Carnegie Mellon's 2007 Solar Decathlon will have an open house from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 20 at Construction Junction, Pittsburgh, PA. Free food and beverages will be available co-sponsored by American Institute of Architecture Students (Pittsburgh Chapter) and Whole Foods. Carnegie Mellon University officials, local and state legislators and sponsors will join Richard King, head of the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition, for the open house before Pittsburgh's 2007 Solar Decathlon team leaves for the competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The School of Art is represented by Bob Bingham (faculty), Joseph Hays (MFA '09), and undergraduates Zoe Goehring, Claire Hoch, Katie Kuzko, William Schlough, and Lauren Silverman, http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/SD2007/.

STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Fellow Grisha Coleman presented echo::system The Desert, a collaborative live art installation with music and dance at The New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh, September 6-15. The work was modeled from scientific data and recreates a desert environment. The work, co-commissioned and presented at the New Hazlett Theater as part of its Women in the Arts Festival (June 2007 – June 2008), was developed at the STUDIO, http://www.newhazletttheater.org; http://www.echo-system.org.

Elaine A. King organized the panel "The Visual Arts? Where are We?" at the Chautaqua Institute on August 12. She along with other invited panelists Saul Ostrow, Clayton Merrell, and Don Kimes presented papers that explored and addressed several significant questions pertaining to contemporary art today. Afterwards they engaged in a question and answer period among themselves and with the audience, addressing the crisis in contemporary art and criticism and why perhaps the visual arts have arrived at this homogeneous, confused state.

Roger Dannenberg presented papers at the International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen August 27-29, and gave a keynote address to the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music in Sao Paulo on September 2. At the symposium, he also led two workshops on sound synthesis. Roger will present a paper and a tutorial at the Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) in Vienna in September 23-27.

Christopher Sperandio and Simon Grennan have produced two new comic books. "The Art Below" and "Without Art I'm Nothing" seek out the connections between five of the most important ideas in art theory and the daily lives of seventy 17 and 18-year-olds from across south Wales. These 20,000 comics will be distributed around Wales starting in late September. Also, you can now pre-order their new 144-page, full color monograph entitled "Kartoon Kings: The Graphic Work of Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio" at Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/Kartoon-Kings-Graphic-Christopher-Sperandio/dp/1933202246; http://www.kartoonkings.com.

Golan Levin's work appears in Experimenta Playground, the Australian International Biennial of Media Art, Melbourne, through September 23; and in the Festival de Arte Digital, Casa do Conde, Belo Horizonte, Brazil on September 29, http://www.experimenta.org/; http://www.1mpar.com/.

As a member of the CAS Public Art Workshop, Ting Chang presents her research on Monday, September 24 at 4.30pm in Baker Hall 255B. The title of her talk is "Nineteenth-Century European Travellers, Collectors and Their Publics"

Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body, organized by Pittsburg's Plan Z Media & Torre Visual, presented the human body as a form of individual expression ­political, artistic and extreme. The September 8 screening at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room (477 Melwood Avenue) starts at 8pm and features an array of works by international artists including those by School of Art faculty and alumni Andrew Johnson (faculty) , Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '99), Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94) , and members of SubRosa, http://www.pghfilmmakers.org/exhibition/upcoming.html.

Eduardo Padhila (former exchange student) funds and directs Balin House Projects, an artist-run non-profit space that provides space for first solo exhibitions in London, dialogue and a platform for connection with other artist-run spaces and organizations.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) participates in Witnessing, a traveling group show originating at Gallery West, Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, NY, September 7 - October 10, http://www3.sunysuffolk.edu/Documents/ PressReleases/witnessing.doc.

Philip Morsberger (BFA '54) has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship to St. Edmund Hall in University of Oxford in England.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) exhibits in Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in Contemporary Art, 1975-1985 at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, from October 27 ­ January 2008. She is also concurrently presenting "Voyages: Time Travel," a series of prints from Solo Impression and Hui Press on view at Solo Impression in NYC, http://www.soloimpression.com; http://www.hrm.org/exhibits/upcoming.html

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) exhibits in Abstraction Updated: Deborah Muirhead, Susan Schwalb & Suzanne Volmer curated by Alicia Faxon for G.A.S.P. Gallery Artists Studio Projects in Brookline, MA, September 7 - October 13. She also exhibits in In Residence: Artists & the MacDowell Colony Experience, September 4 - October 14. In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the MacDowell Colony, the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College and The Art Gallery at the University of New Hampshire co-organized this invitational exhibition featuring works in various media by nine New England visual artists who have been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, http://www.g-a-s-p.net; http://www.keene.edu/tsag/exhibits.cfm

