Clayton Merrell's work will be featured in the exhibition titled Displaced, at the Castelliotissa Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 9 through October 23, 2006.

Golan Levin's work appears in two recently released books: At the Edge of Art by Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito (Thames and Hudson) and New Media Art by Mark Tribe and Reena Jana in the Taschen Basic Art Series. More of his work is featured in the current issue of Surface Magazine (#59).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500238227/; http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3822830410/; http://www.surfacemag.com/.

Christopher Sperandio's ARTSTAR project is discussed in The Real (Art) World by Constance Wyndham in the June/July Art in America.

The Summer Solo Series at Pittsburgh's Fe Gallery features an all Carnegie Mellon roster of artists: Professor Pamela Jennings; alumni Adam Davies (MFA '05) and Mac Howison (BFA '95); and current graduate students Ian Ingram and David Halsell. The exhibit runs through August 4, with music by the Delusionals on July 21.

Dylan Vitone, Assistant Professor of Design and Art, exhibits in the 80th Annual International Photography Competition at The Print Center in Philadelphia. June 8 through August 5. The exhibit will travel to the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, New Jersey, September 9 through November 2. http://www.printcente.org

Andy Warhol's (A '49) works are included in several exhibits this summer: Celebrity Portraits through July 14 at Sean Kelly, New York; Implosion, June 29 through July 28 at Anton Kern Gallery, 532 W. 20th St. in New York; Dark Matter through September 9 at White Cube in London; and Into Me / Out of Me through June 25 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. http://www.antonkerngallery.com; http://www.skny.com;
http://www.whitecube.com; http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=189&Itemid=102.

Philip Pearlstein (A '49) exhibits in An Assessment of Contemporary Figuration at David Klein Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan, June 24 through August 26.http://www.dkgallery.com.

Jonathan Borofsky (BFA '64) exhibits in Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston through October 15. He is represented by Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles and New York, where three new screenprints, Human Structures, are available.
http://www.mfah.org; http://www.geminigel.com.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) is participating in the following shows this summer: Figure Ground, at the Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn June 2 through July 23; Metalpoint Paintings at Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, VA, June 2-30; The Luster of Silver: Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA , June 7 through September 10. http://www.kentlergallery.org; http://www.pagebondgallery.com; http://www.telfair.org.

Katherine Morgan (Music '67) of Boca Raton and principle of KMA, Inc., won Best in Show for photography at the HORTT45 opening at Artserve.
https://www.shutterpoint.com/Photos-User.cfm?id=KMAPHOTOS; http://www.artserve.org.

Barbara Rosenthal (BFA '74) exhibits at the Beijing Pickled Art Center in China at 1 Feijia Lai Guang Ying Dong Lu, Chao Yang District, June 16-28. On June 20, 21, and 22, the artist will project her videos and speak about her work.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) exhibited this July in Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art - Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The exhibition was organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.eventjar.com/artist/S/renee_stout.html.

Hugh Watkins (BFA '81) is teaching a wood sculpture class at Touchstone Centre for Crafts July 17-21, 2006. http://www.touchstonecrafts.com.

Diane Lemonides (CFA '83) is Principal & Creative Director of Verve Marketing & Design Located in Chadds Ford, PA. Verve won a prestigious Silver ADDY award from the American Advertising Federation. http://www.vervemarketinganddesign.com.

John Currin (BFA '84) exhibits in New York, New York: 50 Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film and Video at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco’s premier cultural center, July 14 through September 10, 2006. http://www.visitmonaco.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageID=863.

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) has a piece in The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts' exhibit, Oink, Moo, Baa: Animals in Art in Wilmington, Delaware. The reception is Thursday, July 20 from 5-8pm and the show runs through September 3. http://www.thedcca.org.

Kurt Shaw (BFA '89) curated and exhibits in Hot Picks: Pittsburgh Abstraction Now at Mendelson Gallery in Pittsburgh through July 29. The show includes work by five regional artists, including Anne Lopez (BFA '96). http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/living/events/s_460736.html.

