Golan Levin, Assistant Professor of Art, has been invited to give an artist's talk as part of the Graduate Lecture Series Seminar at Rhode Island School of Design this month.

Suzie Silver and Hilary Harp are screening The Happiest Day, their collaborative video in the Biennale Internazionale di Ferrara, Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy.

Elaine A. King, Professor of Art History and Theory, presented the paper What Is in a Fact? at the Midwest American Art and Popular Culture Conference in Buffalo, New York. She was also the chair of the session Portraits in American Art. King was invited to give a paper, Art Criticism in a PO-PO-MO Undiscriminating Global Quagmire, at the 2004 World Congress of AICA (Association of International Critics of Art) in Taiwan on December 3, but declined because of end-of-term teaching responsibilities.

James Duesing, Professor of Art, and Paper Rad (including third year graduate student Jacob Ciocci) exhibit in Face Off, a show addressing post-millennial American culture and world politics at Ronald Feldman Gallery in NYC. http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/exhgroup/exhfaceoff.html. Duesing's animation, Tender Bodies, will be screened as part of LA Freewaves: 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media - HOW CAN YOU RESIST? in Los Angeles, November 11 - December 5, 2004. http://www.freewaves.org/artists/j_duesing/.

James Duesing and Mary Tremonte (BFA '00) are exhibiting in the 2004 Projects Exhibition at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh, December 11, 2004  through January 15, 2005 with an opening reception Saturday, December 11, from 7-9pm.

Cynthia Lammert, Facilities and Projects Manager, has several photographs in the Pittsburgh Signs Project. The Pittsburgh Signs Project comes to life with a new online exhibition of images, sounds and stories, an interactive forum exploring visual culture and a sense of place in Western Pennsylvania. http://www.pittsburghsigns.org

Jack Damer (BFA '60, MFA '65) presents the Images of Mass Deception Series at Carnegie Mellon's University Center Gallery, November 28 - December 3. Damer is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught in the print area since 1970. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and is represented in collections of the Whitney Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Damer has received many awards and honors, including a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. http://website.education.wisc.edu/jdamer/.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) is exhibiting in two group shows: Drawing Show at Robert Steele Gallery in NYC, November 18 - January 6, 2005 and 20/20 Twenty Years/Twenty Arists at Brad Cooper Gallery in Tampa, FL through January 29, 2005. She is also in a two-person show at Solomon Fine Arts, Seatte, WA, December 1 - January 21, 2005. This is a preview of her solo show there in Spring 2005. http://robertsteelegallery.com; http://www.solomonfineartinc.com; http://www.bradcoopergallery.com/Exhibitions/2004/Twenty_20/PR.html.

Sandi Seltzer Bryant (BFA '74) has solo exhibitions of new paintings at McMurtrey Gallery in Houston, January 8 - February 5, and at Cidnee Patrick Gallery in Dallas, opening February 18.

Marlena Novak (BFA '82) is screening Dancing Cranes, a work with composer Jay Alan Kim (under the collaborative name of localStyle), at the SONY Center's large LED screen in Berlin's Potzdamer Platz between November 2 and January 17. This project was curated by the Digital Art Museum of Berlin.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) is juror for Concealment; Works in Jewelry and Metal Arts, a virtual exhibition running February 11- March 18, 2005 http://www.postpicasso.com. Boris also was a juror for Red Bull Art of the Can Contest in November. http://www.redbullartofthecan.com. The Boston Globe is doing a story on Boris’ atelier in Providence, Rhode Island. Trashformations, curated by Lloyd Herman, includes his Brave neckpiece of 100 gun triggers, and is on view at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, January 15 - May 1, 2005, and travels through 2008. 1000 Rings at Velvet DaVinci Gallery in San Francisco, CA, through December 31, 2004 includes Boris’ Spring Bling Ring. This show travels to: Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ, February/March 2005; Gallery M, Cleveland, OH, June 2005 (during SNAG); and Sam Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME, Summer 2005.

Katie Grinnan (BFA '84) exhibited this fall in Real World - The Dissolving Space of Experience at Modern Art Oxford in England. http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/Exhibitions/.

Mayumi Matsuo (MFA '90) has an installation, Put Your Hand in the Air, at CASO (Contemporary Art Space Osaka) in Japan, December 1 - 12, 2004. http://www.cwo.zaq.ne.jp/caso/

Daniel Anthonisen (BFA '94) has work featured in the 15th Annual Holiday Exhibit at Travis Gallery, New Hope, PA, through December 22 with an opening reception on December 4 from 5-8 pm. http://www.travisgallery.com.

