Elaine A. King was the American guest curator for the Ninth Graphic Arts Biennial in Hungary. She selected works by artists Tony Oursler, Jacob Ciocci (MFA '05), Janine Stern, and Francisco Alvarado. In addition, she was one of the plenary speakers during the museum's opening day activities on 17 September, addressing issues in contemporary art in the USA. King also represented the USA at the 39th Congress of the Association of International Critics of Art held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 18-22 . She delivered the paper entitled Art Criticism? Audiences in a Cultural Maze of Fragmentation and the Academe -A [W]+F= AC.

Lowry Burgess presented two papers at the International Astronomic Federation conference in Fukuoka, Japan: The Arts and Space Culture: The Common Ground of Creativity and Equant Nodes of Oblivion. He also presented a paper entitled Searching for the Buddhas of Bamiyan at the Center for the Arts and Society conference (im)Permanence, October 2005.

James Duesing served as a panelist at the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation to award individual media fellowships to artists in New Jersey and Maryland. The event took place October 19-21.

Ayanah Moor has been granted a Vermont Studio Center Residency to begin in January of 2006. She participated in a panel entitled, Mainstream Media, Black Images as part of the exhibition Feel Like Goin' On at the 937 Liberty gallery. Ayanah's print, Raphead: I love hip hop and hip hop loves me, is displayed in the Erie Art Museum's current exhibition, Into the Light, a show of the museum's recent acquisitions. She also lectured and met with graduate students at the University of Connecticut Art and Art History Department October 4-6.

Christopher Sperandio will lecture at the May You Live in Interesting Times Festival of Creative Technology conference in Cardiff, Wales on October 29, kicking off an artist's residency at Chapter House that he'll complete in the Summer of 2006. http://mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org/index.html.

Mary Weidner will exhibit work in Women in Art, at Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA, November 3 - 21, 2005 and in Secrets at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, November 18 - January 22, 2006.

Adam Davies (MFA '05), Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, is a finalist in the 2006 Miami University Young Painters Competition. His painting, Pink Sky, will also be included in the 2005 Mid-Atlantic New Painting Exhibition at the University of Mary Washington Galleries in Fredericksburg, VA. The exhibit was curated by Jonathan Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery, and runs January 26 through March 3. http://www.umw.edu/umw_galleries/midatlantic_new_painting_c/.

Clayton Merrell and Andrew Johnson exhibit digital prints in a five-person show, Photography Plus at Allegheny College's Bowman and Megahan Galleries in Meadville, PA, November 8 - December 7.

Kim Beck has been invited to speak on a panel about Art and Technology at The Fed Ex Institute of Technology symposium, We Can Build You, on November 11, at the University of Memphis. http://fedex.memphis.edu/Symposium.shtml.

Golan Levin will present a collection of performances at the Ultrasound Festival, Huddersfield, England on November 24 and 25; at the RomaEuropa Festival in Rome, on November 27; and in Toyko, Nagoya, and Kyoto on a Japanese tour presented by the Tokyo Digital Arts Festival, December 8 -17. Additionally, Levin's installations will appear in November and December in Light Art from Artificial Light at the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing, France, and in Cimatics'05: Brussels International Festival for Audiovisual Live Performance, at the MediaRuimte Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. Closer to home, Levin has also curated a weekend of screenings and performances at the Monkeytown space in New York City, including works by Suzie Silver and Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) on November 4 and 5.

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http://www.monkeytownhq.com/nov2005.html.

Andy Warhol ('49) has work included in Empreinte Moi, curated by Philippe Segalot at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, France, October 29 - December 3. http://www.galerieperrotin.com.

Philip Morsberger (BFA '54) has a solo exhibit at Romo Gallery in Atlanta, GA, December 8 through January 21, 2006.

Harvey Breverman ('56) is exhibiting a Survey of Prints and Monotypes at Augusta State University in Georgia, November 10 - December 8 with a reception on November 10 from 5-7pm.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) participated in The Rose Alion Goldman Lecture Series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on October 26 in the Titus Theater. His lecture, Representing Space: Within and between Media, discusses interpretations of space in his conceptual work and his most recent project, the Kraus Campo (2005) for Carnegie Mellon University, a garden he designed in collaboration with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. An exhibition of his work will open at the Art Institute of Chicago in the spring of 2006. Mel is also exhibiting in Building and Breaking the Grid at the Whitney Museum of American Art on view September 1, 2005 - January 8, 2006.
http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/index.shtml.

Linda Fleming (Art 1963-66) is a sculptor whose intricate drawings and large-scale wood and metal works have been exhibited nationally. Recent installations and commissions include those at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum, Stanford Museum of Art, and Nevada Art Museum. Fleming has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award and the CCA Distinguished Faculty Award. She exhibited this year in Ex-Halations at Lemmons Contemporary in NYC and in Brainstorm: Works, Ephemera, Process, at Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA. Next year, she will exhibit at Brian Gross Gallery in San Francisco. She has been on the sculpture faculty at California College of Arts and Crafts since 1986.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/6277/linda-fleming.html; http://www.briangrossfineart.com/artists/lfleming/.

