Lowry Burgess has an essay on the Prophetic Purpose of High Ancient Greek Geomantic and Psychomantic Science at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in Sky Art published by MIT Press. This is from a conference held in Delphi, Greece 3 years ago.

Elaine A. King presented a paper, Social Responsibility--Ethics, Arts, Technology, at the
international philosophy congress of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum that was held at the Ringling School of Art and Design. She also was a consultant for the Ringling School of Art and Design's strategic committee for their 5-year Quality Enhancement Plan for cross-disciplinary instruction.

Bob Bingham, Kathryn Sitter (BFA '87), Carolina Loyola Garcia (MFA '00) and graduate students Ally Reeves and Tiffany Sum exhibit among others in Small Acts at SPACE Gallery, November 11 through December 31. http://www.spacepittsburgh.org/flash.html.

Christopher Sperandio lectured at Virginia Commonwealth University on November 8 as part of L3FT B3H1ND, a collaborative project with graduate students in VCU's Photography and Film Department. Visit http://www.l3ftb3h1nd.com to participate in the project. The work of Christopher Sperandio and Simon Grennan is featured as part of the new book, WHAT WE WANT IS FREE: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, edited by Ted Purves and published by SUNY Press. Grennan and Sperandio's latest comic book, commissioned by English Heritage, Out of the Dark, tells five stories that span history in the east of England, where 2000 years of people and events collide. The book launched in Thetford, UK on November 16.

Golan Levin and alumnus Andy Warhol (A'49) have works presented in a two-part series, Busy Signals: Telephonic Art in Motion, at Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA. Organized by Steve Seid, the programs occur on November 16 and 30.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/busysig/index.html.

Fabian Winkler is currently exhibiting mprojects-IV, at the Mirko Mayer Gallery in Cologne, Germany, through December 17. http://www.mirkomayer.com.

Ayanah Moor was co-organizer of the Pittsburgh Hip Hop Film Festival, featuring over a dozen independent hip hop films. Part of the festival's mission aimed to share with Pittsburgh and surrounding communities the socially conscious substance of Hip Hop culture as it has politically impacted people around the world. The 4-day event received significant support from local foundations and institutions such as: the Kingsley Association, the Multicultural Arts Initiative, the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, and the African American Cultural Center, among others.

Mary Weidner recently served on a symposium discussion panel for the Women in Art exhibit at Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA. In addition, she is showing a series of drawings in an exhibit entitled Secrets at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, November 17 through January 22, 2006.

Philip Pearlstein (A'49) has a solo exhibit, Philip Pearlstein: Naked Strangers on the Wall, at the Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth from March 23 to October 15, 2006. He will lecture at the university on March 23 at 6pm. A documentary film on Pearlstein's life and art practice is currently being produced by UMD Art and Design faculty members Jen Dietrich and Sarah Bauer. http://www.d.umn.edu/art/event/adls/0506/pearlstein.html.

David Byrd (A'65) had a solo exhibit in the University Center Art Gallery at Carnegie Mellon during Homecoming Weekend. Mr. Byrd has created posters for musical artists such as Jimmy Hendrix, the Airplane, The Dead, the Who, the Woodstock Festival & the Stones ’69 Tour, and for Broadway shows such as Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Little Shop of Horrors. During his career, Mr. Byrd has worked for Warner Brothers, Looney Toons, and Hannah-Barbera, the Franklin Mint, and on many popular television shows and movies, including Space Jam, Harry Potter, Friends, and Scooby Doo.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) had her solo Drawn in Metal show at Robert Steele Gallery reviewed by Tova Beck-Friedman in The New York Art World magazine.
http://www.thenewyorkartworld.com/currentIssue/currentReviews.html.

Joanne Gigliotti (A '67) lives in Gaithersburg, MD. Former director of the Smithsonian Associates Studio Arts Department, she is represented in many permanent collections including The National Museum for Women in the Arts and the Westinghouse Collection. She has exhibited in over 60 one-woman and juried exhibitions across the US and is included in Who's Who in American Art, as well as Who's Who in the East as an artist and arts administrator. She is currently an artist for BatikTile, a company that creates custom, hand painted artwork tiles.
http://www.batiktile.com/htdocs/joanne.asp.

