Furpile (Accessible Hours)

This listing is for Furpile's accessible hours. Wheelchair accessible & sensory friendly.

Furpile is a please-touch stuffie sculpture show. Furpile intends to imbue both the audience and the artist with a shared experience of play, such that each of them may participate in their capacity as a novice, and that a basic lived experience may be transmitted through the work itself.

Dolls have performed roughly the same function for the whole of human history, but I thought the general notion of a "doll" may yield work too variable in scale and format. A Beanie Baby is a sort of object with parameters that are generally understood and that few people, besides persons employed by Ty in an official capacity, have ever attempted to construct. There is a way to "fail" at making a Beanie Baby in a way you can not fail at making a "doll." So, I asked about 500 people to make a Beanie Baby and mail it to me. Furpile is a show of the counterfeit Beanie Babies I received in return (roughly 75).

At the close of the show, all of the works on display will be donated to a thrift store somewhere in Pennsylvania, such that these Beanies may reintegrate into our larger ecosystem of objects.

PLAYDATES ARE ALLOWED AND ENCOURAGED. Furpile is a great opportunity to socialize stuffies that don't get out of the house much.

Rated PG-13 for cartoon violence and nudity. Hit our line on Instagram or Bsky regarding more specific accommodations.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is not the host or organizer of Furpile. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh does not support, sponsor, or represent Whose or Furpile.