Carol Kumata exhibits in Metalsmiths and Mentors at the Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 29 - July 23. She will also lecture on the opening day of the exhibit. http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/home.htm.

Melissa Ragona presented her paper, The Temporal Dimensions of Media Exhibition and Viewing in Gallery Contexts, at the Soceity for Cinema and Media Studies in Vancouver, British Columbia in March. Her panel was entitled Reception Loops: Transformations of Time and Place in Experimental Film in the Digital Age.

Mary Weidner has work in Drawing, an exhibit at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. The show runs March 17 - April 22.

Golan Levin curates and performs on April 20 in Signal Operators, an "audiovisual microfestival" taking place at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Texas. He will also perform at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival on April 28. http://www.uh.edu/media/nr/2006/03march/031506cwm_centerforarts.html; http://www.sffs.org/fest06/index.html.

Fabian Winkler is working together with Shannon McMullen on Waves, interactive buoys that translate water waves into sound waves. The project premieres at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany in the exhibition Kunst Computer Werke opening on May 12 and travels to Toronto in July, where it will be presented in pubic wading pools as part of Wade, festival of performance and installation.

Pamela Jennings received the 2006 Wimmer Faculty Fellowship from the CMU Eberly Teaching Center. The fellowship program will convene a group of faculty from across the CMU campus to discuss and develop best practices in teaching that help diverse student audiences develop critical thinking, research and practice skills. She gave a lecture at the Spelman College's Reel Women, an event about African American women media makers. Jennings is co-chair of the ACM CHI 2006 workshop titled About Face Interface: Creative Engagement in New Media Art and Human Computer Interaction. The workshop includes participants from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Brazil and will take place in Montreal, Canada in late April.
http://studio416.cfa.cmu.edu/CHI06workshop_AboutFace/.

Ayanah Moor will present her work on a panel entitled, How Do My Gene's Fit?, during the Southern Graphics Council Printmaking Conference at the University of Wisconsin Madison April 5-9.

Josh Atlas (BFA '05) won the Staff Rookie Award in the 2006 CFA Staff Awards Ceremony on March 8.

Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh celebrates its tenth anniversary with the AIR:10 Big Birthday Bash opening March 31, 4pm to midnight. The Bash showcases work by AIR Resident and Independent Project Artists from 1996 -2006, including School of Art faculty, Patricia Bellan-Gillen, James Duesing, Robert Beckman, Michelle Illuminato, Ayanah Moor, and Susanne Slavick; former faculty Edward Eberle, Rick Gribenas, Mary Hood and Kathleen Mulcahy; and alumni Margery Amdur (BFA '79), Ron Desmett (MFA '79), John Lysak (MFA '88), Burton Morris (BFA '86), James Nelson (BFA '71),Diane Samuels (BFA '70, MFA '76), and Mary Tremonte (BFA '00).

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) presents a solo exhibit, Tomorrow's Landscape, of about 20 works in the Harlan Gallery at Seton Hill College in Greensburg, PA. The exhibit runs March 16 - April 18.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) was a Fellow in the Montalvo Arts Center Artists Residency Program from January through March 2006. http://www.villamontalvo.org/ar_fellows.html.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) exhibits in The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Visual Arts Since 1960, curated by Kasper Konig and Frank Wagner for the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, June 17 - October 1, 2006.

Ron Desmett (MFA '79) and Kathleen Mulcahy present an exhibit, Truth/Beauty at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, opening April 21, 6-9pm. Mulcahy and Desmett are co-founders of Pittsburgh Glass Center where they will exhibit together for the first time in five years, through September 8. http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.

Brett Reichman (BFA '82) has a solo exhibit at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, April 5-29, with an opening reception on Thursday, April 6 from 5:30- 7:30pm.
http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com/exhib_2006_4.html.

Pat Barefoot (BFA '87) has a side-by-side solo show with Susan Constanse at Digging Pitt Gallery, March 9 - April 8, 2006. http://www.diggingpitt.com/currentshow.html.

Jessica Reeves-Cohen (BFA '91) a.k.a. Clyde Forth was awarded a 2005 Dance Omi Residency and premieres a solo performance, Fight Pretty in the Transmodern Age Festival in Baltimore, April 6-9. The Clyde Forth Visual Theater is currently preparing other Water for a June performance in NYC. Alumnus Alex Cohen also performs with the group, which he joined in 2005. The Clyde Forth Visual Theater Benefit Extravaganza took place on March 25 at Triskelion Arts, 118 N. 11th St., Brooklyn. http://www.clydeforth.net/extravaganza.html; http://www.transmodernage.com/.

Suzanne Lambert Ruley (BFA '91) works for Americans for the Arts as Program Manager of the National Arts Marketing Project. http://www.ArtsMarketing.org.

