Walk into a room and see two metal boxes with voices and sounds spilling out.
Continue through the galleries and see several clowns, brightly colored, faces contorted and tormented. In the next room, find cloth-covered walls. They are quilts, but not to keep warm. To evoke an emotion.
What looks like a wall-mounted head of a steer are objects, repurposed: bow without arrow, window latches, and more—things leftover from tennis lessons and archery practice, assembled and held together by the hands of the artist.
These ceramics, paintings, metal, quilts, mosaics, assemblies, sounds, and drawings are the product of living in and around Pittsburgh, artists of color, bringing their diverse experiences and unique artistry to the students at IUP and the people of Indiana.
Find time to stop in. See the color, hear the words, feel the pain, experience the pride, respond to the joy, confront the past, embrace the future, and find out what it means to exist as a person of color in this part of the world through Soul of a Region.
On the first floor of Sutton, in a back corner, you will always find the University Museum at IUP. It’s free, with changing shows and always something new to explore. Museum hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 2:00–6:30 p.m.; Thursday, noon–7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, noon–4:00 p.m. The Museum is closed Sundays, Mondays, and on university holidays. The Museum will be closed Tuesday, October 25, for Fall Break.
