School of Art Advisory Board Member, Mel Chin, has a solo exhibit, Render, at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York through March 23, 2003.

Mary Weidner was awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 2002-03 Special Opportunity Stipend.

Joe Mannino and Michael Smithhammer are exhibiting with their students, Heather Lefeiste and Carrie Hamilton, in Potters Who Teach at The Clay Place in Shadyside, Pittsburgh, through April 23. The reception is Friday, April 4, 7-9pm. The exhibit is in conjunction with the 2003 CODA (Craft Organization Directors Association) Conference.

Ayanah Moor was invited to present a lecture on her work at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, February 13-14. As a visiting artist, she produced a lithographic print entitled I love hip-hop and hip-hop loves me in collaboration with Egress Press.

James Duesing is exhibiting an animation, Law of Averages, in a group show, American Dreams, at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City.

Mark Perrott (BFA '71) is exhibiting collaborative portraits with painter Robert Qualters in The Art of Sharing at Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburg, PA from February 23 through June 8, 2003. Both artists will lead a gallery walk on Thursday, April 10 at 7pm. www.museumaa.org

Vivian Tsao (MFA '76) has a solo exhibit at Ceres Gallery in New York City, March 4 through March 29, 2003. Her work will also be included in a group show, The Pastel Society of America Invitational Exhibition, at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH, March 16 - May 25. Her recent book, The Mark of Time: Dialogues with Vivian Tsao on Art in New York, contains interviews with critics Michael Brenson and Hilton Kramer as well as with artists, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Huang Chun Hsiu, and alumnus, Philip Pearlstein. The book was exhibited in the 2003 Tapei International Book Exhibition. Vivian has additional work on view at Biddington's Internet Gallery. She is currently teaching drawing at Pace University.

Sabrina Black (BFA '79) is Senior Design Personal Care Manager for the US/Global Division of the Corporate Design Group at Colgate Palmolive Company in New York City.

Lynn Corbett (BFA '80) is Executive Secretary to the Director at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Hugh Watkins (BFA '81) will be exhibiting The Broad Side - a reflection on the disappearing family farm and the beauty of the barn at Sweetwater Center for the Arts. Hugh has produced a series of large scale monoprints by transferring paint directly from the side of a barn to canvas. The subtext of the prints speaks to the changing landscape, the dwindling farm population and the fact that only 2% of farms produce 50% of our food. The exhibit continues through Friday, April 4, 2003. Sweetwater Center for the Arts is located at the corner of Rt. 65 Ohio River Blvd. and Broad St., Sewickley, PA.

ROY (BFA '84) will have work in At Arms Length, a bracelet exhibition at The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, March 15-26, 2003.

Rob Rogers (MFA '84) is exhibiting in Gestures, an exhibition of small site-specific works at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, March 2 through April 6, 2003.

Wall-to-Wall Studios, a 10-year old Pittsburgh communications design firm co-founded by James Nesbitt (BFA '91) and Bernard Uy (Design), won 27 American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) PITTSBURGH 100 SHOW Awards. Six nationally-renown designers judged the entries submitted by the region's design community and selected 100 as the Best of Pittsburgh, 2002. In addition, Wall-to-Wall Studios (W|W) received three of the six "Judge's Choice Awards." Two of the eight awards in the poster category were for Wall-to-Wall's designs for the School of Art's MFA program posters.

Mark Fischer (BFA '93) exhibited with Temporary Services in Binder Archives at Project Room One, Portland, Oregon, in February. Binder Archives will also be included in The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art at SAIC's Betty Rymer Gallery in Chicago, running through April 11. Curated by Anne Dorothee Böhme, "this exhibition features over 120 exhibition catalogs, dating from the 1960s to the present which, in their design, depart from their usual function as mere memory and record of an event and serve as works of art in themselves." Temporary Services is also represented through the Free For All Portable Exhibition. Free For All in Fantastic! at MASS MoCA, March 8, 2003 - February 2004. For Fantastic, Temporary Services is "collaborating with Angelo, an incarcerated artist that we are working with entirely through written correspondence on Prisoners' Inventions. Two years ago Temporary Services invited Angelo to write and design a booklet about the many ingenious, practical, necessary, and sometimes downright bizarre things he has seen other prisoners invent." On March 13, Temporary Services also participates in the International Arts Group Exposition 2003 (I've got an answer / I've got an anthem), organized by Red76 Arts Group, at The Laurelhurst Theater in Portland, Oregon.

Jennifer (Meyers) Klor (BFA '93) and her husband, Esteban are parents of a new baby boy, Benjamin Yosef, born on February 13 at 7lbs 9oz. Benjamin joins an older brother, Urieli.

Gary Breslin (BFA '95) collaborated with Christopher Draez and Reynold Reynolds on The Last News, a video exhibited in American Dream at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City, February 22-March 29, 2003.

Matt Keegan (BFA '98) is exhibiting this March in Man, I Feel Like a Woman at Space 1026 in Philadelphia.

Amie Robinson (BFA '98) is working at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City.

Zoe Woodworth (BFA '99) is an artist for iKnowthat.com, Inc. in Pittsburgh, a web-based children's educational software company. She contributed three video segments to Attack Theater's annual post-holiday multimedia dance production, presented at the Hazlett Theater on the Northside last December. Her video design and production were also part of Vernisaz, a three-woman multimedia dance piece presented at Helios Arts Studio as part of Ampersand Dance Company's IndiChor 2002 last November.

Emily Merz (BFA '00) has completed her research on orphanages in the former USSR. All five sections (fully illustrated) documenting her work in Moscow, Kiev, Smolensk, Angarsk, and Almaty are now available online at http://www.orphandoctor.com/wwo/orresearch.html

Theresa Marchetta (BFA '02) is designing and teaching for Glass Roots in Newark, NJ. Glass Roots is a glass facility that is building a studio for Newark youth.

Lauren Urbschat (BFA '02) is Communications Coordinator for the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh.

Cheryl Casteen (MFA '03) will participate in SKIN 2003: 2 Part / International Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibit at the ICEBOX Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. Cheryl's work appears in part 2, which will open May 3 and run through June 14, 2003. ICEBOX presents "the human body in art. Figures, eros, fragments, politics, mirrors, estangement, mind, and metamorphosis in a two part exhibit of more than one hundred works of art from around the world." The exhibit can be viewed online at www.iceboxminnesota.com. Cheryl also has work in The Figure Show 2003, March 6-29, 2003 in the Laura H. Miles Gallery at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts.

Heather Lefeiste and Carrie Hamilton, are exhibiting with faculty Joe Mannino and Michael Smithhammer in Potters Who Teach at The Clay Place in Shadyside, Pittsburgh, February 28 through April 23. The reception is Friday, April 4, 7-9pm. The exhibit is in conjunction with the 2003 CODA (Craft Organization Directors Association) Conference.

Fifth year student William Kofmehl is teaching a sculpture class at Holy Family Institute in Pittsburgh through May. The class will involve bronze and alumimun casting, with the assistance of Professor Ron Bennett.

Graduate students from the School of Art collaborated with their peers from Virginia Commonwealth University on an exhibit, Trans-Appalachian Tractor Pull II which inaugurated Future Tenant, a new gallery space at 801 Liberty Avenue. Graduate students in art have teamed with those in the Master's of Arts Management program to cooperate with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in organizing this new venue. Trans-Appalachian Tractor Pull II closed March 8. Cassandra Jones will exhibit there next through March 16.

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