Joseph Mannino and Michelle Illuminato are exhibiting in Objects in/and Visual Culture at the Zoller Gallery at Penn State University, March 1-20. The exhibit accompanies a conference on March 19-20.

James Duesing's Tender Bodies opens the New York Film/Video Council's annual SHORTFEST with The Museum of Modern Art at MoMA Film at the Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street at 6pm on March 22, 2004. Duesing's animation is described as: "...this cutting-edge, multi-layered work, which was several years in the making, is an outstanding example of computer animation produced on HD CC am with Dolby digital sound and then output to film." Tender Bodies is included in the 2004 Black Maria Film and Video Festival (January 30 - June 15), a touring exhibition of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 award winning films and videos. It annually visits more than 70 major public institutions, colleges, theaters and community organizations throughout the nation and beyond, including the Millenium Film Workshop at 66 East 4th Street on March 26 at 8 pm. http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/intl_shorts_2004.html;
http://www.njcu.edu/programs/taebmff/blackmariafest.html.

Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver are delivering a presentation entitled, Elaborations of Motive and Process, at the Objects in/and Visual Culture Conference at Penn State University on March 19.

Pamela Jennings will present three papers at the 2004 CHI (Computer Human Interaction) conference to be held April 24-29 in Vienna, Austria. They are: Crossing Boundaries: Fostering Interdisciplinary Arts Practice and Human Computer Interaction Research Teams for the Cross-Dressing and Border Crossing: Exploring Experience Methods Across Disciplines Workshop, organized by Ron Wakkary, Thecla Schiphorst, and Jim Budd; Teaching Design to Technologists; Teaching Technology to Designers and Artists, for the Design and HCI Workshop, organized by John Zimmerman, Shelley Evenson, Peter Purgathofer and Konrad Bauman; and Distributed Minds | Negotiated Spaces: Social Interfaces for Public Spaces for the Reflective HCI: Towards a Critical Technical Practice Workshop, organized by Paul Dourish, Janet Fenlay, Phoebe Sengers and Peter Wright.http://www.chi2004.org/.

Golan Levin has work in the Whitney Biennial opening this month and running through May 30.
http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/biennial.shtml.

Patricia Barefoot's Anatomy/Autonomy exhibit at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts through March 14 is discussed by A. J. Caliendo in "Anatomy of an artist: Paintings draw on women's struggles, triumphs" in a March 3 article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04063/280162.stm.

Bruce Erikson has a solo exhibit, Fading Images, this March at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN.

Ron Bennett was commissioned to create bronze presentation medals for the American Society for Testing Metals in Philadelphia.

Joseph Mannino will exhibit this April in The Eve Aesthetic: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, at the Memorial Union Art Gallery at University of California Davis. This curated exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.

Melissa Ragona presented Swing and Sway: Marie Menken's Hand-held Vertigo for the Women Experimental Filmmakers panel at the Cinema Studies Conference in Atlanta, Georgia this March. She also presented a writing/audio performance this February at Just Buffalo Literary Center/Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY.

Mary Weidner exhibited in Generations.04 at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City this March. She is exhibiting in Memory, Conjecture and Yearning: Paintings and Installations by Mary Weidner at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, April 2 - June 6.

Fabian Winkler's DIELECTRIC won "Jury's Recommendation" this March in the 7th Japanese Media Arts Festival at Tokyo's Museum of Photography. He will present a paper on DIELECTRIC at the Subtle Technologies Festival at University of Toronto this May, accompanied by a festival catalogue.

Andy Warhol's (BFA '49) Kiku Collages are being exhibited at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City March 18 - April 17. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. http://www.paulkasmingallery.com.

Robert D. Clements (BFA '59) was Professor of Art at University of Georgia in Athens where he won the Albert Christ-Janer Award in 1991 for excellence in research and creative activity. He is co-author of Art and Mainstreaming: Art Instruction for Exceptional Children in Regular School Classes, published in 1984.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) is exhibiting in A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, at MOCA in Los Angeles, March 14 -August 2, 2004. Organized by Ann Goldstein, the exhibit is the first major survey of the field since the Minimal art heyday.

