Susanne Slavick and Andrew Johnson (MFA '94) collaborated on One Night or a Thousand Others, consisting of paintings and sculptures at the Lamar Dodd Gallery at University of Georgia, Athens. The show runs November 13 -December 19, 2003.

Elaine A. King presented a paper, Voice and Vision - Where Have They Gone? To Art School My Friends, at the School of the Visual Arts conference Educating the Artist, on October 23 in New York City. King has been invited by SVA to organize the plenary panel session that will focus on art and artists in Central Europe for the 2005 conference.

Golan Levin, who joins the School of Art faculty in Spring 2004, is exhibiting in Beyond Pages at the Wood Street Galleries, November 14, 2003 - January 3, 2004. The exhibit presents installations inviting user participation.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) is exhibiting Two Nudes with Horse Weathervanes & Punch in Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism at The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, September 14, 2003 - February 15, 2004.
http://www.artregister.com/SeavestIntroductiontoCollection/Catalogue/PearlsteinTwoNudes.html

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) has a web site with images from her billboard and industrial park series among others. http://janetculbertson.net.

Hilda Green Demsky (BFA '58), honored in 2001 by the Veteran Feminists of America for her early contributions to the feminist movement, recently exhibited an installation at Pleiades Gallery in New York City (Chelsea).

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) has a solo exhibit, Boys' Art, at DC Moore Gallery in New York City, November 5 - December 6. The exhibit is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Robert Kushner, available through D.A.P. Publishers http://www.dcmooregallery.com. She has also curated an exhibit, Reading Between the Lines, at Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster Street, NYC. The exhibit runs through November 22 and includes work by: Jeannie Crosby, Judith Henry, Ann Messner, Julia Randall, Mira Schor and Barbara Zucker. A panel discussion, Subject Matters, will take place on Tuesday, November 11 at 7:30pm, moderated by Barbara Pollack.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) has a solo exhibit, Afterimage: recent metalpoint paintings and drawings at Robert Steele Gallery, 511 W. 25th Street, NY, October 16-November 15, 2003. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently purchased two of her drawings; the museum has also collected her artist book, Flume.

Betsey Plaut Sanpere (A '69) is coordinator of cultural and community outreach at Baltimore/Washington International Airport. She wrote a feature article on Arts in the Airport which was included in the summer edition (June 2003) of Passenger Terminal World magazine, an international trade journal published in the United Kingdom.

Katherine Kuharic (BFA '84) was granted a 9/11 Fellowship in 2002 through the College Art Association. Her work was discussed in University of Massachusetts at Amherst's art magazine dedicated to art by women entitled Artsy. Published works and illustrations include the cover of Leash, Semiotexte, MIT Press, 2002.

Kurt Rath (BFA '84) and his brother Christopher (CFA '88) recently created a company called Sidewalk Gallery which travels painting exhibitions all over the U.S. but mostly in California. They also service clients with custom home decorating and design, portrait requests and staging (decorating real estate on the market that would otherwise be empty).

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) has an upcoming solo exhibition of painting, drawing & sculpture, entitled New Work at Kimberly Venardos & Co., 1014 Madison Ave., NYC, November 21 - December 23, 2003. http://www.venardos.com

Andrew Johnson (MFA '94) is exhibiting in a two-person exhibit, One Night or a Thousand Others at the Lamar Dodd Gallery at University of Georgia, Athens, November 12 - December 19, 2003. He also collaborated this fall with Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) and Millie Chen on PED Tonowandas at the Carnegie Art Center in Buffalo, NY. PED Tonawandas took the audience on a bicycle tour through the Tonawandas and the Erie Canal using bicycles, artist-made maps, and audiotapes for an entertaining and interactive exploration.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) is exhibiting in ARCHI+TEXTURE: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art, presented by Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery & NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc., Emerging Curators Program. The exhibit was curated by Samantha Mae Dorfman and runs through November 25. A panel discussion featuring artists from the exhibition will occur on Sunday, November 16 at 3pm. Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, 101 Richardson Street - Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NY 11201 http://www.brooklynfireproof.com Patrick also has a solo exhibit, Nausea & Euphoria, opening November 7 at Gallery Evan at 300 East 95th Street, NYC. The exhibit runs through December 7. http://galleryevan.com

Leah Piepgras (MFA '96) and Colin Piepgras (MFA '95) designed White Cod Nebulae, a sculpture riddled with holes and illuminated from the inside by light-emitting diodes that can glow any of 16 million colors. Originally part of Boston's 2000 citywide Cavalcade of Cod installation, their piece is now at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. Colin Piepgras, who works at Color Kinetics in Boston, describes that the lights can be linked into data sources. Different colors could reflect a climbing Dow, or a sinking S&P.

Jennifer Urso (BFA '96) is a Tempe based artist who creates small-scale abstract works using pencil, photo-transfer, fabric and acrylics. Her work explores the ideas of movement, flow, connection and destination. She will be exhibiting mixed media paintings and interactive sculpture in What You See When You're Looking at Central Gallery (1st floor of the Burton Barr Central Library), 1221 N. Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ from November 21 – December 28, 2003. Opening reception - December 5, 7-10pm.

Steffi Domike (MFA '97), Paul Vanouse (MFA '96), Michael Mateus and Patrick Lichty had their collaborative piece Terminal Time screened last March in Provocations: Digital Art Takes on the World in the 2003 Florida Film Festival last March in Maitland, FL. It will also be presented at the Game Developers Conference at the San Jose Convention Center in California, March 22-26. http://www.gdconf.com/. Terminal Time is currently included in The Good, the Bad - Who is the Ugly? Part 1 at ESC im Labor in Graz, Austria.

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) exhibited in The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism at the Davis Cultural Center at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, March 18 - June 8, 2003.

Laura Domencic (BFA '96) and Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) are participating in Generation ART: The New Breed of Pittsburgh Artists at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, November 20 - December 27, 2003. Opening reception - November 20, 5:30-8pm.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibited in the restaurant version of Naturalizations through Peter Lasch Projects at La Guadalupana Restaurant for the Brewster Arts Festival in New York, June 20 - July 20, 2003. Naturalizations is a work in progress based on the production and distribution of a set of masks, which are used in specific social situations. This version of the exhibit consisted of 15 masks for daily use, and 15 photographs, which illustrated past uses. http://www.brewster2003.org/lasch.html

Renae Neumeyer (BFA '00) and Tom Birdsey (BFA '01) exhibited in *sigh* here they come at 5013 Penn Avenue, October 3-31, 2003.

Andrew Beckles (BFA '02) has a short video piece in the Film Kitchen series at the Regent Square Theater, November 11 , 8pm. A Q&A session follows the screening.

Jill Palermo (BFA '02) is having her first solo exhibit, Out of Nothing, with works inspired by cellular biology, ecological systems and quantum physics. The exhibit opens at Springboard in Pittsburgh on November 14 from 5-7pm and runs through January 30, 2004.

Ruth Stanford and Shana Moulton (third year graduate students) have won $500 GUSH awards. These funds are provided through the Graduate Student Assembly and the Provost's Office. The goal of this funding is to enable more Carnegie Mellon graduate students to reach their full potential in their degree-related work. Ruth and Shana will apply these funds toward their thesis exhibits.

The Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association selected Jennifer Hughes, BSA art and biological sciences senior, to receive a 2003 Alumni Student Service Award.

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