Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts Announcement

Future Tenant, Miller Gallery, Events, PGH Events

Future Tenant ____________________________________________________________

Future Tenant and Thank You, Felix Holding Auditions for Ten-Minute Play Festival

Auditions will be held from 7-10 PM on Monday, September 24, 2007, for the fourth installment of Future 10, the annual 10-minute play festival produced by the alternative art space Future Tenant and local theater company Thank You, Felix.

Please note: Auditions will take place at Bricolage Production Company, 937 Liberty Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh.

Auditions are by appointment. Please call 412-848-3984 or email brad@thankyoufelix.com to schedule a time. Actors are asked to prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue and to bring a headshot and resume if available.

Future Ten 4 is scheduled to run at Future Tenant, located in the heart of Pittsburgh¹s Cultural District, November 2-3, 9-10, 2007. The festival is split into two distinct programs, so actors with a conflict on one of the two weekends should still consider auditioning.

Future Tenant will be moving to a new home on Penn Avenue in the coming weeks. Please check www.FutureTenant.org for updates.

Future Tenant, visit www.FutureTenant.org .
Thank You, Felix, visit www.ThankYouFelix.com

Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, August 31 opening ____________________________

The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University will present an exhibition of furniture pieces and other work created by Japanese-American artist and architect George Nakashima. The exhibition, which runs from Aug. 31 through Oct. 28, will showcase approximately 15 pieces of furniture from Carnegie Mellon's collection, as well as historical photographs and original design sketches. An opening reception will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31. All events and exhibitions at the gallery are free and open to the public.

To listen to a news podcast with Delphia visit www.cmu.edu/cfa/labA6.html and click on the link "News: Nakashima Furniture Exhibit."

The Miller Gallery is open from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. Visitor parking is available in the East Campus Parking Garage on Forbes Avenue, just east of the Morewood Avenue intersection. For more information, call 412-268-3618.

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Exhibit of Steel, Bronze Sculptures by Dee Briggs Opening in Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Aug. 31

A sculpture exhibit by Dee Briggs will open at Carnegie Mellon University's Regina Gouger Miller Gallery Aug. 31 and run through Oct. 28. There will be an opening reception in the gallery from 5 to 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 31.

"In this exhibit I've installed several new, large-scale works made of mild steel and stainless steel," Briggs said. "I am very excited to have this opportunity and support to publicly exhibit this new work because of its spatial achievement. They will be my largest pieces to date, and I hope that everyone visiting the show will experience the space that both the lines and the planes of my work are creating or implying."

In her work, Briggs experiments with a concept called chirality by rotating an image or shape and its mirror image around different axes. She is interested in the resulting spatial relationships, which she translates into steel and bronze sculptures. Chirality is a property that figures prominently in chemistry, mathematics and physics. A chiral object or shape is one that can't be superimposed on its mirror image. Examples of chiral objects are hands ‹ the left hand is the mirror image of the right hand.

Briggs received her bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the City College of New York in 1997 and Yale University in 2002, respectively.
Her work appeared in the International Sculpture Biennale in Palm Beach in 2006. The exhibit at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery is her first solo exhibit. Examples of her work and process can be viewed at www.deebriggsstudio.com.

There is no admission fee for the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, which is located on Carnegie Mellon's campus in Oakland. The gallery is open from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday-Sunday. For more information, call
412-268-3618 or visit http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/.

Events ____________________________________________________________________

Leading performance artist Grisha Coleman, a fellow in Carnegie Mellon University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, will present her latest work, echo::system‹The Desert, September 6 at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh¹s North Side on Allegheny Square East.

echo::system‹The Desert is a 70-minute performance installation in which audiences and performers are immersed in a fully synthetic desert environment made of audio and visual media, digital movement analysis, robotics and live performance. As audience members walk through the space, they will trigger subtle changes in their surroundings with their steps, body heat and even their breath. The changes are made by sensors installed on the set.

³We affect every environment we touch and are affected by them. Because these phenomena are not always obvious, I am trying to feel my way through it with the making of this work,² Coleman said. ³I am using the experimental elements of the desert environment to create an alternate reality and to explore how we impact our surroundings.²

This artificial desert landscape is the backdrop for the tale of an ancient species that encounters its future. The species of Coleman¹s desert environment are ³Mudmen² and ³Mummies,² ³Suits² and ³Skateboarders.² Between performances, visitors may explore the performance environment independently as an art installation.

echo::system‹The Desert was co-commissioned by the the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry--where it was developed--and the New Hazlett Theater as part of the theater¹s Women in the Arts Festival, which was launched in June and runs through June 2008. The performance will run through September 15. The concept behind echo::system is to find resonances between science and art.

