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Hanging out at the Warhol during 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. 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.

Hanging out at the Warhol during Youth Invasion.

Youth Invasion

Teens take over The Warhol for an entire week! This multi-faceted project features teens' unique take on Andy Warhol, with their points of view, ideas, and creative expressions infusing and energizing the entire Museum --its programming, interpretation, and display. Highlights of the program are the fashion show, the youth exhibition juried by the Warhol’s senior staff in which youth art work is displayed in the galleries along side Andy Warhol’s work, and a youth curated exhibition.

RUST team member helps a downtown woman make a photographic silkscreen print with the roving print cart.

RUST (Radical Urban Silkscreen 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.

Katie, Abby and Lauren are teens who worked with area artists and curators on the F-Word special projects.

Special Projects

Special Projects are a vital part of Youth Programming at The Warhol. These projects are usually collaborations between local, national, and international artists who work closely with a group of youth to create new works including installations, zines, print portfolios, documentaries and more.

One of our special projects in 2006 was around the special exhibition, The F-Word , 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 (American, 1928-1987), Keith Haring and Juan Dubose, 1983, acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.) Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 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.