Drop-In
Join a Carnegie Museum of Art docent for an interactive overview tour of Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International orienting you to the layout of the exhibition, the artists and collections.
Please join us for a celebration and first look at James “Yaya” Hough’s community mural, commissioned as part of Is it morning for you yet? the 58th Carnegie International.
Please join us for a public and free celebration of the exhibition Future Vision: Women of Visions from 6—8 p.m. at Carnegie Museum of Art on Thursday, June 2.
Look deeply at photographer Gordon Park’s images of the Penola, Inc. Grease plant and the people who worked there in Pittsburgh’s Strip District in the 1940s in the exhibition Gordon Parks in Pittsburgh, 1944/1946. Discuss Park’s documentation of the plant, its workers, and the range of their activities manufacturing lubricants to support U.S. military efforts during World War II.
What does labor sound like? Music has been central to how we work and the movements we build. Join us for an evening of music and a celebration of the exhibition in anticipation of International Workers Day (May Day).
Slow down and explore artist Zoe Zenghelis’s constructed worlds of imagination on view in Zoe Zenghelis: Fields, Fragments, Fictions. From seductive metropolitan formations and dystopian landscapes to floating buildings and cityscapes of disturbing stillness, this Art Chat probes what you notice and wonder about the exhibition.
Meet up with a docent and other museum visitors for a Working Thought Art Chat. Discuss how artists raise our awareness to the many ways economic disparity and labor have shaped American life past and present.
Through three design prompts in increasing levels of depth of thinking, the in-gallery workshop is meant to encourage visitors to brainstorm and ideate about what they want to make, how form influences an object’s connotations, and what role objects can play in their own lives.
Admission to Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History is free on Friday, October 30 for RADical Days.
Come hang out at the museum for a first date or a visit with your long-time love and explore our fascinating exhibitions together.
Join curator Hannah Turpin and the featured artists as we celebrate the opening of Counterpressures in the Forum Gallery with a free reception.
Join us for a day of family-friendly activities as we celebrate the legacy of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Join us in our galleries for hands-on art-inspired activities every weekend. Discover a new theme and a new group of artworks each week. Just drop in.
Join photographer Charlee Brodsky and curator Akemi May as they discuss the varied past and current fascination with the still life genre. Learn about the current exhibition, A Delight for the Senses: The Still Life, and discover Brodsky’s latest still life photography series, The Audacity of the Mundane.
Enjoy a lively conversation with a docent about the once-humble genre of still life painting, on view in A Delight for the Senses: The Still Life. Free with admission!
Tour An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018 with an expert docent! Go behind the art, ask questions, and learn about Johns’s prolific career as a printmaker.
Tour An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018 with an expert docent! Go behind the art, ask questions, and learn about Johns’s prolific career as a printmaker.
Admission to Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History is free on Sunday, October 13, for RADical Days.
Enjoy a lively conversation with an expert about the prolific career of one of America’s leading artists in An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018. Free with admission!
Join artist Margaret Honda and curator Eric Crosby to celebrate the opening of Margaret Honda in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum Gallery at this free event.
Performance duo slowdanger presents the premiere of a new collaborative piece. This interactive performance brings the audience into the experience via a new dance technology created in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University professor Robert Zacharias.
Enjoy a lively conversation with an expert about the artworks in A Pittsburgh Anthology, an exhibition highlighting the creative life of Pittsburgh. Free with admission!
Performance duo slowdanger presents the premiere of a new collaborative piece. This interactive performance brings the audience into the experience via a new dance technology created in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University professor Robert Zacharias.
Join us for an outdoor film screening this summer! We’re showing Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal thriller, in our beautiful sculpture courtyard.
Celebrate the Lozziwurm with a day of family fun! Have an art picnic in our galleries, then enjoy the summer sunshine with the colorful play sculpture in our front courtyard.
Calling all teens! Drop in to the galleries for conversations about art and contemporary issues led by our August Wilson Legacy Fund interns, take a scavenger hunt through the collection galleries, and try your hand at in-gallery drawing sessions at this free event.
Celebrate air quality awareness with us! Learn the history of Monet’s interest in the city, examine elements that affect Pittsburgh’s air quality, and discover ways to get involved.
How does an exhibition come together? Who decides which paintings are chosen? Meet assistant curator Akemi May for a casual discussion of Monet and the Modern City! This event is free with admission.
