Workshops
Free with admission! Join us in the Copy + Paste Copy Shop to create your own take-home plaster mold. This project is inspired monumental plaster cast collection in the Hall of Architecture. Get familiar with how these replica buildings were created!
Description: Join Carnegie Museum of Art and Assemble for an afternoon of drop-in activities for all ages inspired by the digital worlds of Ian Cheng.
Explore harmony in your behavior through a three-part drawing, writing, and creative exercise, designed for adult women and high school girls. This program is a project of The People Are The Light, a series of public art installations and workshops in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, curated by Alisha Wormsley.
Learn about the Black maker community in Pittsburgh and make your own craft. This program is a project of The People Are The Light, a series of public art installations and workshops in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, curated by Alisha Wormsley.
Join Art Cat for an all ages sketchbook adventure, Sundays in October! Just drop in—bring your family and your imagination. We provide the materials. Free with admission!
Learn how to weave, braid, and make natural beauty products. Contribute to a collaborative artwork as you immerse yourself in the techniques and traditions of hair art. This program is a project of The People Are The Light, a series of public art installations and workshops in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, curated by Alisha Wormsley.
Karen Howard of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project leads an evening of self-reflection and response to social issues and art works in 20/20 The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art.
Calm your mind, body and soul with yoga-based movements, restorative poses, relaxation techniques; nutritional support, and Universal Meditation following a conversation about social justice. This program is a project of The People Are The Light, a series of public art installations and workshops in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, curated by Alisha Wormsley.
Sing about and reflect on themes of black womanhood, deities, healing, love, and the future. This program is a project of The People Are The Light, a series of public art installations and workshops in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, curated by Alisha Wormsley.
Join 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art exhibiting artist, Melvin Edwards, to discuss his work and creative process.
Join us for a day of learning and exchange for and with educators inspired by the exhibition 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art. Five ACT 48 hours available through this program for eligible educators.
In this drawing workshop, artist Kori Newkirk lends his perspective to thinking about and making art. Newkirk is among the artists presented in 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art.
For this workshop, architect Arthur Lubetz uses the act of drawing as a fundamental basis for personal expression, guiding participants through investigations of the emotional relationships between people, places, experiences, feelings, and forms.
Join museum educators and curators for in-depth in-gallery conversations. This workshop examines technology as an artist’s tool, looking back to film, and forward to 3-D printers and digital output.
Carnegie Museum of Art and Girls Write Pittsburgh welcome girls ages 13–18 for a free writing workshop inspired by works of art at Carnegie Museum of Art.
Explore fashion, identity, and personal adornment with Pittsburgh-born fashion designer Tereneh Mosley, and find inspiration in the otherworldly dresses in Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion,.
Join Carnegie Museum of Art in collaboration with the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University for this year’s Pittsburgh Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon. The event aims to both encourage more female-identified editors as well as more contributions to entries on female-identified artists and creatives of all backgrounds.
This workshop focuses on creative writing inspired by the Carnegie Museum of Art collection. Get ideas for your own classroom as museum educators accompanied by a local writer guide you through exercises that ignite students’ creativity.
Join Pittsburgh-based fashion designer Tereneh Mosley and architect Philip Beesley for an extraordinary afternoon devoted to expanding the creative mind through drawing.
Chat with artist Andrea Polli about how observing, analyzing, and visualizing data can bring an artist’s eye to issues of conservation and the environment.
How can data visualization and public art become a motivating force in environmental conversations? Part of artist Andrea Polli’s Hack the Grid project.
Build your understanding of architecture as you consider what it takes to make a great social space. Concerts? Soccer? From porches to piazzas, explore public spaces on foot around the museum and in the galleries. Get inspired by creative spaces in Building Optimism: Public Space in South America. Construct an architectural model and work in groups to create a collaborative design.
Conservators are amazing. They can rescue damaged art from the brink of destruction, and their expert care helps prevent fragile works from literally crumbling to dust.