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Teens watching a performance at youth invasion

Youth Programs at The Warhol focus on working with small groups of young people to foster leadership with creative skills and to offer relevant programming to a teen audience. Andy Warhol's work provides a unique and engaging model for youth that maintains a relevant link to the emerging present. Young people continue to be interested in and influenced by the unique scene he created, his experimentation with diverse media and disciplines, and his manipulations of pop culture—all vital models of creativity.

Local teens working on a "stuffy" project

Youth Invasion

Teens take over The Andy Warhol Museum! This multi-faceted program features teens' unique take on Andy Warhol and their creative expressions infusing and energizing the entire Museum—its programming, interpretation, and display.

For more information please contact warholyi@warhol.org.

Power Up girls picking apples

Power Up

Power Up is an afterschool program for young African American women at The Andy Warhol Museum and Artists Image Resource (AIR), an artist run non-profit print studio on Pittsburgh’s historic Northside. Participants learn design and print skills for use in the production and distribution of print materials on important health related topics. Students meet with artists, designers, local grassroots organizations and health care workers to create posters, stickers, zines, and pamphlets that can be used in the students' communities and beyond.

For more information please contact Heather White at whiteh@warhol.org.

RUST participants wheat pasting a mural.

RUST (Radical Urban Silkscreening Team)

The Andy Warhol Museum and Artists Image Resource (AIR) are working with Pittsburgh youth to form RUST a radical print collective. During the summer, RUST works with Pittsburgh’s social justice and environmental community to document Pittsburgh’s activist past and present in an effort to effect progressive social change.

For more information please contact Heather White at whiteh@warhol.org.

Local teens working on a 'zine

Swishy

Okay, Andy, if you really want to hear it straight, I’ll lay it out for you. You’re too swish, and that upsets them.

Emile de Antonio to Andy Warhol, 1960. POPism The Warhol ’60’s by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett. Pages 11-13. Harcourt & Brace, 1980

Swishy is an ongoing ‘zine project that chronicles students’ responses to identity, gender, and sexuality. This program gives local teens the unique opportunity to create ‘zine pages that document their experiences through collage, drawing, prose, and poetry. The cover is a collaborative silkscreen printed design.

For more information please contact Paul O’Brien at obrienp@warhol.org.

Blessing of the food at an all-faith Seder dinner

Dine and Discuss

Dine and Discuss is an after-school teen program at The Andy Warhol Museum empowering young people to place dialogue at the center of the table. A group of teens meet once a week for six weeks and develop an art happening in response to an exhibit at the museum. The happenings materialize as dinner parties fully designed and facilitated by the teens; teens curate the food, the guest list, the aesthetic, and the dialogue all in response to the central exhibit. Dine and Discuss embraces food, art, and inquiry as a site for teen led community building.

For more information please contact Adil Mansoor at mansoora@warhol.org.

Collaborative silkscreen printing at YOS

YOS (Youth Open Studio)

The Youth Open Studio program is collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum and Artist Image Resource (AIR), an artist run printmaking facility on Pittsburgh’s historic Northside. Youth Open Studio is open every Wednesday evening during the school year from 5:00 to 8:00. The program is collaboratively staffed by artist educators from AIR and The Andy Warhol Museum. All youth are welcome! Learn photographic silkscreen printing for the first time or improve your printmaking skills.

For more information please contact Paul O’Brien at obrienp@warhol.org.