Elaine A. King gave a public lecture in Corciano, Italy on "Shifts in Portraits: Technology and Social Change," on October 2 as part of American University's Art and Issues series.

James Duesing and Suzie Silver (with Hilary Harp) participate in the 19th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival at the new 3LD Art & Technology Center at MIX NYC in New York, November 8-13, http://www.mixnyc.org.

James Duesing's animation, "Tender Bodies", will be shown at The Museum of Modern Art in one of two programs of Animation and Special Effects on Sunday, November 19. He will also participate on a panel on the topic that same day at the museum. The programs are part of the the museums celebration of the Black Maria Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary film series, November 18-22. "Oral Fixations", a 7 hour animated installation produced by James Duesing and Jessica Hodgins (School of Computer Science) along with alums Mo Mahler and Bum Lee and current MFA student David Tinapple, will be exhibited at the 3LD Art & Technology Center as part of the Mix Festival on view November 8-13. An archival copy of Duesing's animation, "Law of Averages", was recently purchased by Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis MN for their collection,http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2006/black_maria.html; http://www.mixnyc.org/ .

Ayanah Moor presents at "African Impression/ Contemporary Art", a series of three symposia at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, on November 7. Moor also exhibited recent work at Wellesley College during its Women in Hip Hop symposium in October.

Christopher Sperandio is hard at work on another TV project that he can't talk about. In October he presented his work at Seattle University and at Dorkbot Pittsburgh. Grennan and Sperandio will participate in the exhibition Merch and Promo, a first look at some artists and collectives who have been considering their work (or complementing it) as a brand, business, product or manufactured object or as being directly related to advertising, the media and sales and marketing strategies since the 1990s. Merch and Promo will be exhibited at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Spain. The Grennan and Sperandio film "Hopes, Fears, 20 Years" will be screened at Cornerhouse in Manchester, England, from October 21 - November 3.

Tessa Windt gave a presentation on her recent work at the conference "Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory", held October 27 - 29 in Woodcliff, New Jersey. Her work will be included in Gestures at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA from November 10 - January 7, 2007, and Misdemeanor at SPACES in Cleveland, OH from November 17 - January 5, 2007.

Pamela Jennings was an external critic for mid-semester graduate student reviews at the Rhode Island of School of Design Digital Media program. Jennings gave a talk on funding and curricular models for supporting research in creative digital media in the university setting at the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (NSF CISE) as part of the workshop "Synergies Between Creativity and Information Technology, Science, Engineering, and Design: Defining a Research Emphasis". Jennings is a member of the technical program committee for the 2007 SIGCHI ACM Tangible and Embedded Interaction conference. She is also curator of the exhibition Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary to be held in the gallery of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., summer 2007.

Melissa Ragona has written the main catalogue essay for the German Artists Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter entitled, "TransLOCATIONS: The Work of Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter". Ragona's essay accompanies the artists' major installation/performance at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Die Metareflektor-Luftoffensive, Expedition an einen der sichersten Orte der Welt, or in English: The Meta-reflector Air Offensive: an Expedition to one of the Safest Places in the World. Their installation, built as a faux second-floor in the Kunsthalle, explores issues of "exhibition," "collection," and "high art." Ragona's essay extends Genth and Mutter's critical conceit that galleries and art museums have become much too complacent, indeed, much too safe for edgy, challenging art. The catalogue was designed by Ingo Offermanns, Designer and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Hamburg University, http://www.phaenomedia.org/.

Mary Weidner’s painting “Until the Visit Ends” was included in Art of the State at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrrisburg, June 10-September 10, and was cited by Victoria Donohoe “State exhibit has talent to spare,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 16, 2006. Weidner currently has work in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 96th Annual Exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art October 27 - January 15, 2007, juried by Douglas Fogle curator of the upcoming Carnegie International.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) and Harvey Breverman (BFA '56) have drawings included in By Any Means at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, November 12 - January 7, 2007, http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/exhsch06.html.

