PLEASE NOTE: The information below is for our October 2022 trip to Pittsburgh, which is now complete.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

Pittsburgh: Featuring the 58th Carnegie International and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022
PRICE: $3250* per person double occupancy

Join Joanna Pinsky, Art Encounter’s Artistic Director and Co-founder, on an exclusive tour of this culturally rich city and home to one of the art world’s most important exhibitions. Established in 1896, the Carnegie International is the longest-running North American exhibition of international art, second globally only to the Venice Biennale. Selected by a team of leading curators from around the world, the exhibit stimulates discussion of art and its relationship to world events. Organized every three to four years by the Carnegie Museum of Art, the International presents an overview of how art and artists respond to the critical questions of our time. Discover work in every medium by the “hottest” emerging artists along with art by internationally acclaimed established artists who transform galleries within the Carnegie Museum as well as public spaces in different Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

Engage with artists in their studios to get an inside view of the Pittsburgh art scene. Enjoy the spectacular autumnal views of western PA on our architectural day trip to tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, Fallingwater, and his nearby Kentuck Knob Usonian House and sculpture garden. Our trip includes visits to the Andy Warhol Museum, The Frick Pittsburg Museum and Estate, and fine dining.

Trip is limited to 16 fully-vaccinated participants. You must be a current member of Art Encounter to participate.

Cost includes four nights hotel accommodations: three dinners, two lunches, three breakfasts, and one brunch; transportation by motor coach; expert guides; all museum entrance fees and special tours. Does not include airfare, transfers to hotel, porter tips, alcohol, or incidental room charges.

A $600 deposit is required to reserve your spot. Deposit must be paid prior to June 30, 2022. Please contact sarah@artencounter.org with any questions.

Please do not purchase airfare until notified that the trip is confirmed by Art Encounter.

INTERESTED IN JOINING US?

Please email our Art Tours and Travel Manager Sarah Packer for more information, and check back here for further updates!

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS

  • Art Encounter discussions at the 58th Carnegie International

  • Private visits to artists’ studios

  • Tour of the Andy Warhol Museum

  • Day trip through spectacular fall scenery to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob, his Usonian Home with a sculpture garden

  • The Frick Pittsburgh Museum and Estate

  • Private tour of Pittsburgh and its history with a local guide

  • Visit to Randyland, artist Randy Gilson’s wildly painted, fanciful courtyard garden and house.

Bad Infinities, Laboratory of Fragments by Rafael Domenech, who will be featured in the 58th Carnegie International

The Hotel Indigo in Pittsburgh

OUR HOTEL

The Hotel Indigo Pittsburgh University- Oakland is built on the site of the former J & L Steel Mill in close proximity to the University of Pittsburgh. This vibrant boutique hotel gives a nod to its steel mill past with its high tech existence today. Enjoy the roof-top bar or walk along the scenic Three Rivers Heritage Trail alongside the hotel.

ITINERARY

Please note: itinerary is subject to change.

DAY 1 Wednesday, October 12
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  • 1:30 PM: Introduction in hotel lobby

  • 2:30 PM: Bus tour of Pittsburgh history and neighborhoods with local guide

  • 4:00 PM: Wine reception and discussion with artists in their studios; discover diverse art processes and ideas and find out how the Carnegie International impacts art in the city

  • 6:00 PM: Hotel check-in

  • 7:30 PM: Welcome dinner 

DAY 2 Thursday, October 13
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  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Discussion of selected highlights at the 58th Carnegie International. Held every three to four years dating back to 1896, this exhibit brings together new commissions, existing works, and projects by established and emerging artists working internationally, domestically and locally. The International is the result of several years’ work organized by the museum curator with a Pittsburgh curatorial team, an international curatorial team and an advisory team.

  • 12:00 – 1:30 PM: Lunch on own at the museum

  • 1:30 – 2:30 PM: Additional highlights of exhibit

  • 2:30 – 3:30 PM: Time to explore on your own

  • 4:00 PM: Drop off at hotel

  • 6:00 PM: Board bus for a private reception at an artist’s studio or home TBA

  • 7:30 PM: Dinner

DAY 3 Friday, October 14
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  • 8:20 AM: Board bus for Fallingwater and enjoy the wondrous beauty of autumn in Western PA

  • 10:30 AM: Guided tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s spectacular Fallingwater House

  • 12:30 PM: Lunch

  • 2:00 PM: Tour of Kentuck Knob, a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home, initially created for veterans returning from WWII, and sculpture garden

  • 3:00 PM: Board bus for Greensburg

  • 4:00 PM: Art stop in Greensburg

  • 5:00 PM: Board bus for Pittsburgh

  • 6:00 PM: Hotel return, dinner on own

DAY 4 Saturday, October 15
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  • 9:30 AM: Board bus for Andy Warhol Museum

  • 10:00 AM: An in- depth view of Warhol’s enormous body of work in the largest museum devoted to a single artist. We’ll also discuss special exhibits by artists whose work resonates with Warhol.

  • 11:45 AM: Carnegie International Exhibits in neighborhoods or galleries

  • 12:30 PM: Lunch

  • 2:00 PM: Delight in artist Randy Gilson’s creation of joyful, colorful, eye-popping, patterns and images painted inside and outside of his home and courtyard garden at Randyland.

  • 4:00 PM: Return to hotel, time on your own

  • 7:30 PM: Farewell dinner

DAY 5 Sunday, October 16
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  • 8:45 AM: Board bus for brunch

  • 9:00 – 10:25 AM: Brunch

  • 10:30 AM: Board bus for Frick Museum Pittsburgh

  • 11:00 AM: Highlights from installation at the Frick Museum Pittsburgh and tour of American Perspectives collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture by self-taught artists from the American Folk Art Museum, and selected works from the Frick collection featuring masterpieces by Rubens, Boucher, Gainsborough and Fragonard, rare French and Flemish tapestries, and eighteenth century French painting as well as decorative arts and furniture

  • 12:00 PM: Explore museum collection on your own, peruse the store, greenhouse and 5.5 acres estate or stop for snack at the cafe

  • 1:30 PM: Depart for hotel drop-off and airport

  • Please book return flights at 4:30 pm or later.

Inclusions:

  • 4 nights at the Indigo Pittsburgh Oakland Hotel

  • 9 meals

  • Museum entrances

  • Private tours of Pittsburgh, Fallingwater, Kentuck Knob

  • Art Encounter tours

  • Transportation within Pittsburgh and day trip excursions

  • Group airport return

Exclusions: 

  • airfare

  • transportation to hotel from airport

  • alcohol 

  • porter tips

  • incidental room charges

  • individual airport return