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Saturday, June 21, 2014

The Takeaway Features Amateur Artwork

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts:
Jessica Warchall, Visual Arts Publicist, 847-477-8714/Warchall@TrustArts.org
Shaunda Miles, Director of Public Relations, 412-471-1578/Miles@TrustArts.org
Diana Roth, Communications Manager, 412-471-8717/Roth@TrustArts.org
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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
THE TAKEAWAY: MADE WITH LOVE
AN ARTIST-CURATOR PROJECT INCORPORATING AMATEUR ARTWORK
July 11 – August 1, 2014 | 937 Gallery | 937 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor
Exhibition Opening & Reception | July 11, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of The Takeaway: Made With Love, an exhibition of nearly 100 amateur artworks handpicked from thrift store collections across several states. Throughout the run of the exhibition, visitors are able to enter into a free lottery for a chance to take home their favorite piece from the show. The exhibition, organized by Robert Raczka, is on view July 11–August 1, 2014, at 937 Liberty Avenue, second floor. An opening reception takes place Friday, July 11, 2014, from 5:30–9p.m., during the Cultural Trust’s quarterly Gallery Crawl throughout the Cultural District.

Raczka purchased the exhibition’s artworks—paintings, hand-knit afghans, handmade ceramics, and objects crafted in wood—for their aesthetic appeal and all-around interest, though they are artworks not generally presented in a fine art context. Among the works included are painted landscapes, pet portraits, spiritual imagery, and a wood mosaic Mayan calendar.

Raczka uses the exhibition budget, generally reserved for shipping and materials, to buy the art in thrift stores while exercising his curatorial eye. He sees the distribution of the artwork to the audience through a free lottery as a gift from the gallery as well as from himself.

“I have a genuine appreciation for amateur art at its unselfconscious best, and I wanted to share that with the audience,” says curator Robert Raczka. “I had noticed that when someone is in an art gallery contemplating a purchase, they really look closely and think about the art. I have found that if the audience feels that they might end up taking the art home, they consider it more deeply.”

At the conclusion of the exhibition, Raczka will select the winners at random, who are notified and able to pickup their artwork at the closing party Friday, August 1, 5:30–9 p.m., with an additional pick-up time Saturday, August 2, 1–5 p.m.

This is the forth in a series of exhibitions of thrift store art, the first held at Future Tenant in 2008, and combines Raczka’s roles as artist and curator. For these exhibitions, he has been incorporating ideas artists have been working with in relational aesthetics, or the practice of artist-constructed social experiences where the artist becomes the facilitator rather than the focal point, such as Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled project in which he cooked and served food in the Carnegie International, and Tino Sehgal’s “The Progress” at the Guggenheim where visitors were engaged in a series of conversations about progress. Similar to these projects, Raczka’s lottery is designed to reconsider and make use of art’s social and institutional context and to create a nontraditional social interaction between artist/curator, the gallery, and the audience.

Robert Raczka is a Pittsburgh-based artist, writer, and curator, and he was previously a gallery director of 20 years. He earned an MFA in photography from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. His artwork is in the form of photography, collage, and exhibitions incorporating found objects to engage with popular culture and taste, the public communications of advertising and marketing, and the often-tenuous connection between representation and reality. In 2013, Raczka curated Crowdsourced at SPACE, featuring 12 artists who included public input—either directly or through suggestions—into their artworks. Raczka’s art criticism often appears in the Pittsburgh City Paper. He is emeritus professor of art at Allegheny College, Meadville, and he recently taught the graduate studio art seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

About 937 Gallery
937 Gallery is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The multiuse exhibition space is located at 937 Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Gallery Hours: Saturday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sunday, 12–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Visual Art Exhibition at SPACE

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
CATALOGUING PATTERN
AN EXHIBITION OF FINDING AND BREAKING ORDER
July 11 – August 31, 2014 | SPACE | 812 Liberty Avenue
Exhibition Opening & Reception | July 11, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents the visual art exhibition Cataloguing Pattern, a collaborative meditation on the role of pattern in artistic practice. The exhibition is on view July 11–August 31, 2014, at SPACE. An opening reception takes place Friday, July 11, from 5:30–9 p.m., during the Trust’s quarterly Gallery Crawl throughout the Cultural District.

The exhibition, guest organized by Kristen Letts Kovak, investigates the links between visual, perceptual, and cognitive patterning, and it features more than 50 artworks by nine artists. Each artist chose one aspect of patterning to investigate: seriality, rhythm, rehearsal, behavior, permutation, morphology, expectation, and repetition.

Kovak’s exhibition explores the diverse role that patterning can play, noting that the process of creation often follows a pattern itself: intention, execution, and then resolution. Yet, even this pattern falls apart as the artists’ original intention inevitably shifts.

