MFA Highlights
2006-08 (as of March 2008)
John Peña (MFA ’08) has been awarded a Skowhegan Residency for Summer 2008. http://www.johnpena.net
Eileen Maxson (MFA ’08) has a Solo Screening at Pittsburgh Filmmakers on May 29, 2008 as part of the Pittsburgh Biennial, co-hosted by Filmmakers’ sister organization Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, is releasing her DVD “Lost Broadcasts: Video Works by Eileen Maxson” in April 2008. http://www.eileenmaxson.com
Michelle Fried (MFA ‘08) and Chris Beauregard (MFA ‘08) have been accepted to New Insight, an exhibition featuring graduate work from the top art schools in the nation in conjunction with Art Chicago. Both will be showing recent video work. A reception for alumni and friends of the School of Art will be held on Friday, April 25 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, IL. RSVP required. For more information on the reception email artscool@andrew.cmu.edu or check the News & Events blog for updates, http://www.news.art.cfa.cmu.edu, http://www.artchicago.com, http://www.cliff-chicago.com, http://www.michellefried.com.
Jennifer Gooch’s (MFA ‘09) ongoing project One Cold Hand was featured on CNN Headline News “News to Me” (TV) and was the recipient of the School of Computer Science’s Smiley Award for “innovation in technology assisted person-to-person communication.” http://wwww.onecoldhand.com, http://www.jennifergooch.com
Ally Reeves (MFA ‘08) curates a Local Collectors exhibition at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum on view through April 30, housed in the Attic section of the Museum. The Local Collectors installation is intended to pull local, atypical, private collections into an “open to the public” museum where they can be seen and appreciated by people who would otherwise not have access to such objects or information. The Collectors include, an Avant-garde filmmaker, children ages 10 and 5, a long dead one-armed grandfather’s leaf collection passed onto a grandchild, and the accidental accumulation of the Children Museum’s own lost and found, and more. “Following several years of working in a museums I began to realize the narrow scope of what sort of items are collected and preserved, and that a vast majority of individuals fail to document their life and work in a way that can be easily shared with those beyond the immediate family.” The installation is on display during regular museum hours, http://www.pittsburghkids.org.
Michelle Fried (‘08) is accepted as the first annual resident in the Crawl Space Studio Intensive Residency at Crawl Space Gallery in Seattle, WA. The residency required Michelle to spend one week in full isolation to create and then exhibit new work. 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.
Ben Kinsley (‘08) leads a marching band of chefs as a part of Thu Tran’s “Food Party” float for the 2007 Deitch At Parade in NYC, http://www.deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=220&orient=v; http://thutranthutran.wordpress.com .
John Peña (‘08) receives a 2007 AIGA WorldStudio Grant.
Lauren Adams (‘07) wins a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Program Award of $15,000. She participates in Rat Fink’s Revenge: The Custom Monster at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA (traveling to NY and Japan), http://www.petersen.org/.
Adam Davies (‘05) is awarded a Jentel Residency in Wyoming for a four-week period between July and August.
Matt Barton (’06) joins the faculty at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Take Etani (‘06) is awarded a 2007 residency at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA. David Halsell (‘07) presents “Funkenspiel 2” in “Soundscapes for Two Channels” at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and publishes an article on Ken Rinaldo’s “Autopoiesis,” in the September/October issue of NY Arts Magazine, http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/DAW/SoundscapesProgram; http://nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4957&Itemid=203 .
Ian Ingram (’07) is selected to for a 2007 Skowhegan residency. He and David Tinapple (’07) participate in “New Insight,” an exhibition curated by Susanne Ghez from the Renaissance Society of Chicago, featuring works by students from top MFA programs during ARTCHICAGO, http://www.merchandisemart.com/artchicago/orphan_insight.html .
Ben Kinsley (‘08) participates in and offers a workshop in the Performance Art Program at the Tyler Gallery of Temple University in Philadelphia, http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/september06/FallArtsPreview.html . He and Takehito Etani (‘06) participate in Vision Request, an exhibition and collaborative performance hosted by Andrea Zittel and co-organized by Ben Kinsley at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA, http://www.visionrequest.com.
Ben Kinsley (‘08), John Peña (‘08), Kazuki Eguchi (‘09) and Robin Hewlett (BFA ’03) win second place in “Installation Olympic Theatre” at the Mattress Factory.
