Mary Weidner, Professor of Art, participated in a series of slide talks and panel discussion entitled The Ties That Bind that explores the theme of family dynamics in conjunction with her solo exhibit, Memory, Conjecture, and Yearning, at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Her exhibit was reviewed by Kurt Shaw in the April 18 Tribune-Review: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_189544.html.

Lowry Burgess', Professor of Art, image and description of The Boundless Cubic Lunar Aperture appears in the February 2004 edition of artpress. This is the first serious article on the history of space art. His essay, The Poetic Hand, appears in the Digital Dialogues monograph, published by Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME. http://www.haystack-mtn.org.

James Duesing'sTender Bodies was screened in the Humboldt International Short Film Festival, April 3-April 10 in Arcata, CA. Duesing also served on the First Works Grant Panel at Pittsburgh Filmmakers in early April. He also presented a visiting artist lecture and engaged in studio visits at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht Holland April 7 and 8. http://www.janvaneyck.nl.

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, which brings together artists, scientists, designers, theorists and companies, is Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence. His essay database (in collaboration with Adriana de Souza e Silva) will be published in the forthcoming book Database Aesthetics, edited by Victoria Vesna, University of Minnesota Press.

Ayanah Moor, Assistant Professor of Art, will be showing work in The Third Juried Print Biennial Exhibiton at Sumei Art Center in Newark, New Jersey. The exhibition was curated by David Kiehl, curator of prints, Whitney Museum of American Art. The show runs April 23 - May 23.

Golan Levin, Assistant Professor of Art, premiered a new performance on May 1 in Performing Technology from the 2004 Whitney Biennial at The Kitchen in NYC. He is also exhibiting in Digital Sublime: 2nd Media City Seoul Biennale at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan. One of his interactive installations was staged at the Electronic Art Lounge as part of the SAP Sapphire Convention in Orlando, FL. A new interactive installation opens on May 20 in Interactions/Art and Technology at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY; the following day, he will participate in a panel discussion and lecture on Digital Avant Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica at the Austrian Cultural Forum. This summer, he will present a paper at the The 3rd International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering on June 7 in Annecy, France and will open a large interactive multi-projection installation commission in the central offices of Telekom Austria in Vienna. His work will also be included in NAVIGATOR - Digital Art in the Making, opening July 3 at the Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and running through September 5, 2004.

Hubert Fitzgerald (Art & Design '49) has a retrospective, The Wide Spectrum / An Artist's Timeline, at the Lancaster Museum of Art in Pennsylvania through May 30. Fitzgerald is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Echo Valley Art Group of Lancaster. The exhibit is discussed in an April 9 article in the town's Intelligencer Journal. http://www.lancastermuseumart.com/.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) has a solo exhibit of works exploring ecological themes in the Hewlett-Woodmere Library Gallery at The Nassau County Museum in New York, June 5 - August  30, 2004. Culbertson has several works in the Puffin Foundation's traveling exhibition called Toxic Landscapes on view at the Long Beach Island Foundation in Loveladies, NJ. July 5 - 28 at 120 Long Beach Blvd.

Joan Kopchik (BFA '63) was interviewed by a field reporter for an episode of Home and Garden Television's Our Place. The program included coverage on her paper quilting. Her work is in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection in Washington, DC and the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. More images of her handmade paper pieces may be seen in the online GUILD Custom Design Center. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_furnishings_folk_art/article/0,1793,HGTV_3431_
1385545,00.html; http://www.guild.com/servlet/Guild/CDCArtTeamPage_com?atid=4892&query=!!cd
cCOMLastLetterK&rows=3&cols=2.

Raymond Kaskey (CFA '67) is the primary designer of all the statuary included in the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. Kaskey is nationally known for his classic sculpture, and has received numerous awards including the Henry Hering Medal from the National Sculpture Society in 1986 for Portlandia, and in 1993 for the National Law Enforcement Memorial, as well as the Louise Bennett Award from the same Society in 1981. He has also received an Award for Excellence in Architecture from the American Institute for Architects, and became one of its fellows in 1993. He has received many public commissions across the US: from Shreveport, LA; Santa Ana, CA; Birmingham, AL; Chicago, IL; Charlotte, NC; and Portland, OR, as well as within Washington, DC and its metro region.
http://www.narpac.org/RKASKEY.HTM;
http://www.brownlog.dreamhost.com/photooftheweek/2001/2001q1/20010318.htm.

Andy Warhol (BFA '49) and Deborah Kass (BFA '74) are exhibiting in Disturbing the Peace at Danese, 41 E. 57th St., New York, May 20 - June 20, 2004.

