Elaine A. King's proposal for a paper was selected by the Program Committee for the XLI Congress, of the Association of International Critics of Art [AICA], to be held in San Paulo, Brazil in early October.

Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art, was selected as 2008 Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts where she will have a solo exhibition.

Andrew Johnson's video, "The Annunciation II: VICTEORY (sic)" traveled from its premiere in "Loop Pool 007," the 53rd International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany this May to: Lange Nacht der Kultur 2007, Kaiserslautern, Germany June 16-17; Pocket Film Festival Olhares, Castle Hill, Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-23; and Capalbio Cinema, Capalbio, Italy, June 27-July 1.

Mary Weidner is exhibiting a mixed media drawing in Wish You Were Here 6, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, June 26 - July 21.

Interactive projects by Golan Levin will appear in an upcoming exhibition accompanying the Shrewsbury Darwin Summer Symposium 2007, July 13in Shrewsbury, UK, and from August 25- September 23 in Experimenta Playground, the Australian International Biennial of Media Art, in Melbourne. Other works by Levin can be seen in ongoing summer exhibitions at the Eyebeam Center, New York; NTT ICC Center, Tokyo; the Ars Electronica Center, Linz; the Art Museum of Western Virginia, in Roanoke; and at Belsay Castle, Newcastle, UK.

Joseph Mannino recently installed his sculpture "Who are These Guys and What are They doing in My Dream?", in Clarendon Central Park. The piece is sited at the intersection of Wilson Boulevard and Clarendon Boulevard near the Metro Station in Arlington, VA. It will be on view until the end of November.

“The Highlands Circle, A Commemorative History of Philanthropy at Carnegie Mellon University”, a hardbound book illustrated in color and published this spring, recognizes major donors to the university, and contains the art work of faculty member Professor Mary Weidner, and alumni: Andy Warhol (A ‘49), Phillip Pearlstein (A ‘49), Mel Bochner (BFA ‘62), Frederick Carlson (‘77), Linsley Lambert (‘75), Jamie Adams (BFA ‘83), Gregg Valley (‘86), Martin Beck (‘92), Juliette Borda (‘89), Shawn Lawson (’00), Lara Hoke ('03), and Doug Fritz (BFA ‘07).

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) is participating in a group exhibit, Free Play, at the Islip Museum, East Islip, NY. The show, curated by Judith Page, will be on view through September 9, http://www.janetculbertson.net.

Mary Tinker Hatch, (BFA '56) has curated a drawing show at the Gibbs Gallery in Arlington, VA. For the show, Drawn In, four artists investigate the natural forms and inner systems of the human body through their recent drawings. Her work is also on display at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA. Visit her recently updated website at http://www.marytinkerhatch.com.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) will have her work featured in Double Bubble, an exhibition of photographs, paintings and works on paper at Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA, on view from July 6 - September 1. Summer hours are Tuesday-Friday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and by appointment. An opening reception will be held on August 2 from 7:00-9:00 p.m., http://www.pagebondgallery.com/.

Katherine "Kay" Morgan (BFA '67) presents her work in Photographers 2, opening August 10 at Aquarian Age Gallery in Boca Raton, FL. Ms. Morgan won 2nd Place in the Boca Raton Museum Guild premiere exhibition of the Images Gallery in Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL. This year 745 artworks were entered by 240 artists and 76 works by 17 artists were accepted into the prestigious 56th Annual All Florida Jurid Competition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art which opened June 12 and will run through August 27. Ms. Morgan's well received work "Elements" was juried in. She is represented by ART-EXCHANGE and will be showing in the Las Vegas ARTEXPO beginning September 28 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Shalom Tomas Neumann (BFA '70, MFA '72) works from his Fort Green, Brooklyn studio, 'Photographic Elegance by Shalom Neumann'. He has taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and has been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts and Yale. He currently teaches at Pratt Institute of Technology where he showed painting/sculpture combines and a video of his installation/performance, "Genocide" this March. He exhibits in the United States, South America, Asia and throughout Europe, http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Shalom+Neuman/7965.html;
http://www.shalom-art.com/

