Patricia Bellan-Gillen (MFA '79) exhibits with Andy Warhol (A'49) and others in Got Cow? Cattle In American Art, 1820-2000 at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, June 21 to September 11. http://www.hrm.org/exhibits.html.

Mary Weidner will be showing an eleven part drawing, Of the Body, in an exhibit entitled Secrets at Gallery 10 in Washington, D.C., May 1-20.

Andrew Johnson and Susanne Slavick have artworks reproduced in Fables of La Fontaine, compiled and edited by Koren G. Christofides. The book is to be published by University of Washington Press in conjunction with Maryland Institute of Art this June. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/CHRFAB.html.

Andrew Johnson is presenting a new video, The Annunciation II: VICTEORY(sic) and Zeitgeist, a series of 24 holograms with corresponding gouache paintings, at Gallery 175 in Seoul, South Korea this spring.

James Duesing received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support production of a new animation titled End of Code. He also gave a presentation about his work and met with students at Virginia Commonwealth University on April 20.

The Center for the Arts in Society has awarded grants to faculty in the colleges of Fine Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences to fund interdisciplinary research. Grants of about $1000 each went to several art faculty including: Clayton Merrell, Suzie Silver, Christopher Sperandio and Fabian Winkler.

Golan Levin performs at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival on April 28; at the OFFF Festival, in Barcelona on May 13; and at PlayVision, through the World Financial Center Arts & Events Series, in New York City on May 31. Interactive installations and software art by Levin also appear this May in the Spazio Deformato exhibition at ArteScienza Festival, in Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, and in the BildMuseet at UmeΠUniversity, Sweden.http://fest06.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=80; http://www.offf.ws/bcn/html/programa.php?artista_id=68&lang=en; http://www.worldfinancialcenter.com/calendar/?page=2; http://www.artescienza.info/eng/preliminare.htm.

School of Art Office Associate Josh Atlas (BFA '05) has been selected through a national Miss Black Factory competition as one member of a three-person crew for artist William Pope.L's 2006 tour of the The Black Factory.
http://www.theblackfactory.com. Josh will be participating in the inaugural show of the imeo gallery at the Berkeley Arts Center in Denver, Colorado. The show, entitled Men are so!, will screen his videos for the opening reception on Friday, May 5th. http://www.thebacinc.com/.

Pamela Jennings has been selected as one of the 2006 Wimmer Faculty Fellows at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence.

Lowry Burgess is the winner of the 2006 Henry Hornbostel Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Fine Arts.

Elaine A. King's essay, Passion Puzzles, was published in the catalogue for Francisco Alvarado's exhibition of new paintings and drawings at the Jardin Borda, Instituto de Cultura de Morelos, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. 

Christopher Sperandio's ARTSTAR premiers June 1 on Echostar's new high-definition arts channel Gallery HD. Eight budding artists compete for a solo show at Jeffrey Deitch's Soho gallery.The Museum of the Moving Image will play host to a special preview screening of Episode one of ARTSTAR on Friday, May 12, 8PM.

Philip Pearlstein (A '49) has a solo exhibit, The Dispassionate Body: Paintings and Drawings of Figures in Still Life at University of Minnesota Duluth's Tweed Museum of Art, March 23 - Oct 16. He had another solo show, Philip Pearlstein: Paintings and Watercolors at Russell Bowman Art Advisory in Chicago through April 15.
http://www.bowmanart.com/bowmanart_info/archive/pearlstein_2006.html;
http://www.d.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/06/pearlstein.html.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) was an artist in residence this winter at the Julia and David White Artists' Colony in Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica. http://www.forjuliaanddavid.org/; http://www.janetculbertson.net. She has work included in The Luster of Silver: Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, June 7 - September 10. http://www.telfair.org/. Culbertson's solo exhibit, Tomorrow's Landscapes at Seton Hill College was reviewed in the March 30 Greensburg Tribune Review. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/arts/s_438046.html; http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/style/columnists/outabout/s_434978.html.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) had his solo exhibit at Stephen Wirtz Gallery last fall reviewed in the March 2006 issue of Art in America.

Joan Kopchik (BFA'63) exhibits hand-made paper constructions in a two-person show at Trimbur-Henry Gallery in Doylestown, PA, April 26 - June 4. Opening reception April 30, 3-5:30pm. http://www.trimburhenry.com.

Susan Schwalb (BFA ’65) exhibited this spring in From Sea to Shining Sea at the District of Columbia Art Center, Washington, D.C.. A catalogue is available. She has work included in The Luster of Silver: Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, June 7 - September 10. This summer, she will exhibit in Figure/Ground, curated by Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of Art, at Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY from June 2 - July 23. http://www.dcartscenter.org/event.htm; http://www.telfair.org/; http://www.kentlergallery.org/index.html.

