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Snack Landscape, 2020. Gabrielle (Gabe) Wolfe.

South Side art exhibit celebrates food in a casual creative space

By Tanya Babbar, Staff Writer November 29, 2023

“Buttery Spread,” an art exhibition that uses food as both a subject and a medium, invites visitors to indulge their child-like curiosity. Build a tower out of paper doritos. Look at a kayak shaped...

Installation view of “Amie Siegel: Panorama” at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Carnegie Museum’s ‘Panorama’ documents life cycles of museum artifacts

By Irene Castillo, Staff Writer November 17, 2023

With the recent removal of the controversial diorama “Lions Attacking a Dromedary” — a display that included human remains — the Carnegie Museums in Oakland are facing changing perspectives on...

Curator Akemi May at a special preview of “Imprinting in Their Time” before the exhibition’s opening on Friday at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Carnegie Museum debuts Japanese printmaking exhibit

By Adrienne Cahillane, Staff Writer July 12, 2023
The Carnegie Museum presents “Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers,” with Japanese prints from 1912 to modern day.
Brianna Mims will have two photographs from a larger series she worked on between 2018 and 2020 focused on natural hair on display as part of Brewhouse Gallery’s new exhibit "Roots Run Deep: A Contemporary Survey of African American Hair Culture.”

‘Roots Run Deep’ celebrates Black hair, features student artist’s work

By Sinead McDevitt, Senior Staff Writer January 29, 2021
Brianna Mims, a senior psychology and studio arts major, contributed to the new exhibit "Roots Run Deep: A Contemporary Survey of African American Hair Culture” at the Brew House Gallery in the South Side.

“Lest We Forget” exhibit honoring Holocaust survivors comes to Pitt

By Delilah Bourque, Culture Editor October 2, 2019
Photographs from the German-Italian artist Luigi Toscano’s traveling exhibit “Lest We Forget” will line the pathway from the Cathedral of Learning to Heinz Chapel from Oct. 18 to Nov. 15.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Artist of the Year Jo-Anne Bates discusses her artwork Thursday night. (Photo by Elise Lavallee | Contributing Editor)

Artists converse about work, creativity

By Nina Kneuer | Staff Writer January 12, 2018

Jo-Anne Bates originally went to school to be a printmaker, so most of her first works were in black and white. But after visiting South Africa and seeing all of the colors in the landscape, the clothing...

A Scope and Scalpel exhibit in Scaife Hall showcases playbills from med student productions over the past 63 years. (Photo by Maria Heines | Staff Photographer)

Breaking a leg: Pitt med students archive their plays in art exhibit

By Marissa Perino / Staff Writer July 11, 2017

Nestled deep within Falk Library atop Cardiac Hill sits one of Pitt’s most unknown gems — a small art exhibit comprised of artifacts from past plays performed by Pitt’s medical school. Annually,...

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