Boris Bally (BFA '84) has work featured in several Lark Books publications, including soon-to-debut "500 Metal Vessels," and "500 Wedding Rings." His work will also be featured in the upcoming "Art Jewelry Today" Book by Schiffer Publishing. He has also been invited to design the annual charm for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund annual fundraising drive which will be available in late July. His necklace "Brave," comprised of 100 gun triggers, was in the traveling exhibition Trashformations East, curated by Lloyd Herman and was recently purchased for the Bowling Green State University Metals Department's permanent collection. "Brave 2" was also recently acquired by the Museum of Art & Design, NY, and will be on display at their new Columbus Circle location, slated to open in 2008. It will also be featured in Lark Books, "Modular Jewelry Book," http://www.larkbooks.com; http://www.schifferbooks.com; http://www.craftemergency.org.

Diane Thodos (BFA '85) is a painter and printmaker whose work is currently on view in Saints and Sinner, at the Paule Friedland & Alex Rivault Gallery in Paris through July 14. In the fall she is scheduled to have a retrospective exhibition at the Traeger Pinto Gallery in Mexico City opening November 7, 2007. She is a recipiant of a 2002 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and her work is in the permanent collections of the Smart Museum of Art of the University of Chicago, The Milwaukee Art Museum,The Hellenic Museum in Chicago, The Koehnline Museum in the Chicago area, and the Strake-Jesuit Museum in Houston Texas among others.

Nicole Herz (BFA '89) will be having an exhibit of her oil paintings during the month of August,Time and Place in Rural Maine, at the Stadler Gallery in Kingfield, ME, http://stadlergallery.com; http://nicoleherz.com.

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) will exhibit his work in the summer group exhibition of thirteen New York-area artists, True Faith, at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NYC, from June 28 - August 17, http://www.gvdgallery.com/; http://www.jeffkonigsberg.com/.

Marc Fischer's (BFA '93) 21 track playlist that he compiled for Screaming in Music with W&N in San Juan is now being streamed for your listening enjoyment at http://www.collectivefoundation.org/ under "Collective Playlist". In addition to all of those musical selections, you'll also be able to download a PDF of the newly revised booklet for the presentation. This project is hosted by the Joseph del Pesco and Collective Foundation.

Dr. Yaalieth Simpson (BFA '93) completed her one year visit as Assistant Professor for Art Education & Arts Administration at Florida State University in April 2007. In May 2007, Peter Lang Publishers, Inc. printed her first book of visual art collages in collaboration with writer, Ritashona Simpson entitled "Black Looks & Black Acts." Her years of consistent study of The Katherine Dunham Dance Technique has allowed a work-study fellow post at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She was recently was honored with the role of Rehearsal Assistant and Master Class Demonstrator for Ms. Joan Peters at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She and Peters worked together on a performance of "Rhumba" for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to honor the legacy of the late, great Ms. Katherine Dunham.

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) is 1 of 28 artists selected from over 500 applicants to be included in the the 16th annual New Art '07 at Kingston Gallery in Boston, MA, on view July 6 - August 4. The exhibit was juried by Nato Thompson, curator at Creative Time in NYC and former curator at MassMoCA. Juror's awards will be announced at the opening reception on July 6 from 5:00-7:30 p.m. "Cathedral," is a mixed media drawing of stickers on paper. To see the image, visit http://www.julievinette.com; http://www.kingstongallery.com.

Laleh Mehran (MFA '96) has accepted a position in the Department of Art at University of Denver in Colorado.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) presents "El Ritual Apasionado" in which three "Guevarrian Neo-Marxist Latino Terror Revolutionaries" seek to help establish a balance toward justice for the crimes committed by the United States of America toward small and poor nation states, cultures and peoples. The video is commissioned for the exhibition 50,000 Beds and will be screened in a Connecticut hotel room. The project, organized by Chris Doyle, is a collaboration between the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Art Space in new Haven and Real Art Ways in Hartford, all in Connecticut, July 20 - September 23, http://www.50000beds.net/; http://informationalism.net/immigrant_terrorists/; http://ambriente.com/el_rito/.

