Golan Levin participated in Abstraction Now in Digital Art A La Carte at the SONAR Festival in Barcelona; and in Expo Art Numerique at Festival ArtRock, Saint-Brieuc, France, both this June. http://www.sonar.es/2004/eng/sonarcarta.cfm; http://www.artrock.org/prog/prog_artrock_2005.pdf. A Personal Chronology of Audiovisual Systems Research and Sounds from Shapes: Audiovisual Performance with Hand Silhouette Contours in The Manual Input Sessions was published as part of the proceedings of NIME '05, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Golan's artwork appears in two exhibitions of digital art: Time in Jazz / Digital Trance at the Cortili di Casa Sanna Meloni in Berchidda, Italy, August 11-15; and in the Abstraction Now collection currently touring as a part of the White Noise exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, August 18 - October 23. In September, Levin's work appears in: Generator.X.Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway; Sur le Fil, Biche de Bere Gallery, Union City, NJ; and in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future in Linz, Austria, as part of the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival.

Mary Weidner showed her paintings and drawings in the spring exhibit, Cluster, at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. She also exhibited a drawing in Wish You Were Here at A.I.R. Gallery.

Kim Beck exhibits in Lot at Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, opening on August 25 at 7pm and running through September 20. She will lecture there on August 26 at 4pm. Her work is also included in Skyline at the Sherman Gallery at the School of Visual Arts at Boston University September 13 - October 21, opening September 15 from 5:30-7:30. She'll be a visiting artist at the school on Monday, September 26 in conjunction with the exhibition.

Andrew Johnson presents Pressed: When Words Become Earth in Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub, curated by Nina Felshin for the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, opening September 9 and running through December 11.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events.html#exhibitions.

Patricia Bellan-Gillen has a solo exhibit (not really) Animal Stories at Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, PA, opening Wednesday, September 7, 7-9pm and running through September 28. The show is accompanied by a catalogue. http://www.edinboro.edu/cwis/Art/gallery.html.

Animal Nature at the Miller Gallery runs August 26 - October 2 with a reception on Friday, September 2, 5-8pm. The exhibit, catalogue and related projects bring together artists from around the globe with scholars and critics who all are engaged in investigations of "the animal." The animal and animal-body have long been sites of controversial research - medical studies, pharmaceutical investigations, and consumer product testing, to name a few. Animal Nature focuses on a different kind of research: poetic, empathic, personal, semiotic, formal. Includes work by three Carnegie Mellon faculty members: James Duesing, Jessica Hodgins and Andrew Johnson (MFA '94 alumnus). http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery.

2005+, an exhibition of works by faculty Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Michelle Illuminato and Carol Kumata, along with Judy Barie and Kathleen Mulcahy, opens at Pittsburgh's James Gallery on Friday, September 9, from 7-10pm. The gallery is located at 413 South Main Street (West End).
http://www.jamesgallery.net.

2005 Artist of the Year: Clayton Merrell’s Artist of the Year exhibit will open at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts with a huge gala benefit, featuring Martha and the Vandellas, on Friday, September 16, from 6-11pm. General admission is $25 and $10 for students. Merrell will give an artist's talk on Thursday, September 29 at 6:30pm. http://www.pittsburgharts.org.

Fabian Winkler co-organized Summer Lakers, an interdisciplinary weekend of presentations, exchange and networking in the Kloster Öhningen (a former monastery of Öhningen, Germany), located on the shores of Lake Constance, Germany, held in the studio of artist Harald F. Müller, July 29-31.
http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~winkler/SummerLakers/.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) is exhibiting in Dust at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, August 26 through October 7. He has a solo exhibit at Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York City, September 15 through October 22. http://www.uleth.ca/artgallery/Exhib.future.html;
http://www.bettycuninghamgallery.com/exhibitionlist.html.

Philip Morsberger (A '54) is exhibiting in Civil Rights: Looking Back, Moving Forward at Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, OH, August 16 - December 10, 2005.
http://www.fna.muohio.edu/amu/exhibitions/.

Harvey Breverman (BFA '56) has a solo exhibit, About Face (and Other Anatomical Parts) at Dowd Fine Arts Gallery at SUNY Cortland, September 13 - October 29.
http://www.cortland.edu/art/html/gallery/current.html.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) has a solo exhibit of mixed media works at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, opening October 5 and running through November 12. http://www.wirtzgallery.com.

Charles Schmidt (BFA '60) is Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia. For fourteen years, he completed commissions for NASA. His work is in the collections of the: San Francisco Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Air and Space Museum, National Gallery of Art, European Space Agency in Paris,and Museo Aeronautico Caproni in Rome, in addition to many corporate and university collections. http://mdev.temple.edu/tyler_facDB/port.asp?FacID=33.