Betsey Sanpere (BFA '69) is an aviation consultant who specializes in using the arts to bring airports and communities together. She has written and presented on this subject, both nationally and internationally. In addition, she has been involved in various "Arts in the Airport" programs including a highly acclaimed post 9/11 entertainment program at a major US airport. She is the Coordinator for Community Involvement for the Nantucket Memorial Airport.

Dara Birnbaum (A '69) exhibits in TIEMPOS DE VIDEO 1965-2005 at Contemporaneo Fundacion La Caixa in Barcelona through January 8, 2006. This exhibition will tour through 2007 to: Fine Arts Museum, Taipeï, Taïwan; Miami Art Central, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; ACMI, Melbourne; Musée Fabre, Montpellier; and Chiado Museum, Lisbon.
http://www.fundacio1.lacaixa.es/SGI/Actividad.jsp?idActividad=1573&idTemaGen=4&idTemaPro=-1&idCentro=918213&idTipoCentro=-1&idPerfil=&idTipoAct=-1&idIdioma=1.

Patricia Burson (BFA '71) exhibits landscapes in a two-person show at Gallery AA/B in Boston, November 10 through December 22. http://www.artadvisoryboston.com.

Richard Hillis (BFA '73) exhibited his work at the Peoria Library Gallery in Peoria, Arizona.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) is exhibiting in The Comeback Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery on New Orleans, LA through December 24, 2005. http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/.

Audri Phillips (BFA '75) is a member of the adjunct faculty in animation at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA. Based in LA, she works in a variety of mediums that range from computer animations and paintings, video art (visual poetry), to oil paintings, web design, and spoken word pieces. She also works in the film and game industry and has taught at Otis School of Art and Design. Her personal computer animations have been shown at Cal State Poly, in the Siggraph 2003 art gallery and in the 1995 Siggraph Animation Festival, BillBoard Live. She has worked at Electronic Arts on game lighting, as digital artist on films such as Spiderman, Stuart Little 2, and Harry Potter, and as art director and designer on a computer animated ride film based on the Yellow Submarine Beatles film for Sony. http://www.audri.com/.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) has a solo exhibit, Fragments of a Secret Life, at Hammonds House Galleries in Atlanta, November 13 through January 7, 2006. It will be followed by another solo exhibit by a Carnegie Mellon alumnus, Raymond Saunders (BFA '60). His show runs January 20 through March 25, 2006. http://www.hammondshouse.org/. Renee Stout and Andy Warhol (A'49) are represented in Gyroscope at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. Gyroscope is a program of dynamic, frequently changing presentations of the Museum's preeminent collection of modern and contemporary art. Works will rotate through these presentations through December 31, 2006. http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/gyroscope.

Christopher Priore (BFA '81) has a solo exhibit, What Holds Everything Together? at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) in Dallas, Texas, November 5 through December 17. http://www.the-mac.org.

Christopher Shellhammer (BFA '84) exhibited In the Memory of Unscarred Mountains this fall in One World Many Visions: Art and the Written Word, at Northbrook Public Library in Northbrook, IL. His new web site is: http://www.christophershellhammergallery.com;
http://www.northbrook.info/lib_owmv.php.

Carolyn Muskat (BFA '87) teaches lithography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Prior to establishing Muskat Studios in Boston, she worked for the Ernest DeSoto Workshop in San Francisco. Her work is in private collections throughout the U.S.

Sarah Smith (BFA '91) will have a solo exhibit at Stay Gold in Brooklyn, NY in February.
http://www.staygoldgallery.com/.

Charlie Castaneda (BFA '92), Brody Reiman (BFA '92) and Sarah Smith (BFA '91) all participated in Southern Exposure's 30th Anniversary Spring Fundraiser and Auction in San Francisco last April. http://www.soex.org/30AnniAuction/pages/ReimanCastaneda.html;
http://www.soex.org/30AnniAuction/pages/SarahSmith101.html.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) exhibits in Reality Show: Contemporary Representational Painting at Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Larchmont, NY, November 4 into December. Her collaborative explorations in digital printmaking are on view in Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration, curated by Will Pappenheimer, Ron Janowich and Merijn Van Derheijden for Pace University Galleries' Peter Fingestin Galleries, November 5 through December 16. She also exhibits in the group show, Caspar David Seance, at Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn. The show opened November 18 and runs through December 18.
http://www.kbfa.com/; http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=3535; http://www.jackthepelicanpresents.com/casparpr.html.

