Andrew Johnson is a presenter in the Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality graduate faculty conference to be held at the New School in New York City on April 18th.

Elaine A. King's review of the 54th Carnegie International was published by Sculpture in its on-line reviews: http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag05/March_05/webspecs/king.htm.

Fabian Winkler's database-driven video En Route will be exhibited at Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany from April 29 - May16. http://www.videonale.org/presse.htm.

Pamela Jennings' multimedia art work has been included in the book Creating Their Own Image: A History of African American Women Artists, by Lisa Farrington, published by the Oxford University Press (2005). Her work was also featured in the accompanying exhibition held at the Parson's School of Design. Her paper, Distributed Minds | Negotiated Spaces: Framework for Designing Tangible Social Interfaces, was presented at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium in Winterpark, Colorado. A paper about interdisciplinary pedagogy and interactive art is to be included in the Journal for Digital Creativity, Routledge Publications. In April, Pamela will present a paper and demonstration of the Constructed Narratives project at the ACM Creativity and Cognition conference at the University of London, Goldsmiths. She also recently presented a lecture, Shape Grammars and Folded Spaces: Architectural Influences on Interactive Art, at the CoDE (Computational Design) Lab in the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.

Suzie Silver exhibited with Hilary Harp through San Francisco's Bucheon Gallery at the -scope New York Art Fair, March 11-14 at Flatotel. They also exhibited in American Scam at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City through January 23 and in The Fake Snow Show at Magic Lantern in Providence this February. http://www.scopeartnygalleries.com/gallery_artwork.asp?AFGalleryID=591#artwork.

The Pittsburgh Biennial is upon us! Opening reception, April 1, 5:30-8:30pm. Participants include: Suzie Silver & Hilary Harp, Adam Davies (MFA Class of 2005), Fereshteh Toosi, Stephanie Flom (Studio for Creative Inquiry Fellow), Cassandra C. Jones (MFA Class of 2004) and Chris Craychee (BFA '96). http://www.pittsburgharts.org.

Golan Levin is giving artist's talks at the Cleveland Institute of Art, sponsored by T.I.M.E. on April 7 and at the American Institute of Graphic Arts design conference, MOVE: Stories in Motion at NYU Skirball Center, NYC, April 30. He will also deliver the keynote lecture at Cybersonica 2005 at The Dana Centre in London, England on April 28. http://cia.edu/about/news/default.asp; http://move.aigany.org/; http://www.cybersalon.org/future.html#cybersonica05.

Clayton Merrell has a solo exhibit, Ecstatic Landscapes, at Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico this April.

Ayanah Moor is exhibiting in a two-person exhibit, From Hip Hop to Coal Funk at the Indianapolis Art Center in Indiana, April 29 - June 5. Her solo show, Representin' at Painted Bride Art Center was Artforum.com's March "pick" for Philadelphia.http://www.indplsartcenter.org/;
http://www.artforum.com/picks/place=Philadelphia&mode=past.

Kim Beck is exhibiting in Collaborative Effect at Material Art Space in Memphis, TN, April 15 - May 5 and in a group drawing show at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, April 5 - May 5. http://www.smackmellon.org/

Philip Morsberger (BFA '54) will have his work published in a book by Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, to be released by Hugh Merrell in spring of 2007. The book will include 75 color plates and personal reminiscences by artists such as R.B. Kitaj.

IN MEMORIAM
Don Celender (BFA '56), an art professor and conceptual artist whose projects involved taking polls, died of pancreatic cancer on March 3 in Pittsburgh. He was 73 and lived in St. Paul, Minnesota where, as Edith M. Kelso Professor of Art, he taught at Macalester College for forty years. Celender once asked the H.J. Heinz Co. to fill the Grand Canyon with ketchup. He wanted Pillsbury Co. to coat the tips of the Rocky Mountains with angel food cake. He thought airliner exhaust trails should be in bright colors. In 1969, with Conceptual Art gaining steam, Mr. Celender began a series of letter-writing campaigns that spoofed the movement while spreading its ideas and gathering interesting information. With his Cultural Art Movement he sent outlandish proposals to 25 museum directors, suggesting for example that Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, drop by parachute 1,000 works of Asian art from the museum's collection, one at a time, onto the state of Alabama. Mr. Lee replied that since art was in the mind of the beholder, he had ''mentally performed'' Mr. Celender's idea. In subsequent works, Mr. Celender surveyed film directors, prison wardens, labor leaders, religious figures, travel agents, celebrities and famous chefs about their art preferences. He also produced a series of baseball cards using artists' faces. Mr. Celender's work was included in many books and exhibitions surveying Conceptual Art. On a nearly annual basis, he tacked the responses to his surveys to the walls of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC, mounting 29 exhibitions there from 1970 to 2004. A retrospective of his work is scheduled there for May 2005. He is survived by his daughter, Catherine; and two sisters, Norma DePrimio and Teresa D'Amico, and two brothers, James and Joseph, all of the Pittsburgh area. http://www.macalester.edu/art/celender.html; http://artretran.com/ click on Exhibiting Artists.

