Susanne Slavick, Head of the School of Art, has been invited by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to participate in a fully funded program for administrators and senior faculty from the US and Great Britain. The program involves a survey of arts education in Germany along with gallery, museum and art fair visitations in Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden and Karlsruhe.

Clayton Merrell, Associate Professor of Art, is exhibiting in a two-person show at Concept Art Gallery, 1031 S. Braddock Avenue in Pittsburgh, September 18 - October 24.

Golan Levin, Assistant Professor of Art, will perform Messa di Voce at the Poetry International Festival, in London's Royal Hall on October 26. http://www.rfh.org.uk/poetryint/. This month he is also exhibiting in Touch and Temperature at Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX and invited to lecture at the Audiovisual Workshop, Fabrica Research and Development Centre, Treviso, Italy.

Ayanah Moor, Assistant Professor of Art, has curated (Sub)Urban at Urban Space: A BridgeSpotters Gallery, 709 Penn Avenue. Participants include Mario Marzan (MFA Class of '05) and Adam Grossi (BFA '03). The show runs October 8 - November 20, 2004. Opening reception: Friday, October 8, 6-9pm. http://www.bridgespotters.com.

Suzie Silver, Associate Professor of Art, and Hilary Harp, former Visiting Assistant Profesor of Art, are presenting their collaborative video installation at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute School of Art Gallery in Utica, New York, October 1 - October 30. Suzie Silver's video, The Queen of Diamonds, will be screened at an October 29 performance/video event at Parker's Box in Williamsburg, NYC as part of an exhibit, New Story Art, through Brooklyn's Eyewash Gallery.

Melissa Ragona, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, will present The Sheen of Event Production: the Films of Warhol Superstar Marie Menken, with screenings of Marie Menken films at Mount Holyoke College in Connecticut on October 14.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) won a Ludwig Vogelstein grant that enabled the National Museum of Women in the Arts to plan a one-woman exhibit of her Eco-Feminist Myth, (created in 1974). The exhibit runs October 15 through February 6, 2005 and includes 20 drawings from the Mythmaker, Woman, a New Myth series which are in the museum's collection. The artist will be present on Friday, October 22. Culbertson will also participate in Smart Growth at the Maryland Hall of Creative Art in Annapolis, opening on November 5 and running through December 16th. She was also invited by Mc Neese State University to participate in Women Painting Women, opening October 28 - November 17  2004 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She is exhibiting in Perceptions of Our President, at Koo's Art Center in Long Beach, CA through October 29. http://www.koos.org.

Nancy Hagin (BFA '62) presented a solo exhibit, Puzzles of Appearance, at Fischbach Gallery in NYC this spring. http://www.fischbachgallery.com/exhibitions/exhibition_ins.php3?exhib=45.

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) has his drawings featured in State of the Art, a survey of art from the mid-Atlantic region this winter at the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia to coincide with the opening of the renovated and expanded facilities. http://www.charlesritchie.com/.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) is exhibiting in Aluminum: 3 Person Show, at Virginia Breier Gallery in San Francisco. He is also a visiting designer and lecturer at California College of Arts and Crafts' Design Department, October 11-15. 1000 Rings, a Lark book featuring Bally's Triangle with Bar ring is expected to be released this fall. http://www.LarkBooks.com

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), a member of Temporary Services, is exhibiting Binder Archives in Connect the Dots: an exhibition investigating models of connectivity created by artists curating artists, at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University in New York City from September 7-28. http://www.temporaryservices.org.

Jen Urso (BFA '96) has an installation, thinking too much, and a collaborative piece, moving air, with Byron Lahey through September 25 at Eye Lounge: A Contemporary Art Space, 419 E. Roosevelt, Phoenix AZ http://www.eyelounge.com.

Seldon Yuan (BFA '98) published two new visual poems in Bonus Magazine which will be out soon. He will participate in the group exhibits: Threads, Associations, Implications at Stay Gold Gallery, 451 Grand Street in Brooklyn, December 17, 2004 through January 21, 2005; and Sticker Toss at KCDC, 99 N. 10th St, Williamsburg, NY on November 20. Seldon also designed a series of skateboards for Zoo York, which are featured in Boards: The Art and Design of Skateboards (MTV Overground). http://bonusmagazine.com.

Emily de Araujo (MFA '01), an instructor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, has a solo exhibit, Proclivities, at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, September 20 - October 22. The opening reception is September 30, 5:30-8pm.

Rosina Santana (MFA '01) is a member of the Painting Faculty at Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico.

Crystala Armagost's (BFA '03) popular Salvage Wear Fashion Show returns to the 2nd Annual SALVO Arts Festival, at Construction Junction, located at the corner of N.Lexington & Meade St. in Point Breeze, Saturday, October 2. http://www.salvoarts.org/.

Clare Parry (BFA '04) has a solo exhibit, A Widening Gyre, at Modern Formations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, October 1 - 29 with an opening on Friday, October 1, 7-11pm.

Adam Davies (MFA Class of '05), Fereshteh Toosi (MFA Class of '04) and Adam Grossi (BFA '03) were accepted into the artist residency program at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts which provides a working retreat for writers, visual artists, and composers. It is located at Mt. San Angelo, a 450 acre estate in Amherst County, Virginia.

Mario Marzan (MFA Class of 2005) has been selected to appear in the February 2005 edition of New American Paintings: The M.F.A. Annual 2004, curated by James Rondeau, curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lauren Adams (MFA Class of 2007) is participating in a group show, Fabrications, at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, October 8 through November 11. The Fabrications exhibition features articles of fashion and domesticity which are used as a metaphor for women's experiences. Exhibition dates are October 8- November 11. For more information, visit: http://womanmade.org/show.html?type=group&gallery=fabrications2004&pic=1.

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