Sherry Kaskey (CFA '67) is a DC-based artist whose early career included freelance commercial art work, as well as gilding and calligraphy. She has taught watercolor and portrait painting at the Smithsonian Institution. Her commercial art hangs in dozens of important venues from American and Georgetown Universities and the National Cathedral to the Democratic National Committee and the D.C. Mayor's Office, and from the U.S. International Trade and Nuclear Regulatory Commissions, to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Federal Reserve Board Bank. Her work is also included in many local D.C. and metro area collections. http://www.narpac.org/SKASKEY.HTM.

Dara Birnbaum (CFA '69) exhibits in Videographies: The Early Decades at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece through September 4 and in States of the Image - Instants and Intervals at Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon, Portugal through August 21.

Louis Zona (DA '73) is Professor and Director of The Butler Institute of American Art at Youngstown State University in Ohio. Since he began the directorship of the Butler in 1981, Dr. Zona has overseen the expansion of the museum's collections and outreach initiatives, including the 2000 opening of the Beecher Center,which focuses on art and technology. http://www.fpa.ysu.edu/art/louiszona.html.

James Welling (BFA Class of '73) exhibits in Pairs, Groups, and Grids at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks+Projects, June 30 - August 12. http://www.tonkonow.com/summershow.html.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) exhibits in The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Visual Arts Since 1960 at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany June 1 - October 1, 2006. Her work was also included in Artists Pick at Larissa Goldston Gallery through August 5 and Appropriate Appropriation at Gray Kapernekas Gallery through August 6, both in NYC. She is also exhibiting August 26 - October 30 in Very Early Pictures at Arcadia University Art Gallery in Glenside, PA.
http://www.larissagoldston.com/; http://www.graykapernekas.com/.

Joel David Abramson (BFA '78) has a house portrait illustration business. He completed six house portrait illustrations for the Minnesota Bed & Breakfast's Cookbook to be released this fall. Last year, he exhibited at Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hopkins and at Minnesota Center for the Arts in Minnetonka, both in Minnesota.http://www.joeldavidabramson.com/.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) exhibits in African American Art: Masterworks of Contemporary Art at the St. Louis Art Museum, June 24 - August 28. http://www.slam.org/.

Marlena Novak (BFA '82), member of the collaborative localStyle, screened Dancing Cranes at ART Santa Fe 2005, an international contemporary art fair, July 14-17 at Sweeney Convention Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Sarah Ratchye's (BFA '83) work was included in the Cambridge Art Association's 2005 National Prize Show, juried by Joseph Thompson, Director, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), May 3 - June 23. Sarah writes reviews for and collaborates with curator Gail Wight on exhibits each quarter at Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women & Gender.

Valerie Brodar (BFA '84) had a solo exhibit, Paisaja de la Memoria Insomne, at the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Miraflores, Peru, July 7 - August 7.

ROY (BFA '84) has work in a new Lark Books publication, 1000 Rings: Inspiring Adornments for the Hand. An exhibition at Cannon Gallery of Art and Design, North Carolina State University in Raleigh coincides with the book and runs August 21- October 3. It may travel to Velvet DaVinci, San Francisco.

Boris Bally’s (BFA '84) proposal Flatware: Function + Fantasy has been accepted by The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) Metalsmith Editorial Advisory Committee for the 2005 curated exhibition in print, A Focus on Flatware. Expected release date is August 2005.

John Currin (BFA '84) exhibits in Girls on Film, a group show including works by Andy Warhol ('49) at Zwirner & Wirth in NYC, June 7 - September 2. Currin's work is also included in Getting Emotional at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, May 18 - September 5.
http://www.zwirnerandwirth.com/main.html; http://www.zwirnerandwirth.com/exhibitions/2005/GOF0705/press.html; http://www.icaboston.org/Home/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Current/GettingEmotional.

Julie Bargmann (BFA '84) is participating in the symposium, Unsettled Ground: Nature, Landscape and Ecology Now!, at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, September 19 at 5pm. in Steinberg Auditorium. http://library.wustl.edu:800/subjects/art/program.html.

Sarah Stengle (BFA '84) has a solo exhibit, Sarah Stengle: Animal Nature & Other Works, Septembr 15 - October 26 at the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. Opening reception: September 29, 5-8 pm, Dana Room.
http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/events/index.php?sId=eventDetail&eventId=1378.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) is adjunct faculty in the Fashion/Art Department at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. She will be showing her drawings, paintings and sculptures at Carter Art Center in Kansas City, September 2-24. She is also exhibiting with Jane Hammond at Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, September 2 - October 29.
http://www.artnet.de/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=246&type=1&rta=http://www.artnet.de.

Deborah Barkun (BFA '89) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Art, AIDS, and Collective Identity: Configuring General Idea's Collaborative Body, 1969-2000. In May, she received her Ph.D. in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College.

Ed Bucholtz (BFA Class of 1993) is part of the team that organized Static Free, a project of local and international urban art, showcasing the forward momentum of street art, running September 30 - October 24 at SPACE Gallery, Future Tenant, the Harris Theater and the Eliza Furnace Trail.

