James Duesing's exhibit as Artist of the Year at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts runs September 11-November 7, 2004 with opening reception on September 10 from 5:30-8pm. Also, an Artists' Talk featuring James Duesing, and Emerging Artist of the Year Adam Sipe, will be held at PCA on Thursday, October 14, at 6pm. In this talk Duesing and Sipe will discuss their exhibitions, inspirations and the techniques behind their work. The talk and the exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Sarah (Hulick) Currie (A'29) lives in Covington, KY and takes painting classes at the Cincinnati Women's Club.

Julianne Biehl (A '51) exhibited with other alumni in The Influence of Rosenberg last summer at the Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburg, PA, in conjunction with Portrait of a Painter, featuring the work of Samuel Rosenberg.

Meta Strick (A '63) is a wood artisan living in Vermont where she led a seminar last spring for the Vermont Crafts Council Annual Meeting and Spring Marketing Conference 2004.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) exhibits Targets in Inside the Box, a show curated by Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz for White Box, New York, NY, August 17-21. Targets is a nine foot globe constructed in 24 sections, each of which is painted with an aerial map of a place that has been bombed by the U.S.A. between 1945 and 2000. This work and other smaller globes were conceived and completed during Kozloff's fellowship at the American Academy in Rome during 1999-2000. She explains the idea behind Targets;"For some years, I had been concerned about the barbarity of aerial war on civilian populations, and particularly its media coverage. We are constantly told that our air force has incurred no casualties while dropping bombs on the enemy, but we hear very little about the victims. As the idea evolved, I realized that it was not about a particular war, but U.S. aerial bombardment in general." www.whiteboxny.org.

John Patrick Naughton (CMU '69) is exhibiting, Seeing America, a collection of portraits and interviews in which the subject is photographed at home, work or the environment of Staten Island. All of the subjects are immigrants, and the interviews are constructed in their own words. The show is being held at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Melwood Galleries. Naughton's work has appeared in dozens of top magazines including Vogue, Fortune and The New York Times.

Marlene Marchilena (A '69) teaches weaving classes for the Weaver’s Guild of Boston.

James Dugas (BFA '74) exhibited 20 works at the Mattress Factory's Gestures series of exhibits in Pittsburgh. Since 1982, he has been an art handler at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Julie Bargmann (BFA '80) has worked with Michael Van Valkenburgh assisting on projects from the award-winning Black Granite Garden in Los Angeles to Mill Race Park in Columbus, Indiana. In 1989, she won the Rome Prize and spent a year at the American Academy studying the ancient Etruscan landscape in comparison with contemporary American earthworks. From 1992 to 1995, Bargmann was Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota while consulting with the Design Center for the American Urban Landscape. She has continued to design and build private and public landscapes in collaboration with architects, artists, and scientists. She is now Professor of Landscape Architecture at University of Virginia. With her on-going project, D.I.R.T. (Design Investigations Reclaiming Terrain), Professor Bargmann has traveled across the U.S. exploring monstrous pits and piles while seeking to unearth the creative potential of industrialized land.

Marlena Novak (BFA '82) works in the collaborative, localStyle with Jay Alan Yim. They produced the digital animatography with sound, Dancing Cranes, acquired by: the Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC; the Mondriaanhuis Museum for Constructive and Concrete Art, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; TheDavis Museum, Wellesley, MA; and the Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth/Minneapolis. Recent presentations also include Project: Soundlab at: Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands; Rutgers-Camden Art Center, Rutgers University, NJ; and Flatfile Photography and Klein Artworks, Chicago, IL. The work was funded by a grant from the Arts Council of Great Britain with a residency in the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios at Loughborough University and a later research grant from Northwestern University where she joins the Animate Art Program faculty this fall. The January international exhibition switched >ON< was curated by Novak and Yim at Klein Artworks (Chicago) featuring digitally created and custom-built electronic art. This spring, Cologne’s Galerie Ucher featured digital illuminated cells by Novak in Licht-Raum-Farbe.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) had work included in two group exhibitions in Chelsea this summer: I Want To Take You Higher an exhibition based on the Mandala at McKenzie Fine Arts
(http://www.mckenziefineart.com/exhib/higherexhb.html) and Mindscapes at Pavel Zoubok Gallery
(http://www.pavelzoubok.com/).

Erin Elman (BFA '89) has been living in Philadelphia since 1989 and works at the University of the Arts where she directs the Pre-College Programs and sometimes teaches painting. She received her MA in Art Education and is currently pursuing an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking. She is involved with installation, writing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture as well as her son, Izzy who is two and half years old.

