Open Mic & Easel: Pittsburgh’s first and only open mic and easel night is a truly interactive artistic experience that allows artists to perform, create, or observe in an environment where anything goes.
Installations (Bathroom & Windows): Our front windows provide unique exposure for a site-specific installation. The windows are on 24 hours a day, for 3-4 weeks at a time. The bathroom also provides an interesting venue for installations. These are up for up to 3 months, for maximum exposure. Applications taken on a rolling basis.
Guest Curator Series: Guest curators are chosen by an open call, and invited to create an exhibit at the space three times a year. Thought-provoking and innovative exhibits are encouraged, as well as the artwork of emerging artists.
Trespass Performance Residency: TRESPASS allows performance artists or groups of all genres to spend a week at FT developing, rehearsing, and performing their original work at no cost. Trespass occurs twice a year, once in the winter and once in the summer, for 3 weeks at a time.
Future Ten - Ten Minute Play Festival: Future Ten, our annual ten-minute play festival takes place once a year. Plays submitted from across the country, are chosen by a panel. Local producers, directors, and actors turn the plays to life.
Gallery Crawls, Special Events, and Group Shows: Occasionally, Future Tenant hosts a variety of programming including One-off events, concerts, and community-based arts exhibits, including ones for CMU’s MFA students, as well as City Charter High School students.