Andrew Johnson was awarded a grant from The Puffin Foundation for his three-channel video project, "Hawker Hacker Herald".

Tessa Windt, program coordinator for the Distillery Program at the Brew House, announces Higher Proof, culminating exhibition of the six-month long professional and studio development program. The exhibition, featuring new work by program artists Anne Angyal, Morgan Cahn, Adam Grossi (BFA '03), Nicholas Hohman, Jeremy Radtke and Carolyn Wenning, opens Friday March 9 at Brew House SPACE 101 and continues through March 31. For more details on Higher Proof and the Distillery Program please visit http://www.higherproof.com.

Cara Erskine, Exhibitions Coordinator at the Miller Gallery, exhibits with Norm Paris in Huddle at Tower Gallery in Philadelphia, February 23 - March 31. The opening reception was held on February 23 and featured the sounds of Margaret Cox, Graphics/Office Coordinator for the Miller Gallery and CMU alumn (BFA '97), http://www.thetowergallery.com.

Andrew Johnson presents "PED.Rio" with Millie Chen and Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) at FILE-Rio 2007, Telemar Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19 - April 24. The artist collective PED will also lecture on their work in the accompanying symposium and have their work included in the exhibition catalogue. Johnson also publishes "Zeitgeist," a digital collage essay, in M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture (peer reviewed and edited by Larissa Hjorth and Olivia Khoo), for its March issue. His work will also be reproduced on the cover of and in the "Works of Witness" section of Hayden¹s Ferry Review #38, published by Arizona State University, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/; http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/publications/haydensferryreview/; http://www.file.org.br/.

Patricia Maurides (MFA '95) was awarded a Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist Opportunity grant to participate in an artist residency at the Coumantaros Art Gallery in the Sparta Branch of the National Gallery of Greece, in preparation for subsequent exhibitions in a museum, a village cultural center and an art gallery in the Laconia region of southern Greece.

Ting Chang is giving a conference paper on "Gods, Artifacts and the Science of World Religions at the Musée Guimet in the Late 19th Century," in the Faire avec les Sciences Conference, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France, March 15-17. Her research trip is funded by a recent Falk Junior Faculty Grant.

Projects by Golan Levin currently appear in The Dating Show exhibition, Gallery at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NYC through March 23; in Art and the Mobile Phone at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore through April 22; and in a one-year installation at the Art Museum of Western Virginia, in Roanoke through February 2008. On April 3, Levin will present a public lecture in McConomy Auditorium as a part of the CMU School of Art Lecture Series; participate as a Jury Member for the Austrian Prix Ars Electronica competition in its new Hybrid Art category; and install an interactive software artwork in the one-year Open Space exhibition at the NTT InterCommunications Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan, opening April 18, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/pdf/dept_grad_dating_show.pdf; http://www.contemporary.org/exhibitions.html;
http://www.artmuseumroanoke.org/.

Jon Rubin co-edited "Satellite 2," a publication of the Independent School of Art which he founded. ISA is a free experimental art school that operates without external resources, accreditation, or a physical site. This issue of "Satellite" revolves around Jim Henson and includes contributions by alumnae, Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman, (BFA '92). Rubin has also co-curated Never Been to Houston with Aurora Picture Show for the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, March 9 - April 14, http://jonrubin.net/work.php?x=87; http://lawndaleartcenter.org; http://aurorapictureshow.org; http://www.independentschoolofart.org/; http://www.lulu.com/content/643714.

Pamela Jennings has been awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Creative IT program. The first NSF grant titled "Designing Critical Creative Technologies to Support Collaboration in Public Spaces" is in support of design and evaluation of the Constructed Narratives project. The second grant is for the exhibition Jennings is curating titled " Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary". The exhibition will be held at the National Academy of Sciences Rotunda Gallery in Washington D.C. June - August, 2007.

Elaine A. King delivered a paper "Museum Ethics vs. Vanity and Desperation," at the annual College Art Association meeting in New York City February 2007 in the session, The Unethical Museum, organized and co-chaired by Alan Wallach and Sally Duncan. Other panelists included: James Cuno, director of the Art Institute of Chicago, Alisa Luxenbrg, University Georgia, and Debora Silverman, UCLA. In addition King was a Panel Discussant for the CAA session titled "Art & Education at the End of the Age of Critique, session," chaired by Saul Ostrow.

Carnegie Mellon School of Art alumni and faculty are featured in 6 BILLION PERPS HELD HOSTAGE! Artists Address Global Warming opening at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, March 10 - June 17 in Pittsburgh, PA. Organized by Matt Wrbican (BFA '81 and MFA '89), the exhibit includes works by Andy Warhol (A'49), Greg Kwiatek (BFA '79), Brooke Singer (MFA '02) of preemptive Media, collaborators Steffi Domike (MFA 97) and Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99), and Professor Bob Bingham, http://www.warhol.org/whats_on/exhibitions.html.

