"Oral Fixations", a seven hour looping animation about endless consumption produced by a collaborative team including faculty James Duesing (art) Jessica Hodgins (CS) Sang Il Park (CS post-doc) Mo Mahler (BFA '03) and Bum Lee (BFA '06) and David Tinapple (MFA '07), was installed as part of the 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival in Ann Arbor Michigan March 20-25.

Elaine A. King, was on a panel titled, "Hot & Bothered, A Discussion on Censorship in the Arts," at the 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival, on Saturday, March 24. She along with Chris Gore, [Independent Filmmaker and producer of the comedy, "My Big Fat Independent Movie,"] Eddie Schmidt [producer of "Not Yet Rated"], and Matthew Bernstein, [Head of Emory University's Film's Department of Film Studies], comprised the panelists. They and the audience explored the topic of Censorship in the arts in the United States. This event was organized as a result of Michigan's legislators attempting to cease state-subsidized funding for the festival and imposing stricter guidelines on grants to art organizations.

Golan Levin's work appears in Art and the Mobile Phone at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore through April 22, and in the Open Space one-year exhibition at the NTT InterCommunications Center (ICC) in Tokyo starting April 18. Levin will also participate as a Jury Member for the Austrian Prix Ars Electronica competition in its new Hybrid Art category.

Christopher Sperandio, Jill Kraus Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, co-organized, along with CMU Graduate Student Eileen Maxson, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME: Festival of Copyright and Transgression. The festival took place in and around the College of Fine Arts building and featured lectures, performances and two dance parties. More info online at http://YoureNottheBossofMe.info. SNOWBALLS FROM THE FREEZER is a new billboard project sponsored by Lamar Outdoor Advertising and the School of Art. Sperandio's students designed new artworks for four different billboards in and around Pittsburgh, PA. The billboards are 11' x 24' and can be viewed on the students' web site http://snowballsfromthefreezer.com. Sperandio, along with his collaborative partner Simon Grennan, are working on a new project with Maurice Saatchi, the Baron Saatchi, on a new work. Grennan and Sperandio are also working on two new comic books in Wales. Season two of ARTSTAR, a television series on contemporary artists created and executive produced by Sperandio, is currently in pre-production.

Ayanah Moor was invited to present during the Southern Graphics Council Conference in Kansas City last month. The panel entitled, "Post Printmaking in a Post, Post, Post World", addressed the idea of constructed themes (post-printmaking in a Post-Feminist, Post-Black, Post-Queer era) and how these constructs affect academia, in particular, how we educate young artists/printmakers. Ayanah's paper examined the concept of post-blackness.

Ting Chang will present "The Labour of Travel in the Nineteenth-Century" as one of three panelists to speak on the issue of the relationship of Art to Empire/Imperialism as part of the Literary Cultural Studies Colloquium series in the Department of English, H&SS. The panel will be held on Friday, April 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Swank Room, Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University.

Roger Dannenberg, Research Professor of Computer Science and Art, presents an interactive performance with cello, "Critical Point," as part of the U3 Festival on April 15 at 8:00 p.m. in Bellefield Hall in Pittsburgh, PA. The work is dedicated to the memory of Rob Fisher.

The work of two Carnegie Mellon alumni artists is included in "Art in America: Three Hundred Years of innovation," co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. This is the first survey exhibition of American art presented in the People's Republic of China and it features seminal works Andy Warhol's (A '49) "Race Riot" (1963, Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland) and John Currin's (BFA '84) "Thanksgiving" (2003, Tate Gallery). The exhibit is on view at the National Museum of China in Beijing through April 5 and will travel to the Shanghai Museum (jointly with Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai) May 1 - June 30, http://www.terraamericanart.org/news/index.asp?key=64&subkey=646.

Osman Kahn (faculty), Edgar Um Bucholtz (BFA '93) and Lauri Mancuso (BFA '91) were among a group of Pittsburgh artists to provide artistic direction for FLUX 14, BRADDOCK on Friday, April 14 from 8:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.. FLUX is a multi disciplinary event series that celebrates, gathers and showcases two of the Pittsburgh region’s greatest assets: our emerging, grass-roots, non-traditional art scene and our vibrant, evolving communities. Each event takes place in a location that is in state of transition—or flux—from a rich past to a promising future. Each event is held in partnership with a community looking to revitalize their neighborhood from the ground-up and is full of possibilities for positive growth and development. Tickets $10 at the door cash only, $8 for students (with valid ID), Kids under 10 free. All door proceeds benefit participating artists. A project of the Three Rivers Arts Festival in partnership with the Braddock Borough. More information at http://66.39.34.2/flux/?page_id=2.

