Bob Bingham, Ally Reeves (MFA '08) and Robin Hewlett (BFA '04) are off to Coleman Center for the Arts in York, AL, to begin a residency at the Coleman Center for the Arts. Their project "One Mile Garden" will engage local residents in a variety of strategies to grow healthy food for local consumption.

John Carson is the juror for the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Ninety Eighth Annual Exhibition. The exhibition is on view from August 1 - September 14. Carson will present a Juror's Talk on August 3 from 1:00-2:00p.m. http://www.aapgh.org; http://www.warhol.org

Elaine A. King wrote the essay titled "A Union of the Fantastic and Proverbial: Joan Danziger's Trees," for the exhibition catalogue that accompanied the exhibition at OSUNA Art in Bethesda, MD, titled "Joan Danziger, Mythic Landscapes: Recent Sculptures. " King was also invited to speak on a panel in fall 2008 at the Mid-Atlantic College Art Association conference in Indianapolis. She will address the topic of art criticism and the issue of criteria or the lack thereof in the arts today.

Golan Levin's new interactive robotic work "Double Taker (Snout)" will premiere at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, in association with the Pittsburgh Biennial and Robot250, on July 18, and will be exhibited there through mid-August. Levin's "Opto-Isolator" robot, created in collaboration with Greg Baltus (BFA '97), also appears in the Pittsburgh Biennial at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, through August 24. A revised version of this artwork, "Opto-Isolator II," appears in the Under Surveillance exhibition at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, through September 28. Other works by Levin appear in Magic Moments, an exhibition at NetCultureSpace, Vienna, through August 25; in a one-year exhibition entitled Licht Kunst Werke at the Technorama Science Center, Winterthur, Switzerland, starting July 4; in the Summer Campaign at ELEMENTS Mall, atop Kowloon MTR Station in Tsim Sha Tsui district, Hong Kong, through August 28; and in an exhibition of digital artworks from the collection of the ZKM, Update II, which showed at the Kunstenplatform Zebrastraat in Ghent, Belgium, through July 6. http://pittsburghbiennial.org/; http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robot250/; http://www.jmkac.org/UnderSurveillance; http://www.netculturespace.at/; http://www.technorama.ch/; http://www.elementshk.com/eng/; http://www.netculturespace.at/; http://arts-numeriques.net/spip.php?article499; http://www.zebrastraat.be/

Joe Mannino has several pieces on exhibit in the inaugural show of the Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden at the Strohl Art Center which is part of the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. The work will be on display throughout July - August 22.

Suzie Silver and Hilary Harp present AV Lodge Presents: Fruit Machine an evening-length media performance combining video, sound, sculpture and live actions in a series of humorous and erotic tableau on July 18 starting at 9:00p.m. at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA. A parade of characters includes a life-sized toy robot, a phalloi phaerie, and an androgynous bagpipe player. Paying homage to the celebratory Vaudevillian variety theater performance art of the 1980s, Fruit Machine uses strategies of camp aesthetics to challenge hetero-normative assumptions. Special guest appearances by School of Art Professor Lowry Burgess and alumni Drew Pavelchack (BFA '03), Ben Rod (BFA '04), Ben Bigelow (BFA '08), Spencer Longo (BFA '08), and current student, Jack Meade (BFA '09).

The robots are coming! The robots are coming! On July 11, the Mattress Factory and Robot 250 will partner to present the eleventh installment in the museum's Gestures Exhibition Series: Meet the Made, with an opening reception from 6:00-8:00p.m. The exhibition will feature installations and performances that happen in real time within the Mattress Factory's satellite gallery at 1414 Monterey Street, located on Pittsburgh's North Side. On view through August 31, artists will utilize the gallery space not only to display their work, but to produce their work. The space will resemble an open studio in which visitors can drop-in to watch, and at times participate in, the construction of the artworks. "This is a show about robotics, and more importantly, the relationship between robotics and all aspects of human culture," says Ian Ingram (MFA '07), Artist-in-Residence of the CREATE Lab at the CMU Robotics Institute and co-organizer of Meet the Made. "My hope is that this show deals with the inevitability that robots will play a very large role in the future of mankind and will greatly change the underpinnings of the human condition." Participating artists include faculty Bob Bingham, Jon Rubin, and Kim Beck, and alumni Jesse Hulcher (MFA '06), Lauren Frances Adams (MFA '07) and Jake Peterson, Claire Hoch (BFA '08), John Peña (MFA '08), Chris Beauregard (MFA '08), Derk Wolmuth (MFA '10), Betsy James DiSalvo, Chris Lisowski, Stuart O. Anderson and Shaun Slifer, Adam Shreckhise, and Anna E. Mikolay. http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=Exhibitions&c=Upcoming

