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Pittsburgh Arts Organization "Furpile" May 23-July 12

A plushie with a human's torso and a black cat's face and paws.
Flyer for the closing of Furpile.
Furpile at anthrocon.
Tina the Tick, a plushie by Isa & Yael
Attention-grabbing graphic for Furpile.
A pile of plushies in the basement of a carpet store
A yellow bear plushie made by Lillian Rothenhofer
Flyer for furpile, a please touch plushie sculpture show, at Remnant City
A plush mace by Matthew Speedy
Clip from the Edison film The "Teddy" Bears of teddy bears dancing
program for “How to Spot Counterfeit Beanie Babies,” theFurpile video compendium presented by Whose June 20th, 2026 The "Teddy" Bears (Wallace McCutcheon & Edwin S. Porter, 1907, 14 mins) The Anatomy of a Teddy Bear (Bea Orlandi, 2019/2026, 5 mins) A Day In The Life (um dia na vida) (flavushh, 2022, 4 mins) Why a 'crying horse' toy is going viral in China (2026, 3 mins) PRIMARY (Camille Cooper & Natthew Marvan, 2026, 6 mins) Embryonic (Jackie Blue, 2023, 2 mins) Life in Plastic (Lucie Cartwright, 2024, 3 mins) Dedicated Propensity to Unfolding, or The Taste of Fixatives (William Leonard, 2019, 5 mins) Chucky: Building a Nightmare (2007, 10 mins) Bruce Walks The Length Of My Hallway One Hundred Times (Abridged)(Mark Zubrovich, 2024/2026, 7 min) (Interlude) Evil Stick Wand Toy for Toddlers Reveals Picture of Young Girl Cutting Her Wrists With Knife (2014, 2 mins) Juguetes (dir. María Luisa Bemberg, 1978, 12 mins) whats it like being a robot (Skuncc, 2019, 3 mins) Training Video: Wearing the Tex Suit (Tex Saber, 2026, 3 mins) Pizzly Bear (Cecelia Condit, 2017, 4 mins) Dam$els of Luxury (Jennifer Marie Cella, 2024, 5 mins) (boxed) BunKnee (Eleanor McQueeney, 2019, 2 mins) Posthaste Perennial Pattern (Jodie Mack, 2019, 4 mins) Paracas (Cecilia Vicuña, 1983, 19 mins) Crayon Bunnies (Mark Hughes, 2009, mins)
Flyer for how to spot counterfeit beanie babies
Furpile, a please touch stuffie sculpture show, at CLP Woods Run.
Nupet, a fluffy plushie by Jovian
Flyer for furpile at 1201 Woods Run Ave in Pittsburgh.
Furpile at Mary's Bar
A hair nosed plushie by flavushh.
Creative citizen studios' storefront frankenpet show
Map showing the relative locations of Bunker Projects and Mary's Bar.
Flyer for furpile at Mary's Bar in Pittsburgh.
A black stuffie by Lane Lincecum
Flyer fur Furpile, a please touch plushie sculpture group show . Featuring a stuffie by Gwendolyne Wood.
A cute staged shot of five works in Furpile
Plushies on the floor
a Furpile
The hallway where Furpile will open, with all the work in the show
Eepoh the Slug
Poster for furpile, a please touch plushie sculpture show, advertising its opening night. Opening at Whose HQ 2004 E Carson St Top Floor Pittsburgh, PA Saturday, May 23rd 4pm-9pm
Photoshoot sesh. Pictured: Total Betty, a plushie by Jen Cooney.
Flyer for the show containing a complete list of artists involved. All relevant information is more easily accessible at whose.neocities.org
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Garage sale sign
Sculpture by Jackson Wiley Hardwick
Flyer for this event. 2004 e carson st, top floor, 12-6pm. South side pittsburgh. Afters at painting with a twist 7-9pm further up carson street.
