CMU 2019 School of Design Exhibit
Dec 7-15, 2019

Dec 6, 6-8pm: Reception
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Join the CMU Design Seniors as they celebrate their accomplishments and share their most recent projects! The work featured in the show offers insight into the culmination of four years of study, pushing the boundaries of medium and method in the field of design.​

Sat, Nov 16, 2pm:
Bearance,a performance by 
Matty Davis & Ben Gould
at Braddock Carnegie Library
419 Library St., Braddock, PA 15104

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Presented as part of "This Skin of Ours," an exhibition on view at the Miller ICA, Oct 12 – Nov 17, 2019, Bearance is the culmination of a two-week residency by Matty Davis + Ben Gould at Braddock Carnegie Library.​

Bearance is the second work in an evolving performance collaboration between Matty Davis and Ben Gould that continues the trajectory set forth by "Carriage," a work that radically explores control and empathy. Beginning in solitude in the library’s gymnasium, the performance will use "Carriage" as an energetic and emotional primer, readying new territory for evolving desire and possibility. Harnessing tools learned through Davis and Gould’s commitment to shared challenge and discovery, Bearance aims to unbury and make felt relationships between sensation, structure and meaning.​

"This Skin of Ours," curated by Liz Park, features: Kader Attia, Matty Davis & Ben Gould, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Byron Kim, Kiki Kogelnik, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Wilmer Wilson IV.​

Matty Davis is an artist and choreographer originally from Pittsburgh, where his grandfather worked in the steel mills and his father’s plane crashed. He grew up as an athlete, north of the city in Cranberry Township. Often collaborative—with other people, the land, and histories—his multidisciplinary work begins with the body and the mining of physical and psychological resources. Unpredictable relationships and undertakings are navigated through risk, trust, and intimacy in search of personal and interpersonal transformation. His work has been presented recently at Palais de Tokyo, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Max Ernst Museum, and Printed Matter. He has taught movement and performance workshops throughout the US, and is excited to return home for this exhibition.​

Ben Gould is a visual and performance artist based in New York. After developing Tourette Syndrome four years ago, his studio practice has come to harbor a growing investment in the body—exploring resistance, the loss of control, and how energy is transformed and transferred. Gould has performed site-specific projects across the country, and his work has been presented by Palais de Tokyo, the Watermill Center, Human Resources, the Chicago Cultural Center, Judson Church, Sala Diaz, Creative Growth, and Open Spaces, among others. He was a 2015 Ox-Bow Fellow, and has been an artist in residence at Queens lab, Kickstarter Headquarters, Lightbox, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Thurs, Oct 31, 6:30pm:
Byron Kim & Carl Phillips in Conversation
in Simmons Auditorium A, Tepper, CMU. Co-sponsored by CMU, Center for the Arts in Society with support from University of Pittsburgh,Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
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Byron Kim & Carl Phillips extend a conversation that began in 2017 when the Pulitzer Arts Foundation brought the pair together to discuss Phillips’s poems and Kim’s paintings. Kim’s recent series of bruise paintings, on view as part of the exhibition "This Skin of Ours" at the Miller ICA, were inspired by Phillips’s poem “Alba: Innocence.” ​

"This Skin of Ours" is on view October 12 – November 17, 2019 at the Miller ICA. Curated by Liz Park, the exhibition features: Kader Attia, Matty Davis & Ben Gould, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Byron Kim, Kiki Kogelnik, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Wilmer Wilson IV.​​

Byron Kim is an artist whose work sits at the threshold between abstraction and representation, between conceptualism and pure painting. He received a BA from Yale University in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. Among Kim’s numerous awards are the Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY (1993), the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1994), the National Endowment of the Arts Award (1995), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1997), and the Alpert Award in the Arts (2008).

His works are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.​

Carl Phillips is the author of 14 books of poetry, most recently Wild Is the Wind(FSG, 2018), winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Publisher’s Weekly,in a starred review, called it “haunting and contemplative as the torch song for which the collection is named.” His selected poems, Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006, was published by FSG in 2007. Other books include The Tether (FSG, 2002), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Double Shadow (FSG, 2012), winner of theLos Angeles Times Book Prize, and Silverchest (FSG, 2014), a finalist for the Griffin Prize. A four time finalist for the National Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, his other honors include the Lambda Literary Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, for which he served as Chancellor from 2006-2012.

