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Alivia Pierce – Nantucket, Massachusetts is often presented as a picturesque landscape of maritime charm and coastal leisure. This image is...

Shawn C. Simmons – Recent visitors to the Frick Fine Arts Building may have noticed some big changes. The familiar quiet of the Cloister has given...

Jeffrey Shellenberger – Each of the University of Pittsburgh’s Nationality Rooms is a small version of a museum. Everything inside them, from cabins full...

Grace Marston – Given my career experience of defending an artist who makes copies, I immediately felt sympathy for Nicholas Lochoff (1872–1948...

Anya Hammer – Wandering through a gallery is an almost universal experience. It is difficult to imagine such spaces, typically seen with wall-...

Alexandra Speaker – Tucked away on the second floor Hall of North American Wildlife at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) is a sun-dappled...

Adaline Cooper – When I learned that the task that my supervisor had set out for me was to organize and digitize the donor files, I had no idea...

Liam Flynn – The Carrie Blast Furnaces at Rivers of Steel in Homestead are a dynamic historical site. They are remnants from the steel mills...

Eden Singh – Boxes and boxes, each filled to the brim with photos, letters, memos, and exhibit catalogues waiting to be seen. Each piece of...

Museum Studies Interns – For this interview, a group of current Pitt students in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Museum Studies...

Arina Isayev – As the seasons change and the year comes to a close, a certain development is quietly brewing inside the walls of the Carnegie...

Sofia LaRocque – One of the most challenging things that I came across while researching artists at Contemporary Craft was the issue of artist’s...

Sophie Wyszomierski – The Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair, or “PRSEF," is the Kamin Science Center’s largest event of the year. Almost...

Harrison Howell – Dan Darragh. It is not a name that would prompt many sports fans to jump out of their seats in recognition. He was a quarterback...

Loghan Hawkes – It is striking to discover how far you can go without ever leaving one building. This may be old news in the age of the internet...

Museum Studies Interns – For this interview, current Pitt students interviewed an alumni from the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the...

Shawn Simmons with Sam Dorsey and Holden Slattery – As visitors walk across the University of Pittsburgh campus today, they are surrounded by the work of Virgil Cantini, whose...

Anya Hammer – My introduction to the Worcester Art Museum as an intern began in the photo room crammed with white backgrounds, wires, and...

Ella Fosse – Picture this: the dead crawl out of the earth, some with burial shrouds still intact. They claw their way to the surface,...