Martin Prekop exhibited photographs, as part of the Gandhi-Group, at University of Valparaiso and Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura de Valparaiso, October 3-31, 2002.

Elaine A. King was awarded a Certificate in Appraisal in Fine and Decorative Arts from New York University.

Mandala - Healing the Environment: Tibetan Sand Mandala and Environmental Art Exhibition. Carnegie Mellon faculty and students from the School of Art and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry collaborated on and will participate in an environmental art exhibition running at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, November 6 -14. Working within the arts to heal the environment, the exhibition involves a group of Tibetan monks who will create a sacred sand mandala amidst the work of 30 other artists. The monks will begin creating the mandala at the Pittsburgh Center of the Arts with a public ceremony on Wednesday, November 6 at 10 am and continue for five days. During that time, the public is invited to view the process with a reception from 5:30 - 7 pm on November 6. The closing ceremony will begin at the Center for the Arts on Sunday, November 10 at 2 pm and continue at the Frick Environmental Center, co-host of the exhibit, at 3 pm where sand from the mandala will be ceremonially dispersed at the Environmental Center and into the Nine Mile Run streambed. The exhibition is dedicated to the Environmental Center, where it was originally scheduled. When the Center was destroyed by fire in August, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts graciously stepped in to provide a venue for the event within the larger exhibit.

Participating artists include: Professors of Art, Robert Bingham and Lowry Burgess; STUDIO Fellows, Tim Collins, Stephanie Flom, and Noriyuki Fujimura; alumni, Jerry Caplan (BFA ‘54, MFA ‘59), Robert Dunn (MFA ‘91), Noel Hefele (BFA ‘02), Neil Lareau (BFA ‘02), Jill Palermo (BFA ‘02), and Sara Stanek (BFA ‘02); and undergraduate students Lauren Collings, Theodore Dowd, Hsing-Pei Hu, Joshua Johnson, Kristina Lazar, Moshe Mahler, Kay Matsuda, Monique Reno, Mark Baugh-Sasaki and Cay Yoon.

Regina Gouger Miller (BFA '59), a Signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and Philadelphia Watercolor Club, is exhibiting 65 watercolor paintings and 12 new abstract stitchery pieces at the Institute of the Arts in Wyomissing, PA, November 1-30.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) has collaboarted with her husband, composer Martin Bokyan, on three artist books, City of Gold, Flume, and their newest project Nocturne, all recently acquired by the Library of Congress. The Library hopes to produce a film on their work as well as an exhibition.

Emil A. Sauer (BFA '80) currently resides in Henderson, NY where he is a self-employed medical illustrator and sculptor. He has had two exhibitions this year in Las Vegas and completed a series of medical illustrations for an ophthalmology handbook that will be published next year. He continues to sculpt in plaster and steel while working on series of drawings of mineral and botanical drawings. For the last 4 1/2 years he has been practicing medical illustration, taking courses in anatomy/physiology, microbiology, and embryology. For more information, visit: http://www.library.nevada.edu/gallery/sauer/index.html

Christopher Anselmo Priore (BFA '81) is exhibiting What Holds Everything Together?, a large scale, interactive, window installation of paintings made with translucent water-based lacquers on multiple layers of clear vinyl and Plexiglas. The installation opens on Friday, November 1 and runs through December 21 at Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) is participating in: Bad Touch, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL this December; Small Works, OHT Gallery, Boston, MA, December 6-24; Art Positions in conjunction with Art Basel/Miami Beach, Miami, FL represented by LUMP Gallery, December 5-8 and
Secret Garden, River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, November 1-December 31.

Stephen Antonsen (BFA '89) had work in the Affordable Art Fair that ran through November 3 at Pier 92 (W51st St.) in New York City.

Paolo Malabuyo (BFA '95) is a Game Designer/Developer for Microsoft, applying "creativity and imagination towards creating experiences." He co-hosted an Xbox Playfest event on campus on October 24 and gave a presentation on the game industry and Microsoft Game Studios on October 26.

David Serotkin (BFA '00) is working as a muralist, getting married and "fantasizing about getting Fulbrights in Philadelphia." He is also exhibiting narrative painting and drawing there, in Three Visions at la Colombe Torrefaction through November 17.

Carolyn Lambert, first year graduate student, has been awarded $500 in Graduate Student Assembly Conference Funds for her project, Natural Building with the Mun Yuen. In late November, she will travel "to help construct Thailand's first earthen village for the Mun Yuen. This village will be built entirely from cob (a clay-straw composite) and adobe brick. The Mun Yuen have been displaced from their land because of a dam and are re-creating a self-reliant co-operative adjacent to National Forest land. Thailand, unlike this country, is poised to have natural techniques become mainstream building options. The efforts under this collaborative project will yield a prototype for other communities wishing to live in harmony with nature."

Carolyn will be working with architects, researchers and other artists from all over the world. At the conference, there will be a number of presentations considering earthen dwellings from different perspectives including: environment, community, spirituality, social systems, economy, gender roles, and art. The project is organized by Kleiwerks Natural Building (USA), Spirit in Education Movement (International) and Wongsanit Ashram (Thailand). Graduate Student Assembly Conference Funds enable Carnegie Mellon graduate students to either attend or make presentations/exhibit their work at key conferences/ exhibitions in their fields.

Chung Cho has received a $500 GUSH grant for creating a video based on an ancient Korean myth. In layering this myth with post-colonial and diasporic references he has found in Shakespeare's The Tempest, along with other visual references that embody hybridity, he is attempting to reflect on the contemporary and personal cross-cultural experience and condition. Chung has forged a connection with a Korean dance troupe in Los Angeles, where he will modify and videotape its performance of a traditional dance related to this myth. The project will be the centerpiece of his spring 2003 MFA Thesis Exhibit. Graduate Small Project Help (GUSH) funding has been developed and financed by the Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student Association, in collaboration with the Graduate Programs Office and the Provost's Office. GUSH funding is engineered to help graduate students reach their full potential through the graduate work they do at CMU. These awards, for $500 each, help defray costs incurred in the completion of projects required for thesis and dissertation work.

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