October 17, 5-6:15pm

Steiner Lecture Series: Morehshin Allahyari

Location: Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CMU CFA 111​

Lecture presented by Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, co-sponsored by Miller ICA.
This lecture is made possible by the Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series​

Join us for a reception of two exhibitions!

Friday, Oct. 11, 6-8pm
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This Skin of Ours  

Curated by Liz Park
Oct 12 - Nov 17, 2019

Artists: Kader Attia, Matty Davis & Ben Gould, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Byron Kim, Kiki Kogelnik, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Wilmer Wilson IV

The exhibition is a topical investigation of skin as a sensing and protective organ, an artistic surface, and a metaphor for the boundary between the self and the other, pain and healing.

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Intersections
Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Oct 12 - Nov 17, 2019

Featuring artists and collectives including: Addie Wagenknecht, Aman Tiwari + Gray Crawford, Angela Washko, Ayanah Moor, Bill Shannon + Cornelius Henke, Claire Hentschker, CLOUDS, Deep Lab, Jacob Tonski, Jill Miller, Jon Rubin + Dawn Weleski, Suzie Silver + Hilary Harp, Madeline Gannon, Moon Arts Group, Tahir Hemphill, Teenie Harris Archive Investigation, The Last Billboard, and the Warhol Data Recovery Project.

This exhibition is the culmination of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry’s support for projects that redefine the role of artists in a quickly changing world. For three decades, the STUDIO's laboratory has specialized in supporting emerging artists, faculty, staff and students who create and adapt new technologies, who reimagine social norms, and who instigate and advance culture into new frontiers.   Read more >>

Curator‘s Tour
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm

Site visits to local projects
​12-1:30pm

Exhibition information

An Atlas of Commoning: 
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+ 
June 29–Sept, 22

Designing for a Commons Transition Symposium

Sept 19 - 21, 2019
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A symposium in conjunction with the travelling exhibition An Atlas of Commoning by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in collaboration with ARCH+ and the CMU School of Architecture on display at the Miller ICA.

Thur. Sept 19, 6:30pm
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: Unwalling Citizenship at CMU Kresge Theater CFA
Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series in Creative Inquiry in collaboration with the CMU School of Architecture lecture series.
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Fri. Sept 20, 9am-4:30pm
Guest Lectures & Presentations in CMU College of Fine Arts 214
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Sat. Sept 21, 11am
Curator and Artist’s tour of An Atlas of Commoning at Miller ICA
Sat. Sept 21, 12:30-3:30pm
Bus Tour to local initiatives including
Food Coop (option to buy lunch), Construction Junction, Center for Creative Reuse and Community Forge. Tours and discussions with Francis Carter and Kate Safin, Mike Gable, Patrick Cooper.
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This symposium brings together diverse perspectives exploring the role and responsibility of architecture and urban design in the struggle for more pluralistic, radically democratic and just cities. At a time of Pittsburgh’s renewed growth, the commons perspective urges us to revisit the city's community design legacy, and explore how it might be reinvigorated in the face of rising inequity.

Speakers include Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Renée Tribble, Kristin Hughes and Mary-Lou Arscott, Tobias Armborst, Antje Steinmuller, Karen Abrams, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Terri Baltimore, Stefani Danes and Christina Howell. Organized and curated by Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline.

This event is made possible through the generous support the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series, the Carnegie Mellon University and ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).​

Curator‘s Tour
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm

Site visits to local projects
12-1:30pm

Exhibition information

An Atlas of Commoning: 
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+ 
June 29–Sept, 22

Designing for a Commons Transition Symposium

Sept 19 - 21, 2019
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A symposium in conjunction with the travelling exhibition An Atlas of Commoning by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in collaboration with ARCH+ and the CMU School of Architecture on display at the Miller ICA.

Thur. Sept 19, 6:30pm
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: Unwalling Citizenship at CMU Kresge Theater CFA
Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series in Creative Inquiry in collaboration with the CMU School of Architecture lecture series.
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Fri. Sept 20, 9am-4:30pm
Guest Lectures & Presentations in CMU College of Fine Arts 214
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Sat. Sept 21, 11am
Curator and Artist’s tour of An Atlas of Commoning at Miller ICA
Sat. Sept 21, 12:30-3:30pm
Bus Tour to local initiatives including
Food Coop (option to buy lunch), Construction Junction, Center for Creative Reuse and Community Forge. Tours and discussions with Francis Carter and Kate Safin, Mike Gable, Patrick Cooper.
RSVP on Eventbrite for limited Tour Bus Seats.
 

