The School of Art and Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University present TRANSIT 2008, a project culminating in an exhibition opening on February 29 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. and running through March 9. TRANSIT 2008 is part of an ongoing exchange between the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon and Kyoto University of Art & Design, Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design (NZU) and Tokyo Zokei University. Andrew Johnson, Golan Levin and Susanne Slavick are coordinating the project from this side of the Pacific. TRANSIT 2008 continues a relationship that began in 1997, when School of Art faculty were invited to NZU for a joint exhibition at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. In 2000 the Miller Gallery presented Nagoya Works on Paper that showcased a diverse group of works on Japanese handmade Mino-Washi. Five years later, CMU art students demonstrated their interactive artworks at Nagoya's Yada Gallery, the World Expo Fairgrounds and on Japanese television when Carnegie Mellon joined TRANSIT, an international consortium of art schools that fosters exchange. Last fall NZU organized TRANSIT 2007 that traveled from Nagoya to Tokyo and Kyoto. The 2008 version at the Miller Gallery will feature site-specific installations created while the artists are here along with drawings, paintings, sculptures, printmaking, video and new media works by students from Carnegie Mellon and the three Japanese schools. Check the School of Art calendar, blog, and miller Gallery website for the most current updates at: http://calendar.art.cfa.cmu.edu/; http://news.art.cfa.cmu.edu; http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery.

The following CFA faculty and friends are currently presenting and/or exhibiting during the 2008 College Art Association Conference, Adam’s Mark Hotel, Dallas, TX, February 20-23. Panelists include, Matthew Reynolds, Center for the Arts in Society postdoctoral fellow for 2007-8, Golan Levin, Assistant Professor of Art, Christopher Sperandio, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Beatriz da Costa (exchange student alumna), Kai Gutschow, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Ting Chang, Assistant Professor of Art/Critical Arts Histories, and Mel Chin (2003 Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecturer in Creative Inquiry Series at Carnegie Mellon). The College Art Association charges a conference registration fee. One may opt to pay lower fees to attend individual sessions. There are no fees to attend receptions. The School of Art reception will be held today, February 22 at the Rachofsky House from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. http://www.rachofskyhouse.org; http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/.

Kim Beck 's work is featured in the Walker Art Center's Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, the first major museum exhibition to examine both the art and architecture of the contemporary American suburb and its catalytic role in the creation of new art. On view from February 16 – August 17, the exhibition is organized by the Walker in association with the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Worlds Away features more than 75 works—paintings, photographs, prints, architectural models, sculptures, and videos—addressing commonly held assumptions about the origins, demographic composition, persistence, and sustainability of the suburban landscape. Some 30 artists and architects draw inspiration from, provoke discussion about, or cast either an appreciative or critical eye on today's suburbs. The exhibition co-curators are Andrew Blauvelt, Walker design director and curator, and Tracy Myers, curator of architecture at Carnegie's Heinz Architectural Center. http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4048

Ting Chang presents a paper, “From Gods to Sculptures: the Secularization of the Musée Guimet,” at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX, on February 22.

Roger Dannenberg's "Critical Point," an interactive composition for cello and computer, will be performed on Thursday, February 28, at Connecticut College's Arts and Technology Symposium.

Elaine A. King's article titled "Ada Bobonis: Anthropomorphic Amalgams," is published in Sculpture, January/Februrary 2008, Vol. 27. No. 1. Ada Bobonis is an adroit sculptor who lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and whose work continuously undergoes alteration. Throughout her oeuvre the methods of post-minimalism underly this art as does her rigorous need to activate and control the space the work inhabits. Most recently her site-specific installation titled "Sensible States," inaugurated the Museo de Arte de Puerto Ricos new Project Room series.

Golan Levin made public presentations about his work at Lotusphere 2008, IBM's annual user group conference, in Orlando, FL, on January 21; in the Human Computer Interaction Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on January 24; and in a panel presentation, "Electronic and Emergent Media", at the CAA (College Art Association) conference, Dallas Ballroom, Adam's Mark Hotel, in Dallas on February 20. On March 6, Levin will present at the University of California at Santa Cruz, in a session jointly hosted by the Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media MFA program [DANM] and at the Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquium [ATC]; on March 7 in the HCI Seminar Series on People, Computers and Design at Stanford University; and on March 10 in the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium at the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, CA. He is also the recipient of a 2008 Individual Fellowship in Visual Arts/New Technologies/Other Genres from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/sessions/view/559; http://www.citris-uc.org/events/atc_colloquium_looking_looking_looking; http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/abstracts/07-08/080307-levin.html; http://atc.berkeley.edu/

Joe Mannino's large scale clay sculpture, "Touched," has been acquired by Strategic Analysis in Arlington Virginia, for its corporate collection.