Philip Pearlstein (A '49) presents a solo exhibition of paintings at Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York, March 29 - April 28. His current and upcoming shows include those at: Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, March/April; The University Art Gallery, Staller Center at Stony Brook, NY, October/December; The James A. Michener, PA, September ­ January 2008 and Montclair Art Museum, NJ, Fall, 2008, http://www.bettycuninghamgallery.com/PPexhibition07.html.

Don Graeb (BFA '59) won second place in the North Hills Art Center Annual Show last fall. He will speak at the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society's general membership meeting on March 18 at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1:00-3:00 p.m., http://www.pittsburghwatercolors.org/news-events.htm.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) presents a solo exhibit at Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland, California, March 2-31, http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/All-Colors-Oakland-Celebration-Art-by-Raymond-Saunders-at-Joyce-Gordon-Gallery-Opens-March-2/san-francisco-ca/a8448a90-c001-4188-b75d-510bcf7c7c27.

Rita Baragona (BFA '67) has a solo exhibit at the Bowery Gallery, 530 W. 25th Street in Chelsea, NYC, from March 27 - April 21, http://www.bowerygallery.org/; http://www.bowerygallery.org/baragona.html.

Katherine Morgan's (BFA '67) collection, Flower Power, will remain in Suite I in the UNCOMMON GALLERY in Fort Lauderdale through March. Ms. Morgan has won 1st Place for "elements" in the Annual Broken Sound Fine Art juried show in Boca Raton Florida. The juror is the Executive Director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, George S. Bolge.

James Welling (BFA '71) has exhibited photographs this year at Xavier Hufkens Gallery in Brussels, Belgium; Wako Works of Art in Shinjuku, Japan; Galerie Nelson in Paris, France; and Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, IL. He will exhibit in Global Anxieties: Perspectives on a Changing Planet at the College of Wooster Art Museum in Ohio, March 27 - May 13, http://artmuseum.wooster.edu/exhibition_schedule.html.

George Sfirri (CFA '72) recently had a painting selected by the Denver JazzFest for their annual poster.

Mary Mazziotti (Drama '72) was awarded a Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist Opportunity grant in support of her invitation to a month-long arts residency in late winter at Newington Armory, a heritage-listed site within the facility built for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.

Emily (Eisenberg) Rubinfeld (BFA '77) has launched a new personal website containing over 150 of her paintings, artist's statement, biography etc. Please direct inquiries to emilyjo@comcast.net, http://www.emilyrubinfeld.com.

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) presents Drawings and Journals at Bravin Lee Programs in Chelsea, New York this March 23-26, http://www.bravinlee.com/artists/ritchie/ritchiefront.html.

ROY (BFA '84) will be represented by Mobilia Gallery at SOFA, NYC in an invitational exhibition, The Goblet Redefined, May 30-June 3. She will also exhibit five bracelet sculptures in the invitational, Celebrating the Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry from Mid-century to the Present, at Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 7-July 28. This show coincides with an opening of the new Daphne and Peter Farrago Gallery at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she has her "American Dream" bracelet in the permanent collection, http://www.sofaexpo.com/.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) participate in Show&Tell:  the Art of Harmony at the Zimmer Children’s Museum in Los Angeles, CA, opening in April. Seventy-five artists, musicians, humanitarians and social activists create a work of art from a musical instrument for this show curated by Kate Stern.

Geraldine Ondrizek (BFA '85), Associate Professor of Art at Reed College, exhibits work dealing with the hidden parts of bodies, DNA and unimaginable prosthetics at Solomon Fine Art in Seattle through March 19. She is also currently exhibiting work in M 168/ Repairing RNA at the Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. The show will run til the end of April. A full color catalog of works from 2003-2007, with essays by Prudence Roberts and Ian Boyden was published for the exhibtions. The catalog was funded by Whitman College, Reed College and the Oregon Council on the Art Award to Indivdual Artist,
http:// www.zimmershowandtell.org.

Laura Karetsky (BFA '87) has a solo exhibit, Outside In, at Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art in Santa Monica, CA, March 10 - April 21, http://www.artnet.com/hs.html.

Nicole Herz (BFA '89) lives and works on Mt. Desert Island, ME. She will exhibit her work this August at Stadler Gallery in Kingfield, Maine, http://www.nicoleherz.com.

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) presents a solo exhibit of paintings, Chaos and Control, at the Virginia Carten Gallery at the Abbot Public Library in Marblehead, MA, March 2-30.

