Jameelah Platt

Fallingwater Institute Artist-in-Residence

Fallingwater Institute Artist-in-Residence, Jameelah Platt, is an interdisciplinary artist with a primary focus on painting and collage. She is a Pittsburgh native who studied fine art and film at the University of the Arts. Platt has presented solo exhibitions at the Pittsburgh Center for Art & Media, Assemble, the Mr. Roboto Project and presented mural work for the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She has also exhibited with the Free Expression Project, the Brewhouse Association, Museum Lab, University of Pittsburgh: Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, Seton Hill University’s Harlan Gallery, The Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia. Platt participated in the 2019 Freshworks artist residency hosted by the Kelly Strayhorn Theatre & Dance Alloy and is currently in–residence at the BrewHouse Artist Association. 

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About Fallingwater Institute

When Edgar Kaufmann jr. entrusted Fallingwater to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963, he envisioned Fallingwater not only as a place where visitors would come to experience great architecture, but also where a deeper experience of art, design and nature might occur.

Kaufmann imagined that Fallingwater could become a place where artists, scholars, designers and learners might come to find inspiration from the building and its landscape while pursuing individual or group study. Today, the Fallingwater Institute, formally established in 2015, honors that vision by providing a stimulating location for creative collaboration and inspired thinking through immersive classes, workshops and residencies. By serving an international community through its innovative programming, the Fallingwater Institute works to create and disseminate new ideas that promote harmony between people and nature.