Seth Dickerman (BFA '78) exhibited in New Work: Paintings and Photographs this spring at Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art in New York City. http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Home.asp?gid=913.
For images of his past work exhibited at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, visit:
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?gid=253&aid=191214.

Christopher Priore (BFA '81) is exhibiting suspended mixed media sculptures, charcoal drawings and a series of paintings in New Adventures at Museo Italoamericano at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco through July 4. http://www.museoitaloamericano.org.

Lisa Farrell (BFA '82) runs a works on paper gallery in Washington, DC. In May she will be showing the mixed media prints of classmate Carol Adelman (BFA '82). The exhibition is entitled Threshold: Imprint to Image and runs May 5 - July 3.

Sarah Ratchye (CFA '83) is exhibiting Rapcher in the online Marjorie Wood Gallery through June 30. The exhibit is accompanied by an essay by Amy Berk. http://www.marjoriewoodgallery.com/exhibitions/ratchye/.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) presents Discussions with a Designer Daddy, reflections on the Kidsize exhibition at the Wadsworth Athenium Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. His Brave, a neckpiece of 100 gun triggers, will be included in Exhibition in Print 2004, produced by The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), which becomes available in August. http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/.

Christopher Shellhammer (BFA '84) has left his 12-year commercial career in goldsmithing to focus on painting and woodworking. The paintings that he has completed in response to his current environment (Manila in the Philippines) are documented on his web site. http://www.christophershellhammer.com.

Jill Ziccardi (BFA '86) is a Teaching Artist/Museum Educator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) is exhibiting in Hello Chelsea, at Bellwether's new location at 134 Tenth Ave. in New York City. Bellwether, a gallery directed by Becky Smith (BFA '96), opens this exhibit on Thursday, June 3, 6-9pm. Hello Chelsea runs through July 24. http://www.bellwethergallery.com.

Sarah Smith (BFA '91) has been exhibiting this year in San Francisco. The Sustained Illusion, a mixed media installation,was part of a two person show at Ampersand International Arts. Two at Ampersand, a review of the show by Abraham Orden (BFA '02) can be found at: http://www.stretcher.org/. Smith's work was also included in a group show at Mimi Barr Gallery in San Francisco's Mission District. She has an upcoming solo exhibition of recent sculpture and painting at Garfield Artworks in Pittsburgh, PA, June 4 - June 25, 2004, opening on Friday, June 4, from 6-10pm. Garfield Artworks is located at 4931 Penn
Ave. Pittsburgh. http://www.garfieldartworks.com.

Andrew Johnson (MFA '94) is exhibiting in Flock & Fable: Animal Identity in Contemporary Art, curated by Amie Robinson (BFA '98) at the Chelsea Art Museum at 556 West 22nd Street through July 31. http://chelseaartmuseum.org/.

Steffi Domike (MFA '97) and Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99) are showing their collaborative installation, River Vernacular in the exhibition, Imaging the River, at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY through May 23. http://hrm.org/exhibits.html; http://www.studiotara.net/RiverVernacular.

Allison Serpe (BFA '99) is a Design Producer for Cyclosa Productions.

Fereshteh Toosi and Carolyn Lambert have been selected for The Berwick Research Institute's Artists Residency Program. Their Parking Lot Players project is one of four sponsored by the Berwick that engage and involve audiences in dialogues about our lives in contemporary social, technological, and ecological landscapes. Lambert and Toosi will focus their inquiries on the parking lot, a seemingly mundane space as a locus of invisible commercial, social, and historical activity. They are touring the country performing and hosting happenings in parking lots in different urban spaces throughout the months of June and July. http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/frameset.pl; http://www.berwickinstitute.org/.

Adam Davies, second year graduate student, has been invited to be a resident this summer at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, Long Island for the month of July. The Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as The Barn) as a residence for writers, painters, sculptors and composers. http://www.pipeline.com/~jtnyc/albeefdtn.html.

Fereshteh Toosi and Lilith Bailey-Kroll, third year graduate students, have works from Shock and Awesome, the MFA Thesis Exhibit, featured in an April 15 article, What's the Difference?: Split Personality, by Rosemary Feitelberg for Women's Wear Daily. Senior, Cay Yoon, is also quoted.
http://www.wwd.com/content/article.cfm?ID=%25%22-%40%23P5P%20%0A&xart=1&CF
ID=28460&CFTOKEN=88223667.

Shana Moulton, third year graduate student, is creating costumes and a performance for the Garden of Earthly Delights party on May 15 that will open Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed at the Andy Warhol Museum through September 5.

Leslie Klasterka's (BFA '04) artwork is featured in the Gothic Fairy Tales web zine, Issue 7, Equilibrium, Spring/Summer 2004. http://www.gothicfairytales.com.

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