Curation

Scott Andrew’s curatorial and event-organizing practice is driven by a deep commitment to creating visible, supportive platforms for queer, experimental, and interdisciplinary performance, especially within Pittsburgh. This work bridges institutional venues with grassroots, nightlife, and academic spaces.

This section highlights key initiatives and collaborations:

• TQ Live! & Pop Cabaret (Suzie Silver, Joseph Hall, sarah huny young): Scott Andrew co-curated the seminal, decade-long queer and trans focused variety cabaret series, Trans-Q Television / TQ Live! (2012–2024), presented at The Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art. This project featured a wide array of talent, including guest features of works by The Dragon Sisters and Rachel Rampleman. This project evolved from the earlier student performance showcase at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pop Cabaret.
• Experimental & Work-in-Progress Platforms: He co-organized the NEA-funded performance series Fail-Safe (with Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles), which started small at The Glitter Box Theater and scaled to the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, serving as a supportive space for works-in-progress spanning performance art, cabaret, and experimental sound.
• The Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) Curatorial Projects: As a co-founder of the collective, Andrew co-curated and toured the expansive project FELT BOOK (2015), an interactive collection of remedies by over 40 artists.
• Site-Specific and Community Events: Andrew co-founded Open Thread (with Evie Atom Atkinson), co-hosted the Variety! Variety! Variety! cabaret series at the Brillobox, and launched The Drift (with Steve Gurysh), an art collective dedicated to producing temporary, public events and installations along Pittsburgh’s three rivers. He also coordinated events at Future Tenant, Sprout Fund Hothouse parties, and Artist Image Resource.
• Presenting National Talent: He organized special features and lectures, such as programming the incomparable performance artist Darrell Thorne for a one-night showing at The Andy Warhol Museum.
• Curatorial Pedagogy (CMU & Pitt): Andrew integrates curation into his teaching, organizing the annual Studio Arts Fall Festival, he organized the In Dialogue event, and runs the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program + Studio Arts Residency. With students at Carnegie Mellon, he organized projects like Activated Anamorphs presentations at venues like Phipps Conservatory, and the collaborative performance Vox Humana (with Jesse Stiles) at the Church of the Ascension.

Through these diverse projects, Andrew actively works to foster vibrant, intersectional artistic communities and provide critical exposure for underrepresented artists.