Lowry Burgess was presented with The Leonardo Da Vinci ISDC Space Art Life Dedication Award for 40 years of cosmic art. Awarded by George Whitesides, President of the National Space Society and President of the International Space Development Conference, Burgess was recognized for creating the NASA policy windows for moving art payloads (and people) into outer space, and for his Boundless Cubic Lunar Aperture, the first official NASA non-scientific payload taken into outer space in 1989.

Elaine A. King conducted end of the year critiques at the Esquela des Plastica Artes, San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has been consulting with the Dean of the Esquela about revising their portfolio review policy.

Mary Weidner is showing a painting in Art of the State: Pennsylvania, June 10 through September 10, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA. She is also showing a drawing in Wish You Were Here 5, June 28 through July 22, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.

Kim Beck has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the Heinz Endowments' Creative Heights Program, designed to foster collaboration between individual artists and local arts groups by encouraging them to become partners to produce new works. Kim's project is in collaboration with Artists Image Resource on Pittsburgh's North Side.

Andrew Johnson delivered a lecture, Models of Narration and Narrator Models at Seoul University on May 17.

Clayton Merrell's work is included in the Art of the State exhibition at the State Museum of Pennsylvania from June 10 through September 10, 2006. Two of his paintings have been purchased for the permanent collection of the American Embassy in Belmopan, Belize, and will be featured in an exhibition there beginning this summer.

Christopher Sperandio's Artstar project is featured in Artforum.com's Reality Bites. Christopher is the Live Archive Artist in Residence at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Wales this July where he will complete his collaborative project DWYN. http://www.artforum.com/diary/#entry10989; http://www.kartoonkings.com/dwyn.

Golan Levin performs in PlayVision, the World Financial Center Arts & Events Series, in New York City on May 31. In June, Levin's work appears in the Festival of the Fourth Dimension, at the Sophia Antipolis Foundation, in Vallauris, France; In July, Levin will exhibit and lecture in the Emoção Art.ficial 3.0 Biennial, at the Itaœ Cultural Institute in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Levin's work will also be featured this August at the NTT ICC Center in Tokyo. http://www.worldfinancialcenter.com/calendar/?page=2; http://www.4dimension.org/; http://www.itaucultural.org.br/index.cfm?cd_pagina=2313.

Pamela Jennings will exhibit digital prints in two shows; Extant Entities at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, June through August and Crossing Lines: Art in the Age of All at the 707 Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico from June 30 through July 24.

In Memoriam

EMMA S. MASLEY (GASOWSKI) (BFA '65)
Age 63, of West Mifflin, Emma Masley died peacefully and smiling on May 15, 2006 from pancreatic cancer. Never without a beautiful hat and a welcoming smile, Emma was a very talented and well-known Pittsburgh artist and dedicated instructor and wonderful mentor to many at Chatham College for 32 years and the Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College Art Program for over 40 years. Emma is the beloved and loyal daughter of Walter and the late Magdalene Gasowski. A devoted wife, soul mate, high school sweetheart, travel partner, and caregiver to the recently deceased Stephen, a truly amazing and supportive mother to daughters Amy (Curt Schreffler) and Kate (Regis Bane), a crazy and very fun “Grandma Emma” to Emily and Andrew Schreffler, a loving big sister to John, Gary, and Paul Gasowski, and a faithful daughter-in-law to Elizabeth Masley Butko. When diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, many do not live past 3-6 months; however, Emma beat those odds and survived nearly 2 years. She never once gave up in her battle and her fight has been a true inspiration to us all. Not only did radiant Emma have a powerful impact on students, but she truly touched the lives of everyone she met and instantly made people feel good about themselves. She was a genuine soul, a gift, a gem beaming with energy and color, never will she be forgotten and always will she be loved and cherished. Services for Emma and Steve Masley were held at Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home in Pittsburgh on May 20th.

To honor her, the School of Art is accepting gifts toward the: Emma Masley Pre-College Art Scholarship Fund, School of Art, CFA 300, Carnegie Mellon, 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

BARBARA SCHWARTZ (BFA '70)
Barbara Schwartz, an artist whose painted plaster reliefs were tangentially associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement in New York in the late 1970's, died on May 8, 2006 in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 58. The cause was leukemia that developed from chemotherapy for ovarian cancer 12 years ago, said her companion, Richard Johnson.

