The F.I.N.E. (Fresh, Innovative, Non-stop Expression) artist residency at Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a longstanding, bold experiment to intentionally connect visiting children and youth to authentic and innovative art experiences.

Artists work with our Creative Experiences Department to co-design and implement activities appropriate for learners of all ages and abilities.

The residency is intended to support emerging artists in their development and provide opportunities for established artists to share their techniques with a wider audience. Artists often use it as a means to push themselves and/or interpret their art in new and interesting ways that allow younger audiences to have hands-on interaction. Past experiences have included workshops, demonstrations and open exploration in areas such as painting, sculpture, performance art, radio play and fiber arts.

Here’s some details on the artists of the FINE Artist Residency at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh over the years:

2024 - 2025

Colors of Collaboration

Fourteen artists created colorful artworks for the 2025 F.I.N.E. (Fresh, Innovative, Non-stop Expression) artist residency at the Children’s Museum. Each artist was given one color and asked to create an artwork using only tints (lights) and shades (darks) of that color, using any material or style they liked. The colors were the 12 basic hues of the color wheel, plus black and white, and the artists had the same frame to work in.

The artworks are displayed in the Big Red Room Cafe positioned in pairs of colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. These are the artists and their pieces:

square green artwork featuring a woman figure and birds in the sky     square red artwork featuring an assemblage of machinery pieces

Hope Within Pain, fuejjii
Redd, Brad Bianchi

square turquoise mosaic artwork featuring a village at night     

A Turquoise Night, Sandi Timbus
Wave Patterns 1, Kathryn Shriver

square botanical cyanotype collage artwork      square orange artwork featuring musicians in abstract cartoon style

Garden Blues, Patty Tran
Orange You Glad!, Haley Simone Potter

square violet artwork featuring a woman and lighthouse     square yellow abstract artwork featuring oval pattern

I Befriended the Mountain, Ifeoma Igwe
Ochre Eclipse, TaMara Howard

square artwork in violet of abstracted photographs     square artwork of beaded art featuring a snake's head in gold

Everlasting Radiance, Christopher McHugh
The Wood Snake, Oleysa Nova

square pink painting of an enormous beet carried by a tiny woman below it     square yellow green overhead diorama artwork of a hometown

What Women Carry, Bakula Nayak
Chesnut Street, Sasha Jin Schwartz

square porcelain white artwork featuring round drops     square black artwork in charcoal

Hanging Out, Audra Clayton
In the Midnight Garden, Oreen Cohen

image of a series of colorful square artworks hung in a cafe above the ordering area

past years

Questions

If you have any questions on the F.I.N.E. Artist Residency, please contact amurray@pittsburghkids.org.

supported by

The Fresh, Innovative, Non-stop Expression (F.I.N.E.) Artist Residency is made possible by The Fine Foundation