This symposium brings together diverse perspectives exploring the role and responsibility of architecture and urban design in the struggle for more pluralistic, radically democratic and just cities. At a time of Pittsburgh’s renewed growth, the commons perspective urges us to revisit the city's community design legacy, and explore how it might be reinvigorated in the face of rising inequity.

Speakers include Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Renée Tribble, Kristin Hughes and Mary-Lou Arscott, Tobias Armborst, Antje Steinmuller, Karen Abrams, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Terri Baltimore, Stefani Danes and Christina Howell. Organized and curated by Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline.

This event is made possible through the generous support the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series, the Carnegie Mellon University and ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).​

Symposium: Designing for a Commons Transition
Thurs. Sept. 19–Sat. Sept. 21

A forum for exchange between local and international practices of commoning

Designing for a Commons Transition SymposiumSept 19 - 21, 2019
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A symposium in conjunction with the travelling exhibition An Atlas of Commoning by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in collaboration with ARCH+ and the CMU School of Architecture on display at the Miller ICA.

Thur. Sept 19, 6:30pm
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: Unwalling Citizenship at CMU Kresge Theater CFA
Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series in Creative Inquiry in collaboration with the CMU School of Architecture lecture series.
View more details here.

Fri. Sept 20, 9am-4:30pm
Guest Lectures & Presentations in CMU College of Fine Arts 214
View full program here.

Sat. Sept 21, 11am
Curator and Artist’s tour of An Atlas of Commoning at Miller ICA
Sat. Sept 21, 12:30-3:30pm
Bus Tour to local initiatives including
Food Coop (option to buy lunch), Construction Junction, Center for Creative Reuse and Community Forge. Tours and discussions with Francis Carter and Kate Safin, Mike Gable, Patrick Cooper.
RSVP on Eventbrite for limited Tour Bus Seats.

 

This symposium brings together diverse perspectives exploring the role and responsibility of architecture and urban design in the struggle for more pluralistic, radically democratic and just cities. At a time of Pittsburgh’s renewed growth, the commons perspective urges us to revisit the city's community design legacy, and explore how it might be reinvigorated in the face of rising inequity.

Speakers include Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Renée Tribble, Kristin Hughes and Mary-Lou Arscott, Tobias Armborst, Antje Steinmuller, Karen Abrams, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Terri Baltimore, Stefani Danes and Christina Howell. Organized and curated by Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline.

This event is made possible through the generous support the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series, the Carnegie Mellon University and ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).

Rachel Mica Weiss: Held Together
CMU, Pittsburgh, PA

On view through December 13 

Opening Reception: 

Tues, Sept. 10, 2019, 6-8pm
Artist remarks at approximately 6:20pm

3rd Fl, MBA Commons. Tepper Quad, 

4765 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA

Held Together is a solo presentation of work by artist Rachel Mica Weiss. 
It features the artist's new bound obsidian boulder installation as well as two concrete Folds (2017) and a selection of pieces from her Frameworks series (2018).
 

The exhibition addresses relationships among structures that house the body, ranging from the geological to the architectural, from textile structures to our own psychological constructs. 

Held Together is the most recent exhibition of the EMERGENCE initiative. A collaboration between Accelerate and the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, EMERGENCE is an interdisciplinary leadership program unique to Carnegie Mellon University. Through a rotating series of exhibitions in the MBA Commons of the Tepper Quad, EMERGENCE helps students learn critical thinking, cultural literacy, and self-awareness by engaging with art in their everyday environment. EMERGENCE is made possible by the generosity of the Citrone family.  ​

Curator‘s Tour
Sat. July 27, 12-1pm
Sat. Aug. 24, 12-1pm
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm

Exhibition information

An Atlas of Commoning: 
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+ 
June 29–Sept, 22

Curator‘s Tour
Sat. July 27, 12-1pm
Sat. Aug. 24, 12-1pm
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm

Exhibition information

An Atlas of Commoning: 
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+ 
June 29–Sept, 22

Salon Series: Neither Public, Nor Private
Thurs. July 18, 6-8pm

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Respondents: ​Bekezela Mguni, ​Betty Marin, ​Emma Hedditch
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Facilitator: Dana Bishop-Root

Supported by The Heinz Endowments

In concert with the Miller ICA's current exhibition, An Atlas of Commoning, Neither, Public Nor Private will be a conversation that gives space to define both implicit and explicit rules around what makes public, and what makes private - while interrupting a binary of public and private to learn about how we practice, survive and locate our selves/community in all of the spaces in between. From multiple life experiences and disciplines we will ask how many publics can exist within a public and how many things become private when we assert a singular construction of public?

