CFA Announcements

Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts Announcement:
WEEK of Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, Miller Gallery Opening Tonight, Art and Media Panel, Events

Regina Gouger Miller Gallery________________________________________________

Carnegie Mellon University¹s Regina Gouger Miller Gallery will open ³Tides,² a new group exhibition that includes compelling photographs, paintings, sculpture, videos and performances by nine of the most innovative artists working in Northern Ireland.

The exhibition opens TONIGHT with a public reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
³Tides² will run through March 30.

Artists include Ian Charlesworth, Seamus Harahan, Michael Hogg, Sandra Johnston, Darren Murray, Aisling O¹Beirn, Mary McIntyre, Peter Richards and Alistair Wilson. Johnston, a performance artist, will present her work at 12:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 26, in the College of Fine Arts Great Hall.


Art and the Media Panel ____________________________________________________

The Art and the Media Panel discussion will be chaired by Dr. Hilary Robinson, the Stanley and Marcia Gumberg Dean of the College of Fine Arts.

Tuesday, January 30 at 11:30 a.m.
Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m.- noon Panel discussion begins at noon

The panel discussion will be webcast live at http://destination.cfa.cmu.edu/

To view biography information on the panelists and moderator click link below or visit the School of Music's destination link above:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ecs/art+media_HANDOUT.pdf

Events This Weekend ________________________________________________________

Jan. 25 - 28: The School of Music presents the opera "Alcina" by George Frideric Handel. The musical director is Robert Page and Gregory Lehane is stage director. Jan. 25 - 27 performances are at 8 p.m. The Jan. 28 performance is at 2:30 p.m. Performances are in the Chosky Theater. For tickets, call 412-268-2407.
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Sunday, Jan. 28: Carnegie Mellon Chamber Orchestra, Andres Cardenes, conductor and soloist. 8 p.m., Third Presbyterian Church, Fifth at Negley.
Free admission. Live broadcast on Classical WQED-FM 89.3.
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The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama will host Donna Lynne Champlin (A'93), fresh off her run as Pirelli in the smash hit "Sweeney Todd" to the School of Drama this month!

Donna Lynne will perform her hit New York Cabaret Act titled "Finishing the Hat" on Friday, January 26, and Saturday January 27 at the CLO Cabaret Theater in downtown Pittsburgh, at 10 p.m.

The CABARET will begin at 10 p.m. Both nights. (1/26 and 1/27).
Admission Fee is only $8.

Jason Coll (A'93) will also serve as her Music Director.

Monday _________________________________________________________________

Architect, designer and sustainable agriculturalist Fritz Haeg (A'92) will lecture on his wide-ranging work on Monday, January 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater.

This lecture is cosponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture and the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art.

Fritz Haeg graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture in 1992. Since then, he has operated a multi-faceted practice incorporating architecture, design, ecology and education. Recent projects include the Bernardi Salcedo residence in L.A. and the widely publicized ³Edible Estates², a sustainably-oriented program to turn urban lawns into domestic farms.

www.fritzhaeg.com

For more information call 412-268-1538