Assemble

Water for Baby not Bot!
Gallery Opening Tonight, 6 - 10 pm

Hack the Future is Assemble’s paid teen program. Each Friday afternoon, we’ve learned from guest makers, artists, and technologists to build up our maker skills as well as our understanding of the world around us and our place in it.

This year, we chose to focus our attention on generative AI, asking questions of experts in the field and of ourselves. Who benefits from this tech? Who controls it? What are their goals? Who does it leave out? How does it even work? What does it do well? What does it do poorly? What physical resources are being used to build it? What are the long-term effects on human privacy, creativity, and truth?

Water for Baby not Bot! is our rejection of all the reasons & justifications we’ve been told to accept about generative AI from the people who peddle it. Human-made art is not a product, aesthetic, or a job. Art is inherent to the human experience and cannot be replaced by machines. Long live human art! Messy, honest, human art!

Thank you to the following people for helping us along the way: CJ Swanson, Tom Ndiaye, Leo Hsu, Chase Klingensmith, Adam Paulisick, Myrah-Ashly Dixon, Orion Asa, Brent Nakamoto, Born Shamir, Miracle Jones, Etta Cetera, James Yaya Bough, Sarah Boyle, Vic Adair, Hallie Bateman, Nsai Temko, Evelyn Adair, and the folks from PGH Glass Center!

You are invited to the Assemble Afterschool Bash on
May 21st, 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Featuring O’Ryan the O’Mazing and amazing beats by TIMBELEZA

If you attended one of our programs over the 2025-2026 school year, you are invited to our Afterschool Bash on Thursday, May 21st, 3:00 - 6:00 pm at Assemble.

You can Pre-register at this event for our 2026-2027 programs.
Come on through and eat some snacks, celebrate all the amazing things you’ve made this year in the gallery display! Hang out for hands-on making activities, amazing music by Timbeleza and clown around with O'Ryan the O'Mazing

Though our summer camps at Assemble are full, we have space in our Northgate Summer Camp Program!!! Did you know Assemeble offers summer camps at partner sites? If you have a child in the Northgate School District, check out our awesome summer camps for rising 1-5th graders! Scholarships and limited free camps available!

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Assemble's Unblurred Gallery presents the work of Setuk in his show, Extrasensory Psychosis. Join us this First Friday 5/1 on Penn Ave, 6-10 pm, for an evening of black-lit paintings and interactive light experiences!

Setuk Raymond Gregoire is known for exploring applications of synesthesia and experimental painting. Through a combination of techniques, he captures the "images" of sounds, merging them to create new expressions. A self-taught artist based in West Virginia, Setuk's work ranges many styles as he is dedicated to versatility in expression.

This series - Extrasensory Psychosis - is an exploration of the emotions experienced by those affected by mental illness. Each piece is composed, pushing the boundaries between a layered, composite style and his synesthesia technique, all centered around evoking emotion in the viewer.

Find him on Facebook "Original Art by Setuk"

Last week's Sundae Sunday was such a blast, huge shoutout to Leona's Ice Cream and all the wonderful unicorns who showed up to help support Assemble's mission.

Every Sundae counts this month, and this past Sunday Leona's sold 64 Sundaes!
However, there's only one more Sunday left to support Assemble at Leona's and we are so close to raising $500!

So this Draft Weekend take a break from the bustle downtown and make your way to 5119 Penn Ave and get yourself a birthday cake flavored treat and help us reach our goal 🦄🍦🎂🦄

Dear Assemblers,
Due to PPS' asynchronous learning days Afterschool at Assemble will be cancelled this Wednesday April 22nd and Thursday April 23rd, As well as Saturday Crafternoons this upcoming Saturday April 25th. Our Gallery will be open as planned.
We hope you have a wonderful week!