School of Art staff, faculty, and alumni are included in the exhibition, The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, on view from March 29 - June 29 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Organized by YBCA, The Way That We Rhyme showcases the politically charged work of a new generation of women. Emphasizing performativity, collaboration and coalition building, the works are influenced by the feminist ideologies and activist movements of the past, while also speaking loudly and clearly to the issues facing women right now. Adhering to the notion that there is strength in numbers, the show culls together work from women of differing backgrounds and disciplines to highlight the common goals of their practices. CMU artists include Miller Gallery Director Astria Suparak (as part of LTTR and Joanie 4 Jackie with Miranda July), Eileen Maxon (MFA '08) (as part of Joanie 4 Jackie), 2008 Kraus Visiting Professor Stephanie Syjuco, subRosa: an artist collective begun at CMU, and SWOON who was a featured speaker at during the Spring 2008 School of Art Lecture Series. Other artists include: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andrea Bowers, Nao Bustamante, Tammy Rae Carland, Vaginal Davis, Eve Fowler with Math Bass, Deborah Grant, MK Guth, Taraneh Hemami, Miranda July and Shauna McGarry with Joanie 4 Jackie, LTTR, Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy, Aleksandra Mir, Laurel Nakadate, Shinique Smith, subRosa, SWOON and Tennessee Jane Watson, The Counterfeit Crochet Project organized by Stephanie Syjuco, The Toxic Titties, Jessica Tully, and RiotGrrl zines from the Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR. http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=4024

A number of School of Art faculty and graduate students will exhibit around Pittsburgh this summer as part of Robot 250, a partnership between Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and Pittsburgh250, to highlight the city as a leader of education, research, and creative opportunities in robotics. BigBot: “The Look-See Tree” by Ally Reeves (MFA '08) is currently touring the city through September 15 as part of CitiParks Roving Art Cart; BigBot: “You’re #1” by Ian Ingram (MFA '07) will be on view July 11-27 on top of the Andy Warhol Museum; BigBot: “Green Roof Roller Coaster” by Greg Witt & Joey Hays (both MFA '09) will be on top of the Children's Museum July 11-27; BigBot: “Rise and Fall” by Jennifer Gooch (MFA '09) can be seen at Schenley Park between July 11-27; BigBot: “Mower” by faculty Osman Khan will be on the front lawn of Phipp's Conservatory & Botanical Gardens from July 11-27; and faculty Golan Levin's BigBot: "Double-Taker (Snout)" will be on view at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts from July 18 -28. A wide array of community events, workshops, lectures, and a BBQ are also not to be missed. View the complete summer schedule at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robot250/; http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/August/aug1_robot250.shtml.

Lowry Burgess is currently included in the Pittsburgh Now group exhibition at the SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, through June 13. He recently participated in the World Bank meeting to further work on the 'financial incentives' aspects of the "Toronto Manifesto". He was invited to the International Space Development Conference, Space Economic Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 29 & June 1. At the end of May he also traveled to NYC to work as Senior Advisor for PBS on a 13 part series of programs on art sponsored by Annenberg. He has contributed to the book "(Im)permanence: Cultures In/Out of Time," recently published by Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts in Society (CAS) and will be available through the Penn State University Press. The volume examines permanence and impermanence in cultural and artistic practices in the West and elsewhere, and it is a collection of presentations and papers from the first conference presented by CAS, a joint program of the College of Fine Arts and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. The book was co-edited by Judith Schachter, Professor of Anthropology and History in the Department of History, and Stephen Brockmann, Professor of German in the Modern Languages Department.

Golan Levin's work appears in the 2008 Pittsburgh Biennial, at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, through August 24. His work also appears in a three-week public exhibition at the Centre Beaulieu in Nantes, France, through June 13; and in the Under Surveillance exhibition at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, starting June 29. Levin will also conduct a one-week workshop in computational arts at the Shakerag Workshop Center, Sewanee, TN, from June 21-28.
http://pittsburghbiennial.org; http://www.centre-beaulieu.com; http://www.jmkac.org/UnderSurveillance; http://www.shakerag.org/FacultyPages/levin.html.

