Joseph Mannino participated in the Diversity in Education panel at the 2004 College Art Association annual meeting in Seattle, Washington on February 19. Elaine A. King delivered a paper titled, Art and Artists in an After Post Present Era as part of the panel The Relevance of Tradition in Contemporary Art.

John Beckley, Rick Gribenas and Rebecca Vaughan (MFA '01) are exhibiting in Running Rampant, a group show of installation-based work at Fe Gallery, 4102 Butler Street in Pittsburgh from February 20 through March 27.

Susanne Slavick, Lance Winn and Mia Brownell (BFA '93) have drawing assignments published in 100 Creative Drawing Ideas, compiled and edited by Anna Held Audette, published by Shambhala Press.

Shawn Lawson is presenting A Bar at the Folies Bergère as part of his crudeOils collaboration at G2, 847 West Jackson, in Chicago, January 30 - February 28. http://www.crudeoils.us.

Pamela Jennings and Suzie Silver were awarded Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in the New Genres / Digital Arts and Media Arts categories.

Michelle Illuminato is presenting, as a member of the collaborative group, Next Question, A.V. Club: Next Question at Alfred University's Fosdick Nelson Gallery, March 5 though April 2. The exhibit takes a nostalgic yet critical look at the filmstrip, a once-popular educational technology. Next Question worked with students from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University to exploit the absurd poetry of the filmstrip, using it to narrate their own educational memories.

Melissa Ragona is delivering a paper on the filmmaker, Marie Menken, at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference on March 7 in Atlanta.

The Hamerschlag Hall Green Roof Project has been awarded $96,750 through a DEP Energy Harvest Grant. Two members of the School of Art community are involved in this project. Bob Bingham is a faculty advisor for the Hamerschlag Hall Green Roof Project and member of Carnegie Mellon's
Environmental Practices Committee (along with co-chair Barb Kviz) which submitted the grant proposal. Ann Wootton, a junior in the BSA Program, and Diane Loviglio in the BHA program have been involved in the research, planning, design, grants and organizational push for funding this project which will ultimately be implemented by a contractor through Facilities and Maintenance Services. With this funding, an extensive green roof should be planted next year on the south wing of Hamerschlag Hall.
Carnegie Mellon's Environmental Practices Committee was also awarded several grants from the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research: $25,000 for a Baseline Environmental Assessment; $5000 for a Southwestern Pennsylvania Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program; and $5000 for New House - Environmental Programming.

AMP @ The Warhol, an exhibit organized by the Sprout Fund and the Andy Warhol Museum, runs through February at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. AMP offers Pittsburgh's most innovative artists the opportunity to create, showcase, and promote their work through a series of events that introduce new audiences to the many local artists creating a vibrant arts scene in Pittsburgh. The benefit exhibit included works by: faculty, Clayton Merrell; alumni Maggie Haas (BFA '03), Peter Burr (BFA '02), Chris Craychee (BFA '96), Elizabeth Deasy (BFA '03), Sandra Budd (MFA '97), Steffi Domike (MFA '97) Carrie Schneider (BFA '01), Leslie Clague (BFA '97), Jason Yates (BFA '97), Mary Mazziotti (BFA '72) and Ben Vernot (CS '03); Fifth Year Scholar Robin Hewlett; graduate students Lilith Bailey-Kroll, Cassandra C. Jones, Mario Marzan and Ruth Stanford; and undergraduates Cory Gavin, John Kim, Megan Koehler,Thomas Macker, Jennifer Murray, William Schott.

Several School of Art alumni are exhibiting in SPACE's inaugural show, Petite Enveloppe Urbaine. SPACE is located at 812 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh. The inaugural exhibit, featuring Pittsburgh and Montreal artists, includes work by Jeremy Boyle (who taught Concept Studio last fall), Bob Kollar (BFA '92), Jen Morris (BFA '98), Carrie Schneider (BFA '01),and Hyla Willis (MFA '99).

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) is exhibiting seven mixed media paintings in Paradise Lost at the Ormand Art Museum in Ormand Beach, Florida through February 29. She will also exhibit work this March at the Idaho State Women's Center in Boise. This year The Library of Congress has acquired several of Culbertson's mixed media monotypes. One is entitled, 9/11 with Baboon; another is from the workshop of the Bob Blackburn Studio, NYC. Her large Bear drawing, loaned from the Harrisburg Museum, was included in About the Bear, an exhibit at the Milton Hershey Museum that closed this January.

