This in-person resin workshop will provide participants with a two-hour introductory course on resin casting. Learn the foundations of safety, mold making, and resin usage. We will discuss each student's individual goals for participating — tailoring methods towards future efforts beyond the course. Participants will receive basic knowledge of one-part mold making and casting techniques upon […]

Join Artist-in-Residence Tunde Wey and Inaugural Artist-in-Residence Marvin Touré for an Instagram Live Artists In-Conversation session. This event will be livestreamed on our Instagram account: @alma_lewis_pgh Tunde Wey is a Nigerian immigrant artist, chef, and writer working at the intersection of food and social politics. His work engages systems of exploitative power, particularly race, immigration, […]

In partnership with The Africa Center and Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), join Tunde Wey and Uzodinma Iweala for a virtual discussion about the impact of geopolitics and racial capitalism on food production and consumption on the African continent. Using food as an entry point, this conversation will explore the contours of capitalism and trade […]

Photo: A|L archives   This workshop, led by instructor Marvin Touré, will provide participants with a three hour introductory course on mold making and resin casting, where you will receive basic knowledge of one-part mold making and casting techniques, all while making your own resin cast dice! Along with covering the foundations of safety, mold […]

photo: A|L archives   Bread & the Contours of Capitalism Dinner Created by Chef Tunde Wey with collaboration from Chef Kate Romane A benefit dinner for ALMA|LEWIS   Bread and the Contours of Capitalism is a dinner created by Nigerian artist, chef and writer, Tunde Wey with collaboration from Chef Kate Romane, owner of Black […]

Photo: A|L Archives   Artist Tunde Wey’s public performance titled, My Son is Selling Bread in America, features the artist in a full body suit, embellished with fabrications of capitalism’s reward: glitter and gold. The artist is a visitor from a future, where disaster has created what resembles a prehistory. A place where growth is […]

Photo: A|L Archives   Please join us at ALMA|LEWIS to celebrate the completion of Tunde’s artist residency. See his work and hear Tunde’s conversation with Kilolo Luckett, Founding Executive Director and Chief Curator, about his studio practice and time in Pittsburgh. Free and open to the public with recommended registration. Masks and proof of vaccination […]

Lizania Cruz, Portrait of a Detective in Samaná, 2022   Please join us at ALMA|LEWIS to celebrate the opening of Lizania Cruz: Performing Inquiry. Doors open at 6:00pm | Artist talk begins at 7:00pm   Free and open to the public with recommended registration. Masks are required for entry.   About the Exhibition: Lizania Cruz:  Performing […]

ALMA|LEWIS presents a series of screens highlighting contemporary artists from around the world.  Join us for “Constructed Race:  From East to West”  featuring artist videos from the ART21 archive about Abigail DeVille, Kerry James Marshall, and Kara Walker, followed by a discussion.   Abigail DeVille builds the set for director Charlotte Brathwaite’s production of Adrienne […]

  In continuation with our series of screenings “Art Screening Nights”, ALMA|LEWIS presents “Our World: Nature and Nurture” featuring artist videos from the ART21 archive about Luchita Hurtado, Wangechi Mutu, and Doris Salcedo, followed by a discussion.   Luchita Hurtado painting in her studio, California 2019. Production still from the Extended Play episode, “Luchita Hurtado: […]

Join us for an in-person open house studio with our fourth Artist-in-Residence, Yaw Owusu. Stop by and meet Yaw in his studio. You’ll have an opportunity to hear him talk about his artistic practice and see works in progress.   This event is FREE with registration.   Learn more about the Artist here  

Beatriz Meseguer/onwhitewalls.com © 2022 The Museum of Modern Art   This workshop will guide participants through art-making activities that speculate a migration route of el bamboulá, a dance and music style, originally from Africa, that can be found in the Dominican Republic and forms part of the originating history of Congo Square in New Orleans. Using […]