Encyclopedia Destructica [Christopher Kardambikis (BFA '05) and Jasdeep Khaira (BHA '04)] announce the release of the new issue 'Encyclopedia Destrvctica Bumba the Fourtha', with a release party on April 20, 8:00 p.m. at the Brillobox, Pittsburgh, PA. This issue is the Volume finale, a DVD containing video work by 39 artists including: Suzie Silver (faculty), Melissa Ragona (faculty), Lauren Goshinski (staff), Drew Pavelchak (BFA '03), Adam Grossi (BFA '03), Josh Atlas (BFA '05), Ryan Murray (BFA '05), Erin Pischke (BFA '05), Ashley Brickman (BFA '05), John Brodsky (BFA Design '05), Alberto Almarza (BFA Design '05), Bum Lee (BFA '06), Jesse Hulcher (MFA '06), and Michele Lee (Class of '09). Special Features include audio commentary and video playlists selected by Suzie Silver, Thad Kellstadt, Shaun Slifer, and Heather Pesanti. Also includes a finely crafted box and book. Encyclopedia Destructica is an art-zine inspired from the need to explore and export contemporary arts/culture in a way that’s accessible and easy to engage. These hand-bound issues provide a forum for a primordial dialogue between artists, harvesting themes from sketchbooks and journals, http://www.encyclopediadestructica.com/.

Aaronel Deroy Gruber (A '40) and Raymond DeFazio (A '58) have work included in Born of Fire: The Valley of Work, an exhibit of more than 140 paintings, prints and photographs that document Pittsburgh's steel heritage that originated at Westmoreland Museum of Art last year. It traveled this February to the Rhineland Industrial Museum in Oberhausen, Germany,
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/rss/s_492643.html;
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/arts/museums/s_496806.html.

Janet Culbertson (A '53) will be exhibiting 11 works with an environmental theme from her Industrial Park Series and Overview series. This exhibit, GREEN Space: Environmental Concerns in Contemporary Art, will be on view at SPACE 301, Centre for the Living Arts, in Mobile, AL. The show opens April 21, with a reception from 6:00-9:00 p.m. in connection with earth day
and runs through June 24.

Philip Morsberger (BFA '54) presents Philip Morsberger: A Passion for Painting at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA, May 12 - June 17, http://www.themorris.org/art/morsberger.html.

Katherine (Sproat) Kadish (BFA '61) exhibits in a two-person show, Memory: Paintings & Mixed Media, at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH, March 27 - April 21. She was also invited to participate in Exhibition 280 at the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, May 5 - June 30 and is included in the current edition of American Art Collector (Central States). Her work is represented by Anita Shapolsky Gallery, http://www.sinclair.edu/facilities/galleries/sched/index.cfm.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) has work included in Minimalism/Postminimalism at the Portland Art Museum, OR, March 31 - May 6. He will also have work included in Selections from the LeWitt Collection at the Austin Museum of Art, TX, May 24 - August 17, 2008, http://www.amoa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ex_future; http://web.pam.org/asp/special_exhibitions/exhibitions.asp?sort=upcoming.

Charles Schmidt (BFA '64) exhibited this January in Intimate Landscape at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at University of California Santa Cruz in collaboration with Chris Winfield Gallery in Carmel.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) exhibits in The Map Show: Charted Territory at Spencertown Academy of Arts Center in Spencertown, NY, through March 25. She also participates in How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism 1970-1975 at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, April 8 - June 3, http://www.spencertownacademy.org/galleries.html;
http://www.morrismuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.html.

George Nama (BFA '64) presents a solo exhibit of sculptures, etchings and gouaches at Jack Rutberg Gallery in Los Angeles through April 28, http://www.jackrutbergfinearts.com/.

Katherine "Katy" Morgan (CFA '67) has a photography exhibit at Aquarian Age Gallery, where her works will be shown throughout the year. Her latest photography can be seen at the Uncommon Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Her photographs, "Blossoms" and "Nosey", have won awards in Best of Artists and Artisans in FL Magazine. "Blanche" was selected for the annual American Collector publication. As a member of the Boca Raton Museum of Art Guild, Ms. Morgan was juried into the Signature Artist's Guild & now has a portfolio representing her work within this prestigious organization, http://www.bocamuseumartistguild.org/morgan/.

