Look, Listen & Read

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…