Volunteer Open House
ORGANIZATION: Mattress Factory Contemporary Art Museum
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The Mattress Factory Museum is hosting a Volunteer Open House. Join us as we discuss the Volunteer Program followed by a Museum Educator led tour! Applications to volunteer will be provied.
More opportunities with Mattress Factory Contemporary Art Museum
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About Mattress Factory Contemporary Art Museum
Location:
500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, US
Mission Statement
The Mattress Factory is a research and development lab for artists. As a museum of contemporary art, it commissions new site-specific works, presents them to the widest possible audience, and maintains selected individual installations in a growing-and distinctive-permanent collection. The Mattress Factory's physical and organizational environments have grown out of and in response to a central focus on the process of creativity.
Description
The Mattress Factory is an internationally renowned museum of site-specific installation art. Artists are selected to live at the Mattress Factory for 4-6 weeks, and receive complete support, including a stipend, payment for all materials, help with the labor involved in building an installation, etc. Artists create environments based around the characteristics of the space they are given, the history of the city, or whatever occurs to them. Installations are site-specific.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
500 Sampsonia WayPittsburgh, PA 15212
DATE POSTED
November 21, 2014
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Commit to 2 shifts per month