Rita Baragona (CFA '67) will have a show, In the Light of Flowers - Recent Paintings, at the Bowery Gallery, NYNY, on view from April 24 - May 19, with a reception on April 28 from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 a.m - 6:00 p.m., http://bowerygallery.org.

Duane Palyka (BFA '69) presents "Handmation," a blend of dance, visual theatre, and video animation featuring the RIT/NTID Dance Company in conjunction with performing and video artists live on stage at the Panara Theater in Rochester, NY, May 10-13, http://www.rit.edu/~423www/hand.html.

Dara Birnbaum (Architecture '69) exhibits in Video Art 1965-2005 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris through May 27. The show travels this spring to ACMI (Australian Center for the Moving Image) in Melbourne and then to Musée Fabre de Montpellier and Chiado Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. Her "Wonder Woman" video was recently screened at the Kunstalle in Vienna. Her work will be discussed in "The Reflexive Medium," by Yvonne Spielmann, to be published in January 2008 by MIT Press, http://laurette.net/projects/index.htm; http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11338.

James Welling (BFA '71) presents two concurrent shows at the New York Horticultural Society, March 23 - June 8 and at David Zwirner, March 21 - April 28. He also participates in Real Life, a group show at Artists Space in Soho, March 29 - May 19, http://www.hsny.org/html/exhibitions.htm; http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/; http://www.artistsspace.org/.

Thomas J. Norulak (BFA '71) exhibits a piece in Vessel: Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Membership Exhibition at Brew House Space 101 in Pittsburgh, PA. The show will be on view April 7 - May 5, with an opening reception on Friday, April 20.

Patricia (Calvin) Burson (BFA '71) returned from a three month artist-in-residence program in Delhi, India. She exhibited in two group shows in India, and is currently exhibiting her residency work in a solo show, Birches, Banyans and Bo, at Coleman Gallery, through the Concord Art Association in Massachusetts, April 3-29, http://www.concordart.org.

Arthur Chartow (BFA '72) presents paintings in Painting + Poetry - Ut Pictura Poesis, a group exhibit of realist art at Sherry French Gallery, NYC, March 28 - April 21, http://www.sherryfrenchgallery.com/poet07.html.

Barbara Strasen (BFA '72) exhibited at George Billis Gallery in Culver City, CA, last fall and was reviewed by Peter Frank in "LA Weekly." She will be exhibiting in the London Art Fair next January, http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art-pick/mark-kostabi-barbara-strasen-hung-liu/14721/; http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/page.cfm/Action=Exhib/ExhibID=00163/t=m.

Adria Arch (BFA '74), will exhibit one of her works on paper in the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Exhibition, Cambridge, MA, to be held in May. She will have a solo show at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston in November of 2007.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) participated in WPS1/MOMA's Sound & Vision Program in which she gathered "a sisterhood of big-hearted singers to lament the decline of political optimism. Guy instrumentalists wrap-up the set to second the emotion." To listen and look, visit: http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/sound_and_vision.html.

Peter Stanick (BFA '75), exhibits new paintings in Andy Warhol's Spirit through April 21, at Relflex Gallery, 62 ru JJ Rousseau, Paris.

Carol Salmanson (BFA '76) exhibits in Upon Reflection, a show of light sculptures and installations, at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Williamsburg, NY, April 21 - May 21. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 21 from 7:00-9:00 p.m., http://www.damstuhltrager.com; http://www.carolsalmanson.com.

Joel David Abramson (BFA '78) continues to do House Portraits in pen-and-ink and watercolors. His work appeared in the December issue of the Star Tribune's Marq Luxury Magazine as a unique gift item for the Holiday season.

Lindakay Rendina (BFA ’79) will be exhibiting her most recent work at OFF THE WALL 3 - Recycled Billboards into New Works of Art , a unique indor-outdoor exhibition hosted by Eco-LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Earth Day Eve, April 21 at 6:00 p.m, and will feature works by 24 artists who have created paintings out of vinyl canvases made from recycled billboards. The work will be on display both inside ECO-LA’s gallery and on the building’s exterior, and include both new works and a retrospective of the previous OFF THE WALL 1 & 2 shows. Works can be viewed through May 20, Wednesdays through Saturdays
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment, http://www.eco-logicalart.org.

Ron Desmett (MFA '79) presents a workshop on Saturday, May 5 from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., at DC Glassworks in Hyattsville, MD (registration required). He presents a free public lecture on Sunday, May 6 at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. at 3:00 p.m. The lecture precedes the opening of his solo show at Project 4 Gallery, 903 U Street, NW, DC, from 4:30-6:30 p.m., http://www.project4gallery.com/.