Clayton Merrell's work will be featured in the exhibition titled Work Book at the Special Collections Library of UW Madison, and in New American Paintings Vol. 75, due out this March.

Melissa Ragona will be on a panel with Carolee Schneemann and Peggy Ahwesh at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC, on Saturday, March 1 at 4:00 p.m. — celebrating WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. Ragona, Schneemann and Ahwesh will discuss the cultural, political, and aesthetic impact of women's experimental film in the 1970s and 80s by highlighting the films of Marie Menken, Barbara Rubin, Marjorie Keller, Abigail Child, as well as Ahwesh's and Schneemann's own work. This panel will highlight debates addressed in the recent book, "Women's Experimental Cinema" edited by Robin Blaetz, Duke University Press 2007. A two hour program of films will begin at 2:00 p.m. See http://www.ps1.org for details and schedule.

Associate Professor Suzie Silver (with Hilary Harp) and Shana Moulton (MFA Class of '04) presented in Apportmanteau, curated by Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns for the 21st Stuttgarter Filmwinter in Germany this January.
http://www.wand5.de/wand5cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=87

Susanne Slavick participates in two group shows: Women on War at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco,CA, February 15 - March 29 and in Investigating the Corporeal at Flanders Art Gallery in Raleigh, NC, February 1-27.

Christopher Sperandio and Simon Grennan have two new projects this February. "Get It Right!"t, commissioned by the Trade and General Workers' Union (Wales), one of the largest UK trade unions, presents five true-life anecdotes about coming to work in Britain. The book will be distributed in an edition of 6,000 from February 2008 through the Union and Trades Union Council networks in Wales. Becoming Modern at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales UK, from 9 February, is the result of a commission by the gallery of paintings that have been inspired by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies' Italian journey of 1909. These 11 new paintings will hang alongside well-known art from the Davies Bequest: two views of Venice by Claude Monet from 1908, Paul Cezanne's Provencal Landscape, paintings by Berthe Morisot and Camille Pissarro, and Degas' bronze study, Dressed Dancer. A 60-page catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Mary Weidner is exhibiting at A.I.R. Gallery in NYC in Generations 6, a biennial exhibition of small works by women artists. The exhibition includes a fundraising collaboration between A.I.R. and CODEPINK. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Irag, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life affirming activities. The gallery is located at 511 West 25th St. and the exhibition runs February 5 - March 1.

Minna Langstrom (former exchange student from Finland) is a full-time professor at Kuvataideakatemia in Helsinki, Finland.

Elizabeth Asche Douglas (BFA '51) is exhibiting 11 paintings, 10 sculptures in Bliss Gallery of Youngstown State University, OH, February 4-29. She also exhibits in a joint exhibition entitled Manifestations, with Cleveland painter/photographer Julius Lyles. Last year, from December 1-28, 2007, Douglas presented in solo show (45 drawings, prints, small paintings, and 5 small sculptures) entitled You Can Take it With You in the gallery of the Center For Creative Arts Expression in Beaver Falls, PA.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) presents The Sacred Earth, Past, Present, Future at La Galeria Nacional Centro Costarricense in San Jose, Costa Rica, opening March 7. The exhibit features paintings from her industrial park and billboard series. http://www.janetculbertson.net

Philip Morsberger (A '54) has a retrospective of his work at the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, OH, on view February 7 - June 16. http://www.fna.muohio.edu/amu/exhibitions/gallery3/index.html

Mary Tinker Hatch (A '56) is a teacher, printmaker, and painter. Her experience in art is wide-ranging, from 16 years as a Printing faculty member at the DeCordova Museum), Danforth Museum, and Framingham Public Schools, to Art Editor at the Ladies Home Journal. In addition, she has worked as a book illustrator for Pilgrim Press and a guest lecturer throughout the Boston area. She has exhibited widely in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. Her work is in public and private collections, including those of the Danforth Museum, Bank of America, Federal Reserve Bank, W.R. Grace, S.D. Warren Paper Company, Gruntal Company, and Bank of New England. Her prints and paper pieces have also been on exhibit at the Danforth, DeCordova, Newport, and Fitchburg museums. She recently showed her work at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA, and the Bromfield Gallery in Boston. She was also curator of the show, Drawn In, at the Arlington Center for the Arts' Gibbs Gallery in Arlington, MA. http://www.marytinkerhatch.com/

Geoff Kaplan (class of '88 Design & Graphic Arts) of General Working Group has produced projects for a range of academic and cultural institutions, including MOCA, the Walker Art Center, and CalArts. His work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. He is on the faculty/staff of the Media Design Program at The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. http://www.generalworkinggroup.com/.