Several alumni are participating in The Spring Event presented by the Appalachian School at the Three Rivers Art Gallery. Participants include Ed Um Bucholtz (BFA '93), Peter Coffin (MFA '00), Jennifer Lee and Terry Young (both BFA '01).http://www.the appalachianschool.com.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), with Temporary Services, presents their complete collection of booklets and ephemera in Transmission, an exhibition that the National Contemporary Art Center for Publication (cneai=) in Chatou, France organized for Villa Arson, an art center in Nice. Every booklet, poster, sticker, etc. that they have produced since 1998 will be included along with two new booklets. These materials will be permanently placed in cneai='s public collection after the exhibition run at Villa Arson, March 18 - June 4, 2006.http://www.villa-arson.org/; http://www.cneai.com/; http://www.temporaryservices.org/tempoblogo.html.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) exhibited drawings at the Armory Show, Socrates Sculpture Park Booth, Pier 90, March 9-12. On March 27-29 Patrick conducted sessions on the subject of radical printed matter and the 'desktop publishing revolution' at Eyebeam in Chelsea, as part of their teaching artist's residency. http://www.eyebeam.org; http://www.desktoplandscape.com.

Steffi Domike (MFA '97) and Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99) show Recipes for Catch and Release in The Drop, a curated group exhibition at EXIT ART, 475 Tenth Avenue (corner of 36th St.), April 8 - June 10, 2006. http://exitart.org.

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (MFA '99) lectured on and presented his work at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey on March 24. http://www.groundsforsculpture.org.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) exhibits in two group shows in San Francisco: Snap, Crackle, Pop, curated by Sarrita Hunn, at California College of Art's PLAYSPACE (1111 8th Street), March 30 - April 12 with a reception on March 30, 6-9pm; and OverUnderSidewaysDown, curated by Margaret Tedesco with an essay by Kevin Killian, at Queen's Nails Annex (3191 Mission Street), March 31- April 29 with an opening reception, Friday March 31, 7-10 pm. Post-party next door at Argus Lounge. http://www.queensnailsannex.com.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibits in View: Nine/Scene III at Mary Boone Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, NYC, April 6 - May 13. The exhibit was curated by Jose Freire (TEAM).
http://www.maryboonegallery.com.

Elizabeth Monoian (MFA '00) is currently exhibiting: in Reinderland at the Experimental Film and Video Festival, Egilsstadir, Iceland; [P.A.M.] The Perpetual Art Machine (Interactive Video Installation), at Scope (international art fair), New York, NY; and in the National Psyche Exhibition/Pandora Box at The LAB in San Francisco, CA.

Naomi Falk's (MFA '03) installation,Swallow(ed), honors the memory of those lost in Hurricane Katrina and the strength of the survivors. Her show at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts Gallery in Clinton Township, Michigan is reviewed by CG Newspapers.
http://www.candgnews.com/news_item.asp?p=2006%5Cmarch%5C8%5Caande%5Cfalk.html.

Tak Noguchi (MFA Class of 2003) is returning to India for a position as Project Coordinator for the Nand and Jeet Khemka Trust in Delhia.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) exhibits in My Space at SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh, March 24-May 13, 2006. The show includes works by five artists considering personal spaces -- exploring what is most fundamental and problematic about them. http://www.spacepittsburgh.org/flash.html.

Shana Moulton (MFA '04) had work included in Pandora Box: A DVD Collection, co-curated by Ellen Lake and Heike Liss as part of the National Psyche: The Exhibition, at San Francisco's The Lab, February 24 - March 11. http://www.thelab.org/.

Tiffany Sum (MFA Class of 2006) has been selected to present her work at the RE/ACT Festival, April 7-9 at Mannheim University Castle in Germany. http://www.react-festival.de.

Eileen Maxson (MFA Class of 2008) presented Broadcast, March 20, at Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY. http://www.ocularis.net/.

Chris Beauregard, Michelle Fried, Benjamin Kinsley, John Peña and Ally Reeves (all MFA Class of 2008) partake in an evening of performance art based on the idea of “Homo Ludens” or “Humans at Play.” The evening showcases an array of acts, varying from a five-part booty-dance burlesque, a 10-part cringe inspiring Poke Orchestra to a violent, but enlightening elephant evisceration. Homo Ludens: Yip, Yap, Yelp, and Holler takes place on Friday, April 14 at the Brew House Theatre on Pittsburgh's South Side.

Second year MFA students David Halsell, Ian Ingram, David Tinapple, Gunhildur Jonsdottir, Lauren Adams and Jan Descartes are pleased to announce the opening of their end of year show, Showing Signs of Life, on view at Future Tenant April 7-28. A special opening night preview will be held on April 7. The downtown Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District on April 21 will include the official reception for the work. http://www.futuretenant.org.

Lauren Adams is participating in a show in Chicago at Fraction Workspace entitled Jungle Tender. The exhibition is centered around artists' reading of Upton Sinclair's story about Chicago's Packingtown in the early 1900's. The show opens April 21 and runs through May 26. A "workspace workshop" will be held Saturday, April 22 at 2pm, with a lecture from Adams on her work and creative inspiration for Jungle Tender. http://www.fractionworkspace.org.

Senior Samantha Laffey's work was discussed in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review of Glass Birthday Suit at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06079/673248.stm.

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