Art Museums and Galleries

Pittsburgh Directories and Gallery Crawls

• Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District
  The Gallery Crawl is a free quarterly showcase of art and entertainment at a variety of galleries and spaces in Downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District that occurs on a Friday between 5:30 and 9:00 pm.
• PopCity: Campus Art Galleries: Free, Cool, Waiting for You
  An April 9, 2008, article by Alexis Miller highlighting free art galleries at Pittsburgh universities.
• Unblurred: First Fridays on Penn
  Various galleries in the Penn Avenue Arts District (4800-5500 Penn Avenue) open their doors and showcase a variety of artwork and performances during this monthly gallery crawl.

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Pittsburgh Museums

• The Andy Warhol Museum
  "The Andy Warhol Museum is essential to the understanding of the most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century. It is also a primary resource for anyone who wishes to gain insights into contemporary art and popular culture."
  • About Andy
  • Time Capsule 21 Online Exhibition
• The Carnegie Museum of Art
  the premier museum in the Pittsburgh region, the Carnegie Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that includes film and video works, works of American art from the late 19th century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late 17th century to the present.
• Frick Art & Historical Center
  The Frick (Clayton) finally has a website up so that you can check out the latest exhibits and musical offerings, as well as view photographs of some of the historic cars in their Car & Carriage Museum.
• The Mattress Factory
  A museum of contemporary installation art; a research and development lab for artists. As a museum of contemporary art, it commissions new site-specific works, presents them to the widest possible audience, and maintains selected individual installations in a distinctive permanent collection.
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Mattress Factory celebrates 25 years of the works (12/26/2002)
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The house that moxie built: Barbara Luderowski and her Mattress Factory (8/18/2002)

Pittsburgh Galleries

• Concept Gallery
  Concept Gallery, located in the Regent Square neighborhood of Pittsburgh, represents the region's established and emerging artists, and artists of national and international reputation. There is an emphasis on Contemporary Realist painting and historic and industrial images of Pittsburgh.
• Dargate Auction Galleries
  see a schedule of upcoming auctions, auction catalogs, and other information.
• Élan Fine Art Gallery
  Contemporary fine art. Representing established and emerging regional, national and international artists. Paintings, fine-art prints, and sculpture for corporate and private collections, art consulting, and installation. T-Sat, 11am-6pm and by appointment.
• Fireborn Studios and Gallery
  Located on Pittsburgh's South Side, Fireborn Gallery offers pottery hand-made on the premises, as well as other fine crafts and art work by select American artists.
• Future Tenant
  Future Tenant is a project of Carnegie Mellon University and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, located in the heart of the Cultural District. This art space, which features alternative exhibitions and performances by emerging artists from the CMU community and beyond, is managed by a team of students from the Masters of Arts Management program, a joint program of CMU's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and the College of Fine Arts.
• Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
  The Miller Gallery is three exhibition spaces on different floors of the new Purnell Center for the Arts.
• Modern Formations Gallery
  4919 Penn Avenue, Garfield (Pittsburgh)
• Monroeville Public Library Gallery Space
  Exhibits featuring local artists.
• Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery
  Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery is the first Pittsburgh art gallery dedicated to exhibiting contemporary studio glass, focusing on sculpture, goblets, and jewelry in glass and mixed media. Located on Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside.
• Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
  Explores the edge of contemporary art.
• Mr. Roboto Project
  "The Mr. Roboto Project is a cooperatively run show space, art gallery & zine library located in Wilkinsburg (right outside the Pittsburgh city limits). Our aim is to create a comfortable and open space for people to experience a true DIY (do-it-yourself) community."
• Slaughterhouse Gallery
  A Gallery and a Community of Artists on Butler Street in Lawrenceville.
• Society for Contemporary Crafts
  The Society provides a unique opportunity to view works by nationally known artists, learn about the creative process in their gallery and resource center, attend workshops on various arts and crafts, or to purchase quality contemporary craftworks in their store.
• Space Pittsburgh
  The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust opened this new gallery in the Cultural District in February 2004. SPACE values the creation of new works in multi-disciplines, presentation of artwork to the broadest possible audience, inclusion of established and contemporary technologies and the promotion of local artists outside of the region.
• Sweetwater Center for the Arts
  Two galleries for ongoing exhibitions. Located northwest of Pittsburgh in Sewickley.
• ToonSeum
  Located in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District, the ToonSeum celebrates the art of cartooning, promoting a deeper appreciation of the cartoonists and their work through hands-on workshops, community outreach, cartoon-oriented educational programming, and exhibitions of original cartoon art.
• University of Pittsburgh: University Art Gallery
  Located on the first floor of the Frick Fine Arts Building, across from the Carnegie Library on Schenley Drive, the admission is free.
• Wood Street Galleries
  The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust operates Wood Street Galleries, which features multi-disciplinary artists from all over the world.

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Southwestern Pennsylvania

• Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts
  The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, located in New Castle, PA, provides people in greater Lawrence and surrounding counties with art classes, exhibitions, concerts, festivals, performances, special events, and other outreach efforts.
• The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
  Operates four facilities in southwestern Pennsylvania: St. Francis College, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Altoona; and Ligonier Valley.
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art
  Located in Greensburg (east of Pittsburgh), the Westmoreland Museum of American Art concentrates on Pennsylvanian art, with an outstanding collection of works by nationally recognized American artists (over 500 oil paintings and watercolors), and an important collection of Southwestern Pennsylvania artists.

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Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  The Academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, and as a study center for the work of Thomas Eakins, Cecilia Beaux, and Robert Motherwell, due to its collections and archival materials.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
  In addition to providing exhibits, the Museum provides education classes for adults and children. Be sure to check out their online Web Projects.

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Nearby States

• Akron Art Museum
  Located east of Pittsburgh in Akron, Ohio
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  Located in Buffalo, NY
• Butler Institute of American Art
  Located 75 miles northwest of Pittsburgh in Youngstown, Ohio, the Butler Institute has a collection of regional art that would be of interest to Western Pennsylvanians. In 2000 they opened the brand new Beecher Center for Art & Technology. You can read about it in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette January 26, 2000 article: "Artistic revolution: Butler Institute embraces the future with Beecher Center"
• The Cleveland Museum of Art
  In 2007, the museum underwent major renovation.

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United States- Directories

• Association of Art Museum Directors
  Within this website are links to the 177 member museums.

Selected U.S. and International Museums

• American Folk Art Museum
  Located in New York City, the American Folk Art Museum’s collection of more than 4,000 artworks span three centuries of American visual expression.
• Corcoran Museum and School of Art
  in Washington, DC. You'll find information about exhibitions, projects, collections, locations & hours, and a calendar of events.
• The Croatian Museum of Naive Art
  If you are a fan of Grandma Moses or Pittsburgher John Kane you will enjoy perusing this collection of naive art in Zagreb.
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• The Getty (Los Angeles)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York
• Museum of Arts & Design
  Formerly the American Crafts Museum, the Museum of Arts & Design is dedicated to the collection and exhibition of contemporary objects created in clay, glass, wood, metal and fiber. Located in New York City.
• Museum of Modern Art - New York
• National Gallery of Art - Washington D.C.
  offers information on current and past exhibitions, virtual tours, and data on every item in their collection.
• The Smithsonian Institution
  with links to numerous Washington D.C. museums, research centers, and galleries of art.
• The Tate
  This modern art museum in London allows you to browse through their museum onlin.