Mattress Factory Community Fest: The Archives
When
Jul 28, 2024
1:00 pm- 8:00 pm
Where
Mattress Factory
500 Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Mattress Factory is excited to announce its free community festival, COMMUNITY FEST, celebrating the incredible talent of regional artists, musicians, filmmakers, and vendors! This year's Community Fest: The Archives is inspired by the archival material documenting Mattress Factory’s founding in the 1970s as an artist-centered DIY creative space. In collaboration with Pittsburgh Sound and Image, Community Fest will showcase a selection of 16mm and digital films created primarily by Pittsburgh artists and community members.
This event includes free admission to museum galleries from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Community Fest: The Archives also takes inspiration from the wide range of processes artists have explored at Mattress Factory over the years. In particular, we are engaging with Luke Stettner’s current exhibition, State of the Sky. At the heart of State of the Sky is the spirit of artistic partnership, shared inquiry, and experimental dialogue. The exhibition includes a functional darkroom custom designed to create photograms, or camera-less photographs, by using the sun. Community Fest: The Archives celebrates analog photographic/film processes and the joy of experimenting with creative collaborators – both in Barbara Luderowski’s storied founding of Mattress Factory and in the development of our current and ever-evolving program.
This year, we will highlight filmmakers as part of the festival. All juried short films will be screened for the public during the festival. Following the festival, selected short films will be screened at Mattress Factory during open museum hours from Friday, August 2- Sunday, August 4, 2024.
