Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Dorothy Stubnitz Professor of Art, will open a solo exhibit at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh on August 7, from 7-9pm. The exhibit runs through August 28.
http://www.artistsimageresource.org/upcoming/upcoming.html.

Bruce Erikson is exhibiting in a group show at Palos Verdes Art Center in Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA, June 18-August 13. He is exhibiting a portrait, Laurie, in the 8th Annual Georgetown International Fine Art Competition at Fraser Gallery in Washington, DC, July 16-August 18. The exhibit was curated by Kristen Hileman, Assistant Curator for Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens http://www.thefrasergallery.com/future.html. This work is included in the 2004 Biennial Juried Exhibition at Brad Cooper Gallery in Tampa juried by James McGarrell. The exhibition runs from July 24-September 25 http://bradcoopergallery.com/excurrent.html. Bruce is also showing three works at Period Gallery's Faces III International Show in Lincoln, NE. The show opened July 1 and may be viewed online at: http://periodgallery.com/gallery/browse.lasso?artistID=15883. Additionally, Bruce is in the Northern National Juried Art Competition, at Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI through the month of July.

Jon Beckley is exhibiting in Animal Attraction at Pittsburgh's Fe Gallery, June 25-August 6.

Two artists affiliated with Carnegie Mellon received honorable mentions in the Prix Ars Electronica this year. Assistant Professor Golan Levin's Messa di Voce was recognized in the Interactive Art area and Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga's Public Broadcast Cart in the Net Vision area.
http://www.aec.at/en/prix/honorory2004.asp; http://www.ambriente.com/wifi/.

Robert Bowden (A '54) has published three watercolor books; Pittsburgh Watercolor Impressions, and Block Island Watercolor Impressions, published by Hydrangea Books; and Martha's Vineyard Watercolor Impressions published by Rizzoli/Universe. His most recent exhibition occurred this spring in Norfolk, Connecticut where he attended the Yale-Norfolk Summer Art School on fellowship 53 years ago.

Stuart Abelman (BFA '71) received his MFA from UCLA in 1976. In 1977, he left teaching and started Abelman Art Glass where he uses his own formulas to ensure the purest quality glass possible. He exhibits at Petris in Sausalito, CA. http://www.petrisgallery.com/gallery/Abelman/index.shtml.

Mary Mazziotti (BFA '72) has a solo exhibit, The Dead, at Future Tenant in Pittsburgh, July 2-24. http://www.futuretenant.org.

Laurie Lipton (BFA '75) has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. She exhibited last fall in The Sleep of Reason, a show inspired by Goya's etchings and drawings at the Instituto Cervantes in London. http://www.laurielipton.com/index.html.

Renee Stout (A '80) was the juror for the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) 94th Annual Exhibition which is being held for the first time in the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery from July 9 - August 1, 2004. Stout commented, "As a student attending Carnegie Mellon, I can remember eagerly awaiting the annual openings of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition at the Carnegie Museum. I knew that the art I would see on the great white walls of that prestigious institution represented the best of Pittsburgh and I looked to those artists to help set a standard that I could aspire to as a young artist... I had no way of knowing then that some things in life come full circle and that one day I would be invited by the Associated Artists to jury an exhibition based on my own reputation as an artist. I felt truly honored."

Hugh Watkins (BFA '81) has a solo exhibit, Broadsides, at BoxHEART at 4523 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, July 13 through July 27. The exhibit includes barn prints and other recent work reflecting on the disappearing family barn and advocating support for local agricultural producers.

James Nocito (BFA '82) has exhibited his paintings widely in the United States and Canada in such venues as: Littlejohn-Smith Gallery and Chuck Levitan Gallery (both in New York City); Del Bello Gallery, Toronto; The Society of American Artists, Santa Fe; and the Athenaeum, La Jolla. His illustrations have appeared in many publications including the Los Angeles Times Book Review, How Magazine and San Diego Home/Garden Magazine. The fabric designs he creates have been included in the collections of Donna Karan, Joseph Abboud and Ann Klein, as well as in the private label collections of Barneys, Henri Bendel and Bergdorf Goodman. http://www.globalgallery.com/artist.bio.asp?nm=james+nocito.

