On April 30 at 7:30pm in Kresge Theatre, the School of Music presents Reaching Towards Abstraction - New Works by Audiovisual Composition Students. Featuring audiovisual pieces by John Kolar, Ari Liloia, and Hanzhi Yin, as well as Yu Miyashita and Zsolt Gyenes, Jesse Stiles and Scott Andrew, Austin Yip and Patrick Yim, and Derek Szeto.
April 16, 2023 @ 6PM
ACTIVATED ANAMORPHS + EXPLODED ENSEMBLE + PITT STUDIO ARTS
Variety! Variety! Variety! is an evening-length program of video, performance, experimental music, wearable sculpture and beyond - presented by an interdisciplinary team of CMU and Pitt students. Featuring all-new work by Activated Anamorphs, Exploded Ensemble, and Pitt Studio Arts.
Presented at The New Hazlett Theater ad based on the Book Perseverance: One Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Poland to America by Melvin Goldman and Lee Goldman Kikel
Adapted by L.E. McCullough
Directed by Art DeConciliis
Media Design by Scott Andrew
The world premiere of Perseverance brings to the stage a powerful memoir of healing and renewal. Few visitors to the G&S Jewelry Store in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood during the 1960s and ’70s were aware that the cheerful proprietor, Melvin Goldman, had spent his teens enduring the horrors of Auschwitz before arriving as a penniless refugee in postwar Pittsburgh intent on reshaping his family’s destiny and replacing Darkness with Light, one shop patron at a time.
Our first info event is this week Thursday 8.00 pm at the Frick Fine Arts Building Basement (B42) with multimedia artist Scott Andrew as our guest speaker. Professor Scott Andrew is a co-founder of The Institute for New Feeling and has exhibited at MoMA’s PopRally (NYC), Ballroom Marfa (Marfa, TX), the Hammer Museum (LA), and the J. Paul Getty Museum (LA), among many others.
We’d like to invite students and professionals from any creative, design, humanities, business or stem backgrounds who are interested in incorporating their disciplines with art or experiential storytelling. I request to share this invitation with your members of the mailing list or friends who might be interested in joining us this Thursday! Register Now: What is Collab Arts?
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Please join Studio Arts for a screening event in the Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, featuring Obi Mbu (The Primordial House) by Mikael Owunna and Marques Redd & select works by Alisha Wormsley. As part of the In Dialogue series mission, a conversation with the artists will follow the screening. The screening will take place on March 16 from 7:30-9:00pm with a reception prior to the screening starting at 7:30pm. This event will take place in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Room 125
I did media design for a performance at the New Hazlett Theater in conjunction with the Children’s Museum / MuseumLab and Mo Willems exhibition, featuring Kelsey Jumper and Treasure Treasure.
https://museumlab.org/event/opening-weekend-opposites-abstract-a-mo-willems-exhibit-both-days/
Join us for the annual STUDIO ARTS Fall Festival on Thursday, December 8th from 7pm-8:30pm in the Frick Fine Arts Building Cloisters and Auditorium. This pop-up exhibition and screening will Featuring Pitt Studio Arts and the Creators Collective student animations, videos, sculptures, paintings, photography, printmaking, drawings, and installations.
This fourth edition of Fail-Safe will create a dialogue about performance between Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh comprises two evenings of new and in-progress performance works by interdisciplinary musicians, performance artists, and dancers from these two cities. On both evenings, visiting artists will be preceded by a lineup of Pittsburgh-based artists whose practices share affinities.
On November 11th, Los Angeles-based artists Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye present a new experimental performance work from their series Rites of Matrilineal Dissent. The digitally mediated performance takes audiences through a journey of failure and discovery, of new selves and new bodies, and new forms of love and kinship. Pittsburgh artists include Caroline Yoo, Goofy Toof, London Williams, and MICHIYAYA Dance featuring Anya Clarke-Verdery.
On November 12th, visiting artist duo Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak) will present their cathartic music performance combining DIY and power electronics, mutated vocals, and bad drag to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies. Pittsburgh artists include Swampwalk, Samira Mendoza + The Universe Online, and Davine Byon. The performances will be followed by a dance party hosted by Formosa (Jellyfish).
Please be advised: these performances will explore the topic of sexuality and some may include nudity.
This event is co-organized between Fail-Safe and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, with financial support from the The National Endowment for the Arts, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts.
https://kelly-strayhorn.org/suitelife/
Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) is honoring our namesakes, 20th century entertainment legends, Billy Strayhorn and Gene Kelly at our 15th annual benefit concert Suite Life, Saturday, November 26, 2022!
Building on John Shannon’s 2021 reinvention of Suite Life, Kelly Strayhorn Theater invites you to experience the music of composer Billy Strayhorn and the imagery of performer Gene Kelly. Under the stage direction of Monteze Freeland (Co-Artistic Director of City Theatre) and musical direction of Akron-based Theron Brown, vocalists Anita Levels (a Pittsburgh favorite) with Kelsey Robinson and Treasure Treasure (Dance & vocals), James Johnson III (Drums), Jordan McBride (Bass), Reggie Watkins (Trombone), and John Shannon (Guitar) himself will have the audience swooning through an unmissable evening. With media design by artist Scott Andrew and lighting design by Jonathan Bucci Productions, Suite Life 2022 promises to carry the East End tradition with sizzling atmosphere.
TQ Live! presents a queer evening of dazzling performance, dance, poetry, comedy, resplendent fantasies, music, and more. This eighth installment of the annual performance series features artists and performers from the many LGBTQIA+ communities in the Pittsburgh region. Hosted by Joseph Hall, this year’s lineup includes performances by Yves (NYC), MICHIYAYA Dance, Corrine Jasmin, Soft Boy, Juiced up Joey, Flamming Creatures, Victoria L Van-Cartier, Manny Dibiachi, and Mara Bailey of “THE EXCLUSIVE HOUSE of MAKAVELI SHAKUR” (from HBO’s Legendary) with guest performer Jahmara ‘Tinky’ Younger, along with visuals by VJ ASS TROLL, and a dance party featuring HUNY. TQ Live! 2022 is produced by Scott Andrew, Joseph Hall, Suzie Silver, and sarah huny young, and is co-presented by Carnegie Museum of Art.
Food truck and bar on-site!
TICKETS: https://cmoa.org/event/tq-live-2022/
CO-PRESENTED PROGRAM
Co-presented programs at Carnegie Museum of Art support artists and organizations with physical space and program resources. These mutually supportive relationships create shared audiences, expand programmatic offerings and contribute to the rich cultural ecology of the region.
SUPPORT
TQ Live! 2022 is supported by the Opportunity Fund, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series, and The Center for Arts in Society. TQ Live’s Projections are sponsored and supported by the Video and Media Design Graduate program at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama.
Featuring @the_yvesdropper @corrinewho @mx.softboy @mannydibiachi @official_marabailey @ickyvickypgh huny young] @_juicedupjoey @michiyayadance with Flamming Creatures and VJ Ass Troll.
Organized by @suzie.silver huny young] @josephdanielhall and @fagnelly
And made possible by the Opportunity Fund, Carnegie Museum of Art] @studioforcreativeinquiry @cmu.vmd