Elaine A. King, gave a presentation at the American Association of University Women's International
Symposium, International Perspectives: Global Voices for Gender Equity, in Washington, D.C. King also chaired the panel, The Use of Story Circles as part of Intergroup Dialogues.

Mary Weidner is exhibiting a thirty-five panel painting in National Artists Group Exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. The show runs through March 1. She also has work in the exhibit Heart and Soul: Artists Who Use the Human Heart as Metaphor at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA, February 6-21. A solo show entitled Kindred Spirits of Weidner's paintings and mixed media installations will be exhibited at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, February 27-March 22.

Mary Hood will be a Visiting Artist at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, February 15-18, 2003. She will present her work to an advanced special topics class in the philosophy department that is investigating the complex relationships that exist within the codex form and works that simultaneously incorporate some combination of visual, verbal, performance, and/or audible elements. She will also lecture on and engage in dialogue concerning the role of the book in contemporary society.

John Leaños, a Center for the Arts in Society Fellow based in the School of Art, is exhibiting in Time Capsule, curated by Tami Katz-Freiman at Art in General in New York City. The exhibit addresses "the concept of archeology, a practice saddled by issues of identity, property and heritage" as well as further reflecting "upon the contemporary dialogue within and between museums." The show runs January 25 - March 15, 2003 and is accompanied by a catalogue. www.artingeneral.org. John is presenting on a College Art Association Annual meeting panel, Performance in the Wake of 2001: Institutional Critique, Response and Strategies on Friday, February 21.

Press Play, a group of faculty, students and alumni including Blithe Riley, Siobhan Rigg, Janine Biunno, Jon Bush, Maggie Haas, Suzie Silver and Mary Tremonte, presented The Love Show on February 9 at the Penn Avenue Theater at 4809 Penn Avenue. http://www.press-play.web1000.com/

Lance Winn exibited in 8-Hour Drawings V, featuring drawings done directly on the walls of the Penelec Gallery at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. The exhibit ran January 21 - February 11. Lance was a visiting critic at University of Alabama February 6-7.

Rick Gribenas has a solo installation exhibit, This Side at Paul Mesaros Gallery at West Virginia University in Morgantown, opening was February 6 and runs through March 7.

Arthur Ostroff (BFA '56) was featured in an article, Making an Impression in the January 17, 2003 issue of South Philly Review. It describes his limited-edition print project for the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, which shows the evolution of the port from the 18th century to the present day. Port of Philadelphia: From the Beginning, Building the Region ... Serving the Country ... Connecting to the World, was created for presentation to visiting dignitaries and other official visitors to the Port of Philadelphia. Plans are under way to expand the print to a mural project for the lobby hall at PRPA headquarters. Ostroff has also created his own line of watercolor sketches under the trademarked name City Scenes.

Elizabeth Bain (BFA '67) showed 10 mixed media paintings in a group show, Narratives at Showcase Gallery of Coastline Community College in Santa Ana, California.

Peter Stanick (BFA '75) creates digital paintings using Flash as a drawing tool. http://www.stanick.com/

Katherine Kuharic (BFA '84) joined the faculty at Washington University in 2002, after more than ten prolific years of painting in New York City where she is represented by PPOW Gallery.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) has new sculpture installations at: Respironics, Inc. in Murrysville, PA; Glaxo-Smith-Kline Headquarters, Robinson Twp, PA; and International Fine Arts College Lobby, Miami, FL. His work will be included in the March 29, 2003 Mint Museum of Craft + Design Auction to benefit the educational programs at the musuem in Charlotte, NC. Upcoming presentations include: Boris Bally: Humanufacturing to coincide with the traveling exhibition, ENHANCEMENTS: Handcrafted Functional Objects, on March 2, 2pm, at Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock; Momentum: Building and Maintaining a Career in Metalsmithing, a Professional Practices Workshop on May 21 at 6pm and Momenta: Various Perspectives on Achieving Success, a slide presentation at the 2003 Annual Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) Conference, May 21-25, at Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. Bally's work is or will be discussed and reproduced in: "What is Design?" by George H. Marcus, published by Harry N Abrams, NY 2002; "The Artful Home: a Source and Guide for Living with Art," a two-volume set to be published by Guild Publishing this March; "Art Jewelry Today," by Dona Z. Meilach, to be published by Schiffer this April; and "Making Metal Jewelry," by Joanna Golldberg, to be published by Lark Books this May. http://www.BorisBally.com

Evan Knauer (BFA '85) is presenting Evan Knauer Paintings 2003, a new series of colorful, expressionistic, narrative paintings at Garfield Artworks, which opened January 24, 2003. There was a closing reception on Friday February 7 with music by The CUFF, a Pittsburgh Pop Rock Group featuring vocals by Alycia Knauer (The Evan Knauer Choir Orchestra). www.garfieldartworks.com

Pat Barefoot (BFA'87) teaches in the School of Art Pre-College Program and is currently teaching painting at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Eduardo Padilha, an exchange student from the Rietveld Academy in 1993, moved to London in 1996. He received an MFA from Chelsea College in London, where he worked with Nigel Rolfe, a speaker in the School of Art Lecture Series. He has been free-lancing in London for the past two years.

