Kim Beck and Osman Khan worked collaboratively in the Emerging Artist Fellowship Program exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, where their project will be on view through March 1, 2009. Beck is starting the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation's Space Program in NYC, a highly competitive program awarded to less that 1% of applicants nationally. She and Cara Erkine also recently exhibited in and gave public lectures for 8-hour projects at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, which featured 13 artists working in the Bowman and Penelec Galleries, with resulting work on view through September 30. http://www.socratessculpturepark.org

Patricia Bellan-Gillen presents two solo exhibitions, Zoo.Logic: Small Works on Birch and Paper at Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, KY, from October 10 - November 10, and Zoo.Logic, Large-scale Works at AWW Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY along with an artist's lecture on October 10. She and Andrew Johnson exhibit in Darwin¹s Bicentennial: Art, Science and the Origin of Species at two venues at The Ohio State University: Kuhn Gallery & Marion Campus, September 24 - October 30 and Hopkins Hall Gallery at the Main Campus in Columbus, OH, November 12 - December 5. http://arts.osu.edu/3news_events/e_hopkins_gallery/d_hopkins_gallery.html

Lowry Burgess will be featured in the Patrimony and Creation exhibition showing at CNES, the French government’s space agency. Opening September 20, Burgess’ “Lunar Antiphon” is an aspect of his work “Boundless Cubic Lunar Aperture,” the first work of art ever taken into space by a NASA shuttle. “Lunar Antiphon” has exhibited at Sandy Pond in Lincoln, MA, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and the International Maison de Photographie in Paris. http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/programmation/jacques-kerchache-reading-room/index.html

John Carson will be exhibiting work with Conor Kelly in a group show entitled A Shout in the Street at The Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast , Northern Ireland, as part of the Belfast Festival, from September 20 - November 8. http://www.belfastfestival.com/

Elaine A. King's review of Delanie Jenkins' exhibition is published in the October issue of "Sculpture" [Vol.27, No. 8]. In addition, Dr. King was selected to represent the USA at the 2008 Association of International Critics of Art's XLII Congress to be held in Barcelona Spain this coming November.

Golan Levin will deliver a keynote presentation, an installation and a performance at The New Media Meeting, in Norrköping, Sweden, on September 20; an artist's presentation at Flashpitt (the Pittsburgh Flash Conference), on October 10; and another keynote lecture at Interacção 2008 (3ª Conferência Interacção Pessoa-Máquina), at the Universidade de Évora, Portugal, on October 16. Levin's work also appears in several ongoing exhibitions, including Under Surveillance, at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, through September 28; in Licht Kunst Werke at the Technorama Science Center, Winterthur, Switzerland through July 2009; at the Ars Electronica Center Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria through September 2009; and in YOUniverse, the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (BIACS3: Seville Biennale), from October 2 through January 11. Levin is also the co-curator for the 3rd Annual IEEE Infovis Art Exhibition, in Columbus, OH, from October 19-24. http://www.newmediameeting.se;
http://interaccao2008.xdi.uevora.pt/index.htm; http://www.technorama.ch/; http://www.fundacionbiacs.com/biacs3/

Ayanah Moor has been invited to moderate a panel and write a blog in conjunction with Bi-Lingual, an exhibition at SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, OH. Her essay, "Identity Shows: Invisible Whiteness and Colored Display," can be found via link on the gallery website. Moor is also showing recent work in Perfect with Pixel, a group exhibition of digital print media at Bowling Green State University, OH, which opened September 9. Locally, Moor participates in the exhibit, In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists at Fe Galler, Lawrenceville, PA. http://www.SPACESgallery.org; http://www.fegallery.org.

