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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The Painting as Object at 709 Penn Gallery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: January 11, 2013
Contact: Sonja Sweterlitsch, sweterlitsch@trustarts.org
                                              gerbinofabrizio@yahoo.com, 412-771-0931

The Painting As Object

New Work by Fabrizio Gerbino

709 Penn Gallery
January 18-February 17, 2013


In The Painting as Object, Florentine-born artist Fabrizio Gerbino explores the nature of paintings as objects in themselves, by presenting a series of meta-paintings that use earlier works almost like objects in a still life, or as the launching point for abstractions.  Gerbino translates these subjects into minimalist shapes using colors mixed only from primaries.

“Witnessing Gerbino’s paintings evolve has been amazing,” says Sonja Sweterlitsch, Curator of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s 709 Penn Gallery.  “When he first moved to Pittsburgh, Gerbino impressed with his mastery of technical skills, with work ranging from realistic cityscapes to meticulously rendered miniature copies of masterworks from his native Italy.  In recent years, his work has ranged from installation art to video, and his painting has become more minimalist in style.  While his work continues to draw inspiration from urban spaces, industrial buildings, and abandoned industrial objects, this new series is very much about the nature of painting,” says Sweterlitsch.

In The Painting as Object, the works on display have been painted and repainted many times, the evolution of each work revealed through the still visible layers of paint.  “I covered each one,” says Gerbino. “I was not satisfied with them.  I covered these paintings without specific expectations, and I was open for a new transformation.

I put them down on the floor to dry and after days, I started to look at them not any more just as a painting experience, but as objects. Then I put them on the wall, the same way they had been on the floor.  I decided to use that work like an object, a subject for a new painting.”

Also on display is a very personal painting of Gerbino’s father’s hand, painted directly from a video of his father that was filmed days before his death.  On the canvas, paint drips from his father’s fingers.  Leaving the drip was a purposeful decision, a poetic expression using the paint itself.

ABOUT FABRIZIO GERBINO

Fabrizio Gerbino is an Italian artist who was born in Tripoli, Libya in 1962. He graduated from the Istituto Statale D’Arte and attended the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. In October of 2003 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he currently lives and works. He exhibited his work extensively in Florence and other Italian cities as well as in Germany. For many years in Italy his work focused on painting, installations and iron sculpture.
Gerbino has found inspiration from urban spaces, industrial buildings and abandoned industrial objects. Gerbino’s works are held in the following collections:

Calgon Carbon Corporation
BNY Mellon
RJ Lee Group, Inc.
The Elmhurst Group (Rand Building)
Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Casa Masaccio in San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo) Italy
Ateliers Hoherweg e. V. in Dusseldorf, Germany
The Kiski School
In 2006 he was a beneficiary of the Eben Demarest Grant and in 2010 The Will’s Gift award recipient from The Kiski School.
In 2011 Gerbino’s work was chosen for the Pittsburgh Biennial at the Carnegie Museum of Art.


GALLERY DETAILS
709 Penn Gallery is located on 709 Penn Ave. / Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District
Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun.11 a.m.–5 p.m.
709 Penn Gallery is a Project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Education & Community Engagement department.
 www.Trustarts.org

EXHIBIT DETAILS
Dates:  January 18 – February 17, 2013
Opening Reception:  January 18, 2013   (6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)


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Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh Summer Celebration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: July 2, 2012

Contact: Lani Redinger; lani@nakturnal.net  |  412-780-2996
Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012, 9:00 pm – Midnight
119 Sixth Street, downtown Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA:  Come by plane…come by train…come by automobile and party in the Pittsburgh Cultural District! The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust hosts the annual Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh, the Cultural District’s biggest summer celebration on Friday, July 13, 2012. The party will take at the former Bally’s building at 119 Sixth Street, downtown Pittsburgh,  immediately following the Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl. VIP ticket buyers will also be treated to exclusive Gallery Crawl watering holes as they journey through the Cultural District before the doors open to the main event.

Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh is presented with generous support from lead sponsors UPMC and UPMC Health Plan. VIP event sponsors are Fairmont Pittsburgh, Point Park University, Goldstock Diamonds & Fine Jewelry and Paris Healthcare Linen Services. Event sponsors are Jackson Lewis, AlphaGraphics, ParenteBeard, Yelp!, Big Burrito Restaurant Group and Station Street.

Tickets for Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh are $50 for the all-inclusive party which begins at 9 p.m. and $100 for access to select VIP Gallery Crawl locations, beginning at 7 p.m. Co-chaired by Katherine Leech Vollen and Doug Kassab, Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh features three levels of activities including cosmic readings by the  psychic staff, dance lessons, wine flight and beer school classes, main stage performances featuring DJ Koko, K-Hun and TM Eye, samplings of delicious fare from area restaurants, three bars and discotheque with DJ Dad Time.  For a more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.TrustArts.org/cosmo or call the Box Office at Theater Square at 412-456-6666.

Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh celebrates The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s leadership in the ongoing development of Pittsburgh’s award-winning Cultural District. Utilizing the arts since 1984 as a means for transforming a formerly blighted downtown, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust today welcomes over a million visitors annually to thousands of performances, gallery exhibitions and community events.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents the PNC Broadway Across America – Pittsburgh series; Pittsburgh Dance Council; Pittsburgh International Children’s Theater; First Night Pittsburgh and Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival among other events. Additionally, the Cultural Trust owns and operates Theater Square and the Cabaret at Theater Square; the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts; Byham, O’Reilly, and Harris Theaters; Wood Street Galleries; SPACE, a visual arts gallery at 812 Liberty Avenue; 707 and 709 Penn Galleries; and 937 Liberty; the Trust’s Arts Education Center among other downtown arts facilities.
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Summer Gallery Crawl in Cultural District Features Art, Music, Theater

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: June 28, 2012
Media Contact:  Diana Roth, 412-471-8717 / roth@trustarts.org

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District

Downtown Pittsburgh

Friday, July 13, 2012, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA- The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Summer Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District takes place on Friday, July 13, 2012, from 5:30 – 9:00 p.m.  The Gallery Crawl is an urban showcase featuring a wide variety of thought provoking art exhibitions, live bands, DJs, dance, theater, and more.  Everything from the traditional to the avant garde is on display for art lovers of all ages.

Headliners for the Summer Gallery Crawl are the Occidental Brothers Dance Band from Chicago.  Blending Afrobeat and traditional African guitar style, this band is sure to have people dancing long in to the night.  In addition, DJ Nate da Phat Barber will play during the band breaks, and continue his DJ set after the Crawl so the party can continue in to the night.

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit www.trust.arts.org or call 412-456-6666.   The summer Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is sponsored by First Commonwealth, with support from Kreider Printing.  Media sponsors are Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP 91.3FM and Table Magazine.

The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings on Friday, July 13, 2012:


Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street
Light, Matter, Memory
Nicky Assmann, Diane Landry, Yoko Seyama and Macular
Four spectacular installations using light to explore materiality and memory.

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
Jerry Irwin, Photographer
Guest Curator: Dennis Morgan
Jerry Irwin’s photography career includes images of Bikers, Mennonites, Skydivers and Pennsylvania, published in leading magazines including National Geographic, Life, and Sports Illustrated.

Music by DJ Jordan K & djdjw of Friday Nite Club

WYEP Music Station
WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE gallery, 812 Liberty Avenue

Tito and Exchange Way
Cell Phone Disco
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
When Worlds Collide
An exhibit exploring digital assemblage in 21st-century photography.
 
Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue
Peirce Studio (Lower Level):
Performances by Alumni Theater Company and STAYCEE PEARL dance project. 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm.
The mission of the Alumni Theater Company (ATC) is to create work that represents the perspective of young artists growing up in an urban environment. ATC will present a preview of its upcoming production of RENT (July 27-29, New Hazlett Theater)

STAYCEE PEARL dance project (SPdp) presents a fun and interesting collection of short works and excerpts created over two years of dance making. SPdp exists to interpret and mirror culture and community through dance and dance centered multi-media experiences.

Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue
Harris Theater Short Films
Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents locally made short films shown on a loop throughout the evening and a photography exhibit in the Tiny Harris Gallery.

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street
Digital Craftsmen
Exploring the influence of digital media on the world of youth art education.
Students at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild utilize computers in their studios, as many of the world's traditional crafts have been forever changed by the advent of the digital age. However, the spirit of the craftsman remains the same.

 937 Liberty Avenue
 3rd floor: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater (lobby)
Yabe One
An exhibit of 28 original oil paintings depicting African Americans, dating back to 1895, from the collection of Mark Clayton Southers.

943 Liberty Avenue
Path: Installation by Elin Hansdottir
A special maze-like installation incorporating light and space. Held over from “Long are the Days, Short are the Nights,” an exhibit at Wood Street Galleries.

947 Liberty Avenue
cityLIVE! Courtyard Series film screening: Please Vote for Me. 8:30pm.
The first cityLIVE! Courtyard Series documentary screening. Snacks will be served!
In Wuhan, a city in central China, director Weijun Chen documents an experiment in democracy at the Evergreen Primary School when a third grade class holds an election to select a Class Monitor.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue
Richmond Barthé: His Life in Art
Featuring  a collection of nearly fifty sculptures from the first modern African American sculptor to garner substantial critical success nationally and internationally.

971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery.  (This location is not universally accessible.)
 New Works
An exhibition by Ryan Woodring. Plus live music!

Neighborhood Legal Services Association
928 Penn Avenue
What Do Lawyers Do?
An examination, both serious and light hearted, of the role lawyers play in American society.  Do lawyers help us obtain justice?  Are briefcases mandatory?  What does audi alteram partemmean?  Plus cookies!

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Moving UP!      
Summer is sizzling with UPCS student artwork from Manchester Craftsman’s Guild and salsa dance lessons from 6:15pm to 7pm and 8:15pm to 9pm from Holly of Pittsburgh Dance Company. Step UP to it!

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
 The Image Obsessed: Documentationings from Under the Starless and Bible Black Roof of 312 Barnesby Michael Benedetti.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200
Art on the Walls
Digital and mixed media artist, Gwyn Rohrer, focuses her work on the feminine and female struggles through the use of the human body, landscapes, sewing, embroidery, and fabric patterns.

Bend Yoga
808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor
Hoop-Dance Yoga Class. 6pm to 6:30pm, 7pm to 7:30pm, 8pm to 8:30pm.
Come dance with a blend yoga, dance, and hoola-hooping into one unforgettable experience. Watch or participate, it's up to you! Local artists' work will also be displayed.

