Prize Winners From the 59th Carnegie International Announced
The late Japanese artist Sofu Teshigahara and California-based artist Miller Robinson were recognized for their outstanding contributions to the 59th Carnegie International. Teshigahara and the Sogetsu Foundation garnered the Carnegie Prize, which dates back to the very first Carnegie International in 1896 and recognizes outstanding achievement in the exhibition. His works in the International included Yakumo (Eightfold Clouds) (1962), a large sculpture made from a camphor tree. Robinson received the Fine Prize, which, since being established in 2008, has been given to an emerging artist in the exhibition. Robinson’s piece, DOCTORS HAVE THE RITE TO SUCK (2026), is a newly commissioned two-part installation that occupies Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Sculpture.
Science Fair Inspires Hundreds
More than 550 students from around the region presented their projects during the annual Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair in March. Held every year at Kamin Science Center, the event included prizes and scholarships for the top science projects, and students had the opportunity to learn more about pathways in STEM from tabling organizations.
A Partnership with Oxford
Carnegie Museums has launched the William T. Hillman Visiting Fellowship in partnership with Oxford University to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange between the two esteemed institutions. In May, inaugural fellow Amy Covell-Murthy, archaeology collection manager at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, traveled to Oxford to learn about community-led museum practice and shared authority in collections care. Meanwhile, Barbara Souto Dos Santos, who works at Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Nuffield College, visited The Andy Warhol Museum to work with Warhol Director of Archives Matt Gray to improve access to Warhol’s correspondence and invoice collections.
Famed lighthouse joins Miniature Railroad
A piece of Erie, Pennsylvania, history is the latest addition to The Kamin Science Center’s iconic Miniature Railroad & Village®. A scale replica of the Presque Isle Lighthouse, the brick tower built in 1873 to guide vessels navigating the Erie Extension Canal and then later the Pennsylvania Railroad, was unveiled in February. Affectionately known as “The Flash Light,” the lighthouse also had an attached dwelling with nine rooms that was home to the U.S. Lighthouse Service keepers and their families until 1944.
It’s a really nice opportunity to see these ideas come to life, particularly—especially—in this environment.
Lyndon Barrois Jr., CMU School of Art’s MFA program director, to TribLive about an exhibition of MFA student work at The Andy Warhol Museum
