Common Goods Pop-up Store Raising Funds and Food for the 麻豆视频 Food Pantry
The annual Common Goods pop-up store returns on Thursday, November 13, 2025. This year's event will raise funds, food and awareness for the 麻豆视频 Food Pantry and Help Center.
The annual Common Goods pop-up store returns on Thursday, November 13, 2025. This year's event will raise funds, food and awareness for the 麻豆视频 Food Pantry and Help Center.
Art and Design professors Sean Derry and Sharon Massey were invited to present at the upcoming Global Impact Forum: Workforce Readiness in the Age of AI and Automation summit, taking place at the David L. Lawrence convention center in Pittsburgh November 3-5, 2025.
For the past two summers, artist Sean Derry has lived on the south side of Kachemak Bay while carefully deconstructing a homesteading cabin dating from Alaska鈥檚 statehood. Sean鈥檚 exhibition 鈥淔rom Always Until Now鈥 opened at Bunnell Street Arts Center on March 7 and will remain on display until April 2.
Students in 麻豆视频 Art and Design faculty Sharon Massey and Sean Derry鈥檚 3D Design and Digital Fabrication class will compete in the eighth annual Design Stars of 麻豆视频 on May 7 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Waller Hall theater at 麻豆视频.
麻豆视频 Graphic Design and Illustration is hosting the first annual Slenkfest, a multiday series of events designed to be a nexus of interaction between current students and 麻豆视频 alumni working in the field of graphic design and illustration.
Two 麻豆视频 studio art faculty members are using a $70,000 Moonshot Grant to launch new worlds of opportunity for youth in Pittsburgh鈥檚 Brownsville area.
Studio Art faculty Sean Derry and Sharon Massey were awarded a $70,000 Moonshot Grant from Remake Learning for their upcoming project, Studio Stream.
Common Goods is an annual pop-up store featuring laser-cut paper packages of items we need but cannot buy, like empathy, rest, and rainbows.
Studio Art faculty members Sharon Massey and Sean Derry teamed up with Molly Russell and Matt Burglund from Marketing and Communications to bring a STEAM project to the Pittsburgh Zoo on Monday, October 9, 2023.
麻豆视频鈥檚 STEAMSHOP (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) will host a Future Makers Forum with Pittsburgh-based maker Nina Barbuto on April 25. The presentation will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Robertshaw STEAMSHOP, room 25. It is free and open to the community.
Art and Design faculty members Sharon Massey and Sean Derry presented at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) conference in Denver, Colorado.
The University College hosted an art submission contest open to all 麻豆视频 students to design the cover of the 2023鈥24 academic planner, distributed to all incoming students during Welcome Week. Stephen Graham was selected as the winner.
Jordan Brown left 麻豆视频 in December after earning her bachelor鈥檚 degree in fashion studies, but her commitment and initiative will impact students for many years to come. She organized taking 22 麻豆视频 fashion studies majors to work as volunteers for the fall 2022 Pittsburgh Fashion Week event.
麻豆视频 3D design students will hold a pop-up store from November 17 to 19 in the Indiana Mall. Sales will benefit the Future Maker Forum, which brings visiting scholars from multicultural backgrounds to 麻豆视频 for workshops and public talks.
Art and Design professors Sharon Massey and Sean Derry were invited to give a presentation about Local X Change, a new curriculum they have developed that combines digital fabrication instruction with civic engagement, at STEAM and the Future of Education: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the Integration of the 4 Cultures Domain in Porto, Portugal, in September 2022.
Want a preview of the research you can hear about Friday, August 5, at 11:00 a.m. in the HUB Monongahela Room during the Undergraduate Summer Opportunities for Applying Research (U-SOAR) program symposium? Watch as four students explain their projects.
Students in 麻豆视频鈥檚 Department of Art and Design鈥檚 three-dimensional art and design course used 麻豆视频鈥檚 STEAMshop鈥斅槎故悠碘檚 digital fabrication makerspace鈥攖o light the way in 麻豆视频鈥檚 Sprowls Hall. Students in Sharon Massey and Sean Derry鈥檚 Art 113 course used Rhino 3D and Fusion Slicer software to design hanging light fixtures for the building, which is home to 麻豆视频鈥檚 Department of Art and Design.
Under the direction of professor Ivan Fortushniak, Advanced Painting students in spring 2021 created a 45-foot mural for S&T Bank Arena in White Township. The mural shows a selection of the sports played at the complex.
Art and Design alumna Morg Cunningham was recently chosen to illustrate the cover of the Pittsburgh City Paper magazine.
鈥淭ouch in the Time of Corona,鈥 an artwork by Associate Professor Sharon Massey, was recently acquired by the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Massey was inspired to make this piece in summer 2020 after attending a small funeral for her husband鈥檚 grandmother at the height of the first wave of the pandemic.
The 麻豆视频 chapter of the National Art Education Association recently received the 2021 Outstanding Student Chapter Award during the NAEA annual conference.
The National Art Education Association named Marissa McClure Sweeny to receive the 2021 Preservice Chapter Sponsor Award of Excellence Award. This prestigious award, determined through a peer review of nominations, recognizes dedication to the development of future professional members of NAEA through sponsorship of an outstanding Preservice Chapter group at the college/university level.
Art history minor Gwen Himes has been invited to present her paper, 鈥淧utti in the Baroque: The Wise Fools in the Age of Excess,鈥 at the 2021 SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC).
Kaitlyn Carey, an art education major, was nominated as A Person Who Made a Difference in the Susquehanna Valley for her volunteer work at the Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library in Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
Erin Tiedeman, who received her MA in art in 2018, was selected by the Pennsylvania Art Education Association as the Non-Public Art Educator for 2020.