Kim Beck's work is included in the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes through January 18, 2009 at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Through works and propositions by over 30 artists and architects, this exhibition explores the myths and realities of suburbs, provocatively exposing the fascinating layers of these deceptively familiar places. Worlds Away is organized by Walker Art Center, MN, in association with the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art.

Roger B. Dannenberg, spoke on “Computational Music: Understanding Performance” as part of the LSU Computing the Arts & Humanities Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 7 at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Dannenberg also performed two interactive computer music and animation works on October 8 as a guest of Cinema for the Ears: The Best Music You've Never Heard at LSU.

Cindy Lammert has two of her photographs included in the book, "Pittsburgh Signs:250," to be published later this year. As part of the celebration of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary, this was initiated by Fellows in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry as the "Pittsburgh Signs Project."

Golan Levin will deliver keynote lectures at Flashpitt (the Pittsburgh Flash Conference) on October 10, and at Interacção 2008 (3ª Conferência Interacção Pessoa-Máquina), at the Universidade de Évora, Portugal, on October 16. This month, Levin's interactive artworks will be featured in the Seville Biennale (3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla), from October 2 - January 11; and the Version Bêta exhibition at the Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland, from October 31 - December 14; Levin's work also appears in several ongoing exhibitions, including Licht Kunst Werke at the Technorama Science Center, Winterthur, Switzerland (through July 2009); at the Ars Electronica Center Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria (through September 2009); and in the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, as part of the Experimenta Playground National Tour, through October 17. Levin is also the co-curator for the 3rd Annual IEEE Infovis Art Exhibition, in Columbus, OH, which runs October 19-24.
http://flashpitt.com/; http://interaccao2008.xdi.uevora.pt/index.htm; http://www.fundacionbiacs.com/biacs3/; http://www.centreimage.ch/; http://www.technorama.ch/; http://www.experimenta.org/playground-touring/

Stephanie Syjuco's "The Counterfeit Crochet Project (Critique of a Political Economy)" is included in the exhibition Craftivism: Reclaiming Craft & Claiming Community at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, opening October 9. Her Anti-Factory project is featured in the just-released book, "Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y. Art, Craft, & Design," published by Princeton Architectural Press, and a feature-length documentary is forthcoming in 2009. http://www.handmadenation.com

Andy Warhol's (A'49) work is presented in Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway through December 14. http://www.afmuseet.no

Philip Pearlstein (A '49) presents Objectifications, (his first retrospective in 25 years since his 1983 survey at the Milwaukee Art Museum) at Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, NJ, October 18 - February 3, 2009.
http://www.montclairartmuseum.org/exhibitions.cfm?id=180

Robert Bowden (A '54) exhibits together for the first time with his son Paul Bowden at Mendelson Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, on view through October 29. http://www.mendelsongallery.net/site/welcome.html

Mel Bochner (A¹62) exhibits in The Sum of Its Parts at Barbara Krakow in Boston, MA, through October 7.
http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/exhibition/exhibition_details.php?id=6108

James Welling (BFA '73) presents a solo show at Galerie Nachst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder in Vienna through October 31. http://www.schwarzwaelder.at/

Marlena Novak (BFA '82) and Jay Alan Yim, as the collaborative duo localStyle, return from a summer in Amsterdam to open two project room exhibitions at Flatfile in Chicago, IL, this fall. The projects include "Fluid Mechanics Remix" and the interactive installation,"pr!ck". Next, they travel to Iceland for two weeks of filming and recording before resuming teaching at Northwestern University. http://www.flatfilegalleries.com/index.htm;
http://www.localstyle.tv/