Mel Bochner (A'62) and Katie Grinnan (BFA '92) have works in the Whitney Biennial opening this month and running through May 30. http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/biennial.shtml.

Nancy Hagin (CFA '62) is exhibiting in The Face of Courage, an ongoing commemorative exhibition of portrait paintings of the fallen uniformed rescue workers of 9-11. The exhibit has traveled to: Gallery 323 West (in conjunction with The Elizabeth Foundation) in NYC; The Cornell Museum of Art Delray Beach, FL; Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.; Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD; Baltimore World Trade Center; Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD; and Mid-South Community College, West Memphis, AK. It will travel to John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, Boston, March 15 - July 29, 2004 and eventually to The New England Fire and History Museum, Cape Cod, MA.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) exhibited in Kozloff and Kozloff: Joyce and Max Kozloff this January and February in the New Mexico State University Art Gallery. The exhibit included Targets, a walk-in globe whose interior is plastered with aeronautical charts of the countries the United States has bombed since 1945; Selections from Knowledge, an ongoing project comprised of small frescos inspired by earlier maps; and Boy's Art, a series of collaged drawings based on maps, diagrams and illustrations of historic battles. http://www.nmsu.edu/~ucomm/Releases/kozloff.html. Her work is also included in Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists and Cartographers at Julie Saul Gallery at 535 West 22nd Street in Chelsea through April 14. The exhibit includes historical maps and works by a wide range of contemporary artists working in a variety of mediums including painting, collage, drawing, photography and printmaking. http://www.saulgallery.com/chronicle/uncharted_territory.html. Her most recent commission was for Dreaming: The Passage of Time, at the United States Consulate,(designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) in Istanbul through the U.S. State Department's Art in Embassies Program.

Diane Samuels (BFA '70 and MFA '76) was commissioned to create Luminous Manuscript, a centerpiece mosaic for the new Center for Jewish History in New York City, to be unveiled at an April 1 gala ceremony. Samuels was chosen from a field of 80 nominated international artists. Luminous Manuscript consists of 80,500 pieces of glass frosted with characters from 57 languages, numerals or images of a child's hand. These glass tesserae will be mounted on 440 Jerusalem stone panels. An article by Mary Thomas on the commission appeared in the March 11 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04071/283965.stm.

Barbara Rosenthal (BFA '74) is a multi-media artist whose work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Franklin Furnace, and The Kitchen, all in New York City, as well as in centers, museums and libraries in Japan, Portugal, Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Italy and Spain. She is Co-Director of eMediaLoft.com and teaches English at CUNY/The College of Staten Island. For more information visit: http://www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/barbararosenthal.htm.

Marlena Novak (BFA '82) is a painter and digital artist who has been collaborating with composer Jay Alan Kim (under the collaborative name of localStyle) to make digital animatography with sound. They have had a number of presentations of this work in the U.S. and abroad including the Mondriaanhuis Museum of Constructivist and Concrete Art in Amersfoort, Netherlands and recently at the Wellesley College's Davis Museum. Their Dancing Cranes is included in Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct at Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts through March 27.
http://www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu/exhibitions/exhibitions_dancing_cranes.html;
http://www.kleinart.com/html/localstyle_novak_resume.html

James Adams (BFA '83) is Director of the Core program at Washington University's School of Art in St. Louis, MO. He is currently completing two commissioned portraits for the Pennsylvania Senate and actively exhibiting his paintings.

James Nesbitt (BFA '91) is exhibiting a variety of mixed media work at the James Gallery, 413 South Main Street (Pittsburgh's West End). The group show entitled, New Blood: A Sampling of Fresh Talent, showcases 10 of the gallery's newest artists. The exhibit runs from March 6 - April 3. Call 412.922.9800 for more information.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) collaborated with artists Christy Puetz and Joe Willie Smith in an interactive performance titled Thoughts during Phoenix's Art Detour weekend March 5 & 6 outside eye lounge. The performance consisted of rolls of fabric being run through a sewing machine at the top of a scaffold then cascading down to the next level where she wrote stream of conscious thoughts and then cascaded down to the street level where Joe Willie encouraged people passing on the street to contribute their writing. Piles of the fabric built up along the ground. All of the writing and drawings will be included in an upcoming handmade book. Other than that Jen continues to volunteer with the Icehouse in Phoenix and artlink, Inc.-designing their monthly newsletter.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) has been accepted into the Ph.D. Intermedia Program at Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music where she will study with her favorite artist, Kawamata Tadashi.

