"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.
"Familiar Terrain" is a multimedia show by School of Art sophomore Ema Furusho that explores surfaces of the human body as well as the materials we use to embellish it.
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.
Francis Stark’s deeply autobiographical practice centers on the mediation of self and the intimate spaces of communication. Her work spans many media including drawing, photography, video, collage, and mixed media painting, often combining text and imagery.
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.
Jenny Odell's work combines the mining of online imagery with writing and research, usually in an attempt to highlight the material nature of our modern networked existence.
"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.
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.
"A Scale of 1 to 10" by Jenna Houston BHA '18 is a three-channel video installation examining chronic vulvar pain in the context of the self and home.
"The Treachery of Birds" is an exhibition opera by Joshua Brown, featuring artwork by Lane Anderson, Alyss Weissglass, and Bernie Yu, and staring Colleen M. McGovern, Dante Horvat, and Loghan Bazan.
New paintings and sculptures by first year MFA candidate Jamison Edgar celebrate the queer desires embedded within childhood fantasy and curiosity.
The Shot for Shot Student Film Festival is a student film festival celebrating film and video work in the Greater Pittsburgh area.
School of Art students exhibit their best work from the year for the School's annual art awards exhibitions! Students may exhibit work in any medium in the critique space in Doherty Hall and in the College of Fine Arts' third floor hallways, foyers, Ellis Gallery, and forth floor loge.
Mimi Onuoha is an artist and researcher examining the implications of data collection and computational categorization.
Taking its name from a French publisher of school stationery, Claire Fontaine is an artistic partnership between James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, formed in 2004. Their work responds to global events, politics and society through the use and misuse of powerful symbols and status objects.
Ella Hepner BHA '18 and Matthew Constant BFA '18 have spent the past year working painting and drawing in iteration, using consistent physical and thematic constraints in order to produce a body of work that builds personal narrative through artistic habit and evolution.
is an elaboration through sculptural objects on the fullness of 'nothing'. Tsohil Bhatia MFA '20 brings together mundane, quotidian images observed over mediation in a domestic space.
Kaleidoscope XX, the 20th anniversary of the BXA Intercollege Degree Program student exhibition, will host a reception on April 27, from 4–7pm in the College of Fine Arts room 214.
SNOOZEFEST features subconscious electronic music by the CMU Exploded Ensemble performed amidst inflatable environments and sculptural forms created by the Inflatables & Soft Sculpture course.
Inspired by the physicality of sound, experimental musician Lesley Flanigan builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones, and speakers.
Students from the Art and Machine Learning course present their experimental artworks created in collaboration with machine learning algorithms.
"Family Meeting" includes recent work by current advanced Print Media students from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art.
Senior BFA and Interdisciplinary Art Degree students present their final projects spanning many media including painting, video, interactive works, sculpture, and installation. "Dot Gov" spans all three floors of the Miller Gallery.
"Shadow and Dust" is the first presentation of artistic research by Michael Charles Neumann MFA'20. Tracing bodies in a mixed reality performance, Michael investigates resistance, failure, time, and embodiment.
