Roger Dannenberg will be a guest of The College of New Jersey, where he will lecture on his research on Wednesday, November 12, at 7:00 p.m. A concert on Friday, November 14, will feature compositions by Dannenberg, who will also perform and conduct with the College of New Jersey Jazz Ensemble.

Elaine A. King presented a paper titled, "The Power of Clothing in Portrayal," in the session "Politics of Fashion Statements," at the conference sponsored by School of the Visual Arts in New York City: Design, the Arts and the Political, Images and Words that Propagate and Dissent. Additionally she chaired the session, "Theories of Art and the Political."

Works by Golan Levin appear in YOUniverse, the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Spain, through January 11, 2009; in the Version Bêta exhibition at the Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland, through December 14; in the PLUTO Festival, October 31 - November 1, at the Nijdrop in Opwijk, Belgium; and at the Western Australian Museum, in the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth, Australia, as part of the Experimenta Playground National Tour in association with the 2008 AWESOME International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things, November 8 - January 27, 2009. http://www.fundacionbiacs.com/biacs3/; http://www.centreimage.ch/; http://pluto-festival.be/; http://www.experimenta.org/playground-touring/

Richard Pell is exhibiting "The Hall of Transgenic Organisms of New York State" which is part of his Center for PostNatural History project at the Schenectady Museum of Science and Technology from November 1 - January 30, 2009. The project is supported through grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller New Media Fellowship.

Melissa Ragona guest curates PREDRIVE: After Technology, on view at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, November 14 - March 22, 2009. An opening reception will be held on November 14 starting at 7:00 p.m. PREDRIVE is a commissioned exhibition of new works by five international artists, exploring themes of lo-fi digital effects/dysfunctions, ready-made cyber-kitsch, software aesthetics, and the performativity of digital environments in real space. Artists include Takeshi Murata, Brody Condon, Paperrad (Jacob Ciocci, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, MFA ‘05), Gretchen Skogerson, and Antoine Catala. HEAVY LIGHT, an evening of video and performance, is the kick-off event for PREDRIVE on Saturday, November 8 at 8:00 p.m. at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Curated by Takeshi Murata, HEAVY LIGHT features a number of NYC-based filmmakers, including new work from Murata, Yoshi Sodeoka, Ben Jones, Devin Flynn, Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker, Eric Fensler, Ara Peterson and Dave Fischer, Melissa Brown and Siebren Versteeg, Billy Grant, and LIVE performances by Robert Beatty and Nate Boyce. A selection of work by local filmmakers will also be shown. Ragona lectures at the TATE MODERN in London on filmmaker Marie Menken for their program called, "An Arabesuqe for Marie Menken" on November 15 & 16. This weekend of screenings presents a selection of films rarely seen in Britain and considers the legacy of a filmmaker who is still better known for her influence on other filmmakers (Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger) than for her own inventive work. http://www.mattress.org; http://www.3rff.com/3rff_08/listing.html#heavylight; http://www.tate.org.uk

Stephanie Syjuco (Fall 2008 Kraus Visiting Assistant Professor of Art) has a three-channel video work, "Body Double (Platoon/Apocalypse Now/Hamburger HIll)," included in the exhibition FUTURAMANILA at Osage Gallery Singapore through January 11, 2009. A new work, "Labor Relations (Craftsman Redux: After Stickley, After Morris)," is included in This End Up, at the San Jose Museum of Art, opening November 7 in San Jose, CA. She will be a visiting artist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from November 13-14, and recently had works published in Orion Magazine.

