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Miller Gallery
at Carnegie Mellon University
Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412.268.3618
miller-gallery@andrew.cmu.edu
www.cmu.edu/millergallery
HOURS: Tues.-Sun., 12-6pm
ADMISSION: Free
Free
parking in E. Campus Garage
on weekends + after 5pm Mon.-Fri.
Map
+ directions >>>
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AROUND
TOWN
Sept. 10,
Fri.
5pm:
Tour of Steelers Room
6-8pm:
The Immaculate Reception
for WHATEVER
IT TAKES
@ Miller
Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
5:30-8pm
DIY: A Revolution in Handicrafts
@ Society
for Contemporary Craft
7-9pm:
Reception for Six New Shows
@ Pittsburgh
Center for the Arts
ABOUT US
THE MILLER GALLERY AT
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY supports the creation,
understanding and growth of contemporary art through exhibitions,
projects, lectures, events and publications. The gallery aspires
to engage diverse audiences and to create and strengthen communities
through art and ideas. The Miller Gallery was founded in 2000 by
Regina
Gouger Miller, artist, educator, businesswoman, arts patron
and alumna of Carnegie Mellon's School of Art. A unit of the College
of Fine Arts, the three-story, 9,000 square foot space is free and
open to the public and located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Images: Detail from Cosley Football Player, R. Netherland/Animal
Photography, groomed by J. Cosley; SuperFan
by L. Apperson, photo by P. Fitzgibbons; Steelers
Hair Helmet, design
by Little Willie, photograph by D. Yellen; Memorial
to an ExxonMobil Janitor, from Keep It Slick
at Columbia College
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THIS
FRIDAY
THE IMMACULATE
RECEPTION
5pm:
TOUR OF STEELERS ROOM by Denny DeLuca
6-8pm:
THE IMMACULATE RECEPTION sponsored by
Iron City Brewing Company
RSVP
Exhibition and events are free and open to the public.
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WHATEVER
IT TAKES:
Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions
Curated
by Jon Rubin and Astria Suparak
Through Jan. 30, 2011
If
space aliens landed in Pittsburgh, what would they determine was
the dominant culture that unified the populace? It could
only be Steelers culture.
Steelers
culture is Pittsburgh's popular culture, and the fans are its primary
producers. Often overlooked in discussions of pop culture, much
less "high" culture, sports fans are portrayed as uncritical and
passive consumers blindly following a branded product. Whatever
It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions
looks at the particular and ingenious methods Steelers fans
use to construct their own personal and social identities in relation
to the team, and in the process, create an active community of cultural
producers. Through countless fan sites, gameday rituals,
costumes, tattoos, videos, unlicensed merchandise, and more, Steelers
fans brilliantly remix and meld the team's identity with their own.
A
common way fans bridge the gap between team and self is by collecting
team-related merchandise and signed memorabilia. What's interesting
about many Steelers fans is that they often take collecting a step
further: Shawn Spinda has over 100 signed footballs; the Pittsburgh
Sports and Mini Ponies blog details "Great Moments in Unlicensed
Pittsburgh Sports Merch"; Denny DeLuca transformed his basement
into a Steelers Room (moved in its entirety into the gallery for
this exhibition) crammed floor to ceiling with hundreds of handmade
and altered objects, each with its own story that describes both
the biography of the team and Denny's autobiography. Other fans
dedicate their bodies to expressing their allegiance. For instance,
Ron Vergerio
has spent the past eight years tattooing his entire torso with a
stream-of-consciousness mural of players, plays, trophies, the cigar-smoking
team owner, and a stadium full of fans, all intermingled with the
Pittsburgh skyline and flowing hot metal.
Whatever
It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions
presents the participatory popular culture of Steelers fandom. The
exhibition, a first of its kind, focuses not on fans as consumers,
but on fans as producers--a creative force that modifies dominant
culture into something much more personal, and collectively creates
the Steeler Nation.
Read more >>>
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PRESS
"In
creating this amusing, endearing portrait of Pittsburgh sports
fans, the curators aimed to examine how fans become producers
of culture by constructing their personal and social identities
in relation to the team. The result is that the gallery feels
like a fun house where Steelers Nation is reflected through a
thousand mirrors."
- "CMU exhibit shows how fans created Steeler Nation
culture," Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
"The
latest pop subculture to be tackled by the Miller Gallery is one
that's very close to home... The first-of-its-kind exhibition
reflects the cultural, psychological and emotional forces at work
behind the Steel Curtain" - "Art Score: The
Immaculate Reception," Pop
City Media
"Art
of the Steel: A New CMU Exhibit Celebrates Steelers Fandom," Pittsburgh
City Paper
"Quite possibly the first art exhibit in the known universe
dedicated to Steelers fans." - "The Art
of Steeler Fandom," Post-Gazette
Sports Blog
"Fantasy
Football Focus,"ESPN
Radio Stillers 365
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CHICAGO
KEEP
IT SLICK:
Infiltrating Capitalism
with The Yes Men
Curated by Astria Suparak, organized by Feldman Gallery at PNCA
+ Miller Gallery at CMU
Through Oct. 23, 2010
@ Glass Curtain
Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL
The
Yes Men are the 2010
Critical Encounters Artists-in-Residence at Columbia College
Chicago. Learn how to apply for the Yes
Lab here
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Sept.
22
6:30pm:
Film screening of The
Yes Men Fix the World followed by a Q&Q
with the Yes Men (for each question the audience
asks of the Yes Men, the Yes Men will ask one of the audience)
@ Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th fl.
Sept. 23
5-8pm:
RECEPTION with The Yes Men + Curator
6:30pm:
PRESENTATION by The Yes Men
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