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue
Brian Brown: New Paintings
The artist proudly affirms that there is no required reading for any work appearing in this exhibition.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
Commission for Treasonous Strategies
Shaun Slifer and Tesar Freeman

Katz Plaza, Theater Square
7th Street and Penn Avenue
Live Music by Occidental Brothers Dance Band International. 6:15pm to 9pm.
Hailing from Chicago, OBDBI's high-energy AFROBEAT rhythms have made them favorites of music critics and devotees around the world.

With DJ Nate da Phat Barber at 5:30pm and spinning until after the Crawl.  The After Crawl DJ Set at Katz features Nate da Phat Barber with special guest, Sean Jones.

First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot: Stop by for cool drinks and hot prizes.

Highmark First Night® Ice: Free icy treats when you say “Highmark First Night Ice Is Nice.”

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue
Live Music by Broken Fences. 5:30pm to 7:30pm.

Verve Wellness
142 Sixth Street, Third Floor
kNOT Dance
Hang out with Pittsburgh's original aerial dance theatre company for some high flying fun. Performances at 8pm & 9pm.

Braddock’s American Brasserie & Renaissance Hotel
107 Sixth Street
Braddock's Live Performance
Live music by Carol Blaze.

Painting Studio in the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel Lobby
Discover your inner artist as the hotel lobby transforms into a painting studio! Participate in a group painting class with the owners of Paint Monkey and watch Andy Warhol's "Flowers" come to life.

PROJECT POP UP: DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS
Project Pop Up: Night Market
917-919 Liberty Avenue
Project Pop Up: Night Market will bring together some of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent vendors, artists, and chefs, to an outdoor Downtown parking lot, from 8pm to 1am.

Awesome Books
929 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
An independent bookstore offering new and used books of high quality.

The Steel Curtain
1035 Penn Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
The greatest defensive line of all time comes alive in this installation.

131 Seventh Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
Society for the Advancement of Miniature Curiosa
A gallery, toy theater parlor, performance space, and workshop that seeks to spark the resurgence of curiosity and wonderment in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Symbiotic Collusion

A modern music initiative presenting visual and musical art concepts through installation, education, and performance.

Boutique 208
208 Sixth Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
A retail boutique featuring handmade wares from local artisans.

Robot Repairs
210 Sixth Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
Is your robot experiencing technical difficulties? Consider visiting this place for a potential fix.

Dream Cream Ice Cream Parlor
539 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
More than just a great place for a scoop. A portion of designated flavor sales will be contributed to causes in exchange for community service of the recipient, aka “the dreamer.”

ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!  Visit www.trustarts.org for updated and more detailed information.

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!

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted


AFTER THE CRAWL

Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh 2012
presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Date: Friday, July 13, 2012
Tme: 9:00 p.m. to Midnight
Location: 119 Sixth Street, downtown Pittsburgh
Tickets:  $40-$125

Come by plane, train or automobile to the bash of the summer complete with food, drinks, live bands and dancing.

For information, visit www.trustarts.org/cosmo or call 412-456-6666.  Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh is sponsored by UPMC.
 
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Brian Brown: New Paintings at 709 Penn Gallery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: June 21, 2012

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust / www.TrustArts.org
Brian Brown: New Paintings
June 22-August 19, 2012

Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Opening Reception Friday, June 22, 6-8pm
709 Penn Gallery
Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

 PITTSBURGH, PA -- Brian Brown unveils a series of new, primarily figurative paintings that are painstakingly detailed using traditional oil painting techniques. His imagery is inspired by dreams, memories, popular culture and pure unabashed imagination.

Brian Brown attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and earned a distinguished award upon graduation. He earned an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. Since then, Brian Brown has exhibited his paintings in Pittsburgh at Fe Gallery, the Miller Gallery, and in Sewickley, PA, as well as in galleries in New York City. In 2011, in a project supported by the Sprout Fund, he created a mural on Commerce Street depicting the East Liberty community.

For more information, contact Brian Brown at 586-565-0157 and brianbrownesquire@gmail.com

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Interactive Art Exhibition EXTRACTION at the SPACE

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Today's date: September 26, 2011

EXTRACTION

Guest Curator: Jill Larson

September 23-November 20

Participating Artists:

Ryan Keene, Alexandra Watrous, Matthew Paul Isaacson, Karen Rich Beall, Meghan Olson, Gail Heidel, Delanie Jenkins, Traci Molloy, Chris Craychee, Aimee Manion, Wendy Osher, Ana Kovacic, Tim Kellner, Staycee Pearl, Yuko Oda and Theodore Johnson, Jay Stuckey and Brian Dick, Thommy Conroy and Tommy Bones

PITTSBURGH, PA -- When the SPACE exhibition EXTRACTION commences on Sunday, November 20, it will look dramatically different when from it opens on Friday, September 23. Under the direction of guest curator Jill Larson, visitors to SPACE have a unique opportunity to alter the outcome of an exhibition. EXTRACTION invites gallery visitors to interact directly with, and continually re-shape, the 20,000+-piece exhibition. Visitors are encouraged to not just view the exhibit, but to "extract" pieces of it, and by doing so, the exhibition will be in a constant state of flux, change and loss.

For EXTRACTION, a group of local, national and international artists create 17 works of art; three of the projects are being created by a collaborative team of two artists. Participating artist Delanie Jenkins will be present at SPACE on Thursdays from Noon -3 p.m., September 29 - November 3, to field questions and observe the exhibition’s ongoing, organic transformation.