Linda Fleming (Art 1963-66) presents a solo exhibit, Nebula/Ether/Wisp, at Brian Gross Fine Art in San Francisco, March 23 - May 6. http://briangrossfineart.com.

Rita Baragona (BFA '67) had a solo exhibit at the Bowery Gallery in NYC this spring. http://www.bowerygallery.org/; http://www.bowerygallery.org/baragona.html.

Jim Williams (BFA '68) has paintings on view at Karlen, Williams, Greybill Advertising at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, open 9am to 5pm for viewing though a prior call is suggested (212-414-9000). He currently lives in Memphis, TN where he runs Jim Williams Designs.

Stuart Abelman (BFA '71), founder of Abelman Art Glass, is showing in the Bead and Button Show at Midwest Airlines Center, Milwaukee, June 16-18.

Rise Nagin (BFA '72) exhibits in Prints X Four at Digging Pitt Gallery in Pittsburgh, opening May 11 (reception, 6-9pm) through June 3 (reception, 6-9pm). http://www.diggingpitt.com.

Peter Scott (Art 1972-74) has been teaching at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for 25 years. He recently returned from South Africa where he was guest artist and lecturer in printmaking at the Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, and at Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg. His recent work has explored the play between the language of the camera and the sketchbook, with combinations of digital media and traditional print techniques. He has participated in residencies at the Franz Masereel Centrum, Belgium; was a guest lecturer at the Machida Museum, Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, and at Seika University, Kyoto; and was artist-in-residence and curator at Johannesburg Biennale in South Africa. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston Public Library; the Boston Athenaeum; the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; the New York Public Library; and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, his BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, and his BA from Haverford College.

Peter Stanick (BFA '75) exhibits new paintings in Float at Museum Works Galleries in Los Angeles, 9011 Melrose Avenue, June 3 - July 15. http://www.mwgalleries.com.

Mindell Dubansky (BFA '76) is head of the book conservation department of the Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She is also an artist and lecturer in book arts and author of Guess Who Died?: Memories of Baltimore with Recipes. http://www.centerforbookarts.org/archive/bio.asp?artistID=10.

Phyllis Wright (BFA '79) received her MFA in Printmaking from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.  Now back in her hometown of Princeton, she has taught drawing, printmaking, mixed media, and foundation art on all levels from kindergarten through postgraduate studies.  Her work is in many public and private collections throughout the world. She is on the faculty of the Arts Council of Princeton, a 37-year-old non-profit community arts organization whose mission is to nurture and support the visual, performing, and literary arts in the greater Princeton area. 

Ron Desmett (MFA '79), co-founder and permanent Artist in Residence at the Pittsburgh Glass Center exhibits new works in glass and mixed media in a two-person show, Truth/Beauty, (with Kathleen Mulcahy) at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.

James Weigle (BFA '80) is associate professor at Columbus College of Art & Design where he teaches printmaking courses in lithography and relief. His works have been represented in local galleries and various private collections, both national and international. He received recognition for his entry in an international design competition for the Key West AIDS Memorial and has received several Ohio Arts Council grants for coordinating youth art classes. As a certified professional Tamarind printer, he has professionally printed editions in New Mexico at Tamarind Institute and in New York City at Solo Press and Atelier Ettinger. He also lives and works from his Beach Point studio in Provincetown. http://provincetownartistregistry.com/W/Weigle_James.htm.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She presents a solo exhibit of mixed-media works, paintings and installations, Church of the Crossroads, at the Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL, April 7 - May 28. http://www.theartscenter.org/news/press_release/012506.htm.

Peter Rasmussen (MFA '82) is associate professor at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio where he teaches sculpture. He has exhibited his work in shows and juried exhibitions around the country. His work is included in a number of public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Air and Space Collection, Yonkin Center, and Riffe Center Collection. He has served as consultant to the Wexner Center for the Arts and Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Rasmussen has a degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He recently presented his work at the Canzani Center Gallery at CCAD. http://www.ccad.edu/fac-bio60.htm.

Caprice Pierucci Taniguchi (BFA '83) had a recent solo exhibit, Eternal Rhythms, at Blue Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas. Caprice received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1989. She is a papermaker and sculptor and is currently working on a group of sculptural relief pieces with linear elements that refer in design to weaving. She has been in over 75 exhibitions and has won numerous awards, including one for teaching at Austin Community College. She is currently Assistant Professor at Texas State University in San Marcos. http://www.bluestarartspace.org/exhibitions/current.html; http://www.capricepierucci.com/bio.html.

Sarah Ratchye (BFA '83) exhibited in Ornamentation: The Art of Desire, at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (reviewed in The Mercury News) this January and, more recently, in For Your Love at San Francisco Art Institute's Swell Gallery. In the latter, her texts and sculptures disarmed, exposed, and celebrated the fetishization of guns and the culture around them. http://www.sfai.edu/Event/Event.aspx?eventID=1578&navID=328&sectionID=7;
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/01/in_the_san_jose.html.