Kurt Rath (A '84) and his business partner and brother, Christopher Rath (A '88) announced the opening of their gallery, The Sidewalk Gallery in Fresno, CA late last year. They are happy to announce the opening of two more California locations in Valencia and Clovis. The brothers are planning to continue their expansion with another 5-10 galleries opening up this year. A website is under construction and they can be reached at KurtRathInc@aol.com. Kurt is residing in Clearwater, FL while Christopher is living in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) finds creative uses for recycled materials in his exhibition Urban Enamels at Fuller Craft Museum through August 29. Recycled traffic signs are transformed into cleverly functional furniture and objects with bold colors and images. His Transit Chairs, DPW Bowls, jewelry, sculpture and flatware transform everyday things that nobody wants or knows what to do with into exquisite works of art. Reception: July 25, 2pm. http://www.fullercraft.org

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), a member of Temporary Services, is exhibiting Binder Archives in the exhibit, The End of the End of the Line, at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN July 10-August 22. Thirteen of the inventions from their Prisoners' Inventions are included in the group show Secret Affinities at Las Casa Encendida in Madrid through mid-September.
http://www.soapfactory.org, http://www.lacasaencendida.com/LCE/lce_home.

Karen Mincemoyer (BFA '94) is a graduate student in the MFA program at University at Buffalo. She exhibited in the Three Rivers Arts Festival Annual Exhibition this June.

Arden Bendler Browning's (BFA '97) paintings were chosen by curator Brian Wallace for inclusion in the Philadelphia Selections 5 exhibit at the Levy Gallery of Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. The exhibit opened June 17 and runs through September 3 and will feature her large scale, unstretched acrylic paintings on canvas. In addition, Arden has a solo show at the University City Arts League, also in Philadelphia, which opened on July 9. She also had work in a group show at 473 Broadway Gallery in Soho in New York which ran from June 15-30.http://www.ardenbendlerbrowning.com.

Lara Hoke (BFA '03) and Matt Robinson (BFA '01) are exhibiting in a group show at Mad Arts, 255 18th Street in Brooklyn that opened June 19.

Naomi Falk (MFA '03) is the Junior and Intermediate Ceramics Instructor at Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, MI.

Shana Moulton (MFA Class of 2004) has been selected to attend the De Ateliers program in Amsterdam, beginning this fall. Her performance at Future Tenant during the Three Rivers Arts Festival was discussed in a Tribune article by Kurt Shaw (BFA '89). http://www.de-ateliers.nl/;
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_198773.html.

Ruth Stanford (MFA Class of 2004) was selected as one of the International Sculpture Center's 2004 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awardees. Part of this award involves the inclusion of her sculpture, Ex Cathedra, in a group exhibition at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, adjacent to the ISC headquarters, from October 9-May 1, 2005. The exhibit will be accompanied by a catalogue. http://www.groundsforsculpture.org.

Kristina Lazar (BFA '04) is having a show, Beauty and Transcendence, at Modern Formations from July 2 - July 30. "Like a spiraling mandala of crystalline lotus leaves. Our third eye flutters and blinks, awakening. As the fire rises through our core, our heart, filling our head with glorious lightening bolts of ecstatic energy. It bursts through our crown with the fierce intensity of electric current and like a beacon, envelops all the worlds, ours and those unseen by waking eyes, with its wondrous light. We have the ability to dissolve our ego to transcend, become one and whole with the energy, the quiet divinity, within us, abounding around us."

Second year graduate student William Cravis is teaching a Sculpture I course this fall at Chatham College in Pittsburgh.

Adam Davies, third year graduate student, is exhibiting in Remember My Name at Momus Gallery in Atlanta, July 16-August 13. http://www.momusgallery.com/.

Mario Marzan (MFA Class of 2005) is exhibiting in 8-hour Drawings at Allegheny College's Bowman and Penelec Galleries in Meadville, opening August 31 when he will give an artist's lecture that evening.

Kohta Asakura (BFA Class of 2006) is working as an Assistant Festival Coordinator for the Asian American International Film Festival in New York this summer. Festival details follow, and more information can be found at: http://www.asiancinevision.org/aaiff.

Hueiyen Tsai, junior art major, had her work reproduced on the back cover of Oxfam Magazine, published by Oxfam Hong Kong. The piece, Blurring the Edges, was created for an assignment entitled Wearing Yourself on Your Sleeve, in Michelle Illuminato's Concept Studio course. The global dress motif of Tai's work related to the issue's theme - problems facing garment workers in poor countries.

For information on making a gift to the School of Art, please contact: Sue Tolmer, Assistant Director of Development: 412-268-6654, email: stolmer@andrew.cmu.edu or Karen Ferguson, CFA Development Office: 412-268-4849, email: ksf@andrew.cmu.edu.