AAP History Timeline

1910 AAP is founded; first Annual exhibition at the Pittsburgh Opera House
1911 Exhibition held in four rooms at Carnegie Institute
1916 The 100 Friends of Art first purchase art from Annuals for Pittsburgh public schools
1935 Crafts added as a category
1936 AAP moves to the Pittsburgh Playhouse
1945 AAP becomes one of the founding guilds to establish Arts and Crafts Center, now known as Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
1948 Andy Warhol exhibits student drawings
1955 Westmoreland Museum of American Art begins to give purchase awards
1958 Carnegie Museum of Art begins to give purchase awards
1960 Bicentennial exhibition honors ten noteworthy artists
1972 Barbara Ford becomes first female president
1985 75th-anniversary exhibition at Carnegie Mellon University Gallery
1988 AAP buys a building at 937 Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh
1993 Annual opens to non-members
1993 VACOP (Visual Arts Career Orientation Program) is founded
2002 Annual moves to The Warhol; first time since 1911 not at CMOA
2003 937 Liberty Avenue building is sold
2006 Annual returns to Carnegie Museum of Art
2010 AAP’s 100th Anniversary; over 70 exhibitions hosted in a number of gallery spaces throughout the year
2011 First sales completed over the internet
2013 AAP moves offices to Ice House Studios in Lawrenceville
2019 AAP launches Featured Artists Series
2019 AAP opens gallery space in Ice House Studios