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:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T170000 DTSTAMP:20260621T130155 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T190000 DTSTAMP:20260621T130155 CREATED:20250113T174029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T184214Z UID:16684-1742319000-1742324400@art.cmu.edu SUMMARY:Artist Lecture: Kelly Akashi DESCRIPTION:Jeff Pan Visiting Artist Lecture\n  \nAbout the Artist\nKelly Akashi\, based in Los Angeles\, is recognized for her innovative work in sculpture. She has received notable accolades\, including the MOCA Los Angeles Twelfth Distinguished Women in the Arts Award (2024)\, the LACMA Art + Technology Grant (2022)\, and the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize (2019). Akashi’s recent solo exhibitions include a major showcase that traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art\, Frye Museum of Art\, and Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (2022-2024). Currently\, her work is on view at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan\, the Cantor Arts Center in Stanford\, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield\, and she recently concluded a solo exhibition at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle (2023-2024). Other recent institutional group exhibitions include Moody Center for the Arts\, Houston (2024)\, Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (2024); Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles (2023). Kelly Akashi’s work can be found in prestigious permanent collections\, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum\, MOCA Los Angeles; Brooklyn Museum\, Walker Art Center; CC Foundation\, Shanghai; The Perimeter\, London; David Roberts Art Foundation\, London\, among others. \n  \n\n \n \n \n Kelly Akashi\, "Life Forms" installation view\, Barbati Gallery\, Venice\, Italy (April 20-August 14\, 2022)\, Photo courtesy of the artist\, Photo credit: Marco Cappelletti.\n Kelly Akashi\, "Cultivator (Regeneration)\," 2023-2024\, Lost-wax cast crystal\, flame-worked borosilicate\, and rammed earth\, Overall: 9.5 x 12.5 x 13 inches\, Photo courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery\, Photo credit: Paul Salveson\n Kelly Akashi\, "Formation\," 2021\, Chromogenic crystallograph\, 22.25 H x 34.5 W inches\, Photo courtesy of the artist\, Photo credit: Paul Salveson\n Kelly Akashi\, "Inheritance\," 2021\, Poston stone\, cast lead crystal\, heirloom (grandmother's ring)\, 6 H x 8 W x 6 D inches\, Photo courtesy of the artist\, Photo credit: Paul Salveson\n \n \n \n \n\n  \nArtist Primer: Kelly Akashi’s Material Alchemy\nProfessor Isla Hansen explores the artist’s deep engagement with material transformation and the fleeting nature of time. \nREAD MORE \n \n  \nSchool of Art Lecture Series\nThe Carnegie Mellon School of Art Lecture Series is made possible in part by Elizabeth (Thompson) and Thomas M. Cox (A’29) Distinguished Artists Funds\, Robert L. Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry\, and Orville M. Winsand Lecture for Critical Studies. Carnegie Mellon makes every effort to provide accessible facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities. This publication can be made available in an alternate format upon request. For accommodations\, contact the School of Art at schoolofart@cmu.edu or 412.268.2409. Lecture and event details are subject to change or cancellation. \n  \nTop Image: Photography by Brad Torchia. URL:https://art.cmu.edu/event/artist-lecture-kelly-akashi/ LOCATION:Kresge Theatre\, 4919 Frew Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States CATEGORIES:Event Featured,Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://art.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Kelly-Akashi-CMU-Art-Lecture.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="School of Art":MAILTO:SchoolofArt@cmu.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR