27 in the San Francisco Bay Area. http://www.skam.org/skam_db/index.php?selection=1&sn=sub1;
http://www.studio27.org/stateofexception.html.

Paul Snelson (BFA '96) has been inducted as a lifetime member of the National Scholars Honor Society. His recently updated web site can be found at http://www.paulsnelson.com.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) has a site-specific piece in a show entitled Phoenix: Land of Somewhere… at the Modified Arts building, Phoenix, AZ, October 13 - November 13.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) exhibits in the International Exhibition of Contemporary Textile Art Miniartextil in Como, Italy October 7 - November 12, and gives artist presentations at Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre in Dundee, Scotland, October 7 and 8.

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) along with Faith Wilding (both STUDIO fellows and subRosa members) will perform */Yes Species/*, in collaboration with James Pei-Mun Tsang as part of “Cyberfem. Feminisms on the Electronic Landscape,” Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló (EACC) in Spain, October 20. /**/subRosa will also show ephemera from */Love Is Strong as Death: A Convivial Feast /* in Sabrina Raaf's "Propagation" show at Polvo, Chicago, October 13 - November 4. They recently completed a new project, */Love is Strong as Death: a Convivial Feast/*, as part of In Transit : from Object to Site at the David Winton Bell Gallery and Department of Visual Art, Brown University, Providence, RI, September 15, 2006. http://www.eacc.es;
http://www.polvo.org/upcoming.html; http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/future_frameset.html

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibits in Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), curated by Joao Ribas and Becky Smith (BFA '91) at Bellwether Gallery in New York City, opening October 12 (6-8pm) - November 11.
www.bellwethergallery.com/upcoming_01.cfm?fid=323

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) exhibits her work in Common Destination, Selections at the Drawing Center through October 24; and is participating in Melancholia, at The Proposition curated by Shinique Smith, November 2 - December 2.

Peter Burr (BFA '02) takes a show of performances and animations, CARTUNE XPREZ, on tour across the USA and Canada this fall, featuring works by Professor James Duesing and alumni Cassandra Jones, Luke Meeken, Andrew Negrey, Drew Pavelchak. The tour includes a Pittsburgh stop at the Mattress Factory on October 19. For complete description and schedule: http://www.cartunexprez.com, or view his website http://www.peterburr.org.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) presents The Suburban Excavation Project, a solo exhibit at the Greater Reston Arts Center Gallery in Reston, Virginia, opening , Friday, September 29 (6-9pm with an artist talk at 8pm) through October 29.
http://www.restonarts.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.htm.

Adam Grossi, Robin Hewlett, and Drew Pavelchak (all BFA '03), participate in Everything Is Possible, a group show at Future Tenant, opening Friday, September 29 (5-9pm with artist talk at 5) through October 27. The show features microfilm landscapes, comic strips, videos, and more. http://www.futuretenant.org/visitus.html.

Elizabeth Deasy (BFA '03) will show at the Milwaukee International art fair October 20-21, 2006. She will be represented by BasFisher Invitational, a gallery located in Miami.

Cay Yoon (BFA '04) exhibited this September in Camp, a group show at NY Studio Gallery in New York.
http://www.nystudiogallery.com.

Mario Marzan (MFA '05) presented a solo show of new drawings at Sizi Gallery in Cary, North Carolina, September 8 - October 8. http://www.triangle.com/calendar/event/3833.html.

Blithe Riley's (MFA '05) project "Belief Objects," a video interview project investigating the role of belief systems on daily life, completes its residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on October 15. Riley and collaborator Devlin Shea will take the project to Brooklyn College where they have been granted an artist residency through December.

Fiona E. Wilson (BFA '05) will be speaking at the next Society for Photographic Education National Conference in Miami. She will be part of an Academic Practicum Workshop panel presentation and discussion, titled Inspiring Youth Through Photography. She will discuss her experiences as a photography instructor, and as the current Student Services Coordinator for the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, as well as the educational techniques used within the unique program at MCG.

Sarah Laina Koljonen (BFA '06) has posted work completed this summer at Chautauqua School of Art. She will begin a residency this November at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. http://www.sarahkoljonen.com/chautauqua.html;
http://www.sarahkoljonen.com/.

Bum Lee’s (MFA '06) animation "Sports and Diversions" will be shown at the Puchon International Student Animation Festival in Korea in November. His 3-D animation "The Fly" will be included in the LA Freewaves online archive.

David Halsell (MFA Class of '07) presented Funkenspiel 2 this July in the Digital Art Week's Soundscapes for Two Channels at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He has also published an article on Ken Rinaldo's Autopoiesis, in the September/October issue of NY Arts Magazine, http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/DAW/SoundscapesProgram;
http://nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4957&Itemid=203.

John Peña and Ally Reeves (MFA Class of '08) exhibit in Size Matters at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh.

Ben Kinsley (MFA Class of '08) participates in the Performance Art Program at the Tyler Gallery of Temple University in Philadelphia, October 25 - November 4. Among other events, Kinsley, from the Poke Orchestra, offers a workshop for students. http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/september06/FallArtsPreview.html.

Eileen Maxson (MFA Class of '08) participated this June in the 2006 CineVegas Film Festival sponsored by the Art Institute of Las Vegas and this September in CinemaTexas 11 in Austin.
http://www.cinevegas.com/pressroom/2006/051706-films.html;
http://www.cinematexas.org/festival/sectionArtist.html?id=118&section=1.

Gregory Witt (MFA Class of '09) has been awarded a 2006 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center. The 22 awardees from across the country will exhibit their work at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, October 7 - April 29, 2007. http://www.groundsforsculpture.org.

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