The Tomayko Foundation fosters individual creativity through education and the arts.
Now Open: every speck of dust illuminated
March 14 - April 18, 2025
every speck of dust illuminated presents a tableau of the everyday. Inspired by Richard Siken’s poem “Visible World,” the exhibition sketches a feeling around quotidian notions of quietude, the banal, dreaming, and interiority. This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and is juried by Patrick Bova and Lucas Regazzi of april april.
Announcing the 2025 Performing Arts Sponsorship Recipient: MICHIYAYA Dance
MICHIYAYA is an evolving dance company based in New York City and Pittsburgh. Artistic directors Anya and Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery create multidisciplinary works that often recount or reveal a contemporary engagement with queerness, resistant relationships to schemes of oppression and power, cultural constraints on the body and interpersonal relationships, and other revelatory themes.
Congratulations to the 2025 Spring Choreography Award Winner at Point Park: Kayla Beardslee
Kayla Beardslee is currently a senior dance major with a concentration in jazz and a minor in public relations, advertising, and social media at Point Park University. Her performance resume includes works by choreographers such as Kiesha Lalama, Kiki Lucas, Crystal Frazier, Christopher Huggins, Staycee Pearl, and more. Kayla has also had the opportunity to co-choreograph with Ahmad Simmons and perform in Boo's Halloween House Party, the Pittsburgh Playhouse's first annual Halloween show. Professionally, she has worked with Cedar Fair and Six Flags Entertainment at Kings Dominion for their Grand Carnivale event as a stage and street dancer. Most recently,
Kayla’s piece, “As The Cadence Shifts”, is a nod to how we perceive time and allow it to influence our narrative. Time’s existence is complex, appearing finite to some and boundless to others, often causing friction between those that experience it differently, or even within each individual. This piece explores that conflict, but also the harmony that occurs when varying perceptions coexist. Kayla seeks to live in the present, acknowledge the past, and welcome the future in hopes that she finds balance within her own time and all it has to offer.
Announcing the Tomayko Award 2024 Recipient: Jacob Pesci
The Tomayko Award is an annual award given to an artist based in the Pittsburgh region with the goal to support emerging artists.
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Frank Mason: Portraits 1951 - 1983
Visit the Frank Mason gallery to see a new presentation of portraiture that demonstrates Mason’s deep interest in the figure, as well as his painterly influences that evolved throughout his long career.
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Frank Mason Gallery Archive
The Tomayko Foundation is home to the Frank Mason gallery, a gallery dedicated to the art of late artist Frank Mason. The Foundation works to preserve and present the artist’s oeuvre created over six decades. Explore works that have previously been on view at the Mason gallery.
Frank Mason Gallery Archive
The Tomayko Foundation is home to the Frank Mason gallery, a gallery dedicated to the art of late artist Frank Mason. The Foundation works to preserve and present the artist’s oeuvre created over six decades. Explore works that have previously been on view at the Mason gallery.
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