James Hagan (BFA '60) was a 1997 Teaching Technology Fellow at University of Virginia where he taught sculpture, drawing and computer graphics between 1963 and 2000. His work has been included in over 60 exhibitions at venues ranging from the Virginia Museum to Zabriskie Gallery in New York City and is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Newark Museum of Art and Corning Museum.

Linda Barnes Cromer's (A '63) work is featured in the Spring '05 issue of Watercolor Magazine. The article is titled The Fun is in the Challenge.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) is exhibiting in: Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish Women Artists and the Transformation of American Art at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture in Denver, Colorado, January 13 - March 27; American Art: 1960-Present, Selections from the Permanent Collection at Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Co-Conspirators: The Artist and Collector, at the Chelsea Museum in New Paltz, NY; and Likeness: Portraits Of Artists By Other Artists, through May 1 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.http://www.mizelcenter.org/exhibitions.htm;
http://www.icaboston.org/Home/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Current/Likeness

Carl West (BFA '79) just finished a run at The Boston Center for the Arts with i Sebastiani (The Greatest Commedia dell'Arté Troupe in the Entire World). He has been with the troupe for eight years playing amorosi, servetti, zanni, vecchi, and... the Capitano. The troupe will be playing again at the New England Folk Festival in April and at the Boston Early Music Festival in June. http://www.isebastiani.com.

Joseph Daniel Fiedler (BFA '79) [nom de guerre "Scaryjoey"] was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. "Illustration is not a job but rather a lifestyle" he insists. His work has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including Time, Business Week, The Washington Post and many other magazines and newspapers. He has illustrated three children's books, received a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators, and has been recognized by Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, American Illustration, the Society of Publication Designers, The Spectrum International Annual of Fantastic Art and the Broadcasting Design Association, among others. Joseph has lived in New Mexico, Tokyo, Japan, and since December 2003, in the historic Indian Village of Detroit with his faithful cats, Iko and Obeah. He is Associate Professor of Illustration at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

Ron Desmett (MFA '79) is participating in Masters of the Visual Arts at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts opening April 1, 2005.

Diane Lemonides (BFA '83) principal and creative director of The Lemonides Design Group Inc., is proud to announce a name change and new dimension to the company she began over 15 years ago -- Verve Marketing & Design, "positioning the truly exceptional." The company services its clients with advertising, direct mail, design, marketing, PR and web site design. http://www.lemonidesdesign.com.

Brody Reiman (BFA '92) is on the art faculty of California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) exhibited in November/December 2004 in the group show, Breathing Space at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn. http://www.metaphorcontemporaryart.com/indexArc.html.

Todd Bartel (MFA '94) has work published in: Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, Fall 2004. The publication included an in-depth artist's statement entitled, Drawing Over Ovid: Garden Studies with eight color reproductions from his ongoing Garden Study series. His work was also included in Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to the Scarlet Letter, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts.
http://www.tui.edu/hungermtn/current.asp; http://www.bcaonline.org/recent_exhibitions.htm.

Erin Maurelli (BFA '94) earned a Master Printer's Certificate at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in 2002. She married Matthew Schneider in 2003. They live in Iowa City, IA with 6 month old daughter Teagan Irene. Erin is completing her MFA in printmaking at the University of Iowa where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship, covering tuition and materials.

Andres Tapia Urzua (MFA '94) of Plan Z Media presented My Terrorism Video Festival in collaboration with Pittsburgh Filmmakers, reviewed by City Paper's Bill O'Driscoll on March 3 at:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/film/story.cfm?type=Film%20Reviews.

Carlos Szembek (MFA '96) will spend five weeks conducting research on an Arctic glacier.

Two alumni are participating in the Floating Points Networked Art in Public Spaces speaker series at Emerson College in Boston. Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '97) spoke on February 23 and Teri Rueb (BFA '90) will participate in an April 27 panel. http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/05/.

Arden Bendler Browning (BFA '97) exhibited in Junto at Fleisher/Ollman in Philadelphia, December 10, 2004 through January 5, 2005. The exhibit was co-curated by Brendan Greaves, William Pym, and Jina Valentine (BFA '01). Bendler Browning is teaching studio art at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and Delaware Community College in Media, PA.

