Fabian Winkler's large-scale inflatable sculpture GRRR! will be exhibited in urban spaces in Pittsburgh in conjunction with Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals, 1750 to 1900 at the Carnegie Museum of Art opening on March 26. The project is being realized as part of the Sprout Fund's Giant Inflatable Art Project. Fabian's latest robotic installation PI - personal interpreters, will be exhibited at the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, which will be held concurrently August 7-13, 2006 in San Jose, California. http://01sj.org/.

Elaine A. King gave a lecture at the Esquela Des Plastica Artes, San Juan, PR, titled Artists, Technology and Social Critique, on January 30. Her review "None of the Above: Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists," appears in the Jan./Feb. issue of Sculpture 2006. King's essay "El Artista Interrumpido: Trabajos Selectos de maria De Mater O'Neill," was published in the Republica Dominca magazine, Artes, in the fall of 2005.

Elizabeth Castonguay, Pre-College Instructor, presents a solo exhibit, A Sum of all Parts, at the Regina A Quick Center for the Arts Museum at St. Bonaventure University in New York. Her painting entitled Avery was awarded first place at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art's annual regional exhibit that includes artists from nineteen counties. The award was sponsored by the South Western Pennsylvania Council for the Arts.

Three artists with Carnegie Mellon School of Art affiliations were awarded 2006 Creative Capital Foundation Grants. Two were awarded in the Emerging Fields category to Assistant Professor of Art, Golan Levin in Digital Arts and to alumnus and School of Art Advisory Board Member, Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) in New Genres. Golan Levin's project, Observation as Interaction: Eye Contact Systems, is a series of large-scale artworks from wall projections to robotic sculptures that play with the idea of surveillance by returning the viewer’s gaze using tracking software and a simulated return glance. Paul Vanouse's multimedia installation, Latent Figure Protocol, begins with taped live science experiments and creates representational visual art works using DNA samples. In the Interdisciplinary category, Grisha Coleman (a recent STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Fellow who taught for the School of Art) and her collaborators received funding for echo::system, a series of site-specific performance installations inspired by natural and human-made habitats, consisting of several “actionstations” which simulate a volcanic island, the ocean floor, and a desert. http://www.creative-capital.org/.

Kim Beck presented at the 2006 College Art Association in Boston in Open Session: Painting.

Golan Levin premiered The Dumpster, an online artwork jointly commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Tate Online. Levin's work also appears in the Software Art exhibition at the DeCordova Museum in Boston, showing through April 16. http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/dumpster.shtml; http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2006/softwareart.html.

Peter Lupori (A '42) received his M.E.D. from the University of Minnesota. As a Professor of Art, he taught at the College of St. Catherine for forty-five years. He has received over forty sculpture awards since 1937, and has numerous works on view throughout the Twin Cities. He currently teaches at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) had his solo exhibit at Stephen Wirtz Gallery last fall reviewed by Peter Selz in the March 2006 issue of Art in America.

Katherine Kadish (CFA '61) has a solo exhibit of paintings and monotypes entitled Borderlands at The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art in Hattiesburg, January 17 through February 11. A reception and artist walk-through iss cheduled for February 9, 4-6pm.
http://www.newyorkartists.net/Kadish/Katherine.html.

Susan Schwalb (BFA ’65) exhibits in From Sea to Shining Sea at the District of Columbia Art Center, Washington, DC, March 31 - April 23. The exhibit is accompanied by a catalogue.
http://www.dcartscenter.org/.

Sandi Seltzer-Bryant (BFA '74) participated in a show at Winter Street Studios in Houston, Texas that benefits The Periwinkle Foundation and Texas Children's Cancer Center, February 25. http://www.winterstreetstudios.net.

Peter Stanick (BFA '75) presents his first solo exhibition in New York, Show and Tell, at Museum Works Galleries, 511 W. 25th Street, March 2 through April 15. His work is included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Osaka Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, the Continental Corporation, Westinghouse and Metropol in Pittsburgh, Novestra in Stockholm, and Spectrum in Tampa. Stanick lives and works in Florida.
http://www.mwgalleries.com.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She presents a solo exhibit of mixed-media works, paintings and installations, Church of the Crossroads, at the Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, April 7 - May 28, 2006.
http://www.theartscenter.org/news/press_release/012506.htm.

Claire McConaughy (BFA '81) has exhibited her works in several New York, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe and Boston galleries and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Her work is in public collections including J.P. Morgan Corporate Collection in New York and Sony Music in San Jose, California.

Ebon Fisher (BFA '82) cultivates "media organisms" in the plasma of culture and mass communications, referring to himself as a "media breeder." Wired has dubbed him "Mr. Meme" and New York Magazine has listed him among the "New York Cyber 60." Java Magazine featured him as a "Visionary of the New Millenium" along with Douglas Rushkoff, Howard Rheingold, and Mark Pauline. The Guggenheim Museum has presented Fisher's website in its online CyberAtlas since 1996, which documents the emergence of cyberculture. He has taught at the New School and Hunter College in NYC, University of Iowa, and was the Marjorie Rankin Scholar-in-Residence at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 2005. He had a recent retrospective, Transformations in the Nervepool, at University of Northern Iowa's Gallery of Art.
http://www.nervepool.net/bio/Ebon_Fisher_Bio.html.