Elizabeth Deasy, Abigail Satinsky and Tsvika Solan (all BFA '03) join Fifth Year Scholar Robin Hewlett and Miller Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator, Rick Gribenas with seven other artists in showing work in Terminal: Artists Defining Space and Place at Springboard, located at 24 Terminal Way on Pittsburgh's South Side. Guest curated by Brieanne Hauger, Terminal opens March 19, 5-7pm and runs through May 28. Elizabeth Deasy also has a painting in the window of the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery (701 Penn Avenue downtown).

Taryn FitzGerald (BFA '84) has a solo exhibit, Not Without A Star, at CUCHIFRITOS art gallery/project space at 120 Essex St. between Delancey and Rivington through March 20. Not without a Star is a site-specific video installation exploring cross-cultural workings on individual identity, as experienced within local immigrant communities at the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side.
http://www.artistsai.org/cuchifritos/Exhibits/not_w_a_star/index.html.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) contributed work to TheBuilding Alteration Project where pattern based paintings were billboarded to the boarded up windows of Mildred Monroe Elementary School #32 in Baltimore, MD http://www.stationnorth.org/exhibitions04.html#building. Her work will also be seen as part of the inaugural exhibition of a new gallery, Samson Projects, opening on March 20 in Boston. Two of her drawings are to be included in Drawings from Women at the School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar, April 15 - May 13.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) and Temporary Services will be presenting several projects at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, March 8 - April 2: Prisoners’ Inventions, Dave’s Stories, and work from their Public Phenomena archive - their entire collection of Ancient Order Fliers (anonymously self-published newspapers found in Chicago) and three carousels of images including: trucks built in trees, handmade signs, parking place savers and a variety of other selections. Show opens March 8, 5:30pm. Temporary Services will give a talk before the opening at 4:30pm. For more information: http://www.merz.colgate.edu/html/Gallery.html#Current.

Andrew Johnson (MFA '94) and James Thurman (BFA'93) are are exhibiting in Objects in/and Visual Culture at the Zoller Gallery at Penn State University, March 1-20. The exhibit accompanies a conference on March 19-20.

Todd Pavlisko's (MFA '02) work in Transmogrifications at Linda Schwartz Gallery in Cincinnati was reviewed by Jane Durrell in the January/February issue of Dialogue.

Mi Rae (Jennifer) Chung (BFA '03) recently finished working on the set designs for Victoria Bartlett and Benjamin Cho for their runway shows during fashion week in New York City, often working on projects with less than 48 hours notice. She has also been hired for the art director position on John Bruce's directorial debut film. Bruce was the art director for the films, I Shot Andy Warhol and Happiness.

Jacob Ciocci will participate in Paper Rad's solo exhibition that includes video installation, new prints and paintings at Foxy Production, 547 West 27th St. in New York City, opening Saturday, April 17, 2004. He is also showing various 2-D drawings and prints and Paper Rad videos in the group show, Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art, Skateboarding and Street Culture, with Royal Art Lodge, Space 1026 and Forcefield, at SSNOVA in Cincinnati, OH, in conjunction with the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, opening March 13 -May 30, 2004. http://www.foxyproduction.com/ and
http://www.paperrad.org/.

Blithe Riley screened The Diner at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Melwood Screening Room on March 8.

Ryan Murray and Bill Schott have been nominated for acceptance to the 2004 Yale/Norfolk Summer program.

The Student Public Art Award, funded by the Andrew Carnegie Scholars, CFA Dean's Office, School of Art and Student Affairs Office, has been awarded to Rebecca Deutsch for her project, Women's Voices in Higher Education: Continuing the History of the Margaret Morrison Rotunda Quote.

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