BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University - ECPv6.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://art.cmu.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T203000
DTSTAMP:20260522T104615
CREATED:20250109T211849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T170109Z
UID:16592-1737309600-1745785800@art.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Open Figure Drawing Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Public Exhibition\nApril 14-20\, 2025\nOpening Reception: Tuesday\, April 15\, 6:30pm\nJoin us in celebrating this showcase of artwork by members of the Pittsburgh community who have participated in the School of Art’s Open Figure Drawing Sessions throughout the academic year. \nLight refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. \n  \nSpring 2025 Sessions\nHeld on Sunday afternoons\, the School of Art’s Open Figure drawing sessions are 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. \nAll sessions take place from 6:00 to 8:30 PM in the College of Fine Arts room 308. \nJanuary 19\nJanuary 26\nFebruary 2\nFebruary 9\nFebruary 16\nFebruary 23\nNo Session: March 3\nNo Session: March 9\nMarch 16\nMarch 23\nMarch 30\nApril 6\nApril 13\nNo Session: April 20\nApril 27\n \nFor questions\, please contact Keni Jefferson\n412-268-8001\, kjefferson@cmu.edu
URL:https://art.cmu.edu/event/open-figure-drawing-sessions-spring-2025/
LOCATION:CFA Room 308\, 4919 Frew St\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Pollack_Samantha_Figure-and-Again-web.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="School of Art":MAILTO:SchoolofArt@cmu.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T104615
CREATED:20250115T220013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T221024Z
UID:16784-1739617200-1745773200@art.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:The End That Never Was
DESCRIPTION:Carnegie Mellon University School of Art 1st and 2nd Year MFA Exhibition\nThe Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Carnegie Mellon University are pleased to present an exhibition featuring the work of first- and second-year MFA students from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art. This exhibition highlights a dynamic range of contemporary art practices from emerging artists experimenting across media\, concepts\, and themes. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to engage with the next generation of influential artists as they expand their creative practices within Pittsburgh’s vibrant cultural landscape. \nFollowing obsessions and trains of thought\, The End That Never Was brings together eight artists from Carnegie Mellon School of Art Master of Fine Arts program. This collection of new works addresses contemporary notions of memory\, orientation\, and play. Informed by their varied studio practices which utilize film\, sound\, virtual space\, and tactile media\, this exhibition parses iterative and generative attempts at answering sometimes unanswerable questions. Broadly\, the works explore fan culture\, language acquisition\, memory\, affect\, disembodiment\, as well as the occupation of the peripheral. \n  \n\n    \n        \n            \n                Ashley A. Ross (MFA ‘27)\n                Morgan Thomas Shankweiler (MFA ‘27)\n                Morgan Thomas Shankweiler (MFA ‘27)\n                Naomi Chambers (MFA ‘26)\n                Logan Larsen (MFA ‘27)\n                Logan Larsen (MFA ‘27)\n                Anne Chen (MFA ‘27)\n                Anne Chen (MFA ‘27)\n                Aleena Akbar Khan (MFA ‘27)\n                Afrooz Partovi (MFA ‘26)\n                Bulumko Mbete (MFA ‘26)\n            \n        \n        \n    \n\n  \nArtists\nNaomi Chambers (MFA ‘26)\nAnne Chen (MFA ‘27)\nAleena Akbar Khan (MFA ‘27)\nLogan Larsen (MFA ‘27)\nBulumko Mbete (MFA ‘26)\nAfrooz Partovi (MFA ‘26)\nAshley A. Ross (MFA ‘27)\nMorgan Thomas Shankweiler (MFA ‘27) \n  \nOpening Reception\nFriday\, February 21\, 2025\, 5-7pm\n\nFree and open and to the public\nThe End That Never Was is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. Special thanks to MFA Director Katherine Hubbard\, Assistant Director Wendy Willis\, 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\, George Dun\, Kennedy Deen\, Jacquet Kehm\, Josh Rievel\, and Chris Korch. \nSEE MORE PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING \n\n    \n        \n            \n                \n                \n                \n                \n                \n                \n                \n            \n        \n        \n    \n\n  \nTop: Courtesy the artists
URL:https://art.cmu.edu/event/the-end-that-never-was/
LOCATION:SPACE Gallery\, 812 Liberty Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event MFA,Exhibitions
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SpaceGallery.CMU_.2024-web.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T104615
CREATED:20250114T145515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T143550Z
UID:16567-1741946400-1745254800@art.cmu.edu
