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We are excited to announce our forthcoming exhibition, Sistermoon by Siri Kaur (), opening December 3, 2026.Kaur’s Siste...
10/22/2026

We are excited to announce our forthcoming exhibition, Sistermoon by Siri Kaur (), opening December 3, 2026.

Kaur’s Sistermoon interweaves intimate family portraits with magical visions of the natural world, exploring shifting relationships between selfhood, kinship, and time.
For thirty years, Kaur collaborated with her youngest sister, Simran, who is at the heart of the exhibition. Multigenerational family portraits are shown alongside the elemental forces of the natural world, evoking matrilineal power and cycles of life and renewal.

This first extensive presentation of Sistermoon includes never-before-published photographs. Siri Kaur’s Sistermoon (VOID, 2025) will be available from Silver Eye.

Save the date! Our opening celebration will be December 10, 2026 from 6-8pm. Meet the artist and hear an introduction to the work. Further programming to be announced!

Visit the link in our bio to learn more about Sistermoon and register for the opening reception ✨

About the artist: Siri Kaur is an artist, educator, and mother who examines identities that occupy dualities, diversity, and contradiction, with a rigorous eye for the photographic quality of magic. Originally from Maine, she lives in Los Angeles among lots of citrus trees.

Image credit: Siri Kaur, Berry Mouth, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

✨Submissions are now open!✨Silver Eye Center for Photography is delighted to announce the Call for Entries for Fellowshi...
10/15/2026

✨Submissions are now open!✨

Silver Eye Center for Photography is delighted to announce the Call for Entries for Fellowship 27!

Fellowship is Silver Eye’s annual program recognizing exceptional artists working with photography, particularly those who have not yet received significant recognition or support. Juried by peers in the photography community, it encourages new directions in contemporary photography. Awardees and honorable mentions receive curatorial guidance, a cash prize, and production support from . All selected artists will be included in the Fellowship 27 exhibition in May 2027.

The International Fellowship Award recognizes a rising talent or established photographer from anywhere in the world, and the Keystone Award is given to an exceptional photographer living or making work in Pennsylvania.

Fellowship Award: $1,000 cash prize
Keystone Award: $1,000 cash prize
Honorable Mentions: $500 prizes

This year’s awards will be juried by artist and educator Harlan Bozeman (), 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and Fellowship 23 International Award Honorable Mention awardee; and art historian, writer, and curator Dr. Paula Kupfer (), former managing editor of Aperture and professor of art history at The University of Pittsburgh.

Deadline for submissions: November 19, 2026 NOON ET

Learn more about Fellowship 27, the jurors, and how to apply here: https://silvereye.org/events/fellowship27

Join us for a fun and thoughtful evening with fellow photography lovers. Our monthly Salon (now every third Friday) is a...
10/12/2026

Join us for a fun and thoughtful evening with fellow photography lovers. Our monthly Salon (now every third Friday) is a casual, welcoming gathering where you can meet new people, reconnect with old friends, and enjoy great conversations about photography.

At this month’s salon, we will be unboxing Radius Books 2026 donation of photobooks! Radius Books (.books) is a nonprofit publishing organization that creates beautiful art books and donates them to libraries. We are grateful for their annual donation to Silver Eye’s library.

Everyone is encouraged to bring prints to share, ask for feedback, or simply join the conversation. If you would like to share work please let us know in advance at [email protected].

Additionally, the Silver Eye Library in the Education Center at The Lab @ Silver Eye will be open for browsing from 5-6pm on Friday October 16th, before Salon. Come early and explore our 800+ volume library of photography books!

📅 Friday, October 16, 6–7:30pm
📍The Lab @ Silver Eye Education Center, 5228 Penn Ave, #201
🔵 Free and open to all
🔗 Register here: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/cvnec5/event/october2026salon/

10/08/2026

✨Post-Workshop Recap! 

In An Introduction to DIY Photobook Binding, artist Brent Nakamoto (Brent Nakamoto) of Almost Perfect Press (Almost Perfect Press) guided participants in using accessible software, materials, and techniques to create original, handbound chapbooks from start to finish.

Images provided by workshop participants Margaret Dugger, Kait Nykwest, and Erika Wilson.

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Silver Eye’s workshops are centered in accessibility, open creative exploration, and honest discourse. Our workshops are all led by practicing artists and they are always centered in the artist’s creative expertise and vision.

Learn more about our available workshops at the link in our bio!

Coinciding with the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (), we are delighted to host a launch of artist Taylor Galloway’s () first ...
10/07/2026

Coinciding with the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (), we are delighted to host a launch of artist Taylor Galloway’s () first monograph, across the street from Heaven, published by Deadbeat Club ().

Both testimony and elegy, across the street from Heaven is a consideration on time, memory, and belonging. For ten years, Galloway returned to the farm his grandmother’s family has tended for five generations in Hartwood, Virginia. Together, his photographs form a chorus of faces and voices whose lives have unfolded upon this land, bearing witness to a way of life on the brink of disappearance, as small independent farms across America continue to give way to industrial agriculture and development.

We will also be screening Galloway’s short film, “You Know I’d Come Looking,” an exploration of gesture and an extension of the photographs from the book.

Join us on October 30 from 7-8pm for a talk and screening with the artist. Then, come see Taylor and Silver Eye at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, October 31-November 1 at the Carnegie Museum of Art ().

Link in bio to register!

Image Credit: Taylor Galloway, Grandma Dye’s view of Gorgeous George, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.

