logo
google_play
app_store
  • News
    • Northside Community Meetings
    • Community Calendar
    • Features
    • Public Safety
    • Police Blotter
    • Sports
  • Government
  • Local Business
  • Arts + Culture
  • Real Estate
  • Marketplace
    • Moments
    • Classifieds
  • Subscribe
  • Advertise
    • News
      • Northside Community Meetings
      • Community Calendar
      • Features
      • Public Safety
      • Police Blotter
      • Sports
    • Government
    • Local Business
    • Arts + Culture
    • Real Estate
    • Marketplace
      • Moments
      • Classifieds
    • Subscribe
    • Advertise
Warhol
Arts + Culture, North Shore
Nick Eustis  
 on June 26, 2017

Warhol programs, installations for summer museum goers

Photo by Bridget Fertal
Naaem Martinez, artist education at The Warhol, explains to museum goers how silk screen printing is done.

By Nick Eustis

Northside art lovers will be pleased to hear that The Andy Warhol Museum is offering a host of programs for the summer crowds.

A highlight of the Warhol Museum’s summer offerings is “Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen,” an exhibition displaying Warhol’s deep obsession with all things Hollywood.

Created by the Warhol’s Curator of Film and Video Geralyn Huxley, as well as archival consultant Matt Wrbican, this special exhibit contains hundreds of items, from Warhol’s personal belongings, to paintings, to films and television episodes. The collection meditates on the nature of celebrity, as well as Warhol’s relationship with his own fame.

“Stars of the Silver Screen” opened on June 16 and will be open through September 24.

The Warhol Museum also provides educational and interactive programs on a daily basis.

Gallery talks are offered twice a day by the Warhol’s artist educators. Guests are guided through the seventh floor of the museum, detailing Warhol’s early life, artistic beginnings in Pittsburgh and New York City, and the beginning of his interest in Pop Art. Of Pop Art, educator Marlon Fullenwider said “[Warhol] wanted people to know that anything can be art if you choose to make it art.”

Also offered daily in the museum lobby is a demonstration of how to make a photographic silkscreen print. Silkscreen prints were a favorite medium of Warhol’s as he could take photographs and make multiple versions of the image in a variety of color combinations.

As artist educator Naaem Martinez explained that silkscreens are created by stretching a piece of fabric, traditionally silk, over a frame, then coating that fabric in light-sensitive paint. Then, the frame and an acetate of a photograph are placed in an “exposure unit,” a box which forces light through the acetate and screen. This creates a copy of the image in paint on the screen.

For the young and young at heart, the Warhol offers an underground studio called The Factory, where visitors can try their hand at some of Warhol’s favorite techniques. Pick up an old-fashioned ink pen and make some blotted line drawings, or play with colored acetates and photographs to create your own Warholian souveniers.

Click here to learn more about the programs The Warhol has to offer.

this is a test{"website":"website"}

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter

* indicates required
Related Posts
Warhol Museum unveils new mural to celebrate 30th anniversary
Arts + Culture, Editor Picks, Event Coverage, ...
Warhol Museum unveils new mural to celebrate 30th anniversary
June 17, 2024
By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor *Editor’s note: For sake of transparency, the artist mentioned in this article, Laura Jean McLaughlin, is related to ...
this is a test{"epopulate_editorials":"Epopulate"}
Northside North Shore Chamber of Commerce holds annual luncheon
Business, Chateau, Editor Picks, ...
Northside North Shore Chamber of Commerce holds annual luncheon
June 21, 2023
By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor CHATEAU — It was a time of celebration for the Northside North Shore Chamber of Commerce on May 11, as the organizati...
this is a test{"epopulate_editorials":"Epopulate"}
Northside Happenings November 28 to December 1, 2019
Allegheny City Central, Historic Deutschtown, North Shore
Northside Happenings November 28 to December 1, 2019
By admin 
November 27, 2019
This weekend in the Northside, don't miss Thanksgiving dinner at Rivers Casino, The Royal Trio at Huszar, Small Business Saturday in the Northside, an...
this is a test{"website":"website"}
Northside Happenings November 21 to 24, 2019
Allegheny City Central, Allegheny Commons, Historic Deutschtown, ...
Northside Happenings November 21 to 24, 2019
By admin 
November 21, 2019
This weekend in the Northside, don't miss City of Play's inaugural Pittsburgh FireWalk, the STEAM Carnival at Children's Museum, and the Annual Sarma ...
this is a test{"website":"website"}
Northside Happenings September 26 to 29, 2019
Allegheny City Central, Allegheny Commons, Allegheny West, ...
Northside Happenings September 26 to 29, 2019
By admin 
September 24, 2019
This weekend in the Northside: a class about birds hosted by a National Aviary Ornithologist, CreativeMornings/PGH with Thaddeus Mosley at The Andy Wa...
this is a test{"website":"website"}
Northside Happenings September 9 to 13, 2019
Allegheny Commons, Allegheny West, East Deutschtown and Spring Garden, ...
Northside Happenings September 9 to 13, 2019
By admin 
September 12, 2019
This weekend in the Northside: The annual Autumn House Press fall fundraiser at Wigle Whiskey, a Star Party in Riverview Park, a meet and greet with t...
this is a test{"website":"website"}

Donate

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter

* indicates required

The Northside Chronicle

thenorthsidechronicle.com
Phone: (412) 321-3919
Email: editor@thenorthsidechronicle.com

About Us

Stay tuned with us

Copyright Northside Chronicle. All rights reserved.