Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art, will present a paper, Ground-to-Zero-Gravity-Linkages, Linkages between Earth and Space through Zero Gravity and the Concept of Releasement (Gelassenheit), at the SPACE: Science, Technology and the Arts Conference held at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The conference runs May 18-21 and is sponsored by ESA, the International Academy of Astronautics, Leonardo/Olats and the OURS Foundation.

Elaine A. King, Professor of History of Art/Theory, was Chair of the session, Modern, Post-Modern and Arts Future, at the annual conference of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in San Antonio, Texas on April 9th. King presented the paper entitled, Want to Make Art-Why Not Go to Wal-Mart? The Influences of Popular Culture.

Fabian Winkler, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, has been invited to join a research summit at the Banff New Media Institute in Canada this August. The topic of the summit, that brings together artists, scientists, designers, theorists and companies, is Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence.
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=144.

Clayton Merrell, Assistant Professor of Art, and Catalina Achim (Mellon Institute) will participate in the National Science Foundation Workshop Chemistry of Art at Millersville University of Pennsylvania this June. A series of Clayton's paintings, titled Desaparecidos will be featured at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Athens, GA from May 21 - July 10. http://www.athica.org.

Several Carnegie Mellon alumni are included in PIN UP, a showing of photographic work by 23 area photographers co-curated by Murray Horne, Curator of Wood Street Galleries and Jen Saffron (BFA '91), photographer and videographer. PIN UP runs at SPACE Gallery, April 16 - June 19. Exhibiting alumni include Lisa Albaugh, Elizabeth Deasy (BFA '03), Aaronel de roy Gruber (MM '40), Cassandra C. Jones (MFA Class of '04), Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00), John Riegert (BFA '92), Jen Saffron (BFA '91), Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) and Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94).

Irene Waichler Pasinki Sailor (BFA '45) is honored through an exhibit at Chatham College entitled A Strong and Steady Hand: The Student Work of Irene Waichler Pasinski, 1941-43. Call 412-365-1106 for more information.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) has been selected to win a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. Joyce was appointed in the Creative Arts category for Painting, Sculpture and Installation Art. The Guggenheim 2004 Committee of Selection chose 185 Fellows from among 3,268 applications on the basis of unusually impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

In Memoriam: Raymond Neher (CFA '66), painter and printmaker, passed away March 15, 2004. Born in New Jersey in 1943, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University, Raymond Neher lived in California since 1973. His works on paper and canvas have been exhibited across the country and are included in private collections from Los Angeles to Rome. During the past 25 years, he created photorealist landscapes, roadscapes and cityscapes while traveling the world from Interstate 5 in California's central valley to fiords of the Straits of Magellan. Since 1993, he had turned his talents to recording the fanciful flora and fauna and landscapes of the imaginary Republic of Cadatonia in monoprints, based on childhood memories of the Jersey shore. http://www.arikiart.com/landscape-artist-raymond-neher.htm.

Paul Zelevansky (BFA '67) co-curated and has a digital projection in You Belong To Me in Index@Post at Post Gallery in Los Angeles, March 27 through April 24. http://www.hkrad.com/post/exhibitions/exhibitions.html; http://www.greatblankness.com.

David Lenker, (CFA '78), a professional artist and jazz piano player participated this April in The Art Group's multi-generational art exhibit showcasing the works of the Lenker family. The Art Group gallery is in Mt. Jackson, Virginia. http://www.theartgroup.org/class.html.

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) won a 2004 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council.
http://www.charlesritchie.com/gallery.htm.

Kathy Skerritt (Mead) (BFA '80) will present her work through Evolution Art Group at Art Philadelphia, May 14-17 in the Philadelphia Convention Center. She is now also represented by Crossroads Contemporary in Santa Fe and will exhibit in its inaugural show.

Edna M. Kunkel (BS '82 in Chemistry) is a member of the Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople. Her mixed media work blurs the boundaries between painting and photography and was included in a February group show, Parallel Lives, Divergent Views, at the Commonwealth Gallery in Madison, WI. http://www.portalwisconsin.org/online_gallery_artist.cfm?artist=261&sort=m
edium&medid=16.

Valerie Brodar (BFA '84) is Assistant Professor in Visual and Performing Arts at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She exhibited this April in Colorado 2004: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art at Fine Arts Center Colorado Springs.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) won an honorable mention award for his trigger necklace in Jewelry with a Purpose: Jewelry that Transcends Wearable Art at Velvet DaVinci Gallery in San Francisco through May 3. His opinion piece Success in Context appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Metalsmith Magazine. Metal, a book by Chris Lefteri that includes Bally's work, will be published by Rotovision: London, England,with an expected release date this April. Bally's solo exhibit at the Fuller Museum of Crafts in Brockton, MA runs May 14- August 8 with a workshop, demonstration and lecture on July 25. His work is also included in Anti-War Medals, which travels from Velvet DaVinci Gallery to London's Electrum Gallery where it runs May 7-31. His work has recently been collected by Nannette Maciejunes (Executive Director of the Columbus Museum of Art), Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Tait (CEO of Cranium, Inc.) and Michael Stipe (REM's lead singer/songwriter).http://www.postpicasso.com; http://www.snagmetalsmith.org; http://www.rotovision.com; http://www.fullermuseum.org.

