Lectures

There’s More Than One Way to Spin a Cat

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

Join the School of Art MFA Candidate for 5 minute presentations about their research and practice.

CAS Lecture: Theresa Devine

Gregg Hall (Porter 100) 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsbugh, PA, United States

Theresa Devine talks about explorations in her studio and the discoveries of hidden knowledge she has made in building her body of work, Ce n'est pas un jouet: This is not a toy.

STUDIO Lecture: Mrs. Kasha Davis

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

Mrs. Kasha Davis is known for competing on the 7th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and can be seen in her one-woman-show "There’s Always Time for a Cocktail."

Lecture Series: Rachel Rose

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

Rachel Rose's immersive video installations bring together seemingly unrelated footage, images, and audio to address some of society's most pressing problems.

CAS Lecture: Peter Burr

Gregg Hall (Porter 100) 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsbugh, PA, United States

This lecture by School of Art alumnus Peter Burr (BFA '02) takes a trans-media look at a history of experimental architecture.

Lecture Series: Miguel Gutierrez

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

Miguel Gutierrez works across dance, performance, music, and poetry around recurring themes of mortality and the desire for meaning, how identity relates to content and form, and the commingling of the mundane with the sublime.

Artist Lecture: Diego Montoya

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

Diego Montoya is a Peruvian born, Brooklyn based visual artist specializing in costume and installation art.

Lecture Series: Saba Innab

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

Reflecting on Palestinian settlements, artist and architect Saba Innab questions the meaning of architecture in this time of increasing deterritorialization and alienation.

STUDIO Lecture: Claudia Hart

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

Claudia Hart’s art is about issues of the body, perception, and nature collapsing into technology and then back again.

STUDIO Lecture: Memo Akten

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

Memo Akten is an artist working with computation as a medium, exploring the collisions between nature, science, technology, ethics, ritual, tradition and religion.