Holding Still, Holding On
March 14 @ 10:00 am - April 21 @ 5:00 pm
Presented by the Carnegie Mellon School of Art MFA Program and The Andy Warhol Museum
For the first time, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art MFA Program co-presents a joint exhibition with The Andy Warhol Museum — one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the largest and most comprehensive single-artist museum in North America. Opening March 2025, the exhibition Holding Still, Holding On launches an exciting new series spotlighting the MFA program from the school where Warhol earned his degree in Pictorial Design in 1949 (then the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University).
Holding Still, Holding On features new works by the CMU School of Art MFA Class of 2025 — Frankmarlin, Izsys Archer, Tingting Cheng, Chantal Feitosa-Desouza and Max Tristan Watkins. The exhibition spans wide-ranging media and highlights the distinct perspectives of these five artists as they complete their final year of study. Presented in The Warhol’s rotating exhibition gallery, the exhibition offers a dynamic exploration of contemporary artmaking.
Frankmarlin (MFA '25)
The featured artists in Holding Still, Holding On each employ diverse approaches to storytelling, through mediums including photography, painting, archival assemblage, sculptural installations, text, sound, and film. Their works collectively explore the intersections of memory, place, and belonging, together revealing art’s unique capacity to hold and transform complex personal and collective histories.
The Carnegie Mellon School of Art MFA Program is an interdisciplinary, experimental, research-based program that provides students with a challenging and supportive context to expand and develop their work and thinking as artists. As one of the top-ranked graduate programs in the country, the School views art-making as a vital social, critical, and intellectual pursuit. Graduate students are encouraged to employ a comparative and intersectional approach to critical and cultural theories, and to allow this inquiry to inform and expand what it means to be an artist and to make art within the contemporary condition.