Fred Baxter (BFA '92) has work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of the TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures, May 25 through August 13. On Wednesday, July 26's 8pm session, MOMA presents a 64 minute program including his work in CalArts Animation and Experimentation: The 1990s [part 2]. http://www.moma.org/events/film/2006/july_16-31_2006.html.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) and Temporary Services' project at I Space in Chicago was reviewed by Susan Snodgrass in the June/July issue of Art in America.

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94) exhibited this June at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton, NY and exhibits in USA Today at The Royal Academy of Arts in London, opening October 4.
http://www.saatchigallery.com.

Kinga Czerska (CS '95) exhibits in the Seattle Art Museum's Rental/Sales Gallery this August. She completed a mural commission in Sacramento, CA and is represented by Neuhoff Gallery in New York.

Consuelo Echeverria (MFA '96) has been working in Turkey for the last few years, mostly with refugees from Africa and the far east, including trafficked Philippina women. With others, she is starting community based health initiatives to fight tuberculosis.

Leah Piepgras (MFA '97) presents After-Glow, an exhibition of paintings at Studio 412 in Boston. Hours by appointment:piepgras@comcast.net.

Matt Keegan (BFA ’98) exhibits in A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, a group show curated by Justine Kurland and Dan Torop at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 W. 26th Street, New York, June through August. Matt and Leslie Hewitt presented their collaborative project, From You to Me and Back Again at Wallspace NYC through July 1. Keegan also works through his curatorial collaborative, Public Holiday Projects, at Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles, and Expodium, The Netherlands. He is co-editor and co-publisher, along with Sara Greenberger Rafferty, of North Drive Press, the third installment of which is slated for publication this summer.http://www.miandn.com; http://www.wallspacegallery.com/0605_pr.html.

Seldon Yuan (BFA '98) exhibits in Hybridity/Ambivalence, a group exhibit at Amos Eno Gallery in New York City (530 West 25th Street, 6th Floor), July 12 through August 18 with a reception on Thursday, July 20, 6-8pm. http://www.amosenogallery.org/exhibition.php?id=17.

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (MFA '99) participated this summer in a sound art festival in Berlin - Sonambiente 2006. The festival organizers have invited his Public Broadcast Cart to traverse the streets of Berlin. During his stay, Ricardo had a residency at the Media Art Center, Tesla. http://www.tesla-berlin.de/_page.php?aktion=SHOW_PAGE&Page_ID=240;
http://www.sonambiente.net/.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) had a solo sound installation, Composite, at Raum 58 in Munich, Germany and live performances at Vernissage and Marienplatz. She will also be giving artist talks at the Art Academies in Munich and Nuremberg this summer.

Nick Fox-Gieg (BFA '99) was awarded a Fulbright to the Netherlands where he'll be studying realtime animation and music composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA ’99) exhibits in: the White Room at White Columns, 320 West 13th Street (entrance on Horatio St.), New York City, June 23 through July 29; and Pure Land/Liquid Paper, a group show featuring work by three young California sculptors at Ratio 3 in San Francisco, June 30 through August 6. http://www.whitecolumns.org; http://www.ratio3.org/.

Richard Pell (BFA '99), a founding member of the artist collaborative, Institute for Applied Autonomy, is one of eleven international artists/groups that have been awarded Rhizome commissions to create original works of Internet-based art. http://rhizome.org/commissions/2006.rhiz.

Carolina Loyola Garcia (MFA ’00) presented Survivors in History, Memory, Matter, a film and video screening curated by Kirthi Nath at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.
http://www.theintersection.org/calendar/program_gallery.php;
http://www.carolinaloyolagarcia.net/codes.html.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) is represented by Herald St. Gallery in London. He is exhibiting in a three person show at United Artists, Ltd. in Marfa, Texas, June 24 through August 3, and in Strange Powers, a group exhibit sponsored by Creative Time and curated by Laura Hoptman and Peter Eleey at 64 E. 4th Street at Bowery, New York City, July 19 through September 17.
http://www.unitedartistsltd.com; http://www.heraldst.com;
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2006/strangepowers/index.html.

