"Ephemera" highlights a diverse selection of artwork that explores the duality of transience and permanence through a rich variety of techniques and themes. The exhibition features School of Art students Matthew Constant, Ariana Daly, October Donoghue, Andrew Edwards, and Summer Leavitt.
Created within the current political tumult, new works by the 2018 CMU School of Art MFA candidates examine pop culture fantasies of entertainment, capital, and collapse.
Emotional (Re)location, a solo exhibition by MFA Candidate Talya Petrillo, uses sentimentality and satire to question the mental space of loss, acceptance and moments of insanity.
Thinking In Place, an installation by Clelia Knox BHA '20, borrows its name from a similarly titled book by Carol Becker, which has, in the past year, provided me with some gentle guidance on what it means to bring the often heated, intimate fragments of my memories outside of my self.
"Each/Other" is an exhibition about advocacy and inclusion curated by Shori Sims BFA '21 and Aisha Dev BDes '19.
"A Perfect Home" addresses the entanglement of the domestic with femininity, queer identity, nostalgia, and subversive love.
Robb Hernández's forthcoming book, "Finding AIDS: Archival Body/Archival Space and the Chicano Avant-garde," examines the role of gender and sexual transgression in the formation of Chicano art.
"Everyone is Welcome - An Inclusive Sustainability Showcase" is an exhibition and performance showcase founded by CMU's Sustainability Weekend to provide a platform for creative and critical expression within the realm of sustainability.
"It's A Long Story I'll Save For Later," a solo exhibition by MFA Candidate Paper Buck, traverses the former homesites of his (post-) Irish Catholic family across backwoods Pennsylvania and Southwestern Ireland.
"Light in the Attic" is a body of sculptural work by Samuel Hamish Horgan BFA '21 that explores the landscape and history of the Allegheny Valley by reimagining the artifacts of its industrial past as the raw materials of a new kind of regional experience.