Carnegie Museum of Art, 2025
“Situated within an increasingly uncertain educational landscape in the US—the culmination of decades of disinvestment and erosion of civic and democratic institutions—after school turns toward Pittsburgh. Here recent proposals for school closures and consolidations carry on existing processes of displacement, segregation, and restructuring. In dialogue with contemporary works, the exhibition presents case studies that trace the layered histories of public education in the region—from the city’s first public high school and New Deal-era programs to cooperative school gardens and Black-led Street Academies of the 1970s. These fragments document cycles of learning, unlearning, and collective praxis across shifting policies, built infrastructures, and forms of refusal and community care.” - Carnegie Museum of Art
after school turns toward traditional classroom elements such as tables, boards, and shelves retrofitted to accomodate architectural prints, exhibition texts, and photographs.
Curatorial team: Theodossis Issaias, curator at Heinz Architectural Center, and Alyssa Velazquez, assistant curator, with McKenzie Stupica, curatorial fellow.