Krista Connerly (MFA '00) exhibits in Slippage: fragilities and instabilities in the phenomena of meaning, an exhibition of net.art curated by Nanette Wylde and running parallel to ISEA2006/ZeroOne San JosÈ, July 15 through August 31. www://http://slippage.net.

Rebecca Vaughan (MFA '01) exhibits her project, Lure, in Decades of Influence at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, June 16 through August 27. embroider@rocketmail.com.

AIR, designed by Preemptive Media (including Brooke Singer (MFA '02), is a tool for individuals and groups to self identify pollution sources. It will also serve as a platform to discuss energy politics and their impact on environment, health and social groups in local regions. The project will be launched in NYC in September. A preliminary workshop was held at Eyebeam in NYC on June 24. http://pm-air.net/index.php.

Crystala Armagost (BFA '03) exhibits her newest serigraph King of the Jungle as Queen of the Kitchen in Small Roars, a group show at Gallery 707 in Pittsburgh, June 30 through July 29.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) was mentioned in the May issue of Art in America for her participation in the most recent Pulse NY Contemporary Art Fair. This summer, she participated in: Bring It On!, a multi-media group exhibition exploring the all-American phenomenon of cheerleading at Monique Meloche, Chicago, June 9 through July 29; Ballroom Marfa, Best of the Dallas Video Festival Tour, Marfa, Texas; On the Boards , Slow Dance Recytal (including CMU alumni Peter Burr), at the Northwest New Works Festival, Seattle, WA, and Fs28 in the Three Rivers Arts Festival Experimental Video Screening, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery Theatre. http://www.moniquemeloche.com/; http://www.ballroommarfa.org/; http://www.ontheboards.org/index.php?id=19&nav=c2; http://www.artsfestival.net/gallery.html.

Joana Ricou (BSA '05) presented a solo exhibit this June, Female Art: The Outside at ASH Galleries in Pittsburgh. http://www.joanaricou.com/exhibitions/upcoming.htm#female.

Adam Davies (MFA '05) is among the ten finalists in the 2006 Young Painters Competition sponsored by Miami University in Ohio.

Blithe Riley (MFA '06) has been awarded a Swing Space grant (May - September 2006) from the Lower Manhattan Culture Council to realize a project. Her work has screened nationally and internationally at venues such as Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY, Pittsburgh Filmmakers and The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, and the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrueck, Germany. For her Swing Space Project at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, she is working on Belief Object/s, a collaborative multimedia interview project with artist Devlin Shea. Combining market research with documentary-style interview techniques, the project aims to collect information from 75 participants on the topic of systemized belief. Initially the interviews will be broadcast online in a video blog format. To get involved or learn more, please visit http://www.interviewart.net; http://www.lmcc.net/art/index.html.

Sarah Koljonen (BFA '06) was accepted into the Chatauqua School of Art's summer residency program. She was also nominated for the 2007 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts' Emerging Artist of the Year.

An interdisciplinary team of Carnegie Mellon students--Nkechi Ebubedike (BFA '06) School of Art; Rebecca Bortman, School of Design; and Jebediah Feldman, an arts management graduate student at the Heinz School; collaborated with Jarrett Buba, a Braddock resident and lighting expert, and the Mayor of Braddock, John Fetterman, to create a public art installation in Braddock's business district. The work was on display at the Ohringer Building in Braddock.

Sarika Goulatia (BFA '06) exhibits in Pinch Hitters at Space Gallery in downtown, Pittsburgh through August 4.

Jessica Vaughn (BHA '06) has a solo exhibit, Constructed, at HotHouse in Chicago, August 1-31, with an opening reception, August 3, 5-8pm. http:www.hothouse.net.

Jose Baez (BFA Class of 2008) was awarded an internship at DC Comics.

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