Carin Mincemoyer (BFA '94) was awarded a Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist Opportunity grant to support a three-month residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, (April - June 2007) and at the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture, Dawson, Yukon, Canada (July - August 2007) where she will also have a solo exhibition. She will be one of only twelve artists at the Bemis Center selected from 271 applicants from around the world, providing their artists with access to private workspace as well as large fabrication and installation spaces, and access to other facilities and equipment.

Kinga Czerska (CS '95) had work featured through Kasia Kay Art Projects at the Red Dot Art Fair in Manhattan, February 23-26, http://www.reddotfair.com/; http://www.kasiakayartprojects.com/.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) performed her piece "Rebuilding the City" at the Icehouse in Phoenix, AZ, this February for the Peripheral exhibit with artists Melissa Martinez, Christy Puetz and Karolina Sussland. The book release party for their corresponding self-published hardbound book "Peripheral" followed a few weeks later. A pdf of the book can be viewed at http://theicehouseaz.com/calendarmain.html. In May Jen will create her melting ice and drawing piece "Ice Flow" for the group exhibit Drawing Outside the Lines at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. The piece is a construction of ice bricks forming 3 columns that melt in different stages over drawings illustrating it's own process and that of ice cores and glaciers. It will have the appearance of a skyline melting, http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=138.

Arden Bendler Browning (BFA '97) exhibits in 2006 Works on Paper at Arcadia University Art Gallery, PA, on view March 28 - April 25, http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/gallery/splash.html.

Hyla Willis (MFA '99), Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94), and Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) exhibit in Politics of Pleasure, curated by Katherine Talcott for the Three Rivers Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, March 30 - May 11. Politics of Pleasure offers a fresh and current look at notions of pleasure in its relationship to art and politics. The show also includes work by Daniel Peltz and Herman Pearl, http://www.artsfestival.net/gallery.html.

Josh Bonnett's (BFA '00) solo show, re:re:falsepositive is currently on view at 707 Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, March 9 - April 14.

Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) and Alexi Morrisey perform in Quantum Theater's "The Red Shoes: A Flamenco Fable" through March 4 in Pittsburgh, PA, http://www.quantumtheater.com; http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07046/762182-325.stm.

Justin Giunta (BFA '01) of Subversive Jewelry was one of ten finalists in The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) third annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award, a program that provides emerging designers with financial support and business guidance. His pieces are featured on Style.com and teenvogue.com,
http://www.fashionwiredaily.com/first_word/news/article.weml?id=240;
http://www.style.com/trends/cfdavogue/2006/subversive;
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/S2007RTW/review/TROVATA;
http://www.teenvogue.com/style/market/feature/2007/02/japan?slide=5.

Evan Tapper (MFA '01) screened "Self Portrait As A Tortured Artist (With Positive Feedback)" in the New Toronto Works Show at the Latvian House this February, curated by Rachel McRae, David Frankovich and Jamie Phelan. He also participated in "Making Room", a Heather Nicol production and the One Minute Film & Video Festival, both in Toronto. He is currently teaching at
McMaster University in Ontario and recently received major production grants from the Canada Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council for his new animation project, http://evantapper.net/.

Merritt Johnson (BFA classes '99 and '03) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Art in the First Nations Department at Emily Carr Instsitute in Vancouver, British Columbia. She and her family will be moving to Vacouver this summer.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) particpates in the group show Higher Proof, the culminating exhibition of the Distillery Program, opening at the Brewhouse in Pittsburgh, PA, March 9-31, http://www.higherproof.com.

Sarah Hatton (BFA '03) is currently showing Twernt no thing, that old timer '555 with his bent pin blowin like a Mojave evening on the tracks behind the Hollow Leg (where he used to go to smoke with Buddy, before the interstate got put in) That buzzy neon martini, the olive flickering slightly, and anyhow a red dot, was that a pimiento? Or just a sign? The installation includes work from five local artists and is currently at the Stop N' Look: A Visual Community Resource in Phoenix, AZ. The show has been up since February 2007 and was present for the Phoenix Art Detour on March 3 & 4.

Sarah Beitler (McNeer) (BFA '03) exhibits in the 10th International Open at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, March 2-29, http://womanmade.org/show.html?type=group&gallery=international2007&pic=1.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) is currently one of 5 Americans in Residence at the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in a small mountainous village called Cesky Krumlov, located in the southern region of the Czech Republic. The group is preparing for a show that opens in conjunction with a Keith Haring Retrospective at the ES Art Centrum on April 6.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) gave a public lecture at George Mason University at the Fine Arts Gallery on March 5. On March 26 she will be part of panel discussion organized by Kate Dumbleton and Abby Satinsky (BFA '03) called "Working Conditions: Considering Risk in Redefining Arts Administration" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago starting at 4:15 p.m. She will also participate in a symposium at UCLA called "Beyond the Waves: Art Informed by Feminisms" on April 6, and from April 19-22, she will present a new project called RED CRYSTAL PALACE as part of the media arts festival Multimediale in Washington DC. Check it out at the website/blog at http://www.multimedialedc.org. Ringtones can now be downloaded from her new project "Deep Throat", on-line and at Space 1026 in Philadelphia, PA, until the end of March, at http://www.myxertones.com/artist/429943/.