The Miller ICA Salons are facilitated topical conversations that include the general public and guest respondents whose life practice explores the chosen topic. The goal of these Salons is to engage in conversation and exchange across difference and discipline in free and public space. The 2019 Miller ICA Salons are a co-organized by the Miller ICA and facilitator, Dana Bishop-Root.

Free + open to the public 

Bios

Emma Hedditch (born in 1972, GB) lives in New York. Hedditch has worked with Cinenova, a feminist film and video distributor (1999–present), Copenhagen Free University (2001–2008), No Total, a site for performance (2012–2017) and Coop Fund, a member organized funding cooperative (2018- present). Hedditch has participated in group exhibitions including Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff, Artists Space (2018), Finesse, curated by Leah Pires, Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2018) and recently completed the project +493024345953 at KW in Berlin. Hedditch has published texts in Afterall, Mute Magazine, and Art Monthly, and contributed to the books Rereading Appropriation (If I Can’t Dance, 2015) and self-published work includes A Political Feeling, I Hope So, Coming to Have a Public Life, Is it Worth it? and the e-book of scripts, I Don’t Want you to Work as Me, I Want you to Work for Me.

Betty Marín is a cultural worker  from Wilmington, CA. Her work centers on creating educational spaces that encourage dialogue and solidarity between different communities. She is currently based in her home city of Los Angeles, where she continues to explore the theory and practice of popular education. She is a proud member of the language justice collective Antena LA, the pop ed and research collective School of Echoes, and the Los Angeles Tenants Union, which she helped found in 2015.

Bekezela is a creative, queer, Black Femme. She directs the Black Unicorn Library and Archives Project. She works to create libraries as sites of possibility, imagination and freedom. She celebrates memory and storytelling, and the relationship between literacy and liberation. Bekezela was selected as an Emerging Artist in the 2016 Three Rivers Arts Festival and won the Juror's Choice award for her visual artwork. She is currently a member of BOOM Concepts Studios and serves as the Education Program Director for Dreams of Hope, which affirms and uplifts the voices of LGBTQ youth through the arts and by building community spaces with queer and Trans young people in Pittsburgh.

An Atlas of Commoning
June 29–Sept 22, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION
Sat. June 29, 5:30-7:30pm

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+ Open Space Workshop: Commoning Pittsburgh
Sat. June 29, 1-5:30pm

Open Space Workshop
Sat., June 29, 1 – 5:30 pm
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The Open Space workshop, preceding the exhibition opening of An Atlas of Commoning, brings together community-led initiatives for building meaningful relations between people, places, and the environment in the pursuit of a more just and resilient Pittsburgh. The workshop provides a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge, and marks the beginning of a summer-long conversation around practices of commoning. Join us in building a network of initiatives that propose another possible world, and one which is already in the making.

For more information please contact Stefan Gruber at smgruber@andrew.cmu.edu

Not Neutral - Salon Series
Guest respondents: ​Deana Haggag, ​Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Alicia Grullon, LaTanya S. Autry

May 6, 6-8pm
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In his response to the Walker Art Center's call for New Year Resolutions, Anthony Romero makes a suggestion to arts institutions to: "Recall that your institution is not part of some distant European colonial past but remains part of the ongoing project of colonial domination and that your function as a bastion of cultural legitimacy and valuation is predicated not only on your participation in the enduring colonial project of displacement and erasure but those of capitalism, hetero-patriarchy, able-ism, and white supremacy, as well." This series takes up Romero’s prompt for it’s May Salon: Not Neutral. This discussion will focus on how institutional practices assume a neutrality of place, or experience, and will explore how these false presumptions of neutrality belie the complex and often violent histories and structures that maintain its existence.

The Miller ICA Salons are facilitated topical conversations that include the general public and guest respondents whose life practice explores the chosen topic. The goal of these Salons is to animate engaged citizenship through conversation and exchange across difference and discipline in free public space. The 2019 Miller ICA Salons are a co-organized by the Miller ICA and facilitator, Dana Bishop-Root, who is an artist living and working in Braddock, PA. 

