John Carson will be performing with his band, Johnny and The Wags, betweeen 2pm and 5pm on Saturday, August 26 as part of Bexhill Bow-Wow, a fancy dress picnic for dogs at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England.

Elaine A. King's review of the General Idea exhibition at the Warhol Museum was published in the June issue of Sculpture and her review of the exhibition 360: Art in the Round and Bus Obscura, at the Wood Street Gallery, appeared in the July/Augsut issue. King was also the guest curator of an exhibition, organized in conjunction with Site Santa Fe, titled Crossing Lines, at 7-0-7 Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Artists included in this show include, Pamela Jennings, Chan/Schatz, Tony Oursler and Diane Samuels.

Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art, served as a reviewer for the Research Assessment Exercise University Grants Committee in Hong Kong this August.

Suzie Silver presents 1968 (Remix) at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittburgh, on September 8, 2006. Suzie Silver & Hilary Harp's exhibition, Nebula, opens October 6 in The Hodge Gallery of the Pittsburgh Glass Center. The exhibition runs through January 5, 2007.

Ayanah Moor's work will be featured in a video exhibition, In To My Self, at SPACE Gallery in downtown Pittsburgh. The show runs from August 18 through October 14, 2006. http://www.spacepittsburgh.org/flash.html.

Golan Levin will produce The Manual Input Workstation, a new one-year installation for the Ars Electronica Museum in Linz, Austria. During the related Ars Electronica Festival, on September 2, Levin's group will also perform a series of concert/lectures in collaboration with media historian Erkki Huhtamo. Levin additionally presents artwork and/or performs this September in Donumenta2006: Bytes & Bodies in Regensburg, Germany; in Further Processing: Generative Art, Open Systems at Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz, Austria; at the Bios Festival in Athens, Greece; and at Le NAME Festival in Lille and Mauberge, France. Levin's work is currently featured (through the end of August) in the Time Shares Exhibition Series co-produced by Rhizome and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City; and in Tmema Projects, a large-scale retrospective exhibition of Levin's collaborative and solo projects at the NTT InterCommunications Center in Tokyo, Japan. http://www.aec.at/en/festival2006/program/project_talks.asp;
http://www.donumenta.de/2006/donumenta2006.htm; http://www.medienturm.at/;
http://www.bios.gr/; http://www.lenamefestival.com/; http://rhizome.org/events/timeshares/;
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2006/Kidsprogram/Work/index.html.

Christopher Sperandio's ARTSTAR Project has received coverage in the August issue of Interview Magazine, the June/July issue of Art in America and the May-June issue of Flash Art. Throughout the summer, media attention on the series has ranged from Entertainment Weekly and The Art Newspaper to the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the New York Daily News, to name a few. Sperandio's project DWYN, for Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff was reported on in the Western Mail, the Daily Echo (the largest newspaper in Wales) and BBC Radio Wales. The Welsh language television network S4C is making a 25 minute television report on DWYN set to air on August 23rd.

Kim Beck has been named Emerging Artist of the Year at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts where her exhibit opens September 15.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) exhibited in a four person show at deCordova Studio and Gallery in Greenport, New York, August 5-21. http://hadecordova.com/invite/.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) presents a solo exhibit, Voyages + Targets at Thetis Spa in the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, September 8 through October 31. The opening reception is September 8 from 6-9pm. Voyages is a large installation about the history of navigation and western expansion, particularly during the Age of Discovery, an earlier period of globalization. It is paired with Targets, a piece about US bombing of civilian populations throughout the world from 1945-2000. http://www.thetis.it.

Judd Weisberg (BFA '64) has his home and studio in Lexington, Greene County, New York. He exhibited this summer in the Sugar Maples Faculty Show, curated by Ellie Cashman for the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery in Village of Hunter, NY. He has taught at the Philadelphia College of Art where he attained the rank of Associate Professor. Weisberg founded and taught at Art Awareness in Lexington, NY. His furniture work appears in Daniel Mack's Making Rustic Furniture and The Rustic Furniture Companion, and Dr. Ralph Kylloe's Rustic Traditions, Rustic Artistry for the Home. His work has been most recently seen at the Rockefeller Arts Festival in New York, Mountain Culture Festival of the Catskill Mountain Foundation, and at the Gallery at Hunter Village Square. Weisberg's work is in many private collections nationwide. http://www.juddworks.com/.

Adria Arch (BFA '74) is a visual artist, art educator, curator, and art administrator. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and Carnegie Mellon University, and later received an MA in art education at the University of Arizona and an MFA in painting at Massachusetts College of Art. Adria has taught at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts College of Art, and Endicott College, all in Masaschusetts. She joined the Bromfield Gallery in 2002 as an artist member. Her work is represented in the collections of Fidelity Corporation, the DeCordova Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, among others. Since 2004, she has been the Education Director at the Arlington Center for the Arts in Massachusetts. http://www.adriaarch.com.

Vivian Tsao (MFA '76) has artwork featured in the new book 100 New York Painters by Cynthia Maris Dantzic to be released in the fall. Her self-portrait is printed on the spine of this book. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0615/2006019615.html.

