Ceramics as Sculpture is a group show at the International Sculpture Center gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, featuring Jane Powers ’98, MFA. This exhibit explores ceramics beyond traditional functional craft, highlighting its potential as sculpture.

This show is featured in the September/October 2026 issue of the International Sculpture Center's magazine, Sculpture.

Ceramic as Sculpture
International Sculpture Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
May 22–November 6, 2026

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Living Threads by Hend Al-Mansour ’02, MFA uses screen printing to highlight the story of Palestinian American poet and Deaf Educator, Yara Omer. Al-Mansour combines Islamic design motifs, American Sign Language ASL, and traditional Palestinian dress to highlight the intersectionality of her Palestinian American identity.

Shoshana Fink ’22, MFA presents a new solo exhibition titled A Gathering of Waters. As Fink explains “created specifically for Mississippi Watershed Management Organization’s Exhibit Space (MWMO) alongside the Mississippi River, A Gathering of Waters offers a whole-body experience of the river. Visitors can walk beside a long silk panel imprinted with the river’s currents, listen to underwater sound recordings, encounter a scent inspired by the river, and view photographic urban landscapes created using river water.”

Jodi Reeb ’95 presents a new solo exhibit titled Nature Abstracted. As Reeb explains “[the show features] new encaustic and collage paintings using photographs taken during a self-guided arts residency. The photos are super-imposed as a double-exposure in one frame taken using a film camera and then printed on tissue paper as collage.”

Graciela DeAnda ’26, MFA is presenting a new solo exhibit titled The Body Carries Everything at the Rochester Art Center. As DeAnda explains, “The Body Carries Everything is an immersive installation exploring migration through memory, family history, material, and lived experience. The exhibition asks what a person carries when crossing a border, not only what can fit inside a backpack, but the memories, fears, faith, responsibilities, relationships, and hopes that remain within the body long after a journey has ended.”

Current student, Talia Moreno, recently threw an end of the summer art show with an artist she’s been mentoring through painting and design. The Big Deal Art Show celebrated young women in graffiti by carving a space for themselves in a scene that has traditionally excluded them.

As Moreno explains “ We are calling it The Big Deal Art Show because we are the ones who make ourselves a big deal.” The show on August 22 also included live music by Life Fan Forever and Super Duper Gross, as well a Phaser Magazine Release.

Anita Inez White ’74 recently presented the grand opening of her Backyard Art Gallery. Backyard Art Gallery presented art by White and her brother, Wallace White and featured live music by Matther Gogola.

With assistance from Hearts & Hammers, Shutterfly, and Life Touch, the garage and side alley were transformed into bright and colorful backdrops for their eccentric art. The garage and alley were painted Fountain of Youth Green and Pale Pink respectively.