“We constantly break our own patterns as we investigate them more deeply and uncover our faulty assumptions,” says Kovak. “I wondered, if the cycle of establishing and breaking patterns is fundamental to the act of making art, wouldn’t it appear as an underlying theme in seemingly disparate artworks?”

Each artist—through differing aesthetics, media, and content—finds his or her own balance between ordered predictability and the irregular or unknown. As a group, the artists demonstrate that breaking a predicted pattern is more significant than establishing one, and they use pattern to reveal what is otherwise hidden.
Salinda Deery transcribes the repetitive motions of factory labor into abstract paintings. She treats her large canvases like an assembly line, repeating her marks as she walks alongside the surface. The resulting paintings resonate with the history of her movements and call attention to the interruptions in her routine. She resides in Elkhart, MD.

Aaron Henderson and Ted Coffey collaborate on a series of kaleidoscopic videos. Beginning with documentation of military drills and shopping riots, they transform repeated acts of aggression into morphing visual and auditory patterns. Their work vacillates between representation and abstraction, and chaos and order. Henderson resides in Pittsburgh, PA, and Ted Coffey lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Kristin Kest is an illustrator and storyteller. Her drawings bring to light the role of gender and class often underlying the stories we tell. While set within the context of imagination and fantasy, her characters are heroic because of their humanness—articulating moments of boldness, tenderness, and physical labor. She resides in York, PA.

Todd Keyser investigates the relationship between the mass-produced and handmade image. Working on top of digitally printed photographs, he meticulously paints color striations onto their surfaces. His marks mimic both the underlying geometry and the hidden digital pixilation. Keyser resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Kristen Letts Kovak integrates historically and culturally unrelated patterns into singular images. By imposing patterns onto an unfamiliar context, she interrupts the established design and creates new visual alliterations. The resulting paintings continuously slide between tangents and a larger superstructure. She resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Maria Mangano creates mixed media and installation artworks that investigate taxonomy and ecology. She uses the repeated nature of printmaking to study visual and behavioral links between species. Her delicate pieces shed light on the fragile web of nature’s interaction in an urban environment. Mangano resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Brooke Sturtevant-Sealover studies the lives of individual plants. She intricately charts each plant’s daily movements and growth patterns. Her marks are, in essence, chosen by the plants, but the method of recording is determined by the artist. The layers of collected data and live specimens become both a scientific record and a launching pad for aesthetic investigations. She resides in York, PA.

Rebecca Zilinski’s ink drawings map cognitive and behavioral responses. Her work is quiet and meditative, revealing its intricacies over time. While at a macro level she is articulating a predictable pattern, closer investigation reveals the unpredictable behavior of her media. Zilinski resides in Poughkeepsie, NY.

About SPACE
SPACE is located at 812 Liberty Avenue. Gallery Hours: Wed & Thurs: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri & Sat: 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. SPACE is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

About The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest landmasses curated by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org.

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Images Courtesy of the Artists

La Cour Des Miracles at Wood Street Galleries

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
LA COUR DES MIRACLES
AN INTERACTIVE ROBOTIC INSTALLATION

July 11 – September 7, 2014 | Wood Street Galleries | 601 Wood Street
Exhibition Opening & Reception | July 11, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of La Cour des Miracles (The Court of Miracles) by artists Bill Vornand and Louis-Philippe Demers. The exhibition is on view at Wood Street Galleries July 11–September 7, 2014. An opening reception takes place during the Trust’s quarterly Gallery Crawl Friday, July 11, 2014, from 5:30–9 p.m.

La Cour des Miracles is an interactive robotic installation that reacts to viewers’ presence in a multimedia environment. This installation follows the artists’ approach to creating fictitious spaces designed for machine populations and cybernetic organism societies, in which viewers become both explorers and intruders. The title of the exhibition originates from the slum districts of Paris—cour des miracles—in which begging was a means of survival for the populations of these areas in the 1600s. Beggars in these cour des miracles faked injuries, deformities, and diseases in order to receive more alms, and once returned to their home in the slums, their ailments were miraculously cured.

By creating a universe of faked realities, the artists suggest that the aim of this installation is to induce viewers’ empathy toward the “characters,” which are solely articulated metallic structures. Six robotic characters populate the installation: The Begging Machine, The Convulsive Machine, The Crawling Machine, The Harassing Machine, The Heretic Machine, and The Limping Machine.

Also on view is Vorn’s DSM-VI, a robotic universe that stages creatures expressing symptoms of “abnormal” psychological behaviors and stuck with some serious “mental health” problems, such as neurosis, psychosis, personality disorders, paranoia, schizophrenia, depression, delirium, and other forms of behavior and mental disorders. The project title is inspired by the reference manual published by the American Psychiatric Association: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM.

Sometimes glorified, sometimes highly criticized, the DSM-V describes and classifies human behavior disorders and mental diseases. With this project, Vorn proposes DSM version VI. Just as La Cour des Miracles is conceived around the idea of “the misery of the machines,” the DSM-VI project pursues Vorn’s creative work on the metaphor of the living by now investigating the notion of a “psychosis of the machines.”
The installation is presented as a “tableau vivant,” or living picture—a vast and complicated labyrinth reminiscent of the cages of a zoological garden or the corridors of an asylum for the mentally ill. In this strange universe made of metal scaffoldings, electrical cables, and suspended ducts, vague and evasive shapes can be seen through the haze. Mysterious creatures inhabit this place, sometimes totally uninterested when the viewers walk by, sometimes completely wild and crazy because of the intrusion in their intimate environment.

Bill Vorn, based in Montréal, has been working in the field of robotic art for more than 20 years. His installation and performance projects involve robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video, and cybernetic processes. Vorn holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He teaches electronic arts in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University, Montréal. Vorn is responsible for the robotic art research-creation lab of the Hexagram Institute at Concordia University. Vorn’s work has been presented extensively internationally, and he received numerous awards. He has worked in collaboration with many Canadian artists, including Edouard Lock, Robert Lepage, Gilles Maheu, Istvan Kantor, and Louis-Philippe Demers.

Louis-Philippe Demers is a multidisciplinary artist using machines as media. He worked on the conception and production of several large-scale interactive robotic installations, so far realizing more than 225 machines. His robotics works are found in theater, opera, subway stations, art museums, science museums, music events, and trade shows. Demers has participated in more than 70 artistic and stage productions while collaborating with recognized artists, such as Bill Vorn, Christian Möller, Stelarc, Robert Lepage, Peter Gabriel, and Le Cirque du Soleil. His works have been awarded several prizes and featured at major international venues. Demers is associate professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

About Wood Street Galleries
Wood Street Galleries is located at 601 Wood Street. Gallery hours: Wed. & Thur. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. Wood Street Galleries is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Support for Wood Street Galleries has been provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visitwww.TrustArts.org.

About the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org.

Follow us on Twitter @CulturalTrust, and like us on Facebook.
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Images Courtesy of the Artists

Some Begins Explores Telepathy and Miraculous Objects

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
SOME BEGINS
STORIES OF TELEPATHY AND MIRACULOUS OBJECTS

July 11 – August 24, 2014 | 707 Penn Gallery | 707 Penn Avenue
Exhibition Opening & Reception | July 11, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Some Begins, an exhibition exploring the associative and myth-making capacities of objects and text from the collaborative practice of artists Meg Shevenock and Jamie Boyle. The exhibition is on view July 11–August 24, 2014, at 707 Penn Gallery. An opening reception takes place Friday, July 11, 2014, from 5:30–9 p.m., during the Trust’s quarterly Gallery Crawl throughout the Cultural District.

"But How Am I?"

Some Begins, a collection of primarily sculptural works that exemplify what Shevenock and Boyle call their “belief in the crazy spirit world of objects,” marks the first exhibition devoted solely to their collaborative practice. Only very briefly, over the past seven years, have the artists lived in the same city. This physical distance between them serves as a crucial layer to their belief in the power of objects, their artistic process, and the works on view in Some Begins.

Several of the sculptures in the exhibition are arrangements of accumulated materials and objects, which the artists gleaned from daily life in their separate cities. Shevenock and Boyle’s separate—yet at times almost telepathic—experiences, reflected in these physical materials and objects (which in themselves resonate with their own history of use at once understood and unknown) are conflated in these sculptures.

The diaristic configuration of the exhibition allows a narrative to unfold and repeat and overlap through objects and fragments of text.

Rejecting the classification of “found objects” in reference to the materials of their work, the artists place a sense of agency in, and collaboration with, the bits of material—eye glasses, pencils, scraps of written notes, threads and string—that comprise a majority of the works in the show. And, some things become other things: Shevenock and Boyle have created reproductions of some of the objects, recasting them in various forms alongside original artifacts and throughout the exhibition as a means to construct a myth and deepen the felt experience of their materiality and expressive qualities through repetition and repositioning.

Contender

“In our initial encounters with these materials, the energy between self and object is palpable, heart-racing, and the ritual of picking items up off the ground feels secretive, like a code that connects us with the past vital lives of the materials now in hand,” the artists state. “Very often, we later find evidence of telepathic connection between objects we separately encounter; for instance, one afternoon we both picked up a pair of nearly identical, wireframe glasses.”

However, while some of the work feels weighted, it also comes with acknowledgement of the absurd: “Laughter and a sense of humor are also central to our evaluation—recognition that one is not alone in the world and a true miracle is sometimes evinced through the hilarious or outrageous.”
A written text, a collusion of the artists’ biographic details, both imagined and real, which they refer to as their “mythography,” accompanies the exhibition.

Some Begin to Be

Shevenock, who currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA, and Boyle, from Brooklyn, NY, met in 2006 at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, where they both received an MFA in sculpture. For the past seven years, they have maintained a collaborative practice—making videos, performances, and sculpture—often times relying on what they perceive as a telepathic communication with each other. The artists’ collaborative practice is not about making something new; instead, they mine the details of what already exists to unearth a deeply present connectivity between both living beings and inanimate things.

About 707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Gallery is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The gallery is located at 707 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Gallery Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun.11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visitwww.TrustArts.org.

Images Courtesy of the Artists

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Redl's Structures of Time and Space at Wood Street Galleries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts:
Jessica Warchall, Visual Art Publicist, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
847-477-8714/Warchall@TrustArts.org
Shaunda Miles, Director of Public Relations, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-1578/Miles@TrustArts.org
Diana Roth, Communications Manager, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-8717/Roth@TrustArts.org

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS

STRUCTURES OF TIME AND SPACE

FEATURING A PREMIERE INSTALLATION BY ARTIST ERWIN REDL

January 24 – April 6, 2014 | Wood Street Galleries
Exhibition Opening during Gallery Crawl | January 24 | 5:30 – 10 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Structures of Time and Space, large-scale light installations by internationally exhibited Austrian-born artist Erwin Redl. The exhibition is on view January 24–April 6, 2014, at Wood Street Galleries, and it opens in conjunction with Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District 5:30 to 10 p.m., January 24, 2014.

Known for his work using LEDs, Redl presents two installations in the present exhibition. Premiering at Wood Street Galleries, Twists and Turns uses successive layers of suspended glass plates to reflect four high-intensity light beams. The inherent draft in the room causes the glass plates to move at various speeds, scattering the light reflections across the walls and ceiling. The reflections are replicated again and again by the plates, creating an intense pattern of colored light, effectively dematerializing the architecture of the room.

Speed Shift (Image Courtesy of the Artist, Erwin Redl)

Speed Shift uses two bands of white LED light grids and simple beeps to create subtle shifts in the audience’s perception of time. Each LED band displays a wave animation with synchronized pulses of beeps indicating the wave’s speed. The speed of each individual wave changes slowly overtime, shifting in and out of phase with the other wave.

In both Twists and Turns and Speed Shift, Redl investigates the process of reverse engineering, by translating the abstract aesthetic language of virtual reality and 3D computer modeling into architectural environments through large-scale light installations. Due to the large size of the installations’ architectural dimensions, participation by the viewer being present is an integral part of the artwork.

Erwin Redl earned a bachelor of arts in composition and a diploma in electronic music from the Music Academy in Vienna, Austria. He also received a master of fine arts in computer art from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. The recipient of numerous awards, scholarships, and residencies—including a Chinati Foundation Residency in Marfa, TX, and a P.S.1 Studio Residency in Queens, NY—Redl has held solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Select exhibitions have been held at such venues as the Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Art Miami / Swarovski Crystal Palace, Miami, FL; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; World Expo 2008, Zaragoza, Spain; among others. Redl presented a large-scale public commission at Wood Street Galleries in 2003 as part of the exhibition After Image.

About Wood Street Galleries
Wood Street Galleries is located at 601 Wood Street. Gallery hours: Wed. & Thur. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. Wood Street Galleries is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Support for Wood Street Galleries has been provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

About the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Fall Gallery Crawl Offers Extended Hours, Fun Venues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts:
Shaunda Miles, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-1578, Miles@TrustArts.org
Diana Roth, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-8717, Roth@TrustArts.org

Images available: http://TrustArts.org/press
Search Name: September 2013 Gallery Crawl

FALL GALLERY CRAWL WITH EXTENDED HOURS
ANNOUNCED FOR THE CULTURAL DISTRICT

THE EVENING FEATURES THE OPENING OF THE
PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FIRSTS

Friday, September 27, 2013, 5:30–10 p.m.

Various locations throughout the Cultural District

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces its fall gallery crawl takes place Friday, September 27, from 5:30–10 p.m. The crawl showcases a wide variety of thought-provoking art exhibitions in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Live bands, DJs, dance, comedy, and participatory activities are also part of the complimentary crawl events.

This month’s crawl features the opening night of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts (PIFOF)*, a project of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. To mark this occasion, The Rubber Duck, the US debut of artist Florentijn Hofman’s four-story-high rubber duck, launches into the Allegheny River. After being lifted into the river at a marina near the West End Bridge, the duck will be sent on a short voyage, coming to rest by the 6th Street Bridge. The bridge will be closed to traffic to host The Rubber Duck Bridge Party featuring Night Market VI, an outdoor market that brings together some of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent art and food vendors, presented by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Wood Street Galleries, SPACE, and 943 Gallery are also partaking in launch of the PIFOF with US premiere exhibition openings. Wood Street Galleries presents Chicago-based, Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger’s Hive (2011), a 3D-animated audiovisual installation where gallery visitors confront a swirling mass of amorphous figures, appearing as a collective matter as opposed to individual beings in deep space. SPACE presents Austrian audiovisual media artistic duo Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich’s large-scale installations that fuse sights and sound into one medium, Model 5 (1994) and POL (1998). 943 Gallery presents Kurt Hentschläger’s ZEE (2008), a stroboscopic audiovisual journey that pushes the boundaries of human perception.

September’s Gallery Crawl is part of RADical Days, an annual event celebrating the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD) assets with free admission, performances, and activities offered by arts and culture organizations, libraries, and sports facilities, that are funded by RAD. RADical Days run September 21–November 10, 2013.

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit www.TrustArts.org or call (412) 456-6666.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is a production of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Education and Community Engagement Department. Sponsors for the September 2013 Gallery Crawl include City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, and Kreider Printing.

The following is a line-up of the September 27, 2013, Gallery Crawl events:

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street

2nd floor
Hive
Kurt Hentschläger
Part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts
Hive is a 3D-animated audiovisual installation in which gallery visitors confront a swirling mass of amorphous figures, appearing as collective matter (as opposed to individual beings) in deep space. Choreographed motion, light and sound form an immersive and dynamic figurative landscape without a beginning or an end.

3rd floor
Counter Power
An experiment in underground: party, music, dance, art, clothing and culture.
Live music from Yxu, DJ Slinky, body painting, and more.

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue

Granular Synthesis: Model 5 and POL
Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich
Part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts

Model 5
An unprecedented visual, acoustic and physical experience, Model 5 projects multiple portraits of Japanese artist Akemi Takeya. At once serene and kinetically beautiful, heightened mechanical rhythms manipulate the image to create a sense of schizophrenia, with the body being pulled apart and dissolving in electronic space.

POL
The German word for “pole,” POL is a live, improvised panoramic performance that relies on high intensity light, video and audio projection, subjecting audiences to an astounding flow of stimuli to create a perceptional situation of disorientation and recollection.

Tito Way

Mary Mazziotti: Memento Mori
A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be short and its end unpredictable.

Cell Phone Disco
InformationLab
A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

Exchange Way at Tito Way

Instabiles
Andrew Hieronymi and Ian Brill
Instabiles is an open-air interactive installation in which passersby can participate by generating through motions a virtual kinetic construction in front of a camera. Instabiles was made possible by a grant from the Penn State Center: Engaging Pittsburgh.

Shaw Galleries
805 Liberty Avenue

Autumnal Wonders
An exhibition featuring Fall-themed landscapes from the 19th- and 20th-centuries.

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue

Peirce Studio
T.V.
A Fashion Event by Manya Mankiewicz
Each image is dragged out of an anonymous sea, a current of history inscribed by action and account that reveals the travails of material conditions on the brink of collapse. 9 p.m.–12 a.m.

3rd & 4th Floors
DESIGN. Make YOUR Mark in Time!
AIA Pittsburgh Presents Design Pittsburgh 2013, a celebration of excellence in architecture and design, honoring those who create it. Experience Architects In Action - architectural designers practicing their craft in real-time. Vote for the People's Choice Award!

Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue

Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents regional film and photography, featuring short films on a loop by Scott Whiteman, Tim Israel, and Andrew Daub.

Tiny Harris Gallery

Tryps
A group photography show focusing on triptychs. Featuring works by A. Jason Coleman, Adam Amrhein, Dolores Siple, Elizabeth Raymer Griffin, Ellen Hanna, Gretchen Neidart, Jessica Kalmar, and Julie Gonzalez.

Arcade Comedy Theater
811 Liberty Avenue

Pop in for some laughs at the Arcade Comedy Theater in the Cultural District, featuring Pittsburgh’s best sketch, improvisational, and alternative comedy year-round. Time to play!

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street

Macro Photography
Pittsburgh-area high school students in the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild after-school photography program explore the world of macro photography.

937 Gallery
937 Liberty Avenue

2nd floor
Comprised: Life in the Middle
Ethnocuratorialists Casey Droege and Corey Escoto (Gold Standard) present the evidence of artistic communities finding sustenance in the culturally barren landscape of Middle America.

Pittsburgh Playwrights Gallery
Therapy and The Muse
Ernest McCarty
An exhibition of acrylic paintings on wood and canvas, assemblage paintings, and wire sculptures.

943 Gallery
943 Liberty Avenue

ZEE
Kurt Hentschläger
Part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts
Exhilarating as well as meditative, the pulsing, stroboscopic audiovisual journey that is ZEE pushes the boundaries of human perception.
Due to intense strobe effects, this exhibition is restricted to 18+ (R18)

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix
Flagship exhibition dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This modular exhibition uses imagery, film and oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, and innovations.