Clayton Merrell's work will be featured in the following exhibitions this month: Landscape - Four Contemporary Views at the Logan Galleries of the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, June 22 - July 9; You are Here at Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, June 27 - August 9; and Notebook at The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. His work was also published in the catalog titled "In Transition Cyprus" published by the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Limmasol Cyprus.

Susanne Slavick's painting "Pretty Lies" was reproduced on the Winter 2008 cover of "Cartographic Perspectives: Journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society."

Mary Weidner is exhibiting her work in Wish You Were Here 7, June 24 - July 19 at A.I.R. Gallery, West 25th St. #301, NYC.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) presents Now: Philip Pearlstein, a solo exhibit at Betty Cuningham Gallery in NYC, June 26 - August 8. http://www.bettycuninghamgallery.com

Eizabeth Asche Douglas (BFA '51) has had her mixed media painting, "Song of the Soul," selected for inclusion in Celebrating Visual Traditions 2008 exhibition sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Hub-Robeson Gallery of the Pennsylvania State University. She is one of 24 artists in the show scheduled to travel to major museums and galleries throughout the state until March 2010. Designing Home Lifestyles, a quarterly Pittsburgh regional magazine, featured Ms. Douglas and several of her works in the DHL Gallery of its Spring 2008 issue. The Renaissance Fine Arts Gallery of Carnegie, PA, presented a show of paintings and sculptures in One Woman--Many Dimensions recently on view Aprill 11 - May 9.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) exhibits works from her "Billboard Series" and speaks at the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport, NY, opening May 31- July 1.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) exhibits in Geometry As Image, a group show at Robert Miller Gallery in NYC though July 30. http://www.robertmillergallery.com/index2.html

Susan Schwalb's (BFA '65) exhibit, Music of Silence, at Galerie Mourlot has been extended through June 21. She is also exhibiting in No Chromophobia at O.K. Harris in NYC, May 31 - July 11 and September 1-6. http://www.galeriemourlot.com; http://www.okharris.com/schedule.htm

Suzanne M. Manns (BFA '71) is currently the Permanent Chair of Studio School and Art History Faculty at the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.

Hester Simpson (BFA '71) exhibits in the group show, Threads, on view through August 15 at Ricco Maresca, NYC. http://www.riccomaresca.com

Tom Norulak (BFA '71) has one of his etchings in this year's Art of the State at the State Museum in Harrisburg, PA, June 29 - September 21. He also has a print at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, PA, as part of an exchange exhibit between CFEVA and Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Greg Kwiatek (BFA '79) exhibited in a three person show of painters at David Zwirne, NYC, in through June 21. http://www.davidzwirner.com

Renee Stout (BFA '80) is exhibiting in She's So Articulate, a group show about the relation of narrative to contemporary art by African-American women at the Arlington Arts Center in VA, June 10 - July 19. http://www.arlingtonartscenter.org

Geraldine Ondrizek (BFA '85) was recently promoted to full Professor of Art at Reed College where she teaches Installtion Sculpture. This summer she has the following one-person Exhibitions at 2008 Sound Walls, CAMAC Art Center, UNESCO Residency Summer 2008, Marnay sur Seine, France; DNA Fingerprints at The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Il; The Window Project , PDX Gallery, Portland Oregon; and Speaking In Codes, curated by Diane Mullin, Weisman Art Museum, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. http://academic.reed.edu/art/faculty/ondrizek

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) will be included in Horror Vacui at McKenzie Fine Art, NYC, opening June 15. http://www.mckenziefineart.com