Greg Weaver (BFA '74) returned to Allentown, PA after graduation where his downtown studio became a haven for artists, musicians, and poets through the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. He continued to paint, and began showing his work at the Allentown Art Museum and throughout the Lehigh Valley and at Allan Stone Gallery and other venues in NYC. He referred to his art as "urban American folk art." In the late 1980’s, he was diagnosed with diabetes and, preparing for his eventual loss of sight, began to create art blindfolded. After his death in 1994, his work remained in storage until an exhibit last year in Bethlehem, PA. An exhibit at the Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks, on view October 27 - November 23, is another tribute to the artist. http://www.bk.psu.edu/arts/exhibits.htm.

Meridith McNeal (1980-82) is Director of Education at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn. She exhibited earlier this year in Distance Made Good at Fading Ad Gallery in Brooklyn.

Carolyn Speranza (BFA '85) and Nathan Martin (BFA '99) (with Carbon Defense League) exhibited this fall in In Context at Artists Upstairs, 911 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. William Kofmehl III (BFA '02) has a solo installation, The Woes of an Aberrant Chimney Sweep and His Correctional Roofer, on the gallery's first floor through November 14. http://www.artistsupstairs.com.

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) exhibits in Visitors from the East at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City, CA, October 29 - December 3. http://www.billyshirefinearts.com.

Deborah Barkun (BFA '89) has been awarded a 2005-2006 Coleman Dowell Fellowship for Study on Experimental Works by the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. She will use the fellowship to research David Wojnarowicz's art and writings.

Nathania Vishnevsky (BFA '90) is an artist working in traditional and digital media, living in the San Francisco Bay area. She enjoys spending her free time knitting, biking and rollerblading. She received an MS in Plant Biology and an MFA in the Media Arts / Art & Technology program through The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at Ohio State University in Columbus in 1994 and 1997 respectively. She has worked as a digital lighter at Pacific Data Images/Dreamworks on films such as Antz, Shrek, Shrek 2 and Madagascar. She also produced Hood Robin (2003), a finalist in MoveOn's Bush in 30 Seconds contest. http://nathania.com/About/About.html.

Sarah Smith (BFA '91) is exhibiting in The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through December 30, 2005.

Brody Reiman (BFA '92) is the mother of 14 month old Cole and teaches at California College of Arts and Crafts. She serves on the curatorial board of Southern Exposure in San Francisco where she helped organize the exhibit, Conceptual Craft.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) exhibits in Dark Nature: Part 2 at Chashama on 112 West 44th Street in New York, opening November 4 (6-9pm) and running through November 30. http://www.chashama.org/home.php.

Dana Martinelli (BFA '93) is a Senior Interaction Designer Senior with over 10 years of professional interface design and digital arts experience at Hollywood Media Corporation in Boca Raton, Florida.
http://dana.omnio.org/.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) founded microRevolt in 2003. Its projects investigate the dawn of sweatshops in early industrial capitalism to inform the current crisis of global expansion and the feminization of labor. microRevolt developed web application knitPro, a protest tool that generates knit patterns of sweatshop offenders. She will exhibit her microRevolt projects at the SESI gallery in São Paulo, Brazil October 31 - November 20 and spoke about her work at Art Interactive in Boston on October 24.
http://www.microrevolt.org/events.htm; http://turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/10_05micro.html.

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) exhibited in Snap to the Grid at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, September 8 - October 1. http://www.lacda.com/exhibits/snaptogrid.html.

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) is exhibiting in Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem (the follow up to Freestyle). She was in Skowhegan this summer and is currently co-curating the 3rd annual Greater Philadelphia show at the Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia.

Jacob Feige (BFA '02) exhibits in Three Positions at Lombard-Fried Projects, 531 W. 26th St, October 21 through December 3. http://www.lombard-freid.com.

As part of the Penn Avenue Unblurred, Josh Atlas (BFA '05) and Edgar Um Bucholtz (BFA Class of '93) will be participating in a Video Happy Hour at Brillobox. This one night only event will be November 4th from 5-7pm. Brillobox is located at 4104 Penn Ave.

Lauren Adams (MFA class of '07), along with Camera Obscura collaborator Clare Britt, are included in a group show currently on view in the Raleigh Municipal Building in North Carolina through November 17. The work included is from the Photo-A-Go-Go series. She is also in Two for the Seesaw, a group show curated by Bill Thelen of LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC centered around the theme of 2's that opens Friday, November 11 and runs through December 24, at Branch Gallery in Carrboro, NC. http://www.branchgallery.com.

David Halsell's (MFA class of '07) audio composition, Funkenspiel, was accepted for Control Acoustics, The Zeppelin 2005 Sound Projects Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, October 19-22. http://ocaos.cccb.org/zeppelin.html.

David Tinapple and Andrew Johnson present When Pulse Becomes Pitch at A/V: Art. Sound. Space. in Rochester, NY, opening October 29, 7-10pm and running through November 13. http://AVspace.org/.

Tiffany Sum (MFA Class of '06) exhibits in the upcoming SPACE Gallery show, Small Acts, in downtown Pittsburgh. The show runs from November 11 - December 31.

On October 23rd, prints by 24 CMU School of Art undergraduate students will be on view at the Olive Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University. The exhibition, In Exchange, was organized by Ayanah Moor, Kim Beck and Greg Page (Cornell University). An upcoming exhibition of Cornell graduate student print-based work will be displayed in the University Center on November 7th.

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