Elaine A. King, Professor of Art History and Theory, served on the American Association of University Women's International Fellowship review panel, in Washington, D.C., where she chaired the Art History and Visual Arts Committee. She also recently chaired the panel Art Criticism and Theory in a Post Post Structuralist Time, at the Mid-Western Art Historians Conference.

Mary Hood, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, is currently participating in Artists' Books at the Buddy Holly Art Center in Texas. The exhibition runs through May 3, 2003. She has also been accepted for a summer residency at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, IL. During her visit she will make a limited edition book that explores visual representations of time and the relationship of the pattern of time to life's experiences, both real and imaginary.

Martin Prekop, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Suzie Silver, Associate Professor of Art, Simone Jones, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Lance Winn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Brooke Singer (MFA '02), Laleh Mehran (MFA '97), James Nesbitt (BFA '91) and Miller Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator, Rick Gribenas are participating in the third Pittsburgh Biennial, March 22-June 22.

Suzie Silver will have a videotape in an international videoart show 25hrs held in Barcelona, Spain on May, 9th. 24-hour non-stop projections of a wide-ranging selection of works made after 1990 represent a complete vision of contemporary videoart. The screening includes 300 pieces (each with a maximum length of 20 minutes) by international artists of all tendencies and from different cultural environments. The videos will be projected onto a large screen in the Polisportiu El Raval, a large sports center in the heart of the city.

Sandi Seltzer Bryant (BFA '74) is exhibiting paintings at Cidnee Patrick Gallery in Dallas, TX through May 3, 2003. For additional information: http://cidneepatrickgallery.com.

Richard Orient (BFA '77) will have a solo exhibition at George Billis Gallery April 29 - May 24, 2003. http://www.georgebillis.com

Greg Kwiatek (BFA '79) was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has also become a member of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts which provides him with a studio in New York for the next two years.

Diane Thodos (BFA '85) received a 2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work is included in several exhibits this year at the Union League Club in Chicago and Kent Muller Fine Art in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Museum of Fine Art recently acquired one of her works.

Pat Barefoot (BFA '87) is teaching Studio Art at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Her students exhibited in Two Cultures: Biology and Art this April in Duquesne's Department of Biological Sciences.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA'87) has a solo exhibit at Lump Gallery in Raleigh, NC, May 2 -June 1. Opening reception May 2, 7-11pm.

Jessica Reeves-Cohen (BFA '91) is the Founder and Artistic Director of Clyde Forth Visual Theater, a non-profit collaborative working in interdisciplinary performance art. This summer, the group will present two works at the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Mouthful and Score for Thinking about Error and Progress, also presented through sundaynewgenre, curated by Ei Arakawa at The Web, NYC last year. Jessica will be performing Comfort at Artists Space in NYC May 7-17.

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) exhibited prints and a site-specific wall installation entitled Sample and Hold at Clifford Smith Gallery in Boston, MA, April 1-26.

Wall-to-Wall Studios, a communications design firm owned by James Nesbitt (BFA '91) and Bernard Uy (School of Design, BFA '90), participated in the third Pittsburgh Biennial, March 22-June 22. The exhibit includes 30 artists in 11 galleries at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Wall-to-Wall Studios' installation is entitled Smoke and Mirrors.

Laura Domencic (BFA '96) and Grace Summanen (BFA '96) present recent paintings in Balance at the Penn Gallery in Pittsburgh, May 2-31, 2003. Opening reception Friday, May 2.

Leon Stiel (BFA '98) and his wife are now parents of nine-month old Julian "Jude" Stiel.

Nathan "Hactivist" (BFA '99) is currently a graduate student in upstate New York. For more news on his activities: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=562&e=2&u=/ap/wal_mart_bar_
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Emily Merz (BFA '00) is a student in the Columbia University Postbaccalaureate Psychology Program. View her research into children's drawings and the psychology of creative expression conducted in Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakhstani orphanages online: http://www.orphandoctor.com/wwo/orresearch.html.

Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) is exhibiting Striking Images Recapturing Stories Around Personal Photographs as part of Continuing the Dialogue: The Warhol Artists/Educator Projects at Artist Image Resource in Pittsburgh, April 4 -30, 2003.

Seniors, Ross Christy and Lara Hoke, have been selected for Carnegie Mellon's Senior Leadership Recognition.

Junior, Elizabeth Levin, is the 2002-03 Student Employee of the Year for Carnegie Mellon. Elizabeth was nominated by the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) where she works as an office assistant. She was presented with a Certificate of Achievement and a $100 US Savings Bond.

Mark Dixon has been awarded a Graduate Student Small Project Help (GUSH!) grant through the Graduate Student Assembly and the Provost's Office. The goal of this funding is to enable more Carnegie Mellon graduate students to reach their full potential in their degree-related work.

For information on making a gift to the School of Art, please contact: Chris File, Director of Development: 412-268-1047, email: cf2n@andrew.cmu.edu.