Richard Pell will be exhibiting several different projects as a co-founding member of the radical engineering collective The Institute for Applied Autonomy: "Seized" (Institute for Applied Autonomy in collaboration with Critical Art Ensemble) will be on view as part of Democracy in America between Creative Time and Park Avenue Armory on view September 21-27; "Terminal Air" and the "Robotic GraffitiWriter" (Institute for Applied Autonomy) in the Taipei Biennial 2008 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, through January 4, 2009; "Terminal Air" (Institute for Applied Autonomy) in Networks of War at D21 Art Space in Leipzig, Germany through September 28; "TXTmob" (Institute for Applied Autonomy) in Signs of Change at Exit Art, NYC, through November 22. Additionally Richard will be exhibiting a new project with the Center for PostNatural History (CPNH) entitled Genetic Copy Prevention. Additional exhibits by the CPNH will take place later in the season at the Schenectady Museum of Science and Technology and Exit Art, NYC, with a permanent facility opening in the Pittsburgh, PA area by Fall 2009. "Genetic Copy Prevention" (Center for PostNatural History) will be featured in Copy Wrong at the Hannah Maclure Centre Dundee, Scotland, October 10 - January 1, 2009. And finally, Wounded Knees, one of the featured artists on Pell's vinyl-only record label, Specific Recordings, recently opened for rock legends Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine for a number of shows including All Tomorrow's Parties, the weekend of September 20. http://www.appliedautonomy.com; http://www.specificrecordings.com

Melissa Ragona's interview and text on the German painter, Katharina Grosse, titled "LUSH IRREVERENCE" is featured as the cover story (in print and on-line) for Art Papers for their September/October issue (2008). http://www.artpapers.org/

Susanne Slavick was named 2008 Artist of the Year by Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Her exhibit, R&R&R, runs simultaneously with the work of Adam Welch, 2008 Emerging Artist of the Year, through November 2. Supplementing their exhibitions, Welch presents an artist's talk on September 25, and
Slavick conducts a gallery tour on October 9, 7:00-8:30pm. Both artists shows are accompanied by catalogues; Slavick's includes essays by Eleanor Heartney and Paul Krainak. http://www.pittsburgharts.org/

Stephanie Syjuco (Kraus Visiting Assistant Professor of Art) and Cat Mazza (BFA '99) exhibit in Craftivism: Reclaiming Craft & Creating Community guest curated by Faythe Levine (Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery, Milwaukee) at Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, with an opening reception and curator's talk on October 9 from 4:30-6:30pm, on view through October 30. The exhibit features the work of a diverse group of artists working at the intersection of craft, feminism, DIY, activism and the street. http://www.stephaniesyjuco.com;

Elizabeth Asche Douglas (BFA '51) is currently exhibiting her work "Maze," a small wood wall relief, in In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists at Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, through January 10, 2009. An illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition will be published on October 18. She is the curator for the Mavuno Invitational exhibition at Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA, currently on view through October 10, where she will also be giving illustrated lecture, "African American Artists: Collaboration, Community and the Quest for Social Justice," on Friday, October 3. Her mixed media sculpture, "Canton," was selected by juror Douglas Fogle for inclusion in the Hoyt MidAtlantic, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA, on view September 30 - October 30. http://www.douglasartgallery.com

Janet Culbertson's (BFA '53) work is currently on view at the this is an inaugural exhibition at Accola Contemporary, NYC, through September 27. Her industrial park paintings will also be featured along side other annual Best of Show artists at the East End Arts Council in Riverhead, NY, October 10 - November 11.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) has three books included in Artists and Books at the The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, September 21 - January 25, 2009. http://www.artcomplex.org/; http://www.susanschwalb.com/

Jamie Adams (BFA '83) presents a solo show of paintings at River Campus Gallery at Southeast Missouri University in Cape Girardeau, MO, September 17 - October 10 with an artist's lecture on October 3 at 5:30pm.

Teri Rueb (BFA '90) received a 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the Digital Musics Category for "Core Sample," an interactive sound walk and corresponding sculpture. The award is one of 18 selected from over 3000 submissions and and comes with a purse as well as an exhibition and honorary reception at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. "Core Sample" (2007) was also presented in 2007 in Art on the Harbor Islands at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor, MA. http://www.aec.at/en/prix/winners_awards.asp; http://www.terirueb.net/core_sample

