The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens
Kate Pirilla is an experienced art professional currently serving as an Art Handler at the University of Pittsburgh since October 2022 and at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Pirilla has held multiple roles as an Art Handler and Conservation Technician at Art Conversation Etc. since November 2021, cleaning, documenting, cataloguing, and maintaining artwork. Additional positions include Art Handler at The Frick Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Museum of Art, and Exhibition Technician at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art and the Mattress Factory. With a strong background in exhibitions and administrative support, Pirilla has also worked as an Assistant to the Director at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, focusing on exhibition planning and community engagement, and served as a Teaching Artist, developing multimedia classes. Pirilla holds a BA in Studio Arts and a BA in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh.
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The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens
Located on the Pittsburgh estate of late-19th-century industrialist Henry Clay Frick, The Frick Pittsburgh is the steward of collections left as a legacy to the people of Pittsburgh by Frick’s daughter, Helen Clay Frick. The permanent collections include fine and decorative arts, cars, carriages, historic objects, and buildings. The Frick experience includes The Frick Art Museum, the Car and Carriage Museum, Clayton, the Frick family Gilded Age mansion, and six acres of beautifully landscaped lawns and gardens. Also included are an Education Center, the Frick children’s playhouse (designed by renowned architects Alden & Harlow), a large working greenhouse (also designed by Alden & Harlow), The Café at the Frick, and the Grable Visitor Center, which houses the Frick Museum Store.