Two squares layered to look like two joined diamonds, with the top one chartreuse, and the bottom one turquoise teal, each fading into the other with thick digital paint strokes. Text on top square reads “Mirrored” in teal, and bottom text on edge of square reads “Muses” upside down in chartreuse and “Gallery Crawl Pop Up Exhibition” in black. Around the central exhibition image are the names of artists: Alicia Rose, Jacob Bauer, and Anthony Eastly in teal, and Juliandra Jones, Oreen Cohen, and Patty Tran in chartreuse. Logos for The Woodlands Foundation and Radiant Hall Studios are on either side of the center exhibition image.

Pop Up Exhibition

Friday, July 25, 2025

4:30 PM 9:00 PM

Cultural Trust Arts Education Center, 4th floor

805-807 Liberty AvenuePittsburgh, PA, 15222United States (map)

part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery Crawl

4:30 - 5:30pm Community Preview Hour*
5:30 - 9:00pm Open Gallery Crawl Hours

We ART Here, a club from The Woodlands Foundation, visited Radiant Hall’s Homewood location in the spring of 2025. The disabled artists toured the entire facility, viewed artwork in progress, and met several of the resident artists in their studios. As the premiere art club at The Woodlands Foundation, our participants were especially impressed by the accessibility of the experience and the warmth and kindness shown by the Radiant Hall staff.

After noticing many parallels between The Woodlands artists and those at Radiant Hall, both groups decided to create a collaborative exhibition titled Mirrored Muses. This show features selected works from three artists from each organization.

The Woodlands is a nonprofit organization serving people of all ages with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Offering our members the opportunity to exhibit their art alongside professional artists in Pittsburgh is a powerful way to advance that mission.

Featured Artists:
The Woodlands Foundation
Alicia Rose
Jacob Bauer
Anthony Eastly

Radiant Hall
Juliandra Jones
Patty Tran
Oreen Cohen

*We'll be holding a preview hour from 4:30 to 5:30pm to welcome folks to experience the show before the crawl becomes too hectic. A PSE interpreter will be present during the preview hour. Please let us know if you have any additional accessibility needs.

Special thanks to the Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians (LAMP).

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Since 2016, Anthropology of Motherhood has provided ongoing curation of artwork and design that engages in the complex visual, material, emotional, corporeal and lived experiences of motherhood, care-giving, parenting, nurturing and maternal labor. As an annual hybrid amenity/exhibit at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, our message and aesthetic of the Culture of Care has reached thousands of viewers, instilling the value of caregivers and the importance of prioritizing compassion and care in our daily lives. Our exhibits have traveled to McDonough Museum of Art, Sleeth Gallery and will be exhibiting at Dyers Art Center in Rochester, NY in 2023. With support from the Opportunity Fund (Pittsburgh) and in collaboration with the City of Asylum, we recently concluded our speaker series, Culture of Care inviting artist-caregivers from around the world to share where caregiving and receiving intersects with their practice.

We are excited to announce a partnership with Amherst College Press to develop a full color edited volume of Anthropology of Motherhood with an expected publish date of Fall 2026, in time for our 10th year anniversary.Your generous support will allow us to continue our work through exhibits, programs, and our upcoming book.

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“I want to make sure that we are more in tune with the principles of the social model of disability and continue to use the arts, not only to showcase and develop the artists within Wales, but also capture opportunities to highlight social injustice.

All arts are in some way political [with a small ‘p’] and have a function beyond admiration and entertainment. They capture moments from beauty to suffering, they affirm and motivate us, they mirror society to raise concerns, and give us hope in our shared humanity.”

— Ruth Fabby, Disability Arts CYMRU

“Indigenous people have stewarded Alaska for thousands of years. Their holistic understanding of the environment created a sustainable and symbiotic relationship with the waters, plants and animals of the land.”

“Land Acknowledgment is the public recognition of this knowledge and care. We look to Indigenous Elders and their youth for guidance. It is only Indigenous ways of being that will ensure our collective future.”

— MELISSA SHAGINOFF, of the Udzisyu and Cui Ui Ticutta clans in Nay'dini'aa Na Kayax

“How I can create more opportunities in public spaces where mothers can practice patience, care and grace on and for themselves?”

— Jessica Moss, Artist