Linda Trunzo (BFA '79) received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute this year where she also exhibited in Pied Piper of Palestine.
http://www.sfai.edu/MFAGradex/Person.aspx?id=1267&navID=&sectionID=&typeID=17.

Ebon Fisher (BFA '82) is a Transmedia Artist, writer and lecturer who was the 2005 Marjorie Rankin Scholar-in-Residence at Drexel University, Philadelphia. He has also taught at Hunter College in NYC and University of Iowa. He is currently developing a transmedia world, The Nervepool, working with producer, Sylvie Myerson in New York and Stephen McGuire of Treemedia, Los Angeles. He has produced a new website, two introductory videos, a music video and has written 18 screenplays for television.

Valerie Brodar (BFA '84), Associate Professor of Media Arts at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, presents The Topography pf Fleeting Memories at SOHO20 in Chelsea, New York City, September 5-30 with an opening reception on September 9, 5-7pm. http://www.soho20gallery.com.

In an effort to reconnect itself to the contemporary visual arts world, The Metropolitan Opera displays works by major artists connected to the repertory of the company’s 2006-07 season in the new Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, located in the building’s South Side lobby. The opening exhibition, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, will include six works of art inspired by the heroines of The Met’s six new productions, and other works. Participating artists include alumnus John Currin (BFA ’84) who produced Helena from Die Ägyptische Helena. The exhibit runs September 22, 2006 through May 2007.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/detail.aspx?id=202.

Kate Temple (BFA '88) has a solo exhibit, The Year Series, at Digging Pitt Gallery in Pittsburgh, opening Thursday, September 14, 6-9 pm with a closing reception Satruday, November 4, 6-9pm.
http://www.diggingpitt.com/temple-port.htm.

Sarah Smith (BFA '91) is Artist-In-Residence this fall at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, September 18 through October 24 where her work will be on view at the Project Space. She also participates in a three-person show, Tooth and Nail, at Stay Gold Gallery in Brooklyn, opening September 15, 7-10pm , through October 15. http://staygoldgallery.com; http://www.headlands.org/; http://www.sarahasmith.com/.

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) is photographed working in his studio in the current issue of V Magazine, available at finer newsstands or Barnes & Noble.

Andy Vogt (BFA '92) exhibits in The Brilliance of the All Knowing at Soap Gallery in San Francisco, CA, August 18 through September 18. He has a solo show, Dimensioning Nowhere, at the LH Horton Gallery in Stockton, California, opening November 15 through December 15.
http://206.130.104.2/soap-gallery/; http://finearts.deltacollege.edu/dept/dca/gallery/;
http://www.andyvogt.com; http://www.vogtan.net.

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) exhibits in Colors and Creatures, a two-person show with Lisa Fowler at Marblehead Arts Association in Marblehead, MA, August 5-27. http://marbleheadarts.org.

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) participated in Living Culture, a screening curated by Melanie Crean and Sophie Springer for Eyebeam in NYC.

Karen Liebowitz (BFA ‘97) is represented by Rosamund Felsoen Gallery in Santa Monica and has been commissioned to creates paintings for the album covers of the Masada Series, on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. She is also working on a ceiling mural for the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, CA and participating in The 2nd Annual L.A. Weekly Biennial: MFA WMDs (Selections from L.A. Art Schools), curated by Tom Christie and Holly Myers for Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. http://www.rosamundfelsen.com/liebowitz/index.html;
http://www.track16.com/home.html.

Lynn Lu (BFA '98) is exhibiting in: Dislocate at Ginza Art Laboratory in Tokyo, July 28 - August 18; Open Sea at Singapore's Substation Gallery, August 3-16; and in the 14th Performance Art Conference in Vietnam, September 30 - October 9. During the conference, she will exhibit at the Blue Space Contemporary Art Center in Ho Chi Minh City and the HCMC Fine Arts Museum in Dalat. emma@trampoline.org.uk; blu.space@hcm.vnn.vn.

Paola Cabal (BFA '98) won a $10,000 Emerging Artist Award from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation that promotes outstanding artists from Chicago.
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews6-16-06.asp.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) exhibits in Louis Morris at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, October 13 through December 9. The exhibit was organized to coincide with the Morris Louis exhibit at Atlanta's High Museum and includes younger artists who transpose issues of abstract painting to other mediums. http://www.thecontemporary.org/.

Zoë Woodworth (BFA '99) lives in Brooklyn where she collaborates/performs in Agora II, a site-specific dance performance opening at the historic McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint/Williamsburg (main arch entrance), running in previews September 13-30. She has also started "a newish band" called Darling Nerves, in which she plays guitar and sings half the time. Details at: http://www.sensproduction.org/documents/CollaboratorsPR.htm.
To listen to Darling Nerves: http://www.myspace.com/darlingnerves.

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) exhibited in two group shows this summer: Intersections at Siggraph 2006 Art Gallery in Boston and in Projecting Off the Wall, a ProCams 2006 art exhibit this June at ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY.
http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/main.php?f=conference&p=art&s=sketches3#ray.

Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) was awarded a Faculty Summer Research Fellowship by the School of Communications and Information Systems at Robert Morris University to work on the production of a documentary on gold mining in Chile. While there, she was invited by the School of Film at University of Valparaiso to give an Artist Lecture and conduct a workshop on post-production. Her single-channel work Survivors and Alegria was selected to be part of the Juried Screening at the 60th University of Film and Video Association (UFVA) Conference that took place in Chapman University, Orange, CA, August 1- 5. Alegria also received a special recognition as a Jury Finalist in the Juried Screening Competition, experimental/animation category. She was awarded an Artist Opportunity Grant by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council in August.

Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) completed an internship in New York this summer at The Vera List Center for Art + Politics at The New School and continued to work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She continues her studies in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. http://www.carrieschneider.net.

Mable Ting (BFA '01) teaches art in the Plainedge School District on Long Island and is working on her Master's Degree in Art History.

Bianca Beck (BFA '01) begins graduate study in the MFA Program at Yale School of Art this fall.

Theresa Marchetta (BFA '02) begins graduate study in art at Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA program this fall.

Claire Jauregui (BHA '02) presents a solo exhibit at the Humanities Center Gallery at California State University, Chico, July 17-August 31 in Trinity Hall. Jauregui has lived in Seattle since 2004. Her exhibitions include 2004 Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle; Openings, Avenue 9 Gallery, Chico; 364 Units, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh; and Quatre Artistes Américains, CAC, Aix-en-Provence. Jauregui received an individual artist grant from the City of Chico for her five-panel acrylic Crossing as part of the city’s Billboard Project. http://www.csuchico.edu/hfa/hc/gallery.html.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) writes reviews for Pittsburgh's City Paper and presents a show of paintings, drawings, and collages at Greater Reston Arts Center in Reston, VA, opening Friday, September 29 through October 29. http://www.restonarts.org/.

Tak Noguchi (MFA '03) will be Critic-in-Residence at the Khoj International Public Art Residency in New Delhi, curating and writing pieces of criticism for the show catalogue and other publications, August through September.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) exhibits in: Beast and the Beauty at Holasek Weir Gallery,
502 West 27th Street, NYC, July 29 through September 8; Beast at Fine Silver Gallery, Houston, TX, opening reception on Friday, September 9; The Affair at The Jupiter Hotel with Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Portland, OR, September 30 through October 1. http://www.holasekweir.com; http://www.finesilver.com/; http://www.affair-jupiterhotel.com/.

Cay Yoon (BFA '04) is one of 8 artists invited to participate in the First Annual NY Studio Gallery Art Camp. From July 31- Sept 6, the NY Studio Gallery, located in Chelsea, is transformed into a multi-artist studio space. Art will be on display from September 7-16 with an opening reception on September 7 from 5:30-7:30 pm. http://www.nystudiogallery.com.

Caroline Choe (BFA '04) produced and performed, The Trial & Error Series: The Concert, on July 15 at the Button Theatre in Manhattan, NYC. The concert was first in a series of events set to raise money for a non-profit Arts Education organization.

Patrick Rowe (BFA '05) has recently been awarded a 3-month printmaking residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA Class of '05) exhibits as part of Paperrad in Cosmic Wonder through November 5 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and recently in Panic Room at Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece and Take It To The Net at Vilma Gold, London, UK. http://www.ybca.org/b_ybca.html.

Bum Lee's (BFA '06) short film, Sports and Diversions, has been selected for the UNDER 25 International Competitive Section of the IMAGO 2006 Festival taking place in Fundão (Portugal) between September 30 and October 8 and at the Square Eyes Digital Media Festival in Arnheim, the Netherlands. http://square-eyes.org.

Jessica Vaughn (BFA '06) has a solo exhibit, Constructed, at HotHouse in Chicago, August 1-31. http://www.hothouse.net.

Alexandra Alessi (BFA '06) has a piece in the show Size Matters at Fe Gallery, opening Sepember 8.

Carrie Hamilton (BFA '06) is currently interning at MGM Studios in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida.

Lauren Adams (MFA Class of 2007) is currently showing at The University of Maryland's Union Gallery in Fly-Over State Perspectives, an exhibition of contemporary art by three artists originally from non-urban regions of the United States. August 10 through September 14, with an artists talk and reception, Tuesday, September 5. http://www.union.umd.edu/gallery/current.html.

Ally Reeves (MFA Class of 2008) will be performing with the Pittsburgh based puppet group, the Indicator Species, with their prison themed shadow show, in Chapel Hill, NC at the RadiCackaLacky Puppetry Convergence on September 1, 2006. The show is part of a five day puppet festival. Reeves will also be serving as a graphic facilitator at the Sprout Fund's Idea Round Up on September 9. The event takes place at CAPA highschool in downtown Pittsburgh. Ally also will participate in Nothing to See Here, opening September 1. An entirely non-visual art exhibit featuring a wide variety of 'sound art' (aural installations) with intermittent live performances of spontaneous experimental music throughout the evening. The show runs through September 29. http://www.radicackalacky.org; http://www.engagepittsburgh.org.

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