Dara Birnbaum (BFA '69) exhibits In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection, a group exhibition featuring seminal works from the 70's at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, March 22 - June 8. Her work is also included in Top 100: The Art Metropole Collection, organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and opening at Mount St. Vincent University Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 22 - June 8.
http://www.sfmoma.org/press/pressroom.asp?do=exhibitions&id=328; http://msvuart.ca/index.php?menid=02&mtyp=17&article_id=283

Tom Norulak's (class of '71) latest etchings "Beached" will be part of this year's Ohio + 5 exhibit at the Dairy Barn Art Center in Athens, OH, from February 29 - April 13.

Herb Olds (Professor of Art Emeritus) and alumnae Linsley Lambert (BFA '75) and Leslie Brown (BFA '81) are included in the exhibit, Naked Truth: Figure as Form and Spirit, on view at dba256 Gallery in Pomona, CA, through March 9. http://www.dba256.com/352/index.html

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) exhibits in Publishing Prints: Selections from the Center Street Studio Archives at Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA, March 28 - June 6. He lectures on his work at Minneapolis College of Art and Design on February 26, http://museums.richmond.edu/exhibitions/index.html; http://www.charlesritchie.com/.

Leslie Brown (BFA '81) has been an Artist in Residence since 2001 at Corona Heritage Foundation, in Corona, CA. http://www.leslieabrown.com/bio.htm

Marlena Novak (BFA '82) of localStyle presents a screening of Fluid Mechanics Remix at Experimental Intermedia, NYC, on March 18. LocalStyle is also participating in a project focusing on water concerns in the drought-ridden area of Zaragoza, Spain, in July and presenting a summer show of digital images/photographs in Budapest. Flatfile Gallery in Chicago, IL, presents their solo show in September. http://www.localstyle.tv/#Home

David French (BFA '87) recently exhibited in a invitational thematic exhibit, Painting Process, at Seton Hall University’s Walsh Gallery, South Orange, NJ. The artistic process was emphasized in this exhibition of paintings, articulating the innovative methods of the artists highlighted in this show. Using creative and highly individual techniques, artists arrive at distinctive end results. He was also accepted to exhibit in the M.C.A.C. Annual at the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, on view through March 2. http://www.library.shu.edu/gallery/Painting_DavidFrench.htm

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) has solo exhibition entitled Twenty Five Answers to One Question at Friesen Gallery in Seattle, WA. Her work will also be included in This is My Nature at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, WY, and in Two Scoops is One at Two Scoops in Los Angeles, CA. http://www.friesengallery.com; http://www.thenic.org; http://www.scoopsart.blogspot.com

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) exhibits in Lost Horizon, a group show of works by twelve artists from New York/New England who incorporate architectural concerns in their painting practices. The show runs through March 4 at Herter Art Gallery at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. http://www.umass.edu/umhome/events/articles/70993.php

Dana Martinelli (BFA '93) has been an Information Architect at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Pittsburgh, PA, since last April. http://dana.omnio.org/

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) has been named "Artist of the Month" at The Art List. Her interview and work can be viewed on their webiste. She recently exhibited in The Artist's Choice at Atlantic Gallery, NYC, and currently her work is on view through March 15 at Redbrick Art Center's 2008 Member Exhibition, Water: Contemporary Views of the Subject, in Beverly, MA. STRUCTURES: The Real and the Sublime, Julie Vinette & Ottavio Forte, will be on view March 21 - April 25 at Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont, MA. Julie is also a participating artist in the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park's Corporate Art Program.
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Jen Urso (BFA '96) spoke about her work for FirstMondays at the Phoenix Public Library, AZ, on February 4. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/pressreleases.jsp?lwbid=8390

Leah Piepgras (MFA '97) presents Euphoria, a solo exhibit at HallSpace in Dorchester, MA, February 2 - March 1. The show was reviewed in the February 7 Boston Globe. She also exhibited this January in New Art 2008 at MPG Contemporary in Boston, MA. http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/02/07/disposable_but_not _useless/; http://www.hallspace.org/; http://www.mpgallery.net/; http://leahpiepgras.com/.

