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Rethinking the Rotunda: Agua Firme by Scherezade Garcia and iliana emilia Garcia
Learn more about the installation by Dominican-born Scherezade García and iliana emilia García in Pitt’s University Art Gallery (UAG). Through video, sound and sculpture, the artists transformed the historic rotunda into an immersive experience which explored the Caribbean history and…
Turning Points 8 Aging Futures: Conservation of Time-Based Media Art
Tina Rivers Ryan, Editor-in-Chief of Artforum, and Deena Engel, Clinical Professor Emerita of the Department of Computer Science at the Courant Institute Mathematical Sciences at New York University, draw from their professional experiences to address the special questions surrounding the conservation…
Agua Firme: A Conversation
In this special live installment of our Turning Points series. Artists Scherezade García and iliana emilia García, in conversation with writer Angie Cruz, will discuss the Garcías installation, Agua Firme, in the University Art Gallery, artmaking and Dominican history and identity.
Turning Points 7: Pay Equity in Museums
In this edition of Turning Points, panelists draw from their professional experiences to address this question. Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, facilitates a conversation with Dr.…
Turning Points 6: Artists, Accessibility, and Exhibit Design
Featuring two artists, Finnegan Shannon and Carmen Papalia, the 6th installment of Turning Points will focus on accessibility in museum exhibition design. Finnegan Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist making work about disability and access. Carmen Papalia is an artist using…
A NOSTALGIC FILTER: MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
This student-curated exhibition for the University Art Gallery (UAG) explores illuminated manuscripts through print and digital copies, with a focus on the University of Pittsburgh’s outstanding facsimile collection. Rare and collectible books in their own right, these lavish copies are…
From Archives to Exhibition: Andrey Avinoff’s Fantastic Visions
Andrey Avinoff: Fantastic Visions was co-presented by the University Art Gallery and the University of Pittsburgh of Library System, with funding from the Marstine Family Foundation and the Department of History of Art and Architecture. The exhibition was curated by…
Women of Visions: The Artwork and Experiences of 22 Women on Display
See the University Art Gallery’s longest-running Black women’s exhibit through the eyes of Pitt student and film, sociology and Africana studies triple major, Tierney Washington, as she explores the artwork in Frick Fine Arts accompanied by Women of Visions President,…
Turning Points 5: Queering the Archive
The 5th installment of Turning Points focused on queer theory and practice in approaches to archival work, featuring Harrison Apple, Associate Director, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Director of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project and…
Turning Points 4: Carving Space for Indigenous Museum Practice
Featuring Michelle LaVallee, Director of Indigenous Ways and Decolonization, National Gallery of Canada and heather ahtone, PhD, Director of Curatorial Affairs, First Americans Museum, the 4th installment of Turning Points will focus on Indigenous frameworks for re/building museums. Their conversation…
Annual Maker Events, 2018-2022
Hot Metal Happening
Highlight Tour: Animals in Medieval Manuscript
Highlight Tour: The Tale of Genji
Highlight Tour: Religion & Exchange in Medieval Manuscripts
Turning Points 1: An Inclusive Practice for Cultural Heritage
Turning Points 2: Transforming Collections, Connecting with Communities
In conversation with Ashley A. Jones