Opinion | The importance of uplifting student artists during a pandemic
By Julia Kreutzer, Senior Staff Columnist
August 16, 2020
Artists spend their lives fighting an often uphill battle to be remembered and valued. And in the midst of a global pandemic, this fight is more important than ever, senior staff columnist Julia Kreutzer argues. It’s on everyone — not just creatives themselves — to find innovative solutions to foster an industry that has been silently devastated by the pandemic.
New museum studies major proposed
By Anna Ligorio, Staff Writer
May 12, 2020
Students interested in the museum world can currently complete a museum studies minor through the history of art and architecture department, but the department is now working on a new major option.
Studio arts department holds digital senior exhibition
By Maggie Young, Contributing Editor
April 14, 2020
Azize Altay Harvey, a senior studio arts major, couldn't get her supplies out of the Frick Fine Arts Building before it closed.
Opinion | Take an art break
By Leah Mensch, Opinions Editor
December 8, 2019
Art is accessible for everyone, and so instead of taking a workout break or going shopping to relax this finals week, we should all just consider taking an art break.
Mattress Factory museum welcomes nine new exhibits
By Hayley Lesh, For the Pitt News
September 30, 2019
The opening party for the new Factory Installed 2019 exhibitions at the Mattress Factory in North Side on Friday featured food, drinks and contemporary artwork. The event displayed nine new exhibitions in the Mattress Factory’s main building and in the museum’s annex located on Monterey Street.
Three Rivers Arts Festival celebrates 60 years
By Sarah Connor, Senior Staff Writer
July 5, 2019
Three multicolored giraffe statues stand at the center of the Wyndham Lawn in Gateway Center Plaza downtown, covered in sporadically placed patches of pink, turquoise, yellow, purple and green. These giraffes are pieces of an art project called Ocean Sole Africa — one of the many major attractions for the 2019 Three Rivers Arts Festival.
Annual Three Rivers Arts Festival kicks off downtown
By Zachary Donovan | Staff Writer
June 6, 2018
The City of Pittsburgh’s North Side was filled with the sound of country music and the sight of about 25 tons of trash this past weekend as the Kenny Chesney concert took over Heinz Field and the surrounding parking lots for tailgates. But across the river from the hard-partying country fans, a different crowd...
Lawrenceville Art Crawl leaves visitors in awe
By Jon Kunitsky | For The Pitt News
May 30, 2018
Betsy Lewis, Emmy Brown and Emily Richards walked down Butler Street amid sun-showers and humidity Saturday afternoon. As rising juniors at Pitt majoring in microbiology, neuroscience and physics, respectively, they ventured out of Oakland to admire local art displayed along the sidewalks of Lawrence...
Don’t Call Her Honey: Ciara Gray artist spotlight
By Siddhi Shockey | Staff Writer
May 16, 2018
When she was a young artist in first grade, Ciara Gray brought an assignment to the front of the class to show the teacher her work — how she’d ripped a portrait from a magazine in half and pasted it to paper, sketching in the missing half of the model’s face. Now, marks of Gray’s creativity are etched...
Women hone craft at Art House in Homewood
By Shahum Ajmal | Staff Writer
April 5, 2018
As Vanessa German and a group of artists were about to settle in for a night of writing and discussion in her house, a car crash outside derailed the March evening. The group witnessed an altercation between the victim of the crash and police officers who responded to the scene, and feeling that...