Lauren Goshinski (Staff) and Julia Stein (BHA '08) in partnership with Unicorn Mountain, Nakturnal and Milk Records present Pittsburgh Cultural District's monthly Gallery Crawl afterparty NIGHTCRAWLER, on Friday, July 11, from 9:00p.m. - 2:00a.m. at Olive or Twist, downtown. The event, also a closing party for the exhibition Sylvania at 709 Gallery, features performances, video, and live sets by Unicorn Mountain artists including JULIACKS (Julia Stein), Tom McConnell (BFA '09), Michael Mallis (BFA '08), Matthew Thurber (Ambergris, NYC), Queen Victoria, and DJs Hoof & Beek (part Lauren Goshinski), DJ Thermos (Amos Levy, BFA '07), and DJ Kerem and DJ Kelly from Milk Records. http://www.unicornmountain.com; http://www.juliacks.com; http://www.ambiguousmass.org; http://www.myspace.com/songsofqueenvictoria; http://www.innverversions.com; http://www.pgharts.org; http://www.nakturnal.net; http://www.milkrecords.net

Elizabeth Asche Douglas (BFA '51) is one of 24 artists whose work was selected for inclusion in Space and Place: SOS@MCG 2008 National Open Exhibition, a collaboration of the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors and the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, PA. The show will be on view July 11 - September 5, with a reception to be held in conjunction with MCG Youth's Summer Family Day, Friday July 25 at its North Shore facility.

Shellie Jacobson (BFA '66) has three of her artist's books included in the newly published 500 Handmade Books, by Lark Books.

Katherine Morgan (BFA '67) is one of the 54 artists who were juried into Art Encounter 2008 at The von Liebig Art Center in Naples, FL. Her work "...trumpets" was exhibited through June 30. Her work "Formal Wear" will appear in the Feline art exhibition MEOW which benefits Grateful Paws Rescue, on view at ARTExpressions Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, FL, from July 8-30. Katherine has been invited to show her work in the 17th National Juried Photography Show by the Louisville Art Association in Louisville, CO. The juror and judge this year is Mark Sink, a private art consultant in Denver, CO. As a photographer of fine art he worked with and documented noted artists’ lives and their work such as Andy Warhol (CMU), Jean Michel Basquiat and Rene Ricard. Mr. Sink co-founded the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and is the founder and director of the Denver Month of Photography for the month of March 2008. Mr. Sink represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. Morgan's "Party Animal," "No Peeking," and "Bronze" were among 831 submitted works from which 61 were selected at the final round of judging. Boca Raton Museum Artist' Guild's BIENNIAL Members' Exhibition opens July 1st at the Museum of Art in conjunction with two exhibitions I SHOT WARHOL, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein, RosenQuist and Indiana as well as the 57th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition at which Morgan won an Honorable Mention for her work "Elements." http://www.artistwanted.org/kmorganphotos; http://www.kmorganphotos.com

Greg Kwiatek (BFA '79) exhibited in a three person show of painters at David Zwirner, NYC, through June 21. http://www.davidzwirner.com

Emil A. Sauer (BFA '80) is presently creating his tenth public art project titled "Figure Skaters" due to premiere December 30, 2012. The purpose of this project is to acknowledge figure skaters for creating the beauty, grace and passion of the human spirit. Sauer is creating fifty life size realistic pastel drawings and thirty three life size realistic plaster sculptures. Over the course of this project Sauer has publicly demonstrated the creation of his drawings and exhibited them at Illinois Ice Arenas such as: Rockey Ice Arena, Homewood Flossmoor Park District Ice Arena, Oaklawn Park District Ice Arena, Joliet Park District Ice Arena, Seven Bridges Ice Arena, Centennial Ice Arena, Winnetka Park District Ice Arena, Darien Sportplex Ice Arena, Nelson Recreation Center in Springfield, Center Ice of Dupage Ice Arena and Nortbrook Sports Center Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville. These drawings will be displayed internationally at Figure skating arenas during and after the completion of these works. http://emilasauer.blogspot.com

Janice Feinstein Hechter (BFA '85) is currently exhibiting her paintings at the Celeste LeWitt Gallery, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, through August 24. http://auxiliary.uchc.edu/art/exhibit.html

David French (BFA '87) will be exhibiting his recent sculptures at SOHO Chelsea Gallery's 14th Annual International Exhibition, July 17 - August 13, with a reception on July 19 from 3:00-5:00p.m.

Stephanie Serpick (BFA '93) is currently exhibiting in Unpainted at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, IL. She will have a show in August at ADA Gallery in Richmond, VA, and exhibit her work in One Moment at Indiana University in Bloomington in October. http://www.thomasrobertello.com/; http://www.adagallery.com/

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) is exhibiting her work in the following summer group shows: Local Growing Conditions curated by Kenise Barnes at Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY, on view through July 15; Pretty Things: Confronting Sensuousness curated by Joy Pepe at Artspace, New Haven, CT, currently on view through August 9; Leave Nature to Nature at Art Gate, NYC, from July 15 - August 2; and Summer Salon at Sloan Fine Art, NYC, September 2-13. She's also launched a new website at http://www.miabrownell.com/; http://www.artgateny.com/; http://www.artspacenh.org/;
Pretty Things: REVIEW http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=8120;
Pretty Things: REVIEW http://ctartscene.blogspot.com/; http://www.sloanart.com/

Dana Kleinman (BFA '97) exhibits in group shows at Gallery Plan B in Washington D.C., July 30 - August 31, and at the Chelsea International Fine Art Exhibition through Agora Gallery in NYC, August 15 - September 4. http://www.kx2art.com/;
http://www.Agora-Gallery.com/newsletters/SpringNewsletter2008.aspx

subRosa STUDIO Fellows Hyla Willis (MFA '99) and Faith Wilding recently completed a week-long residency and performance in Zagreb, Croatia "A Week With | Out Women", from May 31 - June 8. Sponsored by the Student Center, Teater &TD, and the Academy of Dramatic Arts at the University of Zagreb, with additional support from WHW's Galerija Nova. They also conducted "Gestation - A Collaborative Performance Arts Workshop," sponsored by the Faculty of Communication & Media Arts, New York University Skopje, Macedonia, from June 10-19. New publications include “International Market of Flash: Mapping Flows of Human Organs and Tissues,” illustrated article by subRosa in Frakcija Performing Arts Journal, Issue 43-44, Jon McKenzie and Lane Hall, eds (Center for Drama Art, Zagreb, 2008), and "Common Knowledge and Political Love," illustrated article by subRosa, Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, eds (MIT Press, 2008).

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (MFA '99) featured in the New York Times article "Guiding Hands Help Immigrant Artists Connect" that discusses his artist mentoring work as a New York Foundation for the Arts 2007 Fellow with immigrant artist mentee Hatuey Ramos-Fermín. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/15artists.html?ref=nyregion

David Serotkin (BFA '00) received his MFA this year from Syracuse University. His recent work, "...Must Not Give In To Reason" will be included in Made in NY 2008 at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center located in Auburn, NY. The exhibition will be on view from June 21 - August 23. He is currently completing a large public mural in honor of NY Giants headcoach Tom Coughlin in his hometown of Waterloo, NY. The mural measures 26ft x 65ft and chronicles Coughlin's career in athletics. On July 12 a ceremony will be held at the site on West Main St. to dedicate the mural. http://www.dserotkinart.cs.net

Sarika Goulatia's (BFA '06) work "Reverberations" has been juried into Space and Place : SOS @MCG 2008 National Open Exhibition on view at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild from July 11 - September 5. This exhibit marks Manchester Craftsmen's Guild collaboration with the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors.

