Kitty T-Shirt Collection

As a satellite to Kitty Kiddie Meow Meow, the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum is displaying Scott Andrew’s Cat T-Shirt collection through January 2013.

Collection Description: My interest in cat-based artwork goes back to the trapper keepers, stickers and lunch box designs of Lisa Frank, the psychedelic drawings of Louis Wain, Steinlen’s Chat Noir, and more recently both Marion Peck’s surreal paintings of kittens and Cyriak’s web video Kitty City.  

As my love for cats has grown, so has the international fame of internet cat memes and youtube videos. These virtual representations have seeped back into the physical world through clothing designs which prompted my sister to purchased the Kittytron T-shirt (shown in this collection) as a gift for me one holiday season.  This promoted me to begin collecting more and more whimsical designs until nearly all of my shirts involved cats.  Though I won’t have much to wear for the next few months I am excited to share my ever-growing collection of Kitty T’s with visitors to the museum.