Community Programs Community Programs enhance and enrich the museum's exhibition and interpretation programs through collaborations with diverse individuals and groups. Programs explore and use the art, life and practice of Andy Warhol and the work of practicing artists as a springboard to: respond to community needs, issues or concerns; examine diverse aspects of contemporary art and culture; develop mutually beneficial collaborations and sustainable relationships, and celebrate creative interests of individuals and groups.
Electric Chair The exhibition Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs: Reflecting on Capital Punishment in America presented Warhols Chair series of paintings and prints together with diverse audio and written points of view as a catalyst to generate dialogue around the various sides of the capital punishment debate. Presented in collaboration with Amnesty International USA's Human Rights Education Program and Mid-Atlantic Regional Office (MARO), the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Duquesne University School of Law, The Center for Victims of Violent Crimes, and The Public Conversations Project. The museum gratefully acknowledges these organizations, the Electric Chair community advisory committee, and all the individuals who have given their time to the project. Supported in part by the Animating Democracy Initiative, a project of Americans for the Arts, funded by the Ford Foundation. Read More
Flashbulb Memories and Warhol's Flash As part of the exhibition November 22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth we invited community members of diverse voices to reflect on their experiences and knowledge of JFK and his assasination. Visitors were also asked to reflect on other experiences of their time in which they experienced a remarkably vivid and seemingly permanent memory attached to a major public event, otherwise known as a "flashbulb memory". Read More
Carpatho-Rusyn Event From 1998 to 2007, The Carpatho-Rusyn Society and The Warhol presented ten well attended Carpatho-Rusyn events. This event was an annual celebration of the Carpatho-Rusyn people along side the art of Andy Warhol, one of the most influential 20th century American artists of Carpatho-Rusyn descent, and showcased the expertise of Rusyn artists and scholars and their connections to Warhol's ideas and techniques.
Diversity of Voice Diversity of Voice engages local and national commentators from diverse communities, backgrounds and expertise from religious leaders to teenagers to comment on specific artworks in the museum's permanent collection. Commentators are asked to reflect on the artwork and write a short point of view giving their own personal take. Points of view are presented alongside the artworks in the museum's galleries. Read More
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Organizations
The Warhol collaborates regularly with local gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organizations such as the Pittsburgh chapter of GLSEN and the youth collaborative. We present programs that address issues of tolerance and acceptance of sexual minorities. Past programs and initiatives have included a Community Forum on hate crimes against the gay and lesbian community in Southwestern Pennsylvania, open studio programs for youth, and special events.
The exhibition Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs: Reflecting on Capital Punishment in America presented Warhols Chair series of paintings and prints together with diverse audio and written points of view as a catalyst to generate dialogue around the various sides of the capital punishment debate. Presented in collaboration with Amnesty International USA's Human Rights Education Program and Mid-Atlantic Regional Office (MARO), the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Duquesne University School of Law, The Center for Victims of Violent Crimes, and The Public Conversations Project. The museum gratefully acknowledges these organizations, the Electric Chair community advisory committee, and all the individuals who have given their time to the project. Supported in part by the Animating Democracy Initiative, a project of Americans for the Arts, funded by the Ford Foundation.
As part of the exhibition November 22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth we invited community members of diverse voices to reflect on their experiences and knowledge of JFK and his assasination. Visitors were also asked to reflect on other experiences of their time in which they experienced a remarkably vivid and seemingly permanent memory attached to a major public event, otherwise known as a "flashbulb memory". 
From 1998 to 2007, The Carpatho-Rusyn Society and The Warhol presented ten well attended Carpatho-Rusyn events. This event was an annual celebration of the Carpatho-Rusyn people along side the art of Andy Warhol, one of the most influential 20th century American artists of Carpatho-Rusyn descent, and showcased the expertise of Rusyn artists and scholars and their connections to Warhol's ideas and techniques.
Diversity of Voice engages local and national commentators from diverse communities, backgrounds and expertise from religious leaders to teenagers to comment on specific artworks in the museum's permanent collection. Commentators are asked to reflect on the artwork and write a short point of view giving their own personal take. Points of view are presented alongside the artworks in the museum's galleries.