Elaine A. King has been awarded a visiting short-term position as Art Historian in Residence at the American University program in Corciano, Italy during fall 2005. King also participated as a guest critic for the MFA reviews at American University in April 2005. She will also be a guest historian/critic this summer at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York.

Carol Kumata has co-curated Resources: Steel, Rubber, Coal and Salt, a juried exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, June 11- August 21, 2005, The exhibit features work inspired by the materials of industry in conjunction with The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) 2005 Intersections conference in Cleveland.

Charlee Brodsky, Professor of Design and Art, has a solo exhibit, A Town Without Steel, Envisioning Homestead, at Westmoreland Museum of American Art, May 8 - July 17, 2005.
http://www.wmuseumaa.org/museum/getexhib.cfm?ID=14.

Joe Mannino, 2nd year MFA candidate William Cravis, and recent graduates Ashley Brickman (BFA '05) and Eva Funderbergh (BSA'05) will participate in the Three Rivers Arts Festival - Society of Sculptors Exhibition at PPG Wintergarden, June 3-19. Ten schools will be represented in the exhibition, including work by faculty and students. For more details http://www.ppgplace.com/wintergarden.shtml.

James Duesing and Robotics Professor Jessica Hodgins will present the project that they have developed with a team of students and CS faculty and staff at SIGGRAPH at the Los Angeles Convention Center, July 31 - August 4. http://www.siggraph.org/s2005/.

Pamela Jennings has been invited to participate in a National Science Foundation workshop on Creativity Support Tools in Washington D.C. in early June.

The Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival presents new work by 41 emerging and established regional artists at the 2005 Annual Exhibition showcased on all three floors of 937 Liberty Avenue. Of the 41 artists in the show, over a quarter are affiliated with Carnegie Mellon's School of Art, including adjunct faculty Robert Beckman, graduate student Bill Cravis, and alumni Leslie Clague, Adam Grossi, Maggie Haas, Robin Hewlett, Cassandra Jones, Jill Palermo, Carrie Schneider, Debra Thomson, and Mary Tremonte. This year’s show includes drawings, paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, fiber, installations, and mixed media. Opening Friday, June 3, the Annual extends through July, closing on Friday the 22nd. The gallery is open from 12-8pm during the Festival. From June 20-July 22, regular TRAF Gallery hours will be in effect, Tuesdays-Fridays 10-5pm and Saturdays from 12-5pm. The second annual Walk-About Reception featuring the Annual Exhibition takes place June 17 from 5:30-8pm, and is open to the public. The exhibition closes with a downtown Gallery Crawl, July 22 from 5:30-8pm. http://website www.artsfestival.net.

Andy Warhol's (A'49) Self Portraits was on view at Van de Weghe in New York City through May 27. Other works by Warhol are included in the group shows, Pop, (through June) at Zwirner & Wirth at 32 E. 69th Street and Exceeding Paint/Expanding Painting at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (through July 16), 144 West 14th Street. http://www.zwirnerandwirth.com; http://www.vdwny.com; http://www.pratt.edu/exhibitions.

Elizabeth Asche Douglas (A'51) exhibited this May in Striving: Contemporary African American Artists of Pittsburgh at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center. Her work Eye on the Prize, was reproduced and discussed by art critic Mary Thomas in the May 4 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05124/498459.stm.

Hilda Green Demsky (A'58) exhibits paintings on mylar at the Saratoga County Arts Council's Art Center Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY from June 2 - July 16. Titled, Flux and Flow, the paintings depict movement of water.

Joyce Kozloff (A'64) will participate in the National Academy Museum's Making Art in a Democracy. The NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown will converse with David Levi Strauss and Joyce Kozloff Friday, June 3rd, 6:45 pm. Joyce, a painter, is a National Academician, and a founding member of the pattern and decoration movement of the 1970s. Her recent work explores the social, political and aesthetic dimensions of cartography and the human experiences that are metaphorically hidden in maps. She is represented by DC Moore Gallery.

Diane Pepe (A'70) is Co-Chairperson of the Foundation Program in Art and Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has exhibited at: Houston North Gallery, Lunenburgh, Nova Scotia, Canada; Brindle Gallery, Camden, Maine; and Academy of Fine Arts; Dolan-Maxwell Gallery, and Marion Locks Gallery, all in Philadelphia. She has won: a CBA Research Fellowship, funded by NEA /The Getty Foundation, Washington D.C.; PA Council on the Arts Special Projects Grant; and a National Science Foundation, Research Grant (PSU).