Katherine "Kay" Morgan (BFA '67) presented her work in Third Eye Vision in August at Aquarian Age Gallery in Boca Raton, FL. Ms. Morgan won 2nd Place in the Boca Raton Museum Guild premiere exhibition of the Images Gallery in Mizner Park, Boca Raton, FL. This year 745 artworks were entered by 240 artists and 76 works by 17 artists were accepted into the prestigious 56th Annual All Florida Juried Competition. She is represented by ART-EXCHANGE and will be showing in the Las Vegas ARTEXPO beginning September 28 in Las Vegas, NV. Her artist profile and work can now be viewed on "The Artful Home" website of fine design for the home, https://www.guild.com/artist/7434.html.

Tom Norulak's (BFA '71) etching, "Edifice Ex", will be part of the 7th Annual American Landscape Exhibit at the Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery in Annapolis from September 7 - October 14.

Adria Arch (BFA '74) is attending a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in September and has an upcoming solo show at the Bromfield Gallery in the South End of Boston, MA, in November. Over the summer she exhibited her work at Gallery Anthony Curtis in Boston during August; exhibited pieces in the Danforth Museum of Art during July; and had a piece featured in the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show in June, http://www.adriaarch.com.

Peter Stanick (BFA '75) work will exhibit be on view in Sins of Youth, on view September 28 - November 25 at LUMAS Editions, Cologne, Germany.

Vivian Tsao's (MFA '76) essay, "On Revisiting the National Palace Museum", appeared in the literary page of the major Chinese language newspaper, the United Daily News, in Taiwan in August, 2007. In the article, Ms. Tsao reviewed the newly reconstructed Museum of Classical Chinese art in Taipei and its current exhibitions.

Ron Desmett's (MFA '79) solo exhibition, Natural Forces, at Paul Mesaros Gallery, WV, opened on September 13 and will be on view through October 12.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) currently has a one person show titled Journal: Book One at Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC. The show, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and digital photographs, will be on view through October 27. Her work can also be seen on her website, http://www.reneestout.com.

Chrisopher Anselmo Priore (BFA '81) has been accepted into the Master of Fine Arts program in the Painting Department of Savannah College of Art and Design. He is one of three domestic graduate students there to receive an Artistic Honors Full Tuition Fellowship.

Brett Reichman (BFA '82) exhibits in Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907 - 2007 at San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, CA, on view through November 30,
http://gallery.sfsu.edu/.

Katherine Kuharic (BFA '84) presented a solo exhibit at P.P.O.W. in NYC May 31 - June 30, http://www.ppowgallery.com

Daniel Mark Duffy (BFA '87) has recently been awarded portrait commissions from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to paint the portraits of current Secretary Alphonso Jackson and the 4 most recent previous secretaries, Mel Martinez, Henry Cisneros, Andrew Cuomo and Jack Kemp. He started teaching painting at Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT this month and continues teaching Life Drawing, Theory and painting classes at Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan, CT. He spent a month in Ireland this summer collaborating with a number of well-known Irish women who sat for nude portraits for his upcoming solo exhibtion in Dublin in 2008.

David French (BFA '87) is currently exhibiting sculpture in The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts Sculptoure, a six month urban sculpture park along the beach in Long Branch, NJ. The exhibit runs through October. Also, he will be exhibiting painting and sculpture in Two Men in Visual Dialogue, Mckay Imaging, Red Bank, NJ as part of their third annual Breaking Away exhibit, a two person exhibition with LA based painter Don Harger. The exhibition runs through September, http://www.sica.org; http://www.mckayimaging.com

Laura Sharp Wilson's (BFA '87) work is included in 2 shows this month: Ename Actueel 2007: Foundation, curated by Michel Dewilde & Stef Van Bellingen which continues through September 30; and the Learning to Love You More project by Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July, which includes a paper replica she created of her bed. Learning to Love You More will be on view at MU in Endhoven, Netherlands, through September 30. The exhibition is curated by the second year students of the MA Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, http://www.ename974.org/assets/img/aff-rv-lr.pdf; http://www.mu.nl; http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com; http://sites.caa.edu/curatingarchive .