Ms. Schwartz was born in Philadelphia and received her B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon. After moving to New York, Ms. Schwartz had her first solo show at the Willard Gallery on East 72nd Street in Manhattan in 1975 and was subsequently represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern and then the Andre Zarre Gallery, where her most recent exhibition took place earlier this year. She was in the 1979 Whitney Biennial.

In the late 1970's Ms. Schwartz was one of several artists who sought to vitalize abstract painting by making it more dimensional and also linking it to non-Western decorative traditions. Her works balanced organic and geometric forms and sometimes reflected an Islamic influence. In the 1990's she began to make some of her pieces from glazed ceramic.

Ms. Schwartz had taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1978. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the New York Public Library.

Ms. Schwartz's marriages, to Bill Jensen and Art Schade, both artists, ended in divorce. In addition to Mr. Johnson, she is survived by her step-daughter, Megan Schade, of Brooklyn.

From THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 11, 2006

For a review of her recent exhibit: http://www.artcritical.com/garwood/DGSchwartz.htm.

DEBORAH GIBBON BRAUN (BFA '90)
Deborah Gibbon passed away from a brain aneurysm at age 37 on May 12 in Pittsburgh. She was an artist, arts educator and arts administrator. Gibbon's contributions to the Bay Area arts community and local public school and university programs were immeasurable. Beloved wife of artist Christopher Braun, loving daughter of alumni Suzanne and Gerst Gibbon, and sister of Cynthia (Brian) Holland, she is also survived by several aunts, uncles and cousins. A memorial service for Deborah was held Saturday, May 20 at the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh In lieu of flowers a scholarship fund has been established for the School of Art. Checks payable to: Carnegie Mellon School of Art, CFA 300, c/o Wayne Savage, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213.

Deborah was active in alumni affairs in San Francisco where she was the Education Project Manager for a contemporary arts project called SPARK at KQED public television (Channel 9). SPARK focuses on Bay Area contemporary artists and organizations. Deborah worked on features on several Carnegie Mellon alumni: Castaneda/Reiman (BFA '92), Ken Goldberg (PhD, Computer Science, 1990) and Raymond Saunders (BFA 1960). Deborah was to teach in the School of Art Summer Pre-College Program this summer. http://www.deborahgibbon.com/.

Hugh Fitzgerald (A'49) and Constantine Kermes (A'46) participated this spring in the Echo Valley Art Group exhibit, Other Places at the Lancaster Museum of Art in Lancaster, PA.
http://www.Lmapa.org.

Sara Feldman (BFA '56) is represented by Depot Square Gallery in Lexington, Massachusetts.
http://www.depotsquaregallery.com/pages/feldman.html.

Ron Barron (BFA '59) exhibits collages and sculpture in The 6th Annual Anniversary Exhibition at Box Heart Gallery in Pittsburgh, June 6 through 20. http://www.boxheart.org.

Mel Bochner (BFA ‘62) presents a solo exhibit, Thesaurus Paintings at Peter Freeman, Inc. at 560 Broadway in New York City, April 24 through July 1. For a related review, see the May 24, 2004 issue of The Nation, by Arthur Danto. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040517/danto/2. Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades is on view at Wynn Kramarsky in New York City through June 24. The exhibit travels to: Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama July 9 through September 30; Weatherspoon Art Museum at University of North Carolina in Greensboro, October 15 through December 23; and San Diego Museum of Art next January 20 through March 25, 2007. http://www.galleryguide.org/details.asp?CustomerID=117143. An interview with Mel appears in the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail at:http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006-05/art/in-conversation-melbochner-with-phong-bui.

Joanne Gigliotti (A '67) and the Fine Arts Alumni Group are working with the Russian Arts Project to present an exhibit of a powerful collection of Russian art. The 2-day event will include over 250 works of art by contemporary Russian, Russian-American and other artists. In addition, there will be educational seminars on contemporary Russian art and exposure to exquisite Russian music. For a related recent Washington, D.C. Alumni Chapter event on May 12, visit: http://alumni2.tepper.cmu.edu/cmuEvents/find-event2.asp#901; http://www.RussianFineArtsProject.com.

Carol Salmanson (HSS '72) is an artist working in Brooklyn whose work involves architectural and theatrical components. She has an upcoming solo exhibit at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Brooklyn. http://www.carolsalmanson.com/.

