FUTURE TENANT PRESENTS A DYNAMIC VISUAL AND PERFORMING SEASON
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PITTSBURGH, PA –Future Tenant is excited to announce their thirteenth season, which will incorporate a diverse platter of themes. A total of 13 major exhibitions and performances make up this upcoming season.
inti.mate, a solo group exhibition by Sidney Mullis, focuses on a fictive animal kingdom, where invented animals perform mating rituals. Born in Virginia, Mullis is currently pursuing her MFA with a concentration in sculpture at Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. She is the recipient of the Graham Fellowship and Melchers Gray Purchase Award. This exhibition will be at Future Tenant from July 10 – August 9.
Our annual sought-after Trespass series, offers a residency for artists or groups who put their exhibitions at the space for a limited amount of time. Our first Trespass artist, Jakob Marsico, uses patterns created by traffic cameras to create a light and sound installation, called Traffic Lights. Jakob, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, is also an adjunct instructor there, and a member of the CoDe Lab in the School of Architecture. This exhibition will show from August 14 – September 13.
Future Tenant is a space for art, and it welcomes all types of art forms at the space. Throughout our season, Future Tenant holds their Open Mic Nights, which gathers local Pittsburgh artists to perform their musical arrangements. The first Open Mic Night will be held at Future Tenant on August 21, from 7-10 PM.
As a part of the Southeastern College of Art Conference Future Tenant will be hosting a Juried Show curated by Jessica Beck, Assistant Curator at the Andy Warhol Museum. Works selected in this year’s show represent the broad creativity of SECAC member artists from thirteen different states. This will be at Future Tenant from September 25 – October 25.
Arguably considered one of the more popular shows at Future Tenant is the annual ten-minute play festival, Future Ten. This year, Future Ten will embark on a comedic route and host six ten-minute plays. Ticket prices for Future Ten is $12, and performances will be held on November 6 at 7 pm; November 7 at 7 & 9 pm; November 13 at 7 & 9 pm; November 14 at 7 & 9 pm; and November 15 at 2 pm.
In addition to live visual exhibitions, Future Tenant gives two visual artists a chance to have window installations. The first, The Escape Artist, by Savannah Schroll Guz, shows the history of body alterations caused by corsets over hundreds of years. This window installation will be at Future tenant from December 11 – January 5.
New Year’s Eve is celebrated worldwide, and Future Tenant aims to contribute a lasting memory for families in Downtown Pittsburgh. This year, Future Tenant will host a performing group as part of Highmark’s First Night Event on December 31.
As a part of long-standing tradition with the Carnegie Mellon School of Art, Future Tenant hosts the CFA Show, which displays students’ artwork. This show is at Future Tenant from January 15 – February 14.
From February 28 – March 23, is our second window exhibition, Accretion. Produced by Julia Betts, Accretion is a life-size, fibrous sculpture made entirely of masking tape. Masking tape initially interested Betts because of its accessibility and affordability, but, while working with the material, it became attractive as a vehicle for repetition. Julia Betts is a Pennsylvania native who is completing her MFA in Rhode Island School of Design.
Creative Byproducts is a visual collision of the work by artists Anna Brewer and Sam Berner. The collaborative installation is the immediate extension of their regular conversations about a stifled American dream and its byproducts of social inequalities, environmental devastation, and creative voids. The exhibit would include colorful, interactive and fun work from each artist as well as one or two large collaborative paintings they have completed over the past year. Creative Byproducts will be at Future Tenant from April 22 – May 21.
Future Tenant’s final visual exhibition of the 2015-2016 season, New Order: Collage Now, is a group exhibition curated by Sonja Sweterlitsch and Mundania Horvath. This exhibition presents a group of artists that create new meanings through juxtapositions, finding relationships and contrasts in the world around them to form fresh ideas. This exhibition will be at Future Tenant from June 3 – July 3.
WHERE
Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
COST
Free except for Future Ten
GALLERY HOURS*
Thursday and Friday: 4-8 PM
Saturday: 12-8 PM
Sunday: 1-6 PM
*Additional gallery hours may be in effect during other arts festivals around Pittsburgh. Please refer to www.futuretenant.org for updated hours.