Katie Grinnan (BFA '84), Los Angeles artist and Lecturer at University of California, Irvine, was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture.

Kurt Shaw (BFA '89) has completed a commissioned artwork for the new atrium space of Progressive Medical in Westerville, Ohio. The clock that he created weighs 900 lbs. and is 22 by 13 feet and emits the “Westminster Chimes” every hour on the hour through the atrium’s ambient sound system.

Andy Vogt (BFA in Intermedia '92) is a founding member of Operation Re-Information (O.R.I.), a science and information / art performance collective that champions "the repurposing of existing information and the resultant product: reinformation." Throughout the 1990's he toured nationally, recorded several CD's and developed his own performance software. (www.reinformation.com) Vogt's three-dimensional artwork explores "repurposing;" he examines the reinterpretation of wooden structural remnants salvaged from dumpsters around San Francisco. Vogt's artwork has been exhibited at the UC Davis Memorial Union Gallery, ampersand international arts (this March), Pigman Gallery, The Lab, Blue Sky Studios, Build, New Langton Arts, and at the Michelle O'Connor Gallery in San Francisco.  He lives and works in San Francisco. http://www.ampersandintlarts.com/exhibitions.html;
http://www.ampersandintlarts.com/vogt.images.html.

Marie Bukowski (BFA '92) has a solo exhibit of new prints with her students at Lessedra Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria, May 5 through May 31. http://www.lessedra.com; http://www.art.latech.edu/gallery1/mbukowski/index.html.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) and Temporary Services exhibit in Peer Pleasure 2: Red 76, Temporary Services and the Visible Collective, April 7 - July 2 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Fischer presents work and engages in dialogue with Paul Chan in With Friends Like These.... at Mess Hall, 6932 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago on May 3 at 7:30pm. http://www.ybca.org/va/future/apr06/peer_pleasure2.html; http://www.messhall.org.

Lynn Lu (BFA '95) exhibits and performs in the 8th International Art Action Festival: INTERAKCJE, May 8 - 12 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. http://www.wizya.net/inter.htm.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) will exhibit her site-specific pieces, Fractured Thought and Thought Rubble, in I can't quite place it... at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY, June 3 - July 14. The opening is Saturday, June 3, 4-7pm. http://smackmellon.org/; Previous versions of these pieces can be seen at: http://jenniferursoart.com/install_fractured.html and
http://jenniferursoart.com/ongoing%20projects.html.

Karen Liebowitz (BFA '97) exhibits in UCLA MFA Exhibition #2, April 20 - May 4 at the UCLA New Wight Gallery. http://www.art.ucla.edu/gallery.html.

Paola Cabal (BFA ‘98) exhibits in Lo Romantico: Chicago's Latino/a Art at the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College in Chicago, April 7 - May 5. Curated by Jesus Macarena-Avila, co-founder of Polvo, Chicago's alternative cultural space, this exhibition features site-specific installation, sculpture, video, photography and painting by emerging artists from the Latino/a arts community of Chicago.

See news of the latest creation of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry's MapHub team, Fellows Carl DiSalvo (PhD '06, Design and 2006-07 STUDIO/Center for the Arts in Society Fellow), Jeff Maki and Nathan Martin (BFA '99). Pittsburgh Post Gazette at: http://www.trailposts.com/; http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06106/681999-37.stm.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibits a site specific installtion in Eight American Artists, in Wanas Sculpture Park, Sweden, opening May 20 and running half a year. Peter also exhibits in What Is It? at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 W. 22nd Street in New York, April 7 - May 6. http://www.wanas.se/; http://www.andrewkreps.com/index.html.

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) exhibits in Slide Jam, curated by Gina Occhiogrosso for the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, New York through June 4. http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=461806&category=ARTS&BCCode=&newsdate=3/19/2006;
http://www.artscenteronline.org/.

Rosina Santana (MFA '01) is on the art faculty of the School of Plastic Arts of Puerto Rico. She has been invited to present a paper at the Inter-arts Research and Practice Collision 2006 Symposium in Canada in September and is taking students from her Transdisciplinary Art Seminar with her. She is also collaborating on Carnegie Mellon Professor of Modern Languages Kenya Dworkin's Tampa Voices Project through a presentation and proposal at a Tampa Renewal Community Seminar this April.

Zak Prekop and Pete Mandradjieff (both BFA ’01), through their band, Hurray, exhibit with Peter Coffin (MFA ’00) in, The Fact, Abstract, a group show about repetition, curated by Claire Barliant for Dorsky Gallery at 11-03 45th Avenue (at the corner of 11th Street), Long Island City, NY. The show runs April 23 - June 30. Prekop was accepted into the MFA Programs at RISD and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He will begin his graduate studies this fall in Chicago.