James Welling (BFA '72) presents two new bodies of work, Flowers and Screens at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago through May 27. Both series consist of photograms (photographic images produced without the use of a camera). http://www.donaldyoung.com/welling/welling_pr_2006.html.

Merle Gilmore (BFA '73) is President of Merle Gilmore & Associates (MGA), a boutique consulting firm based in Wynnewood, PA that is focused on middle market companies, emerging growth businesses and companies in transition. Her career includes over 20 years of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial management and consulting achievement built on a foundation of Fortune 1000 operations and planning experience. She founded Merle Gilmore & Associates, certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise, in 1991. http://www.merlegilmore.com/.

Philip Rostek (MFA ’73) is Assistant Professor of Art at Seton Hill.
http://maura.setonhill.edu/~vparts/VPARTS_020807/Phil.html.

Emily Rubinfeld (A '76) lives with her husband Paul Rubinfeld (ECE '76, '78) in Wayland, MA where she is a practicing artist and he is in management at Intel. They have two of their three children in college. Emily is a painter, photographer and ceramist who has exhibited in many shows, most recently at the Owen Smith Shuman Gallery in Groton, the Wayland Library and the Frances N. Roddy juried show at the Concord Art Association. Her work can be found in many private and corporate collections. She is currently studying drawing and painting with Elizabeth Ahern at the DeCordova Museum School. A former president of the Wayland Arts Council and one of the founders of Art Space in the Wayland Town Building, she is currently a member of the Concord and Wayland Art Associations. She exhibits her work at Saxonville Studios in Framingham.
http://www.saxonvillestudios.com/rubinfeld.html.

ROY's (BFA '84) Super Martini glass will be shown at Altered Space gallery, 1221 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA. The show opens on June 24.

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) presents a solo exhibit Selected Works from the Lives and Traumas of Stuffed Animals in the Community Gallery Solo Series at Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, PA, May 4 through June 3. http://www.abingtonartcenter.org.

Rachel Popowcer (BFA '92) participates in Tzedakah: The Art of Giving - an invitational exhibition and sale that is part of The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta's Centennial Celebration Project at The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum - The Selig Center, 1440 Spring Street NW, August through October 2006.

Hope Johnson Hanes (BFA '92) is represented at three galleries: The Station Gallery in Greenville, DE (near Philadelphia), East Meets West Gallery in Winchester, VA, and at Round Hill Arts Center in Round Hill, VA. RHAC is a non-profit community arts organization for which she serves as the Artistic Director and where she maintains a studio. Hope will be a featured artist on the Western Loudoun Artists Studio Tour June 24-25. One of her pastel drawings Dawson Hayfield, has been selected as the cover art for the October 2006 issue of the Delaware Medical Journal. http://www.stationgallery.net; http://eastmeetswestpottery.com/gallery?id=9004; http://www.roundhillartscenter.org; http://www.franklinparkartscenter.org/html/western_loudoun_artists_studio.html.

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) is an artist and owner of the cafe, Foodies Feast, in Marblehead, Massachusetts where she exhibited twice this year through the Marblehead Arts Association. Her work is also included in Art on the Wall at Gallery 181 in Lawrence, MA. http://www.julievinette.com; http://www.foodiesfeast.com.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) is exhibiting in: Modern Edens: Permutations of Paradise at Spur Projects in Portola Valley, CA, May 17 through June 17 and in YEA!: Young Emerging Artists at Westchester Arts Council in White Plains,NY, June 10 through July 29 with an opening reception on June 9, 6-9 pm. Her work will also be included in the August issue of Gastronomica: Journal of Food and Culture issued by University of California Press. http://www.spurprojects.com/html/news.asp;
http://www.westarts.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=481;
http://www.gastronomica.org/.

Nicole Lenzi (BFA '95) was accepted to the Viewing Program at the Drawing Center in New York. Recent group shows: Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, and Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Kinga Czerska (Chem E'95 ,minor in Fine Arts) is a painter who has explored other mediums including sculpture, ceramics and metal. She exhibited this April at the NOVA Young Art Fair w/ Gosia Koscielak Gallery in Chicago and is showing at Augen gallery in Portland, Oregon this May, and will exhibit at Klaudia Marr Gallery in Santa Fe this June.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/424366238/kinga-czerska.html;
http://www.geocities.com/kingacz13/Paintings2006.

