Julie Bargmann (BFA '80), a reclamation artist and landscape architect, was the primary guest on National Public Radio's Studio 360 on June 15, 2003. http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/ Her work with D.I.R.T. Studio was included in Documenta 11 last year. In 2001, she won the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's award for environmental design. A New Jersey native who now teaches at the University of Virginia's graduate school of landscape architecture, Bargman has her own company, DIRT (Design Investigations Reclaiming Terrain) Studio, and works on projects that help preserve the past in environmentally responsible ways. In 2000, works such as Testing the Waters, a "regenerative park" in Vitondale, PA led to her inclusion in Time Magazine's Time 100: The Next Wave, which promotes innovators in architecture and design. http://www.time.com/time/innovators/design/profile_bargmann.html http://www.alumni.virginia.edu/virginiaonlinemag/archives/profiles/bargmann.htm

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) was featured in Communication Arts magazine's May-June issue. Her work appeared on the cover and 20 images were reproduced inside. She will have a one-woman show at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation in Pittsburgh from September 3- December 15, 2003, titled Human Conditions. Her work will be featured in a book by Taiwanese publisher Pao & Paws, due out in October. "The clin d'oeil book will focus on 55 of the most influential and upcoming illustrators of our time." She lives and works in New York City.

Jessica Buben (BFA '92) has accepted a full-time faculty position in the Art Department at Harper College, in the Chicago area. Her film Gateau (cake) toured with the Mad Cat Women's Film Festival in 2000-02. She is currently working on a digital media dissertation project in Interdisciplinary Studies in Visual Culture at The University of Chicago.

Hope Johnson Hanes (BFA '92) is the Education Coordinator for Round Hill Arts Center, in Round Hill, VA. She recently organized a contest for which the local elementary school students designed sections of an 80' mural for the town's only park. The ten winning designs were transferred as line drawings onto permanent panels, and the entire community was invited to help paint them during Round Hill's Annual Hometown Festival. The project was funded in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She and her husband are enjoying life with son, Rowan, born on January 3, weighing in at 9 lbs., 7 oz.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), with Temporary Services and White Walls, presented Prisoners' Inventions in a book release at Quimby's Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue, Chicago on June 20, 2003. He and Melinda Fries also presented 13 Spots on the Map, six billboards with directions to some of the places displayed over six weeks in Chicago. A free booklet with photos and directions to all the places plus an aerial map of the neighborhood is available 24 hours a day in the gray dispenser at the south west corner of Halsted and Lake. The Roof: A Billboard Project takes place outdoors at 813 West Lake Street, Chicago IL, and opened June 14. http://spaces.org/roof.html

Jeffrey Dorsey (BFA '94), Executive Director of Penn Avenue Arts Initiative, was selected as one of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's top 50 cultural forces in Pittsburgh. He was one of four in the Nurturers category, "hard-working folks {who} labor behind the scenes to form and encourage the kind of support networks that enable artists and arts groups to thrive." http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20020602overview0602fnp2.asp

Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94) has directed and produced When Video Came with Ralph Vituccio. The 42 minute video looks at the history of video art from the critical perspective of seminal media artists in the U.S. It portrays the development of the technological image and its influence in our culture as well as the complex relationship that exists between the independent producer and the established mass-media. Testimonials and visuals question the role of the individual in a culture dominated by broadcast monopolies that promote an increasingly unilateral view of the world and call for a media aware society and the creative empowerment of citizens. When Video Came premiers at Pittsburgh Filmmakers on June 28 at 7 and 9pm with a reception at 8:30pm. The video is available at Plan Z Media video catalog http://www.planznow.co

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) has recently exhibited Vagamundo: A Migrant's Tale at Version>03 at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (April) and InteractivA at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Merida, Mexico (July 03). Ricardo is presenting a new project, NEXUM ATM at the Bronx Museum; the exhibition opens July 16th and runs through September. Ricardo has also been awarded a residency and exhibition at DAÏMÕN Media Center, Hull, Quebec. The exhibition is part of the Si: Alors: Sinon: Art and Interactivity program which has included a series of lectures and culminates in an exhibition opening in October.

Evan Tapper (MFA '01) was awarded a grant from the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba and a travel grant from the Canada Council for the Arts toward his residency in Kitakyushu, Japan. He also received a grant from the Chautauqua Arts Council towards his new animation.

Terry Young (BFA '01) is writing art reviews and recently published Digitally Derived in the June 6 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030606toon0606fnp3.asp

Brooke Singer (MFA '02) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase to begin in fall 2003. Brooke has presented her current collaborative project Swipe with Beatriz daCosta and Jamie Schulte at: Subtle Technologies 03, University of Toronto, May; Break 2.2 Festival: Invisible Threat, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June and Version>03, Digital Arts Convergence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 2003. Brooke, Beatriz and Jamie were recently awarded a grant from Turbulence.org and a Finishing Fund from the Experimental Television Center LTD for Swipe.

Cris Malino, a BSA undergraduate in Art and Biology, is currently participating in a summer service-abroad program in Ghana (through the Cross-cultural Solutions Academic Program). She helped deliver her first infant in Africa, "a 4.15kg little boy-- Kwabla (meaning Tuesday born). Inspirational in "that I'm-never-having-kids kinda way."

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