Lowry Burgess spoke at the Metanexus Institute of the Templeton Foundation at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on June 6.

Elaine A. King's review of the Mattress Factory exhibition, New Ubstakkatuibsm /artusts ub
/resudebce: Cuba, appeared in the May issue of Sculpture. Her piece on Gabriel Orozco's photographs appears in Sculpture's June issue.

Golan Levin's artwork appeared at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London in the Generative X: OneDotZero9 exhibition; in the Expo Art Numerique exhibition in the Musee de Saint-Brieuc as part of the Festival ArtRock, June 2-6, Saint-Brieuc, France; at the SONAR Festival in its Digital Art A La Carte and Sonarama exhibitions, Barcelona, June 16-19; at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City in the Rhizome ArtBase 101 exhibition; and in the ElectroScape exhibition at the Zendai Art Museum, Shanghai, China.

Post-Gazette Coverage: Faculty and alumni exhibiting in Three Rivers Arts Festival venues have been covered in several recent articles. The University Exhibition at PPG Wintergarden was covered by Mary Thomas on June 15 with mentions of Associate Professor Joseph Mannino and alumni James Nestor (BFA '79) and Joanna Commanderos (BFA '86). Nestor is President of the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors which sponsored the exhibit.

Michelle Illuminato has a solo exhibit, Stage, Action, Flash! at La Corte Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy, July 1-20.

Robin Hewlett's (BFA '03) Signs of Life, a storefront installation/performance/conceptual piece at 922 Penn Avenue,was also covered. Her photographs are accompanied by narratives enacted by Carolyn Lambert (MFA '05), Ben Rod (BFA Class of 2004) and incoming graduate student Ally Reeves. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05166/521498.stm.

The June 16 Weekend Mag featured an Art on a Roll spread by Terry Young (BFA'01) that discussed a skateboard ramp artwork , created by Alex Smith in collaboration with Matt Barton (MFA Class of 2006) and alumnus Josh Bonnett (BFA '00). Mary Thomas' Best of the Fest article discussed and reproduced Associate Professor Joseph Mannino's ceramic sculpture, Blue II.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05167/522014.stm.

James Duesing's animation Tender Bodies is an official selection of the Dallas Video Festival, which will be held from August 3-7 at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Theater Center.
http://www.videofest.org/2005_pre/.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) exhibits along with James Welling, who attended Carnegie-Mellon from 1969 to 1971, in The Photograph in Question, a group show at Von Lintel Gallery in New York City through July 29. http://www.vonlintel.com.

Steven Lawrence (BFA '70) is Director of Development and Volunteer Services for the Novato Human Needs Center (NHNC), a non-profit community agency that helps low-income people in Novato, California overcome their crises and move toward self-sufficiency.  Previously, he was the Executive Director of Ronald McDonald House and Sonoma Community Center. He is married to Judy, a marine biologist; they have a son, Gabriel. http://www.novatoadvance.com/archives/11_24_04/news.html.

Joel Abramson (BFA '78) has a House Portrait business. See: http://www.joeldavidabramson.com.

Hilda Demsky (BFA '78) exhibits paintings in a two-person show, Flux and Flow at the Arts Center Gallery at the Saratoga Arts Council in Saratoga Springs, NY, June 2 - July 16. She will lecture on July 7 at 6pm during the Saratoga Art Walk.

Emil Sauer (BFA '80) is exhibiting motion studies of the figure skaters at Rocket Ice Skating Arena in Bolingbrook, Chicago. For the last several months, Sauer has spent many hours drawing studies that form the basis of a 50-piece pastel series of figure skaters he plans to create over the next five years.

Katharine Kuharic (BFA '84) has been named a Rockefeller Fellow and will be in residence in Bellagio, Italy this summer and fall.

Teri Reub (BFA '90) exhibited the interactive sound work, Itinerant, at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery in the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival this spring. The piece was commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. with funds from the Jerome Foundation and the LEF Foundation.
http://cyberarts.qc1.net/bca/events/index.php; http://turbulence.org/Works/itinerant/index.htm.

Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman (BFA '92) exhibit in Eureka: The Eureka Fellowship Awards 2002-2004 at the Berkeley Art Museum in California, June 11 - August 14.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/eureka/index.html.

Amy Novelli Pesquiera (MFA '94) is a scenic designer, painter sculptor with over eleven years of experience in theater film, zoo and aquarium environments, public art and murals, corporate and holiday decor, and interior decorative finishes. She has supervised three youth job training/community art projects for the Tucson-Pima Arts Council ArtWORKS! and continues to work for theaters and design companies.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) is participating in We Could Have Invited Everyone, an exhibition about micro-nations, model nations and concept nation states. This exhibition coincides with a Summit of Micronations at the New School University, A General Assembly with Representatives of Real and Possible Countries at the Teresa Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Curated by Robert Blackson and Peter Coffin (MFA '00) the exhibit runs June 24 - July 29, 2005. Patrick is also in another group show at Travis Towers, Houston,TX and recently relaunched his website http://www.desktoplandscape.com.