Paul Madonna (BFA '94) is a professional artist living in San Francisco who publishes his work four days a week in the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/10/PKMADONNA.DTL;
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/13/DDMADONNA.DTL;
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/26/PKMADONNA.DTL.
He has self-published 15 books in the last decade. His first book collection, to be published by Hearst productions, is due out in 2005. He had a solo exhibition of drawings this November at Newmark Gallery in downtown San Francisco. http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/firstth1104.html

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) has work published in a new book, Site Matters, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York, featuring residents from the former World Trade Center Residency from 1997-2001. At the book launch this November, the Requiem for the New Economy DVD by Patrick Meagher and Dave Shim was exhibited. Patrick is currently working on a large body of sculpture for 2005.
http://www.lmcc.net/EventsandExhibitions/Site_Matters/Site_Matters_main.html.

Paul Snelson II (BFA '96) has been promoted to Ad Production Methods and Procedures Documentation Specialist with Verizon in Irving, Texas. He has been traveling afar to Paris, New York, Washington D.C., Seattle and London and working on digital paintings in Photoshop.

Jenny Lee and Terry Young (both BFA '01) will exhibit at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, January 8 - February 20, 2005 with an opening reception on January 7, 5:30-8pm.

Jill Palermo (BFA '02) is exhibiting in Generation Art II at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, November 19 through December 23. http://www.pittsburgharts.org.

Joel Heires (BFA '02) is Lead Artist at Bearded Toad Entertainment. They are contracted by a company called Handmark who has ties with Atari. He has been involved directly in the company's last two projects, Trivial Pursuit: Mobile Edition, and Kaplan SAT/ACT Prep. http://www.beardedtoad.com.

Brooke Singer (MFA '02) exhibited in SWIPE, with Beatriz Da Costa and Jamie Schulte, this November in Database Imaginary at Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.
http://databaseimaginary.banff.org/index.php.

Krisztina Lazar (BFA '04) has been selected to be in the online Caladan Gallery's Spirit and Transformation show that runs December 1 - January 2, 2005. http://www.caladangallery.com. She has work in three Cleveland area shows:Give Peace a Chance , solo show at Paradise Gallery, Cleveland Heights, (closing reception is on December 4); the Annual Juried Show at Chagrin Art Center, November 5 - December 17; and the People's Art Show, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, November 5 - December 10.

Cassandra Jones (MFA '04) has been awarded a residency at Virginia Center for Creative Arts beginning mid-December.

Samantha Laffey (Class of '06) has several works selected for an exhibition entitled Spirit and Transformation at the online Caladan Gallery. http://www.caladangallery.com

Luke Meeken (Class of 2005) was awarded a Student Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) for his project THREE DEE: Anaglyph Heiroglyph. He will use the funds to print an edition of a book he is working on for senior project, in which the red/blue anaglyphic 3-D visual style is used to depict two narratives/worlds that exist parallel to each other in the red and blue color channels. By wearing different colored glasses, the viewer experiences the piece differently, and new connections and interactions between the narratives may be discovered.

555, a two day robotic art exhibit at Future Tenant runs December 10 and 11 and includes works by Samuel Kim, Carl Li, Nami Mun, Nick Pozek, Thomas Tolhurst, Sonia Wendorf and Rye Zupancis, all students in Professor Fabian Winkler's Robotic Art Studio class. The exhibit features a broad range of artwork that challenges the traditional idea of the robot. Based on basic analog electronics, the works show a creative approach to merging technology with sculptural elements. From things that blink to things that think, 555 invites visitors to discover unusual robots and serves as a mirror in which to see ourselves. An opening reception will take place from 6-9pm on Friday, December 10.

Seniors Ryan Murray, Justin Allison, James Sakai, and Jennifer Murray will exhibit with students from other area colleges in Educated Guess? at Future Tenant, December 17 through January 7, 2005. Educated Guess? is an exhibition that investigates new work created and produced by emerging Pittsburgh artists in an academic setting. The exhibition will feature the work of seven artists from Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh, Chatham College, and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Educated Guess? recognizes that curators are making an educated guess on those artists who have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the art world in the future. The gallery will also be open on First Night on New Year's Eve.

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