Compiled by Annetta Kapon
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Alum ERIC MEDINE '06 did video mixing on Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 for a drum and bass show in BrokenBeat Night at Kadan, San Diego.

Graduate faculty KORI NEWKIRK took part in 100X100, featuring the photographic works of 100 LA based artists on Sunday September 7, 2008 at LA><ART

Alum OTINO CORSANO '00 had a solo show called "4 Grids" at p|m Gallery in Toronto from September 13 to October 25, 2008.

Alum WENDY GIVEN '02 showed a new video, Harnessing Nature, in the Otis Alumni screening  on October 2 at the Center For Democracy in Little Tokyo downtown Los Angeles, CA.

Alum TAMI DEMAREE '03 was in a three person show, Sterling Rainbow, at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas, from September 6 to October 11, 2008

Graduate faculty KORI NEWKIRK'S survey exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (through Sept 14) was reviewed by Christopher Knight in the LA Times on September 5, 2008 and by Mindy Farabee also in the LA Times on July 17, 2008

MFA alums ANDREW ARMSTRONG '02, STEVEN BANKHEAD '01, JESSE BENSON '03, ANNIE BUCKLEY '03, CARLA DANES '01, ED GOMEZ '03, LUIS HERNANDEZ 03, MATT MCFARLAND '03 and MIKE ROGERS '96 showed their work in IN THE ROUND, at Andrew Shire Gallery from October 3 to October 25, 2008. The show was organized by alum ED GOMEZ '03, in cooperation with Director of Otis Alumni Relations, Sarah Russin, for the citywide series of exhibitions OTIS ACROSS LA.

Graduate Fine Arts Chair ROY DOWELL and graduate faculty KORI NEWKIRK are included in 20 Years Ago Today, an exhibition that celebrates the 20th anniversary of the California Community Foundation’s Fellowships for Visual Artists at the Japanese American National Museum from October 4, 2008 to January 11, 2009.

Alum ED GOMEZ '03 is part of The Whole World is Watching at The Glendale College Art Gallery from September 20th until November 8, 2008. Irene Tsatsos was the guest curator.

Graduate faculty ANNETTA KAPON participated in the exhibition IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008 organized by NeMe and the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA), Cyprus, in collaboration with the National Centres of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Ekaterinburg and Moscow, in the Russian Federation. The exhibition runs from October 16 to December 22, 2008. KAPON also presented her work in the International Conference: " In Transition: Cultural Identity in an age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux" organized by NeMe, the Ural State University and the Academy of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg.

As a member of a four-person MAK Center team, alum NIZAN SHAKED '00,  received an exhibition award of $150,000 from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to mount "How Many Billboards on the Boulevard?," an outdoor exhibition of conceptual art. The exhibitions are scheduled to open between 2009 and 2011.

Grads AMANDA KELLER-KONYA and TASHA MOORE were selected for a two-week trip to France to take photographs from October 15 to October 28, 2008. The trips were sponsored by Maison de la France-the French Government Tourist Office and French Cultural Services in Los Angeles.

The work of WHITNEY STOLICH '03 is showcased in the Skadden/Arps LA 25 exhibition, which was held on September 27 at the Hammer Museum. The LA 25 artists are also in the exhibition "Half Life" at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) from October 8 to November 16, 2008.

On Saturday, September 27, 2008, alum TONE NIELSEN '98 participated in the panel "whatever happened to the alter-globalization movement?learning from the recent past, planning for the future" as part of the exhibition "asking we walk, voices of resistance" from September 27 to October 19, 2008 at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Oslo, and Copenhagen, Denmark.The exhibition is curated by Kuratorisk Aktion (Berlin & Copenhagen) and Katarina Stenbeck (Copenhagen)www.denfrie.dk.

Alums WENDY GIVEN ’02 SOJUNG KWON ’07, BREE YENALAVITCH ’06, and graduate faculty ANNETTA KAPON and KATHRIN BURMESTER took part in Multiple Feeds, curated by Erika Suderburg on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at the Democracy Forum at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, JANM.

Alum ANDREW ARMSTRONG '00 took part in "Just How Does a Patriot Act" a group exhibition curated by Joella March at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art from October 2 to October 25 2008.

Alum ANNIE BUCKLEY '03, has a solo exhibition “Hybrids”, from October 11 to November 8 at Carl Berg Gallery. Also, a new short story of hers will be published in a book included in Steven Hull’s new project Luna Luna Arena 1 Gallery in Santa Monica from October 18th – November 22nd. www.santamonicaartstudios.com...

Alum WENDY GIVEN '02 showed her work NO MAN’S LAND in a two person show at Solomon Projects in Atlanta GA, from October 17- December 6, 2008. In addition, GIVEN'S photographic series of Peanut Elves is featured in the latest issue of ITCH Magazine and in the homepage of the BEAUTIFUL/DECAY website.www.beautifuldecay.com

Alum BILL KLEIMAN '89(curated by Lisa Melandri) is in the show SURFACE SOUNDING-TEN CURATORS TEN ARTISTS curated by Janet Levy of Seeline Gallery from October 10 to November 22, 2008.

Alums TAMI DEMAREE '03, STEVEN BANKHEAD '01, ANNIE BUCKLEY '03 and graduate
faculty BENJAMIN WEISSMAN took part in LUNA, LUNA Sky Will You Make Me Laugh
or Cry? organized by Steven Hull for Arena 1 in Santa Monica on October 18,
2008.
 
Grad AMANDA KELLER-KONYA participated in the downtown art walk Thursday, October 9 with a show at the Spring Arts Collective Gallery.

Graduate Fine Arts chair ROY DOWELL is in a group exhibition at the Aspen Museum of Art from Oct 30 to Dec 21.