Jerry Caplan (CFA '54 and '59), a prominent member of the Pittsburgh art community who influenced countless students while teaching at Chatham College and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, passed away on January 15, 2004. An innovator in ceramic arts, Caplan originated art and industry workshops in clay pipe factories across the country and abroad along with workshops on the reduction stenciling process that he developed. His commissions include those at Temple Emmanuel in Upper St. Clair, Temple Beth El in Mt. Lebanon, and the Pittsburgh Parking Authority. He served as president of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and exhibited frequently in its annual exhibit at the Carnegie Museum where his work is in the permanent collection. In 1975, he was the Pittsburgh Center for the Art's Artists of the Year and in 1993, the organization honored him as Master Visual Artist. He was one of six Pennsylvania artists chosen for A Legacy of Excellence, an exhibit on view through February at the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg. He is survived by his companion, artist Donna Hollen Bolmgren, a sister, son and two grandchildren.

Patricia Colvin Burson (BFA '71) is exhibiting in the Eighteenth National Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, January 16 - March 7. This exhibit showcases works that e challenge the parameters of contemporary drawing and was juried by Raphaela Platow, Curator, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Patricia's portrait of her son Emmett (now an Industrial Design student at CMU) is on display at the Cambridge Art Association's exhibition, Human Condition, juried by Jerry Beck, curator of the Revolving Art Museum. Birches, from her wilderness series, is on view at the Concord Art Association's annual painting show, juried by Joanna Fink, Director, Alpha Gallery. Her work is also in Pets Unleashed: Waggish Works in Motley Media, at Advisory Boston.

Vivian Tsao (MFA '76) will exhibit her oil paintings in the Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City from March 8 - April 4, 2004. Her book in the Chinese language entitled The Mark of Time: Dialogues with Vivian Tsao on Art in New York was presented in the 2004 Taipei International Book Exhibition from January 28 - February 2.

Karen A. Peterson (BFA '80) is a practitioner of Hellerwork Structural Integration in Seattle, WA.

Jeff Brice (BFA '80) has been a professional designer and illustrator for over 15 years. His images have earned awards in shows all over the world, including Prix Ars Electronica and Bitmovie. He has been featured in design magazines including Designet, Print, Wired and Leonardo. His work also appears in many design books including Photoshop Wow, Photoshop 6, Mind Grenades, and Superdesigning. Jeff's client list includes many Fortune 500 companies, universities, design firms and major book publishers. He has worked with Microsoft, IBM, National Geograhic magazine, AOL, Harvard Business School, John Deere Tractors, Adobe, Ricoh,Wired Magazine, Cambridge Prepress, Time and Newsweek. He is currently Associate Professor of Design at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA.
http://www.stock-illustration-portfolios.com/artistPage/Brice_Jeff.html;
http://www.jeffbrice.com/images/address.gif

Lisa Farrell (BFA '82) is a Graphic Artist and Designer of Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 2002, she participated in Party Animals, a public art program that encouraged community development and pride and raised over 1.2 million dollars through an auction. Farrell produced an elephant entitled After Peacable Kingdom. http://www.partyanimalsdc.org/gallery/animals/086.shtml.

Diana Lemonides (BFA' 83) is Founding CEO and Creative Director of Lemonides Design Group, Inc., a creative communications firm in the Brandywine Valley of Southeastern Pennsylvania. She has international business experience and has worked in Melbourne, Australia, London and New York City.
http://www.lemonidesdesign.com/.

Douglas Fox Harrell (BFA Class of '98) is a Doctoral Student and NSF Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego where his research focuses on developing new improvisational narrative forms. He earned an M.P.S. from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. In 2001, he completed a novel, Milk Pudding Flavored with Rose Water, Blood Pudding Flavored by the Sea and he recently published Speaking in Djinni: Media Arts and the Computational Language of Expression, in CTHEORY. http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=388, http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/fharrell/.