Taryn FitzGerald (BFA '84) exhibits in Portals at PS122 Gallery in the East Village. Portals explores landscape, history and time. Through the mixing of neo-classicism with modernism, and the American Revolution with everyday contemporary life, the works transport us to imagine new worlds, new possibilities. February 4 - 26, 2006. http://www.ps122gallery.org.

Katharine Kuharic presents a solo exhibit of new paintings and drawings at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, opening this March. Her work is also included in a group show, Outland, at Solway Jones Gallery in Los Angeles, March 18 through April 15.
http://www.thedcca.org/; http://www.solwayjonesgallery.com.

Teri Rueb (BFA ’90) presents Itinerant, an interactive sound work on Boston Commons, commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,February 22 - 25 through Judi Rotenberg Gallery, 130 Newbury Street, Boston. http://turbulence.org/Works/itinerant/index.htm.

Sarah Smith (BFA '91) exhibits in the group show, Wave of Mutilation, at Stay Gold, 451 Grand Street, Brooklyn, February 24 through April 2. http://www.staygoldgallery.com.

Ryan McGinness (BFA ’94) exhibits in Garden Party, a group show at Deitch Projects at 76 Grand Street in NYC, March 10 through April 29. He also exhibits: at The Armory Show, March 9-13 in New York, in Beautiful Losers at the Palazzo dell'Arte in Milan, Italy through March 19; and in the Arco Art Fair in Madrid, February 9 through 13. http://iconoclastusa.com/;
http://www.deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=182&orient=h.

Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94) and Carolina Loyola (MFA '00) exhibited in Equipoise, featuring work by artist couples at Artists Upstairs in Pittsburgh between New Year's and Valentine's Day.

Mac Howison (BFA '95) joined The Sprout Fund's staff in October 2004 as the Seed Award Program Coordinator after a seven-year career at the East End Food Co-Op. He plays and collects music, paints, and spends time with his wife, Jennifer, and children, Mev and Mason, in the historic 1901 Kitzmiller House in Pittsburgh's Swissvale neighborhood.

Arden and Matt Browning (BFA '97) are very proud to announce their most ambitious collaboration yet, as of December 26, 2005: twin daughters Farren Halle (4:33 AM, 5 lbs, 4 oz) and Aurelia Jade (4:59 AM, 4 lbs, 10 oz). All are home together and are doing very well - and keeping Arden and Matt very busy! Please email them if you want to see photos arden.browning@verizon.net

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) has been awarded a $5000 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in the category of New Genres.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) exhibits collaborative paintings in Collaborations at Digging Pitt Gallery (4417 Butler Street in Lawrenceville). The exhibit runs through March 4th. http://www.adamgrossi.com/.

Fereshteh Hamidi Toosi (MFA '04) will participate in CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor) 11th Arts Festival of International Interdisciplinary Collaborations in the Czech Republic for the month of August. http://www.cesta.cz/.

Kazumi Itoh (exchange student from Japan last year) had a painting selected in a public competition for an exhibit at the Nagoya City Art Museum through March 26.

Lauren Adams (MFA Class of 2007) presents an installation at Fraction Workspace in Chicago with a lecture and opening on April 21. http://www.fractionworkspace.org. She will be participating in Rat Fink's Revenge-The Custom Monster Collection at the Continental Club at the
South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, March 10-19. The exhibition is a tribute to legendary 'Big Daddy' Ed Roth for the SXSW premier of Tales of the Rat Fink, a movie.

Takehito Etani (MFA Class of 2006) has been awarded an artist residency at the Berwick Research Institute in Roxbury, MA. His work in progress, Pimp My Heart, that will premiere at the Miller Gallery this spring, was accepted in the Edgy Product category for exhibition at ISEA 2006 in San Jose, California.

Ben Kinsley (MFA Class of 2008) will be featured in a two person show with filmmaker Steve Probert titled Don't Tell Your Head at Cleveland's new Hyacinth Gallery. The show opens Friday, March 10th at 6pm. Ben will be showing new video work as well as conducting a performance of his Poke Orchestra. http://www.hyacinthart.com; http://www.bkinsley.com.

Eileen Maxson (MFA Class of 2008) was featured in a four page color cover article, Camera Sly, in the January 16 Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/art/3584099.html.

Ben Rosenthal's film, Scrape, was selected for the VIPER International Film, Video and New Media Festival that runs at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, March 16-20. Scrape was nominated out of 2600 entries for one of the three VIPER International Awards to be announced March 19. It has also been screened at The Tannery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and at the Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design in Komaki City, Japan.

Nikolai Antonie (BFA Class of 2006) edited portions of the television comedy, Malcolm in the Middle, last summer in Los Angeles.

Kohta Asakura's (BFA Class of 2006) film, The Lost Soldier, starring Nikolai Antonie, was featured in the 28th Asian American Film Festival in New York City that toured nationally.

Brenna Ivanhoe (BFA Class of 2006) has drawings on display at the Squirrel Hill Library during the month of March.

Andrea Hamilton (BHA in Art and Visual Sociology Class of 2007) is Carnegie Mellon's nominee for the Beineke Scholarship for those juniors who intend to pursue graduate study in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

Vanessa Butler and Rachel Stewart (both BFA Class of 2007) were selected as the School of Art's nominees to the Yale at Norfolk Summer Program.

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