Guest curator Jill Larson is increasingly active with Downtown Pittsburgh’s thriving art scene. Last year, Larson exhibited the extremely personal large-scale work After the Sky Has Fallen at 709 Penn Gallery. Born in northwest, Pennsylvania. Larson studied art and photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, the Atlanta College of Art. Larson completed her studies at Georgia State University, where she earned an MFA. Larson is the founder of Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, where she worked as the Executive Director and Curator from 2003-2010. She currently works as an independent curator.


GALLERY DETAILS

SPACE is located at 812 Liberty Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District.

Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m. -6 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

SPACE is a Project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and is Free and open to the public

For more information call 412-325-7723 or visit spacepittsburgh.org



EXHIBITION DETAILS

Exhibition runs September 23 – November 20
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Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Gallery Crawl Celebrates RADical DAYS

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Today's date: September 7, 2011

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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District celebrates RADical DAYS

Friday, September 30, 2011

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Fall Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District takes place on Friday, September 30, 2011, from 5:30 - 9 p.m. This dynamic arts open house, celebrating Allegheny Regional Asset District’s RADical Days, showcases a variety of participating venues with cutting-edge art exhibitions, live bands, DJs, performances and hands-on activities.

The Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit pgharts.org or call 412-456-6666. The Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is sponsored by First Commonwealth with media support from City Paper and 91.3fm WYEP.

The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings:

Wood Street Galleries

601 Wood Street

Parallel Universe

New installations that invite viewer participation by Lawrence Malstaf, Arnold Dreyblatt, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer. This exhibition investigates duel technologies that run parallel and never overlap but share a common vision.

Special performance of Shrink, by Lawrence Malstaff at 7:00pm and 8:00pm.



SPACE

812 Liberty Avenue

EXTRACTION

In this highly interactive exhibit, twenty local, national and international artists exhibit 17 artworks. The gallery will be filled with over 20,000 free pieces of art, created with the intent that viewers will interact with the artwork by "extracting" a piece, placing the gallery in a constant state of flux, change, and loss.



In this highly interactive exhibit, 20 artists make artworks each containing 1000+ pieces. Viewers will be encouraged to alter the artwork, therefore the gallery will be in a constant state of flux, change, and loss. Guest Curated by Jill Larson.



Music by Broccofeather (Jonathan Chamberlain)



WYEP Music Station

WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE



Tito and Exchange Way

Cell Phone Disco

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

MASK: A Celebration of Ethnographic Arts

An exhibit featuring over two-dozen hand-carved indigenous masks from Mexico, Guatemala, Indonesia and the Ivory Coast of Africa.



Trust Arts Education Center

805-807 Liberty Avenue

Peirce Studio (Lower Level):

Black Violin with Drums 7:30pm to 8:20pm

Two classically trained musicians and their DJ create the ultimate synergy between classical and hip-hop music.



4th floor:

Art Out of the Box Final Exhibition

A one-night-only showcase of the works and documentation from the summer 2011 Art Out of the Box Mobile Studio Project. Please visit artboxpittsburgh.com for more information about the project.



Harris Theater

809 Liberty Avenue

Harris Theater Short Films and Photography Show

Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents locally made short films shown on a loop throughout the evening, and the photo show "Latnemirepxe (latent exposure)" by David Burtt Harris



929 Liberty Avenue

Shake it & Make it with Handmade Arcade!

Stations will be set up for visitors to make and take their own crafty creations:

+ Greetings from Pittsburgh! - Handmade Postcards

+ Say you – Say Me! - Personalized Pin-back Buttons

+ ReFab & ReFunk ! – Junk Flowers and Mini Sculptures



937 Liberty Avenue

2nd floor: CANstruction

View entries to the national CANstruction competition designed by teams from local architecture/engineering firms. Cans to be donated to the Pittsburgh food bank at the end of the exhibit. Bring a can to “vote” for your favorite!



943 Liberty Avenue

Path: Installation by Elin Hansdottir

A special maze-like installation incorporating light and space. Held over from “Long are the Days, Short are the Nights,” an exhibit at Wood Street Galleries.



August Wilson Center for African American Culture

980 Liberty Avenue

MLK Community Mural Project - Art over Generations

This new exhibit chronicles some of the recent work by the MLK - Moving the Lives of Kids - Community Mural Project, a program where the production of public art is used to strengthen communities through youth and families.



Also on view: Romare Bearden, the Last Years: Photography by Frank Stewart, selections from the Charles "Teenie" Harris collection, and the permanent exhibit, REMIX.



CAPA Gallery

111 Ninth Street

Summer Studies

An exhibition featuring new work produced during the summer by Pittsburgh CAPA high school students.



Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter School

925 Penn Avenue

Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter School Open House

Grand Opening CELEBRATION: Guided tours on the half-hour; Printmaking Workshop; BBQ fundraiser.



Live Music by: Sounds of Steel



Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery

914 Penn Avenue

NEVER AGAIN

Photo and essay exhibition documenting three Urban Pathways educators’ recent experience traveling through Holocaust sites in Poland, including Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps.



Future Tenant

819 Penn Avenue

Your Place at the Banquet

Focusing on issues of food security in a direct, experiential, and confrontational manner, this show will challenge the audience to examine the fragile structure of the world's food security system and to locate their hierarchical position within it. Curated by Rose Clancy.



Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200



Art on the Walls

Celebrate the opening of this bi-annual exhibition for selected Pittsburgh artists.