Margery Amdur (BFA '79) exhibited this February in Recycled at Projects gallery in Philadelphia, PA, http://www.projectsgallery.com/Shows/Altered_LandscapesPL.html.

Deborah Hosking (BFA '81) has a recent piece included in the Photography As Art exhibit at the Susquehanna Museum of Art in Harrisburg, PA, opening May 17.

Sarah Ratchye (BFA '83) exhibited in the Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute, CA, March 11-17, http://www.sanfranciscoart.edu/page.aspx?page=256&navID=580&sectionID=4;
http://www.sarahratchye.com/gallery/wallpaper.htm.

Sarah Stengle (BFA '84) presented Liquid Logic, an exhibit of drawings at the Women and Gender Studies Department at Princeton University, NJ, this February.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) is a visiting Artist at Bowling Green University from April 5-8, where he will demonstrate flatware techniques and offer a public lecture. His newly licensed New York Graphics furniture and jewelry will be showing at the Aaron Faber Gallery exhibition Memories of New York, on view April 24 - June 3. Boris donated a chair to the Renwick Alliance Auction in Washington, DC, running April 20-22. He has been invited to design the annual charm for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund annual fundraising drive, boris@borisbally.com; http://www.borisbally.com.

James Shipman (MFA '84) and Kate Bazis (BFA '05) participate in In Full Bloom at SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, March 23 - May 12. The show was guest curated by Bob Ziller, http://www.spacepittsburgh.org/flash.html.

John Currin (BFA '84) exhibits in Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, a group show at Thomas Dane Gallery in London through April 22, http://www.thomasdane.com.

Diane Thodos (BFA '85) will be represented by the Paule Friedland & Alex Rivault Gallery from Paris for the Bridge - Chicago Art Expo this April. She will also have exhibits at the Thomas Masters Gallery in Chicago in April and the Traeger & Pinto Gallery in Mexico City in November.

Patricia Barefoot (BFA '87) has work in Group A's Boxes II exhibition at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. An opening reception will be held Friday, April 13 from 5:30-8:00 p.m., with the full exhibition on view through May 27.

Daniel Mark Duffy's (BFA '87) grand manner presidential portrait of John E. Sexton, NYU president, and Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton will be presented on April 5 and in May respectively at Yale Law School. On April 14 The Irish Times will be running a full-color feature on Dan Duffy and his upcoming exhibition of contemporary portraits of women, Skin Deep. In conjunction with the Irish Times article he will be interviewed live on Irish National Public Radio 106 the same day. He continues to seek prominent women over 40 to participate in this celebratory project.

David French's (BFA '87) solo exhibition of recent painting and sculpture, Dialectical matters, will be on view at Montage Gallery in Baltimore, MD, from April 21 - May 27, with an opening reception from 5:00-7:00 p.m. He is also contributing to a group exhibition of drawings/works on paper organized by Laura Sharpe Wilson (BFA '87) entitled Heroes in Bryce's Barbershop, Olympia, WA.

Greg Kessler (BFA '88) exhbited in a three-person show at The Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, NYC, which ran from March 30 - April 6, http://www.gregkessler.net/.

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) presents a solo exhibit, The Lifes and Traumas of Stuffed Animals at BahdeeBahdu Gallery and Studio in Philadelphia, PA. The show opens April 6, with a reception from 6:00-9:00 p.m., and runs through May 2, http://www.bahdeebahdu.com/.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), with Temporary Services, exhibited at Galerija Nova in Croatia through March 22 and in: Free Radicals at the Israeli Center for Digital Art; Pass It On! Connecting Contemporary Do-It-Yourself Culture at Columbia College in Chicago through April 14; Beyond Green at Smith College in Massachusetts through April 15; and in the 2007 DePauw Biennial in
Greencastle, IA, through May 10. They also present their exhibition, Group Work, together with the launch of a publication of the same name by this Chicago-based artists' collective at Printed Matter in New York City March 30 - May 3. On March 31, 16 Beaver (a group and a space) hosts an eating and talking event to celebrate groups at 16 Beaver Street, NYC, http://www.digitalartlab.org.il/; http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/; http://www.depauw.edu/galleries/;
http://printedmatter.org/; http://www.16beavergroup.org.

Carin Mincemoyer (BFA ‘94) installed “Cloud” at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. The work is made of recycled bottles and it mists and rains in the museum’s waterplay area, http://www.carinmincemoyer.com/.