Eileen Maxson (‘08) participates in the 2006 CineVegas Film Festival sponsored by the Art Institute of Las Vegas and CinemaTexas 11 at University of Texas, Austin, http://www.cinevegas.com/pressroom/2006/051706-films.html; http://www.cinematexas.org/festival/sectionArtist.html?id=118§ion=1.
Samina Mansuri (’09)participates in “Post Object” at Doris McCarthy Gallery in Ontario Canada and in Double Consciousness at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. Her solo show at Chawkandi Gallery in Karachi Pakistan is reviewed in Newsline and The Dawn Review.
Thomas Sturgill (MFA ’07) joins the art faculty at Middle Tennessee State University.
David Tinapple (’07)accepts a faculty position at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Gregory Witt (‘09) is awarded a 2006 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center and exhibits at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, http://www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Ian Ingram (MFA ‘07) and Garth Zeglin (CMU Robotics Institute) co-found Rossum’s, a forum for artists working with robotics that combine the digital and mechanical in embodied forms. Rossum presents Mechanosphere, a group show at The Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery featuring works by Ian Ingram, Garth Zeglin, Stuart Anderson, Takehito Etani (‘06), Doug Fritz (BFA ‘07), Amisha Gadani (BFA ‘07), Joey Hays (‘09), Michael Kontopoulos (BFA ‘07), Shaun Slifer (CMU Robotics Institute), and Gregory Witt (‘09).
Ian Ingram (’07) has accepted a year-long position as Senior Research Associate for Robot 250 through the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. The project will culminate in a two-week display of 250 outdoor public robotic installations designed and built by regional high-school students, artists and others who attend the series of Robot250 open houses which will take place at venues such as the Children’s Museum, the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, the Brewhouse, the Warhol Museum, and the Mattress Factory. The robotic installations will be all over Pittsburgh: Downtown, the Northside, the Southside, and elsewhere. Some will address the environment, some neighborhoods, some history and heritage, and some pure unadulterated play, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robot250/.
Eileen Maxson (’08), Joey Hays(’09) and Gregory Witt(’09) are each awarded a Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s Tough Art Residency for summer 2007.
2005-2006
Lauren Adams exhibits in Crosscurrents: Art, Craft, and Design in North Carolina at the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC.. Her Bread and Bullets installation is reviewed in Artpapers and she presents an installation at Fraction Workspace in Chicago.
http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions.shtml
http://www.fractionworkspace.org
Matt Barton exhibits “extreme animalz: the movie: part I” with Jacob Ciocci and Paper Rad in Rhizome ArtBase 101, an exhibit of 40 internet artworks at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, reviewed in the New York Times.
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?33719
http://www.foxyproduction.com/artist/workview/13/35
Jacob Ciocci presents a solo exhibit at Foxy Production’s inaugural opening at its new location in NYC. With Paper Rad, he exhibits with alumna Dara Birnbaum in Mixed Doubles at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Their collaboration with Cory Arcangel is discussed in “Open Source Art”, Art In America (September 2005).
http://www.foxyproduction.com/home
William Cravis is the School of Art’s first winner of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Program Award of $10,000. His award-winning installation for the 2005 Three Rivers Arts Festival Annual Exhibition is featured in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, partly funded by a ProArts/Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grant. He also exhibits in The Family of Clay at California College of the Arts and wins a Skowhegan Residency. He joins the art faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 2006.
Takehito Etani is awarded 2006 residencies at Skowhegan, the Berwick Research Institute and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. He participates in TRANSIT 2005 – Karakuri Art at Yada Gallery Nagoya, Japan, as part of the 2005 World Expo and presents Pimp My Heart at ISEA 2006 in San Jose, California.
Michelle Fried exhibits in Extra/ordinary: Fiber Artists Rethinking Art and Everyday Life at the Cube at Beco in Kansas City, MO.
http://www.flatblacknova.com/extraordinary/main.htm
David Halsell presents his work in the Spark Festival, University of Minnesota, Duluth and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He publishes an article on Ken Rinaldo’s “Autopoiesis,” in the September/October issue of NY Arts Magazine.