L’enfant Lofts at 806 Penn

806 Penn Avenue

Looped

Tom Mosser has been developing his "Loop Technique" since childhood. He alternates using both hands when creating Loop works which focus on circular motions with an emphasis on vertical lines and strokes.



709 Penn Gallery

709 Penn Avenue

Universal Expressions: Movement in Multiple Dimensions

Painting and Sculptures by Thomas Bigatel and Peter Johnson



707 Penn Gallery

707 Penn Avenue

Progression

Veteran artist Harish Saluja’s latest series of abstract expressionist paintings explore his interest in Indian music Raga paintings and Hindu deities.



Katz Plaza

7th St. and Penn Avenue

First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot: Enjoy refreshments and giveaways courtesy of First Commonwealth, and look for the First Commonwealth Blitz throughout the District!

Live Music by Clinton Clegg and the Backstabbing Good People



Backstage Bar

655 Penn Avenue

Live music by The Wreckids. 5:30pm to 7:30pm.



Arthur Murray Dance Studio**

136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro) NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE

Free Dance Lessons and Demos: Tango at 7:30pm. Swing at 8:00pm. Merengue at 8:30pm.



Verve Wellness

142 Sixth Street, Third Floor

kNOT Dance Company

Rolling performances by kNOT Dance Company, previewing part of its new work, "Destroy.”



ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE! Visit www.trustarts.org for updated and more detailed information

Lead Sponsor: First Commonwealth, Other Sponsors: City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, Kreider Printing, Table Magazine



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



**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted



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Visual Arts Show "Memory Shredder" at 707 Penn Gallery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Veronica Corpuz

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

corpuz@pgharts.org

412-471-6082

Felipe Garcia-Huidobro: “Memory Shredder”

707 Penn Gallery, 707 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

July 15 - September 11, 2011


Pittsburgh, PA: You have to be a little destructive to get really creative. Destruction, and the subsequent transformation of materials, is at the heart of Felipe Garcia-Huidobro’s new show “Memory Shredder” at The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s 707 Penn Gallery located at 707 Penn Avenue in the Cultural District. Tearing apart layers of collective consciousness -- ad posters, film strips, maps -- Felipe Garcia-Huidobro is reconstructing a personal geography through collage, sculpture, and video.

Felipe Garcia-Huidobro was born in Santiago de Chile in 1975. He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Universidad Finis Terrae, and his Master of Arts degree from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya. He lives and works between Santiago, Chile and Pittsburgh, PA.

With interdisciplinary approaches to the creation of works, Felipe has experimented with different traditional techniques, such as drawing, photography, music, collage, painting and carpentry, and is now integrating digital technologies, such as video and audio recording and postproduction.

“Memory Shredder” opens on Friday, July 15, 2011, with an artist reception as part of the Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl from 5:30-9 p.m. The show concludes on Sunday, September 11, 2011.



Gallery Details:

707 Penn Gallery is a Visual Arts project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Located at 707 Penn Avenue in the Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District, 707 Penn Gallery is free and open to the public



Gallery Hours:

Wednesday & Thursday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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Experience the Contemporary Art Scene of Iceland

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Veronica Corpuz

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

(412) 471-6082

Corpuz@pgharts.org

Long Are The Days, Short Are The Nights

April 15 – September 11, 2011

Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District





Opening reception during Gallery Crawl 5:30-9 p.m.



PITTSBURGH, PA: Curated by Murray Horne, “Long Are The Days, Short Are The Nights” is a survey of videos, installations and photographs that characterize the dynamic contemporary art scene in Iceland.



Participating artists:

Bryndis Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir

Darri Lorenzen

Egill Saebjörnsson

Elin Hansdóttir

Finnbogi Petursson

Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir

Hrafnkell Sigurdsson

Kolbeinn Hugi Höskuldsson

Snorri Ásmundsson

The exhibition includes a special installation by Elin Hansdóttir entitled “Path.” The mazelike structure will be installed at 943 Liberty Avenue. Hours of operation are Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

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 and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Special thanks to i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.

GALLERY DETAILS:

Long Are The Days, Short Are The Nights

April 15 – September 11, 2011

Opening reception during Gallery Crawl 5:30-9 p.m.

Wood Street Galleries, a project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is located at 601 Wood Street above the T-Station in the Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District.



Hours:

Wednesday & Thursday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Free and open to the public

For more information, call 412-471-5605 or visit woodstreetgalleries.org

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Two Robotic Exhibits by Bill Vorn Featured at Wood St Galleries

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Contact:
Veronica Corpuz
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-6082
Corpuz@pgharts.org

Bill Vorn: Hysterical Machines

April 29 – June 19, 2011

Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

Opening reception during Gallery Crawl 5:30-9 p.m.

PITTSBURGH, PA: Bill Vorn will exhibit his two robotic works “Red Light” and “Hysterical Machines” at Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood Street, in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District beginning Friday, April 29, 2011 during The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl on Friday, April 29, from 5:30-9 p.m. The exhibition will close on Sunday, June 19, 2011.

