Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Citizens Deepens Support for The Andy Warhol Museum with $200,000 Commitment to The Warhol Academy

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Citizens today strengthened its partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum by granting an additional $200,000 to The Warhol Academy, the museum’s initiative to empower economic mobility, further emphasizing the critical role of workforce development in building a strong arts and culture economy in Pittsburgh.

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  • Citizens today strengthened its partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum by granting an additional $200,000 to The Warhol Academy, the museum’s initiative to empower economic mobility, further emphasizing the critical role of workforce development in building a strong arts and culture economy in Pittsburgh.
  • The grant extends the Citizens partnership for a second year, creating new fellowship opportunities for young professionals and reinforcing Citizens as the largest corporate supporter of The Warhol Academy’s creative fellowships.
  • Citizens’ support will enable the creation of 28 new fellowships for aspiring artists in the areas of digital content creation, filmmaking and post-production.
  • The discussion, moderated by Morgan Overton, a Pittsburgh-based visual artist and Workforce Director for CREATE PA , also included an audience Q&A with The Warhol Academy fellowship alumni and local business leaders.

Climate Change Threatens North American Wildflowers

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Botanists from Carnegie Museum of Natural History and an international team of researchers warn of risks posed to North American ephemeral wildflowers caused by warmer spring temperatures in a recent study published in Nature Communications. Researchers surveyed data from 5,522 individual herbarium specimens collected from 1901 to 2020, representing 40 species from Asia, Europe, and North America, to analyze the phenological mismatch—or discrepancies in timing—between the leaf-out periods for understory ephemerals and deciduous canopy trees. The specimens show that sensitivity to spring temperature for wildflowers occurs across the three continents, but that canopy trees in North America are significantly more sensitive to spring temperatures and experience longer springs when compared to trees in Asia and Europe. This dynamic results in shorter spring light windows for North American wildflowers.

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  • This dynamic results in shorter spring light windows for North American wildflowers.
  • Botanists warn of risks posed to North American ephemeral wildflowers caused by warmer spring temperatures.
  • The threat compounds the documented human-caused risks facing North American wildflowers, which include increased deer herbivory, habitat loss, pollinator declines, and nutrient pollution.
  • "Our unexpected results, with North American wildflowers being substantially more at risk to climate change effects than wildflowers in Europe and Asia, highlight how important it is that this intercontinental research is conducted and how valuable herbarium collections are in this endeavor."

A New Era for CMU's Institute for Contemporary Art

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University will create a new facility that will more than double its gallery space for the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in a prominent new location thanks to a $15 million commitment from the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation and the Henry L. Hillman Foundation.

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  • "CMU's Institute for Contemporary Art is one of the university's jewels and symbolizes our commitment to fueling artistic and creative expression, and sparking opportunities to make meaning of contemporary life by engaging with the art of our time," said Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon University.
  • A Carnegie Mellon trustee since 2004, Simonds also is a member of the College of Fine Arts Dean's Council.
  • "For more than two decades, the ICA has evolved to meet the rapidly changing landscape of contemporary art," said Elizabeth Chodos , director of the ICA.
  • "This new chapter will strengthen the ICA's connection to our community, cultural institutions in Pittsburgh and contemporary art discourse at large.

Carnegie Museum Workers Announce Organizing Campaign to Join USW

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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
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PITTSBURGH, June 30, 2020 Workers from across four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh locations announced on Monday, June 29, that they will be conducting an election to join the United Steelworkers (USW) union.

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  • PITTSBURGH, June 30, 2020 Workers from across four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh locations announced on Monday, June 29, that they will be conducting an election to join the United Steelworkers (USW) union.
  • The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh was founded in 1895, originally as the Carnegie Institute, by steel giant Andrew Carnegie.
  • The museums consist of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Science Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum.
  • Along with better pay and benefits, the United Museum Workers are demanding inclusivity in hiring, accessibility, increased transparency and a voice in the museum's decision-making process.