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The Mattress Factory is a modern museum that exhibits room-sized works called installations. Created on-site by artists from across the country and around the world, our unique exhibitions feature a variety of media that engage all of the senses. The Museum's unusual galleries are in two creatively reused buildings on Pittsburgh’s historic North Side. Both buildings house a growing and distinctive- permanent collection featuring artists James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama, Winifred Lutz, and Rolf Julius, as well as innovative exhibitions that change throughout the year.
Since 1977, the Mattress Factory has supported over 300 artists through our world-renowned residency program. Artists come to Pittsburgh each year, live at the museum, and create new work. During their time here, the museum supports them entirely while they experiment, take risks, and explore the creative process. Each exhibition combines various engaging and inventive educational programs, including hands-on art projects, workshops, lectures, and tours. The Mattress Factory encourages all viewers, regardless of their background, to discover connections between art, creativity, and their everyday lives.
Education
The Mattress Factory is a catalyst for connecting viewers to the creative practice of living artists and to our time's ideas and cultural expressions. During its innovative 34-year history, the Mattress Factory has provided museum visitors with new ways for thinking about and experiencing art. The Mattress Factory is an engaging and unusual learning environment that fosters creative thinking in audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Exhibitions, museum programming, and interpretive materials encourage visitors to experience, investigate, understand, and participate in the creative practice living artists undertake to make new site-specific, room-sized works called installations.
A range of innovative educational opportunities aims to directly engage students, youth, educators, families,s and the public with multi-sensory artworks housed in two creatively re-used buildings in the historic Mexican War Streets neighborhood on Pittsburgh’s North Side. The Mattress Factory’s special exhibitions, permanent collection, Artist Residency, Resource Center, and Education Studio serve as learning sites that provide a framework for exploring installations that inspire, challenge, provoke, and engage all viewers.
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