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SUMMARY:Open Figure Drawing Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2026 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. \nCancelled due to inclement weather: January 25\nFebruary 1\nFebruary 8\nFebruary 15\nFebruary 22\nMarch 1\nMarch 8\nMarch 15\nMarch 22\nMarch 29\nNo Session: April 5\nApril 12\nApril 19 \nFor questions\, please contact Keni Jefferson\n412-268-8001\, kjefferson@cmu.edu
URL:https://art.cmu.edu/event/open-figure-drawing-sessions-spring-2026/
LOCATION:CFA Room 308\, 4919 Frew St\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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SUMMARY:Time-Honored Non-Specifics
DESCRIPTION:The Carnegie Mellon University School of Art MFA Program and The Andy Warhol Museum present “Time-Honored Non-Specifics\,” the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition\, on view March 27-April 12\, 2026.\n  \n\n    \n        \n            \n                \n                \n                \n            \n        \n        \n    \n\nInstallation view of work by Naomi Chambers\, Bulumko Mbete\, and Afrooz Partovi. Carnegie Mellon School of Art MFA 2026. Photo: Bryan Conley. Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University and The Andy Warhol Museum.\n  \n“Time-Honored Non-Specifics” features new work by Naomi Chambers\, Bulumko Mbete\, and Afrooz Partovi\, whose studio-based practices span painting\, assemblage sculpture\, textiles\, ceramics\, installation\, immersive technologies\, and time-based media. The thesis exhibition is a critical presentation for the MFA candidates\, offering them an opportunity to connect their creative practices to a broader cultural discourse in Pittsburgh. Now in its second year at The Warhol\, the exhibition also continues a growing partnership between the museum and CMU\, bringing these artists into the legacy of one of the School of Art’s most influential alumni.  \nThe exhibition title speaks to the three artists’ shared\, though distinctly interpreted\, relationships to time\, traditions\, and meaning. Chambers\, a Pittsburgh-born painter and assemblage sculptor\, roots her work in community histories and Black feminist modes of care\, and her practice reflects years of collaboration\, mentorship\, and collective organizing. Mbete\, a multidisciplinary artist from South Africa\, draws from textile traditions and craft methodologies practiced by women in Southern Africa\, engaging them as living archives of generational knowledge and contemporary realities. Partovi\, an artist-architect from Iran\, explores absence\, disappearance\, and the porous boundaries between physical and digital space\, using immersive technologies to surface overlooked histories and intangible forms of memory. Together\, their thesis work culminates in an exhibition grounded in three years of intensive critical inquiry within the MFA program. \nThe Carnegie Mellon University 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\, CMU views artmaking as a vital social\, critical\, and intellectual pursuit. Graduate students are encouraged to use comparative and intersectional approaches to critical and cultural theory\, allowing this inquiry to inform and expand what it means to make art within the contemporary condition. \nAndy Warhol (then Andrew Warhola) earned his degree in pictorial design in 1949 from CMU (then the Carnegie Institute of Technology). Although he struggled in his first-year arts classes and was required to take a summer drawing course to strengthen his skills\, the drawings he produced — especially those of his brother Paul’s produce truck — earned him the Martin B. Leisser Prize and his first exhibition in the college’s fine arts gallery. He went on to become a star student\, joining several campus arts organizations\, including the modern dance club\, and serving as editor of the student publication Cano. This enduring connection makes The Warhol a fitting site for the thesis exhibition\, reinforcing the legacy of creative risk-taking and experimentation shared across generations of CMU artists. \n  \nPhotos: Celebrating MFA Artists at The Warhol\n \nOn March 27\, the MFA Class of 2026 presented its thesis work in “Time-Honored Non-Specifics” at The Andy Warhol Museum. Scroll through to see highlights from the public opening reception.\nREAD MORE \n  \n2026 Distinguished Critics\n \nFour leading curators bring new perspectives to this year’s MFA Thesis Exhibition during a full-day critique at The Andy Warhol Museum.\nREAD MORE \n  \nIn the Press\nPittsburgh Tribune-Review: ‘Time Honored Non-Specifics’: Work by Carnegie Mellon MFA students at Warhol Museum \nWQED Voice of the Arts Podcast: “The Warhol & CMU School of Art Present Time-Honored Non-Specifics” \nNEXT Pittsburgh: “12+ things to do this weekend” \n  \n  \nFeatured Artists\n \nNaomi Chambers is a painter and assemblage sculptor born in Pittsburgh in 1987. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Studio Arts and Marketing\, she took the leap to be a full-time artist in 2013. In 2017\, she worked with a collective of artists to open FlowerHouse\, a community art studio and creative space in Wilkinsburg offering workshops and classes to the predominantly Black community. In 2017\, she was also awarded the Investing In Professional Artist grant from the Heinz Endowment and Pittsburgh Foundation. \n  \n \nBorn in 1995 on a serendipitous Saturday\, Bulumko Mbete is a creative practitioner with multicultural heritage. She is based in liminal spaces. Bulumko Mbete undertakes research in different forms of craft and design methodologies which are predominantly performed by women in Southern Africa. Her current research focuses on this form of craft and design as indigenous knowledge systems and archives. Her work is influenced by this mode of storytelling and production. She creates a framework to communicate generational traditions and gestures of love using textile\, beading\, natural dyeing and weaving. \n  \n \nAfrooz Partovi is an artist-architect who explores intangible dimensions of time and space through immersive technologies and time-based media. Her work delves into absences as vessels to trace what has been forgotten\, erased\, or transformed into nonexistence. Digital realms serve as both medium and metaphor in this exploration\, challenging the primacy of physicality as the definitive marker of presence. Her work explores how the recontextualization of absences in digital realms can uncover deeper narratives of resistance and resilience. \n  \nPhotography by Aaron Blum. Poster design by Rambod Vala.
URL:https://art.cmu.edu/event/time-honored-non-specifics/
LOCATION:The Andy Warhol Museum\, 117 Sandusky Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15212\, United States
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