Furpile will be on view this First Friday (June 5th) at Mary’s Bar from 5-8pm. This viewing is +21 and will precede Mary’s happy hour.

Furpile is a please touch plushie sculpture show running May 23rd through July 12th 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Patrick Totally asked several hundred sculptors, knitters, quilters, painters, illustrators, NPOs, drag performers, fursuit makers, tattooers, designers, locals, public figures, computer freaks, and “non-artists” to create a soft sculpture adhering to a certain set of parameters. Furpile is a show of work by the seventy-or-so artists who submitted work based on this prompt.

Furpile is an arts depreciation initiative. It is not enough to make cheap art. The bespoke stuff also needs to be much, much cheaper. We are still afraid to touch art. We are scared to use it after we buy it, like how we would anything else.

At the end of its run, the sculptures comprising Furpile will be donated to various thrift stores throughout Pennsylvania, reintroducing these artworks to our broader ecosystem of objects.

Participating artists include:
Daniel Albuquerque, Andrew W. Allison, Pamela Anderson, Eric Anthony Berdis, Jackie Blue, Gene Bunny, Thomas Callahan, Anne Chen, Jen Cooney, Stray Coyote, Iggy Craig, Creative Citizen Studios, Seven D, Miles Davitt, Izzy Dent, Cole Denyer, Cass Dickenson, Doghead, Finn Dugan, Elvin, Ardy Esk, Dara Etienne, july’s first, flavushh, Fungus, Riley Griffiths, Elliot Basil Hanson, Jackson Wiley Hardwick, Jesse Hatchett, Shaun Hathaway, Harley Hollenstein, Isa, Jovian, Zephyr Kim, Izzy Knapp, Christy Kunitzky, Halo Lahnert, Lane Lincecum, TL3, Jackson Margolis, Eleanor McQueeny, Meowgirl300, Cole Modell, Bethany Moody, Kittee Mortis, Liam Murray, NAK, Brittany Orlando, Pedro Perez Pedrero, Sam Pelletier, chandler pippin, Julia Pretsfelder, Daisy “hunty” Redding, Roadkill, Lillian Rothenhofer, Christina Sadovnikov, Alice Screams, Jackson Siegal, Bradley Sizemore, Nate Skinner, Asher Snake, Karmel Spanier, Matthew Speedy, Maya Sunflower, Taliruq, Totan, Andrew Newell Walther, Elsa Werth, Davy Crockett Wiggins, Gwendolyn Wood, Harrison Wyrick, and Yael.

PLAYDATES ARE ALLOWED AND ENCOURAGED AT ALL VIEWING HOURS. Furpile is a great opportunity to socialize stuffies that don’t get out of the house much.

Content Warning: Furpile contains depictions of cartoon violence and non-sexual nudity. PG-13.

Programming note: A number of the artists included in Furpile will also have work up at I LOVE FURRY, a show of furry ephemera curated by Tommy Bruce (@tommybruce). I LOVE FURRY will be having its grand opening opening up the block at Bunker Projects the same evening.