Elizabeth Asche Douglas (MFA '51) currently has a solo show, A Baker's Dozen: 13 Recent Works by Elizabeth Asche Douglas, in the Gathering Room of Cafe Kolache, Beaver, PA, through January 7, 2007. Her work will also be on view in the juried 70th Area Artists Annual at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, from November 30 - December 30. She was recently featured in the juried exhibitions: In Our House: Interpretations of African American Culture, Women of Visions, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, September 8 - October 21 and First Fruit X, at Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA, September 15 - October 7. Recent awards include "Best of Show" in the Aliquippa Festival of Arts, in September for As Time Goes By: Reflections on August Wilson's Jitney, an installation piece originally created for August in February show at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery; and "Service to the Arts" of the Guild Council of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, to be awarded at the Winter Solstice Celebration on December 22.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) exhibits in Elemental Form, a group show at L&M Arts in New York City, October 19 - December 9, http://www.lmgallery.com.

Patricia Barnett (MFA '63) currently serves as the Chief Librarian of the Frick Collection in New York City.

Jonathan Borofsky (BFA ‘64) presents Human Structures, a solo exhibit at Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, November 2 - December 23, http://www.deitch.com/home.htm.

Katherine "Kay" Morgan (BFA '67) exhibits her photopgraphy in the Parker Playhouse Fine Art Gallery for the venue's opening season. Her work also appears in the Boca Raton Museum of Art as a signature member of the Artist's Guild's present exhibition BLUE MOVES which opened on October 7. Her first solo show, ...how katy sees, at the Aquarian Age Gallery in Boca Raton, will be on view from the end of October through December and into the new year 2007.

Paul Zelevansky (BFA '67) participates in "Too Much Freedom? LA Freewaves 10th Celebration of Experimental Media Arts," a Los Angeles festival that re-examines freedom and its consequences with film, video and new media exploring a multiplicity of cultural values, including artistic invention, political experience and human need, http://freewaves.org/festivals.htm.

Dara Birnbaum (A '69) exhibits in Video: An Art, a History, 1965-2005, New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou at Miami Art Central in Florida, September 20 - December 10, http://www.miamiartcentral.org.

Peter Stanick, (BFA '75), is featured with a cover story in the November issue of DG: Design + Creative Culture Magazine, http://www.stanick.com/DG/DGcover.jpg.

Diane Samuels (BFA’70, MFA '76) presents a solo exhibit at Kim Foster Gallery in New York City from October 28 - December 9. She also recently completed Lines of Sight, a commission for Brown University's new hall for life sciences in Providence, Rhode Island, http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-029.html; http://www.artnet.com/kfoster.html.

Carol Sue Lebbin (BFA '70) exhibits paintings in a two-person show that opened October 5 at University of Maryland University College's Inn and Conference Center in Adelphi, Maryland, http://www.umuc.edu/art/lion_and_lebbin/index.shtml.

James Welling (BFA '71) has exhibited photographs this year at Xavier Hufkens Gallery in Brussels, Belgium; Wako Works of Art in Shinjuku, Japan; Galerie Nelson in Paris, France; and Donald Young Gallery in Chicago.

Tom Norulak ('71) is featured in Interior/Exterior, a show of contemporary printmaking sponsored by the Pittsburgh Print Group to be held at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, opening November 16.

Barbara Strasen (BFA '72) had a solo exhibit at George Billis Gallery (BFA '88) in Culver City, California this fall,
http://georgebillis.com/galleryLA.html.

Rise Nagin (BFA '72) presents paintings and collaborative multimedia work in Rise Nagin : New Works at Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, opening Friday, November 10 from 5:30-7:30pm. The show will run through January 13, 2007, http://www.artsfestival.net/gallery.html.

Joel Abramson (BFA '78) specializes in pen-and-ink commission house portraits. He is currently working on watercolor paintings of historic buildings along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Greg Kwiatek (BFA '79) exhibited paintings in Super Natural, a three-person show in October at Fordham University's Center Gallery, New York City.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) was George Mason University's first 2006-2007 Professional Lecture Series Distinguished Visiting Artist, on campus in Fairfax, Virginia, as resident artist from October 23-27. Her work is also featured online at inliquid: http://www.inliquid.com/features/features.php; http://www.gmu.edu/cfa/pressroom/view.php?id=216.

Meridith McNeal (1980-82) is exhibiting in Southern Trees Bare Strange Fruit in the Skylight Gallery at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn, September 21 ­ November, http://www.restorationplaza.org/Calendar.htm.

