Lectures

Lecture Series: Jessi Reaves

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

Jessi Reaves’ practice collapses the barriers between furniture and sculpture through the creation functional pieces that inject animism and desire into the coldness of modernism.

Lecture Series: Janelle Iglesias

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

Iglesias’ sculptures and installations investigate how objects mediate social relationships and how objects can be read as having a form of agency.

Lecture Series: Jeremy Deller

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

Working across video, installation, and social events, Jeremy Deller's work often looks to history as a means to initiate dialogue with the public.

In the Tradition of Black Radical Gestures

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

Hamilton and Zachery will highlight the research involved in the making of Dapline! while examining Black gestural practices as a mode of resistance.

STUDIO Lecture: Stephanie Dinkins

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

Stephanie Dinkins creates platforms for dialog about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, and our future histories.

Lecture Series: Ulrike Müller

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

Entangling abstraction with representational form, Ulrike Müller's work creates a new discourse around gender identity and politics that resists binaries.

Thaddeus Mosley with Naomi Chambers

McConomy Auditorium 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Thaddeus Mosley's towering, hand-carved, wood sculptures often seem to defy gravity with sensual, cantilevered shapes.

Lenka Clayton & Jon Rubin

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

Both Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin are known for their extensive work in social practice and public engagement.

STUDIO Lecture: Igor Vamos

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

Igor Vamos is a founding member of The Yes Men, a comic duo pull off jaw-dropping pranks that target the world’s biggest corporate criminals.

Library Speakers Series: Craig Baldwin

Hunt Library Studio A 4909 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Craig Baldwin “surfs the wave of obsolescence” using spoken word, graphics and motion picture clips to advocate for the re-working of marginalized film.