Carlos Szembek (MFA '96) is President of the University of Massachusetts Lowell Chapter of the American Meteorological Society where he was the 2005-06 winner of the The Loren W. Crow Memorial Scholarship from the American Meteorological Society. He recently delivered a paper at the 36th International Arctic Workshop at INSTAAR, University of Colorado in Boulder. http://instaar.colorado.edu/AW/abstract_detail.php?abstract_id=76.

Matt Keegan (BFA ’98) presents a project, How to Make a Portrait, with contributions by Gerard Byrne and Siofra Campbell, at Nicole Klagsbrun, 526 W.26th Street in New York, May 12 through June 17. http://www.nicoleklagsbrun.com.

Christopher Thunblom (MFA Class of 1998) delivered a paper, Drawing on Mars at the 25th International Space Development Conference this May in Los Angeles.
http://isdc.spaceracenews.com/?page_id=6.

Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99) has a solo show, Against the Current, at Karl Drerup Gallery at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire, July 10 through August 12.

Two Carnegie Mellon alumni are featured in the spring issue of Art Journal. Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99 and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art) published Billy X. Curmano -- Bringing an Eco-Art Tributary into the Media Mainstream by Swimming the Mississippi in a section of this issue entitled Forum: Eco-tistical Art. Her bio at the end of the article mentions Carnegie Mellon and the Miller Gallery's recent Groundworks exhibit. In a separate article, Mediating Political 'Things,' and the Forked Tongue of Modern Culture: A Conversation with Bruno Latour, the art collective Carbon Defense League's Map Hub project is mentioned and illustrated, naming art alumni Gregg Baltus and Nathan Martin (BFA '99 and recent adjunct Assistant Professor of Art) along with fellow STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Fellow, Carl DiSalvo.

Cheryl Casteen (MFA Class of '00) is Director of the Mankato Arts Center in Minnesota. Her work was also included this spring (along with that of Professor Mary Weidner and alumna Patricia Barefoot) in Heart and Soul: Artists Using the Human Heart as Metaphor at Seton Hill College's Harlan Gallery. http://www.setonhill.edu/n/pressroom.cfm?PID=15&PRID=332.

The Sprout Fund presented the 2006 Sprout Public Art Preliminary Design Exhibition, on May 12 at Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery in Pittsburgh. The event showcased the preliminary mural designs created by local artists competing for community mural sites. Two dozen local artists competed for seven new community mural sites in Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas of Allegheny County, including Mary Tremonte (BFA '00) and Alexandra Alessi (BFA '06).

Tom Lin (BFA '00) and Al Reed (Technical Writing '02) have started a video game company, Demiurge Studios in Boston, Massachusetts. Tom is the Senior Artist while Al is the Director of Development and co-founder with Christopher Linder (HSS '01). http://www.demiurgestudios.com/.

Justin Giunta's (BFA '01) Subversive Jewelry company and collection is featured in the June issue of Oprah Magazine. He has made pieces for a few movies, and was nominated for an award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He works from two studios on 28th street in Manhattan and has been invited to Hong Kong in the fall to do a visual installation at a department store. He has also designed two restaurants, including the Firehouse Lounge in the 'strip district.' Justin continues to paint, addressing "non-denominational ascension themes." http://www.subversivejewelry.com; http://www.justingiunta.com.

Emily de Araujo (MFA '01) and Brad McCombs (MFA '02) exhibited in Minimal Maximum at Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/aanews/index.ssf?/base/features0/114457766497650.xml&coll=2.

Sean Bidic (MFA '02) and M.D. is Assistant Professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas where he specializes in body contouring surgery after massive weight loss, orthopaedic surgery, hand surgery and plastic surgery.
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/finddoc/personal/0,2363,77225,00.html.

William Kofmehl III, Brett Milspaw and Jacob Feige (all BFA '02) collaborate on a performance, At the End of the Day, We're All Sooty, at Lombard Fried, 531 W. 26th Street, from 6-8pm. Lombard Fried represents William Kofmehl and Jacob Feige. http://www.lombard-freid.com/; http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm.