Barbara Strasen (BFA'72) received her MFA from University of California at Berkeley. She creates paintings, installations and lenticular prints of her own photographs. She taught at the University of San Diego until 1980 and has curated exhibitions, achieved numerous public commissions and exhibited extensively in Europe and USA since 1975. She lives and works in Los Angeles. http://www.archeus.co.uk/pages/galleryartist/4513.html.

Catherine Broderick (BFA'72 Art) works as a litigation attorney at the Securities & Exchange Commission and is active in the art community in Washington, D.C.

James Nestor (BFA'79) is President of the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors.

Margery Amdur (BFA'79) exhibited this April in A Papered Approach at Hyder Gallery in Philadelphia. http://www.hydergallery.com/currentshow.html.

Roy McKelvey (BFA'79) is Associate Chair of the Communication Design Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author and designer of Hypergraphics (1998), a book on designing for the world-wide-web published by Rotovision SA and is co-editor and contributor of a book on Digital Type, entitled Revival of the Fittest: Classic Versions of Digital Typefaces published by RC Publications. His research interests include information design, usability and the synthesis of graphic and product design methods.

Brett Reichman (BFA'82) had a solo exhibit this April, Rainbow Play Systems at PPOW Gallery in NYC. He is on the Board of Trustees for the San Francisco Art Institute where he teaches. His labor-intensive, conceptual-realist paintings address issues of identity politics. They are in many public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Harbor, Berkeley Art Museum and Portland Museum of Art in Oregon. His labor-intensive, conceptual-realist paintings address issues of identity politics. Solo exhibitions include those at Feature Gallery, New York and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco.http://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/BrettReichman/index.html.

Jamie Adams' (BFA'83) paintings were exhibited at the 2005 Art Chicago Fair via Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery (Brooklyn, NYC). Paintings included: pinkind, doing the backstep, and pink & bluoy.
http://www.artchidago.com. Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery also showed a number of Adams' drawings at the 2005 Milano Flash Art Fair in April 2005.

Carol Griffith (BFA'83) is associate professor at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. She is an Ohio Arts Council fellowship recipient, and has won awards from the Ohio Watercolor Society, The Huntington 280, and Ohio State Fair Professional Exhibition. Her paintings have been included in many juried and invitational group shows throughout the country with solo exhibitions in Chicago, Ann Arbor, Dayton, and Columbus. Her work is included in the Huntington Bank Collection, the Columbus Metropolitan Library collection and in numerous private collections. http://www.ccad.edu/about-faculty02.html.

Katherine Kuharic (BFA'84) has a solo exhibit, The World Brought Low, at The Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis through June 12. Her painting Super Bowl Sunday, was recently acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum through The Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Fund for Artists Based in the St. Louis area. Kuharic is Assistant Professor of Painting at Washington University.
http://www.contemporarystl.org/ce_katharinekuharic.php.

John Currin (BFA'84) is exhibiting this summer in An International Legacy: Selections from Carnegie Museum of Art at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, May 6 - August 14. His work is also included in Getting Emotional at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, May 18 - September 5.
http://www.columbusmuseum.org/exhibitions/#Carnegie;
http://www.icaboston.org/Home/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Current/GettingEmotional.

Andy Cook (BFA'86) is Director of Exhibitions at Riverside Art Center in Illinois. He has been working as a Gaffer (chief lighting technician) on film and video projects for over 18 years. Andy is also a practitioner of Falun Gong which is a spiritual Qi Gong or energy exercise practice, persecuted in China. He offers free classes in Riverside.

Greg Kessler (BFA'88) exhibited this year at Glorious Food Loft in New York City and at Adair Margo Gallery in El Paso, Texas. http://www.gregkessler.net/pages/3/.