Andy Warhol (A '49) is featured in two concurrent exhibits at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY, both opening February 15. Andy Warhol: Snapshots runs through June 15, 2009 and features 150 photographs taken by the artist at different stages in his career. Andy Warhol: Pop Politics runs through April 26, 2009 and displays together for the first time more than sixty of Warhol¹s paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs of political figures. http://www.neuberger.org/exhibitions.php?type=upcoming

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) has work included in Perverted by Theater, a group show curated by Franklin Evans and Paul David Young at apexart in NYC currently on view through December 6. http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/evansyoung.htm/

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) presents Co+Ordinates, a solo show at the Trout Gallery at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, through January 10, 2009. http://www.dickinson.edu/trout/

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) had a metalpoint drawing enter the collection of The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. http://www.susanschwalb.com/

Thomas J. Norulak's (BFA '71) recent exhibitions include Landscapes Nearby-Screenprints by Tom Norulak at The Art Loft in Mt. Lebanon, PA, November 7 - January 9, 2009; 2 etchings in Altered States Pittsburgh Print Group exhibit, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, November 14 - January 25, 2009; 2 etchings in Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Biennial, Loretto, PA, November 7 - February 7, 2009; and 1 screenprint in Southwestern Pennsylvania Council for the Arts at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Ligonier, PA.

Joel Abramson (BFA '78) exhibited his piece "The Guthrie" in the 2008 Minnesota State Fair Juried Fine Art Exhibition. Abramson is a House Portrait artist and excepting House Portrait commissions for the 2008 Holiday Season.

Margery Amdur (BFA '79) presents Bloom, a solo show at Projects Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, through November 15. http://www.projectsgallery.com/currentshow.html

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) presents a solo exhibit, From the Inside Looking Out, at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, PA, November 1 - December 20. http://www.galleryjoe.com/

Christopher Anselmo Priore (BFA '81) is pursuing an MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design and was selected for the Off-Campus Summer Program in Europe last summer. He traveled through Germany and Italy and studied installation art in Lacoste, France where he created installations of hair growing out of the ancient walls, accompanied by photographs and a film. He exhibits drawings from his travel sketchbooks this fall at the Painting Department's Open Studio in Savannah, GA.

Carol Mallett Adelman (BFA '82), after receiving an MFA from the University of Washington, held visiting faculty positions around the country for the last 10 years in addition to maintaining her own studio practice as a painter. In 2007 she was appointed Curator and Manager of the Kittredge Gallery, a venue for contemporary art in the Pacific Northwest, at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. She continues to teach at the University of Washington on a visiting lecturer basis and work as a painter. http://caroladelman.blogspot.com; http://www.ups.edu/kittredge.

Daniel Mark Duffy's (BFA '87) paintings and drawings will be included in two group exhibitions in Ireland, November, December and January: Davy Portrait Awards at Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 2008; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibiton, Dublin Ireland, November 10 - December 13; and Davy Portrait Awards Farmleigh House, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, January 2009.

Laura Karetzky (BFA '87) presents AWOL, a solo show at Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, through November 29. http://www.loraschlesinger.com

Jeffery Konisberg's (BFA '91) work in the group show, Outpost, at Johansson Projects was reviewed by Kenneth Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/11/DDAM13BMVT.DTL&type=printable

Fred Baxter (BFA '92) has been living in Los Angeles, CA, for 12 years working in the animation industry on TV pilots and treatments such as South Park and Jimmy Neutron, and visual development and create shows for smaller animation studios in the LA area. His animated short film "Wind" has been shown at the MOMA, NYC, and the Pompiduo Center in France. He recently relocated to Pittsburgh, PA, and continues to freelance. http://homepage.mac.com/smaxter/PhotoAlbum34.html

Stephanie Serpick (BFA '93) exhibited paintings this summer in Unpainted: Recent Abstract Painting at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, IL. She also exhibits in One Moment at Indiana University's School of Fine Art's Gallery in Bloomington, IA, which opened on October 17. http://www.thomasrobertello.com/exhibition/view/915; http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/

Daniel Anthonisen (BFA '94) has a solo exhibit, River Alchemy, at Travis Gallery in New Hope, PA, November 8-29. http://www.travisgallery.com/

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) exhibited this fall in Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY. http://www.cepagallery.org/

Arden Bendler Browning (BFA '97) has a solo show, Urban Reef, at The Painted Bride in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibit opens November 7, with a second reception on December 5, and runs through December 20. The exhibit is curated and sponsored by Inliquid. Arden also has a drawing included in the Main Line Art Center's Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition November 7-26, curated by William Pym. http://www.paintedbride.org/site10001/1001418/explore.cfm?M=127&SM=&SC=100343&W=M&P=N&S=1001418&U=1&SS=1; http://www.mainlineart.org/event_detail.php?id=11

