Open Figure Drawing
2024-01-21 18:00 - 2024-04-21 20:30 (America/New_York) | CFA Room 308, 4919 Frew St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
Open Figure Drawing is free and open to the public. Held on Sunday afternoons, Open Figure is an opportunity to draw from live models in any medium. Open Figure provides a variety of models that range in sex, age, and ethnicities from which artists can work.
All sessions take place from 6:00 to 8:30 PM in the College of Fine Arts room 308.
January 21
January 28
February 4
February 11
February 18
February 25
March 10
March 17
March 24
April 7
April 14
April 21

This Is Not A Map
2024-02-10 18:00 - 2024-04-28 18:00 | SPACE Gallery, 812 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222, United States
“This Is Not A Map” brings together eight artists from Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Fine Arts program. This collection of new works addresses contemporary notions of place, time, and storytelling. Hailing from five continents, all now living and working in Pittsburgh, the artists are each presenting an installation informed by their diverse studio practices, utilizing a broad range of mediums, from textiles and collages to video essays and digital sculpture. Where traditional mapmaking creates rigid understandings of constructs like nationhood, gender, and language, this exhibition offers fluid systems of way-finding between shifting and interlaced worlds. A dance is re-choreographed, an altar calls the past into the present, discarded objects find a new sense of value, and sensory fragments from childhood are restaged. Memory plays a vital role across the works on view, exploring how a body can chart through space on its own terms.
Artists:
Izsys Archer (MFA ‘25)
Naomi Chambers (MFA ‘26)
Tingting Chen (MFA ‘25)
Chantal Feitosa-Desouza (MFA ‘25)
Frankmarlin (MFA ‘25)
Bulumko Mbete (MFA ‘26)
Afrooz Partovi (MFA ‘26)
Max Tristan Watkins (MFA ‘25)
Exhibition Opening Reception: Feb 10, 6-8 PM
This is not a map is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. Special thanks to MFA Director Katherine Hubbard, Assistant Director Julie Hakim Azzam, Head of the School of Art Charlie White, and the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Additional thanks to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust team: Davine Byon, Tara Fay Coleman, Jesse Hulcher, George Dun, Kennedy Deen, Josh Rievel, and Chris Korch.

Women in Animation Speaker Series presents: Lisa Crafts
2024-02-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
Lisa Crafts is an animator and moving image artist whose interdisciplinary work addresses issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity and chaos. She is currently working on a series of short moving image pieces about the horror, beauty, humor and loss of the Anthropocene. Blending animation, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture, the work inhabits the blur between what is seen and what is imagined.
Crafts’ work has screened in Europe, Asia, and throughout North America. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and MacDowell. She is professor emerita in the Film Video department at Prat Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
Organized by School of Art Professors James Duesing and Johannes DeYoung, this event is made possible by the generous support of Carnegie Melon University Center for the Arts in Society, the College of Fine Arts Dean’s Office, Dietrich College Department of Modern Languages, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Humanities Scholars Program, IDeATe, and Carnegie Mellon School of Art.