Carolyn Lambert (MFA '04) gave a public presentation of her work and a workshop on audio narrative at Alfred University, NY on January 30 and will return to give a second workshop on March 26 & 27.

Ruth Stanford (MFA '05), in collaboration with Niklas Vollmer of Georgia State University, completed a community-based video production of Week 15 of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays play cycle. Park's plays are being presented as part of a national festival taking place in 14 states and regions throughout the U.S. Stanford and Vollmer's contribution is presented online at http://www.atl365tracks.org. She has also been selected to participate in FLUX: Paterson for six weeks in the summer of 2007. The project, organized by Flux Factory in New York, will bring together artists, architects, designers, and urban planners in a community-based effort to design a monument to the city of Paterson, New Jersey in Paterson. An associated exhibition will be held in Brooklyn, New York in July.

Blithe Riley (MFA '05) performs at Roulette in New York City on March 29, http://www.roulette.org/events/2007_03.html.

Jaewook Lee, 2005 exchange student from Korean National University of the Arts in Seoul, is currently working on a masters degree at the Korean National University of the Arts. He recently completed a two month residency at the Vermont Studio Center and visited CMU on March 8 to schare his work with the undergraduate class.

Samantha Laffey (BFA '06) has work in the Pittsburgh Glass Center's 5th annual Glass Birthday Suit exhibition, featuring student and instructor work in the Hodge Gallery. Pittsburgh Glass Center is located at 5472 Penn Avenue in the Friendship/Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. The show runs February 2 - April 8. For more information and gallery hours, visit http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.

Tiffany Sum (MFA '06) has had two pieces accepted for the Re-Surfacing exhibition from March 29 - April 12. The exhibition is in conjunction with a symposium entitled "Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape" scheduled for March 29 & 30 at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Symposium panelists include Vito Acconci, Heath Bunting, Martha Buskirk, Dmitry Bulatov, Vicki Goldberg, Ricardo Dominguez, Peter Garfield, James Gimzewski, and Erwin Wurm, http://artandtech.osu.edu/simhorizon/; http://myspace.com/resurfacingexhibition.

Rebecca Vaughn's (MFA '06) "Lure" is featured in an article by Lynn Cornelius Jablonski in the April/May issue of Fiber Arts Magazine, http://www.fiberarts.com/back_issues/04_07/contents_apr07.asp.

Ian Ingram (MFA ¹07) and David Tinapple (MFA ¹07) were selected by curator Susanne Ghez from the Renaissance Society of Chicago for New Insight, an exhibition, featuring works by students from the top MFA programs during ARTCHICAGO, April 26-30, http://www.merchandisemart.com/artchicago/orphan_insight.html.

Eileen Maxson (MFA '09) screened"Grand Opening" on March 1 at the Houston Premiere of "The Best Of Aurora Picture Show: Volume 3", http://filmhouston.texaswebhost.com/firstthursdays.htm.

Michelle Fried (MFA '08) exhibits, RODENT REDUX, at TAI+LEE Gallery in Polish Hill, Pittsburgh (operated by Lauren Adams, MFA '07), on view March 2 - April 15. Visit http://www.lfadams.com/gallery for directions and more infomation.

Ian Ingram (MFA '07) was recently included in the main feature of the Pittsburgh City Paper and even pictured on the cover. Deep for Cheap is also mentioned! To read the article and see a picture of the newest Ingram Clockworks machine, On Beyond Mother Goose, check out: http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/index.

Samina Mansuri participated in Post Object at Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, Ontario Canada January 18 - March 1, accompanied with an exhibition catalog. Her solo show New Works was recently on view at the Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi Pakistan, from January 5-14 and reviewed in Newsline magazine and The Dawn Review.

Joanna Ricou and Stacy Rae Gross' 2 person show, Angles, exploring various perspectives on female identity, is currently on view at Modern Formations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, from March 2-13, http://www.joanaricou.com; http://stayraegross.com; http://www.modernformations.com.

Lisa Huyett (BFA '07) has created a large-scale installation titled S.E.M. Rose (Scanning Electron Microscope Rose), a re-creation of the surface of a rose petal, at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. Huyett rendered the magnified image of a rose petal using a scanning electron microscope while taking the interdisciplinary Art and Biology course. She will be the museum's artist-in-residence during March and present her completed work at a closing reception from 5:30-7:30 p.m., on March 30 at the museum, http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/March/march6_rose.shtml.

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