Elaine A. King's essay, The Simple and The Complex, an invited text, was recently published in the 8th International Biennal of Drawings and Graphic Arts exhibition catalogue.

Kim Beck participated in a panel, Art Beyond Calculation, at a symposium at the Fed Ex Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis, TN.

Ayanah Moor's work was included in a recent portfolio acquisition by the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Slated, a suite of nine lithographs by contemporary artists dedicated to the memory of Ed Paschke, was produced by Chicago based printshop, Anchor Graphics.

The work and presentations of Bob Bingham and alumni Mel Bochner and Julie Bargmann are discussed in the Fall/Winter 2005 issue of Public Art Review, in an article on the 2005 spring symposium, No Stone Unturned, that was funded by the Kraus Family Foundation.
http://www.publicartreview.org.

Golan Levin's performance and installation work is showcased in a special section of the Tokyo Digital Arts Festival, held at the Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation and Tokyo Panasonic Center, through mid-December. Levin will lecture and present work in a three-city tour of Japan sponsored by the US Embassy, including events at the Kyoto University of Art and Design (12/15), Nagoya City Art Museum (12/16 and 12/17) and Waseda University (12/17). In mid-January, Levin will also present interactive performance work at a conference, The Age of Simulation: Research and Learning in the 21st Century, Linz, Austria, 1/13/2006. http://www.daf-tokyo.jp/index-en.html; http://www.art-museum.city.nagoya.jp/english/;
http://www.kyoto-art.com/eng/;http://www.fas.at/news/_downloads/simulation_1.pdf.

Oral Fixations, a seven hour single channel computer animated installation produced by a team of professors James Duesing (School of Art), and Jessica Hodgins (Computer Science) Mo Mahler (Computer Science staff and BFA '03), and students Bum Lee (School of Art senior), Sang Il Park (Computer Science post doc), and David Tinapple (School of Art graduate student) will be presented at the Beecher Center for Art and Technology at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH from November 30 - April 15, 2006.

Gillian Jagger (BFA '53) is professor of painting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and also on the graduate faculty at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. This year, she received a $25,000 Nancy Graves Foundation grant. Other awards include: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant; N.Y. Council for the Arts Grant; and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her work is in the collections of: The Charles Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Finch College Museum of Art; and C.W. Post College Museum of Art. Numerous solo and group exhibitions include those at: the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY . She is represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery, N.Y. http://www.phylliskindgallery.com/artists/gj/;
http://www.pafa.org/graduateFaculty.jsp.

Brooks Kelly (BFA '60) is a long time resident of Pembroke, MA. He has served as President of the first Pembroke Arts Festival and is an active member of the Cape Cod Art Association, the South Shore Art Center, the Duxbury Art Association, the North River Arts Society, and the prestigious Copley Society, where he holds the title of Copley Master. Working in acrylic and collage, Kelly has won numerous regional awards with a bold, colorful style that is often tinged with humor. He is represented in private and corporate collections nationwide. He and his wife, Anne, have been married for more than 45 years. They have five children and four grandchildren.
http://www.members.aol.com/brookskelly/.

Louis Cicotello (A'62) is Professor of Visual Arts at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He won an award for his set design for Theaterworks' Three Penny Opera from the Pikes Peak Arts Council in its Fifth Annual Peak Area Performances and Artists Awards.

Diane Samuels (BFA'70, MFA '76) has created a two-story work, commissioned by Brown University's Life Science Building. In 2006, she will have solo exhibits at the Center for Book Arts in New York City and at Lafayette College's Grossman Gallery in Easton, PA.
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/newsite/exhibits/;
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol29/29GSJ06g.html.

Seth Dickerman (BFA '78) has worked as an artist, educator, and photographic printer. He lives and works in San Francisco. He is exhibiting Metaphoric Landscapes in Two Views - Seth Dickerman & Henrik Kam at Modernbook Gallery in Palo Alto, CA, December 2 through January 5, 2006. http://www.modernbook.com.

Frederick Mershimer (BFA '80) resides in Brooklyn and works in the medium of mezzotint. He is represented by Stone and Press Gallery in New Orleans, LA. His prints are in many major museum collections which include: The Corcoran Gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian Institution, The New York Public Library, The Library of Congress, The Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Museum and many others. http://www.stoneandpress.com.

Valerie Brodar (BFA '84) is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at University of Colorado at Colordado Springs. http://www.plusgallery.com/artists/brodar/.

Geraldine Ondrizek (BFA '85) exhibits DNA Finger Prints, A Portrait of an Arab-American Family, February 20-March 17 at the Portland Building, Portland, OR.
http://academic.reed.edu/art/faculty/ondrizek/fingerprintdna/.

David French (BFA '87) has a solo exhibit, New Paintings and Sculpture at Beauregard Fine Art in Rumson, New Jersey, opening December 7, 6-9pm through January 9, 2006.
http://www.beauregardfineart.com.

Daniel Anthonisen (BFA '94) exhibits in the 16th Annual Holiday Exhibition at Travis Gallery in New Hope, PA, December 3 through December 23.