Elaine Erne (BFA'88) has been a part of the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial faculty in Philadelphia since 1998. In 2001, she became an instructor for the kiln-fired glass workshop as well as an instructor in the children’s program and also taught classes in lithography, collage and drawing. She has written two lab manuals, Kiln-fired Glass: the Basics for a Beginner (2001) and Basic Stone and Plate Lithography: Lab Manual for the First Time Lithographer (2004). Erne has received several honors, including a Professor’s Choice Scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School, a Creative Artists Network service grant, and the 2004-2005 Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship. Ms. Erne is a regular participant in the annual Philadelphia Open Studio Tours and is an instructor in the Hand-in-Hand regional children’s outreach program. She is a member of the Philadelphia Print Collaborative, The Print Center, and the Philadelphia Sculptors. http://www.fleisher.org/about/viewfaculty.php?id=erne.

Edward Inks (BFA'89), a sculptor, is Professor of Art at Santa Barbara City College in California.

Rachel Popowcer (BFA'92) exhibited this April in a solo show at Mariposa Gallery and in the Nina Beal Memorial Foundation Invitational, both in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
http://www.mariposa-gallery.com/.php/artists.php4?portfolio=229.

Marc Fischer (BFA'93) and Temporary Services are showing in Kollective Kreativitat at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany through July 17.

Ryan McGinness (BFA'94) is exhibiting in Greater New York at P.S.1, MOMA, in New York City through September 26. He had a solo exhibit this spring, Pain-Free Kittens at Quint Contemporary Art in La Jolla, California. In 1999, he received critical acclaim for his first book, flatnessisgod. Since then, twelve additional books of his works have been published. His next book, installationview is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2005 by Rizzoli Press. McGinness has been described by the New Yorker as "one of New York's most promising bright young artists." McGinness lives and works in Manhattan.
http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/index.php; http://www.quintgallery.com/Artists/Mcginness/mcginness.html#bio.

MFA alumnus, James Shipman, is Director of Education for Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors. Shipman exhibited this spring in American Al2O3 SiO2 2H2O: Contemporary Sculpture, a show of mix-media ceramic sculpture stemming from contemporary philosophies and non-traditional approaches at Area 405 in Baltimore. http://www.area405.com/showsClay.htm.

Colin and Leah Piepgras (MFA'96 and '97) are both making art, with a work commissioned for a reception at the Guggenheim Museum. Between raising their children, George and Amelia, Colin works for Colorkinetics which has just gone public and Leah is painting.

Christina Hung (MFA'97) will be joining the art faculty this fall at University of West Florida.

Nick Fox-Gieg's (BFA'99) The Story of Enoch aired on CBC TV in Canada on March 25, 2005. His Little Bird of Disaster screened this January at the Rotterdam Film Festival. He was also awarded a 2005 West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship.

Christopher D. Palmer (BFA '99) recently pursued his Masters degree in Education at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. He spent July 2002 at Temple's Rome campus studying the development of perspective and its philosophical and political implications. Chris has assisted Sam Maitin on several public art projects in Washington, D.C., and at Roosevelt Memorial Park and the Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He also helped organize a performance and exhibition for an African American program in North Philadelphia called North Called Home in the Church of the Advocate and painted two large murals for the Hill House Community Center in Pittsburgh known as Jazz at Hill House and the Hill House History.

Gabriel Colwell Lafleur (BFA'99) is teaching glass arts at Snow Farm: the New England Craft Program in Williamsburg, MA. He has blown glass for North River Glass, Shelburne Falls, MA and teaches for both the Snow Farm Adult and High School Program. Gabriel shows his work at Blue Sky Gallery and in New York City.

Cat Mazza (BFA'99)(microRevolt) exhibits in ART!@*<>WORK, an art exhibition exploring the tension between the art of doing work and the work of doing art, through the non-profit organization, óIgnivomous. Mazza recreates corporate logos with knitting, machines, and needlepoint in this show that takes place in the cubicles of a midtown Manhattan office space. http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=17257&text=32907#32907

Peter Coffin (MFA'00) exhibited this April in Post Notes at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, MN. http://www.midwaycontemporaryart.org/. He is exhibiting in Good Titles from Bad Books, curated by Mathew Brannon at Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Florida through June 11. He also exhibited in The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer at Champion Fine Art in Los Angeles this May.
http://www.kevinbrukgallery.com/; http://www.championfineart.org/home.

George Anastasios Magalios (MFA '01) was awarded a Greater Pittsburgh Opportunity Grant for Ride Bold, an exhibition and performance at Space Gallery that will focus on transit.

