108th Annual Exhibition
We are excited to announce the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s 108th Annual Exhibition will open Fall 2021 at the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and the Detective Building in East Liberty.
The 108th was juried and curated by Wendy Given and Ben Owen. You can read more about Wendy and Ben at the bottom of this page.
108th Annual Exhibition
The Detective Building
108th Annual Exhibition
Pittsburgh International Airport
Wendy given
Wendy Given is a visual artist and curator living and working in Portland, Oregon. With a production of vivid, uncanny contemporary photography, sculpture, drawing, and installation, her practice stems from and is profoundly guided by nature, myth, and magic. Given’s visual craft conveys an intense yearning to honor and utilize our inherent awareness—to regain the unspoken understanding of the fact that we are all, and always will be (as humans), integral to and dependent on the natural world.
Given studied painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture during her BFA undergraduate work at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Given has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the Art Program Coordinator/Curator for the Port of Portland and Portland International Airport (PDX), a Wilderness Guide with Portland’s Signal Fire Artist Residency as well as a Certified Wilderness First Responder (WFR).
Ben Owen
Ben Owen is the Director of Arts@MSP at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, a program of the Airport Foundation MSP. In this role, he oversees all visual and performing arts activities at the airport. He has more than a decade of experience in public art management for statewide public art agencies in the United States. Most recently, he managed the Minnesota Percent for Art in Public Places program at the Minnesota State Arts Board, acquiring works of art for communities throughout Minnesota using up to one percent of state-funded capital improvement projects. Prior to moving to Minnesota, he served as project coordinator for the Art in Public Places program at New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the state arts agency for the State of New Mexico.
Notable public art acquisitions that he has facilitated include the Student Innovation Center at Iowa State University in Ames, IA; the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, MN; the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis, MN; the Bioscience and Health Careers Center at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, MN; the Wade Municipal Stadium in Duluth, MN; WisePies Arena at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM; the Mark and Stephanie Medoff Theatre in New Mexico State University’s Center for the Arts in Las Cruces, NM; and Spaceport America in Upham, NM.
In December of 2018, members of Americans for the Arts elected Ben to its Public Art Network Advisory Council. In this role, he advises Americans for the Arts staff on developing programs and services that will build a deeper connection to the field and the network membership. Owen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from the University of Memphis and an Associate of Science in Fine Art from Chattanooga State Community College.
107TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
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106TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh held the 106th Annual Exhibition at 2708 Sidney Street in the Southside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The exhibition was juried by the University of Maryland Art Gallery Director Taras Matla. For more information about the exhibition, click on the button below.
105TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
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