SOA

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.

Gowri Sunder: Thali

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

Thali is an exploration process of immigration specifically in the ways it impacted the identity of second generation Indian American girls.

KR Pipkin: 24 Hour Water

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

MFA Candidate KR Pipkin presents an exhibition of new drawings, sculpture, video, and generative work around the idea of digital water.

Samantha Mack: Messy

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

Senior Samantha Mack’s exhibition “Messy” will be on view at Ellis Gallery from October 9-14, with an opening reception on October 9 from 4:30 to 6:30pm.

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.