In August, Steffi Domike (MFA '97) and Ann T. Rosenthal (MFA '99) showed Postcards from the s[ub]lime at Gallery Sensenci in Shizuoko City, Japan along with Ann's collaboration, The Nuclear Journey, with artist Stephen Moore. Tree: the Numazu Suite, another of Ann's collaborations with Stephen Moore was also exhibited at Numazu Shinyo Bank Street Gallery, Numazu, Japan. In conjunction with these exhibitions, Ann and Steffi gave four lectures and two workshops on the U.S. ecoart and environmental health movements.

Seldon Yuan (BHA '98) exhibited in a Group Show at Bozu in Williamsburg this June. After having been accepted at Goldsmith's, London and the Glasgow School of Art, he has decided to attend the Hunter College MFA program this spring. He also had two new visual poems published recently in Bonus Magazine.

Marc Bohlen's (MFA '99) Whistling Machine was featured in The Discovery Channel's The Daily Planet on February 11, 2005. The piece was included in an exhibit, Beyond Western New York, at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. Two of his related papers are: Experiments with Whistling Machines, LEONARDO Music Journal, LMJ15, MIT Press, and LEONARDO online; and Real Tech Support for Robotics, Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, AISB 2005 Creative Robotics Research Symposium, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=2/11/2005; http://www.realtechsupport.org/.

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (MFA '99) participated in FILE 2005/HIPERSONICA 2005 and FILE GAMES 2005 at SESI Gallery in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Nick Fox-Gieg (BFA '99) recently moved to San Francisco. This September, his work will be in Piece Process, a group show at Gavilan Community College in Gilroy, CA and in The Option of War at Ottawa Animation Festival, Canada.

Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) participated at Media Tonic 2 (June 2005), a celebration of Media Arts, with her new video piece Alegria. She is also exhibiting her series of prints called Stupid Consumers, July 29-September 4 at the Melwood Gallery at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. During June she collaborated with subRosa in the performance of International Markets of Flesh for Interactiva'05, celebrated in Merida, Mexico.

Peter Coffin's (MFA '00) curated exhibit, We Could Have Invited Everyone at Andrew Kreps Gallery in NYC this summer was reviewed in the NY Times, ArtForum, Flashart, Hint Magazine, and TimeOut NY, among other publications. He will have a solo exhibit at Galeria Fonti in Naples, Italy this October and another early next year at the Wanas Sculpture Park in Sweden. He just released a music compilation entitled Music for Plants, containing over two hours of music composed by musicians specifically for the project. The CD can be found at: http://www.forcedexposure.com.

David Johnson (BFA '01) took a summer course in Thailand through the American University in D.C., where he is studying philosophy and international relations. The class, mostly based in Bangkok, focused on human rights and human security in Thailand, with an emphasis on human trafficking. In July, he worked in Krabi through an internship with a Thai nongovernmental organization called the Population and Community Development Association. It works to help rehabilitate villages that were affected by the tsunami.

Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) has solo exhibit of photographs, Pittsburgh Public Schools: From Allegheny to Woolslair at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery with a reception from 5:30-9pm on Saturday, September 17. http://www.carrieschneider.net/work/pps.html.

Maria Fernanda Meza (BHA '01, Art and European Studies) works for the Artists Rights Society (ARS) in New York City.

Ryan Murray (BFA '05) taught SAT preparation classes at Carnegie Mellon's Summer Academy for Math and Science. He has work in an online exhibit at Caladan Gallery that opened August 5: http://www.caladangallery.com/.

Take Etani (MFA Class of 2006) has been awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts this December/January.

Lauren Adams' (MFA Class of 2007) collaborative project with Clare Britt, Photo A Go Go, is featured in the Independent Weekly of the Raleigh/Durham metro area of North Carolina. Their show runs at Rebus Works in Raleigh through August 27th. She is also creating a relief map of North Carolina for the new Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores in Emerald Isle, North Carolina.
https://acis.as.cmu.edu/gale2/servlet/TMSv2Common?Form_Name=FrontPage.

Eileen Maxson (MFA Class of 2008) is one of four finalists for the inaugural biannual $30,000 Arthouse Texas Prize, to be announced November 4. Her work will be included in an exhibition at Arthouse in Austin, Texas, September 10 through November 13 that will be accompanied by a catalogue.
http://www.arthousetexas.org/index.php?_page=load_page&_action=load&_id=57.

Benjamin Kinsley (MFA Class of 2008) exhibits his video Gesichtsmusik, in The NEO Show, July 10 -September 4 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/neo/html/.

Michelle Fried (MFA Class of 2008) exhibited in Extra/ordinary: Fiber Artists Rethinking Art and Everyday Life this summer at the Cube at Beco in Kansas City, MO.
http://pitch.com/Issues/2005-0714/culture/artcapsules.html;
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2005/05/23/33026.html.

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