³The New Hazlett Theater is a flexible performing arts space operating with the intention of blending disciplines and engaging audiences in new ways by supporting innovative projects,² said Sara Radelet, executive director of the New Hazlett Theater. ³echo:system is a project that beautifully launches the performance programming of our Women in the Arts Festival. In our inaugural year, the festival celebrates accomplishments of women in the arts through performance, symposia and special programs. Of particular interest with this project is the blending of art and science, art and technology, and the mix of performing arts and visual arts traditions.²

The echo::system series boasts a dynamic team of collaborators from the fields of the performing arts, natural sciences, computer technology and metaphysics, including creator and composer/choreographer Coleman; population biologist Mike Bryant; architect and designer John Oduroe and Pittsburgh-based Lubetz Architects; videographers Maya Ciarrocchi and Peter Kirn; lighting designer Tony Mulanix; sound designer Leon Rothenberg and Mark Huang; Pittsburgh-based fashion designer Namiko Ogawa; and writer Onome Ekeh. The performance components, vocals and movement are by Coleman, Anitra Brooks, Sherwood Chen, Wendell Cooper, Reggie Ellis Crump, Soomi Kim, and a group of skateboard artists. Heidi Riegler is the producer and manager.

Carnegie Mellon¹s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a research center founded in the College of Fine Arts in 1989, aims to support creation and exploration in the arts, especially interdisciplinary projects that bring together the arts, science, technology and the humanities, and impact local and global communities.

Visit www.echo-system.org to learn more about the installation. Tickets can be purchased by calling Pro Arts at (412) 394-3353. The ticket prices are $20, $10 for students and senior citizens A schedule of the installation appears below.

Performance Dates:
Thursday-Friday, Sept. 6-7, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 8, (Press Night) 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Wednesday-Thursday, Sept. 12-13, 7:30 p.m., followed by post-performance discussion Friday, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Installation viewing only:

Saturday-Saturday, Sept. 8-15, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

PGH Events ________________________________________________________________

I Made It! 3, a crafting DIY event, will be held at the Brewhouse - SATURDAY, September 29, 2007, 12 - 5 pm, 2100 Mary Street, South Side, Pittsburgh.

Vendors will be accepted starting Friday, August 17. The first 50 vendors will be accepted with a waiting list of 10 in case additional room opens up.

To apply, send your name, business name, e-mail address, phone number and a short description of your craft to imadeitpgh@gmail.com starting on Friday, Aug. 17 at 6 pm.

First 50 vendors to apply will be notified via e-mail within 3 days of their status.

Check www.myspace.com/imadeitpgh for more details as they develop!

See you at the Market! and check out our sponsor, the Brewhouse Association at www.brew-house.org .

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The New Hazlett Theater

Last Days Cafe
Monthly Creative Resource Meet and Chat for Pittsburgh's Creatives Friday, August 31, 5:30PM to 8:30PM
http://www.newhazletttheater.org/event/?event_id=86



This happy hour, casual "salon" is held the last day of every month (except
for December) and all are welcome. Each month will feature one or two
representatives of Pittsburgh's resource network for individual artists and
arts organizations. --- New Hazlett Theater Executive Director, Sara Radelet
says, "Pittsburgh has a wealth of extremely creative people working in their
own zones on great projects. We hope to create a place for them to take a
break and interact with other creative people, providing the kind of
environment that can give a tangible and necessary boost to a person's
energy and productivity." --- Artists, musicians, writers, dancers, poets,
performers, and arts administrators are invited to stop in, enjoy
complimentary refreshments and talk about projects, plans, ideas, and
interests. Often the key to unique opportunities is discovering who is doing
what and interacting regularly with a circle of colleagues who are working
creatively. The Last Days cafe will also provide a forum through which
Pittsburgh's creative community can become more familiar with the resources
available to them as they create new work, consider forming a new
organization, or think about how, when and where to show their work.
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Quantum Theatre

Join Quantum Theatre for the world premiere of Le Grand Meaulnes, and share
a romantic summer fantasy under the stars, in the stunning ambiance of the
Stables at Hartwood Acres.
"The company that always seeks a distinctive, nonconventional site for its
plays has never found one more perfectly matched to its subject or more
visually delicious in effect."

-Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"If theatre is supposed to help us imagine other worlds, Quantum has outdone
itself."

-Robert Isenberg, Pittsburgh City Paper

Le Grand Meaulnes
Outdoors at the Stables, Hartwood Acres Park
215 Saxonburg Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15238

Wednesdays - Saturdays through August 25, plus Sunday August 26

Curtain at 8:00 pm

Call now for tickets, only 8 performances left
ProArts tickets: 412.394.3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org