Marc Fischer (BFA '89) recently participated as a member of the group Temporary Services in One Night Stand, a book/print event as part of the Berlin Biennial, on May 24. There they released the first in a brand new series of interview booklets, "Temporary Conversations." Participants included: Documentation Celine Duval, Normandie, http://www.doc-cd.net; Temporary Services, Chicago, IL, http://www.temporaryservices.org; Eva Weinmayr books and printed projects, London, http://www.evaweinmayr.com; Uqbar Foundation, (Irene Kopelman/Mariana Castillo Deball) Amsterdam, http://www.uqbarfoundation.org; Rita McBride books, Duesseldorf, http://www.ritamcbride.net; Kristina Ask, dictionary and printed projects, Copenhagen, http://www.kristinask.net; Salamander Comics, collaborative comicbook series, Beirut, http://www.samandal.org; Michalis Pichler, printed projects and archive of shredded catalogues, Berlin, http://www.buypichler.com; Anita di Bianco, Corrections and Clarifications, NYC, http://www.buypichler.com; and Bent Books, Istanbul, http://www.b-a-s.info.

Katie Grinnan (BFA '92) presents a solo show of sculpture at The MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, CA, through December 7. Her colorful, tumultuously disjointed sculptures have been described as "choreographed wrestling matches between the second and third dimensions." http://www.makcenter.org

Patrick Meagher (CFA '95) is the founder of Silver Shed, an artist-run, indoor-outdoor contemporary art project-space in Chelsea, NYC. He, along with six other artist/alumni organizers from CMU, Harvard, and Columbia will launch the opening of Silver Shed on June 14. The opening project consists of three shows spanning seven months, featuring twenty-five internationally active artists. Organized as an opportunity for discussion, the project explores the digital landscape as a central paradigm of 21st century consciousness. The first show, Digital with Monument, on view June14 - August 16, takes its name from the seminal East Village gallery, International With Monument, founded by three artists in 1984. http://www.thesilvershed.org

Jen Urso (BFA '96) will screen her new video of her process performance "Evidence of Intention" for the exhibit Come Out and Play at apexart in NYC on June 11. http://apexart.org/exhibitions/comeout/rose.htm;
http://jenniferursoart.com/art-evidenceintention1.html

Paola Cabal (BFA '98) has been awarded a fellowship to the Abbey Mural Workshop at the National Academy in New York. From July 6 - August 1, Paola will receive training in best practices for the crafting of public art proposals, including meeting with public art administrators in New York and visits to artists studios.

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (MFA '99) has been awarded an Eyebeam Summer 2008 Residency and will be presenting a video installation June 7 - August 7 at 0.00156 acres, Brooklyn, NYC, curated by Veronica Mijelshon.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) has a video screening on June 6 & 7 at University College Falmouth (incorporating Dartington College of Arts), Cornwall, UK. http://www.liveartfalmouth.com

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) presented an animation in "What Happens Next?" on May 25 at Time and Space Limited in Hudson, NY. His prints will be included in Slow Art at the ACM Siggraph 2008 Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, August 10-15. http://timeandspace.org/tsl/calendar/event.php?id=508

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) presented You Are Me, his third solo exhibit at Andrew Kreps Gallery in NYC this spring. http://www.andrewkreps.com

Laura Nelson (BFA ‘02) graduated with an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan this spring. She will be based in Chicago, IL, and working on a freelance basis.

Sarah Hatton (BFA '03) will be presenting the paper "Learning Metaphor through Mixed-Reality Game Design and Game Play" at this year's ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Video Game Symposium in Los Angeles, CA. She is working this summer as a production and design intern at EA Redwood Shores.

Jennifer Mi Rae Chung (BFA '03) recently graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Architecture degree and will start working for the firm SBLM Architects this month.