Daniel Anthonisen (BFA '94) is now represented by Travis Gallery in Solebury, PA. www.danthonisen.com

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) exhibited January 4 - February 2 in Trannie: Rhetorics of Identity in Transition, curated by Jeffrey Uslip at White Box Annex and in Nurturing the Now at NURTUREart, a benefit show on January 11, both in New York City. He was also involved in organizing The POST-IT® Show: Contemporary Fine Post-It Note Art at NURTUREart, January 4 through January 25. Patrick particpated in a multidisciplinary discussion featuring special guest, Art Fry, inventor of the Post-It Note after a play at the gallery.

Steffi Domike (MFA '97) will present Broadcasting into the Belly of the Beast for the panel, From the Front Lines of Protest to Community Dialogue: Socially Engaged Art "1968" to the Present, Thursday, February 20, 2:30-5pm at the College Art Association's 91st Annual Conference in New York City.

Steffi Domike (MFA '97), Laleh Mehran (MFA '97) and Hyla Willis (MFA '99) took part in an artist residency at LaSalle-SIA University in Singapore in January, 2003. The three artists, members of the cyberfeminist collective subRosa, held a workshop for students at LaSalle-SIA on how artists can work
collectively in response to new biotechnologies. Their trip was partly paid for through grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Chatham College and the University of Georgia at Athens.

Hyla and Steffi were recently awarded a Special Opportunity Stipend by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for their work with the collective subRosa on a new project, MatriXial Technologies. The project examines the developing international trade in stem cells, and involves collaboration with artists and researchers in the US and Singapore. SubRosa and The Atlas Group are the two featured artists in Nato Thompson's article A Museum of Lies in issue 66 of the Zurich-based art journal Parkett. The article discusses subRosa's project Expo Emmagenics. Hyla, Steffi, Laleh and Christina Hung; former visiting artist Faith Wilding, and artist Lucia Sommer developed the project described in the essay. >> http://www.parkettart.com/index3.htm

Evan Tapper (MFA '01) exibited in 8-Hour Drawings V, featuring drawings done directly on the walls of the Penelec Gallery at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. The exhibit ran from January 21 - February 11. Evan is also exhibiting in the USC School of Fine Arts' Fourth Annual International Festival of Time-Based Media at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California. The exhibit, Art In Motion IV: Interference Patterns runs from February 15 - April 15. Evan has also accepted a one year research position at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakuyshu, Japan.

Justin Giunta (BFA '00) exhibited a series of crumpled drawings of Louis XVI clocks and decorated the space with chandeliers made from yellow plastic construction lights draped in antique crystal at a small design store in New York City last March. The lights were then featured as part of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, and since have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Magazine, and The New York Times. He is also working with a former Sothebys dealer who distributes his work around the country. Justin went to Art Basel in Miami, and is now having an exhibition with a Paris gallery this summer. He is currently doing a commissioned mural on the ceiling of former super-model Shalom Harlow.

Justin contnues to make clothing and has been hired by an Italian sweater company to provide drawings and design inspiration for its collections including the knitwear for Hermes. He also has his own t-shirt line, which is now being sold in new York, Los Angeles, Zurich, Amsterdam, and Berlin and to clients such as Sting who will use them for his upcoming tour, kicked off by his performance during half-time at the Super Bowl. He has also started a small jewelry business with a friend that now sells to 7 stores in New York and just signed with a Japanese distribution company last month. The jewelry appears in the February issue of NYLON magazine.

Semi Ryu (MFA '02) is exhibiting in the USC School of Fine Arts' Fourth Annual International Festival of Time-Based Media at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California. Art In Motion IV: Interference Patterns runs from February 15 - April 15. This multimedia festival focuses on the spaces in which human and non-human technologies intersect. http://www.usc.edu/calendar/events/17154.html

Daniela Ehemann, an exchange student from Berlin last year, is presenting in the Paris - Berlin Festival roARaTorio with Side-Seeing, an animation created in Professor James Duesing's class.

Junior Andrew Klein organized Mapping Personal Terrain, an event on February 14-15 at the Carnegie Science Center. The event invited participants to have their portraits made by the Maprtraption Circumnavigator, a device which, with the help of digital photography, creates Map projects (Mercator, Robinsion, and others) of the human figure. Five minute sessions were scheduled every 10 to 15 minutes, along with information on what makes a map projection, and how the projection offers the most accurate translation of 3-D form to 2-D space. The event was part of the National Engineers Week exhibitions.

Third year graduates Mark Dixon and Tak Noguchi, with Leila Pourtavaf (from the Mobilivre collective), worked collaboratively on an anonymous street project in Montreal. The work was covered in an article by Patrice Loubier in the December 2002 issue of Coranto with the headline of "De mystérieuses lignes peintes apparues sur les trottoirs de Montréal." Visit: http://www.esse.ca/coranto/cor2/coranto2.html

Carolyn Lambert, first year graduate student, helped organize, with BHA Senior J.P. Roesch and 5th Year Architecture student John Odurue, Homewood: Familair Places - New Possibilities on January 18 at Homewood Senior Center. The event explored community design in relation to Homewood's revitalization and future and included neighbors, architects, developers and policymakers.

Jacob Ciocci collaborated with computer artist/hacker, Cory Arcange, on a performance featuring one computer, one text editor,and performers creating live HTML code on Feburary 7 in Breed Hall at Carnegie Mellon.

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