“The questions posed by Vorn’s work are not about whether the robots have true emotion or intelligence, but rather about what they evoke in us, their users,” notes curator Murray Horne. “In a dramatic fashion, Vorn’s robots respond to our interactivity as ‘state of mind.’ In questioning our relations, connections or fantasies concerning robots, we may end up imagining what the robot is feeling about us.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST AND ARTWORK

Born and living in Montreal, Bill Vorn is active in the field of Robotic Art since 1992. His installation and performance projects involve robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic processes. He pursues research and creation on Artificial Life and Agent Technologies through artistic work based on the Aesthetics of Artificial Behaviors.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Communication Studies from UQAM (Montreal) for his thesis on Artificial Life as a Media. He teaches Electronic Arts in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University (Intermedia/Cyberarts program) where he holds the rank of Full Professor. He is responsible of the alab, a Robotic Art research-creation lab part of the Hexagram Institute.

His work has been presented in multiple international events, including Ars Electronica, ISEA, DEAF, Sonar, Art Futura, EMAF and Artec. He has been awarded the Life 2.0 award (1999, Madrid), the Leprecon Award for Interactivity (1998, New York), the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction award (1996, Linz) and the International Digital Media Award (1996, Toronto). He has worked in collaboration with many canadian artists (including Edouard Lock, Robert Lepage, Gilles Maheu, LP Demers and Istvan Kantor). He was cofounder of the electronic pop music band Rational Youth with Tracy Howe in 1981. http://billvorn.concordia.ca/menuall.html

Hysterical Machines

Produced with the help of Hexagram, the Institute for Research/Creation in Media Art and Technology

This project is part of a larger research program on the Aesthetics of Artificial Behaviors and is very much inspired of a previous work based on the Misery of the Machines (Bill Vorn, LP Demers, La Cour des Miracles, 1997). It is conceived on the principle of deconstruction, suggesting dysfunctional, absurd and deviant behaviors through a functional machine. It operates on a dual-level process expressing the paradoxal nature of Artificial Life.

The first prototype of the Hysterical Machine (renamed Prehysterical Machine) has been presented at the Sentient Circuitry show at the Walter Philips Gallery (Banff) in 2002, the Fundacion Telefonica kiosk at Arco (Madrid, Spain) in 2003, and at the FILE 2004 festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Since then we have built ten more machines inspired by the prehysterical prototype that are part of a larger scale environment (Hysterical Machines).

Each Hysterical Machine has a spherical body and eight arms made of aluminum tubing. It has a sensing system, a motor system and a control system that functions as an autonomous nervous system (entirely reactive). Some machines are suspended from the ceiling and their arms are actuated by pneumatic valves and cylinders. Pyroelectric sensors allow the robots to detect the presence of viewers in the nearby environment. They react to the viewers according to the amount of stimuli they receive. The perceived emergent behaviors of these machines engender a multiplicity of interpretations based on single dynamic pattern of events.

The aim of this project is to induce empathy of the viewer towards characters which are nothing more than articulated metal structures. The strength of the simulacra is emphasized by perverting the perception of the creatures, which are neither animals nor humans, carried through the inevitable instinct of anthropomorphism and projection of our internal sensations, a reflex triggered by any phenomenon that challenges our senses.

Red Light (2005)

Produced with the help of Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Hexagram, the Institute for Research/Creation in Media Art and Technology

RED LIGHT is an interactive robotic environment which aims to question, reformulate and subvert the notions of behavior, projection and empathy that usually characterize the relationship between human beings and machines. Red Light is a following in my artistic practice about creating artificial worlds. This project evokes a certain "deviance of the machines" as it would exist in the hottest areas of a fictive world populated exclusively by these cybernetic creatures. This installation project also explores techniques and technologies related to parallel robotics and to pneumatics with the construction of home-made pneumatic muscles.

Eight machines react to the presence of viewers by generating sound and light and by moving their body in a very organic but unusual way. Each robot is an assembly of four segments joined by twelve McKibben actuators (air muscles). Six machines are hanging from the ceiling and two machines are convulsing on the floor.

The artificial characters in the Red Light environment are complex machines that could generate a wide number of possible behaviors. These behaviors are also adaptive in response to what the machines perceive and the way viewers decide to interact with them: by touching the robots, by moving around them, by simply standing in front of these untamed tentacles. The title of this installation project evokes a particular situation/context where the actors are expressing themselves through unpredictable behaviors that may seem completely wild or crazy, where the interpretation of these behaviors may even lead to believe in their own true existence. Red Light is a place where the human qualities of the machine and the machinic nature of man are intermixed and become blurred.

GALLERY DETAILS:

Hysterical Machines

April 29 – June 19, 2011

Opening reception during Gallery Crawl 5:30-9 p.m.

Wood Street Galleries is located at 601 Wood Street above the T-Station in the Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District.



Hours:

Wednesday & Thursday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Free and open to the public

For more information, call 412-471-5605 or visit woodstreetgalleries.org
Wood Street Galleries is a project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
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Gallery Crawl Ignites the Cultural District

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contact:

Veronica Corpuz
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-6082
corpuz@pgharts.org

Cultural District springs into action with Gallery Crawl

Friday, April 29, 2011

5:30 - 9pm

Presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

PITTSBURGH, PA: The Cultural District springs into action as The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl fills the theaters, galleries and streets of Downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. The free and art-and-fun-filled Gallery Crawl takes place on Friday, April 29, from 5:30 - 9 p.m. The arts open house showcases an eclectic mix of visual art, dance, music and more in 22 venues throughout the Cultural District.



All Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit pgharts.org or call 412-456-6666. The Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is sponsored by First Commonwealth with media support from City Paper and 91.3fm WYEP.



