Clayton Merrell is exhibiting in Rethinking Landscape at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design in Lancaster, PA, September 2 - October 17. www.pcad.edu

Charlee Brodsky is exhibiting in A Is for Aperture at Silver Eye Center for Photography, September 3 - October 25.

Carol Kumata and Mary Weidner are exhibiting in condition:humanity at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, September 11 - October 4. For more information, visit: www.airnyc.org

Ayanah Moor's series of prints, A to Z Like Me, has been acquired for the art collection at the new David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

Patricia Barefoot and Mary Hood have work in the Group A show, Definition/Connotation, at Space 101, The Brew House, 2100 Mary Street. Juried by David Wilkins, the exhibit opened September 5.

Adjunct faculty members Anne Lopez (BFA '96) and Angelo Ciotti both have had works commissioned by the new David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

Ayanah Moor and Patricia Bellan-Gillen are exhibiting in the Annual Benefit Celebration at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh, Saturday, October 11, noon through midnight.

Chung Cho (MFA '03) had his video, Cheoyong, selected for the experimental section of the 2003 D.C. Asian Pacific American(APA) Film Festival to be held October 9-18 at prominent venues in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. http://www.apafilm.org/

Mark Wyszomierski (BFA '03) is a senior level programmer at the bio-technology company, 3tp, where he is working to develop visual software that is already being used by doctors to accurately detect cancer.

Todd Pavlisko (MFA '02) has a solo exhibit, Transmogriaesthetics, at Linda Schwartz Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, September 20 through November 1 with an opening reception on September 19, 6-9pm.
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George Magalios (MFA '01) is the Pittsburgh Center for the Art's 2003 Emerging Artist of the Year. For his exhibit (September 12 -October 25), he has created a world of works called Scene from a Fire. This world contains elements of alchemy, the color orange and warm light. The elements are represented by a series of paintings called the Firewall Fragments, an installation of pedestals, one very long brush, and a mysterious room called the Future Firefighter's Studio housing a video and various construction material fragments along with hot light. Magalios will discuss his art and career in a free gallery talk on Saturday, October 25 at 2 pm. Information on his work is available at www.magalios.net.
Magalios earned degrees in art and political theory from Concordia University, San Francisco State University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1992, including solo and group exhibitions at Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, the Brew House, Aliquippa Arts Council, and the Drawbridge Center in San Francisco. Magalios currently teaches in the Studio Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Judith Perlow (BFA '01) and John Lysak (MFA '88) are exhibiting in the Annual Benefit Celebration at Artists Image Resource at 518 Foreland St. in Pittsburgh, Saturday, October 11, noon through midnight.

Marinda Strativsky (BFA '00) has two sculptures, one of which is entitled Extinction: Homage to Maya Lin, in Definition/Connotation at the Brew House Space 10, now through October 3, 2003.

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) is Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Paola Cabal (BFA '98) is exhibiting in Lighten Up at Gallery 312 in Chicago, IL through October 18, 2003. The exhibit presents artists using light as a medium or subject matter. www.gallery312.org

Jen Saffron (BFA '91) is exhibiting in A Is for Aperture at Silver Eye Center for Photography, September 3 - October 25.

Clyde Forth (a.k.a. Jessica Reeves-Cohon, BFA '91) scored and directed Mouthful/Score, created and performed in collaboration with Bob Lukomski and Alison Robinson at Williamsburg Art neXus in New York, September 4-7.

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) is exhibiting in Internal Excess at The Drawing Center in New York City through October 18. www.drawingcenter.org

David French (BFA '87) is exhibiting new paintings and sculptures at The University Center Gallery Monday, September 22 through Friday Sept. 26. The exhibit opens Monday, September 22, 1-3pm.

Diane Samuels (BFA '70, MFA '76) is the Pittsburgh Center for the Art's 2003 Artist of the Year. Curated by Vicky A. Clark (who holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the School of Art), Samuels' exhibition uses movements of light and shadow to closely look at the details of the rhythms of daily life in small, short works of video, photographs, and drawings. As part of the exhibition, Samuels and Clark have produced an artist's book in collaboration with designer Brett Yasko. In addition to her exhibition, Samuels will discuss her exhibition in a free gallery talk on Saturday, October 11 at 2 pm. The exhibits runs from September 12 through October 25. Diane Samuels has lived and worked in Pittsburgh since her education at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was also a fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. She has exhibited widely in museums and galleries since 1981, including solo exhibitions at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and the Municipal Museums of Art, Komárom and Györ, Hungary. Samuels has worked extensively with European institutions and has served as a visiting artist in France, Poland, and Slovakia, in addition to completing a commissioned memorial for the Gedenkstätte Grafeneck in Gomadingen, Germany. She has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 1987, 1995, and 2000.

"This exhibition brings together work from various projects that Diane has worked on during the last several years to reveal underlying themes and connections between them," says Vicky A. Clark, an independent curator. "In a spare installation, we see how Diane has been engaged with ideas about time, space, memory, and perception as seen in both mundane activities and quiet observations."

Fred Carlson (BFA '77) helped organize the exhibit Illustration: The Process at Pittsburgh Technical Institute through October 17. The exhibit of works by members of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators includes work by Carlson, art alumni Rick Antolic (BFA '93) and Dave Biber (BFA '86), and design alumnus Mark Klingler (BFA '90).

Patricia Burson (BFA '71) exhibited Naiads, Dryads & Oreads at Copley Place in Boston on September 2-3 and at South End Open Studios September 13-14. She will also exhibit this body of work at Dorchester Open Studios October 25-26 in Dorchester, MA. www.bursonstudios.com

Fereshteh Hamidi-Toosi (third year graduate student) and Carolyn Lambert (second year graduate student) had their Fourth River project featured on the Pittsburgh CBS affiliate, KDKA, channel 2 in Dave Crawley's series, KD Country.

Jacob Ciocci (second year graduate student) and Fereshteh Hamidi-Toosi (third year graduate student), performed in their new band OK at the Penn Avenue alternative space, Project 1877, in Pittsburgh on September 16.

Yu-Yan Tiffany Sum (first year graduate student) has had her film, Fingering: The Lover's Concerto, selected for screening in New York University's 6th International Student Film Festival from October 26 to November 1, 2003.

Takehito Etani (first year graduate student) will have his The Third Eye Project shown as part of the VIPER Basel International Festival for Film Video and New Media competition program in Switzerland. This work has also been nominated for the VIPER Basel International Award, in the "processing" category, worth CHF10.000, to be presented on November 23, 2003 by the International Jury. http://www.viper.ch

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