Mauren Antkowski (BFA '04), in collaboration with Professor Therese Tardio of Carnegie Mellon University and Building New Hope Nonprofit, is working with local teachers, students, families, and artists in Granada, Nicaragua, to create a community-involved art center. The goal of the center is to provide assistance and guidance in funding, curriculum, and creative sustainability for a small community of schools that have limited resources for education, much less for the arts. Mauren will be traveling to Nicaragua in June to teach and to interview artists, educators, and others interested in participating. The Granada Arts Education Project just had its first fundraiser on May 30, which was a great success. To learn more, to become involved, or to make a donation, please visit our blog at http://g-arts-ed.blogspot.com or contact mauren.a.a@gmail.com

Shana Moulton (MFA '04) hosted a weeklong performace laboratory with ongoing experiments in May featuring performace-sketches and videos by Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04), Blithe Riley (MFA '05), Bryan Zanisnik, Circular File, Erica Magrey, and Bjorn Kjellroft at Broadway 1602, NYNY. http://www.broadway1602.com; http://www.bellwethergallery.com/artistsindex_01.cfm?fid=288; http://www.fereshteh.net; http://www.blitheriley.net

Eva Funderburgh (BSA '05) is presently living in Seattle, WA, and recently exhibited her work in the three-person show, Beasts of the Kiln, at The Island Gallery, Banibridge Island, WA, during the month of May. http://www.theislandgallery.net; http://www.theislandgallery.net/pr080418.php; http://www.evafunderburgh.com

Tom Tolhurst (BFA '05) received his MFA in Photography this spring from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Adam Davies' (MFA '05) large-format photographs are currently included in the Westmoreland Museum of Art Biennial, Greensburg, PA, through June 8. For the month of June he will be the Artist-Educator for the High School Summer Institute at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. During July and August he will be attending an Artist Residency at the Corporation of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. From October 2008-May 2009, Adam will be a Fine Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, MA. http://www.adavies3.com; http://www.yaddo.org; http://www.fawc.org

Lauren Frances Adams (MFA '07) participates in an exhibition at CUE Art Foundation in Chelsea, NYC, from June 12 - August 2. The exhibition highlights work from the 2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients. A catalogue will be published. http://www.cueartfoundation.org; http://www.lfadams.com

Eileen Maxson (MFA '08) has been awarded a 2 year residency at De Ateliers, an independent artists' institute which is run by visual artists in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to begin September 2008. She is the only American artist that was selected for the first working year. http://www.de-ateliers.nl; http://www.eileenmaxson.com

Michelle Fried (MFA '08) and Lauren Goshinski (staff) enterted the US Regional Air Guitar Championship, Pittsburgh, PA, on June 10 as last-minute wildcard competitors and miraculously tied for 3rd place. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_572164.html; http://usairguitar.blogspot.com/

JULIACKS aka Julia Stein (BHA '08) as a member of Unicorn Mountain, presents the exhibition, Sylvania, at 709 Penn Gallery, downtown Pittsburgh, PA, opening June 13 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Chock full of comics, sound, sculpture and painting that previews what's to come in Unicorn Mountain's Third Anthology, Sylvania is featured in the Pittsburgh Cultural District's monthly Gallery Crawl on Friday, July 11, from 5:00-9:00 p.m. Lauren Goshinski (Staff) and Julia Stein have partnered with Nakturnal to organize a Gallery Crawl / Unicorn Mountain-after-party, more details to come in the July issue of Artscan. Artists include: Matthew Thurber, Austin English, Ally Reeves (MFA '08), Katherine Young, Ian Finch, Thad Kellstadt, Beano, Tom Hall, Elina Malkin, David Grim, Thee Coyote (Ben Bigelow '08 + JULIACKS), Michael Budai, Ben Hernstrom, Amy Conroy (BFA '08), Chris Cornwell (BHA '08), Kathleen Lolley, Jim Lingo and Tugboat Printshop. http://www.pgharts.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=140070; http://www.unicornmountain.com

Theresa Chen (BFA '08) has been accepted to Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center graduate program, beginning fall 2009.

Gene Kim (BFA '08) is currently at the School of Visual Arts's Summer Residency Program.

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