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94 Design/Art) has a review of his show earlier this year at Quint Gallery in La Jolla, California by Leah Ollman in the November issue of Art in America.

Lynn Lu (BFA '95) exhibits in Tokyo this November in The New World Maps, with a live performance on November 12 at Bensian Pit (Studio 5). She also participates in the Southeast Asia Performance Art Symposium + Asiatopia Performance Art Festival at Queens Gallery in Bangkok on November 27. She will also present in NIPAF: Live Performance at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo on December 7. http://diuniverse.exblog.jp/; http://www.kidailack.co.jp/.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) exhibited a revolving installation in Transitional at the Eye Lounge Project Room, Phoenix, AZ throughout the month of November. http://www.eyelounge.com.

Karen Liebowitz (BFA '97) has a solo exhibit of paintings and drawings at The Dotort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel, November 13 through December 29 in Los Angeles.

Matt Keegan (BFA '98) was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) exhibits Fallout: A History of Upheaval at Momenta Art, 78 Berry Street, Brooklyn, NY, opening December 9. http://momentaart.org/cur_pro/index.html.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) has a solo exhibit, Hello Headspace, at Fonti in Naples, Italy, October 14 through December 2. He also exhibits in Frisbee(Miami) at the Cavalier Hotel in Miami, December 1-4. http://www.galleriafonti.it.

Elizabeth Monoian (MFA '00) has recently participated in: Videohm, Syracuse, NY; INPORT, International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallinn, Estonia; BEOGRAD NEKAD I SAD, Prodajna Galerija, Beograd, Serbia; and 4th International Video Art Festival PUSTO, Moscow, Russia.

Rhys Conlon (BHA '01) exhibits in the 14th Street Painters' 18th Group Exhibition at 110 West 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 4th Floor, NYC, November 18-26. http://www.14thstreetpainters.org; http://www.rhysconlon.com.

Brooke Singer (MFA ‘02) exhibits her Zapped video in Traffic at Exit Art in NYC through December 23. http://www.exitart.org/traffic/.

Laura Nelson (BFA '02) currently lives in Los Angeles and works for a production executive at MGM Studios. She continues to produce and exhibit artwork as well. A profile on her appears on the CMU Career Center art page at: http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/cfa/cfacc/www/art/index.cfm.

Lara Hoke (BFA '03) exhibited her paintings at Madarts Studios, Brooklyn from November 5-13. http://www.larahoke.com/opening.html.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) received a $1000 grant from PA Partners in the Arts in Allegheny County for a performance project called WANTED. It is scheduled for next spring at the Homestead Library and the Thomas Merton Center, as well as at CMU (who also funded the project through a faculty grant from the Center for te Arts in Society).

Andrew Klein (BFA '04) is exhibing new drawings at the Canvas Gallery, 1200 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA from December 1-29 as part of their annual end of year exhibition. The show will highlight new work from select artists who have shown through 2005.

Paper Rad, Jacob Ciocci (MFA Class of 2005) and Ryan McGinness (BFA '94 Design and Art) are praised in an LA Weekly article on what's wrong with art school education.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/49/features-rose.php.

David Halsell (MFA '07) had his article, Autopoiesis: Science and Systems in Technological Art, published in the Spanish new media art magazine A Minima, in the latest issue no. 13.

Eileen Maxson, a student entering the School of Art MFA Program at Carnegie Mellon this January, has been awarded the inaugural biennial $30,000 Arthouse Texas Prize (2005). Eileen was chosen from 129 nominations offered by a select group of art world professionals. The prize, which recognizes innovation, talent and a marked contribution to a thriving Texas art scene, promotes and celebrates a Texas-based artist who has produced a significant body of work in the past two years. The Arthouse Texas Prize is the largest regional visual arts award in the United States. Maxson's work is currently on view in an exhibition at Arthouse through November 13, 2005 and is accompanied by a full-color catalog featuring essays and images documenting the work of the four finalists. http://www.arthousetexas.org/.

Sarah Koljonen (BFA Class of 2006) has a solo exhibiton of paintings and drawings, Ephemaral City at the Gold Dome Multicultural Society, Oklahoma City, OK from November 12 through January 5, 2006. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/sll1/ephemeral.html.

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