Gerri Ondrizek (BFA '85) is Associate Professor of Art at Reed College in Portland, Oregon where she has been developing an interactive books arts curriculum. She is currently showing in a two-person exhibit, Obscured Elements at Solomon Fine Art in Seattle through March 19. Last year, she had a solo exhibit, RNA, DNA, at Gasworks in London.
http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/feb2002/columns/NoC/NoC_faculty_news.html.

Angelo Tumolo Neira (BFA '88) resides in Pittsburgh and works in marketing and display for Anthropologie, a national retail company providing apparel, accessories, home decor and gift products influenced by and collected from cultures around the world.

Clyde Forth (formerly Jessica Reeves-Cohen BFA '91) is presenting new works, Rules for Breathing (Interior/Exterior) at Gallery Evan, 300 E. 95th Street, New York City, February 6 -March 6. The opening is February 6, 7-10pm with a performance of This Is the Place beginning at 7:30pm.
http://galleryevan.com.

Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman's (BFA '92) exhibit last summer at DCKT was reviewed by Stephanie Cash in the March issue of Art in America. They are also recipients of a 2004 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship. The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) plans an exhibition in the summer of 2005 of the twelve San Francisco Bay area artists selected for the prestigious Eureka Fellowship Program. Castaneda/Reiman's mixed-media sculptures and installations have been included in group shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles and Bay Area Now 2), New Langton Arts (The Bay Area Awards Show) and various galleries and art spaces in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh. They have had solo shows at John Berggruen, Four Walls Art Space and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles, and Thomas Healy in New York. Adjunct Professors at the California College of Arts and Crafts since 2000, they have also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and University of California at Berkeley and Davis. They have been affiliate artists and artists in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, and artists in residence at Villa Montalvo. Their work is in the collections of SFMOMA and Phillip Morris. http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/castaneda/.

Sarah Marshall (BFA '92) is Assistant Professor of Printmaking at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
http://bama.ua.edu/~artweb/marshall.html.

Stephanie Serpick (BFA '93) was accepted to the Florence Trust Studio Program, a year-long artist residency in London, to begin in August. Recent exhibits include a group show at Butters Gallery in Portland, OR, and a solo exhibit at Gray Matters Gallery in Dallas in November. In addition, she continues as Art Director for TENbyTEN magazine, a visual arts publication based out of Chicago. For more information, visit: http://www.tenbyten.net. For current work, visit: http://www.sserpick.com.

Marc Fischer (BFA ‘93) and Temporary Services’ upcoming installments include: Sound Canopy, initiated by Michael Burns in conjunction with the Hyde Park Art Center. Projects coordinated by Temporary Services include: Iain Mott: February 20-26 and Dave Whitman: April 2-8, http://www.soundcanopy.com; and Get Rid of Yourself - Lothringer 13, extended until February 29. A few of Temporary Services’ projects will have to go home a little early to be in other places but visitors can still see a new version of Aesthetic Analysis of Human Groupings as well as Public Sculpture Opinion Poll and heaping helpings of their publications. http://www.acc-weimar.de/ausstellungen/a2003/a144/index.html and http://www.lothringer13.de/halle/index.html. Prisoner's Inventions, a collaboration between Angelo and Temporary Services, Fantastic!, MASS MoCA is closing February 29. For more info on how to ride a sled through the snow to the beautiful Berkshires before it is too late: http://www.massmoca.org; A newly edited CD of recordings entitled Dave's Stories - Borne of Necessity, appears at Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC through April 11: http://www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu/exhibitions/default.asp. Temporary Services Booklet PDFs online: http://www.temporaryservices.org/booklets.html.

Juliette Borda (BFA '89), a New York-based illustrator for 13 years, judged the illustrations for the January 2004 issue of CMYK Magazine: The Next Generation of Visual Communication. She also created the artwork for Gut Feeling, an article in Healthwell, and Get Back in Those Jeans for Natural Health. http://www.cmykmag.com/magazine/issues/newsstand/, http://www.healthwell.com/delicious-online/d_backs/jun_02/gut.cfm, http://www.naturalhealthmag.com/health/98.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) was a panelist in Downtown Dialogue: Collectives at Work at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; is participating in The Geometry of Light at The New Yorker Magazine Gallery, NYC; and has a piece in Void, at the David Gibson Educational Alliance Gallery, NYC.

