Alumni News Roundup: Oct 8-21, 2025

Posted on October 17, 2025

Get featured! Email your news to schoolofartnews@cmu.edu with a brief description, link to more information, image, and your degree and class year.


Oct 8-21, 2025

Paola Cabel (BFA ’98) installed One Was Already Too Many, a piece centering the children killed in the Gaza Conflict, as part of the Terrain Exhibitions Biennial at Uprising Theatre and Cafe in Chicago on October 3. 

Lena Chen (MFA ’22) will be exhibiting Full Circle, an artwork originally commissioned by Anthropology of Motherhood and made in collaboration with Pittsburgh birth workers, in the group exhibition “soft weapons: Keep Your F*ucking Hands Off My Body” through October 31 in Brooklyn. 

Holli McEntegart (MFA Post Graduate Exchange ’12) is participating in Motherwork, a group exhibition at Carlow University Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, on view through November, including a reception and panel discussion on October 23, 5:15-7:15pm. 

Debra Milstein (BFA ’92) represented the Rutgers Business School Masters in Business of Fashion (MSBF) program at Fashion Week Brooklyn, presenting their first fashion collection based on the thistle flower. 

Randall Rosenthal (BFA ’69) closed a solo show at Meisel Gallery in New York City on October 4. The show was also featured in the September 2025 Edition of American Art Collector magazine. 

C Ryu (MFA ’23) was awarded ICA LA’s Inaugural Artist in Residency Program for 2025-2026 as part of Hwa Records, a collective of Korean diasporic artists and healers funded in part by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. 

Ryan Woodring (BFA ’10) delivered a talk at Mayo Clinic titled “Rendering Illness: Artistic Practice at the Boundaries of Diagnosis” and opened the exhibition “Face in Clouds, invisible ink,” on view through April 2026 at the Rochester Art Center in Minnesota.

Image: Randall Rosenthal