Participants in Youth Invasion's BBoy competition

YOUTH PROGRAMS

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. 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.

YOUTH INVASION

Youth Invasion Fashion Show

Submit your designs and apply to the Youth Invasion fashion show!  Submissions should relate to popular culture, the mass media, or experimentation.  We encourage young artists and designers to submit work that reflects their own interests, contemporary pop culture and media.  We actually prefer not to get work that directly copies Andy Warhol’s work. 

This is a unique and fun opportunity open to any Pittsburgh area high school student. 

>THE FASHION SHOW APPLICATION
> FAQ

Application deadline:  Friday, April 11th
This deadline may be slightly flexible.  If you are slightly late, call
412-237-8356 or email
Ashley Brickman (brickmana@warhol.org) or
Leslie Clague (claguel@warhol.org)

Youth Art at the Warhol

Submit your artwork for possible inclusion in Youth Invasion!  Selected artworks will be exhibited in the museum, alongside the work of Andy Warhol, for a month.  We’re looking for submissions that feature teens’ unique artistic take on Andy Warhol, as expressed in paintings, video, audio, printmaking, performance, and more.  Artwork that takes a fresh spin on Warhol/Pop Culture or is experimental in nature is encouraged.  This can and should be taken loosely—we are NOT looking for work that directly copies Warhol.  Past successful projects have included silkscreened washing machines, sculptural environments, performance videos, and large-scale photos of silkscreened bodies.

>Click here to download the Youth Art Application.

Youth Publications

Youth Publications at The Andy Warhol Museum is an after school program exploring digital and traditional publishing skills. The museum hires and trains Student Assistants -- area high school students ages 15 and up who have a strong commitment to or interest in the arts -- to immerse themselves in a variety of media. In addition to creating Urban Interview, a magazine inspired by Warhol's Interview, students also learn how to make hand-made zines, silkscreens, web pages and podcasts.

This program is supported in part by a grant from YouthWorks, Inc.

Queer Youth Programming
The Warhol strives to present programs of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer youth. Past events have included film screenings, live bands, and studio art workshops. The Warhol partners with local queer community groups and organizations to create a safe social space for area queer youth and their allies.

Special Projects
The F-Word was an exhibition at the Warhol in Summer 2006, curated by Liz Thomas. The Warhol drew from a group of high school youth who were already tightly-knit though their weekly studio nights at Artist’s Image Resource (AIR), a nonprofit printmaking space on Pittsburgh’s North Side, to create three issues of a zine-as-gallery guide. Each issue featured writings, drawings and collages culled from students’ journals, as well as original work created during weekly meetings. Students collaborated with a Pittsburgh-based artist for each issue, creating content for the zine and independent artist’s projects; the artists were Etta Cettera, Ayanah Moor, and Wendy Osher.

Andy Warhol, photo Greg Gorman, 1983