Gallery
"Making Faces: The Depiction of Women in Japan from Edo to Today" opens October 16, 2009
"Making Faces" is the culmination of a Museum Studies seminar taught by Eric C. Shiner, The Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum. Twenty-five students spent the early part of the semester learning about Japan, woodblock prints and curatorial practice, and then worked in teams to present this exhibition as part of their course credit. The group made all decisions relating to the exhibition, including theme, installation technique, lighting and wall panel design, and also wrote all label texts as part of this unique hands-on learning process. The wonderful prints on display come from the Barry Rosensteel Collection in Arizona, and we would all like to thank Mr. Rosensteel for his support of this project. Additional prints are on display in the Special Collections section of Hillman Library.
Exhibition opens Friday, October 16, 2009 at 6:30 pm in the University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building
Fall exhibition hours:
Saturday, October 17: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
October 19 to December 4: Monday through Friday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Gallery Information
The collections of the University Art Gallery include approximately 300 drawings, dating between C.E. 1500 and C.E. 1900; approximately 300 prints, including an exceptionally large collection of prints by the French 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot; paintings by well-known American and Western Pennsylvania artists, including Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt Peale, George Hetzel, Gertrude Quastler, Aaron Gorson, and William Gropper; paintings by modern Chinese artist, Ch'i Pai Shih, and selected paintings from past Carnegie Internationals.
Directors of this gallery have viewed their mission as providing space for the exhibition of Pittsburgh collections and works important for the history of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania history, for mounting exhibitions related to the international and social missions of the University, and for mounting exhibitions related to the teaching mission of the department, involving as much as possible its students, both graduate and undergraduate.