Free + open to the public 

Bios

Deana Haggag is the President & CEO of United States Artists, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL. Before joining USA in February 2017, she was the Executive Director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting art museum in Baltimore, MD, for four years. In addition to her leadership roles, Deana lectures extensively, consults on various art initiatives, contributes to cultural publications, and has taught at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University and Towson University. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art and Illinois Humanities Council, as well as on the Advisory Council of Recess. She received her MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA from Rutgers University in Art History and Philosophy. 

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities (2012; 2016). His article “Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young–Joo’s The Murmuring, 1995” was published in positions: asia critique in 2014. Most recently, Kim co-edited with Christopher Reed the interdisciplinary anthology Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry: Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture (2017), which includes his essay on queer temporality and late twentieth-century sculpture, “Now and (N)ever: Robert Gober’s Beeswax Time Machines.” Kim is currently working on his next book, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, which advances current scholarly debates on subjectivity formation by reassessing the historical narrative of corporeal incoherence in images and objects. Artists Male Bodies Unmade treats include Aubrey Beardsley, Jean Cocteau, Francis Bacon, Robert Gober, David Hockney, and Andrew Ahn. Kim serves as President of the Historians of British Art, an international organization for scholars and curators specializing in British art and architecture from every area and period. In 2007, Kim received his Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where he worked with Linda Nochlin. His book “Picturing the Edwardian Family Man: The Nicholsons at Home” will be published in Art History in November this year.

As a cultural organizer in the visual arts, LaTanya S. Autry centers social justice and public memory in her work. In addition to co-creating The Art of Black Dissent, an interactive program that promotes public dialogue about the African-American liberation struggle, she co-produced #MuseumsAreNotNeutral, an initiative that exposes the fallacies of the neutrality claim and calls for an equity-based transformation of museums and the Social Justice and Museums Resource List, a crowd-sourced bibliography.

LaTanya has curated exhibitions and organized programs at Yale University Art Gallery, Artspace New Haven, Mississippi Museum of Art, Tougaloo College, and the Crane Art Center. Through her graduate studies at the University of Delaware, where she is completing her Ph.D. in art history, LaTanya has developed expertise in art of the United States, photography, and museums. Her dissertation The Crossroads of Commemoration: Lynching Landscapes in America, which analyzes how individuals and communities memorialize lynching violence in the built environment, concentrates on the interplay of race, representation, memory, and public space.

Alicia Grullón, a 2018-2019 Hemi Artist in Residence, directs her interdisciplinary practice towards critiques of the politics of presence, arguing for the inclusion of disenfranchised communities in political and social spheres. She is co-organizer and co-author of the People’s Cultural Plan, a coalition of artists, cultural workers, and activists responding to New York City’s first ever cultural plan in 2017. Her work has been shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, BRIC Arts, Spring/Break Art Show, and Performa 11, among others. Grullón is also a contributing author to "Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?", ed. Nicola Mann and Charlotte Bonham-Carter (Palgrave Macmillan, London) 2017 and "Building Communities through Socially", ed. Alice Wexler and Vida Sabbaghi (Routledge) 2019. Recent activities include the Shandaken Project inaugural artist residency on Governors Island and the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Alum program at 80 White Street. Grullón is an adjunct professor at The School of Visual Arts and City University of New York (CUNY).

April 18-24, 2019
Reception: April 19, 6:00-8:00pm
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Project Reviews: April 19-20

Join the CMU School of Architecture Fifth-Years to see the work of Thesis, the final year studio where architectural ideas are developed to operate critically within the discipline. The project installations illustrate challenging proposals that explore contemporary questions. During the exhibition, students will present their work for discussion and critique.

 

Join student Zain Islam-Hashmi on Thursday April 18th for a hands-on workshop of traditional earthen construction techniques as part of the project, "Dirt Forms."  Learn the basics of adobe brick-making and rammed earth, and leave your mark on the exhibit by making your own earthen pieces as part of the installation.  The workshop is free and open to the public, visitors can stop by anytime between 2-5:30pm. Pieces made will be available for pick-up closing day of the exhibition on April 24th.

Saturday, March 30
8-10pm / Kelly Strayhorn Theater
5941 Penn Ave

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“A carefully selected body of work responding to what it means to be Black in the 21st Century.”

—CCH Pounder

Co-presented with Miller Institute for Contemporary Art

With afrofuturist, afro surrealism and magical-realist aesthetics, the experimental short films in Black Radical Imagination highlight new stories from within the African diaspora. Fugitive Trajectories is the latest edition in the series, and this program meditates on the various ways Black people attend to their lives, despite traumatic histories—both personal and collective—and a troubling present. In addition to films curated by Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae, live performances by Pittsburgh luminaries share the stage to invoke powerful expressions of grief, kinship and the dynamism of Blackness and Black culture.