Tonic**
971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery. NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE.

Steel City Steam Punks
A variety of photography from Pennsic
Live Music by Stranger Convention

Cultural’s Elite Salon and Barbershop
954 Penn Avenue

Black in America
Original oil paintings by Sherri Randolph
Live Music by The Miles Jackson Band

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue

Expression.
New UPCS student artwork and photography, accompanied by the always entertaining Sounds of Steel drum band with a special guest.

CAPA
111 Ninth Street

Summer Work
An exhibition of work produced over the summer by Pittsburgh CAPA Visual Art Students at Touchstone Center for Crafts and Carnegie Mellon's Pre-College Art Program.

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue

Sneak peak of The Dutchman
The product of Fifth Wall Theater's Trespass Residency, take part in this theatrical exploration of how people interact when presented with challenging situations, whether real or manufactured. 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

8th Street & Penn Avenue

Art Car Round Up
Mobile Masterpieces include That Car #3 created by Greg Phelps, Melanie Harris’s Tiki Car, Clarke Bedford’s award-winning Vanadu, and Jason Sauer with Pittsburgh Art Car.

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue

Proud to be an American?
Bea Chiappelli
In her new series, Pittsburgh photographer Bea Chiappelli explores the meaning of patriotism from diverse perspectives.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue

Holdup in the Hood
Francis Crisafio
A series of photographic images that incorporate drawings, recycled photographs and print media to address issues of self-identity, race, class and gender that come with the realization of making one’s mark.

Umoja African Arts Company
707 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor

Join Umoja African Arts Company in celebrating 25 years of service, with food, drinks, and Congolese African Drum & Dance Performances.

Katz Plaza
7th Street and Penn Avenue

Music by DJ SMI

Design and create your own button with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: We supply the materials, you supply the creativity!

Propel Pittsburgh Commission, Action Shots: Get your Pittsburgh-themed photo taken, and receive a free, customizable Pittsburgh postcard. Featuring the work of Jen Cooney and other local artists.

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue

Predator or Prey
Victoria Jon
An exploration of the dominant and submissive roles we assume.

Live Music by Mike Why: One Man Band Without the Band. 5:30–7:30 p.m.

Gateway Center T Station
Stanwix Street

Be inspired by Romare Bearden’s ceramic tile mural, Pittsburgh Recollections, and then illustrate your own Pittsburgh memories. The Office of Public Art will have drawing supplies at the Gateway Center T station for you to create postcards to mail or take home.

PNC Legacy Project
600 Liberty Avenue

Celebrate Pittsburgh with the NOW & THEN FEATURE. Explore 12 downtown sites via touchscreen, and see the city's evolution in pictures over the past 200 years.

Boutique 208
208 Sixth Street

Featuring handmade items made by local artists, unique art, and live acoustic music.

kNOT Dance at Verve Wellness
142 Sixth Street, 3rd floor

kNOT Dance presents Shift to Coda
Pittsburgh’s aerial dance company explores the transitional state and the terminus it implies as we move from summer into autumn. 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30 p.m.

Arthur Murray Dance Studio**
136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro) NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE.

Free Dance Lessons and Demos
Cha Cha at 7:30pm. Bachata at 8pm. Salsa at 8:30pm.

Braddock’s American Brasserie
107 Sixth Street

The Art of Pierogie Making
Join Chef de Cuisine, Brian Volmrich, as he demonstrates how to create a pierogie, from the restaurant known for its signature pierogies. Attendees will enjoy making their own pierogie creation.

The Rubber Duck Bridge Party featuring Night Market VI
Roberto Clemente Bridge

THIS IS HUGE
The world famous giant rubber duck is making its US debut in Pittsburgh with a bridge party to welcome it! Join Mikey and Big Bob from 96.1 Kiss FM’s Morning Freak Show as the world’s spotlight turns to Pittsburgh and the arrival of the four-story floating The Rubber Duck Project, launching the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, a project of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

The Rubber Duck Bridge Party features Night Market VI, presented by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, an outdoor market that brings together some of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent art and food vendors.

ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Visit www.TrustArts.org/Crawl for updated and more detailed information.

Sponsors: City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, Kreider Printing

CAR FREE FRIDAYS Walk, bike, bus or carpool to the Gallery Crawl and celebrate another
Car Free Friday with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Port Authority, and BikePGH.

All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.

TEXT “CRAWL” TO SMASH (76274) to receive special exclusive offers and more.

*Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts (PIFOF), a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is a city-wide, 16-day performing and visual arts festival featuring exclusive US and World premieres by highly-acclaimed international artists and contemporary performing arts companies. Festival events are presented in association with other Pittsburgh cultural organizations and offer intimate experiences for audiences at various traditional and non-traditional performance venues within the downtown Cultural District and throughout the city.

