Clayton Merrell is exhibiting in a two-person show at ten78 Gallery in Chico, California, April 11 - May 2, 2003.

Ayanah Moor has been awarded an artist residency at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY beginning May 19, 2003. Her recent work will be on exhibit in the WSW Gallery May 27 - June 13. The six-week residency and a traveling exhibition of prints produced there are sponsored by a grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) will have a solo exhibit at Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ, April 22-May 24, 2003, opening April 25, 6-8pm. Her work is also included in Book as Art XV: Insomnia at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., March 10 through November 8, 2003. Her new web site is: http://www.susanschwalb.com

Richard Orient (BFA '77) opens a solo exhibit at George Billis Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, NYC which runs April 29 - May 24, 2003.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) is exhibiting paintings, installations and found-object sculptures in Readers, Advisors & Storefront Churches at Depaul Unversity Art Museum in Chicago, April 4 through May 18, 2003. She will lecture at the Depaul Student Center on April 4 at 3pm.

George Billis (BFA '88) has relocated his Chelsea gallery to 511 West 25th Street in New York City. http://www.georgebillis.com

Todd Bartel (MFA'93) is exhibiting recent work with Michael Oatman in TAG at Lenore Gray Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island, April 4 - May 1, 2003. The reception is April 18, 5:30 - 7:30pm.

Laura Domencic (BFA '96) and Grace Summanen (BFA '96) will exhibit recent paintings in Balance at Penn Gallery, May 2 - 31, 2003. The opening reception is May 2, 2003 from 6-9pm, at 3700 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh.

Sarah Crosskey (BFA '06), Emilee Kohan (BFA '05), Engly Chang (BFA '05), Erin Pischke (BFA '05), Lauren Feldman (BHA '03) and Heather Liefeste (Art Minor '03) exhibited in Women and Art, which opened March 11 at the University Center Gallery at Carnegie Mellon.

Sarah Crosskey, Elizabeth Deasy, J.B. Galloway, Robin Hewlett, Tal Ilany, Beejal Lakhavani and MFA candidate Cassandra Jones (work held over from Short Range Impulse) exhibited March 18-22 in Immediate Interaction at Future Tenant in Pittsburgh, PA. The artists used Future Tenant gallery as an experimental art project space, using juxtaposition to inspire work, induce reaction, and shift to meet the space's potential.

Students in Professor Elaine A. King's Curatorial Practice, Collections and Management course will present Bagpipes & Bootleggin' in the School of Art's Ellis Gallery, April 1-13. The exhibit offers a glimpse of Carnegie Mellon students and their socio-political perspectives during the Prohibition era, particularly as represented through Puppet, a student-run magazine from that time.

Senior art major, Jennifer Chung, and architecture major, Renee Roy, have been awarded a total of $2400 (including SURG funding) in grants for their collaborative project, Figo, an outdoor installation project.

Naomi Falk (MFA '03) received both a GUSH Small Project Grant for Trace, a sculpture, and Conference Funding to attend the CAA conference in New York in February.

Cassandra Jones (MFA '04) collaborated with Masters of Arts Management graduate student, Ellen Arnold, on Short-Range Impulse, a site-specific, interactive installation, March 10-14 at Future Tenant, a new project space at 801 Liberty Avenue.

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