Paul Snelson (BFA '96) just added nine new images to his website. See new works at:
http://www.paulsnelson.com.

subRosa members Hyla Willis (MFA '99) and Faith Wilding performed Yes Species, in collaboration with James Tsang at the Intersex 1-0-1 Festival, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildesnden Künste, Berlin, June 17. subRosa's clothing tag map (by Hyla Willis (MFA '99), Faith Wilding, Steffi Domike (MFA '97), Laleh Mehran (MFA '97) and Lucia Sommer) was recently shown at Diverse Works in Houston. Hyla collaborated with Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) at the International Markets of Flesh v2., at Arte Nuevo InteractivA'05, Yucatán Museum of Contemporary Art, Mérida, Mexico, June 26.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibits in Desired Constellations, a group show at Daniel Reich Gallery in New York City this summer. http://www.danielreichgallery.com/.

Zachary Jones (BFA '00) was invited to presented a paper at the 2005 conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) in Gainesville, FL. His paper, Topological Associations Between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, discusses scale-invariance across phenomena in relationship to the methods we use for schematizing the universe. Support was granted through the SSE and Arizona State University's Herberger College of Fine Art, where he is enrolled as a graduate student in the fine arts, media and engineering program.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) aired Walking the Plank, a trivia radio show for the Venice Biennale / WPS1 Art Radio (June 14-20). http://www.wps1.org/.

Rosina Santana (MFA '01) received a $174,000 grant for a community art project on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. She will create a heritage trail with 20 bronze plaques, designed and made by the island residents that portray their struggle with the US Navy. (For 60 years, Vieques was a bombing range. Although the Navy vacated the island in May of 2003, it is now contaminated with depleted uranium and other toxic metals that need to be cleaned up.) The heritage trail should be completed by the end of June. She will give a keynote address on the Vieques project at the Society for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick in Newcastle, England and, this September, will present the work at the Barcelona Conference of the Public Art Observatory, Waterfront IV, sponsored by a consortium of public art organizations and the University of Barcelona. http://www.artepublico.puertorico.pr/html_espanol/ambitos/talleres_comunitarios/vieques/fase2.htm.

Jill Palermo (BFA '02) has a solo exhibit at The Jewish Community Center , Pittsburgh, July 1 - August 15, 2005.

William Kofmehl (BFA '02) exhibits in In The Round: Celebration of the Circular Form, a show in two New Haven venues: John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art through July 17 and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven's Small Space Gallery through June 30. http://www.elyhouse.org/index.html

Naomi Falk (MFA '03) was an artist in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York this June.

Kenzo Hakuta (BFA '03) was Director/Editor of Nam June Paik: A Day In The Life, a video celebrating his life and impact on the art of the late 20th century, The video was installed, and ran simultaneously with Paik’s newest installation, Meta 11, a tribute to the strength of NYC and its citizens. Kenzo is also working on: a music compilation of music he produced for a narrative concept album; a tv special/documentary about the influence of graffiti and fashion culture; more masks; and writing a feature film. http://press.xtvworld.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3191.

Janine Biunno (BFA '04) will begin graduate studies this fall in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston / Tufts University's MFA Program.

Andrew Klein (BFA '04) is exhibiting 20 new drawings, July 7th through the begining of August at the
Canvas Gallery in San Francico. The show, Rock, Paper Scissors will also feature a handful of other Bay
Area artists working in drawing and collage. For more information check out http://www.thecanvasgallery.com or Andrew's website at http://www.andrewklein.net.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA '05) has work included through Paper Rad in Living Through This: New York in the Year 2005, a publication produced by Deitch Projects and distributed by DAP.

Jeffrey Augustine Songco (BFA '05) was recently selected for Projekt30.com's June Exhibition.  Nearly 200 entries are submitted to the online gallery and a public and private jury narrow the entrants to a group of thirty finalists.  To see the exhibit and to enter for future exhibits, visit: http://www.projekt30.com.

Bill Cravis (MFA Class of 2006) had his award-winning installation in this year's Three Rivers Arts Festival Annual Exhibition featured in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's One to Grow article on June 8. Works by alumni Adam Grossi (BFA '03), Cassandra Jones (MFA '04) and Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) were also discussed. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05159/517297.stm.

Lauren Adams (MFA Class of 2007) has a collaborative installation Photo-A-Go-Go, with Chicago artist Clare Britt. Photo-A-Go-Go is the installation of photographs made with and documentation of the traveling Camera Obscura truck that Britt and Adams made in Raleigh, NC, in August of 2004. The show runs July 3-August 27 at Rebus Works in Raleigh, NC. http://www.rebusworks.org.

Tiffany Sum (MFA Class of 2006) has been selected as a recipient of the Kraus Family Foundation Award, a $2,200 scholarship through the Worldstudio AIGA 2005 Scholarship program. There were 20 winners from more than 500 applications submitted.

Kazumi Itoh (F'04 exchange student)) has an installation and friends are exhibiting paintings and woodcuts at the Noritake Gallery, Nagoya, Japan from June 28 - July 3. http://www.noritake.co.jp/mori/.

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