The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings:



GALLERY CRAWL in the CULTURAL DISTRICT

April 29, 2011 5:30-9 pm

Presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust



Wood Street Galleries

601 Wood Street

Hysterical Machines: Bill Vorn

Montreal-based artist Bill Vorn creates installations involving robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic process that evoke human qualities in structures that are nothing more than articulated metal structures.



SPACE

812 Liberty Avenue

STRAIGHT OUTTA CompUSA: Conversations on the Picturesque

See Jesse Hulcher having the time of his iLife as he tries to find a use for the Internet

Music by DJ DZ



WYEP Music Station

WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE



Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts

808 Liberty Avenue

Culinary Sculptures



Tito and Exchange Way

Cell Phone Disco

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

Beauty-Strength-Reflection: Five Perspectives on the Female Form: paintings focused on feminine form and style by five local female artists.



Trust Arts Education Center

805-807 Liberty Avenue

Lower Level (Peirce Studio):

The TypewriterGirls Poetry Cabaret

Audience interactive, collage-work theatre formed from poetry, performance art, typewriter games, improv comedy, dancing, and a little magic.

3rd floor:

Homo Dignitas: Reviving a Departed Essence (Carlow University)

Artists' perilous fight to restore and maintain human dignity before the concept is as lifeless as the Latin language.

Pittsburgh’s Rising

Exhibition showcasing Pittsburgh’s upcoming collegiate artists. Enjoy refreshments while viewing the latest works by the area’s fine-art, architecture and design students.

4th floor:

60/40 Series presents: Outspoken, a benefit for BikePGH

An art show and sale featuring local artists, benefiting Bike Pittsburgh. Preview at sixtyfortyseries.com



Harris Theater

809 Liberty Avenue

In the Theater: Short films by local filmmakers

Tiny Harris Gallery: Photography by Sue Abramson and Kevin Clark

Above the Marquee: Silhouettes by Mike Bonello



Shaw Galleries

805 Liberty Avenue

BEAUTY - STRENGTH - REFLECTION: Five Perspectives on the Female Form

An exhibit of paintings that focus on feminine form and style by five women artists from Pittsburgh.



707 Penn Gallery

707 Penn Avenue

Conversations on the Picturesque: Work by Katherine Young

Drawings of patterned feminine portraits in lush flora.



709 Penn Gallery

709 Penn Avenue

Paper Streets: Solo exhibit by Bovey Lee

Using cut paper as her medium, Lee’s installations explore resolute themes such as the geography's influence on life in the region



Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts

808 Liberty Avenue

Culinary Sculptures

Various sugar and tallow sculpture pieces created by PCI faculty. Hot food and beverages prepared by PCI students available for a donation.



937 Liberty Avenue

1st floor – Bricolage:

Bricolage presents The Awkward Dinner Party

An interactive experiment in social performance and fine dining (5:30-7:30).

2nd floor

Named-UnNamed

Herman Pearl - PearlArts: movement and sound. A space of otherworldly, haunting, immersive sound . Continuously renewing and ever-changing sound-scapes derived from readings of the names of Iraqi civilian war casualties.



Toonseum

945 Liberty

Brenda Starr, Reporter: The Art of Dale Messick

The ToonSeum celebrates legendary cartoonist Dale Messick and the retirement of her greatest creation, Brenda Starr, Reporter, after 70 years of publication



Tonic**

971 Liberty (2nd floor gallery space)

It Is What It Is

People. Art. Music. Drinks. Food.



August Wilson Center for African American Culture

980 Liberty Avenue

Various Exhibitions: Voices: African American and Latina Women in Pennsylvania Share Their Stories of Success (new exhibition), In My Father's House; Sculptures by Thaddeus G. Mosley; Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix; Bridging the Blood: Your Blood Line is Mine



Northside Urban Pathways Gallery

914 Penn Avenue

Reinterpreting African Arts

Student artwork reflecting themes and symbols of Ancient and Modern African Arts. Sounds of Steel steelpan band play throughout the night with special guests including the UP Stomp Team at 6:30 pm



907 Penn Avenue

Bon Voyage

Looking In Looking Out (LILO) presents a painting and photography exhibition based on the theme of goodbye/farewell/bon voyage.



Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 Gallery

111 Ninth St.

THE UPSIDE

A curated collection of senior artwork



Future Tenant

819 Penn Avenue

URBANIC III: expanding the microcosm

Group Show co-curated by Kyle Ethan Fischer and Nicole Capozzi of Mox Box Consulting



Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200

Art on the Walls

Featuring the stunning black and white photography of artist Brian Sesack. Enjoy light refreshments and meet the artists.



Backstage Bar

655 Penn Avenue

Live music by Pittsburgh’s only all-female jazz ensemble, Cool Breeze 5:30-7:30



Katz Plaza

7th St. and Penn Avenue

First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot

Stop by our hospitality station for free drinks and snacks. We’ll also have chances to win baskets and Starbucks cards!

Live samba music and dance by Timbeleza



Arthur Murray Dance Studio**

136 Sixth Street

Free Dance Classes and Demonstrations!

Get started dancing tonight! 7:30 Swing, 8:00 Tango, 8:30 Merengue



Verve Wellness

142 6th St., 3rd floor

Bare Bones Dance Series

Stripped down to the bare essentials in an warm intimate venue, kNOTDance reviews works from the past 3 years at this Bare Bones presentation. Stop in, Why kNOT?



