Elaine A. King is the invited guest curator for the mid-career exhibition titled, ARTIST INTERRUPTED: Selected Works by Maria Mater O’ Neill, FROM POST TO AFTER 1983 – 2006, at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. The exhibition will be on view from February 3 - April 22 in the Santander Gallery, 4th floor, De Diego Avenue 299 Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. King invited 5th year architecture student, Andrew Caruso, [Class 2007] to design the installation of this exhibition that reflects a new attitude toward displaying a large body of work by a single artist. King also gave a lecture at the Museo de Arte de Puerto on Feb 3, titled "An Artist Interrupted," as part of a conference in conjunction with this exhibition. She is currently working on completing a bio-lingual, fully illustrated catalogue that will accompany this exhibition. This volume will be published within a short time. María de Mater O’ Neill is one of the most significant Caribbean contemporary painters. For more information about the artist and museum, please go to: http://www.marimateroneill.com/index.html; http://www.marimateroneill.com/news.html.

Christopher Sperandio recently lectured on his collaborative practice at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. Starting in March, he will begin work on a new suite of prints as an Artist-in-Residence at Anchor Graphics, a printshop in Chicago. These new works will be exhibited by Anchor Graphics at Chicago's Bridge Art Fair in late April. The monograph "Kartoon Kings: the Graphic Work of Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio" has been delivered to the designer. Expected publication date is September 2007. The publisher is West Virginia University Press, and the designer is Alan Ward of Axis Graphic Design. Currently he and Eileen Maxson (MFA '08) are organizing a two-day festival on copyright and transgression to occur at Carnegie Mellon's landmark College of Fine Arts building on March 30 and 31. The web site for You're Not the Boss of Me is online now at http://www.yourenotthebossofme.info.

Susanne Slavick has been invited to present the School of Art's program in Philadelphia, PA, on February 20 at the University of the Arts' "College @ 50," a series of ongoing discussions on art curricula including participants such as James Elkins.

Golan Levin will perform "Ursonography", an audiovisual collaboration with voice artist Jaap Blonk, in two Belgian festivals: at The Game is Up! Festival, in Ghent, on February 16; and at the Artefact Festival, at the STUK Kunstencentrum in Leuven, on February 18. While in Belgium, Levin will also give an artist's presentaion at the Vooruit Center, Ghent, on February 15. This month, Levin also presents interactive artworks in The Dating Show exhibition, Gallery at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NYC (open from February 9 - March 23), and in a one-year installation at the Art Museum of Western Virginia, in Roanoke, beginning February 13, http://www.vooruit.be/programma/2007/02/16/; http://www.vooruit.be/programma/2007/02/15/;
http://www.artefact-festival.be/2007/; http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/pdf/dept_grad_dating_show.pdf;
http://www.artmuseumroanoke.org/.

"Oral Fixations", a seven hour looping animation about endless consumption produced by a collaborative team including faculty James Duesing, Jessica Hodgins (CS) Sang Il Park (CS post-doc) Mo Mahler (BFA '03) and Bum Lee (BFA '06) and David Tinapple (MFA '07), was projected at the entrance to the Human Computer Interaction Institute in Newell Simon Hall during the first week in February.

Lowry Burgess will give an address called "On the Dominance of the Metasphere" at the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, The Netherlands on February 28. He will also be meeting at UNESCO in Paris on March 2 to discuss provisions of the "Toronto Manifesto".

Bob Bingham, Steffi Domike (MFA '97) and Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99) will be in a group exhibit, 6 BILLION PERPS HELD HOSTAGE! Artists Address Global Warming, at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, March 11 - June 17. The show will open Saturday, March 10, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. with music by DJ Schrapnel, including a lecture by Margaret Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring at 6:00 p.m.

Kim Beck's installation at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, was reviewed in the February issue of Art in America. Beck was nominated as PCA's 2006 Emerging Artist of the Year.

Ayanah Moor was interviewed in January by the Baltimore Examiner and Gazette Newspapers for her solo show, Our Radio is Bigger than Yours, at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. The show will close February 16, http://www.gazette.net/stories/011807/entecov184236_31981.shtml;
http://www.examiner.com/a-519096~Artist_satirizes_how_big_business_markets__urban__without_the_culture.html?setEdition=Baltimore.

Mel Bochner (CFA '62) presented a solo exhibit at Quint Contemporary Art in la Jolla, CA, January 5 - February 10, http://www.quintgallery.com/.

Katherine "Kay" Morgan (BFA '67) will exhibit work in the group show, Artistic Journey, at Aquarian Age Gallery opening February 23 with a reception from 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Philip Rostek (MFA '73) exhibited in Switchback at ArtUp at 937 Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh, PA, January 20-26.