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted.

About The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.

Photos Courtesy of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Summer Gallery Crawl Schedule Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts:

Shaunda Miles, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-1578, Miles@TrustArts.org

Diana Roth, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-8717, Roth@TrustArts.org

SUMMER GALLERY CRAWL ANNOUNCED FOR
THE CULTURAL DISTRICT WITH EXTENDED HOURS

Friday, July 12, 2013

PITTSBURGH, PA: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced the date and time for its July Gallery Crawl today. On Friday, July 12, 2013, from 5:30 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., the crawl will showcase a wide variety of thought provoking art exhibitions in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Live bands, DJs, dance, comedy, and participatory activities are also part of the complimentary happenings during the crawl.

“Visitors can enjoy spending their summer evening in the Cultural District with over 30 event stops during the Gallery Crawl. Catch a free ride around the District on a Green Gears Pedicab! A few highlights include new exhibit openings at Wood Street Galleries, SPACE, 707 and 709 Penn Galleries. Music is a big part of the evening as well,” comments Darcy Kucenic, Director of Highmark First Night Pittsburgh & Manager of Education and Operations with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Performing at Katz Plaza, The Amigos Band, hailing from New York City, blends unique harmonies from bluegrass to jazz to create their collaborative American music. In 2013, the Amigos were chosen to serve as American Cultural Ambassadors for the American Music Abroad program by the U.S. Department of State. Touring the U.S. for the first time, Muzička will perform traditional Czech folk music, outdoors at 8th Street and Penn Avenue. Flo Wilson and the Old School Band will have gallery crawl patrons dancing at the August Wilson Center.

After the Crawl, participants can attend one of these two ticketed events being produced by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust on that same evening, Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh at the Byham and Ryoji Ikeda’s test pattern-live set at the Trust Arts Education Center.

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit,www.TrustArts.org or call (412) 456-6666.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is a production of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Education and Community Engagement Department. Sponsors for the July 2013 Gallery Crawl include lead sponsor First Commonwealth, Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP 91.3FM and Kreider Printing.

Photo by Joey Kennedy

The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl events happening on Friday, July 12, 2013:

WOOD STREET GALLERIES
601 Wood Street
2nd floor:
Ryoji Ikeda: data.tron | An audiovisual installation where each single pixel of visual image is calculated by mathematical principles, and composed from a combination of mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. Images are projected onto a large screen, heightening and intensifying the viewer’s perception and immersion.
3rd floor:
Title Town Soul & Funk Party | TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party's resident DJ Gordy G. spinning rare and underground soul, boogie, electro-funk and disco grooves.

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
Crowdsourced | Guest curator: Robert Raczka
Participating artists: Renee Ickes, Tom Sarver, Barbara Weissberger, Gabe Felice, William Kofmehl III, Lori Hepner, Shaun Slifer, Maritza Mosquera, Corey Escoto, Casey Droege, Paul Zelevansky, and Kim Beck. Artists each create a large drawing directly on the walls of the gallery, which will be open to the public to both observe and suggest input into the artistic process. Music by DJ hi-top wrangler
WYEP Music Station | Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE

TITO WAY
Between Liberty Avenue & Penn Avenue | Perpendicular to Exchange Way
Mary Mazziotti: Memento Mori | A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be short and its end unpredictable. The four “obituary” pieces show that the banalities of life continue after death, and poor Bobo is caught in an endless loop from which there is no escape from Mr. Death.
Cell Phone Disco | The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust invites you to go behind-the-scenes with this free, self-guided, cell phone audio tour of the Cultural District. Learn historical and fun facts about theaters, galleries, and properties throughout these 14 blocks that now serve as a national model for urban revitalization utilizing the arts as a catalyst.
InformationLab | A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

SHAW GALLERIES
805 Liberty Avenue
Buffon: Argonaut of Our Natural World | An exhibition exploring the widespread influence of French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author, Georges Louis Leclerc (1707-88), otherwise known as Count de Buffon. On display will be several selections from his magnum opus, Histoire Naturelle.

HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents regionally made short films on a loop.
Tiny Harris Gallery | Tryps | A group photography show focusing on triptychs.

ARCADE COMEDY THEATER
811 Liberty Avenue Pop in for some laughs at the Arcade Comedy Theater in the Cultural District, featuring Pittsburgh’s best sketch, improvisational and alternative comedy year-round. Time to play!

CATHOLIC CHARITIES SUSAN ZUBNIK WELCOME CENTER
212 Ninth Street
Inspirations – an exhibition of cell phone images | Students of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild curated and managed the entire process of this exhibition from developing a theme, creating a Call for Artists, managing submissions and designing an online exhibition of the submitted images.

AMAZING BOOKS
929 Liberty Avenue An independent bookstore with an amazing selection of awesome new and used books. Open until 7pm.

