The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It exhibits room-sized installation art from across the country and around the world.
The Mattress Factory museum is named for its gallery buildings, housed since 1977 in the former Stearns & Foster mattress factory and warehouse buildings at 500 Sampsonia Way in the Mexican War Streets area of Pittsburgh's Central Northside.
Currently, the Mattress Factory receives about 38,000 visitors per year . Museum operating hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Mattress Factory is closed on Mondays.
History
The early 20th century building which houses the Mattress Factory was acquired by the Mattress Factory in 1975 . It was previously used as a mattress warehouse. It became a legal non-profit organization and educational institution in 1977; not-for-profit and an essentially educational nature are included in a list key factors for receiving museum accreditation from the American Association of Museums today. The museum's first exhibition of installation art opened five years later on May 8, 1982 .
Over the late 1980s and early 1990s the Mattress Factory acquired more buildings for various purposes, including:
- 1414 Monterey Street repurposed as a new gallery space
- two buildings on on North Taylor Street repurposed for artists' residences
- 505 Jacksonia Street used as a parking lot and garden for museum visitors
"In 1994 the Mattress Factory became the first museum in the United States to exhibit work by the controversial artist Damien Hirst" . The Mattress Factory also never uses a contract for their artists in residence.Mission statement
Permanent exhibitions
The Mattress Factory hosts 16 continuous, permanent installations . The following is a short list of artists who have permanent displays at the Mattress Factory :
William Anastasi
- Trespass
- January 13, 1989, 10 minutes, 6B
- April 15, 1989, 32 minutes 4B
Chicago Collaboration
- A Collaboration
Jene Highstein
- Unititled installation
Rolf Julius
- Red
- Music for a Garden
- Ash
Yayoi Kusama
- Infinity Dots Mirrored Room
- Repetitive Vision
Winifred Lutz
- Garden Installation
James Turrell
- Catso, Red (1967)
- Pleiades created in 1983
- Danaë created in 1983
Allan Wexler
- Bed Sitting Rooms for an Artist in Residence
Bill Woodrow
- Ships of Fools: Discovery of Time
Social media initiatives
The Mattress Factory is an institutional leader for incorporating social media networks into physical museum space as well as the virtual world. The museum's initiative is called Friendship v2.0 . The social media outlets include a blog, iConfess, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, FOURSQUARE, LAST.FM, and the Mattress Factory Channel on YouTube. The goal is to allow people to share in a Mattress Factory experience and connect with physical and virtual audiences even if they are not able to come to the museum .
The Mattress Factory strives to provide a personalized, emotional connection to all visitors. For web visitors who may follow the museum on via the MF blog, this may mean allowing a writer to include their own personality and voice into a blog. For a Twitter user, this may mean streaming real-time Twitter messages from visitors and MF staff to be displayed in the museum as well as online. In either scenario, a creative, distinctive personality will be relevant to a wider audience.
Gallery
External links
- The Mattress Factory Art Museum (MF), official website
- MF blog
- MF iConfess
- MF on Twitter
- MF on Facebook
- MF on Flickr
- MF FOURSQUARE
- MF LAST.FM
- MF Channel on YouTube.
References
- ^ "Facts". Mattress Factory . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=Facts . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Quick Facts". Mattress Factory . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=GeneralInfo . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Quick Facts". Mattress Factory . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=GeneralInfo . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Quick Facts". Mattress Factory . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=GeneralInfo . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Quick Facts". Mattress Factory . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=GeneralInfo . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Mission Statment". Mattress Factory . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=GeneralInfo . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Facts". Mattress Factory . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=Facts . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Permanent Exhibitions". Mattress Factory. 2009 . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=Exhibitions&c=Permanent . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
- ^ "Connect". Mattress Factory. 2009 . http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=ShowFeature&id=4 . Retrieved December 2, 2009 .
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