90.5 WESA: Practically the last thing Andy Warhol did before he left his hometown of Pittsburgh for good, in 1949, was graduating from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Starting this month, the landmark North Side museum bearing Warhol’s name is hosting its first-ever exhibition by master of fine arts students from Warhol’s alma mater, long known as Carnegie Mellon University.
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I went to the Warhol Museum my freshman year as I was assigned the museum for my Pittsburgh Project by Susan in Basic Design and I had so much fun! I especially liked the silver balloon room. It is such a cool museum and very fascinating since it is the largest collection of items regarding one individual in the country, and it shows that Warhol was so obsessed with collecting items and creating time capsules. Warhol is such an interesting figure and one of my favorite plays I saw was The Collaboration with Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope about the collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, so it was cool to see his real life work after seeing a dramatized version of himself. I think it is awesome that the museum would let a show by CMU students be put on there and is great for the community and those artists.
This sounds like a dream come true for the MFA students who get to exhibit there! The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the museums that Pittsburgh is known for, and is featured on many a “what to do in Pittsburgh” list. To get to exhibit there would be a dream for any artist, let alone one who’s only just about to graduate. I wonder how long the exhibit will be there. It would be really cool if it were there all the way until next year when it is time for the next MFA group to exhibit. Something I especially love about this is that this opportunity was brought about from something of necessity. Since the normal building was closed, they found a creative solution to still allow the students to exhibit. I will be excited to see the new space they are building for students to exhibit in, but until then getting to exhibit in the Andy Warhol Museum is incredible!
I've never been to the Andy Warhol Museum. I do plan on going at the end of the semester, but I think it's so cool that they are incorporating some CMU art students' work into their installations. That's a very honorable and respectable thing to do. I just think it's super cool that students get to Showcase their art in local museums, especially the Andy Warhol Museum. As I'm looking at some of the pictures of their art, specifically the Bigness Bound by the time I'm looking at it and I feel like if I looked at this a year ago before this program, I wouldn't necessarily see it as artistically as I do but after taking a class like basic design, this is a really beautiful piece of art and very interesting the more I look at it the more detail there is within the fabric and the pattern and the lighting and the placement of this body it's just very intriguing and very exciting to see that CMU are students are being showcased at the Warhol museum.
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