Photo: A|L archives This workshop, led by instructor Marvin Touré, will provide participants with a three hour introductory course on mold making and resin casting, where you will receive basic knowledge of one-part mold making and casting techniques, all while making your own resin cast dice! Along with covering the foundations of safety, mold […]
photo: A|L archives Bread & the Contours of Capitalism Dinner Created by Chef Tunde Wey with collaboration from Chef Kate Romane A benefit dinner for ALMA|LEWIS Bread and the Contours of Capitalism is a dinner created by Nigerian artist, chef and writer, Tunde Wey with collaboration from Chef Kate Romane, owner of Black […]
Photo: A|L Archives Artist Tunde Wey’s public performance titled, My Son is Selling Bread in America, features the artist in a full body suit, embellished with fabrications of capitalism’s reward: glitter and gold. The artist is a visitor from a future, where disaster has created what resembles a prehistory. A place where growth is […]
Photo: A|L Archives Please join us at ALMA|LEWIS to celebrate the completion of Tunde’s artist residency. See his work and hear Tunde’s conversation with Kilolo Luckett, Founding Executive Director and Chief Curator, about his studio practice and time in Pittsburgh. Free and open to the public with recommended registration. Masks and proof of vaccination […]
Lizania Cruz, Portrait of a Detective in Samaná, 2022 Please join us at ALMA|LEWIS to celebrate the opening of Lizania Cruz: Performing Inquiry. Doors open at 6:00pm | Artist talk begins at 7:00pm Free and open to the public with recommended registration. Masks are required for entry. About the Exhibition: Lizania Cruz: Performing […]
ALMA|LEWIS presents a series of screens highlighting contemporary artists from around the world. Join us for “Constructed Race: From East to West” featuring artist videos from the ART21 archive about […]
In continuation with our series of screenings “Art Screening Nights”, ALMA|LEWIS presents “Our World: Nature and Nurture” featuring artist videos from the ART21 archive about Luchita Hurtado, Wangechi Mutu, […]
Join us for an in-person open house studio with our fourth Artist-in-Residence, Yaw Owusu. Stop by and meet Yaw in his studio. You’ll have an opportunity to hear him talk […]
Beatriz Meseguer/onwhitewalls.com © 2022 The Museum of Modern Art This workshop will guide participants through art-making activities that speculate a migration route of el bamboulá, a dance and music style, […]
Join us for an in-person opening reception and talk with artist and media designer Abdul Aziz. “In ‘Reclaiming Echoes: A Reflection of African Culture and Legacy' I aim to pay homage to Africa’s rich cultural heritage and legacy, as embodied by two important African-centric communities in the United States – Africatown and the African […]
Photo: Tara Geyer Join us in celebrating the completion of Yaw Owusu's artist residency! See Yaw's most recent works and hear him talk about his studio practice and time in Pittsburgh. You're in for a real treat! FREE with registration Yaw Owusu, photo by Tara Geyer Yaw Owusu (b. 1992, Kumasi, Ghana) is a visual artist who creates sculptural […]
Join us for a lecture with Alma|Lewis Fellow, Tyler Shine. Tyler will share some of his current research for his dissertation, “There Is No End to Out: Ecological Art in the Black Diaspora,” which explores the intersections of modernism, environmental history, and ecology through the work and careers of Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Martin Puryear, […]