Lesley Gena (BFA '02), currently Recreation Coordinator of the New Directions Program at the Jane Addams Hull House Association in Chicago, has been accepted in the Masters of Art Therapy Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Charla Platt-Doble (BFA '02) was accepted into the three year MFA Landscape Architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) screened two new videos in the Lost and Found screening of the 2006 Brooklyn Underground Film Festival on April 20 at the Brooklyn Lyceum. http://www.brooklynunderground.org/.

Sarah Hatton (BFA '03) will attend Arizona State University this fall. She will be working towards an MFA in Digital Technology with a concentration in the Arts, Media and Engineering Program.

Chung Cho (MFA '03) has been working for KDA, an architecture company in Seoul, Korea for the last two years. Charged with consulting and planning how digital art and new technology can be applied in urban and architecture projects, he is enjoying exploring the possiblities for digital art in the public sphere in terms of locative and ambient approach to digital technology.

Robin Hewlett (BFA '03) has been teaching Kindergarten (18 kids ranging from age 3 - 8 as well as art class for grades 1 through 6) at Baan Unrak School in Sangklaburi Thailand since November.
http://www.amurt.net/seasia/baanunrak.html.

Two members of Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry community were selected to have a poster displayed on Pittsburgh's PAT buses as part of the Art In Transit project: Graphic Artist Joana Ricou (BSA '04) and Fellow Carolyn Lambert (MFA '05), whose poster features the Ohio River LifeBoat Project.
http://www.portauthority.org/grow/pgPress.asp#art; http://www.artbusonline.com/.

Ryan Murray (BFA '05) started a new position as Digital Imaging Instructor, with Manchester Craftsmen's Guild Youth Department in Pittsburgh this April. He was also accepted into the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Thommy Tolhurst (BFA '05) was accepted to Parsons and Massachusetts College of Art's graduate programs in photography. He has decided to attend the program in Boston this fall.

Matteo Nunzio Orsini and T.F. Tolhurst (both BFA '05) present new photographs in Day & Night at 2629 E. Carson St. in Pittsburgh, opening May 12, made possible by the Soffer Organization.

Kate Bazis (BFA '05) has a solo exhibit, Side 1, at Digging Pitt Gallery in Pittsburgh, opening May 11 - June 3.
http://www.diggingpitt.com.

This March, artist collective Paper Rad (with Jacob Ciocci, MFA Class of 2005) presented a new site-specific project that also included works by Shana Moulton (MFA Class of 2004) at Electronic Art Intermix's (EAI) booth at The Armory Show in New York. Ciocci also exhibited this February/March in a group show at Gallery Agniel in Providence, Rhode Island. This February, DVdrome's Paper Rad selection, P-unit Mix tape, screened at Rotterdam's WORM alongside a performance from Extreme Animals, a beast let run free from Paper Rad member, Jacob Ciocci's short musical leash.http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid5348.aspx;
http://www.explodingtelevision.net/index2.php?pageAlias=content&lang=en&cntAlias=1_b357819858a56201&fr=right.

William Cravis (MFA Class of '06) has been awarded a $10.000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation's MFA Award Program.

Tiffany Sum's (MFA Class of '06) recently participated in the RE/ACT '06 Festival in Mannheim, Germany. Her piece, Fingering, was awarded Best Interactive Work. She will also participate in the ISIMD'06 4th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design April 28 - 30 in Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.react-festival.de/festival06+M52087573ab0.html; http://newmedia.yeditepe.edu.tr/.

Lauren Adams (MFA Class of 2007) exhibits in Jungle Tender, an exhibition and centennial celebration of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle. First published in 1906, the novel portrayed the struggles of a father trying to support his family by working in Chicago’s Union Stockyards at the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibitions and related events opened April 21 at Fraction Workspace in Chicago. http://www.FractionWorkspace.org.

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) and Takehito Etani (MFA '06) have been accepted to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, one of the country's foremost artist residency communities, for the summer of 2006.

BHA senior, Marina Kliger, is one of two nominees forwarded by the university for the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship that helps young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education.

BHA art junior, Andrea Hamilton is the Carnegie Mellon nominee for the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship Program for graduate studies in the arts, humanities or social sciences.

Joel Kraut (BFA Class of '06) will participate in Outside Project this summer in Belgrade, followed by further travel in Europe. This fall, he will relocate to San Francisco where he will join Apple as a Quartz Engineer, working on graphics programming.

Julia C.K. Stein (BFA Class of '08) will have an installation, performance and book release party all related to her project, The Tale of Old Lady Merrell, on view at the Tai+Lee Gallery in Polish Hill. The opening is May 6, 7-11 pm. There will be paper matter, hot dogs and beverages available for consumption. http://www.lfadams.com/gallery; http://www.JULIACKS.com.

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