Co-founded by Erin Christovale and Amir George, Black Radical Imagination is a touring program of visual shorts that delves into the worlds of new media, video art and experimental narrative.

ABOVE, BELOW, AFTER, UNTIL
CMU MFA EXHIBIT
March 16–April 7, 2019

Artists: Nicholas Crockett, Joy Poulard Cruz, Shohei Katayama, Erin Mallea 

Reception: March 22, 6–8pm
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Featuring new work by 2019 School of Art MFA candidates, Above, Below, After, Until examines the dynamic relationships between land, labor, and cultural memory through experiential installation, sculpture, and video. In a moment marked by political and ecological precarity, the artists create spaces of ritual, reflection, and fantasy in search of moments of solidarity and human / non human kinship.

Generous Feedback
CMU 2019 School of Design Exhibition

Thursday, Feb. 21, 6-8pm: Reception

Join the CMU Design Seniors as they celebrate their accomplishments and share their most recent projects! The work featured in the show offers insight into the culmination of four years of study, pushing the boundaries of medium and method in the field of design.

WORKSHOP: Not The Only One
Sunday, Feb. 3, 3-5pm
BOOM Concepts, 5139 Penn Ave
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In this workshop artist, Stephanie Dinkins will talk the importance of black communities participating in the creation, testing and design of the AI future and the making of N'TOO, a voice interactive artificially intelligent storyteller trained on oral histories collected from the artist's family. Workshop participants will also have the opportunity to interact with the AI.

Related exhibition
Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI 
Curated by Elizabeth Chodos
On view through Feb 3
http://miller-ica.cmu.edu/exhibitions/#48/upcoming-paradox-the-body-in-the-age-of-ai

Symposium
Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI

Jan. 28, 5:30–8:30pm

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Organized by Eunsu Kang and Elizabeth Chodos

Panel members: Manuela Veloso, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sey Min, Jillian Mayer, and Kerry Doran.
 

This panel discussion explores the ways bias is inherently built into the structure and function of Machine Learning. In order to make predictions or identify patterns, AI requires that a person set specific instructions that have the potential to reinforce bias and oppressive social structures, particularly when ML is being used in everything from policing to determining someone’s credit score. This panel will also explore the role that contemporary art can play in challenging and refiguring these biases by calling into question the frameworks underpinning our assumptions. As ML and AI continue to influence more aspects of everyday life, conversations around how we can use these tools to undo harmful biases, as opposed to reinforcing them, is increasingly urgent. 

Guest Respondents: 

Jes Fan

Jes Fan is a sculptor whose interdisciplinary work is invested in the materiality of identity politics. 

Molly Wright Steenson

Molly Wright Steenson is a K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics & Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon & Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts. Related book available online "Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape".

Dustin P. Gibson 

In community with others striving for disability justice, Dustin is actively engaged in the struggle for freedom and liberation.

Please join us for the first Miller ICA Salon. We are excited to be in conversation with you. 

The first conversation will generate and evolve out of the current exhibition,  Paradox: The Body in Age of AI.

Our guest correspondants, Dustin, Molly and J will each be sharing points of reference and interest that they have.

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Miller ICA Open House

Sun., Oct. 14
12-6pm: Inflatable artwork by ClaireAshley outside the Miller ICA at CMU
1-1:30pm: Curator's tour of Paradox exhibit
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On Sunday Oct 14th Miller ICA will be hosting an open house, featuring a free curator's tour of Paradox and a Inflatable Sculpture by Claire Ashley that will be up for one day only! The open house will coincide with the Keyword International tour.  
 

Keyword: International Map + Bus Tour
Sun., Oct. 14, 1:30pm

As a part of the Keyword: Internationalinitiative, Miller ICAis creating a map of participating artist-run spaces, curatorial ventures, and projects. CDCP will offer one-day-only tours of these spaces on shiny yellow school buses! Enjoy an afternoon with the heART of Pittsburgh’s creative community.
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PARADOX: THE BODY IN THE AGE OF AI

Curated by Elizabeth Chodos 
Oct. 5, 2018 - Feb. 3, 2019

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event on all three floors

6–7pm: Autumn House Press Reading featuring Adriana Ramirez, Sherrie Flick, Judith Vollmer, and Toi Derricotte
7–8pm: Reception

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event on first floor