Boris Bally (BFA '84) is currently involved in the following exhibitions: Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects, on view at the Portland Museum of Craft, OE through January 4, 2009. Work is also included as the 'Highlight Exhibit' in the Museum's shop with catalog "Text: Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects" by Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov, 160 pgs, Publish date: Fall 2008, Chronicle Books; Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), an inaugural exhibition celebrating the recent opening of their new Two Columbus Circle location, on view through March 8, 2009, with ilustrated catalog available; Permanently Mad, Revealing the Collection, also at MAD through February 15, 2009; The Green Show, curated by Francie Kelley of Paragone Gallery and hosted by Gensler Architects in Santa Monica, CA, through December 15; Full Circle: Recycled into Art curated by Jeffory Morris, at the Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ through May 17, 2009; and Content & Form in Contemporary Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing at Landmark Gallery, curated by Rob Glover of the Texas Tech School of Art, October 18 - December 13. http://contemporarycrafts.org/ex_upcoming.php;
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23576; http://adayinthelifeof1.blogspot.com/; http://madmuseum.org/SEE/upcoming%20exhibitions/Permanently%20MAD%20Revealing%20the%20Collection.aspx;
http://www.ParagoneGallery.com; http://www.arizonamuseumforyouth.com; http://www.landmarkarts.org

Robert Levine (BFA '84) received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He has shown with significant Los Angeles galleries such as Roberts & Tilton and Tom Solomon's Garage. His work has also been presented by Angela Hanley gallery at the MACO art fair in Mexico City. http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/961-robert-levine

Janice Feinstein Hechter (BFA '85) had one of her paintings featured on the front cover of the September 7 Hartford Courant Newspaper I-Towns section. Additionally, a review of Janice's art exhibit at the Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health Center appears in the October/November issue of Art New England magazine.
http://www.courant.com/community/news/fv/hc-itowns-cover0907-fv,0,2382631.photo

Martin Cohen (MFA '86) exhibited paintings in Life Lines at Fountain Gallery, NYC, this past June. http://www.fountaingallerynyc.com/Shows-Detail.cfm?ShowsID=164

JoAnna Commandaros (BFA ’86) has a piece titled “Tear Thief" at Fe Arts Gallery's In The Making: 250 Years/250 Artists on show through January 10, 2009. In conjunction with this piece, she also has works from the same series in the Department of Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery at the Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh, PA, through November 21. After completing the CONTAINED exhibit this summer at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Anna Divinsky and JoAnna decided to take their collaborative installation with Karen Page, "Twist, Tie, Multiply: Hands in Action", to the University of Pittsburgh’s faculty exhibition. This interactive piece invites the audience to participate in the installation. Visit the exhibit to learn about the Japanese Shibori technique of texturing fabric, have your piece added to their installation, and twist, tie, multiply with them.

Laura Karetzky's (BFA '87) recently hosted an open studio during the 12th Annual D.U.M.B.O. Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, NY, September 26-27. Her solo show, AWOL, opens October 25 with a reception from 5:00-7:00 p.m. and runs through November 29 at Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Her painting "Lean Back" was displayed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, as a finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006. In the same year she was the recipient of the Rotunda/BCAT Artist Residency. Karetzky has received The Christine Dombrowski and Thomas Ayoub Award, and First Place in the Blance Ames Regional Art Competition. http://www.dumboartfestival.org/; http://www.loraschlesinger.com

Geoff Kaplan (BFA '88) of General Working Group has produced projects for a range of academic and cultural institutions, including MOCA, the Walker Art Center, and CalArts. His work is in the permanent collection of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Geoff received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is currently Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program in Design at California College of the Arts.

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) participates in a three-person show designed by POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours) at the Philadelphia Cathedral, PA, through October 31. http://www.philadelphiacathedral.org/content/view/290/86/

Julie Vinette's (BFA '93) work is featured in Misc. A Show of Mixed Media, juried by Ken Reker at LynnArts, 25 Exchange Street, on view through October 17. Recently her work was included in Sea Level: Painting Installation in the Hooper Mansion Dining Room Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper Street Marblehead, through September 26. Currently Julie is a participating artist in the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park's Corporate Art Program.
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Marblehead Arts Association
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Ryan McGinness (BFA Design '94) presents a solo show, A Shadow Feeling of Loss. at Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. in Milan, Italy through October 18. He also presents Aesthetic Comfort at Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini in
Toronto through November 15 and at the Cincinnati Art Museum, October 25 - February 15, 2009. Aesthetic Comfort is an artist's book printed in four fluorescent inks published by Arkitip in a signed numbered edition of 2000.
http://www.paolocurti.com/; http://artcoregallery.com/2/2/exhibitions/main/index.html; http://cincinnatiartmuseum.org/;
http://arkitip.com/