Carrie Schneider (BFA'01) is exhibiting in Pittsburgh NOW at Silver Eye Gallery in Pittsburgh, May 4 -22. http://www.silvereye.org/Exhibitions.html.

Jina Valentine (BFA'01) has been selected from intense competition to attend Skowhegan. Founded in 1946 by artists, and still governed by artists for artists, Skowhegan is an intensive nine-week summer residency program for advanced visual artists in Skowhegan, Maine.

Carrie Schneider (BFA'01) will begin graduate studies in photography this fall in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's MFA Program.

Todd Pavlisko (MFA'02) exhibited last fall in Nothing Compared to This: ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in current art at Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati. He has been working with young talented artists (Artworks apprentices) through the CAC's UnMusuem to create works on old satellite dishes. http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/exhibitions/0405Nothing.html;
http://www.citybeat.com/2004-12-15/todo.shtml.

Thommy Conroy (Class of 2002) and Maggie Haas (BFA'03) exhibit in Gestures: an exhibition of small site-specific work at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, June 5 - July 31.http://www.mattress.org.

Anat Pollack (MFA'03) will be joining the art faculty this fall at University of South Florida.

Takahiro Noguchi (MFA'03) completed a solo 500 mile bicycle trip through the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in January. He recently collaborated with another Fulbright Scholar on a documentary project about Jana Natya Manch, a political street theater troupe based in Delhi. The founder of JANAM, Safdar Hashmi, was murdered in a working class suburb of Delhi in 1989 during a public performance. In May Tak presented and chaired a discussion on public art and advocacy for community art participation at the first B. C. Sanyal Memorial Seminar on Art Education for Contemporary India, held at the Norah Centre for the Arts, in Andretta, District Kangra, in Himachal Pradesh. He is also working with the NGO, SAVE on a project to document a traditional village Mela (a yearly festival to honor the local Devi) in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh. http://www.giantcamera.net.

Ross Christy (BFA'03) is exhibiting in a three-person show at Motel in Portland, Oregon through May 28. http://www.motelgallery.com/gallery/may2005/artwork1.html.

Krisztina Lazar (BFA'04) was featured artist of the week (May 29 - June 4) on the Society for Art of Imagination web site at http://www.artofimagination.org.

Carolyn Lambert (MFA'05) was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, a National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellowship and a Ford Motor Company Graduate Research Grant. The latter grants were both for $1,000

Thomas Sturgill (MFA Class of 2006) has been awarded $500 in Graduate Student Small Project Help (GUSH!) funds. These funds have been made available 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. In April, he participated in Transportation at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, MO; and this June The Tree Project at the Mockbee Center, Cincinnati, OH calls for the reconstruction of a 90-foot Southern Yellow Pine tree made out of surplus industrial lumber.

Tiffany Sum (MFA class of 2006) performed CELLebratory REDformative Flattenization at the closing reception of Fe Gallery's group exhibit, FEAR, in Pittsburgh on May 13; and will perform at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Media Tonic II event on June 25 from 6-9pm.

William Cravis (MFA class of 2006) will present work in the Three Rivers Arts Festival 2005 Annual Exhibition, June 3-19. The Annual Exhibition opening reception is Friday, June 3 from 5:30-7:30pm at 937 Liberty Avenue. http://www.artsfestival.net/festivalcal.html.

Josh Atlas, Ashley Brickman, Luke Meeken, and Jennifer Murray were selected to receive Senior Leadership Awards for their outstanding contributions to the university community.

Kazumi Ito (F'04 exchange student) is exhibiting paintings at the Kozoji branch office of Tono Shinkin Bank, Kasugai-city, Japan.

BSA Senior Has Art on the Brain. The artwork on the cover of the April 27 Journal of Neuroscience shows a mouse's brain, but the painting is really Joana Ricou's brainchild. The fifth-year senior in the Bachelor of Science and Art (BSA) program created the "bioart" based on her experience in one of the university's neurobiology labs and her exploration of both science and art at Carnegie Mellon. The cover is an artistic study of a transgenic mouse developed by Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Alison Barth that couples the green fluorescent protein with a gene that turns on when nerve cells are activated. For more, see http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050429_ricou.html.

Benjamin Rosenthal (BFA Class of 2006) screened his 16mm film Scrape at the 12 Quarters Video Festival at The Tannery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 6.

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