Lectures

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.

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.

STUDIO Lecture: Gene Kogan

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Gene Kogan is an artist and a programmer who is interested in generative systems, artificial intelligence, and software for creativity and self-expression.

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.

Lecture Series: Cristóbal Martínez

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

Cristóbal Martínez's work seeks to reveal the vexing nature of our complex memories, amnesias, behaviors, beliefs, assumptions, choices, and relationships to create experiences that move beyond the human instinct to simplify.

Lecture Series: Dread Scott

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

Dread Scott works in a range of media including performance, photography, screen-printing, and video, challenging viewers to reexamine unifying ideals and values of American society, often by focusing on African American experience.

Angela Washko Plays “The Game: The Game”

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

To coincide with her current solo exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image and the online release of "The Game: The Game," Professor Angela Washko will discuss the multi-year research process behind her pick-up artist dating simulator.