Ron Desmett (MFA '79) presents Lidded Trunk Vessels: New Sculptural Vessels, a solo show at h p g r p Gallery in NYC, February 7 - March 7. The show will then travel to Project 4 Gallery in Washington, DC, and be on display April 25 - May 5, http://www.hpgrpgallery.com; http://www.project4gallery.com.

Mark Perrott (BFA '79) presents a solo exhibit of photographs, Baseball, at Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, PA, February 17 - May 13, http://www.pittsburghkids.org/.

Jamie Adams (BFA '83) presents a solo exhibit at Philip Slein Gallery in St. Louis, MO, through February 24, http://www.philipsleingallery.com/index.php.

John Currin (BFA '84) exhibited in Back to the Figure: Contemporary Painting at Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf, Switzerland, through February 11, http://www.museum-franzgertsch.ch/ausstellung/index.php.

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) exhibits in The Wind Challenge Exhibition #4, a three-person show at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, PA, February 16 - March 17, http://www.fleisher.org/.

Juliette Borda (BFA, '89) will have original gouache paintings in a show alongside Norman Rockwell's paintings, at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration is on view through May 28. The exhibition features outstanding original oil paintings by Norman Rockwell from the Pfizer Collection. These pantings, considered to be among the finest examples of Rockwell's advertising commissions, explore the doctor/patient relationship, physical fitness, and health and healing. Picturing Health includes works reflecting similar themes by 14 of today's most respected illustrators, http://www.nrm.org.

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) is Artist #67 in Jason Schmidt's new book, "Artists," recently published by Edition 7L/Steidl and presented by Deitch Projects, running through February 24, http://www.deitch.com.

Sarah Smith (BFA '91) presents Notwithstanding, a solo exhibit at Ampersand International Arts in San Francisco, CA, February 16 - March 9, http://www.ampersandintlarts.com/.

Katie Grinnan (BFA '92) has had her work collected by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, through a donation of works collected by Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson, http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews1-9-07.asp.

Todd Bartel (MFA '93) is organizing Sublime Climatea, an exhibit of artwork responding to global warming for the first exhibition at The Cambridge School of Weston's Garthwaite Center for Science and Art, a sustainable science building and art gallery. The exhibit opens in November of 2007, http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=24550&page=1#46502.

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94) exhibits prints this February at the Lower East Side Printshop in NYC, http://www.printshop.org/web/Collect/Exhibitions/index.html.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) exhibited this January in Purspace, a group show of ten emerging artists in a preview of a renovated Chelsea brownstone in NYC. He is also showing work at Socrates Sculpture Park's Booth 316 at Pier 94 in the 2007 Armory Show in NYC, February 23-26, and has work included in Plastic, une proposition de John Tremblay at Cabinet des estampes du Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva, Switzerland, Feburary 22 - May 20, http://www.thearmoryshow.com/info/; http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mahg/musee/cde/cde.html.

Catherine Fichtner (MFA '95), Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, won a 2006 Staff Recognition Award in the Outstanding Support category.

Leah Piepgras (MFA '97) exhibiting new paintings at OMA, in Boston, MA, http://www.leahpiepgras.com.

Dana Kleinman (BFA '97) lives in New Mexico where her work is represented by Elysee Fine Art in Santa Fe. This year, she will exhibit at Dangenart Gallery in Nashville, TN, http://www.danalynnkleinman.com.

Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99), with Stephen Moore, presented collaborative prints spanning a decade at the Society for Cultural Exchange in Pittsburgh, PA, on January 27, http://www.societyforculturalexchange.org/; http://www.infcty.net/; http://www.studiotara.net/.

Marc Böhlen (MFA and MS '99) delivered the keynote presentation this January at AITAmI 2007 (Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence) in Hyderabad, India. In March he will be a Visiting Researcher/Artist in Residence at AILAB (University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) in Switzerland, http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~jcaug/aitami07.htm; http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ailab/.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) is performing internationally this year at the Rathausgallerie in Munich, the Linz Academy of Fine Arts in Austria, the Future of Imagination IV: International Performance Art Festival in Singapore, the 4th Tupada International Performance and Media Art Festival in Manila, the 9th International Art Action Festival: Interakcje in Krakow and in Artist as Activist in Tokyo, http://www.lynnlu.info/index.html.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) presents Thirty-three Days, a solo exhibit of a 33 sculptures made of various materials, at Ratio 3 in San Francisco, CA, through March 6. Her work is also included in 2006 SECA Art Award Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through April 27, http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=252/; http://www.ratio3.org/.

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) exhibited his work internationally last year at: the Limkokwing University KL Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Casa Museu Bissaya Barreto in Coimbra, Portugal; Dean Jenson Gallery in Milwaukee, WI; Bienal do Ano 3000, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo,Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil; and at ACM Siggraph 2006 Art Gallery in Boston, MA, http://www.crudeoils.us/shawn/.

Zak Prekop (BFA '01) particpated in The Nature of Disturbance, curated by Dan Devening for Rowland Contemporary in Chicago, IL, through February 10, http://www.rowlandcontemporary.com/current.asp.

Semi Ryu (MFA '02 ) was awarded an artist-in-residence position last fall at the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO.

Crystala Armagost (BFA '03) exhibits work in The Artist & Craftsman Supply Staff Show at C Space, Pittsburgh, PA, through February 26. Two of her etchings are being used for the set of the film "Smart People", starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Dennis Quaid, filmed on the CMU campus. She is starting a collection of sketches and artwork from American veterans and soldiers for a collaboration responding to current events and world issues, http://www.myspace.com/crystala13; http://www.crystala13.etsy.com.

Sarah Hatton's (BFA '03) short video, "Birdbath Peep Show", was screened at the No Festival Required Part 41: The Statehood Show, Thoughtful and Provocative Cinema by All Arizona Filmmakers on February 4. The screening took place at the Modified Arts gallery in Phoenix, AZ. You can learn more about No Festival Required at http://www.nofestivalrequired.com .

Drew Pavelchak (BFA '03) is a 2007 recipient of a $5,000 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Media Arts (Narrative and Animation).

Cassandra Jones (MFA '04) presents Rara Avis at Queen's Nails Annex in San Francisco, CA, on view February 2 - March 9. Nathan Larramendy Gallery will present this site-specific wallpaper installation at Pulse NY, February 22-25. Subsequently, Jones heads to Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic for a residency that will culminate in a retrospective opening on April 6. Upon her return, she begins working with Vanina Holesek Gallery for her first solo show in Manhattan, http://www.queensnailsannex.com/.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA '05) will moderate the first of six public lectures/video screenings as part of his 4 month Creative Heights residency project with Pittsburgh Filmmakers. "Pop Culture, Psychedelia, and Children's Programming" brings together Gary Panter, underground art and comics hero and set designer for Pee Wee's Playhouse, and the creators of Yo Gabba Gabba, a children's show for Nick Jr., to discuss contemporary issues in media literacy. Free and open to the oublic, the program begins with a reception at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, February 16, and lecture from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Ruth Stanford (MFA '05) exhibits in The Eudora Welty Project at Georgia State University through March 1, reviewed on February 24 on accessAtlanta.com,http://www.accessatlanta.com/hp/content/arts/stories/2007/02/04/arwelty0204a.html.

Bum Lee's (BFA '05) animation "Sports and Diversions" will be screened in Lille 7th International Short Film Festival, France, Feb 13–18. It received an Asia Digital Art Award, and was screened as part of the Moving Images Excellence Award Asia Digital Art Awards Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, January 3­15. It has also been recently screened at Bradford International Animation Festival (out-of-competition), England, November 15-18 and Skena Up International Students Film and Theatre Festival, Kosovo, November 10-17.

Matt Barton (Adjunct faculty and MFA '06) along with Jesse Hulcher (MFA '06), Jacob Ciocci (MFA '05), and Josh Bonnet (BFA '00) exhibit work in HOME/AWAY at Space, Pittsburgh, PA. HOME/AWAY, guest curated by local artist, Thad Kellstadt, explores physical and psychological travel, psychedelic humor, and the weighting of truths surrounding our everyday lives, http://www.spacepittsburgh.org/flash.html.

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) participated in Work With Me, a collaboration-based show curated by Owen Smith at Future Tenant Gallery. The show is open January 19 - February 13. Kinsley's video "Gesichtsmusik" will be shown at Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis as part of University of Minnesota's Spark Festival of electronic music and art. Spark Festival runs February 20-24, http://spark.cla.umn.edu/.

Ian Ingram (MFA '07) along with Garth Zeglin (CMU Robotics Institute) recently co-founded Rossum's, a forum for artists working with robotics that emphasise works which combine the digital and mechanical in embodied forms. Rossum's first group show, Mechanosphere, will be presented as part of the The Three Rivers Arts Festival. The show will feature both new and revised work by Ian Ingram, Garth Zeglin, Stuart Anderson, Takehito Etani (MFA '06), Doug Fritz (BFA '07), Amisha Gadani (BFA '07), Joseph Hays (MFA '09), Michael Kontopoulos (BFA '07), Shaun Slifer (CMU Robotics Institute), and Gregory Witt (MFA '09). Mechanosphere opens with a reception Friday, February 23 from 5:30-8:00 p.m. and runs through Friday, March 23. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and Saturday, Noon-5:00 p.m.

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