Benjamin Kinsleyis awarded a 2006 residency at Skowhegan. He exhibits his video, Gesichtsmusik, in The NEO Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art and creates video imagery for A New Amahl (A Red Christmas), an orchestra at Cleveland’s Masonic Temple.
http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/neo/html/
Carolyn Lambert, a 2005 National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellow, develops the Ohio River Life Boat Project, a sustainable houseboat that educates the towns along the river about clean energy.
http://www.nwf.org/campusEcology/dspFellowshipsMeet.cfm?fid=78
Eileen Maxson is awarded the inaugural biannual $30,000 Arthouse Texas Prize, the largest regional art prize in the country. The accompanying exhibit travels from Arthouse in Austin to the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art in 2006.
http://www.thecontemporary.net/exhibit.html
Shana Moultonexhibits video works in Imagination Station at Monkeytown and in Precious Moments at Joymore, both in Brooklyn. She was also selected for a Skowhegan residency in 2004.
Ally Reeves exhibits Between Here and There (is better than either Here or There) at 707 Penn Ave Gallery and in Small Acts at SPACE Gallery, both in Pittsburgh.
Siobhan Rigg joins the University of North Carolina, Charlotte art faculty in 2005 and the faculty of George Washington University in DC in 2006.
Ruth Stanford is awarded a $27,000 Creative Heights Residency Grant through the Heinz Foundation for a project with the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, later reviewed in the October 2006 issue of Art in America. She joins the faculty at Georgia State University in Atlanta in 2005.
http://mattressfactory.blogspot.com/2006/02/in-dwelling-house-in-progress.html
Thomas Sturgill exhibits The Tree Project at the Mockbee Center in Cincinnati.
http://www.wkrc.com/calendar/story.aspx?content_id=D856D66D-CAD8-4684-9FFD-A2DA4BF6C074
Tiffany Yu Yan Sum is awarded a Kraus Family Foundation Award scholarship through the Worldstudio Foundation. She presents her video installation in Small Acts at SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh and participates in: TRANSIT 2005 – Karakuri Art at Yada Gallery Nagoya, Japan, as part of the 2005 World Expo; the RE/ACT Festival at Mannheim University Castle in Germany where “Fingering” wins the “Best Interactive Work and is later selected for the 13th International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. Her work is also selected for inclusion in ISIMD’06, 4th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design in Istanbul, Turkey. She joins the faculty at Ball State University in Indiana.
David Tinapple presents his collaborative piece with Professor Andrew Johnson, When Pulse Becomes Pitch, in Tangible Frequencies at Open Space through the Interactive Futures 06 conference, in Canada’s Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival.
http://cfisrv.finearts.uvic.ca/interactivefutures/tinapple.html
Matt Barton, Take Etani, Gunnhildur Jonsdottir, Jesse Hulcher, Thomas Sturgill and Tiffany Sum joined three art faculty in Due Settimane/Two Weeks, a joint summer project between the School of Art and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, culminating in the exhibit, Junk Is Back/La Spazzatura e Tornata at Ex Colonia Ballabio, Italy
2004-2005
Lauren Adams is awarded a North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artists Project grant for Domestic Disturbances.Lauren Adams, Take Etani and Blithe Riley exhibit (and perform) in Seeing Double: Ten Encounters with Warhol at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Jacob Ciocci, a member of the collaborative Paper Rad, exhibits in three NYC exhibits: SuperMarioMovie BEIGE/Paper Rad at Deitch Projects; the NY Armory Show through EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix); and Face Off, a show addressing post-millennial American culture and world politics at Ronald Feldman Gallery.
http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/exhgroup/exhfaceoff.html
http://www.eai.org/eai/current_events.jsp
Adam Davies exhibits in the Pittsburgh Biennial at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and is awarded residencies at the Edward Albee Foundation’s William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
Ian Ingram exhibits Schrecktiere in “Life or Something Like It” at Eyelevel Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Carolyn Lambert is awarded a $10,000 grant from the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, a National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellowship and a Ford Motor Company Graduate Research Grant.
Carolyn Lambert and Fereshteh Toosi exhibit in BRI:AIR, Projects from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Program at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Mario Marzan is awarded a two-year appointment in the Department of Art at UNC Chapel Hill through the Carolina Postdoctoral Program. His work is selected for New American Paintings: The M.F.A. Annual 2004, curated by James Rondeau, curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.webslingerz.com/depts/art/studio_art/faculty/mario_marzan
Blithe Riley is awarded a scholarship for a summer residency at The Kitchen in New York City.
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