The Tomayko Foundation fosters individual creativity through education and the arts.
Closing Soon: Adaptation-Local Notes
October 10 - November 22, 2024
Adaptation – Local Notes gathers the works of 13 artists based in and around the Allegheny County region to examine our communal ability to influence, intersect, and adapt to natural and human-made ecosystems. With these artworks, artists demonstrate how the organic or synthetic materials available in such sites often affect our relationships with each other and the places we inhabit.
This exhibition includes an off-site film screening pop-up at Silver Eye Center for Photography on October 16.
Installation image courtsey of Sean Carroll
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.
Image courtesy of the artist
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.
Congratulations to the Fall 2024 Point Park Choreography Award Winner: Kayla Popp
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Corruption loosely tells a story about how the fear of failure drives an artist to lose their integrity. Conforming to industry standards is seen far too commonly in artists who are hungry for their next job but lack a foundational sense of self. One day you have it all, and the next you don’t. From this piece, Kayla hopes that people will remember to not let outside opinions affect how they view their own success.
Kayla Popp is currently attending Point Park University on a scholarship to earn her BFA in dance with a jazz concentration and a minor in psychology. While at Point Park, she performed in “The List” by Christopher Huggins and “Luv & Light” by Kevin and Marcel Wilson at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Prior to attending Point Park, she trained at Pennsylvania Regional Ballet under the direction of Victoria Silva. During her time at PRB, she trained under Jeffery Gribler, Laszlo Beardo, and Erin Steifal-Inch. In 2020, she attended the Ailey School Virtual Summer Intensive. Her training and performance opportunities have helped her become the versatile and strong dancer she is today.
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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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