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Mercedes Pérez-Shillington – “Your job is really cool but you're like really dusty,” a child says to me. They are right, working on the open dioramas for “...
Jon Krippe – Jon Krippe, Museum Studies intern at the University Art Gallery, Fall 2023           What do an influential Caribbean novel, a...
Sarah El-Hefnawy – Intern at the O’Brien Foundation for American Art - Fall 2023 As a Museum Studies student at Pitt, I only saw career options...
Molly Holz – This fall I did my internship through the Nationality Rooms, located in the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh...
Emma Whittaker – Interning with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) this semester has allowed me to learn more about local artists and...
Emma Carpenter – Museum Studies (Editorial) Intern at Bunker Review - Fall 2023 As an editorial intern at Bunker Review, an influential online...
Ella Fosse – Museum Studies Intern at Hillman Archives and Special Collections – Fall 2023 This fall semester, I was given the opportunity...
Bea Palonder – Museum Studies Intern at the Senator John Heinz History Center – Fall 2023 I was very fortunate that my experience at the...
Ashley Choi – Museum Studies intern at the University Art Gallery  Walking into the Frick Fine Arts building, I couldn’t help but be...
Allison Lamonica – Education Intern at the Mattress Factory – Fall 2023 When I was younger, I wanted to be an art teacher because I enjoyed...
Abby Dzwik – Museum Studies Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History – Fall 2023 My experience at the Carnegie Museum of Natural...
Layne Shaffer – Fine Foundation Summer Fellow at the Office of Public Art, 2023 Standing in green fields with the woods and wind surrounding...
Charlie Taylor – My work with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh this summer brought me into contact with living Pittsburgh artists, but also...
Audrey Desnain – Most people associate Hartwood Acres with its mansion, amphitheater, and large network of wooded trails. Fewer people go to...
Wendy Red Star’s The Soil You See
Kirk Savage – At the end of August, I had the good fortune to see a remarkable exhibition of six temporary outdoor installations on the...
A person stands in front of a large extra
Layne Shaffer – Fine Foundation Summer Fellow at the Office of Public Art, 2023 Standing in green fields with the woods and wind surrounding...
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, image by author
Kale Serrato Doyen – St. Paul's Cathedral, London, image by author I traveled to Europe for the first time this summer with the support of a...
Vuk Vuković – Wen-Ying Tsai in his studio at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, 1968–1971. Photo: Center for Advanced Visual Studies...
A student sits at a table holding archaeological objects
Mati Castillo – This past summer I was lucky enough to work at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s offsite collection facility, the Edward O...
A collage of exhibition catalogs, photos, and posters
Eindra Lin – How does an organization contend with its rich history while continuing to be the foremost proponent of its contemporary and...
Two people stand within large, upright metal panels that are situated outdoors
Audrey Desnain – When I first discovered the sculptures at Hartwood Acres, I didn’t know anything about abstract expressionist sculptures from the...
Three metal sculptures in white, red and blue, stand on a concrete dais. Three people stand looking at the art
Layne Shaffer – Who is Jack Youngerman? Who is David Von Schlegell? These were the simple – yet important– questions posed at the beginning of my...
A woman stands in front of a museum exhibit with artifacts, photos, and text panels
Maggie Shaheen – As a museum studies and anthropology major, I never envisioned myself spending so much time in the School of Public Health this...
A woman stand in front of a cinderblock wall planning the layout of images and artifacts for an exhibit
Lily Heistand – Material culture is a foundational element in creating identity in communities, big and small. Living my whole life in Pittsburgh...
Gertrude Quastler, Woman with Colored Scarf, Oil on canvas, after 1943
Nate Madden – Gertrude Quastler led a life that I thought could only exist in stories. She nearly died in her twenties from tuberculosis,...
A women stands behind a camera which is pointed at a hanging framed painting of a topless woman
Lilly Forrest – When I first arrived at the University Art Gallery, I was unsure of what my internship would consist of. I had never worked for a...
A women wearing gloves and holding a clipboard stands in front of a large open metal cabinet with a drawer of ceramic artifacts pulled out
Elizabeth Dragus – In our world today, it is easy to imagine a material like plastic will be around forever. Plastic waste is one of the top reasons...
a collage of three images. Two images are of colorful beaded Peruvian outfits. The middle photo is of a woman holding an ornate headdress
Mati Castillo – I first heard of the Latin American Cultural Center during my sophomore year at Pitt when I saw the sign that said, “Latin...
A collage of three images. Two images are of a piece of cardboard with blue tape creating a layout. One image is of a woman using a straight edge to cut along the cardboard
Chrislynn Brownlee – During my academic career as a University of Pittsburgh undergrad, I have taken many art classes that have allowed me to analyze...
Three photos of a white-walled gallery with brightly colored three dimensional artworks on the walls. In two of the photos, a woman dressed all in black stand in the gallery
Toni Brayo – In the historic Mexican War Streets in the North Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh, a quaint art gallery occupies the corner of...
Three student prepare a table of framed works to hang on a wall. One student is smiling at the camera
Samantha Bonawitz – Jonas Salk’s development of the polio vaccine in 1954 went on to impact people around the world, from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles...
A woman uses tools to delicately clean a primate skeleton
Jenna Anderson – For a long time, I used to see natural history museums as spaces perpetually frozen in time, purposefully organized so that...
Three images of public art installations by Ned Smyth in Allegheny Landing. First image of Mythic Source, a stylized fish painted on the ground with a shadow figure in frame. Second image is a rear view of Piazza Lavoro, a large stone structure with arches through which the yellow bridge and cityscape can be seen. Third image is a close up through one of the arches with green grass in foreground and yellow birdge and skyscrapers in background
Samantha Wert – At the center of the Allegheny Landing site are “Piazza Lavoro” and “Mythic Source”, two sculptures created by Ned Smyth, a New...
Diana Flatto – Taking advantage of the mobility of printed materials via the international postal system, cultural producers forged...
Poster for HAAARCH 2023
HAAARCH!!! is an annual showcase that features the accomplishments of our undergraduates in the History of Art and Architecture,...
Odessa Patmos – This past semester, I had the amazing opportunity to intern at Pittsburgh Glass Center, a creative hub for glass artists to...
Angela Nolan – In my work at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP), I have contributed to this organization's unique perspective on the...
Pierce Mitchell – This semester I had the opportunity to work at the University Art Gallery, also known as the UAG, where I was able to create my...
Morgan Meer – Just as scuff marks on a shoe can show an owner’s love, or a thread-bare shirt reveals its favored status, fingerprints left...
Celia Maiers Cubas – When walking through a museum, have you ever wondered what it would be like to climb into and touch the displays? Well, during my...