Richard Pell and Cat Mazza (both BFA '99) received Recent Alumni Achievement Awards at the 2008 Alumni Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Mellon. http://www.cmu.edu/alumni/find/awards.html

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) participated in Bring Your Own: Voices of the Contemporary at the Carpenter Center on the topic of "Making Craft Matter: Feminism and Politics in Handmade Art" at Harvard University on October 22. Her work will appear in Take Action! at the Museum of World Culture in Göteborg, Sweden, opening January 17, 2009. http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/BYO.html; http://www.varldskulturmuseet.se/smvk/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=863&a=11282

Mitzi Pederson's (BFA '99) show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, was reviewed by Melissa E. Feldman in the November issue of Art in America.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) recently exhibited in 7a*11d: International Festival of Performance Art from October 22 - November 2 at XPACE, Toronto, Canada.From November 12-15 she will give a live performance at Future of Imagination 5: International Performance Art Festival at the Sculpture Square, Singapore.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) is a featured artist in The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers in the Logan Galleries on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts, currently on view through August 29, 2009. Participating artists rotate from being part of the group show to a solo presentation. Coffin will speak on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. with his solo show running through May 2. Coffin has also recently been invited to participate in Art Unlimited at Art Basel 39, June 10-14, 2009. He also exhibits in The Possibility of an Island at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, FL, December 4 ­ March 21, 2009. http://www.mocanomi.org/schedule.htm; http://www.cca.edu/about/press/2008/tefka_passengers_wattis; http://www.wattis.org/

David Stern-Gottfried (BFA '01), a muralist who has produced art for such companies as Lucas Studios, worked with local students to transform Santa Rosa¹s coliseum into a semblance of Lonesome George, the famous Galapagos tortoise at the Charles Darwin Station that is the last of his species. He and his girlfriend, Erin, are Deputy Field Organizers for Barack Obama's campaign. http://galapagosice.org/news/page/2/; http://www.davesg.com/

Carrie Schneider (BHA '01) recently exhibited in Tense Territories at santralistanbul, Istanbul through October 30 and is currently holding a solo exhibition at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL, through December 6. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, January 22 - May 17, 2009.

Jake Feige (BFA '02) presents After Dense Fog, a solo exhibit at Lombard Fried in NYC, November 20 - January 10, 2009, and also currently exhibits in Fracture and Fidelity at the Memorial Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design. This past year his work has been included in shows at the Orlando Museum of Art, Taylor de Cordoba Gallery in Los Angeles, and Rule Gallery, in Denver. http://www.lombard-freid.com/

Brooke Singer (MFA '02) co-developed an application that won a $100,000 contract from the NY State Energy Research and Development Authority for SUNY Purchase to expand and redesign its online ride-sharing and mobile phone software program. http://www.westchester.com/Westchester_News/Schools/Purchase_College_To_Expand_Ride-Sharing_Program_200806139905.html

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) presented in the October 4 Public Memories/Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University and again in an October 16 panel called "Engaging the Public: New Media and Communities" at the Oral History Association Conference at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Starting October 26, her audio documentary and performance "Red Crystal Palace" will be broadcast for the Outer Ear Festival of Sound at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, IL.
http://www.fereshteh.net/projects/red_crystal.html; http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/outer-ear/

Jeffrey Augustine Songco (BFA '05) will be exhibiting in the show AGENDA: Queering Popular Media at Current Gallery in Baltimore, MD. The group show, curated by Jamillah James for Frontier Projects, will run from November 14 - December 5. Several of Jeffrey's pieces will be shown, including his work titled "Dream Captcha," which was an overnight Internet sensation last month. Google "Dream Captcha" to learn more. http://www.currentspace.com.

Adam Davies (MFA '05) has been awarded a 2009 residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX.

