Andy Warhol Museum

83,000

Onsite Admissions Onsite Classes & Lectures For Kids & Youth For Adults Educator Programs Unique Web Visitors

3,200 6,800 400 1.6 million

Downloads from Online Curriculum Website

4,000/month Educational Outreach (offsite) 1,400 Audiences reached through Traveling Exhibitions

6 million +

Sample of Traveling Exhibitions:

WHERE THE WORLD GOES FOR

EVERYTHING WARHOL The Andy Warhol Museum is the largest single-artist museum in the United States, located in the heart of Pittsburgh’s North Shore and connected to downtown Pittsburgh via the Andy

Andy Warhol: Artist of Modern Life (2005-2006), in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Samara, Russia; Andy Warhol (2007), Seoul, Korea, and Taipei, Taiwan; Warhol Disaster Prints (2007), Prague, Czech Republic; and Warhol Retrospective (2007), Edinburgh, Scotland. 2008-2009 exhibitions include Andy Warhol, Brisbane, Australia; The Eternal Now: Warhol and the Factory, Cork, Ireland, and Birmingham, England; Warhol Live, Montreal, Quebec, and San Francisco.

Warhol Bridge (formerly the Seventh Street Bridge). With a

Collections:

mission to be “more than a museum,” The Warhol is known

4,000+ works by Andy Warhol in all media

regionally for being a forum for lively, creative, community dialogue thanks to a steady stream of edgy exhibitions and thought-provoking programs and musical performances that defy the norm for traditional art museums. The museum is also considered a day-one tourist attraction for the city of Pittsburgh.

- 900 paintings - 77 sculptures - 1,500 drawings - 400+ black-and-white photographs - 611 “Time Capsules” (dated and boxed collections of materials from the artist’s daily life - 2,500 videotapes and audiotapes - Scripts, diaries, and correspondence

Internationally, the museum is recognized for being the definitive source for all-things Warhol, and its wildly popular traveling exhibitions have been viewed by more than 6 million people throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Among

Facility:

17 galleries, 88,000 square feet of facility

its most successful traveling exhibitions: In 2006, through a partnership with Alcoa and The Alcoa Foundation, The Warhol organized a three-city Russian tour of the art of Andy Warhol that was seen by 148,000 people.

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EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS ■

In spring 2007, The Warhol unveiled a new interpretive installation that is bringing more of Andy Warhol into his museum. Highlights of the re-installation include a new all-aboutWarhol gallery and art labeling that introduce visitors to more of Warhol’s life and interests, as well as his influencers and collaborators.

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The Warhol is currently engaged in a major cataloguing and archiving project involving Andy Warhol’s “Time Capsules”—boxes with archival material that Andy Warhol collected as a body of work. This major project involves opening and documenting 500+ boxes that have yet to be opened since the museum's inception. Each of the Time Capsules contains not only pieces of Andy Warhol’s life but artifacts from the '60s, '70s, and '80s that could enhance scholarly research around the globe for many years to come, and capture the fascination of museum visitors of all ages.

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The Warhol continues to expand its presence around the world and play a key role in the ongoing demand for the artwork of Andy Warhol by packaging and presenting traveling exhibitions and lending permanent-collection works to a diverse selection of museums and galleries.

A sampling of eclectic exhibitions brought to Pittsburgh by The Warhol: ■

UPMC Presents Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, presented in conjunction with the Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh, explored the Holocaust's roots in then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific eugenics theory.

Featuring more than 200 artifacts, 200 photographs and photographic reproductions, as well as survivor testimony, it attracted scores of regional middle and high school students.

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6 BILLION PERPS HELD HOSTAGE! Artists Address Global Warming, created by The Warhol, showcased a diverse collection of multimedia works and installations, including textiles, videos, paintings, and music, all addressing the topic of global warming.

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Piet (Mondrian) in Pittsburgh featured 19 paintings by the 20th-century, Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, who was best known for his Neo-Plasticism abstractions of rigid forms consisting of rectangular shapes of red, yellow, blue, or black, separated by thick, black, rectilinear lines. The paintings, many of which had never been on view in the United States, included a selection spanning 1907 through 1937.

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH As a Pittsburgh city kid, Andy Warhol received his first formal training in free art classes at Carnegie Museum of Art. So it’s only fitting that the museum named for the former Pittsburgh art student remains committed to serving other Pittsburgh city youth and the region’s talented teachers. Two key aspects of The Warhol’s education programs are their commitment to long-term engagement with small groups of individuals for maximum impact and their dedication to providing innovative professional development opportunities and resources for teachers. The Warhol also creates a host of unique educational programming for adults, often linked to its special exhibitions, as well as interdisciplinary educator resources.

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The Warhol’s Online Curriculum site, Warhol: Resources and Lessons (http://edu.warhol.org), features in-depth lesson plans that use Warhol’s art, life, and practice as a framework to teach across the humanities. Each lesson plan was developed from The Warhol’s school partnerships and features examples of student work.

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The Warhol’s annual Youth Invasion considers teenagers’ unique take on Andy Warhol and allows their points of view, ideas, and creative expressions to energize the entire museum by taking over the museum for a day—its programming, art interpretation, and display.

Over the course of 10 months, a production team comprised of area high school students works closely with Warhol artist educators, planning all aspects of this annual event.

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Among the museum’s most innovative education programs is a new mini-elective, Art and Medicine, which The Andy Warhol Museum and Carnegie Museum of Art piloted in 2007 to help first-year students at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center improve their ability to observe and analyze. The course is now being adapted for other professionals who wish to hone their skills in observing and analyzing visual information. In a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the course, Dr. Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences and dean of the School of Medicine, said, “We are fortunate to have a partnership such as this in which the students are learning valuable implications of visual knowledge for medical practice.”

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