Katharine Kuharic (BFA '84) has been funded by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation as a 2004 MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her solo show at P.P.O.W. in New York City will run May 27- June 26. She will also exhibit in the group exhibit, On Being Blue at Jim Schmidt Contemporary Art in St. Louis, MO.
http://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/KatharineKuharic/index.html.

John Currin's (BFA'84) art is the subject of an article in the May issue of Harper's Magazine. Imitation of Art: John Currin's Sleight of Hand by Lance Esplund, critic for Art in America, discusses his work in reference to a recent collection of essays, John Currin, published by Harry N. Abrams.

Deborah Barkun (BFA '89) is presently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, completing a dissertation entitled, Imaging AIDS: Art, Activism, and the Collaborative Body. She received her MA in the History of Art from Bryn Mawr in 2001. She is the recipient of a 2003-2004 American Council of Learned Societies/Henry Luce Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in American Art and a 2004-2005 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities.

Jessica Caplan (BFA '91), under the name Jezebel, designs stained and blown glass art based on natural forms. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she exhibits her creations at Jezebel Gallery.
http://www.collectorsguide.com/sf/g076.html.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) co-curated and exhibited in the POST-IT show, an exhibit of collaborative drawings altered daily at Play Space Gallery at California College of the Arts, April 2-16.

Cheryl Casteen (MFA Class of '00) is Gallery Chair at the Art Center of St. Peter in St. Peter, MN. She recently had images of her work published in Contemporary magazine, Issue 59, pp. 54&55, (Safe Stretch, and Classical Latex); and in The Book of Skin by Steven Connor, Reaktion Books LTD, London 2004, pp. 263, 266, 275, (Safe Stretch, Classical Latex, and Amnio).

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) has work in Collection (or, How I Spent a Year), a group show curated by Bob Nickas for P.S. 1/MOMA in Long Island City, New York. http://www.ps1.org/cut/press/collection.html.

Thomas Feulmer (MFA '00) is Assistant Curator of Education at the Modern Art Musuem of Fort Worth, TX. He gave an artist talk on his sound pieces for headphones and his museum experience at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas on April 21. His sound pieces combine field recording, samples, spoken segments and are created for headphones establishing an audience of one for exploring the terrain of social exchange, alienation and the landscape of an intimate moment. http://www.the-mac.org/education.jsp.

Rebecca Vaughan (MFA '01) is exhibiting in Strands of Fabrication at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, April 1 through May 15.

David Johnson (BHA '01) will pursue a Masters Degree in Ethics and Peace at American University in Washington, DC this fall.

Terry Young (BFA '01) is exhibiting in his first London show, Homos Know: Presents American History Do You Know Philip Johnson? at Baynes and Mitchell, opening April 29. He has also penned the Homosexual Manifesto (An Evolving Declaration of Independence 1776-2004), available on his web site: http://www.whitesnakerules.org.

Takahiro Noguchi’s (MFA '03) radio project on the San Diego/Tijuana border, is featured in Tactical Sound, Issue 3, Re: Radio. Tactical Sound is a quarterly compilation of findings and keepings from a quest for sound in active service towards human liberation. Ideally, the issue will present a political history of radio spanning from invention to webcasting. Issues of interest include but are not limited to: co-evolution with the record industry and television; propaganda radio projects (imperialist and revolutionary); tactical war-time radio projects; pirate radio and micro-broadcasting movements; "clear-channelization" and radio monopolies, religious and secular; radiophonic art and experimentations; guerilla disruption, interference and infrastructural sabotage; utopian radio theory / projects. Takahiro and Spencer Stair are participating in the 2004 Armory Installational, a juried exhibition consisting of works by fourteen Southern California artists. The exhibition provides viewers the opportunity to explore the outside world with new eyes, highlighting current social values, and ascribing new meaning to a former plant nursery. From mass-produced objects to organic materials the works help to underscore the ways in which we interact with our environment and each other. The artists explore everything from history to politics to humor. The exhibit takes place in the interior and exterior spaces at Armory Northwest, 284 East Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena, CA. The show runs from April 19 - June 26. http://www.armoryarts.org.

Lara Hoke (BFA '03) is a Legal Assistant at Arnold & Porter in New York City. She is living in Brooklyn and has set up a studio in a former factory.

First year graduate student, Matt Barton, is working on a project with Mildred's Daughters who run an organic farm in Stanton Heights. The site will also include a playground for children. Barton is designing and constructing interactive and kinetic mechanisms that are simultaneously functional and sculptural that will both entertain and assist in maintaining the farm. For example, teeter totters might activate irrigating systems, the sounds of crows that deter rodent damage, or open and close shutters of miniature tree houses.

First year graduate student, William Cravis, will exhibit Nostalgia, a storefront window project in the 900 block of Penn Avenue as part of the 45th Annual Three Rivers Arts Festival. The festival opens June 4 with a "walkabout" reception on June 18. Bill is also exhibiting in Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2004 at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, June 12 - September 12. http://www.artsfestival.net/;
http://www.statemuseumpa.org/museum.html.

Eduardo Padhila (former exchange student) is exhibiting in Coalesce: Mingle Mangle, an interwoven environment of contemporary art at London Print Studio in London through May 29.

Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Bill Wehmann, Steve Shorts and Andrew Klein are exhibiting in DUDE, ITS ART at Artists Image Resource, 518 Foreland St., Pittsburgh, April 10-24.

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