Carisa Louise Black (BFA '96) moved to Venice, Italy, after graduating where she worked as a designer in a glass factory in Murano. She designed the logo for Vetreria Archimede Seguso, which can still be seen on their website (http://www.aseguso.com). Carisa is currently living in the U.S. with her Italian husband, whom she met while studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and their two-year-old twin sons.

Laleh Mehran (MFA '97) has a solo exhibit of new works at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, January 16 - February 18, 2006.
http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?list_type=1&year=2006&cat=1.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) showed through Ratio 3 at the Nada Art Fair this December in Miami Beach, FL. http://www.ratio3.org.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) participates in We Are All Together: Media(ted) Performance, as part of Artists Space's Empty Space with Exciting Events (November 16 - December 21), in conjunction with the Performa 05 Biennial. Artists Space is in Soho, NYC at 38 Greene at Grand. http://www.artistsspace.org/.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) exhibits in FALLOUT: What's Left at Momenta Art, 72 Berry St. Brooklyn, NY, opening December 9 through January 23, 2006. http://turbulence.org/Works/fallout/.

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) participated with subRosa (which also includes Faith Wilding, Lucia Sommer, Laleh Mehran (MFA '97) and Steffi Domike (MFA '97) in several exhibits and performances: Arte Nuevo Interactiva'05 at Yucatán Museum of Contemporary Art, Merida, Mexico, June 26; International Markets of Flesh v2., in collaboration with Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00); Intersex 101 Festival, Berlin, June 17, Yes Species, in collaboration with James Tsang; and Epidermic! DIY Cell Lab in the show, YOUGenics3, at Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, February 18. Some of these works have been covered in articles in the Austrian magazine, Skug, and in a Houston Press review of the Diverseworks exhibit, Thought Crimes: The Art of Subversion, which also included collaborative work by Brooke Singer (MFA '02).
http://houstonpress.com/issues/2005-05-12/culture/art.html.

Marinda Stretavsky (BFA '00) and Josh Atlas (BFA '05) are invited exhibitors in Toy, at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh's neighborhood of Lawrenceville. The show runs November 18 - December 22.

Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00), assistant professor of media arts in Robert Morris University's School of Communications and Information Systems, was one of only twenty faculty members from across the United States chosen to attend a five-day seminar offered by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. The seminar, which took place in Los Angeles, CA, from November 8-12, featured panel discussions and visits to production facilities, as well as access to television producers and the heads of several major networks through a state-of-the-industry overview. Loyola-Garcia's animation entitled Alegria received honorable mention at the Three Rivers Film Festival Short Films Competition, and was screened at the Harris Theatre in Pittsburgh on November 11. She also showed her single-channel video SURvivors at the 7th Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios de Santiago, Chile, November 18 - 27.

Emily de Araújo (MFA '01) has been invited to show work in the first anniversary Open Studios event, December 3 through 24 at the Santa Monica Art Studios, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA. She's also participating in the weekend Post-Postcard 2005, an exhibit presented by Outpost for Contemporary Art and hosted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions ,
6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, December 2-4. http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com; http://www.artleak.org/.

Rhys Conlon (BFA '01) exhibits paintings in her first solo show. Opening reception at Next Gallery, Saturday, December 17, 5-7pm, 75 Varick Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10013. Next Gallery is part of Metropolitan College New York. http://rhysconlon.com.

Adam Grossi (BFA '02) exhibits in Multiple Choice, curated by Janera Solomon and Sarah Williams for Urban Space Gallery, 709 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. The opening reception is Friday, December 9th, from 6 to 9pm and the show runs through January 7th.
http://urbanspace@bridgespotters.com.

Cassandra Jones (MFA Class of 2004) exhibits in 2006 in Fantasy Island at The Drake Hotel/Public Spaces and in Slow Dance Recyttal at the Drake Hotel/The Underground in Toronto, Canada. She has a solo exhibit at Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, CA, December 10 through January 26, 2006. http://www.larramendygallery.com/exhibitions.html;
http://www.larramendygallery.com/artists/jones.html.

Erin Pischke (BFA '05) will be going to Guatemala in January, 2006 with the Peace Corps' Environmental Conservation and Income Generation (Eco-tourism) Project. As an environmental educator, she will work with local school and community groups to develop environmental programs and raise awareness about the surrounding environment, which will most likely be in the northern rain forests of the region. Erin will live in a city with a family and be in an intensive language program for 3 months and then move to a rural village for the remaining 2 years.

Thomas Sturgill (MFA class of '06) spoke and presented work at PROOF, the Society for Photographic Education (SPE-MA) conference, at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

A video by Benjamin Kinsley (MFA class of '08) and Zachariah Durr was shown as part of Cleveland-based Red's Red: an orchestra: the New Amahl (A Red Christmas), a new production in cleveland of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, December 8th and 10th. Interviews with Ben about the video appear in Issue 23 of Angle Magazine, and on the December 8th radio broadcast of Around Noon on Cleveland's WCPN 90.3FM. http://www.pluggedincleveland.com/events/7998/red-an-orchestra-the-new-amahl-a-red.html.

David Halsell, second year graduate student, had work in the October Control Acoustics as part of the Zeppelin 2005 Sound Projects Festival at the Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona in Spain. http://ocaos.cccb.org/zeppelin2005/.

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