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.
"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.
"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.
Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer and tinkerer who draws, photographs, cuts, prints, codes, and creates a variety of designed things for herself and others.
Hirsch Perlman’s lecture will draw from his latest work, and his developing thought about art and embodiment, and why we cannot help but make meaning, metaphors, and narrative out of anything and everything from simple wood blocks to piles of garbage.
B★A Presentations are short, five minute artist talks where undergraduate art students can present their work to the CMU community and beyond and be inspired by what their fellow students are doing.
This show is an examination of things that are overlooked or considered to have little or no value. Mairead Dambruch BFA '20 will be showing a collection of oil paintings and illustrations she's been working on this past academic year.