Susanne Slavick, Lance Winn, Andrew Johnson (MFA '94), Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '97) and Amie Robinson (BFA '98) are exhibiting in Violet Violence at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. The exhibit opens June 27 and runs through early August.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) received a Ludwig Vogelstein grant and an East Ends Arts Council/New York State Arts Council grant in 2002. Her 9/11 Memorial won Best in Show last October at the Union St. Gallery's exhibit, Reactions: Living in the New America, in Chicago. She showed her Industry Park Series in solo exhibits at Huntington Arts Council's Petite Gallery in Huntington, NY last November through January 2003 and at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Massachusetts this spring. In May, she was an artists in residence at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. This summer, her work will be included in Face to Face at the Long Island Museum of Art in Stony Brook, NY and in Feminist Art of Women in the Seventies. http://www.janetculbertson.net/

Sarah Stengle (BFA '84) is exhibiting Mathematical Tables and Wild Animals, works on paper, at Witherspoon Gallery in Princeton, NJ. The exhibit runs through June 17, 2003. The gallery is open 7 days a week from 11-6.

Martin Beck (MFA '92) is teaching this summer at the Educational Alliance in New York City. For more information on his work, visit: http://www.beckstudio.com

Akemi Ohira (MFA '92) is Associate Professor of Printmaking at University of Virginia.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) has recently been granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. She has a solo exhibit, Zymotic Tonic, at the Louise Jones Brown Gallery in Bryan University Center at Duke University in Durham, NC. The exhibit runs May 22 - June 30.

Christine Cocca (BFA '93) is organizing the VII Yogyakarta Biennale in Yogyakarta, Indonesia that takes place in October 2003. She and husband, artist Entang Wiharso, founded Antena Projects, which is overseeing the event, to promote Indonesian contemporary art through exhibitions, publications and residencies for artists and curators.

Donna DiBartolomeo (BFA'96) is exhibiting her installation, complexion, at Future Tenant in Pittsburgh June 9 through June 22 with an opening on June 13, 5:30-7:30pm.

Former exchange student from New Zealand, Richard Orjis and art alumni Terry Young (BFA '01) are exhibiting in Fox and His Friends: New Millennium Post-Gay Photography (with Fangs), curated by Edgar Um Bucholtz (Class of '93) at Garfield Artworks, May 30 - June 13. An artists reception/performance event will take place on Saturday, June 7, from 7-10pm at 4931 Penn Avenue. Artist Timothy Dowling with be instigating a Mean As Hell Arm Wrestling Throwdown and artist Conrad Ventur (Mogul Electro Records NYC/Berliniamsburg co-founder and resident DJ) and Akil Harris (of Pittsburgh) will be dj'ing. This event is free. For more information, visit: http://www.garfieldartworks.com

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) exhibited last year in Art + Activism at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle; The Sex and Gender Education Show, presented as part of Hardware, Software, Wetware and Women, The Third Annual Women's Studies Colloquium at St. Mary's College of Maryland; and Unmediated Vision: Art, Technology, Culture, at Salina Art Center in Kansas. Bowling Green State University commissioned her performance and mapping project, Biopower Unlimited, last October.

Melissa Nicolardi (BFA '99) collaborated with Urban Youth Experience to organize Youth Art Event: The City As I See It, an exhibit that shares student impressions of the city within the context of installation, spoken word, and writing. A public school teacher, Melissa included her own students' sculpture projects along with works from students across the city, ranging from Brooklyn first graders to photography students at Manhattan's Urban Academy. The NYC Urban Experience Gallery is an institution dedicated to the preservation and cultivation of urban art and culture and is located at 85 South Street in New York City. The exhibit runs from May 23 through June 23. For more information, visit:
http:// www.nycurbanexperience.org or contact Melissa at mnstudiomn@aol.com

Laura Nelson (BFA '02) works for the creative department at MGM Films, Los Angeles, CA. Since moving to LA, she has also exhibited her work in one solo show and several group shows in galleries and alternative settings. Please visit: http://www.lauraliznelson.com

Carnegie Mellon alumni and faculty are well represented among the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts' 2003 and 2004 Artist of the Year honoree: 2003 Artist of the Year is Diane Samuels (BFA '70, MFA '76); 2003 Emerging Artist of the Year is George Magalios (MFA '01); 2004 Artist of the Year is James Duesing, Professor of Art. Samuels and Megalios will produce new work for PCA's Artist of the Year 2003 exhibition, which opens September 13. Duesing and Sipe will begin work early next year for an exhibition opening in fall of 2004. Candidates for Artist of the Year and Emerging Artist of the Year are nominated by PCA's resident artist guilds and former Artists of the Year. These nominees are then voted upon by a panel that includes Artists of the Year, additional guild representatives, and local arts leaders. Artists are selected based solely on artistic merit.

During the Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 6-22, 2003, the storefront of Future Tenant, an artist space at 801 Liberty Avenue, will be used to display the results of a roving performance, Window Stopping, by artist Fereshteh Toosi. She will be wandering the Festival accompanied by a wardrobe-on-wheels, engaging people with her hand-made costumes and props. Toosi will present documentation of her interactions with the public in the storefront windows, please stop by for updates and information.

Takahiro Noguchi (MFA '03) organized A Smiling Hunger: Transforming Cultures at Future Tenant, an alternative art space in downtown Pittsburgh that is a project of Carnegie Mellon and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The exhibit includes work by independent and collaborative artists who include Jorge Myers and MFA artists and alumni such as Jacob Ciocci (second year graduate student in the School of Art) in Paper Rad and Mark Dixon (MFA '03) in Kitchen Renovation Dinner Theater. The project is on view at 801 Liberty Avenue during the Three Rivers Arts Festival, with an opening reception Friday, June 13, from 5:30-7:30pm.

Mario Marzan, second year graduate student in the School of Art, has been awarded the Michael Manley Award through the Worldstudio Foundation which offers scholarships that encourage social responsibility in the design and arts professions. A brief artist's statement and images of his work will eventually be posted at http://www.worldstudio.org/schol/2003/2003a.html

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