Elaine A. King was an invited speaker for the Lorenzo De' Medici Seminar Fall 2007 Lecture Series in Florence, Italy. Her talk, delivered on November 5, was titled "A Chaotic Topography of Tedium: Art Criticism and Exhibitions," in which she discussed and analyzed the current state of contemporary art, criticism and art exhibitions. She engaged in one-on-one critiques with international students enrolled in the Lorenzo De' Medici School. In addition, Dr. King was invited to represent the United States and deliver a paper on the state of contemporary art and its complex problems at the XLI AICA CONGRESS in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this past October that focused on the theme of THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART: ART CRITICISM, MUSEUMS, BIENNIALS AND THE ART MARKET. Unfortunately, because of the lack of economic support, Dr. King had to decline this invitation.

Ting Chang presents a paper at an international symposium at Leiden University in the Netherlands in December 6-8. The title of the symposium is "'China' on Display: Past and Present Practices of Selecting, Exhibiting and Viewing Chinese Visual and Material Culture." Her paper is entitled "Fantasies, Images and Objects: Two Nineteenth-Century European Displays of 'China'".

Joe Mannino's solo exhibit of photography, The Space Between, is on view at the Arlington Arts Center, VA, through January 19, 2008.

Kim Beck presents a temporary installation project that uses cut-vinyl silhouettes of signage and billboards at the Nashville International Airport, TN, on view December - March 2008.

Christopher Sperandio and Simon Grennan have just won The Lowry's first Transformations commission, a three year program of new site-specific art work. Simon Grennan (UK) and Christopher Sperandio (USA) were selected by a panel including former Turner Prize- nominee artist Richard Wilson and independent curator David Thorp, formerly Director of the South London Gallery and Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Henry Moore Foundation and Mark Doyle of The Lowry. Grennan & Sperandio's new works will be shown at The Lowry in Greater Manchester, England, from 3 May - 29 June 2008. Transformations is The Lowry's £60,000 program funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Golan Levin presents a solo exhibition of new interactive artworks at Bitforms Gallery, NYC, running through January 12, 2008; he will give a public presentation at the gallery on January 12. Levin will also give a public presentation of his work at the MIT Media Laboratory Colloquium Series, in Cambridge, on December 10, http://www.bitforms.com/; http://www.media.mit.edu/events/col.php.

The work of Andy Warhol (A'49) is included in The Sum of Its Parts this coming January at Cheim & Reid in NYC. A solo show, Shadows and Other Signs of Life opens December 15 at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris, through January 19, 2008, http://www.cheimread.com/; http://www.crousel.com/.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) presents a solo exhibit at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, CA, on view through December 22, http://www.wirtzgallery.com.

Jonathan Borofsky (BFA '64) has work in Exhibitionism, a group show curated by Matthew Higgs at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, through February 3, 2008. His work is also included in Mask, a group show at James Cohan Gallery, NYC, December 13 ­ January 26, 2008, http://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/sites/exhibition.php?g=994949&type/; http://www.jamescohan.com/.

Susan Schwalb (BFA ’65) is exhibiting her work in Black and White and Red, Allover at Michele Mosko Gallery, Denver, CO, December 7 - January 26, 2008, with a reception on December 13 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.. In other news, the Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, recently acquired 3 of her metalpoint drawings, http://www.michelemoskofineart.com.

Dara Birnbaum (BFA '69) exhibits in Television Delivers People at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, December 12 - February 17, 2008. Her work is also included in Playback at ARC/Musée d¹Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France through January 6, 2008 and in Sounding the Subject/Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust at MIT List Visual Arts Center in Boston, MA, through December 30, http://www.whitney.org/www/exhibition/upcoming.jsp; http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/exhibitions/index.html.

Barbara Rosenthal (BFA '70) presents Existential Cartoons, a solo show at L-gallery of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, June 1-15, 2008. An article on the project appears in the November/December issue of NY Arts, http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10932&Itemid=25.

James Welling (BFA '73) participates in a three-person show of photographs entitled calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones at Orchard, NYC, through December 16. His work is also in Viewfinder, a group show at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA, through December 30, http://orchard47.org/testshow.php?name=Davey; http://www.henryart.org/ex/viewfinder.html.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) exhibits in The Other Half: Women Artists in the Collection at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL, through April 13, 2008. Her interview with Velvet Park is on YouTube at http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=xi21rfYvrhU;
http://www.bocamuseum.org/index.php?submenu=exhibitions&src=gendocs&ref=CurrentExhibitions&category=Exhibitions&PHPSESSID=a72cc312ef984fcd96181b30cae748c5.

