MATTRESS FACTORY
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Contact Info
Anna Fitzpatrick  anna@mattress.org
500 Sampsonia Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
http://www.mattress.org
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Mission/Vision/Goals
The Mattress Factory is a research and development laboratory for artists. As a museum of contemporary art, it commissions new site-specific works, presents them to a wide audience and maintains selected individual installations in a growing and distinctive permanent collection. The Mattress Factory provides a framework for innovative education programming. The Mattress Factory Education Program implements projects that support critical thinking, self-confidence and collaboration. Educators use the issues, new media, creative process and participatory environments inherent in site-specific installations to encourage flexible, tolerant and interdisciplinary thinking.
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Arts Focus
Visual Arts, Installation Art Residency Programs, Performance Art
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Programs For
Preschool Students, Elementary Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, College Students, Teachers and Administrators
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Offerings
Professional Development, Act 48, Artists-in-Residence, Classroom Presentations, After School Programs, Public Forums and Performances, Museum Tours, Educator Open House Receptions, School and Community Outreach, Family Programming, Resource Center and teacher materials, Website and Museum/School Collaborations

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