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Pop-Up Digital Lab: Learning From and About Teachers

January 9, 2017 By Desi Gonzalez, Melissa Pallotti

Each fall, educators from the greater Pittsburgh area convene at The Warhol for its Teacher Open House. Think of the three-hour event as an all-access pass to the museum: teachers can…

A man wearing a white sweatshirt with vertical streaks of bright colors leans over a table in the Andy Warhol Museum's art studio during Teacher Open House 2016. An artist educator, who is a man in a faded blue shirt with a thick gold beard and his hair pulled back into a short ponytail, helps the man make a turquoise screen print on a yellow sweatshirt.
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Art as an Equalizer

December 15, 2016 By Julie Hannon

This story originally appeared in the fall 2016 issue of Carnegie Magazine, a quarterly publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Story by Julie Hannon and photography by Renee Rosensteel. A new…

The boy in the center of the image tosses a large cube with a picture of a smiling young women on the viable side of the cube. His mother, to his left, looks on smiling.
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Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 5: Reflections on a user-centered design process

October 25, 2016 By Desi Gonzalez

This is the fifth post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide. Since the beginning of this year, we’ve been developing Out Loud, The…

A low vision Warhol Museum visitor uses the Out Loud audio guide.
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Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 4: Content Development: Telling the Warhol Story

August 4, 2016 By Nicole Dezelon

This is the fourth post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide. If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at…

Screen shot from Out Loud, The Warhol’s audio guide, showing the play screen of a story about Warhol's childhood.
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Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 3: Talking Tech with Ruben Niculcea

July 22, 2016 By Desi Gonzalez

This is the third post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide.  To develop our inclusive audio guide, we’ve partnered with the fantastic Carnegie Museum of…

Two men are engaging in conversation, seated at a brown paper cover table in an art studio. The ma on the left has an open notebook on the table in from of him, and the man on the right is holding an iPhone.
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Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 2: Tactile Reproductions

July 14, 2016 By Leah Morelli

This is the second post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide.  You might not think a museum would offer a meaningful experience for a person…

Two hands holding a 12 by 12 inch white 3D-printed reproduction of a man's face and wig, a reproduction of Andy Warhol's 1986 Self-Portrait.
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Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 1: An Introduction

June 24, 2016 By Desi Gonzalez

This is the first post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide.  In 1964, Andy Warhol moved to a new studio in a large New…

A young woman with blonde hair is seated at a table. She holds an old iPhone, which she is using to test out the new audio guide app.
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Face Time: Adil Mansoor

March 11, 2016 By Betsy Momich

Image: Adil Mansoor, photo by Joshua Franzos This text by Betsy Momich originally appeared in the spring 2016 issue of Carnegie Magazine, a quarterly publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. By his estimate,…

Adil Mansoor
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Warhol’s Secret Adventure in the Soviet Arctic

December 17, 2015 By Emily Newman

Andy in the Arctic or Умницы from Emily Newman on Vimeo. Andy Warhol was never in the Soviet Arctic. But in summer 2015, The Andy Warhol Museum’s education department initiated…

Andy in the Arctic or Умницы