Education
Ashley Andrykovitch, ASSISTANT CURATOR OF EDUCATION | May 1, 2013
We just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday, April 14 to mark the opening of The Art Connection Annual Student Exhibition! Check out the video to see our student artists hard at work in the museum’s studios as they prepared for this year’s exhibition. Throughout the school year, students in grades 5–9 worked through the…
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April 15, 2013
“A good haiku is like a finger pointing at the moon; once you’ve seen it, you no longer need the finger.” Ever wonder about haiku, where it came from and what it really is? Come on out to this week’s Culture Club on Thursday April 18 for happy hour (5:30–9 p.m.) and a gallery conversation (6– 7 p.m.). Listen to some classic…
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Ashley Andrykovitch, assistant curator of education | February 27, 2013
When I’m not working on CMOA’s Kids and Family Programs, I’ve been working on my own art and technology endeavor, The App Expo, with fellow artist Ashley Andrews. This weekend, we teamed up with Google programmer and fellow artist, Ciarán Ó Conaire and entered the first ever Steel City Codefest, a 24-hour app making competition at Google’s Bakery Square offices….
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Ashley Andrykovitch, Assistant Curator of Education | December 10, 2012
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh, and the Mayor’s Youth Council recently teamed up to present Wallflowers and Wildflowers, an alternative homecoming dance for local high school students. The sold-out event was held in Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Botany Hall and Halls of North American and African Wildlife, and it was attended by a…
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Ashley Andrykovitch, Assistant Curator of Education | November 14, 2012
“Not-so-silent-awe” is how I might describe high school students’ collective reaction to Cory Arcangel: Masters on Saturday, November 3. Maybe they were surprised to find familiar imagery from Nintendo and YouTube in the museum’s Forum Gallery, or maybe they were overcome by inspiration… Or maybe it was the artist himself, who led a gallery talk about his work on view…
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Marilyn Russell, Chair & Curator of Education | November 2, 2012
Visitors getting creative at the Natural History activity station BACKGROUND Carnegie Museum of Art shares its historic building with Carnegie Museum of Natural History. While these are two entirely distinct museums with separate staffs, boards, and programs, for many Pittsburghers the sprawling building we occupy is simply “The Museum” where one can see paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and contemporary…
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Ian Finch, Associate Editor, Publications | April 27, 2012
Just like Andy Warhol, Duane Michals, Philip Pearlstein, and others before them, many young artists from the region get their start in our studio classes, designed for students in grades 5–9. The Art Connection Annual Student Exhibition is a chance for these artists to share their vision, and the diversity of materials and styles currently on display in the Hall of Sculpture is pretty astounding. The exhibition features…
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Ian Finch, Associate Editor, Publications | March 30, 2012
To celebrate the completion of our after-school photography program, nearly 200 program participants, family members, and friends recently visited the Picturing Me Youth Exhibition in the Forum Gallery to see the work of these amazing young photographers firsthand. Attendees also visited Carnegie Music Hall to hear from J.G. Boccella, Picturing Me program manager; Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art; and Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Martha…
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Tracy Myers, curator of architecture | October 7, 2011
A few weeks ago, my colleague Marilyn Russell, CMA’s curator of education, and I were in Rome to participate in a conference. Of course, like cultural tourists from the world over, we visited the Pantheon—the domed, porticoed monument built c. 118–128 CE that has inspired architects for literally centuries. Despite—or probably because of—its decrepitude, the Pantheon took our breath away….
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Justin Hopper | July 1, 2011
Architect Joseph Victor Vanderbilt’s 1926 drawing of the Marquette National Bank in Minneapolis, currently on view in the Heinz Architectural Center (HAC) at Carnegie Museum of Art, is loaded with gorgeous period detail. From the Art Deco eagle motif crowning the building, to the ornate clock hanging over its entrance and the Gatsby-ish fur coats and Model T Fords of…
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