WHOSE WILL RESUME ACTIVITY MAY 23RD. flyer for that
info for getting in
text on white bg: “‘Oh Earth, either yawn to swallow me, or by changing it, destroy that form, by which I have pleased too much, and which causes me to be injured.’ Hardly had she ended her prayer, when a heavy torpor seizes her limbs; and her soft breasts are covered with a thin bark. Her hair grows into green leaves, her arms into branches; her feet, the moment before so swift, adhere by sluggish roots; a leafy canopy overspreads her features; her elegance alone remains in her. This, too, Phœbus admires, and placing his right hand upon the stock, he perceives that the breast still throbs beneath the new bark; and then, embracing the branches as though limbs in his arms, he gives kisses to the wood, and yet the wood shrinks from his kisses.” -The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated by Henry Thomas Riley Max Husten was born in 1999 in New York, NY. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2021 with a BFA in Painting. In 2022, Husten was included in the group show Shit in a Bucket at Cigar Factory Long Island City (New York, NY). In 2024, Husten moved to Philadelphia, PA, where he currently resides. The Wood Shrinks from the Kisses is Husten’s first solo exhibition. Several of the watercolors included in the vitrine were painted during Husten’s initial forays into plein air painting, a practice that followed his departure from RISD and began in the midst of America’s lax COVID-19 lockdowns. These plein air sessions ignited a broader fascination with the contours of trees, and especially with their knots. A majority of the paintings included in The Wood Shrinks from the Kisses are based on trees Husten encountered in life. These works were often sketched on location and later completed in his home studio. It should be noted that the sketches arrived in his studio at various states of completion. Whose is a curatorial project based in Pittsburgh, PA. Forthcoming documentation of The Wood Shrinks from the Kisses will be photographed by Thomas Callahan.
Notesapp wall of text: read as follows. This summer, my friend invited me to curate some shows is her house. I'm proud of the shows we put on and am thankful to her for her trust and cooperation. It has now become more practical for me to stage shows away from this space. After some discussiom, we agreed that Whathouse is the name of her house venue, and any offsite projects should be considered a separate entity. Whose is a curatorial project based in Pittsburgh, PA. For updates on future happenings at Whathouse, follow @everdark_pgh. - Patrick Totally
flyer for a show of paintings by max husten. the image is a painting from the show, a tree dense with knots in a park setting. the text on the flyer is as follows: The Wood Shrinks from the Kisses, paintings by Max Husten Saturday, January 3rd at Whathouse’s new location in South Side Flats 2004 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA available to view by appointment until January 10th @whathouse_pgh
show flyer for the opening of Herrenlos Ohio Exotica redux by T Boettner. here is the info: opening Saturday, November 22nd 5pm-9pm adults only with loud music performances by Crushing Union, Brennen Rigley, uncertain, and Ephor Lepidopteroid $15 cash preferred 177 43rd st., Pittsburgh, PA.
Thomas Boettner @ Whathouse November 22nd - December 20th 2025 Text by Thomas Boettner and Patrick Totally Thomas Boettner is an American musician, visual artist, and published author. He previously released music through the aliases Fire Island, AK and Straight Panic, and is currently releasing under the name secret historian. His work, while often dense and abstracted, aims to provide an argument for authentic, radical experience that eschews easy categorization or generalities. After time spent in South Carolina, Alaska, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Rhode Island, he can currently be found in Cleveland, Ohio with his dog and his pup pack. Herrenlos Ohio Exotica was initially staged at The Hildebrant in Cleveland, Ohio. The most prominent difference between the first iteration of the show and the redux is the inclusion of Golgotha, an especially large mixed media painting which has been worked on for several years and has been displayed in several states of completion. Each of the tapestries in the show is an open-edition print of a smaller format collage. Herrenlos Ohio Exotica redux is intended for mature audiences. In addition to several of Boettner’s sketchbooks, viewers are free to peruse the copy of Collected Zines 2009-2020 in the gallery space. Visitors can purchase hard and softcover editions of Collected Zines 2009-2020 at the following url: lulu.com/search?contributor=Thomas+Boettner Also, editions of his tapestries may be purchased here: straightpanic.threadless.com The opening of Herrenlos Ohio Exotica redux coincides with a concert hosted in Whathouse’s basement space. This show features performances by secret historian, Crushing Union, She Walks Crooked, and Brennen Rigley. Whathouse is cooperated by bosh sullen and Patrick Totally.