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) presented a solo exhibit of works on paper through November 3 at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina and another at East Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, November 2 - December 21. His work is also in the following group exhibits: Lasting Impressions at University of Richmond Museums in Virginia through December 8; and The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund: The First Three Years at George Washington University's Luther W. Brady Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., November 9 through January 27, 2007, http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~storyteller/NEWS/NEWS-benjand-2006-8-17-8-17-0.shtml; http://www.easternct.edu/depts/akus/;
http://www.gwu.edu/~bradyart/brady/exhibitions.html.

Marlena Novak (BFA '82) co-authored an article, "Evolving the Artists-Technologist" for the June issue of Computer, the flagship magazine of the IEEE Computer Society. She exhibits through localStyle (with collaborators Jay Alan Yim and Ian Horswill) in Structural Elements: Selected Chicago New Media Artists in Chicago, October 13 - 28, http://www.chicagocityarts.org/newmediaart; http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/co/&toc=comp/mags/co/2006/06/r6toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MC.2006.193.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) exhibits in The Necklace Show at Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA, November 1 - December 31. The show celebrates the publication of 500 Necklaces by Lark Books this Fall, http://www.velvetdavinci.com.

John Currin (BFA ‘84) presents a solo exhibit at Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, November 11 - December 22, http://www.gagosian.com/home.htm.

Diane Thodos (BFA '85) had her first museum exhibit of paintings and prints entitled Turbulent Times:The Expressionist Art of Diane Thodos at the Koehnline Museum in Des Plaines, Illinois, this year. She was also a 2002 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for the same work and is currently represented by the Paule Friedland & Alex Rivault Gallery in Paris, France, among others, http://web.mac.com/dianethodos/iWeb//Site/Upcoming%20Exhibits.html; http://www.dianethodos.com.

Allison Safford (BDFA '88) exhibits in Intersections: Sculpture and Installation from Distinguished Massachusetts Artists at Open Square Gallery in Holyoke, Massachusetts, October 2 - November 18, http://www.opensquare.com .

Doug Goldsmith (MFA '88) has been a professional illustrator and painter since 1981. Some of his clients include the National Geographic Society, US Gypsum Corporation, Cleveland Magazine, East Ohio Gas Company, TRW and Duck Brand Duck Tape. Currently Doug is working for Smart Bomb Interactive in Salt Lake City, Utah, creating visual concepts for the Snoopy vs. Red Barron digital game produced by Namco to be released in 2006. He has exhibited his paintings throughout Ohio including the Butler Institute of American Art. He also exhibits in Maine and Long Island, New York. He has taught Color Theory and Illustration at Kent State University since 1988, receiving the Outstanding Teaching Award in 1996, and wo Graduate Applause awards in addition to being nominated for Who’s Who amoung university college professors, http://www.douglasgoldsmith.com.

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) participateed in several events this October: the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours: 837 League Street Studios on October 14-15; Works on Paper: Annual Juried Exhibition at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, NJ, October 1-29; and From the Studio 3: POST at Benoliel Gallery in Philadelphia, September 28 - October 25th; and Dear Fleisher: 4x6 Inches of Art at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, also in Philadelphia on October 15, http://www.philaopenstudios.com; http://www.perkinscenter.org/; http://www.fleisher.org/.

David Yu (BFA '89) presents Epifania, a solo exhibit of paintings and prints (with graphic design by Carolina de Bartolo, CFA '89) at the Cupping Room in Soho that opened October 10. For more info email davidyufineart@gmail.com.

Kurt Shaw (BFA' 89) exhibits in Menage a Trois: Three Visions at Mendelson Gallery in Pittsburgh, on view November 3 - November 25.

Zachary Oxman (BFA '90) participated in the American Craft Council 2006 Baltimore Craft Show at the Baltimore Convention Center last February, http://82.165.243.105/baltimore2006/artist.php?id=757&gid=8.

James Thurman (BFA '90), Assistant Director of the Penn State School of Visual Arts and Assistant Professor of Art, has received the 2006 Award for Excellence in Academic Advising, http://live.psu.edu/story/17621.

Suzanne Lambert Ruley (BFA '91) graduated with her Master in Arts in Arts Administration from Goucher College in August 2006.

Katie Grinnan (BFA '92) has work from her recent solo exhibit at ACME Gallery reproduced and discussed in "Opening Salvos in L.A." by Michael Duncan in the November issue of "Art in America." She will also exhibit in The Rise and Fall at the Pomona College Art Museum from November 5 - December.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) has a solo exhibit at Big Orbit in Buffalo, NY, opening on November 11 from 8-11pm. The exhibition will run until December 23 and features a companion catalogue with essays by Kenneth Bendiner, Carolyn Korsmeyer and Donald Kuspit.