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) exhibited in a summer show curated by the Society of Publication Designers at Parsons School of Design's Aronson Gallery in NYC and has work in the traveling group show Comic Release, curated by Vicky Clark, at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA through August 15. She recently completed a CD cover for Blue Note records for clarinetist Don Byron and published book covers this year for Adam's Navel (Viking), Children Of God Go Bowling (Penguin) and Going Out (Random House). The portrait she produced of Ethan Hawke for Rolling Stone is now in the actor's private collection.

Mark Kanieff (BFA '89) moved to Venice, Italy in 1989 and then to Rome in 1990. He still resides there and translates for the Ministry of Health as well as designing stage sets.

In Memoriam:
Carolla Zap, who was an undergraduate in Art between 1990 and 1994, died recently after a long battle with cancer. A decade ago, Carolla took off across the country on her motorcycle. Last year with tape rolling, Claudine (her older sister and B-Side Radio producer) talked to her sister about the wild things that happened along the way and about the freedom she felt rumbling down America's highways. You can hear about Carolla's cross-country adventure at: http://www.bside-radio.org/carolla.htm. Carolla collaborated with Andi Rieber as undergraduate art majors at Carnegie Mellon. They co-founded The Blue Rider Design Studio in Pittsburgh's Strip District and focused on fusing art, technology and business. Images of their work may be seen at: http://www.blueriderdesign.com/blueframeset.html.

Yaalieth Simpson (BFA '93) will begin a position as Assistant Professor of Art teaching at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia this fall. She will be teaching Introduction to Art History (a survey course) and work with the administration, deans, and Board of Regents to create the first undergraduate Museum Studies program in Georgia. In the spring, she will teach museum studies and direct the on-campus Blackbridge Gallery.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) is participating in the VCU Summer Residency Show at SOTA Gallery in Richmond, VA. Chopped is the culmination of two months of intense art-making. The show consists of works by eight artists who participated in the Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Residency program. Jen writes: "In my sculptures and installations, I juxtapose images and patterns of connection and being connected. Viewers are drawn into the network that is created through universal imagery such as branching structures and familiar materials such as cloth and cement."

Jan Endlich (BFA '98) is Associate Director at Lehman Maupin Gallery in New York City.

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) has contributed to Partisan Project, created by a group of designers and artists using their time and talent to help bring about change. http://partisanproject.org/.

Ann Rosenthal (MFA '99) has joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College in a one-year visiting position. She will be teaching Drawing and Imaging and Writing the Environment-an ecoart course. She and Steffi Domike (MFA '97) will be participating in The Detourism Center at the Contemporary Arts Center in North Adams, MA. Ann is also working on a show with Stephen Moore for next summer in Japan which is related to the 60th anniversary of the atomic bomb. It will wrap up a decade of work they have produced on the subject.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) has just completed a new website: http://www.ambriente.com/bowery/.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibited Untitled Endless Beanstalk in The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists 2004 in Vrsac, Belgrade. http://www.yuartbiennial.vrsac.com/2004/eng/press.html.

Carolina Loyola (MFA '00) begins her new position as Assistant Professor of Communications (Media Arts) at Robert Morris College University in Pittsburgh this fall.

The Collaborative Drawing exhibit at Pittsburgh's Future Tenant (July 23 - August 7) included several art alumni: Josh Bonnett (BFA '00) who most recently participated in the Graffiti Mural Invitational in the Three Rivers Arts Festival; Elizabeth Deasy (BFA '03) whose paintings have recently been featured in AMP @ The Warhol and in the Three Rivers Arts Festival Annual Exhibition; Adam Grossi (BFA '03) whose work will be shown at the ModernFormations Gallery in September and who participates in the interactive project Everyday Art Assignments; and Debra Tomson (BFA '95) who lives, works, and scavenges on the South Side of Pittsburgh.

Thommy Conroy (BFA '02) is a set designer and window dresser who recently created the decor for The Fur Ball: Doggie Style, an inaugural benefit for Animal Friends in Pittsburgh held at The Spring Way Building in the Strip. The benefit was featured in the July 19 Post Gazette.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04201/348407.stm.

Robin Hewlett (BFA '03) is a Studio Assistant at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh.

Tsvika Solan (BFA '03) joins a volunteer service program this September for the German organization Action Reconciliation Service for Peace. Through this service, he will be working for the Gay Museum (Schwules Museum) in Berlin.

Adam Davies has been awarded a $500 GUSH grant toward completing work for his 2005 thesis exhibit. These funds are provided through the Graduate Student Assembly and the Provost's Office. The goal of this funding is to enable more Carnegie Mellon graduate students to reach their full potential in their degree-related work.

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.