STUDIO Fellows Hyla Willis (MFA '99) and Faith Wilding of subRosa will perform "Love is Strong as Death: A Convivial Feast" in Chicago on July 8 as part of Pathogeographies, or other people's baggage. subRosa discusses their work in "/Feminist Activist Art, a Roundtable Forum"/ in the Spring 2007 National Women's Studies Association "NWSA Journal", http://www.pathogeographies.net/; http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/toc/nwsa19.1.html

Carrie Schneider (BHA '01) and Shana Moulton (MFA '04) are featured in How Do I Look?, a group exhibition exploring images of the self, on view through July 28 at moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL. The gallery's summer hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00-5:00 p.m. and by appointment during the month of August, http://www.moniquemeloche.com.

William Earl Kofmehl III and Jacob Feige (both BFA ‘02) kick off the Unannounced/Unexpected Series with their performance, “Tell Pitiful Story” at Lombard-Fried Projects, 531 W. 26th Street in New York City, running weekly through July 13, http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm.

Semi Ryu (MFA '02) was recently invited to speak at the First International Art Tech Media Congress, Madrid, Spain, organized by Ministerio de Cultura. Her talk addressed contemporary transition of Asian thought in new media and technology. The First International Art Tech Media Conference has been set up in order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new technological media within an international context. Her project “CoPuppet: Collaborative Interaction in Virtual Puppetry” will be presented in Digital Art Weeks Symposium, to be held from July 9-14 in Zurich, Switzerland. This project is in collaboration with Multimedia lab, Univ of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy. In this symposium, she will also participate at Panel "Expressive Speech, Gesture and Interaction in the Context of Puppetry”, with Louis-Philippe Demers, Manfred Kroboth, and Dennis Majoe, http://visit www.artechmedia.net; http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW/Symposium07.

Naomi Falk (MFA '03) is in the group show, Artist Auditions II, at the Brian Marki Gallery in Portland, OR, July 1-31.

Takahiro Noguchi (MFA '03) has launched an alternative 'arts' space and d.i.y. art/curatorial project "art-jhuggi" out of his apartment in New Delhi. The first exhibit, which opened June 16, features selected works from 2001-2007 of Hassan Al-Saidi, an Iraqi-artist-in-exile that has been living in Delhi for the last 10 years. Noguchi's article on emerging public art practices in India will be published in a forthcoming publication of essays on the topic by KHOJ, an international artist-led association and alternative space for experimentation and exchange based in India, http://www.art-jhuggi.net; http://khojworkshop.org/book/about_khoj.

Mauren Antkowski (BFA '04) will be in Granada, Nicaragua to work for Building New Hope, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit organization, comprised of volunteers from different academic and reative backgrounds, that works within communities in Central America to help reduce poverty through education and small business development. She will teach art to kindergarten-age children and participate in art education workshops at a supplementary school, http://www.buildingnewhope.org/index.html.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) presents an exhibition entitled You're not as green as you are cabbage-looking at Transformer Gallery in Washington, DC, August 1-4, with gallery hours Wednesday-Saturday from 1:00-7:00 p.m. and by appointment. The accounting firm of H&R CABBAGE will calculate your personal carbon emissions with a free report to take home. Bring in a reusable water bottle or coffee mug and enjoy a freshly carbonated Italian soda while you wait. Slide lectures featuring other CMU alumni on August 2, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) is currently having a solo exhibition Rara Avis at Vanina Holasek Gallery, NYC, through August 4. Her work is also in a Permanent Collection Show at Drake Hotel Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on view July 6 - August 28. Also, she will be exhibiting in Selections: California College of the Arts Alumni at Walter Maciel Gallery Los Angeles, CA, from July 14 - August 17.

Jeannie Park (BFA '05 ) enters the Carnegie Mellon Masters in Entertainment Industry Management Program this fall.

Ally Reeves (MFA '08) will be launching the Mobile Museum Project in early July. The Mobile Museum (MM) is a combination of art museum and bike cart and is funded by a grant through the Sprout Fund. The MM will be using the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s lobby as a home base for the month of July and will be on display during regualar business hours, the Mobile Museum will also be appearing through out the city at local events during the month of July. Keep your eyes peeled, and check the website for an upcoming schedule.  The Mobile Museum takes artwork to viewers and blurs the lines between galleries, artists, and daily life, http://www.themobilemuseum.com.

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