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Lecture Series: Shannon Ebner

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Shannon Ebner’s work examines the dormant language and passive symbolism of everyday life by drawing upon poetics, political rhetoric, and concrete modes of communication embedded in the landscape.

Lecture Series: Malik Gaines

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Artist and writer Malik Gaines is an assistant professor of Performance Studies in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Lecture Series: Erin Cosgrove

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The School of Art’s Kraus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art, Erin Cosgrove, creates narrative satiric art that is packed with historical and esoteric content and spread across multiple media.

Lecture Series: Angela Dufresne

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Angela Dufresne’s work articulates porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear and possession.

Summer Leavitt: We have a future, perhaps.

The FRAME Gallery 5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

"We have a future, perhaps." is a collection of seeking origins and creating, documenting, archiving moments of the artist's own queer existence and queer desire to prolong them, find representation, take herself into the future.

Darya Kharabi: No Different From Your Other

Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Suffering in a medical context as a woman has historically been dismissed and looked over; one recognizable form is in the history of breast cancer.

Lecture Series: Sarah Oppenheimer

The Mattress Factory 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, United States

Sarah Oppenheimer is an artist operating on the boundary conditions of spatial and temporal adjacency.

Gray Swartzel: Mother Tongue No. II

Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United States

Upon coming across a home video that presents both his pregnant mother and the artist as a newborn, Gray Swartzel performs a slapstick drag persona of his mother in order to queer his existence prior to birth.

Open Studios

College of Fine Arts, 214 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University is hosting OPEN STUDIOS on December 8th from 5-9pm featuring work of Juniors and Seniors.

Lecture Series: Allison Smith

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Allison Smith takes an expansive view of sculpture, combining social practice, performance, and traditional crafts to examine how American history has been constructed and how it may be revised, retold, and reinterpreted.