Jen Urso (BFA '96) curated the exhibit I Am an American: Portraits of Unsafe U.S. Citizens at the Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ, currently on view through October 17. A panel discussion with the filmmaker, Cynthia Weber, several ASU professors, Jen Urso and one of the film's subjects, Ofelia Rivas, took place on Wednesday, October 1. It was standing room only as patrons viewed her entire film, asked questions, viewed the exhibit and filmed their own versions of "I Am an American". She is also participating in her first international group exhibition from October - November at Durex Arte Contemporanea in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with her drawing "Disaster Study 2." The group show will be on display during the Sao Paulo Art Biennial. http://theicehouseaz.com/calendarmain.html; http://www.durexart.com/eng/index.html; http://www.jenniferursoart.com

Leah Piepgras (MFA '97) has a solo show, SUPER BLISS, at Studio 412a in Boston, MA, through October 30.
http://www.omaartists.com/; http://www.leahpiepgras.com/

Christina Nguyen Hung (MFA '97) recently presented her project, "American Vectors" as part of the "Biomediations" session at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2008 in Singapore. She also participated in the show, Perfect with Pixel at the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, OH. http://www.americanvectors.com

Seldon Yuan's (BHA '98) work is featured in the Hunter Masters of Fine Arts Open Studios on Friday, November 7 from 6:00-10:00 p.m. with a silent auction on Saturday, November 8 from 2:00-6:00 p.m. 100+ studios are on view at 41st St. between 9th/Dyer & 10th Ave., NYC, with Seldon's work in studio 308a. http://www.seldonyuan.com

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) exhibits in No Information Available, curated by Francesco Bonami for Gladstone Gallery in Brussels, Belgium on view October 12 - November 21. http://www.gladstonegallery.com/index.asp

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) exhibits in Political Circus: A 3 - Ring Reflection on the 2008 Election Campaign at Florida Atlantic University's Ritter Gallery in Boca Raton, FL, through November 1. http://www.fau.edu/galleries/PoliticalCircus.php

Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99) has completed her third successful year as Director of the Community Trail Art Initiative (CTAI), a program of the Steel Valley Trail Council, PA. The Initiative was conceived and developed by Ann as an outgrowth of her graduate work and her residency with the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry as part of the Monongahela Conference (2004) and Groundworks exhibition at the Miller Gallery (2006). The CTAI combines place-based eco-literacy and art to engage trailside communities along the 19-mile Steel Valley Trail as part of the Great Allegheny Passage, a walking and bike trail extending from Pittsburgh to Washington D.C. This year, Ann worked with Propel School students in Homestead and McKeesport to create unique, hand-painted banners for the trail. Students researched the plants, animals, geography, and historic features of the trail, which they translated into banner designs and a trail guide. You can see the Homestead banners along the trail behind the condo complex at the Waterfront, and you can see banners in McKeesport from the west entrance of RIDC park along Lysle Blvd down to the Youghiogheny River, then along the trail and over the 15th St. Bridge. Banners will be up the month of October. A downloadable Teacher's Guide and Trail Guide are available on the site. http://steelvalleytrail.org/trailart

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (MFA '99) exhibited this September in Vagamundo: A Migrant's Tale, at 0.00156 acres in Brooklyn, NY, curated by Aniko Erdosi and Veronica Mijelshon. http://www.ambriente.com/cart/

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) and Faith Wilding will bring subRosa's "U-GEN-A-CHIX: Why are Women like Chickens?" performance to Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 14 for the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women. The festival theme is "Raw Symbiosis / Animals-Nature-Culture". subRosa's will also give a public lecture in Škuc Gallery on October 13. http://www.cityofwomen.org/2008/

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) had his collaborative show with Djordje Ozbolt at Herald Street in London reviewed by Gilda Williams in the October issue of Artforum.

Zak Prekop (BFA '01) exhibited in the group show Creswell Crags at Lisa Cooley in NYC this fall, with commentary in the New York Times. http://lisa-cooley.com/exhibitions/; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26wart.html

George A. Magalios (MFA '01) currently lives in Pont-Aven, France where he is teaching Contemporary Art Criticism and the Performance of Photography at the Pont-Aven School of Art. He also founded The Sophia Group, a conglomerate of media companies, and Directional Forces, a blog of his writings on visual culture and politics. http://www.directionalforces.net/

Jill Palermo's (BFA '02) business, WE ADD UP, is nominated as Green Business of the Year for Co-op America's People's Choice Award. WE ADD UP is a custom hand-numbered organic t-shirt campaign that counts you in the fight to stop climate change. http://www.weaddup.com. Voting is until October 9 at http://www.coopamerica.org/greenbusiness/peopleschoice/

William Earl Kofmehl, III (BFA '03) will be exhibiting with Lombard-Freid Projects at FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris) October 23-26. He recently participated in the group Video exhibition Friendly at CRG Gallery, NYC. Kofmehl currently resides in Pont-Aven, France, teaching at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art.

Kenzo Hakuta (BFA '03) will be releasing another viral, internet-based pro-Obama video that he directed on October 13 with grammy award winning violinist Miri Ben Ari.

Halina Kliem (exchange student 2004) presented a solo show, you don't want to become too personal here this June at Simonis Gallery in Warsaw, Poland. http://www.artnews.org/artist.php?i=2085

Encyclopedia Destructica [Christopher Kardambikis (BFA '05) & Jasdeep Khiara (BHA '04)] announces it's first BYOPPT (Bring Your Own Power Point) event. As the 2008 Flying Destructicate, Jonathan Brodsky (BFA '05) is hosting this event at the Encyclopedia Destructica Studios. This will be an opportunity for presentations on estoeric research, Youtube archeology, Lunch break doodles, and magical physics demonstrations. It is also an opportunity to recapture a much abused performance style. Presentations will follow two rules 1) 20 slides, 20 seconds for a slide, and 2) content of the presentations cannot be of the presentors day job. The event is free, and open to the public on Friday, October 24, 8:00 p.m. at 156 41st Street in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA.

Ruth Stanford's (MFA '04) exhibit, Cryptoecology: Animal instinct, at Eyedrum in Atlanta was reviewed in Creative Loafing. http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/cryptoecology_animal_instinct/Content?oid=550975

Krystle DeMauro (BFA '06) works for Takashi Murakami's company, Kaikai Kiki in NYC. She is helping to organize an art fair called GEISAI Miami which will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach this December.

Lauren F. Adams (MFA '07) was recently included in two exhibits: 8-Hour Projects at Allegheny College In
Meadville, PA in September and the timely Pro/Con: Political Craft at Rebus Works in Raleigh, North Carolina, which fell on the heels of the VP debate at Washington University (where she took a post in August as Assistant Professor of painting). The exhibition opened October 3 and will be up through November 29. http://www.rebusworks.us; http://www.lfadams.com

Michael Kontopoulos (BFA '07), David Tinapple (MFA '07), Eileen Maxson (MFA '08) , were recently featured in CUT! , on September 26 at Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY. Inside the 4-screen immersive environment, CUT! showcased video and live performance works that disassemble and re-interpret visual classics.
http://monkeytownhq.com/monkeytownhome.html; http://www.mkontopoulos.com/; http://www.davidtinapple.com/; http://www.eileenmaxson.com/

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) was a September artist in residence at the Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd Iceland, a small fishing village in northern Iceland near the Húnaflói fjord. For the months of October, November, and December he will be a resident at the SÍM Artist Residency (through the Association of Icelandic Visual
Artists) in Reykjavík. http://www.bkinsley.com; http://ameriskur.blogspot.com

Jeff Konigsberg and David Hamill's work are currently featured in Outpost at Johannson Projects, 2300 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA, through October 18. http://johanssonprojects.net/phpflickr/current_show.php

Jennifer Gooch (MFA '09) has a CD release show for her album Gift Horse on November 1 with George Neal (Denton, TX) and The Harlan Twins at at Howler's, Bloomfield, PA. She will also have a video screening and music performance at the Dallas Bath House Cultural Center on November 8. http://www.jennifergooch.com

Madeleine Barnes (BHA '12) had one of her poems recently published in a September issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08257/911882-109.stm

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