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) exhibited this month in Drawing the Line, curated by Rachel Citrino for the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts in Millville, NJ, http://www.riverfrontcenter.org/

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) currently has work in Picturing Health, a traveling show that originated at the Norman Rockwell Museum this winter and is at the Florence Griswold Museum, CT, through October 14, http://www.flogris.org/; http://www.julietteborda.com/

Andy Vogt (BFA '92) exhibits in Artifice of Form, a three-person exhibition at SWARM Gallery in Oakland, CA, September 1 - October 14, http://www.swarmstudios.net/gallery/exhibitions/FORM.htm.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) presents a solo exhibit this May 2008 at Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art in Boston. She is featured in the spring issue of Chicago Art Journal, published by the University of Chicago. Also, she presents a solo show of paintings at the National Academy of Sciences (Upstairs Gallery) in Washington, DC, October 10 ­ December 20,
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Mia+Brownell/3338.html;
http://www.judygoldmanfineart.com/CurrentExhibition.htm; http://www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/exhibitions_schedule.html;
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Mia+Brownell/3338.html.

Sarah O'Connell (BFA '94) is exhibiting in the 27th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show in Stamford, CT, September 30 - November 8; the Works on Paper and Driven to Abstraction exhibitions at Long Beach Arts, CA, through September 28 and September 22, respectively; and recently exhibited in the Loyola National Works on Paper Show at Loyola University, Chicago, IL, through September 7, http://www.sarahoconnell.com; http://long-beach-arts.org.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) has two media art installations in the 2007 Daejeon FAST: Future of Art Science and Technology exhibition at the Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Korea on view from July 25 - October 10.

Christina Nguyen Hung (BFA '97) is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and the Ph.D program in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) at Clemson University, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/art/; http://www.clemson.edu/caah/rcid/.

Matt Keegan (BFA '98) presents his first solo show, Any Day Now, at D'Amelio Terras Gallery, NYC, which opened September 6 and runs through the end of the month, http://www.damelioterras.com.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) will exhibit at Garanti Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey, September 4 - October 10 as part of Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics. She will conduct workshops from September 20 - 27 at the gallery.

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) will present a live performance of "Taste" at Future of Imagination 4: International Performance Art Festival, at TheatreWorks, Singapore, September 27-30. On October 14, she presented a video screening of performance documentation at Artist as Activist, curated by Yoshinori Niwa, at Plan B, Tokyo, Japan, http://www.lynnlu.info/.

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) exhibits in Alpha, a group show at Ratio 3's new exhibition space, 1447 Stevenson Street in San Francisco, CA, on view from September 7 - October 13, http://www.ratio3.org/.

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (MFA '99) was awarded a 2007 NYFA Fellowship in Computer Arts. He will exhibit a new project commissioned for Transitio_MX at Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, October 13-19, http://www.ambriente.com/.

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) screened "15" at the Tosca Short Film and Video Mini-Festival this August at The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY, http://www.crudeoils.us/.

Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) participated in Arte Nuevo InteractivA'07 Biennial of New Media in Merida, Mexico, this past June. As part of the biennial she installed a new work, "The Need to Listen, Fall, and Scream", an interactive audio installation part of the series NEEDS, and she also screened her new documentary "Pascua Lama: A Contemporary Quest for El Dorado". Her video "The Need to wash the Self with Milk and Honey" was included in the BOP'07 exhibition at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, and later censored by PPG officials (a.k.a. corporate america). The piece was included in the program Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body, screened at the Melwood Screening Room on September 8, and at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, in Buffalo, on September 20, http://www.cartodigital.org/interactiva/;
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07163/793289-42.stm; http://www.pghfilmmakers.org/exhibition/upcoming.html.

Thomas Feulmer (MFA '00) creates and runs the education and public programs at The Rachofsky House, 8605 Preston Road, Dallas, TX.

Rosina Santana (MFA '00) was invited to teach a one week workshop on art and systems/complexity theory titled "What Shaman's Know: What is Knitted is Webbed" to the MFA graduate class at the Transart Institute in Linz, Austria this past July 2007. She also presented a paper at the Cultural Value of Oral History Conference at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, funded in part with a travel grant awarded by the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) curated Def2: From the Audible to the Visible for Galerie Frank Elbaz in Paris, France, on view September 8 - October 13. He also presents The Idea of the Sun, a solo show at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, September 8 - October 11, http://www.galeriefrankelbaz.com; http://www.galerieperrotin.com/actualite.php?domaine=next.