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94) had work in Branded and On Display at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, IL. His prints will inaugurate a new Chelsea gallery in New York, featured in the April 8 New York Times Sunday Styles section, http://www.kam.uiuc.edu/exhibitions.cfm?show=current; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/fashion/08lewis.html; http://drugaddict.livejournal.com/2628032.html.

Kinga Czerska (BFA '95) exhibited paintings at KKAP Gallery in Chicago in March, http://www.kasiakayartprojects.com/current.html/.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) is currently at Ssamzie Space Residency in Seoul, Korea, preparing for lectures and solo and group shows in Korea and China. In April he will be giving a lecture at Hong Ik University about his work. He is currently showing at the Cabinet des Estampes Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, for which a catalog has been published by JRP-Ringier. A studio visit video interview is online with Vernissage TV based in Basel, Switzerland, http://vernissage.tv/blog/2007/03/11/patrick-meagher-studio-visit-part-14/.

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) participated in Human Nature II: Future Worlds at the School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington. He spoke on April 5, with Critical Art Ensemble, at James Madison University, http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/human_nature/;
http://www.jmu.edu/art/MissionFrame.html.

Paul Snelson (BFA '96) returned from another trip to Paris where he visited the Pompidou, The Brancusi Atelier, the Picasso Museum, the Rodin Museum, The Aristide Maillol Museum, The Musee D'Art Moderne, The Musee D'Orsay, The Palais de Tokyo Museum, the Louvre and Palace at Versailles. He is working now as a Graphics Training and Documentation Specialist at
Idearc Media Incorporated.

Seldon Yuan (BHA '98) will participate in the Hunter MFA program's open studios and silent auction located at the MFA Studio Building 450 W. 41st St. (between 9th & 10th Avenues) NYC. Open studio hours are Friday April 27 from 6:00-10:00 p.m. and Saturday April 28 from 2:00-6:00 p.m. Silent Auction will run Friday night only from 6:00-9:30 p.m., cash & carry. Proceeds benefit MFA Student Organization.

Paola Cabal (BFA '98) exhibits in Material + Light: Paola Cabal, Ana Fernandez and Darrell Roberts at MN Gallery in Chicago, IL, through May 6, http://www.darrell-roberts.com/about3.html.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) presents Timefolding, a solo show at Nicole Klagsbrun in New York City, March 23 - April 21, http://www.nicoleklagsbrun.com/.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) will participate in the 4th TUPADA International Performance and Media Art Festival, April 19-22, organized by TUPADA, and curated by Ronaldo Ruiz and Maricris Calilung. Live performances will be held at The Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, and the Botanical Gardens, Baguio, Philippines, http://www.tupada.org/.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) participated in Quotidian, a group show at BUIA Gallery in New York during March, http://chelseaartgalleries.com/BUIA+Gallery/Quotidian.html.

Rosina Santanta (MFA '01) will be teaching graduate students at the Transart Insitute in Linz, Austria this summer, http://www.transartinstitute.org/.

Emily de Araujo (MFA '01) presents Holes and Shadows, a solo exhibit at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI, April 6 - July 22, http://www.uica.org.

Sarah Hatton (BFA '03) presented a reactive video installation,"Pull My Hair and Tell Me You Love Me Because the Last Time I Can Remember I Had a Bob", on April 6 at First Studio in Phoenix, AZ. She will also present "One More Rack for Peto" in the Connectivity Stage 1 Interlab with the Arizona State University Art Museum. Her piece is an interactive multimodal installation made in collaboration with the SMALLab research team from ASU and three students from the Metropolitan Arts High School in response to the 1880 trompe l'oeil painting "The Rack" by John Frederick Peto. The Interlab will be on display from April 14 - September 29. Learn more about the SMALLab at http://ame2.asu.edu/projects/ameed/smallab/smallab.php and Connectivity Stage 1 at http://herbergercollege.asu.edu/calendar/eventOne.php?ID=612&.

Sarah Beitler (BFA '03) exhibits in Women's Work at 709 Penn Gallery Pittsburgh, PA, March 2 - April 20, and Grand Opening Show Elan Fine Art Gallery, Sewickley, PA, April 13 - May 12, http://www.pgharts.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=130465; http://www.elanarts.com/.

Siobhan Rigg (MFA '04) and Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) participate in Multimediale: Capturing the Capital in Washington, DC, April 19-22, http://www.multimedialedc.org.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) participated in Handjob at Space 1026 in Philadelphia, PA. For this show, artists were asked to replicate machine-made items by hand. Recently, she was part of a symposium at UCLA entitled "Beyond the Waves: Art Informed by Feminisms," and from April 19-22 she'll be presenting a new project called RED CRYSTAL PALACE as part of a media arts festival called Multimediale in Washington DC, http://www.multimedialedc.org; http://www.myxertones.com/artist/429943/; http://space1026.com/space.php.

