SOA

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.

Lucy Denegre: Ephemeral Infrastructures

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

The Frame Gallery presents a solo exhibition of photographs and prints by undergrad senior Lucy Denegre.

Jessica C. Tsai: Fashion Spotlight, A Retrospective

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

“Fashion Spotlight” is an exhibition of photographs from fashion week New York, London, and Paris.

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.

Composition for the unrealized Governor’s Palace

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

Composition for the unrealized Governor’s Palace is a multi-channel audio work divided between loudspeakers, headphones, and the movement of the listener.

Gray Swartzel: Mother Tongue No. 1

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

Upon coming across a home video that presents both his pregnant mother and the artist as a newborn, MFA Candidate Gary Swartzel acts as a drag character of his mother in order to queer his existence prior to birth.

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.

Dine in the Dark: a Dinner pARTy

Dinner pARTy is a community engagement project in the form of a series of dinner events on CMU’s campus.

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.