937 LIBERTY AVENUE

2nd floor:
Gold Standard presents: 15 Minutes of Shame
Artists Mary Smull from Philadelphia, Lizzy De Vita from Pittsburgh, and Brette Gabel from Toronto will present participatory and performative karaoke works throughout the night with the help of you, the viewer. Come show off your pipes or just watch. Curated by Gold Standard (Casey Droege and Corey Escoto).

AUGUST WILSON CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
980 Liberty Avenue
Live Music by Flo Wilson & the Old School Band
Handmade Arcade | Join Handmade Arcade in celebrating a Decade of DIY. Grab a postcard with a "crafty" image outlined and color it in. Keep -- or send to a pal! Also, color and make a button!
The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis | Features more than 30 works: sculptures, drawings abd graphics by Catlett; three works by her husband, artist Francisco Mora, and artwork by her former student and friend, Dr. Samella Lewis.

Still Feel Like Goin’ On | Thirty photographs by students, depicting African American community heroes.
Call & Response | Paintings celebrating visual and performing arts by August Wilson Fellow Mariana Adele Vassar.

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix | Flagship exhibition dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This modular exhibit uses imagery, film and oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, and innovations.

TONIC
971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery. NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
Live Music by Brittany Morganrose
Breathe, Fly, and Think | A collection of new and favorite works by Photographer Crystal Marie Acker designed to stimulate your sense of freedom, relief, adventure, and nostalgia.

AUGUST HENRY'S CITY SALOON
946 Penn Avenue
Magic by Peter Corbett | Be prepared to be wowed!

NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION
928 Penn Avenue
So You Think THAT’S Fair? | We all think we know what’s fair—but is your idea the same as hers? Explore the symbols, the characters and the legal cases that have defined and changed American ideas about fairness and equality. Plus cookies!!

Photo Courtesy of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

URBAN PATHWAYS 6-12 GALLERY
914 Penn Avenue
Live Music by: Sounds of Steel Junior
Middle School Regional Art Exhibition | Featuring middle school students’ artwork from Urban Pathways Charter Schools, St. Edmund’s Academy, Propel East, Falk Laboratory School and Manchester Academic Charter School.

FUTURE TENANT
819 Penn Avenue
I N V E N T O R Y: The Orgone Archive, Pittsburgh 13 (2002-2013) | Showcasing a decade’s worth of promotion and propaganda in the form of posters, stickers and bits of paper created by The Orgone Archive for its cinema outings. Orgone is a motion picture archive and screening outfit based in Pittsburgh.

GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL
810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200
carbon first, then light
Ivette Spradlin | A photography survey of three projects, from Habana, Cuba to Philadelphia, aptly binds this exploration of the artist’s past, alongside an attempt to illuminate the invisible inhabitants and mysterious everyday objects that surround us.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Memento Mori at Wood Street Galleries

Memento Mori

works by Gregory Barsamian

April 26-June 16, 2013

Wood Street Galleries

601 Wood Street, downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

Pittsburgh, PA: Wood Street Galleries, a project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, will present Memento Mori by artist Gregory Barsamian, Friday, April 26 through Sunday, June 16, 2013.

5 Stages of Grief by Artist Gregory Barsamian

In a strobe lit room, Barsamian's sculpture spins rapidly on an armature with imagery based on recordings of his dreams. At once low-tech and approachable, Barsamian's work simultaneously floats between the conscious and unconscious worlds in collaboration between artist and perceiver. The exhibit will feature the artist’s work that combines mixed medium such as steel, wood and bronze; and steel, acrylic medium, paper, strobe and motor.

Hands by Artist Gregory Barsamian

Gregory Barsamian is a native of Chicago and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin. He currently resides and works in Brooklyn, New York. His works have been shown in cities across the U.S. and worldwide and include Commissions and Public Collections. Barsamian’s sculptures have also been on display in past exhibitions at Wood Street Galleries. Awards include Platform International Animation Festival Grand Prix (2007), MIT/Leonardo New Horizons Award (2001), and New York State Fellowship for the Arts, Sculpture (1995). Barsamian’s work has been featured in various publications throughout his career. For more information about the artist, visit http://gregorybarsamian.com/

Memento Mori at Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood Street, opens on Friday, April 26, part of the Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District, 5:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. For more information about the Gallery Crawl, visit:http://trustarts.culturaldistrict.org/event/2522/gallery-crawl-in-the-cultural-district

Runner: Steel, Wood, Bronze by Artist Gregory Barsamian

Untitiled: Steel, Acrylic medium, paper, strobe, motor by Artist Gregory Barsamian

Wood Street Galleries hours: Wed. & Thur. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. For information call, 412-471-5605 or visit: http://woodstreetgalleries.org Support for Wood Street Galleries has been provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Port Authority of Allegheny County.

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