Samina Akbari (BHA '01), after working for the past two years for the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is is attending NYU's graduate film program for an MFA in Film production with emphases on Directing and Cinematography.

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) recently had a solo show at Steve Turner Contemporary entitled Witch Hazel Bark in August, completed a residency at the sculpture space in Utica, NY, and is attending Stanford's MFA program this fall. Also, one of her pieces is currently included in a survey of Williamsburg artists in Bloomingdale's Fall catalog which came out this month, http://www.steveturnercontemporary.com.

Laura Nelson (BFA ’02) had her work included earlier this month in Turning Points, a group exhibition at The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI. She is also currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a candidate for graduation in spring of 2008, http://www.thegalleryproject.com.

Semi Ryu's (MFA '02) 3d animation projects, including a new piece “Rendering Objects," was screened in Festival Asia organized by CASA Asia, Barcelona, Spain, on September 14-16. She will also present a collaborative performance with the Indonesian shadow puppet master, “Gusti Sudarta”, for the digital translation of the Wayang Kuilt on October 20, as part of the Third Practice Festival, in the Cousins Theater, Modlin Center for the Arts, Richmond, VA. The “CoPuppet” system will be used for this performance, developed by Ruy and Multimedia lab, University of Rome, Italy.

Sarah Hatton (BFA '03) will be leading a multimodal, experiential education project at Coronado High School in Phoenix, AZ.

Kazumi Itoh (exchange student, F '04) completed graduate school at Nagoya Zoukei University in March 2007. She has since worked as a part-time teacher in a Junior High School art department. She was also selected for the eighteenth Garyu Zakura Japanese Traditional Painting Grand Prix, held at theTakayama Cultural Center, Takayama City, Japan, on view in early September and then at the Gifu Art Museum, Gifu City, Japan, from October 16-21.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) will be doing an artist residency and teaching fellowship this upcoming academic year (07-8) in "Arts and Civic Engagement" for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. Town residents and students will work with her on the production of an experimental documentary about the history of the city, http://fereshteh.net.

Kelly Schmall (BFA '05) has moved to Chicago, IL, and is starting a job teaching first grade at an arts-infused charter school.

Jeffrey Augustine Songco (BFA '05) was selected to compete in the NYC round of the 2007 Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament. Taking place in eleven cities around the world, the competition puts "eight designers, head to head, Wacom to Wacom. For the crown, they’ll have to spin an idea with their own style in three, 15-minute rounds as projectors stream their living designs across the venue." The NYC battle took place on September 15 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation. For those who could not attend, a webcast and a chance to vote for the Audience Prize are posted on the official website, http://www.cutandpaste.com.

William Cravis (MFA '06) has been appointed a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sculpture/Foundations at Ohio University in Athens, OH. He has also been awarded a John Michael Kohler Arts Center residency for 2008.

Tiffany Sum (MFA '06) exhibits work in Synthesized Space at the ISE Cultural Foundation, NYC, on view September 14 - November 24. Also, her work will be shown in the first Shanghai eArts Festival from October 15-19 in Shanghai, China. http://www.isefoundation.org/; http://www.shearts.org/eindex.html.

Descartes (MFA '07) was included in the Random Acts of Video (take 3) video screening in Rosendale, NY, June 2007. She is currently included in the September Vertical Hold Exhibition at the Ellensburg Film Festival.

Shana Moulton presents Whispering Pines at Gimpel Fils in London, September 6 - October 6, http://www.gimpelfils.com.

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) and Kazuki Eguchi (MFA '09) will represent the School of Art at TRANSIT, an exhibition and symposium in collaboration with Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design, Tokyo Zokei University, and Kyoto University of Art and Design in Japan, http://www.nzu.ac.jp/~transit7/#

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) lead a marching band of chefs as a part of Thu Tran's "Food Party" float for this year's Deitch At Parade in NYC, http://www.deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=220&orient=v; http://thutranthutran.wordpress.com .

Michelle Fried (MFA '08) was accepted as the first annual resident in the Crawl Space Studio Intensive Residency at Crawl Space Gallery in Seattle, WA. The opening reception will be on September 29 at 504 E. Denny St. from 6:00-9:00 p.m.. She is also participating in the 40th Anniversary Department of Art Alumni Invitational at her alma mater, the University of West Florida in Pensacola. The opening will be on September 28 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at 1100 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL.

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