Laleh Mehran (MFA '97) is featured in an article by Lizzie Zucker Saltz, Under Xerces' Wings: Laleh Mehran's Laboratory Politics, in the March/April issue of Artpapers. The Xerces Society, Installment VI: Sir Samuel Cropia's Public Laboratory was presented at the Letitia and Rowland Radford Study Collection Gallery at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia last fall.
http://www.artpapers.org/feature_articles/article2.htm.

Rachel Schmeidler (BFA '98) has posted photographs taken while working onsite with the press at the Michael Jackson trial. Images from her three month cross-country travels for the 2004 Presidential campaign with Senator John Kerry (via planes, buses, and train) will also be posted on this website: http://www.inamericanow.com/michaeljacksontrial/.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) completed an MFA in Painting and Drawing at the California College of the Arts. Her work was included in Land of the Free, at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (2004), and in Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2004). Pederson lives and works in San Francisco where she has her first solo exhibition, Unlet Me Go, at Ratio 3 in San Francisco through March 27. The show was chosen as a "Critic's Pic" in the March issue of Artforum.com. http://www.ratio3.org/; http://www.ratio3.org/pederson_2.htm; http://www.artforum.com/picks/place=San%20Francisco

Emily Merz (BFA '00) will begin graduate study in clinical/developmental psychology at University of Pittsburgh this fall.

Renae Neumeyer (BFA '00) is exhibiting paintings, photographs, mixed media and t-shirts in Lines of Communication at Enrico's Tazza D'oro, 1125 Highland Avenue, April 4 - 30, with an opening reception Friday, April 8 from 7-10pm.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) is exhibiting in Greater New York 2005 at P.S. 1, March 13 - September 26. The exhibit presents artists who have emerged since 2000. The accompanying catalogue will include an introduction by Klaus Biesenbach as well as texts on each artist in the exhibition written by P.S.1 and MoMA curators. http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/index.php.

Evan Tapper (MFA '01) is currently an artist-in-residence at Charles Street Video in Toronto. Work created for the residency will be screened at the Images Festival in Toronto, April 2005. Tapper will also present work in Signal & Noise: Festival of Video & Sound in Vancouver, BC, April 14-17 2005. His work is also included in a touring program across Canada and Asia of experiential animation work, curated by Murray Toews. Blah Blah Blah was featured on Zed Television, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on November 17, 2004. http://www.evantapperart.org/.

Jill Palermo (BFA '02) has a solo exhibit at The Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Pittsburgh, April 1- June 25, 2005.

Jimmy Mathew (BFA '03) and Kenzo Hakuta (BFA '03) will screen their short film, Fall, in the Shorts in Competition - Narratives section at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, April 21 - May 1. Festival info at: http://www.tribecafilmfestival.com/. Info on Fall at: http://fall.pixelbrew.com. Kenzo is also working on music and a documentary to be screened later this summer, along with a private commission to build masks based on the work completed in his senior year.

Naomi Falk (MFA '03) has an artist's residency this June at Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY this June and will be teaching at Interlochen Arts Camp in July and August.

Crystala Armagost (BFA '03) is exhibiting at the Slaughterhouse Gallery in Lawrenceville in a solo show Work...on Paper from April 1 - 29 with career building programs for artists and wellness activities scheduled at the gallery throughout the month. Opening reception Friday, April 1, 7-10pm.
http://www.slaughterhousegallery.com.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA Class of 2004) is participating in the Pittsburgh Biennial. She was accepted into to the Cucalorus Independent Film Festival in Wilmington, NC that takes place March 30-April 3.

Carolyn Lambert (MFA Class of '05) recently received a National Wildlife Foundation Campus Fellowship and grants from Ford Motor Company Graduate Student Research and The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research. These grants will support her Ohio River LifeBoat Project.

Mario Marzan (MFA Class of '05) is currently exhibiting in the group exhibition Domestic Politics at SPACE gallery on Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, on display until April 2. He has a permanent site-specific drawing on display at the C.C. Mellor Memorial Library's fiction rotunda in the borough of Edgewood. Mario has been awarded a two year appointment in the Department of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through the Carolina Postdoctoral Program.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA Class of '05), a member of the collaborative Paper Rad, exhibited in SuperMarioMovie BEIGE/Paper Rad at Deitch Projects in New York City, January 15 - February 26. They also exhibited through EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix) at the New York Armory Show, March 11-14 and in Reverse Engineers at the Carnegie Arts Center in Tonowanda, NY in February.
http://deitch.com/index.php; http://www.eai.org/eai/current_events.jsp; http://www.paperrad.org/.

Ian Ingram (MFA Class of '07) is exhibiting Schrecktiere in Life or Something Like It at Eyelevel Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 18 - April 23. Schrecktiere is a German reference to a small woodland creature that is easily frightened. The exhibit examines the juncture between art and life with the artists presenting invented species that mirror aspects of actual living creatures. http://www.eyelevelgallery.ca.

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