Stephanie Armbruster's (BFA '06) work was included in Liquid Sunday on July 6 at Olive or Twist, downtown Pittsburgh, PA; and will be included in the Citywide Salon at HOTHOUSE 2008 on August 23 and The Academy of the South Side Citywide Salon Finale on Saturday, July 26 at the Brew House gallery, Space 101, from 7:30-11:00 p.m. Armbruster, along with Ally Reeves (MFA '08), Thommy Conroy (BFA '02), Christopher Kardambikis (BFA '05) and Mary Tremonte (BFA '00) exhibit in Out of this Furnace, a group show curated by Heather Pesanti to inaugurate Unsmoke Systems, a new arts and culture venue in Braddock, PA, opening July 19 with artwork and video screening from 6:30 p.m. on. Unsmoke Systems is across the street from the Edgar S. Thompson steel mill and is housed in a re-purposed, previously abandoned Catholic elementary school built circa 1920. http://www.liquidsundays.com/; http://www.sproutfund.org/hothouse/; http://www.academyofthesouthside.com/

Tiffany Sum (MFA '06) is currently an artist's resident at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, and will be one of the 34 international artist-in-residence at Art Omi in Ghent, NYC, from June 29 - July 20. She also is currently exhibiting in Deep in the Heart of Southie at Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, MA, June 25 - August 2. http://www.kala.org; http://artomi.org/; http://impresssnow.com; http://www.lamontagnegallery.com/; http://www.sumworks.com

Lauren Adam's (MFA '07) work is included in a group exhibition at CUE Art Foundation in Chelsea, NYC, through August 2. The show celebrates the work of the fifteen artists who were awarded the 2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Catalogs published by the Joan Mitchell Foundation are available for free to gallery visitors, at 511 W. 25th Street, NYC. Adams is currently participating at the Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, WY, from June 15 - July 13. Please visit Jentel's website to learn more about the venerable mission of Jentel's founder. On July 11, Adam's collaborative installation with Jake Peterson will open for the Mattress Factory exhibit Meet the Made, on view July 11 - August 31. http://www.cueartfoundation.org; http://www.jentelarts.org; http://www.mattress.org

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) is currently included in the group show SONIC YOUTH at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, along with artists Yvonne Buccheim, David Blandy, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Johanna Billing, Kate Murphy and William Hunt. The exhibition is on view through July 26. Curated by Mary Cremin, SONIC YOUTH presents 7 international video artists whose work offers an extensive and in-depth exploration of the various possibilities of the crossover between popular culture and video art. The pieces navigate a variety of sources including the history of film, iconography and a wide range of references to popular culture. The works play with global codes and canonized images that are integral to the collective memory. Documentary itemization, self-questioning and cultural sampling are videographic practices which the artists use to react to the construction of the everyday. An interest and participation in popular culture especially music represents an important component of their oeuvre. Kinsley's "GESICHTSMUSIK" is a musical self-portrait. All the sounds were produced with his voice and body, and through meticulous editing and layering, an audio-visual composition was created. http://www.greenonredgallery.com; http://www.benkinsley.com

Ally Reeves (MFA '08) will be teaching a class in July titled "Portable Artworks: Making and Breaking Cultural Spaces" for the Factory 14s class at the Mattress Factory Museum on the Northside in Pittsburgh, PA. Reeves' class will focus on making art in changing contexts and offer students an overview of the history of artists who have made use of mobility in their art practice. Reeves' class will be using Gigapans. Her portable artwork "THE LOOK-SEE TREE" will be on view this month as part of Pittsburgh's Robot 250 celebration, first on July 10 at CMU campus and around for Robot 250 launch of Big Bots project, and from 10:00a.m. - 1:00p.m. at the following locations: July 12 at REI Southside; July 18 in Highland Park; July 25th in Frick Park at the Blue Slide PG and Farmhouse PG; August 4 at Frick Environmental Center; August 7 in East Liberty Park; and September 13 at the Frick Park Storywalk. Ally is the recipient of a 2008 Artist in Residency Grant to work on her project titled "FALLING IN", an animated exploration of the nuances of falling in love. Reeves' work will be on display this winter at the Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill district this fall. Exact show dates are yet to be posted. Reeves' residency is funded in part by the Heinz Foundation. Reeves' ongoing project - The MOBILE MUSEUM, a portable bike-drawn show space - is taking proposals for shows in 2008-9. A mash-up of the classic museum model and a street vendor's cart, the Mobile Museum is a great way to show your work and have direct contact and feedback from audiences at a variety of locations. Artists, inventors, and collectors are invited to propose and show works this summer, fall, and in agreeable seasons in 2009. Those interested in proposing a show should read about and apply at: http://themobilemuseum.com/participate/index.html; http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=Factory14s; http://robot250.org/festival/bigbots/reeves/;

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