Margery Amdur (BFA '79) exhibits in Garden in Winter at Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art in Haddon Township, NJ through January 12, 2008, http://arts.camden.lib.nj.us/garden.htm.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) participates in Raw Space, an exhibition celebrating the opening of Tom Mann's new Gallery I/O in Chatanooga, TN. Raw Space features work of artists Aaron Kramer, Boris Bally, Thomas Mann, John Martini, Jack Charney, Tom Cowgill, Brian Strickland and Terry Cannon, and will be on view December 8 - January 8, 2008. Boris is on the cover and feature article of the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Metalcraft Magazine by Nestor Gula. The international exhibition curated via the Museum of Art & Design, NY, and Pforzheim Jewelry Academie Glasswear, opened November 7 at the Toledo Museum of Art, OH, and travels until 2010. Boris' necklace 'Brave,' comprised of 100 gun triggers, was in the traveling exhibition Trashformations East, curated by Lloyd Herman and was recently purchased for the Bowling Green State University, OH, Metals Department's permanent collection. 'Brave 2' was also recently acquired by the Museum of Art & Design, NY, and will be on display at their new Columbus Circle location, slated to open in 2008. It will also be featured in Lark Books, "Modular Jewelry book." Boris will be presenting a lecture on his work "Developing a Hybrid" at the 2008 SNAG Conference (March 5-8) in Savannah, GA. Work will be featured in several Lark Books publications, including '500 Metal Vessels,' and '500 Wedding Rings.' His work will also be featured in the upcoming 'Art Jewelry Today' Book by Schiffer Publishing. He has been invited to design the annual charm for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund annual fundraising drive which is now available, http://www.metalcraftmag.com; http://www.toledomuseum.org/Exhibitions_main.htm; http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/.docs/pg/10034; http://www.larkbooks.com; http://www.schifferbooks.com; http://cerf.myshopify.com/products/boris-bally-charm-2007.

Greg Mottola (BFA '86) is a film and television director. He wrote and directed the 1996 independent film "The Daytrippers" before being introduced to television directing. Since then, he has directed several episodes of "Undeclared" and "Arrested Development." He directed the 2007 film "Superbad," which was among T.J. Wilcox' top ten films listed in the December 2007 issue of Artforum. The comedy, "Adventureland," filmed in Pittsburgh, PA, is in post production, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609549/.

Pat Barefoot (BFA '87) received the Service to the Arts Award from the School of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA. The award is given annually to an individual who has changed numerous lives through their dedication to the arts. Pat has taught over two thousand students across more than three decades. She also sits on Group A's Board of Directors and has been actively involved its Exhibition Committee.

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) exhibits in I Remember Nothing, a group show at Sahlman Helwaser Gallery in NYC, through December 22.

Sarah Smith (BFA '91) exhibits in the Winter Invitational at Telephonebooth Gallery (directed by alumnus Tim Brown) in Kansas City, MO, through February 28, 2008. She also exhibits in Boomerang, an exhibition and screening at Hayes Valley Markey in San Francisco, CA, January 5 - February 1, 2008, http://www.boomerangexhibit.com/boomerang_main.swf.

Todd Bartel (MFA '93) is now the Director of the Thompson Gallery, a small gallery located within the Garthwaite Center for Science and Art—a green building at the Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA. Todd teaches fulltime in the art department and curates four shows a year. This inaugural year's itinerary is a triptych exhibition that runs the calendar school year and which offers viewers a look at contemporary art that confronts global warming. The exhibition series is entitled Sublime Climate, which is broken into three separate exhibits: Subliminal—Recognizing the Global Dilemma runs through December 20; Alarm—Visualizing Global Change runs from January 7 - March 14, 2008; and Symbiosis—Grappling With Our Natural Resources runs from March 31 - June 9, 2008. Exhibition proposals are now being accepted for the 2008 and 2009 calendar years. Contact Todd Bartel at artgallery@csw.org. For a virtual tour of the current exhibition, please visit: http://www.csw.org/page/arts/thompsongallery.

Mia Brownell's (BFA '93) solo exhibition Proteomics at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. (through December 20) was reviewed in the December edition of the Washingtonian Magazine. Southern Connecticut State University awarded her the 2007 Faculty Scholar Award and her paintings were featured in the New Haven Register and the Hartford Courant, http://www.southernct.edu/news/brownellnamed2007_99/; http://www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/Mia_Brownell_Paintings.html.

Karen Mincemoyer (BFA '94) presented Habitat, a solo exhibition at Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Kipp Gallery through November 30.

Daniel Anthonisen (BFA '94) exhibits in Small Paintings, a group show at Travis Gallery in New Hope, Pennsylvania, December 1-22, http://www.art-websites.com/cgi_bin/SaISAPI.dll/SaServletEngine.class/artsmart/HomePage/starttemplates/classic.jsp?UserID=lauren&Page=1432.

Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94) has accepted the position of Academic Department Director for Digital Media Production, Video Production & Visual Effects and Motion Graphics at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

Matt Keegan (BFA '98) released North Drive Press (ND#4 ) on November 29 at Printed Matter. He participated this November in a group exhibition I am Eyebeam at Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL, and has an upcoming solo show at Anna Helwin Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, http://www.annahelwing.com/artists/matt_keegan/matt_keegan.html.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) presented a video, "Knitoscope Testimonies" at a two day film event this October entitled 'If you don't come in on Sunday, don't come in on Monday: Is contemporary clothing manufacture coming clean?" at the Horse Hospital in London, http://www.thehorsehospital.com/archives/000505.html

Marc Bohlen (MFA '99) is a visiting professor on the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at University of Toronto, 2007-08. Recent work has been presented at Satellite Voyeurism (Dortmund 2007), ISEA (San Jose 2006) and Subtle Technologies (Toronto 2006). Recent and upcoming publications include More Help from Strangers; Media Arts and Ambient Intelligence (IOS Press Amsterdam 2007), The House for the Computer for the 21st Century (I4/Frankfurt 2007) and Robots with Bad Accents, Living with Synthetic Speech (Leonardo/MIT Press 2008), http://www.realtechsupport.org/.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) screened her work on December 1 at INPORT: International Video-Performance Art Festival, curated by Gert Hatsukov, in Tallinn, Estonia, http://www.lynnlu.info/.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) won two awards this year, from the Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds and Renew Media which gave her a Media Arts Fellowship, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation,
http://news.renewmedia.org/2007/05/03/renw-media-announces-2007-media-arts-fellows/.

Richard Pell (BFA '99) is a 207 recipient of a Media Arts Fellowship from Renew Media, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The grant is for "The Institute for Transgeneography," a project whose primary objective is to create the world¹s first comprehensive map of engineered transgenic flora and fauna. The project will consist of a database of transgenic organisms and the web interface that will make the information available to the public at large. Pell is an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. His work is a cross-disciplinary combination of art, science and engineering. He has exhibited at museums, galleries and film festivals worldwide including the 2006 Whitney Biennial, the Kassel Documentary Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, http://news.renewmedia.org/2007/05/03/renw-media-announces-2007-media-arts-fellows/.

Carrie Schneider (BHA '01) is on a Fulbright Fellowship to Kuvataideakatemia, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki until June 2008. She participated in the Third Azerbaijan Biennial, Baku, December 2007, and has upcoming exhibitions in Toronto, Helsinki, and Chicago, IL, http://www.carrieschneider.net.

Bernadine Saint-Auguste (BFA '02) currently has her new mixed-media work on display along with works by glass mosaic artist Rachel Sager though December 20 at 144 6th Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

Jill Palermo (BFA '02, minor in Architecture) has just launched a new project called WE ADD UP, a global campaign using organic cotton t-shirts that literally “counts you in” in the fight against global warming. Every shirt is printed by hand with a unique number. YOUR number represents your place in the sequential global count of all the people who are taking steps to help stop climate change. As the count grows, we demonstrate to the world that “WE ADD UP.” On the back of each shirt is a word or phrase that describes an action almost anyone can take to reduce their carbon footprint - the contribution their lifestyle makes to greenhouse gases - such as, Unplug, Lights Off, Carpool, Hybrid, Bike, Buy Local, and 18 others. You choose which action you are committed to doing and get counted in. No one can do everything. Everyone can do something. Her goal is to get millions of people around the world counted in and committed to helping stop global warming. WE ADD UP also offers its products as a fundraiser for high schools, colleges, and community and non-profit groups. Groups receive 20% of all sales and are eligible for exciting prizes. Contact us for more information. Contact her at jill@weaddup.com if you are interested, http://www.weaddup.com.

Brooke Singer (MFA '02) and Richard Pell (BFA '99) of The Institute of Applied Autonomy participate in An Atlas, a group show investigating the map's role as political agent at Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL, on view through January 19, 2008, http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm/.

Naomi Falk (MFA '03) gave an artist's lecture, entitled "Presence," at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, on November 29.

William Earl Kofmehl III (BFA '03) presents LESSON 43:QUEUE at Lombard-Freid Projects, NYC, through January 5, 2008, http://www.lombard-freid.com/.

Cay Yoon (BFA '04) received a grant to Vermont Studio Center Residency for December 2007.

Joana Ricou (BSA '04) just completed an internship at the Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts gallery in Chelsea, NYC.

