Latest Posts
April 22, 2025
Louise Matthews –
After exploring Aaronel deRoy Gruber’s jewelry collection last summer, I have now been tasked with recontextualizing her work as...
April 22, 2025
Lindsey Kenny –
Imagine yourself standing in front of an exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Images of Indigenous people in...
April 22, 2025
Kaiya Kubasik –
Goblins, two-foot-tall marionettes, and dozens of hand puppets are in the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s storage, just waiting...
April 22, 2025
Catherine Spiller –
After hearing that I was going to intern at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh last December, I spent the whole winter break...
April 22, 2025
Holly Murphy –
The internet has made it easier than ever to identify unknown works of art without knowing the artist or title. During my...
April 22, 2025
Jonathan Casper –
From tiny land snails to massive seashells, my time in the Mollusks department at the Carnegie Museum showed me just how much...
April 22, 2025
Harper Morrison –
I have a confession: before my internship, I did not know who Jonas Salk was. Upon polling my peers, I discovered that I was not...
April 22, 2025
Matthew McCullough –
In the age of information and digitization, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is still catching up to ever-evolving...
April 22, 2025
Anuja Kumbhardare –
Walking into the Malta Foundation, I never expected to find an image of India hung prominently on the wall. Made by Pittsburgh-...
April 22, 2025
Paige Colón –
People experience art in different ways, and some may not get to experience art at all. With the goal of shaping more meaningful...
April 22, 2025
Mikayla Krisanda –
At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) there are many ways for visitors to make their way around the museum. Through my...
March 23, 2025
Museum Studies Interns –
For this interview, current Pitt students interviewed two alumni from the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the...
March 23, 2025
Museum Studies Interns –
For this interview, current Pitt students interviewed two alumni from the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the...
January 8, 2025
Rebecca Lowery –
I would like to offer a reflection on the matter of language learning as it relates to Reparation in the wake of a summer program...
December 16, 2024
Sydney Christofer –
As an intern working with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh in Fall 2024, I delved into a new artistic landscape, gaining...
December 14, 2024
Cora Branch –
Did you know that the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has over three thousand dolls in its collection? I was certainly not...
December 14, 2024
Oliver Petersen –
Did you know that the Carnegie Museum of Art has a collection of 19th and 20th century wallpaper? Well neither did the Carnegie...
December 14, 2024
Ziyi Xu –
One afternoon early in my internship at the University Art Gallery (UAG), I stood in front of a captivating Chinese print titled...
December 14, 2024
Kelsey Shuck –
One of the most memorable moments I had during my internship at the Moonshot Museum was trying to explain how one of the...
December 14, 2024
Emily Moorey –
The Heinz History Center's Detre Library and Archives takes great pride in preserving the history of Western Pennsylvania.Within...
December 14, 2024
Raven Mattiko –
In a visible lab at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH), conservators and volunteers work hard to conserve planks of...
December 14, 2024
Caillie Kracht –
“So, I was thinking of putting the G.I. Joe paraphernalia on the bottom shelf, then definitely the Barbie box set up here…”. I...
December 14, 2024
Leighton Curless –
If you walked through the first-floor staff hallway at the Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) in October, you most likely would have...
December 14, 2024
Julia Bowe –
There was nothing more captivating than knowing that the artwork in my hands was painted at the bottom of the ocean. The Carnegie...
November 15, 2024
Museum Studies Interns –
For this interview, current Pitt students interviewed three alumni from the Department of History of Art and Architecture to...
November 7, 2024
Maggie Shaheen –
Pittsburgh: a city of bridges, a historical industrial powerhouse, and a 21st-century hub of growing educational, health, and...
November 6, 2024
Museum Studies Interns –
For this interview, current Pitt students have interviewed two alumni from the Department of History of Art and Architecture to...
October 30, 2024
Shelby Kim –
Earlier this summer, I attended my first field school. I spent a month digging in the dirt at Lechaion Harbor in Corinth. Every...
October 29, 2024
Layne Shaffer –
It’s not every day that you get to do it all. It’s not every day that you get to work with twenty-four artists – all the passion...
August 23, 2024
Louise Matthews –
Can a piece of jewelry also be a sculpture? Can artwork be wearable? These were among the questions that the work of Pittsburgh...
August 9, 2024
Saige Rucker –
On February 18, 1976, painter Frank Mason (1921-2009) led a group of around fifty protesters to the steps of New York’s...
August 8, 2024
Zixiao Huang –
“Where are you from?” Nicolas Trigault, in his Daopao, of 1617, politely asks the Fonthill Vase of 1300 in the National...
August 8, 2024
Shawn C. Simmons –
Jasper Johns working in his East Houston Street studio on Map (Based on Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Airocean World), December...
August 8, 2024
Rebecca Lowery –
What does it mean to translate something? And what does this have to do with space and place?
The initial question that I...
August 8, 2024
Monica Daniels –
Carrie Mae Weems, “A Broad and Expansive Sky-Ancient Rome, 2006.”
As the spring semester of 2024 approaches completion, I...
August 8, 2024
Emma C. Roberts –
From Paul Goodman, Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals (1962).
During the spring of 2024, I was a member of the graduate...
August 8, 2024
Cecilia Muzika-Minteer –
Sonia Boyce, In the Castle of My Skin, 2020, sculpture, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK.
We are all reading the earth,...
August 8, 2024
Camila Aguayo –
Damaris Cruz, Recolectando la Semilla, 2017, Calle Aurora, Ponce, PR.
Memory is something the majority of us take for granted...
August 8, 2024
Amrita Vinod –
Figure 1. A Digital Artwork Blending Different Photographs of Landscapes. Amrita Vinod, “Landscape Collage,” 2024.
When...
August 8, 2024
Amelia Hansen –
For me, the conversations of this past semester’s Space & Place constellations seminar have been an opportunity to...