Takehito Etani (MFA '06) performs in Crosscut: 2008 Humane Slaughter Acts Festival at Slaughterhouse Space on November 16 in Healdsburg, CA. http://www.slaughterhousespace.com/

William Cravis (MFA '06) exhibited this summer in Site Specifics at Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY and earlier this year in the Ohio University School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Kennedy Museum, Athens. He participated in Project Green this summer through the Worthington Arts Center, OH. http://www.islipartmuseum.org/pdf/IslipSiteSpecifics08Catalogue.pdf

Julia Stein aka Juliacks (BHA '08) exhibited at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, CA, November 1 & 2.

Michael Mallis' (BFA '08) animation "Natural Selection" will be showing at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Melwood Screening Room on November 14 at 9:30 p.m. as apart of the Three Rivers Film Festival shorts program. On Novemer 22 he will be showing a video in the Pittsburgh Reframed (at 250) screening at Pittsburgh Filmmaker's Regent Square along with 19 other Pittsburgh-based artists.

Michelle Fried (MFA '08) participated in the 3rd annual Public Domain Private Dominion, a Pittsburgh creative commons video competition and screening on November 2 at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The event featured short videos by local artists who were given a selection of public domain films which they were permitted to alter in any way possible, using only the source material, to make their own distinct videos.

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) spent the month of October at the Korpúlfsstaðir artist residency on the outskirts of Reykjavik and will spend the next two months downtown at the Seljavegur artist residency (both through the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists). He has been accepted to the Nes artist residency in Skagaströnd for January and February 2009 and the Skaftfell artist residency in Seyðisfirði for March 2009. His work is currently included in a group video exhibition Sonic Youth at the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College, Old Westbury, NY currently on view through November 25, and originally exhibited at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. "Street With a View," Kinsley's collaboration with Robin Hewlett (BFA '04) and the Google Inc. Street View team, is now available online.http://www.greenonredgallery.com/exhibition.php?intProjectID=71; http://www.streetwithaview.com; http://ameriskur.blogspot.com; http://www.benkinsley.com

John Pena (MFA '08) is currently on Fulbright in Columbia, South America, and recently published a short graphic novel, "On The Chronology of Time, Intimacy, & One Legged Carrier Pigeons", a collection of handwritten short stories about many of the people he has have met over his life. The book is available for $13 through LuLu, http://www.lulu.com/content/3066477.

Ally Reeves (MFA '08) solo show, Falling In, is currently on view at the American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, through December 15. Falling In launches the AJM's new season, Love/Fences/Nests: Projects by Ally Reeves, Ben Schachter and Anna Divinsky. The artists will each participate consecutively in a three-month residency presenting multi-media installations that result from collaborations with community members. They will set up studios in the AJM gallery and complete their installations while working in the museum. Falling In is a synergistic happening between Reeves and members of the community. During the first phase of the exhibition, participants shared their stories about falling in love, which Reeves then transforms into illustrations and animations as the basis for the exhibition; a synthesis of low-tech social engagement, new media techniques, performance and installation.

SHMIKEA GRAND OPENING! occurs Friday, November 7, from 7:00-10:00 p.m. at the Frame Gallery. SHMIKEA is a a three-day celebration and store extravaganza… because style never goes out of style! Store hours are November 8 & 9 from noon-6:00 p.m. Bring cash or check! Sponsored by: Carolyn Clayton (BFA '09), Keilah Boyles (BFA '10), Claudia Jowitt (BFA '10), David Lasky (BHA '09), Paul Rouphail (BFA '10), Ahilapalapa Rands (BFA '10), Audrey Moyer (BFA '09), Morgan Sanders (BFA '09), Eve Dan (BFA '09), David Wright, and Stephanie Syjuco. SHMIKEA is a project by the Material Worlds: Contemporary Sculpture & The Social Life of Objects Advanced SIS class in the School of Art. On Friday, November 14, there will be an opening reception from 7:00-10:00 p.m. for Elizabeth Raymer: Alternative Photography/Color Photography. And on Friday, November 21 POTLUCK V, a project between Carolyn Clayton and Art in General, NYC, opens with a reception from 7:00-10:00 p.m. http://www.artingeneral.org/projects/441; http://www.cmu.edu/theframe

For information on making a gift to the School of Art, please contact: Wayne Savage, school of Art Business Manager: 412-268-8180, email: ws2p@andrew.cmu.edu.