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Taylor Galloway is a Los Angeles based artist with a practice centered around one's internal history and the ways in which the world can push and pull against, bending reality and memory. Drawing on themes of identity and the shifting nature of memory, he uses the camera to trace the contours of his own history; reimagining family archives and domestic spaces to question what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what is invented. Galloway’s work has been exhibited nationally, internationally, and published in The New York Times. across the street from Heaven is his first monograph, published by Deadbeat Club, 2026.

Coinciding with the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (Pittsburgh Art Book Fair), Silver Eye is delighted to host the launch of N...
10/06/2026

Coinciding with the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (Pittsburgh Art Book Fair), Silver Eye is delighted to host the launch of Njaimeh Njie’s (Njaimeh N.) photobook, Flight Plans, published by Carlow University.

Flight Plans showcases Njie’s project and solo exhibition installed at the Carlow University Art Gallery (Carlow University Art Gallery) in 2023. Part collage series and part installation, Flight Plans is a meditation on the legend of Black folks flying. The book weaves together Njie’s historical research, family storytelling, documentary photography, collage, original prose, and process documentation to meditate on flight as freedom. Shaped by the past and rooted in the present, the publication presents a future-facing take on a piece of enduring lore.

Join us on Thursday, October 29 from 6-7pm for the launch and a conversation with the artist. Then, come see Njaimeh and Silver Eye at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, October 31-November 1 at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Carnegie Museum of Art).

Link in bio to register!

Image credit: Njaimeh Njie, The Route, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

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Njaimeh Njie (b. 1988. Pittsburgh, PA) is a multidisciplinary artist. Working across photography, filmmaking, collage, and installation, her work explores how people build identity and community in the face of evolving places and times. She has exhibited in spaces including the Mattress Factory and Silver Eye Center for Photography, and presented at venues including TEDxPittsburgh Women, Brown University, and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Njie’s work is included in the permanent collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Carnegie Museum of Art, and is displayed permanently at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Beyond her fine art practice, Njie is the Founder/Lead Producer of the documentary storytelling company, Eleven Stanley Productions. She earned her B.A in Film and Media Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010.

Here is your opportunity to reflect on and hone your creative direction! The Next Step: Refining Your Creative Voice is ...
09/24/2026

Here is your opportunity to reflect on and hone your creative direction! The Next Step: Refining Your Creative Voice is designed to help artists working with photography through providing guidance and structure in which to safely explore values, questions, interests, and needs in art-making.

Led by Executive Director of Silver Eye Leo Hsu (), participants will leave with a better understanding of their own creative priorities and direction, and tools to aid them in continuing to develop a personally meaningful creative voice.

📅 Tuesdays, 6-8pm ET, Nov 10-Dec 8, 2026
📍The Lab @ Silver Eye Education Center, 5228 Penn Ave, #201
🔵Five week course registration: $250
🔗 Register here: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/educatio/event/refining-creative-voice

Image 1: Leo Hsu.
Image 2: Leo Hsu, Landscapes, Crawford and Harbord, Garrison Creek, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
Image 3: Leo Hsu.

09/23/2026

As part of each exhibition, we include Community Perspectives where people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds respond freely to individual works in the show. These Perspectives are guided by first impressions and can take any form that feels meaningful to the writer.

For Tears, Blood, Sweat, Veronica G. N. Corpuz () provided a response to artist Ryan Frigillana’s (.frigillana) piece, Mother’s Faith.

Listen to an excerpt of Corpuz reading her response. The full response can be heard on the Bloomberg Connects app () and at the link in our bio.

Image credit: Ryan Frigillana, Mother’s Faith, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
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Veronica Corpuz is a first-generation Filipina-American poet and artist exploring themes of identity, assimilation, loss, and grief. A workshop facilitator in the Madwomen in the Attic program at Carlow University, she also co-curates with Sarah Williams-Deveraux Mad Bookends, an online journal of creative writing featuring women writers of color. As a member of the collective, she is currently producing work at Artist Image Resource, which will be on exhibit this fall. Her book of poetry, The Widow’s Calendar, is forthcoming this January.

09/22/2026

In our next five-week online course, artist Ariel C. Wilson (.c.wilson) will guide participants in a mediation on light, time, and perception. Expand your awareness to light as a material to be worked with both within and beyond the dimensions of photography.

This course is geared towards those interested in alternative or expanded approaches to photography. Participants will use their own cameras (DSLR, film, and phones are all fine) during the course and have opportunities to share their work with the group.

📅 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm ET
📍Online, October 21-November 18, 2026
🔵Five week course registration: $300
🔗 Register here: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/educatio/event/lightandtime/

Video: Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal, from where the sun is, to wherever you are. Installed at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Courtesy of the artist.

Make images using plants, sunlight, and a little photographic magic! In this hands-on workshop, artist Kelsey Nolin ( ) ...
09/16/2026

Make images using plants, sunlight, and a little photographic magic! In this hands-on workshop, artist Kelsey Nolin ( ) will lead participants in exploring lumen printing, a camera-less photographic process that uses sunlight to create images directly on light-sensitive paper. Using plants as both subject and material, participants will create a series of experimental photographs and will be introduced to homemade, plant-based developers and alternative photographic processes such as chemilumens. All materials provided!

📅 November 14+15, 2026, 1-3pm
📍The Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media Darkroom
🔵Two-Day Workshop Registration + Materials Fee: $135
🔗 Register here: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/educatio/event/lumens-plant-magic/

Image 1: Kelsey Nolin, Flora, no. 9, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Image 2: Kelsey Nolin, Flora, no. 9, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Image 3: Kelsey Nolin, Grass and clover, no. 2, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

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