Rebecca Smith (BFA '96) founded and directs Bellwether Gallery which, along with other newer galleries, was discussed in two New York Times articles this January, Benjamin Genocchio's How an Art Scene Became a Youthscape and Holland Cotter's Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames. Bellwether plans to move from Williamsburg to Chelsea next fall.
http://www.bellwethergallery.com/about_press.html.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) continues to display 2D work at The Orange Table Cafe in Scottsdale, AZ. Her piece rhythms within, rhythms without, an interactive sculpture, will be included in the 1st DCA
Young Sculptors Invitational at Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery in Tucson, AZ. The show runs until the end of February. http://www.dinnerwareArts.com.

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) had a solo exhibit, Paradise Reconfigured, last fall at the Karl Drerup At Gallery at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. The National Institutes of Health sponsored a project to cut a body into 2,000 cross sections, using state-of-the-art technology. Each slice was photographed and digitized, and unveiled in 1995 as The Visible Human Project. Soon after, an anonymous woman donated her body for the same purposes. The male and female datasets are referred to as Adam and Eve; Vanouse's exhibition on multiple computers uses the storyline of their struggle through creation, expulsion, loneliness and redemption. http://www.plymouth.edu/gallery/paradise.html.

Steffi Domike and Laleh Mehran (both MFA '97) explored the meaning of patriotism and global understanding in simultaneous works at the Chatham College Woodland Art Gallery, January 22 - February 13, 2004. Domike presented The USAPA Show a collaborative installation with lawyer, Lisa Freeland, featuring The Patriot Act Game, a copy of the USA Patriot Act (USAPA) and a transcript of the December 11, 2003 City Council hearing about how the Act is enforced in Pittsburgh. Mehran presented a single channel video projection, Wild Horses, that explored societal representations that only partly understand cultures and nationalities to build world views, especially with respect to war. Domike has another installation, River Vernacular in the exhibit Imaging the River at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY.

Amie Robinson (BFA '98) curated Presence, an exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum that opened February 5, and runs through March 27. The exhibit includes works by Louise Bourgeois, Jay DeFeo, Sonia Delaunay, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Pat Steir, Elaine deKooning, Nancy Grossman, Hannah Hoch, Yayoi Kusama, I. Rice Pereira, Marlene Tseng Yu and Alma Thomas. http://www.chelseaartmmuseum.org.

Matt Keegan (BFA '98) plans to complete his MFA at Columbia this May. In December, he organized a public discussion/panel on queer art practice at Greene Naftali in Chelsea. He writes: "This past year has been really great, allowing me to show my work in Kassel, Germany, Tokyo, Japan, and Vilnius, Lithuania. I was also included in a group show, this past summer, that got my work reviewed in The New York Times."

After working for a a pain management clinic near her home town of Chicago and collaborating for a year with a community development organization in Pittsburgh, where she used art and film to inspire confidence in at-risk kids, Samina Akbari (BHA '01) became a 2003-2004 Indicorps Fellow. Indicorps is a not-for-profit organization created to encourage people of Indian origin to reconnect with their roots through an intensive service experience in India. With family on both sides of the India-Pakistan border, Samina pursued these goals, working to establish a rural design school and women's handicrafts co-operative in Ludiya, Kuchchh, a region neighboring the India-Pakistan border, which serves as a peaceful home to Hindu and Muslim communities.

Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) has been promoted to Youth Programs Coordinator at the Andy Warhol Museum. She is still a freelance arts writer for City Paper and is teaching photography in the School of Art Pre-College Program.

Maia Palmer (BFA '02) has been living in Hawaii, working at an elementary school with autistic kids. When she's not working, she divides her time between painting and surfing. She planned to move to Seattle last December to pursue graduate study.

Takahiro Noguchi (MFA Class of 2003) participated in a show/conference at UCSD at the end of January. http://teknikaradica.org/conference/participants/noguchi.html Additionally, Tak was a delegate to the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India (January 16-21st), paid for in part by a research travel stipend from the J. Paul Getty Museum. http://wsfindia.org.

Takehito Etani was awarded Honorable Mention (Wand 5's Target_blank Honorary Award) in the Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, January 15 - 18 in Germany. http://www.filmwinter.de.

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