Yaalieth Simpson (BFA '93) has taken a one year visiting post at Florida State University's Art Education department within the School of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance from August 2006 to May 2007 teaching arts administration courses and also art education courses to masters and doctoral students. Previously she had taught art, art history and museum studies at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia (2004-5), worked part time at Alvin Ailey as an assistant to the Director of Merchandising (fashion, accessory, desscode and memorabilia), and studied Dunham dance Technique.

Gary Breslin (BFA '95), Creative Director of Panoptic, an artist's collective and video production company headquartered in New York, presented his "panoptic: nightwatch" video this March in the 10th Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art and Media in Sheffield, UK, http://www.panoptic.org/.

Arden Bendler Browning (BFA '97) exhibited last spring in the Works on Paper 2006 at Arcadia University Art Gallery in Glenside, PA, http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/gallery/archives/worksonpaper2006.htm.

Seldon Yuan (BHA '98) will be participating in the Hunter MFA Open Studios on Friday, November 17, from 6-11pm at Hunter MFA Building, 450 West 41st New York, NY 10036.

Matt Keegan (BFA '98), a member of the artist curatorial team, Public Holiday Products, organized Bunch Alliance and Dissolve at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, November 17 - January 14, 2007, http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/aboutus/press/2007season.html.

Nick Fox-Gieg (BFA '99) was awarded a 2007 Fulbright for an animation and composition project at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands. He also presented "A Good Joke" at the Ottawa Animation Festival this September.

Kate Temple (BFA 99) has a solo exhibit, The Year Series, at Digging Pitt Gallery in Pittsburgh, with a closing reception Saturday, November 4, from 6-9pm, http://www.diggingpitt.com/temple-port.htm.

Ricardo Miranda-Zuñiga (MFA '99) exhibited this February in Russia: Significant Other, curated by Olga Kopenkina at The National Center for Contemporary Art at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. His work was covered by Hans Westerman in the ACM Siggraph May Newsletter, the June 6 issue of the German Newspaper, "die tageszeitung" and the March 30 issue of the Spanish newspaper, "El Pais." For links to all: http://www.ambriente.com.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) is a 2006 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Award Winner. She exhibited in Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton this summer at new Langton Arts in San Francisco. She also has a solo exhibit, Sunset on the Moon currently on view at Duchess in Chicago, October 28 - December 13, www.duchesspresents.com; http://www.sfmoma.org/press/pressroom.asp?id=278&do=recent; http://www.newlangtonarts.org/view_event.php?category=Gallery&archive=&&eventId=311.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) will present her work in the following exhibitions in Tokyo this month: Mind Vitamin at SuperDeluxe on November 17, Flo-Union at Pink Cow on November 1, and Live-Streaming: Tokyo+Seoul+Kwanju at Musashino Art University on November 25.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) is a New York artist and founder of microRevolt which is responsible for a series of art projects that combine knitting, machines, and digital social networks to educate about the sweatshop crisis. microRevolt projects have exhibited as part of the 2005 Performa Biennial in NYC, Futuresonic in Manchester UK, FILE in São Paulo and received a "Digital Communities" award at Ars Electronica. Her 2006 Turbulence Commission: Knitoscope Testimonies is the first web based video using "Knitoscope" software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation. The work has been reviewed in MIT Press, the Eyebeam Journal, Knit Knit, Financial Times Deuschland, and Bust Magazine. Mazza conducted a LogoKnit Workshop this October at Dundee Contemporary Arts in the United Kingdom. She will be a resident artist and will have a solo exhibit at ThreeWalls in Chicago from November 30 - January 12, 2007, http://www.three-walls.org/index.php; http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/2006_03.html.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) has works in two new print editions presented by Andrew Kreps Gallery. One is a limited edition artwork by Coffin in collaboration with the Sculpture Center; the other is a limited edition to benefit LEGION, a project by Lisa Kirk. Edition previews are at 525 W. 22nd Street on November 1, 6:30-8pm and November 9, 6-8pm, http://www.andrewkreps.com.

Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00), will show her video SURvivors as part of OPTICA ‘06: GIJON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VIDEO ART, taking place in Spain between November 11 – 17. Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, is one of the first festivals of its kind in Spain, and at the same time is among the cultural events in Asturias which attracts the most media attention. “The Festival, organized by the art collective /Interferencias/, offers a forum for interchange and promotion that encourages an encounter with visual experimentation at an international level". She will also participate in the 14th Chilean International Short Film Festival, November 9-15, and Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Film Festival, November 2-16, http://www.opticafestival.com/index.htm; http://www.festivalcortometrajes.cl/noticias.php; http://www.3rff.com; http://www.carolinaloyolagarcia.net.

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) exhibits in Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, a show curated by Shinique Smith at The Proposition in New York City, November 2 - December 2. She was awarded a 2006-07 two-month residency at the Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, http://www.theproposition.com/index.html; http://www.sculpturespace.org/.

Todd Pavlisko (MFA '02) exhibited in Bearable Lightness?Likeness, a group show curated by Franklin Sirmans at P.S.1 MOMA in New York that closed October 9. He also exhibited this summer in The Classic Manner of Inclusion at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago, reviewed in the Chicago edition of "Daily Candy." http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/content/view/193/63/; http://www.dailycandy.com/article.jsp?ArticleId=23248&city=5.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) publishes an interview, "The High Art of Community Building: A Conversation With Jeffrey Dorsey," (BFA '94) in the new online Pittsburgh Art Review at http://www.pittsburghartreview.org/reviews/show/4.

Chung Cho (MFA '03) exhibited this summer in Parasite Services. 1.0 at Artpsace Hue at Art Center NABI in Seoul, Korea, http://www.parasite-tmn.org/parasite-services.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) is currently in a show called BEAST at Finesilver Gallery in Houston, TX, open through November 4. She also screened a video in FLEX The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival at the WARPHaus Gallery, University of Florida's College of Fine Arts, on Friday, November 3.

Kazumi Itoh (exchange '04) will participate in a group exhibition from November 23 - December 10 at Kasugai City Forum (municipal gallery) in Kasugai City, Aichi prefecture, Japan. This exhibition consists of selected students from three fine arts universities: Nagoya Zokei University Art & Design, Nagoya University of Art, and Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art & Music. Faculty from all three universities and the Kasugai City Cultural Foundation will serve as the judging committee. Kazumi will also present a talk on November 23 and will provide a workshop of Japanese-style painting on December 9 in conjunction with the show.

Mario Marzan (MFA '05) will exhibit in in the Art on Paper Biennial at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, running from November 12 - January 21, 2007.

Ruth Stanford (MFA '05) had her ongoing installation, What Remains, at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh reviewed by Leigh Anne Miller in the October issue of "Art in America."

Josh Atlas (BFA '05), having completed the 2006 national The Black Factory Tour with William Pope. L, is working as the receptionist at Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York City where alumna Natalia Mager is Director.

Ruth Stanford's (MFA '05) work "In the Dwelling-House" at the Mattress Factory was reviewed in the October issue of Art in America. Ruth is currently exhibiting at the University of Texas at Austin Creative Research Laboratory.

Carolyn Lambert and Fereshteh Toosi (both MFA '05) will present a joint exhibition at Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand apids, Michigan, December 8 - March 9, 2007. The exhibit concentrates on an interdisciplinary, dialogic art practice grounded in audience participation in non-traditional venues such as buses or sidewalks, http://www.uica.org/.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA '05, with Paper Rad) presents Paper Rad: The Game, a solo exhibit at Green on Red Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, October 20 through November 18 with a performance and preview on October 19, 6-8pm. On November 11, Paper Rad will present their work as part of a discussion panel at Illustration Today: A Symposium on the State of the Art, hosted by Parson's School of Design, http://www.greenonredgallery.com/.

Cheryl Casteen (MFA '06) received an Individual Artist Grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council in Minnesota. She currently has work on display in the Department of Art Faculty Exhibition at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she is teaching 3-D Design as an adjunct in the Art Department. Casteen also works as Gallery and Performance Coordinator at the Arts Center of Saint Peter, Minnesota . She has acted as curator for the Arts Center's current show, Mix it Up: an invitational exhibit by students and recent graduates of Gustavus Adolphus College and Minnesota State University, Mankato, which runs from October 19 - November 12, http://www.artscentersp.org .

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