Elaine A. King's paper, The Uncanny World of Tony Oursler, was presented at the University of Wales, International Popular Culture Conference on August 8. Her paper, A Global Cultural Tapestry: Museums in An After Post Era, was accepted for The Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, August 2-5, 2005.

Michelle Illuminato is exhibiting in Paradise Gardens - Vogelfrei 6 - Art in Public Gardens in Darmstadt, Germany, September 10-25.

Fabian Winkler has a solo show opening this October at Mirko Mayer Galerie in Cologne, Germany where he will also be exhibiting at Art Cologne, an international art fair. http://www.mirkomayer.de/.

Aaronel Deroy Gruber ('40) (majored in costume design) has a solo exhibit of small sculptures and new photographs at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's 707 Penn Avenue Gallery, opening Friday, September 9, 5-7:30pm. The exhibit, curated by Murray Horne, runs through October 8.

Bennard Perlman ('49), a Baltimore native, is an artist, art critic, author, art professor, and lecturer. His art is included in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Peale Museum, as well as hundreds of private collections. As an art critic, Perlman wrote for Baltimore Magazine, The Daily Record, and Maryland Public Television. His articles have appeared in ARTnews, Art in America, Art & Antiques, American Artist, Art Voices, and Arts magazine, plus The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. He is the author of eight books on American art, published between 1962 and 2002. He was guest curator for the 75th Anniversary of 'The Eight' exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He lectured this April at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=4014.

Gloria Plemmons ('53) won honorable mention in the 2005 Mid Winter Hues exhibit at North Hills Art Center, Pittsburgh.

Don Celender's (BFA '56) memorial exhibition at OK Harris Gallery in NYC was reviewed by Edward Leffingwell in the September issue of Art in America.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) exhibits in the group show, Rrose Selavy at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, opening October 5 and running through November 12. http://www.wirtzgallery.com.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) exhibited this summer in Disegno: The 180th Annual Exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York City.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) has a solo exhibit, Drawn in Metal, at Robert Steele Gallery, 511 West 26th Street, October 21 through November 19.
http://www.robertsteelegallery.com/dynamic/exhibit.asp?Exhibit=Upcoming.

Dara Birnbaum (A '69) and Shana Moulton (MFA Class of 2004) present video works that explore the strange phenomena that arise from living so closely with melodrama in Imagination Station on August 11 and 25 and September 5 at Monkeytown, 58 North 3rd Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Reservations recommended. http://www.eai.org/eai/08_05_mt_pr.html.

Dara Birnbaum (A '69) and Paper Rad (including Jacob Ciocci, MFA Class of 2005) are exhibiting in Mixed Doubles at the Carnegie Museum of Art through January, 2006. http://www.cmoa.org/info/npress70.asp.

James Welling, who attended Carnegie Mellon between 1969 and 1971, participates in Dia: Chelsea's Artists on Artists Lectures, speaking on Andy Warhol on September 26, 6:30pm, at 548 West 22nd, NYC. http://www.diachelsea.org/calendar/index_0509.html.

Diane Samuels (BFA '70, MFA '76) exhibits in Messages and Communications at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, October 1 through spring of 2006.

Jamie Adams (BFA '83) is the Core program Director in the School of Art at Washington University, St. Louis. He has a solo exhibit, Mr. Jones and the Pipsqueaks, at Salisbury University's Atrium Gallery, August 26 - September 23 in Salisbury, MD. The reception is September 16, 6-8pm. http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jadams. He also had a solo exhibit last February at Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

Boris Bally (BFA ’84) has his work included in Teapots: Makers and Collectors (Schiffer); 500 Brooches (Lark), SPLASH! Magazine and on a new TV pilot set for Warner Brother’s Playdate. He has been exhibiting in group shows across the country at: White Lotus Gallery, Eugene, OR; Art Space, Jackson Hole, WY; Gallery M, Cleveland; and Sam Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME. He has juried shows for the Craft Alliance Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, running November 16- December 24, 2005 and for the Society of North American Goldsmith’s Cleveland conference this summer. He also co-curated Flatware: Function + Fantasy for the August issue of Metalsmith Magazine. Bally is speaking October 15 at Renwick Gallery, D.C. in conjunction with the Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design Work exhibit there. His work was recently collected by actor Tim Robbins. http://www.borisbally.com.