Andrew Klein (BFA '04) has recently joined the Art Institute of California as a part time faculty member in the Motion Arts and Animation Department. Additionally, Andrew will be displaying drawings and paintings at Prism Cafe in Oakland, CA from May 14 through June 18. From June 10 through 27 Andrew will also exhibit new drawings and digital prints at Red Ink Studio, 1035 Market Street Gallery in San Francisco as part of the group exhibition, The Shennanigans of Superheroes. The prints exhibited in this show are from Andrew's collaborate web-project Cake Pony. http://www.prismcafe.com/; http://www.redinkstudios.com/; http://www.cakepony.com.

Joana Ricou (BSA '04) has a solo show entitled Female Art: Outside, in the Get Naked! series at ASH Galleries, 5314 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA. Opening reception is June 15, 6-9pm. http://www.ashgalleries.com.

Three alumni exhibit at Digging Pitt Gallery in Pittsburgh, May 11 through June 3: Kate Bazis (BFA '05), Rise Nagin (A '72) and Tom Norulak (A '71),(the latter two in Print X Four - Side II). Closing Reception: June 3, 2006: 6 - 9pm. http://www.diggingpitt.com.

Sarika Goulatia (BFA '06) exhibits Amorphous Humanorphous at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts as a part of Inside+Out/Big&Small presented by the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors, May 5 through August 20.

Alison Theus (BFA '06) has a summer internship at Flying Rhino Studios, a private animation studio in Portland, Oregon. She will return to Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center for graduate school this fall.

Adriane M. Schneider (BFA '06) was awarded a Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Summer Fellowship for $3500.

Blithe Riley (MFA '06) has been awarded a Swing Space grant from the Lower Manhattan Culture Council to realize a project. Swing Space is a space grant program that connects artists and arts organizations with vacant commercial space. Studio, rehearsal, office, installation, and exhibition space awards are typically for two to four months and are accompanied by a project stipend of $300-$3,000. http://www.lmcc.net/art/index.html.

Eunice Choi (BFA '06) will begin working for Wall to Wall, a Pittsburgh design firm co-founded by Carnegie Mellon alumni.

Halloran Parry (BFA '06) is headed to the southern coast of Sri Lanka for 10 weeks to do tech consulting for two non-profit organizations there, organized through a program in the School of Computer Science: Technology Consulting in the Global Community.

Carnegie Mellon School of Art alumni are omnipresent throughout this year's Three Rivers Arts Festival. http://www.artsfestival.net/2006Festival/artprojects.html#Anchor-53555.

PITTSBURGH'S BEST 2006, June 2 through June 18, 2006, 12-8pm, 937 Liberty Avenue. The annual TRAF Walk-About Reception featuring Centipede E’est takes place Friday, June 16 from 5:30-8pm. In its third year, Three Rivers Arts Festival’s Pittsburgh’s Best 2006, formerly known as the Annual Exhibition, continues to mark TRAF’s ongoing dedication to supporting, promoting, and encouraging the region’s visual artists. Thirty-three artists from Pittsburgh and the surrounding 16 counties were chosen to exhibit works created in the past year and not yet shown to the public. Media, subject, and concepts vary, and the artists challenge and examine aesthetic, cultural, environmental, and social issues.

Lauren C’an Urbschat (BFA '02) meditates upon childhood obsessions to create an unusual sculptural environment from Rice Krispies Treats. Through video and audio, Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) reflects on the use and abuse of water by industry and communities. George Roland uses computer animation to explore geometric form and color. Fabrizio Gerbino’s fascination with industrial waste areas focuses on a found anonymous object, while Adam Grossi (BFA '03) mines the macroscopic ambitions of community developers and translates them to the microscopic reality of the individual in a mixed media painting installation.

Pittsburgh's Best 2006 includes the following artists: Josh Bonnett (BFA '00), Chris Craychee (BFA '96), Adam Grossi (BFA '03), Noel Hefele (BFA '02), Chris Kardambikis (BFA '05), Carolina Loyola - Garcia (MFA '00), Matteo Nunzio Orsini (BFA '05), Ally Reeves (MFA Class of '08), Jairan Sadeghi (BFA '05), Lauren Urbschat (BFA '05) and Terry Young (BFA '01).

PROJECTS 2006 - Open: June 2 -18, 2006, 12-8pm, PPG Wintergarden located on Stanwix Street and Fourth Avenue and Four Gateway Center Plaza. Opening reception Friday, June 2, 5:30-8pm; Walk-About reception Friday, June 16th, 5:30-8pm. The Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors in conjunction with the Three Rivers Arts Festival present an annual exhibition of sculptural works. Curators Dr. James Nestor (A'79) and Jennifer Bechak assembled sculptors from across the country to participate in this contemporary art exhibition. Especially timely, the sculptures function as observations on political issues, the context of history and/or memory in relationship to the future, the environment and recording of movement. Communication and technology advances have affected society by changing the way we think, feel and interact with each other. Projects 2006 acts as a cure; a protest; an agent for change and transformation.