Mark Baugh-Sasaki (BFA '04) had a solo exhibit last December at Swarm gallery in Oakland, CA, http://www.swarmstudios.net/gallery/exhibitions/cutlip_opden_sasaki.htm.

Shana Moulton (MFA '04) will exhibit a solo show, Whispering Pines, in the project space at Bellwether Gallery in New York opening April 19. She will also participate in the group show, Modern Solitude, at Fons Welters in Amsterdam opening April 14, and a screening at Orchard 47 Gallery in New York on the same day. She will also be featured in a spread in the next issue of Tokion magazine and have work in some other screenings. More info at: http://www.shanamoulton.com.

Danielle Worst (BFA '05) presents her MFA thesis show entitled, The Wire Frame: Spaces and Boundaries, from April 27 - May 5, 2007 at the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, with an opening reception on April 27 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Julie Ludwick (BHA '05) participated in Art of Connection, a group exhibition by art therapy students this March at the Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, http://www.saic.edu/webspaces/arttherapy/artists.html.

Adam Davies (MFA '05) was awarded a Jentel Residency in Wyoming for a four-week period between July and August.

Sarah Laina Koljonen (BFA '06) is teaching IB Visual Arts at United World College in Hong Kong. She will be spending some time this summer in Pittsburgh to prepare for a Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators exhibition titled Pittsburgh Recast, due to open in November (up through March 2008) at the Heinz History Center, http://www.pittsburghrecast.com.

Findings, the 2007 Carnegie Mellon University School of Art Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, will open with a reception from 5:00–8:00 p.m. Friday, April 13, 2007 in the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery on the Carnegie Mellon campus. Featured in this year’s exhibition are Lauren Frances Adams, Jan Descartes, David W. Halsell, Ian Ingram, Gunnhildur Jonsdottir, and David Tinapple. The students will give gallery talks about their work as well. On Tuesday, April 17 at noon, Gunnhildur Jonsdottir will speak about her work in the gallery. On Tuesday, April 24 from 5:00-8:00 p.m., Adams, Descartes, Ingram, Halsell, and Tinapple will give a public tour of the exhibition. Both events are free and open to the public. John Carson, Head of the School of Art, describes the exhibition as "one in which you will find six fantastic artists: a quirky creator of a robotic menagerie; a farm girl asking questions of the military; an observer of traumatized adolescence; a mesmeric Icelandic storyteller; an aesthetic manipulator of sound and light; and a computer whiz fighting media overload". More information on the Miller Gallery and Thesis Exhibition can be found at http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu; http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/press/releases/MFA07findings.html.

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.

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08), John Peña (MFA '08), Kazuki Eguchi (MFA '09) and Robin Hewlett participated as a team in "Installation Olympic Theatre" at the Mattress Factory on March 17. The event featured three teams of Pittsburgh artists competing over 2.5 hours to build winning sculptural installations as part of Tom Sarver's ongoing Tom Museum. They were awarded second place.

Everything Must Go, an exhibition of School of Art's 2nd Year Grads (Michelle Fried, Ben Kinsley, John Peña, Eileen Maxson, Ally Reeves, and Chris Beauregard) opens Friday, April 13 at Future Tenant Gallery downtown. The official reception will be held the following Friday, April 20 during the Cultural District gallery crawl, http://www.futuretenant.org.

Michael Mallis and Gene Kim (both Class of '08) present SuperLove, the grandest children's show pilot episode, baby food, fun and a giant fort on April 20, 7:00pm at the Frame Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University.

Jose Baez (Class of '08) will be showing paintings and drawings at the Bricolage Production Company during the performance of the play "Dutchman", by Leroi Jones (also known as Amiri Imamu Baraka) directed by Mark Clayton Southers. Performances on April 29 and 30 at 8:00pm, at the Bricolage Theatre Space, located at 937 Liberty Avenue at Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

Julia Stein (BHA Class of '08) aka JULIACKS is exhibiting in Printed Matter 2: A Group Print Show at the Giant Robot Gallery in the East Village on April 21 - May 16. For more information go to http://www.grny.net.

For information on making a gift to the School of Art, please contact: CFA Development Office at 412-268-6654, email: stolmer@andrew.cmu.edu.