Artists on Art Gallery Talks: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Get to know the intriguing artists behind the work in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 100th annual exhibition. Join AAP award winners for a gallery talk on their art and on the works of their peers.
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Culture Club: “A Brief History of…” A Two-Minute Film Festival
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Food and drink available at 7:30 p.m.; film screening in the Sculpture Court begins at 9:30 p.m.
Culture Club goes late night! Start with a visit to Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation. Then enjoy drinks, summer fare, and a screening of two-minute films submitted by you. Two drink tickets are included with admission; picnic dinner is available for purchase.
Culture Club: Building Beauty
Happy hour has never been so interesting. Start with a drink at 5:30 p.m. and then join in a salon-style conversation in the exhibition Design Competition: New Cottages at Fallingwater starting at 6 p.m. Raymund Ryan, curator of architecture, and Cara Armstrong, curator of education at Fallingwater, tackle issues of aesthetics in architecture. Cocktails continue through 9 p.m.
Culture Club: Political Satire Then and Now
Happy hour has never been so interesting. Start with a drink at 5:30 p.m. and then join in a salon-style conversation in the exhibition Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners starting at 6 p.m. Amanda Zehnder, associate curator of fine arts, Rob Rogers, political cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Timothy Haggerty, Director of the Humanities Scholars Program at Carnegie Mellon University, discuss the intersection of art and satire. Cocktails continue through 9 p.m.
Lunch & Learn: Landscape Nature Painting
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Meet at the Frick Art and Historical Center for a tour of the exhibition Small but Sublime, featuring small 19th-century American landscapes. Then return to Carnegie Museum of Art for lunch and a tour focusing on artists’ personal reactions to nature from 19th century to the present.
Lunch & Learn: Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners
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Aaron Sheon, Professor Emeritus, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, explores the humor and social criticism of 19th-century artist Honoré Daumier. After lunch, Amanda Zehnder, associate curator of fine arts, leads a guided tour and discussion in the exhibition Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners: Works on Paper from the 18th through 20th Centuries.
Lunch & Learn: Expressive Surfaces in Clay
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Rachael Delphia, assistant curator of decorative arts, leads a tour focusing on ceramic forms and surface decoration. After lunch, go to the ceramics studio for a demonstration of underglaze painting, slip trailing, incising, and more. Then try your hand decorating your own ceramic tile or dish.
Artists on Art Gallery Talks: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Get to know the intriguing artists behind the work in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 100th annual exhibition. Join AAP award winners for a gallery talk on their art and on the works of their peers.
Lecture: Modernist Impulses: From Arts and Crafts to the Atomic Age
Presented by Rachel Delphia, assistant curator of decorative arts, this is the third lecture in a series exploring the evolution of design, from the Rococo to the streamlined simplicity of Modernism to the innovations of today.