Dana Kleinman Pennebaker (BFA '97) exhibits in a two-person show, K x 2 = art at Artcenter/South Florida on view February 23 - March 27. http://www.artcentersf.org/exhibitions/current.htm

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) presents her first solo museum exhibition at Hammer Projects in Los Angeles, CA, February 25 - May 5. http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/index.htm

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) and James Welling (BFA '73) exhibit in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, on view March 6 - June 1. http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/index.htm

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (MFA '99) participated in transmediale.08: CONSPIRE in Berlin, Germany, where he led the Radio Gun Revolt division for Moving Forest on February 1. Orchestrating urban radio transmissions into a marching symphony of noise, 20 players holding wooden guns outfitted with a variety of electronics from radios to chirping circuit boards to magnetic field detectors marched from Siegessäule to Haus der Kulturen der Welt. http://informationalism.net/weapons/

Carolina Loyola Garcia (MFA '99), local artist and activist, has curated a 3-part series of films on world mining. In part two, the documentary "Pascua Lama: A Contemporary Quest for El Dorado" explores the complicated dynamics of the mining industry in Chile, specifically focusing on the mining project called Pascua Lama, being developed by the Canadian Barrick Gold Corporation in Northern Chile. Not one to shy away from controversy, Loyola-Garcia, along wither her sister Gloria Loyola, tackle the issue of governments who lack long-term vision and developing countries who sell their natural resources without considering sustainable development strategies for their communities. The filmmakers believe this fosters a new model of colonization sponsored by the corporate developed world. This exhibition is being organized and curated by media artist Carolina Loyola-Garcia in association with Three Rivers Arts Festival and ArtUp, and has also received the support of Robert Morris University, the Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, ArtIs, Appalshop, and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. http://pghfilmmakers.org/exhibition/upcoming.html#disposable2

Justin Giunta (BFA '01) has been named one of seven 2008 winners of the prestigious Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation grants for emerging design talents. He is the first winner in the newly added accessories category and received a $25,000 award to help showcase his collection. He was featured in a February 4 Pittsburgh Post Gazette article at:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08035/854544-51.stm

Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) and Spencer Murphy present The Ties That Bind at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto, Canada, February 7 - March 6. http://www.gallery44.org/

Brooke Singer (MFA '02 ) exhibited in Nature Version 2.0: Ecological Modernities and Digital Environmentalism, January 21 - February 16, at Colgate University's Clifford Gallery in Hamilton, NY. http://ecoarttech.net/sustainablefutures/exhibition.html

William Kofmehl (BFA '03) exhibits in Ornithology: Looking At Birds, at The Contemporary Art Gallerie, University of Connecticut, Storrs, on view February 11 - April 3.

Janine Biunno (BFA '04) was selected as this year's recipient for the Southern Graphics Council National Graduate Fellowship. SGC Student Fellowships are awarded to individuals who exhibit outstanding promise in the fine art practice of printmaking. This fellowship provides funding for a project of her design, that she will be presenting at next year's annual conference. http://www.janinebiunno.com

Cassandra Jones' (MFA '04) exhibits in Stretching the Truth, a group show curated by Jennifer Jankauskas at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI, February 10 - May 3. The show features work by 26 artists who demonstrate photography's rapidly expanding boundaries.

Carolyn Lambert (MFA '05) and Robin Hewlett (BFA '04) received a Pittsburgh 250 Community Connections grant for $5000 to fund their new project ReTool. The two have also been selected to participate in a residency at the Banff Centre in May. Lambert will be showing video documentation of the Ohio River LifeBoat Project in a group show entitled, EPA: Environmental Performance Actions at Exit Art, NYC, opening March 15.

Adam Davies (MFA '05) is the recipient of a 2008 Individual Creative Artists Fellowship in Painting from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Last month, he was awarded the Juror's prize from the Onward '08 show at Project Basho in Philadelphia, PA, and will be having a two-person exhibition of photography at that space in the fall. http://www.adavies3.com

Kohta Asakura (BFA '06) currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, and has joined Zooma Zooma, a bi-coastal commercial, music video and film production company. His recent video, "Cold Hearted Town" for the band, New Atlantic was AOL.com's Music Video of the Day and was a featured rotation on MTVU. MySpace cast the music video in their Indie Spotlight feature.
http://www.zoomazooma.com/sites/pressreleases/pr1.html#kohta
http://www.zoomazooma.com/sites/pressreleases/pr1.html
http://kohtaskitchen.com/

Lauren F. Adams (MFA '07) will be exhibiting two installations at Artspace in Raleigh, NC, from March 7 – April 11, in the show Looking Back: Regional Emerging Artists-in-Residence 2000-2004. The reception is March 7, 6:00-10:00 p.m. http://www.artspacenc.org

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