Teri Rueb (BFA '90) was an Artist-in-Residence in Estonia, funded by Artslink, where she collaborated with Mare Tralla. She's working on a new sound installation for a seminar and exhibition Sound, Media and Urban Space at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Germany.
http://www.terirueb.net/i_index.html.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), a member of Temporary Services in collaboration with Brennan McGaffey, is exhibiting Audio Relay (No. 2) in Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, at University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, October 6, 2005 - January 15, 2006. They are also showing Urban Services at Pavel Haus, Radkersburg, Austria, October 8, 2005. http://www.pavelhaus.at/.

Paul Madonna (BFA '94) presents work in two upcoming exhibits in San Francisco: Cityscapes, a group show at Newmark Gallery, 251 Post St., Suite 410, Union Square, through October 2nd, 2005; and a solo show this September at Farley's Cafe, 1315 18th Street, Potrero Hill, opening Saturday, September 10th, 2-4pm. http://www.paulmadonna.com/x-home_4.html.

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94) had 20 works on paper acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection. This fall, he has four solo exhibits at Deitch Projects (October 14-November 26) and Danziger Projects (October 21-November 26) in NYC, Andre Simoens Gallery in Knokke-Zpute, Belgium (August 6-September 12) and at Publico in Cincinnati (September 23-October 29). His work is also included in Beautiful Losers at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore through September 25. http://www.ryanmcginness.com/.

Jen Urso's (BFA '96) installation Fractured Thought will be featured at The Icehouse, 429 W. Jackson St., Phoenix, AZ, October 4-23.

Richard Pell (BFA '99) was awarded the Michigan Vue Magazine Award for Best Michigan Filmmaker at the 2005 Ann Arbor Film Festival where he presented his documentary Don't Call Me Crazy.

Krista Connerly (MFA '00) is Program Director for Photography and Digital Media at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO. Her work was included in Cell-Outs & Phonies, a summer exhibit at Niche.LA and Lounge 441, Los Angeles. http://niche.la/webpages/2005/celloutsphonies.htm.

Zak Prekop (BFA '01) exhibited in Greater Brooklyn this summer at CRG Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. His work in the show was reviewed in the New York Times. His band, Hurray (with Peter Mandradjieff BFA '01), will present an installation at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, September 8 - October 1, at 526 W. 26th Street, NYC.
http://www.crggallery.com/gbk/; http://www.nicoleklagsbrun.com/exhibits.htm.

Todd Pavlisko (MFA '02) had a solo exhibit The Classic Manner of Inclusion at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago this summer. http://www.moniquemeloche.com/html/past/06-02-2005.html.

Shana Moulton (MFA Class of 2004) exhibits in Precious Moments at Joymore at 236 Grand Street, Brooklyn. http://joymore.org/current.html.

Erin Pischke (BFA '05) was awarded a fall residency at Vermont Studio Center in Burlington, VT and will be a Heinz Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in October/November. She worked at Morgan Glass Gallery in Pittsburgh before traveling to Africa in August and plans to join the Peace Corps early next year to teach environmental education in Latin America.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA Class of 2005) has his collaborative work through Paper Rad with Cory Arcangel discussed in Open Source Art in the September issue of Art in America.

Several alumni participate in 8-Hour Drawings at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA: Adam Grossi (BFA '03), James Nelson (BFA '71), Mary Tremonte (BFA '00), Elizabeth Deasy (BFA '03), Emily de Araujo (MFA '01), Martin Beck (MFA '92) and Alex Smith (BFA Class of 2000). The exhibit is open September 3 from 10-7pm while the artists are working directly on the walls. It runs through October 4 with artists' talks by Jill Daves, Thomas Frontini and Mary Tremonte on Tuesday, September 6, 7:30-8:30pm.
www.allegheny.edu Select Directories/Resources, then Art Galleries.

Lauren Adams and Bill Cravis have been awarded $500 each in Graduate Student Small Project Help (GUSH!) funds. These funds are made available by the Graduate Student Assembly and the Provost's Office to enable more Carnegie Mellon graduate students to reach their full potential in their degree-related work.

Lauren Adams' installation Bread & Bullets will be part of Crosscurrents: Art, Craft & Design in North Carolina  at the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh, September 25, 2005 - January 8, 2006. Crosscurrents, presented in collaboration with The Mint Museums in Charlotte, NC, is a juried exhibition of works by North Carolina artists working in various media. Crosscurrents includes a broad range of works by 28 artists, chosen out of over 550 applicants throughout the state. A catalogue will be produced. Visit: http://www.ncartmuseum.org.

Tiffany Sum (MFA Class of 2006) was awarded a Kraus Family Foundation Award through the Worldstudio Foundation.

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