Encyclopedia Destructica [Christopher Kardambikis (BFA '05) & Jasdeep Khiara (BFA '04)] announce the release of The Flying Destructicate: New Visual Language. A book launch, artist talk, and video screening takes place on December 7 at the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, from 5:00-10:00 p.m. The Flying Destructicate is an annual book series being launched by Encyclopedia Destructica. This series will feature an outstanding Pittsburgh artist who has contributed to Encyclopedia Destructica: the first Flying Destructicate has been awarded to Joshua Tonies. The Flying Destructicate award manifests in 2 books released as a package. One is published on the artist, curated by Encyclopedia Destructica, while the other features various artists, curated by the Flying Destructicate. Artists featured in New Visual Language are Corey Antis, Stacy Fambro, Teresa Foley, Chad Gordon, Adam Grossi (BFA '03), Christopher Herron, Christopher Kardambikis, Thad Kellstadt, Jesse Mclean, Ryan Muller, Joshua Tonies, and Matt Wellins, http://www.encylcopediadestructica.com; http://www.joshtonies.com/.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) exhibits in PULSE MIAMI Contempoary Art Fair with Nathan Larramendy Gallery at SoHo Studios, Miami, FL. Works are on view from December 5 at 1:00 p.m. til close on December 9 at 5:00 p.m. Her solo exhibition, Photos Taken, at Nathan Larramendy Galley, CA, with an opening reception on December 15 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. and closes on January 27, 2008.

Ruth Stanford (MFA '04) was nominated for an Emerging Artist Award with the Forward Arts Foundation in Atlanta, GA.

Alberto J. Almarza's (BFA '05) installation, MIMA, will be on view as part of the Tom Museum's book exhibition at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. MIMA features fingernail sized art pieces displayed in tiny rooms that are viewed through magnifying glasses. An opening reception will be held on December 8 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. and the show will run through December 31. The Tom Museum is a project of Tom Sarver in partnership with the Mattress Factory, http://www.tommuseum.com; http://www.mattress.org.

Adam Davies (MFA '05) received an Honorable Mention for his photography in the 2007 Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship project. An Artists' Talk and opening reception will be held on December 8 from 3:00-6:00 p.m.. He also exhibitis work at Project Basho, 1305 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA opening January 12
and running through February 2008, http://www.adavies3.com; http://www.silvereye.org; http://www.projectbasho.org/.

Sarah Koljonen (BFA '06) recently received an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.

Jessica Vaughn (BHA '06) exhibited in the Bridge Miami Art Fair, FL, at the Catalina Hotel December 6-9.

William Cravis (MFA '06) exhibits in Wit on Wry at the Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY, November 28 – January 27, 2008. Cravis holds a one-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor, Sculpture/Foundations at Ohio University, Athens. His new video work, "Another Day" will appear in the O.U. School of Art Faculty Exhibition at the Kennedy Museum, January 18 – March 16, 2008.

Jennifer Gooch (MFA '09) received international coverage of her online project, onecoldhand.com, which seeks to reunite Pittsburgh's lost gloves with their mate. Her story was picked up by the Associated Press and distributed to 142 papers/sites and counting, including interviews on CMU's LabA6 podcast, KDKA, NPR and BBC radio live. Currently, drop-boxes are available at various coffee shops and other public venues around Pittsburgh. The project is partially funded by a Seed award from the Sprout Fund, http://onecoldhand.com; http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Lost-Gloves.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin; http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-12-01-lost-gloves_N.htm; http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07335/838362-85.stm; http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/; http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jgooch/KDKA.mp3; http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/labA6.html.

Julia Stein aka JULIAKS, Laura Miller, Ben Bigelow, Amy Johnson, Michael Pisano and Michael McParlane (all BFA '08) present RELEASE, a set of live performance-installations at SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, on December 9 at 7:30 p.m. JULIACKS of Unicorn Mountain, (the local comics and music anthology) is presenting the first performance related to her latest comics art book, Swell. Laura Miller's artwork explores communication through taste, smell, and sculpture. From inside a structure of clay, the traditional medium for cooking vessels, she prepares combinations of taste and smell to interact with visitors. Ben Bigelow exhibits a visceral installation that collapses our emotionally violent childhood into a cacophony of videos, performances, sculpture, balloons, toys, sound and light. Amy Johnson’s work portrays fighting amongst females. Covertly violent as opposed to physical and upfront, her performance shows when verbal tension becomes beastly and examines the roots of the gender gap in aggression. And, finally, The Michaels have joined forces and styles to fuse color and sound, beauty and confusion like a psychedelic arcade clanging in baroque resplendence. Unicorn Mountain and Encyclopedia Destructica [Christopher Kardambikis (BFA '05) and Jasdeep Khiara (BFA '04)] will be on hand with recent projects, http://www.spacepittsburgh.org/flash.html; http://www.pgharts.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=138812.

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