James Thurman (BFA '93) exhibits in L'Art pour L'Art, an invitational exhibition of champagne flutes at Gallery I/O, New Orleans, LA, from September 15 - December 1; A is for Artists, Bainbridge Island, WA, September 5-30 as part of The Art of Jewelry invitational; The Ring Show: Putting the Band Back Together juried by Jamie Bennett, Ashley Callahan, and Jim Cotter at the Georgia Museum of Art, Martha and Eugene Odum Gallery of Decorative Arts, Athens, GA, through November 2; and recently a solo show James Thurman and workshop "Wearable Text" in conjunction with the Joy of Text Festival and workshop at Heights Arts, Cleveland, OH that closed September 6. Thurman will also conduct a number of exhibition workshops including "Quick Rings," in conjunction with The Ring Show on October 13, and "Mokume-kami (laminated paper process)," at the University of Georgia, October 14. Images of Thurman's recent exhibitions and events are available on his Flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesthurman

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) organized an artists dialogue moderated by curator Linda Norden with artists Craig Kalpakjian, Yunhee Min, Steve Robinson, and Alfred Steiner at the artist-run project space Silver Shed, NYC, and co-curated the Silver Shed's second group show Free Dimensionality on view through November 1. Patrick Meagher's "Annual Report" is now on sale at Printed Matter in Chelsea, NYC. http://www.thesilvershed.org

Arden Bendler Browning (BFA '97) is showing works on paper in Sneak Peek: CFEVA's Artists and Programs, at the Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, through March 13, 2009. Arden also has a drawing included in One Planet, One Experiment, at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, through October 2, and is also participating in Philadelphia's Open Studio Tours, (POST), October 11-12. http://www.cfeva.org; http://www.womanmade.org; http://www.philaopenstudios.com

Sarah Hatton (BFA '03) will be presenting "Supacollager" at the 2008 Participatory Design Conference (PDC) within the participART track. "Supacollager" is an interactive software tool that allows rapid creation of web-image collages through gesture recognition and web database querying. PDC 08 will be held at in Bloomington at Indiana University. http://pdc08.informatics.indiana.edu/art_track.html

Chung Cho (MFA '03) and other artists present a multimedia performance "I-th Time" in KNUA(Korean National University of Arts) Art Center on September 18 & 19. Cho participates as a co-director along side theatrical and dance directors, conducting interacitve moving images with performers and audiences on stage. The performace is supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.

Shana Moulton (MFA '04) had a solo show this summer at the Uppsala Contemporary Art Museum in Sweden. Coming up she will have a solo show opening on September 19 in Milan, Italy, at Pianissimo gallery, and a two person show at the Frieze Art Fair in October.
http://www.uppsala.se/uppsala/templates/PressReleasePage____42533.aspx; http://www.pianissimo.it/; http://www.broadway1602.com/upcoming.html; http://www.shanamoultonweb.com

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) exhibits in Ready Set Go!, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions' inaugural show on view through September 27, San Francisco, CA. Ready Set Go! features a selection of works by artists that will have solo exhibitions in the coming months, including Tyler Cufley, Wolfgang Ganter, Tom Huck, Mads Lynnerup, TV Moore, Tim Rodaas as well as a special installation by Cassandra C. Jones that will be up through the new year. This dynamic group of international artists brings vibrant and unique voices to contemporary art through a variety of mediums, from woodcuts to social intervention to wallpaper.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) will be presenting her work on October 4 as part of the the Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University, NY, and again on October 16 for a panel called "Engaging the Public: New Media and Communities" at the Oral History Association Conference at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. http://publicmemories.syr.edu/; http://alpha.dickinson.edu/oha/org_am_pittsburgh.html

Ruth Stanford (MFA '05) is exhibiting a solo show entitled Cryptoecology at Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta, GA, through October 4. Her work is also featured in The Perfect Angle at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery in Atlanta, GA, through November 6.
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/cryptoecology_animal_instinct/Content?oid=550975

Mario Marzan (MFA '05) with Sharmila Venkatasubban, co-curated Make, Shift, Home, currently on view at SPACE gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, through October 11, and featured during the Downtown Gallery Crawl on October 3. Make, Shift, Home includes work by artists Mike Wille, Blithe Riley (MFA '05), Roxana Perez-Mendez, Ivelisse Jimenez, Mario Marzan, Patricia Fernandez, Diana Behl, Kathleen Thum, Jeff Mueller, and David Tinapple (MFA '07).

