Dead Things in Jars (2025 Maddy Varner Award Winner)

A work in progress by Lorie Chen towards a workflow for capturing wet specimens of dead things (from animals to…

Artist Lecture by Jodie Mack

September 18 2025 5:30–7:30 PM

Join us in the STUDIO on Thursday, September 18th at 5:30 PM for a lecture from the renowned experimental animator,…

Fall 2025 STUDIO Hosted Course: Shaping Environments with Dana Čupková (62-315/62-715)

Shaping Environments: Experiments in Geometry and (waste)Matter 62-315/715 (Tu/Th 11:00AM-12:50PM) is a design-research seminar taught by CM Architecture Faculty Dana…

Love Languages: Reimagining English Syntax Trees as a Turing Complete Language (2025 FUCKERY Award Winner)

This project by SCS Student Cassidy Diamond reimagines the syntax structure of the English language as a Turing Complete programming…

A Synesthete’s Atlas: Performing Cartographym, an Artist Talk with Eric Theise

September 5 2025 5:30–7:30 PM

Since its Lisbon premiere in April 2022, Eric Theise has been manipulating projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians…

Teach in the STUDIO!

Apply here (only available via Andrew IDs). The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry invites applications from full-time CMU faculty for…

Drop-in for Research + Grant Support

September 3 2025 5:30–6:30 PM

The STUDIO is your laboratory. But how do I get the help I need? Glad you asked Faculty, Staff, and…

New Steiner Book for 2024-2025

Download this year’s Steiner Book About the Steiner Fund The Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series brings creative practitioners who push boundaries,…