Sculptors inside the PPG Wintergarden include Michael Aurbach (TN); Matthew Barton (MFA '06) and Carin Mincemoyer (BFA '94).

RIGHTEOUS SPRING - opens at 8pm June 3 through June 4, 2006 at 937 Liberty Avenue.

Real-time collaboration Righteous Spring brings international artists Ian Williams, Kyle Abraham, and Terry Young (BFA ’00) back to their Pittsburgh roots. The Righteous Spring Project (RSP) revisits past avant-garde collaborations to create and premiere a series of mixed media “happenings” that focus on racial and sexual identity in our culture.
http://www.artsfestival.net/2006Festival/4thriverproject.html#Anchor-Righteous-30815

JABBERWOCKY VS. DADA - open Fridays and Saturdays, June 2 through June 18, 2006,3-8pm at 937 Liberty Avenue.

Curated by Erin O’Neill of Artists Upstairs, 4th River Project Jabberwocky vs. Dada explores the relationship between the late 19th century poem and the early 20th century art movement and what both mean today, providing a forum to investigate and present ideas artists may have felt unable to express due to space or theme restrictions, or other outside limitations. School of Art alumni included are: Josh Atlas (BFA ’05) and Philip Rostek (MFA ’73).

The opening reception is on June 2 from 5:30 – 9pm featuring a performance by P. Rostek. On June 16, from 5:30 – 9pm, during TRAF’s Walk-About, Ian Brill presents a digital live musical collage and Josh Atlas presents the performance “Art Investing in Ten Easy Steps.” Additional spontaneous events will occur in conjunction with the show.

Take Etani (MFA Class of 2006) has his Pimp My Heart performance/vehicle intervention featured on the We Make Money Not Art website: http://www.we-make-money-not art.com/archives/008518.php.

Thomas Sturgill (MFA Class of 2006) is participating, with the group Pulled Resources, in the inagural outdoor sculpture exhibition at the Carnegie Visual and Performing arts center in Covington, KY, opening June 9, 2006. http://www.pulledresources.org.

David Halsell's (MFA Class of 2007) audio work Funkenspiel will be included in the Soundcapes program of Digital Art Weeks 2006 at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, July 12-15, 2006.

Ian Ingram (MFA Class of 2007) will present two installations, Schrecktier and On Beyond Duckling at Fe Gallery in Lawrenceville, June 10 through August 4. Assistant Professor of Art, Pamela Jennings, Adam Davies (MFA '05) and David Halsell (MFA Class of 2007) are also participating in the Summer Solos exhibit at Fe Gallery.

Lauren Klixbull (BFA Class of '07) has been awarded an internship at Jerry Weintraub Productions in Los Angeles this summer where she will be working on the film, Ocean's 13, starring George Clooney.

Rachel Stewart (BFA Class of '07) was accepted into the summer Chautauqua School of Art in New York.

Julia C.K. Stein (BFA Class of '08) is participating in the Unicorn Mountain Exhibit at Modern Formations Gallery. Unicorn Mountain is a comic anthology, a literary journal, and a music compilation that debuted August 2005. The first volume focused on over 70 of Pittsburgh's underground writers, illustrators and bands. The second volume is even more ambitious featuring local as well as national writers, illustrators, and bands. Opening reception is June 2, 7-11pm and the exhibit runs through June 30.

Undergraduate art students were well-represented among the winners of the 2006 Meeting of the Minds SURG Awards this May. The Studio for Creative Inquiry Award went to junior Jonathan Minard. A joint Award for Artistic Excellence was given to Nikolai Antonie, Kohta Asakura and James Sakai for their collaboration on the original film, Planet. Elizabeth Jones Awards were granted to Julia Stein (BHA), Alexandra Alessi, Sarika Goulatia, Sarah Koljonen and Stephanie Armbruster.

For information on making a gift to the School of Art, please contact: Sara Mahoney, Special Gift Officer: 412-268-9555, email: mahoney@andrew.cmu.edu.