Adam Davies (MFA '05) exhibits photographs at the Main Line Art Center in Philadelphia, PA, opening October 3 with a reception from 6:00-9:00pm, on view through October 26. Between this October and May 2009, Davies will be a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Between May and June 2009, he will be an Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. http://www.mainlineart.org/event_detail.php?id=10; http://www.adavies3.com

Carolyn Lambert (MFA '05) and Robin Hewlett (BFA '04) are currently featured in a group show, OTHER OPTIONS, opening at Eyebeam September 18, NYC. OTHER OPTIONS (exhibited Spring 2008 at the ongoing Art-in-Context space Goods & Services, Pittsburgh, PA) is a traveling and evolving exhibition of artists' projects that re-interpret, alter, and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. The exhibition is curated by Chicago-based collective InCUBATE (The Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday), of which Abby Santinsky (BFA '03) is a member. OTHER OPTIONS will be on display at Eyebeam through October 11, and is open to the public Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00-6:00pm. Opening September 21, InCUBATE is included the group exhibition, Democracy in America, The National Campaign, presented by Creative Time and the Park Avenue Armory. InCUBATE's contribution to that show will feature their Sunday Soup, the grass-roots grant-making initiative, with guest chef's making soup at the Armory, and talking about their projects. On Sunday, September 21, Lambert will serve up some soup, present her Ohio River LifeBoat Project at 5:00pm. On Sunday, September 27, InCUBATE speaking guests, Siobhan Rigg (MFA '04) will present, Calorie Counting with the People's Electrification Project at 2pm, and Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04), will present '78 RECORDS: ERIE CANAL TO LOVE CANAL 1978-2008 at 8pm. http://retool.wordpress.com/; http://eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions; http://www.incubate-chicago.org/; http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/convergence.php; http://fereshteh.net/; http://www.sarigg.net/

Jessica Vaughn (BHA '06) is a fellow this September at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. The fellowship will support a body of printwork in WSW's etching studio.

Jesse Hulcher (MFA '06) is relocating to New York City where he will join the technical staff at the Guggenheim Museum.

Lauren Frances Adams (MFA '07) participated in 8-Hour Projects at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, on August 30. The exhibition, organized by Robert Raczka and Darren Miller, consists of artworks created in one day in the Art Galleries. The exhibition is up through September 30. Adams also participates in Pro/Con: Political Craft, at Rebus Works in Raleigh, NC. Pro/Con opens October 3 and closes November 29. http://www.lfadams.com; http://rebusworks.us;
http://www.allegheny.edu/news/releases/art_galleries_to_exhibit_artists_at_work_in_8hour_projects.php

Julia Stein aka JULIACKS (BHA '08) has been nominated for an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Mini-Comic for her comic "Swell".

Ben Bigelow (BFA '08), will be exhibiting a new installation from this summer's Tough Art Residency at the Children's Museum of PIttsburgh, along with work by David Butts, Rick Gribenas, and Wendy Osher. The opening is on September 19 with a reception from 5:30-7:30pm, closing January 2009. http://www.pittsburghkids.org/newexhibits; http://www.benbigelow.com

Jennifer Gooch (MFA '09) opens for Grammy-winning banjo player Jayme Stone and kora virtuoso from Mali, Mansa Sissoko, creators of Africa to Appalachia, which uses the banjo and its history to bridge music traditions on September 30, 7:30pm at Your Inner Vagabond, Lawrenceville, PA. Tickets are $10 in advance available at various music stores around Pittsburgh, $12 at the door. On November 1 Gooch will hosts a CD RELEASE show with musician George Neal, for her album Would you like to take me there? at Howler's in Bloomfield, PA.

Riikka Kuoppala's (exchange F'08) short film, "Visitor in My Body" (2008) was screened on September 15 as part of Arctic Hysteria On Screen, featuring key works of Finnish experimental film and video art from the mid-1990s to the present, at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Kuoppala is a graduate student at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts who is a visiting student in the School of Art's MFA program. http://www.moma.org

R.J. Tripodi (BFA '09) presents Safeguard at the Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, on October 3-5, where he will apply the tactics of his sculptural work to an unconventional art object. In addition to sculptures and drawings, he will stage a performance to restore a thing his father valued before his service in Vietnam. It has been in storage since 1972. http://www.cmu.edu/theframe

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