**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted

Bovey Lee Presents Solo Exhibition "Paper Streets"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contact:

Veronica Corpuz
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
corpuz@pgharts.org
412-471-6082



Bovey Lee: “Paper Streets”

709 Penn Gallery, 709 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

April 15-May 22, 2011


Pittsburgh, PA: To commemorate her 10th anniversary as a Pittsburgh resident, Bovey Lee presents "Paper Streets," a solo exhibition of new work based on her visual cataloging of the city and its region's topographical complexity. Her first exhibition at The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s 709 Penn Gallery, “Paper Streets” showcases Bovey Lee’s modern interpretations crafted in the intricate and ancient art of Chinese paper cutting. The show opens on Friday, April 15, 2011, with an artist reception from 6-8 p.m., and concludes on May 22.

Using cut paper as her medium, Lee hand cut over 600 paper objects to create installations that explore resolute themes such as the geography's influence on life in the region and the city's constant efforts to recreate itself. More light-hearted works look at the practice of deploying folding chairs in the streets to claim parking spaces and seats along parade routes. The exhibition’s title comes from the so-called paper streets that are plunging staircases or walkways on maps considered as valid streets in Pittsburgh.

“The underlying themes in my paper cutouts are power, sacrifice, and survival,” the artist notes. “Drawing ideas from my cultural identity and gender, headline news, environmental issues, and socio-political commentaries, I painstakingly hand cut each work on a single sheet of paper that depicts layered and dramatic narratives. The deep paradoxes in my works contrast starkly with the airy, fragile laces of the cutouts.”

Bovey Lee works with rice paper, because the material is both culturally significant and sustainable. Handmade from mulberry tree bark, rice paper is tissue thin, dense, and soft to the touch. Silk is mounted to the back of the paper to add resilience and silk is also renewable.

Her creative process is three-fold: hand drawing, digital rendering, and hand cutting. She begins by sketching before creating a digital template, which serves as a visual guide, comprising downloaded images, her own digital photographs, scans from magazines and books, and vector graphics. The final step consists of several hours of hand-cutting the image with an X-acto knife.

Bovey Lee has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK; Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Asian American Arts Center, New York; Rossi & Rossi, London, UK; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; and many others.

Her work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Vira I. Heinz Endowment, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Asian American Arts Center in New York.

Bovey Lee graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1991. In 1995, she received a MFA in painting from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2000, Bovey earned a second MFA in digital arts from Pratt Institute in New York.
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Lee Renninger Exhibit at 709 Penn Gallery

For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Veronica Corpuz, 412-471-6082

“Threaded Line”

Exhibition by Lee Renninger
June 5 – July 18, 2009
Preview reception and trunk shows on Thursday, June 4th
709 Penn Gallery

Pittsburgh, PA: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Education and Community Engagement Department is pleased to exhibit the work of artist Lee Renninger in the show “Threaded Line,” which uses couture to explore concepts of personal and political, as well as ethnic and group, identity. A preview will be held on Thursday, June 4, with a Cake, Couture & Chardonnay reception, from 4:30-8 p.m. at The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s gallery at 709 Penn Avenue. The reception will also include trunk shows by two nationally-known designers: Earth & Alchemy Jewelry by Richelle Wilson and Susan Farber Handbags.

Lee Renninger explores the use of clay as fabric. She writes, “Ceramic material is inherently dense and inflexible--qualities that have historically recommended it for utility. The transformation of this material into works that are soft and fluid, as well as visually weightless, is only one way of challenging the long-standing beliefs about clay as an artistic medium.”

“This exhibition is so powerfully beautiful. It’s amazing how Lee uses clay and other materials to create the gorgeous pieces that you will find in this show. I’m anxious for Pittsburgh to see Lee’s work,” says Janis Burley Wilson, vice president of Education and Community Engagement of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Renninger trained at the University of Florida and her work has been exhibited all over the world. Her work was featured in the Fiberart International: Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Fiberart in New York’s Museum of Art and Design, the Sidney Myer International Ceramic Competition in Victoria, Australia. She has been a visiting professor in Tokyo, Japan, and throughout the United States. Renninger has also received numerous awards and commissions, including the Directors’ Award for Innovative Use of Materials from the Fiberarts International: Biennial Exhibition, from the Andy Warhol Foundation, and a fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission.

Richelle Wilson is a Pittsburgh native, living and working in New York City. She specializes in hand-casted 18k gold and silver, as well as semi-precious and precious stone jewelry. The stones are sourced from around the world.

Susan Farber Handbags-Susan Farber creates handmade leather goods. She is based in Fox Chapel; her work is carried in boutiques all over the country, most notably Henri Bendel in New York City.

The preview reception will feature cupcakes by Jamie Okopu of Cook for You. Jamie is another Pittsburgh native who trained at the Culinary Institute of America and Paris to perfect her art of pastry design.

GALLERY DETAILS
709 Penn Gallery is located on 709 Penn Ave. / Cultural District, Pittsburgh
Cake, Couture & Chardonnay, June 4, 4:30-8 p.m.
In the gallery, 709 Penn Avenue
Preview Reception and trunk shows by two nationally-known designers: Earth & Alchemy Jewelry by Richelle Wilson and Susan Farber Handbags
Gallery Crawl: Friday, July 17, 5:30 – 9 p.m.
Closing date: July 18, 2009
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Thursday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.;
Friday & Saturday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

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