SUMMARY:Holding Still\, Holding On
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Carnegie Mellon School of Art MFA Program and The Andy Warhol Museum \nFor 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 of thesis exhibitions 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). \nHolding 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. \n  \n\n    \n        \n            \n                Carnegie Mellon School of Art MFA Class of 2025\n                Izsys Archer\n                Izsys Archer\n                Frankmarlin\n                Frankmarlin\n                Max Tristan Watkins\n                Max Tristan Watkins\n                Tingting Cheng\n                Tingting Cheng\n                Chantal Feitosa-Desouza\n                Chantal Feitosa-Desouza\n            \n        \n        \n    \n\n  \nThe 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. \nThe 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. \n  \nOpening Reception\nSee all the highlights from the opening reception celebrating the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum. \nREAD MORE \n  \n \n  \nIn the Press\nArtnet: “Andy Warhol’s Alma Mater Hosts a Bold New Collaborative Show”\nWESA: “Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum hosts its first show by CMU art students”\nWQED Voice of the Arts Podcast: “Holding On\, Holding Still at The Andy Warhol Museum”\nTable Magazine: “Andy Warhol Museum Displays Carnegie Mellon MFA Students’ Work”\nPittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Andy Warhol Museum exhibit showcases Carnegie Mellon University students’ work”\nPittsburgh City Paper: “Pittsburgh’s top events: March 13-19”\nNext Pittsburgh: “NEXT in the Gallery: History\, reuse and reinvention fill Pittsburgh art shows in March”\n  \nFeatured Artists\n Frankmarlin takes a look into the invisible\, sees beyond what is presented and asks questions he doesn’t know the answers to. With a sense of urgency\, his works explore themes of erasure\, lineage\, surveillance\, healing\, and the beauty of mundane Black experiences.  \nIzsys Archer is a self-proclaimed Space Taker-Upper originally from Lafayette\, Indiana. She graduated with a BFA in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute. Within her practice\, she explores her intrinsic need to create through physical\, digital\, and ritualistic spaces of the Archive. Perpetual self-portraiture becomes a performance of identity as she interrogates notions of domesticity\, memory\, and Black iconography to wander on a journey of self-actualization and representation. \nTingting Cheng is a cross-media artist whose oeuvre is deeply informed by the ritualistic traditions of the Chu state and the cultural hybridity shaped by globalization. Working across diverse media\, she mobilizes cultural archives as forms of “contemporary witchcraft\,” integrating natural\, synthetic\, and vernacular materials to cultivate ritualistic engagement with audiences while subverting commodification.  \nChantal Feitosa-Desouza is a Brazilian United Statesian from Queens\, New York. She is a filmmaker\, a learner\, and a facilitator of workshops and public events beyond the traditional classroom setting. Her practice is guided by the visual process of collage and its potential to create new histories from found fragments. Her work is always proposing slower methods of thinking\, remembering\, and storytelling for an audience. \nMax Tristan Watkins is an artist and writer born in Canterbury in the UK. His practice draws from various historical tools of control and their absurdities. Currently\, he is interested in the European early-modern book as an information technology. With a literary sensibility that favors quotation\, citation\, trope\, and idiom\, he takes pleasure in following rabbit holes and constructing webs of footnotes. At the center of his work is the precise absence of something unarticulated\, gestured towards and acted out in miniature\, euphemism\, or parable. His prints\, paintings\, and books often toy with ideas of the body double\, the facsimile\, or the absent original. A subject he returns to often is the disjointed\, open(ed) or chimeric body – and its misrepresentations in taxonomies\, anatomies\, and histories. \n  \n\n    \n        \n            \n                Frankmarlin (MFA '25)\n                Izsys Archer (MFA '25)\n                Tingting Cheng (MFA '25)\n                Chantal Feitosa-Desouza (MFA '25)\n                Max Tristan Watkins (MFA '25)\n            \n        \n        \n    \n\n  \n  \nTop: Photograph by The Carnegie Mellon School of Art MFA Class of 2025\nCenter: Photographs by Bryan Conley\nBottom: Photography by Aaron Blum
URL:https://art.cmu.edu/event/holding-still-holding-on/
LOCATION:The Andy Warhol Museum\, 117 Sandusky Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event Featured,Event MFA,Exhibitions
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Holding-Still-Holding-On-CMU-MFA-Thesis-Exhibition-Warhol.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR