Visual Art Exhibition at SPACE

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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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Search: Pattern 2014

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

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Secret Life of Robots

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Media Contacts:
Jessica Warchall, Visual Arts 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 Manger, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-8717/Roth@TrustArts.org


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Search: Robots 2014

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
 
THE SECRET LIFE OF ROBOTS
 
A SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION

February 21 – April 27, 2014 | SPACE | 812 Liberty Avenue

Exhibition Opening & Reception | February 21 | 5:30 – 8 p.m.


Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of The Secret Life of Robots, a visual art installation by local artist Toby Atticus Fraley. The exhibition includes a dozen scenes of robots in domestic vignettes, presenting an unpolished look into the unseen, and often mundane, lives of robots. The exhibition is on view at the Trust's SPACE  gallery in the Cultural District February 21–April 27, 2014. An opening reception is held Friday, February 21, 2014, from 5:30–8 p.m.

Fallen Glasses

The 4- to 5-foot-tall robots are constructed from vintage thermoses, picnic coolers, and various found objects. Some robots include animatronics and custom built electronics packages that control illuminated elements, such as eyes and accent lights. Fraley offers a glimpse into the daily activities of a typical robot through various stages of its lifespan, revealing a glimpse of our lives through the looking glass.

“Everyday scenes from the lives of robots have been captured in this exhibition for us to observe,” says artist Toby Atticus Fraley. “Robots assembled from pieces of Americana illustrate mundane everyday rituals, acts of daring, and precious milestones. These scenes of great joy and crushing sadness cover the beginning to the end of a typical robot’s lifespan, celebrating and revering the beauty in the everyday.”

First Steps

Some of these everyday scenes include a toddler taking its first steps under the watchful eyes of its parents, a robot at the grocery store trying to reach a can of cat food on a shelf that is just inches too high, and an elderly robot counting out its medication with the help of a magnifying glass.

Toby Atticus Fraley was born and raised in Washington, PA, and currently resides in Bridgeville, PA. Fraley uses found objects in his mixed media sculptures and clockworks. His works in clay, paint, and photography share a similar aesthetic, harkening to and preserving midcentury America. He exhibits locally and his work, including public art installations, is held in collections nationally and internationally. Most recently, Fraley composed as part of Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2014 the Lonely Robot Returnswindow in the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, which was a reprisal of Fraley’s Robot Repair launched in the Cultural District in 2011.

Images Courtesy of the Artist

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.
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Pgh Cultural Trust Announces 3 Events

For Immediate Release

Media Contacts:
Jessica Warchall, Visual Arts 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 Manger, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-8717/Roth@TrustArts.org

Images available: http://TrustArts.org/press
Search: Scenes 2014

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ANNOUNCES

CULTURAL DISTRICT EVENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH

BEHIND OUR SCENES

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces three events taking place in conjunction with the exhibition Behind Our Scenes at SPACE gallery in the Cultural District. The exhibition by five photographic artists exploring the relationship between the two-dimensional form and physical space through photographic installations and constructions is guest curated by Jen Saffron and is on view through January 26, 2014. SPACE (812 Liberty Avenue) is open during Gallery Crawl, the Trust’s quarterly showcase of art and entertainment throughout the Cultural District, Friday, January 24, 5:30–9 p.m.

Gadget Lab
Thursday, January 16, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
SPACE, 812 Liberty Avenue
Free and open to the public
For those new to eReaders, tablets, or other gadgets, drop-in on this Gadget Lab during lunchtime to speak with tech-savvy librarians and learn how to download free eBooks, eAudio, eVideo, digital magazines, music, and more.

Leo Hsu Free to the People

Artist Talk: Leo Hsu and the Free to the People Project
Saturday, January 18, 2:30–4 p.m.
Carnegie Library, 612 Smithfield Street
Free and open to the public
Artist Leo Hsu speaks about his artistic practice and current work included in the group photography exhibition Behind Our Scenes at SPACE. The artist talk is followed by a gallery tour at SPACE (812 Liberty Avenue).

Dennis Marsico Age Specific

Barbara Weissberger Collage Formation with Round Mirrors

Poetry and Play reading with Joy Katz and Rob Handel
Sunday, January 19, 3–5 p.m.
SPACE, 812 Liberty Avenue
Free and open to the public, with refreshments
Cozy up in the gallery with a glass of wine or coffee at this poetry and play reading by award-winning poet Joy Katz and award-winning playwright Rob Handel. Curator Jen Saffron will offer a tour of the current exhibition Behind Our Scenes, featuring the photographic work of Nancy Andrews, Leo Hsu, Dennis Marsico, Annie O’Neill, and Barbara Weissberger.

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 Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.

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Images Courtesy of the Artists

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Behind Our Scenes Photo Exhibit

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

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS THE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

BEHIND OUR SCENES

November 8, 2013–January 26, 2014 | SPACE | 812 Liberty Avenue


Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the presentation of the photographic exhibition Behind Our Scenes at SPACE in the Cultural District. Guest curated by Jen Saffron, the exhibition features works by five photographic artists exploring the relationship between the two-dimensional form and physical space through photographic installations and constructions. The exhibition is on view November 8, 2013–January 26, 2014.

“This conceptual exhibition of photography explores the fundamental relationship of what cameras really do, which is translate the three-dimensional world into something flat, a two-dimensional world,” says exhibition curator Jen Saffron. “Each photographer explores the tension between the built landscape and flatness through their installations, videos, and photography.”

Jen Saffron is a photographer and writer primarily focused on contemporary issues in documentary photography, exhibiting her own work, teaching, and curating exhibitions in both the United States and abroad. Saffron is the director of communications for the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, currently teaches documentary photography at Grove City College (formerly at the University of Pittsburgh’s Film Studies Program), and writes for Afterimage. She earned a BFA in fine art from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in photography from Bard College.

Nancy Andrews is an award winning journalist and the managing editor for the Detroit Free Press. She is a former staff photographer of 10 years for the Washington Post, covering the salient issues of our time. She was the White House Photographer of the Year in 1998, and she was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the University of Missouri and the National Press Photographers’ Association in 1997. Andrews is a published author of two books, “Family: a Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America” (1994) and “Partial View: an Alzheimer’s Journal” (1998). Andrews is married to photographer Annie O’Neill.

Leo Hsu’s interests surround the intersection of documentary and fine art photography in contemporary photographic practice. He is a regular contributor to the online magazine Fraction, an independent curator whose projects include HomeFrontLine: Reflections on 10 Years of War Since 9/11, and a former news photographer. Hsu holds a PhD in anthropology from New York University, where his dissertation Hacking Development: How Geeks Do Good in the Digital Age explored nonprofit development organizations formed by technology experts at the end of the 20th century. Hsu is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dennis Marsico’s photographic projects relate physical, mental, and sexual age-sensitive issues.  His project Age-Specific was exhibited at the 2013 Armory Shown as part of a special exhibition curated by Eric Shiner of The Andy Warhol Museum. A former engineer, Marsico has been a professional photographer since the late 1970s and spent years as a travel photographer for such publications as The New York Times andTravel & Leisure. He is the author of limited edition artist books, which are included in such collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Getty.

Annie O’Neill is a veteran photojournalist for such publications as LIFE Magazine and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and she currently shoots commercial work and personal projects around the world. Her work focuses on capturing the “parade of humanity” at events and importance occasions, such as Oprah’s week-long staff celebration in Hawaii or the Presidential Inauguration. She currently lives and works in both Pittsburgh and Detroit, and she is married to photographer Nancy Andrews.

Barbara Weissberger creates photographic collage and installations with play at the center of her process. She has shown at such venues as PS1/MoMA, New York; DUMBO Art Center, New York; White Columns, New York; Hallwalls, Buffalo; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh;  Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh; Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh; Artspace, New Haven, CT; Holter Museum, Helena, MT; ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA; and Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.

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 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 Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.

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Crowdsourced Exhibit at SPACE

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

 

UNIQUE APPROACH TO ARTMAKING
FEATURES GUEST CURATOR AND ARTISTS

CROWDSOURCED
July 12 – September 1, 2013

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

Pittsburgh, PA: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is excited to announce an innovative new exhibit opening at SPACE.  Crowdsourced is curated by Robert Raczka and features participating artists Kim Beck, Casey Droege, Corey Escoto, Gabe Felice, Lori Hepner, Renee Ickes, William Kofmehl III, Maritza Mosquera, Tom Sarver, Shaun Slifer, Barbara Weissberger, and Paul Zelevansky.  Each artist will create a large drawing directly on the walls of the gallery and the art making process will be open to the public for both observation and input into the artistic process.  On Friday, July 12, the gallery will open early, beginning at 1:00 p.m., until 9:00 p.m. The exhibit runs from July 12 through September 1, 2013.

Drawn in a Day at SPACE. Photo Courtesy of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Robert Raczka (guest curator-Crowdsourced) is an artist, art critic for Pittsburgh City Paper and other publications, emeritus professor of art at Allegheny College, and visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University this fall. He has curated exhibits for a number of institutions including the University of Akron, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Forum Gallery at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, and for SPACE gallery.   Raczka’s artwork uses photography, collage, and exhibitions incorporating found objects to engage with popular culture and taste, the public communication of advertising and marketing, and the often-tenuous connection between representation and reality. “Audiences are responding to more active forms of engagement with art, and Crowdscourced gives artists a push in that direction with many of the artists moving beyond their usual way of working,” comments Raczka.

Kim Beck uses images of architecture and landscape to make drawings, prints, paintings and installations that survey peripheral and suburban spaces. Her work urges a reconsideration of the built environment - the peculiar street signs, gas station banners, overgrown weeded lots, and self-storage buildings — bringing the banal and everyday into focus.

Casey Droege was raised by two artists and a mime. Their incessant side hustles, ranging from chimney sweep to insurance sales, created the time management monster/slightly organized tornado that is Casey. And while her mother made it clear to her that she should go into computers, she now lives and works as an artist using language to objectify the subjective.

Corey Escoto has exhibited nationally, internationally and in his home state, Texas. He was one of the three artists selected to participate in the Great Rivers Biennial (2008) at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and is a recipient of the Gateway Foundation Grant.

Gabe Felice is a local post-visionary artist. An example of his creative work- a 2010 residency at the Brew House, Gabe developed an interactive psychic art experiment called the Magical Psychic T - Shirt.  The experiment invites viewers to become a part of his creative process through Extrasensory Perception and Clairsentience. While holding a small sculpture from the fantastical "Device Unit", the participants' subtle energies are transmitted into the sculpture. Accessing the transmission via psychometry, the energies are translated into a psychic drawing for the participant to interpret.

Lori Hepner is a visual artist with an ongoing interest in exploring how digital technology is impacting society and individuals. Her most recent body of work, Status Symbols, is a series of portraits that are studies of identity in the digital age of social media using time, code, and light to photographically create glowing orbs of abstract color. Her work has recently been exhibited internationally and was featured in the Pittsburgh edition of UK-based Next Level Magazine in November 2012.

Renee Ickes is a native of Pittsburgh.  She studied art at Columbus College of Art and Design, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,  Academy of  Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia, Pratt Institute and the National Academy School of Fine Arts, NYC. Her work can be seen on the blog www.givemeyourrubberheart.tumblr.com.

William Kofmehl, III is a native of Pittsburgh and sculptor.  Kofmehl’s degrees include Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and Master of Fine Arts Degree from Yale University; adjunct professorial appointments: Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, France, Carnegie Mellon, University and Robert Morris University.  Kofmehl’s works have been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. His complex installations built of wood, steel, bronze and hand-embroidery act as a staging ground for multiple performers where, routinely, Kofmehl himself lives and dwells within the installation for the entire length of the exhibit.  Kofmehl’s recent activity: Hong Kong: exhibit at the International Art Fair and speaker for ArtAsiaPacific -Guerilla Talks.

Maritza Mosquera  has been an artist all her life and an educator for over thirty years; teaching in prison, community organizations, universities and museums.

Tom Sarver is a locally based artist and creator of The Mattress Factory Museum of Art.  He is known for working in performance art, site-specific installation and public art projects dealing with environmental, social and political issues using the participation and involvement of the community.

Shaun Slifer works in video, print, static and kinetic sculpture, street signage of dubious legality, and as a self-taught history writer/researcher. He is currently working on projects which explore obscured and forgotten histories - those of humans and of other animals - through memorial practices.

Barbara Weissberger’s kaleidoscopic wall collages, Rorschach-like prints, and surreal mixed media collaged landscapes are exhibited widely. Her work has explored consumption (consumer and food), meat as metaphor, and notions of beauty and disgust. Play is central to her process; images grow out of improvisation and the pleasure of working with materials.

Paul Zelevansky currently resides in Pittsburgh.  He holds a BFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University, Master’s Degree in Educational Technology from Columbia Teacher’s College and PhD, Art Education from Columbia Teacher’s College. His work includes early digital interactive museum exhibitions (NY Hall of Science 1988-92), digital animation, artists books, theoretical writing, curating, and graphic design. Published articles include use of text and image, web art, popular culture, and educational and aesthetic theory; most recent publication, 24 Ideas About Pictures.

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. Free and open to the public.   SPACE is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.  For more information about all gallery exhibits 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 Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.

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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.

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Gallery Crawl Features Wide Array of Arts, Venues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: April 8, 2013
Contact:
Shaunda Miles / 412-471-1578 / miles@trustarts.org
Diana Roth / 412-471-8717 / roth@trustarts.org

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District
Friday, April 26, 2013, downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the upcoming Gallery Crawl to take place Friday, April 26, 2013, from 5:30-9:00 p.m., in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. 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.

“There are 36 stops in locations throughout the Cultural District, filled with new exhibits, exciting performances and interesting activities to enjoy. Keep the fun going and stay after the Crawl for free Salsa Friday at Cabaret Theater Square,” comments Darcy Kucenic, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust-Manager of Education and Operations.   To name just a few of the highlights: Memento Mori in Tito & Exchange Way; Community Supported Art, a preview of the new series from the New Hazlett Theater at 937 Liberty Avenue; craft making-origami magnolias with Office of Public Art at Magnolias for Pittsburgh, 7thStreet & Penn Avenue; and Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts and Music Showcase at the Trust Arts Education Center and August Wilson Center.  Night Market IV, sponsored by Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, at the 8th Street & Penn Avenue Parking Lot, will offer food, art vendors, music and dance.

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 April 2013 Gallery Crawl include Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP 91.3FM, Table Magazine and Kreider Printing.


The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings on Friday, April 26, 2013:

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street
 Momento Mori
Gregory Barsamian
 In a strobe lit room, kinetic sculpture spins rapidly on an armature with imagery based on Barsamian’s dream recordings. At once low-tech and approachable, Barsamian simultaneously floats between the conscious and unconscious worlds in collaboration between artist and perceiver.


SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
 Mean Girls
Guest curated by Jill Larson
 Mean Girls examines the reality that bullying among girls in America has become an epidemic in our society. The exhibition is a springboard to gain awareness, encourage dialogue and promote positive social change. This traveling exhibition is partnered with the non-profit organization: Strong Women, Strong Girls, and debuts in Pittsburgh, PA.

Music by DJ Pingting

WYEP Music Station
WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE

Urban League
610 Wood Street
 Celebrating the Urban League in Pittsburgh
To celebrate the Urban League’s 100th Anniversary, artist Leslie Ansley creates vibrant paintings and murals for the Pittsburgh affiliates 95 years of service.

Tito Way
 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
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
Brave New World: Maps of the 19th-century
An exhibit exploring world cartography in the 19th-century through period maps and engravings.

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue

Peirce Studio (Lower Level):
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase
CAPA and Brashear collaboration: Wearable art fashion show and student musical performances, 5:30pm
CAPA Student Interpreters, 6:30pm
Westinghouse Lighthouse Project Hip Hop and Step Team Show, 7:30pm

3rd & 4th floors:
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts Showcase
All-City K-12 Visual Arts and Cultures Exhibitions

Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue
 Harris Theater Short Films
Regionally made short films shown on a loop: Pierogies by Kristen Lauth-Shaeffer; Oneironauts by Jared McLaughlin; Steel City Sights by Brad Oskowski; Blast Off by Jonathan Gribbin.

Tiny Harris Gallery
eye of the beholder
Heather Springer

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
 Darkroom Mania
During the winter of 2013, students at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild took part in an intensive after-school photography course. Using traditional darkroom processes, they printed on a variety of photographic media, including archival fiber based paper.

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:
Community Supported Art: See a sneak peak of the homegrown performance artists cultivated for the new series at the New Hazlett Theater  www.newhazletttheater.org/#csa

CSA PGH:  Meet the 6 visual artists who will create works to be packaged up and turned into 50 shares for the public.  www.csapgh.com

3rd floor: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Lobby:
August Wilson X: 10 Years of August Wilson on Stage
Pittsburgh Playwright's Theatre Company displays photos, artifacts and props from the past ten years of performing August Wilson's Century Play Cycle. Monologues from the 10 plays will be performed.

Toonseum
947 Liberty Avenue
 Toonseum presents Cartoon Quickies!
Join us for rapid fire drop in cartooning lessons. Each session is 4 minutes.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue

Theater:
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase
Featuring the PPS All-City: ESL Student Performances, Elementary Choir, Junior Honors Choir, CRAE Drumming, Dancing & Performing Ensembles, and CRAE Visual Art Exhibit. Begins at 6pm.

SOLO Exhibits
SOLO Exhibits features individual exhibitions of fiber art, printmaking, painting and sculpture by Leslie Ansley, Jo-Anne Bates and Tina Brewer.
Glamazonia by Mario Epanya
This glorious showcase of Beauty features over 30 images of Black women from contemporary full color photography to vintage black-and-white images, celebrating the beauty and diversity of the Diaspora.

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix
Our core 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
 Works by D.Hopper and Justice Coughenour from Modern Pop Art
Live Music by Shay and Bryan William Kinney

August Henry’s City Saloon
946 Penn Avenue
 Magic by Peter Corbett
Be prepared to be wowed!

Urban Pathways K-5 Dance Studio
925 Penn Avenue
 Free Dance Lessons by Pittsburgh Dance Center’s Holly: Merengue at 6:30pm & Salsa at 7:30pm. Freestyle dance between and after the lessons.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Wild Life
Proudly presenting student artwork, photography & three dimensional design. Music by the Sounds of Steel steel pan band, 6:15pm & 7:45pm

Pilates Sol
900 Penn
 Pilates as Art in Motion
Stop by at 6pm & 7pm to play this interactive game. Match the exercise that is being demonstrated in the studio to the professional photographs displayed on the street front window. Winners receive a free private Pilates session!

CAPA
111 Ninth St.
 Push-pinned Prints and Drawings
An exhibition of screen prints, relief prints, blotted line prints, printouts, conceptual drawings and formal portrait studies by Pittsburgh CAPA Visual Art Students in grades 6-12.

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
 Displacement
Guest curated by Kristen Kovak, featuring artwork by Phil Hessler and Natalia Gonzalez Requena
The show provides an opportunity to see the raw materials of industry poetically displaced in space and time.

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.

Bend Yoga
808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor
 Guided meditation, 6:30pm to 7pm. Please register at mcallan@bendyoga.com
Poetry reading with Tarun Reddy from his haiku book Bru-ku, 7:30pm to 8pm, with signing afterwards.

8th Street & Penn Avenue Parking Lot
 Night Market IV
 An expanded collection of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent food and art vendors – combined with music and dance in a parking lot on Penn Avenue. 7pm to 11pm.

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue
Cast of Characters
Curated by Cindy Lisica and Vicky Clark.
Dramatis personae, fictional figures who tell a story, reveal insights while helping us to make sense of our world and our place in it.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
 Adult Arcade
Marc Burgess                                                      
This new media installation will be composed of a variety of organically textured paintings, large geometric sculptures, robotic lasers and disorienting soundscapes.

Magnolias for Pittsburgh
7th St. and Penn Avenue
 Learn how Tony Tasset created this sculpture installation and craft your own (origami) magnolias withthe Office of Public Art.
             

Katz Plaza
7th St. and Penn Avenue

Live Music by JD Eicher & the Goodnights

Button-making with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: We supply the materials, you supply the creativity!

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue

 Places & Faces
Recent works by Joyce Werwie Perry
The texture and contrast of color in the paintings is achieved through the rapid application and detraction of oil with knives.

Live Music by Elevations.  5:30pm to 7:30pm

kNOT Dance at Verve Wellness
142 Sixth Street, Third floor

Creating Your Own Perspective
kNot Dance explores the diversity of individual perspectives from the lofty heights of the aerial silks to the baser human emotions that bubble from below. 7:30pm, 8:30pm & 9:30pm

Arthur Murray Dance Studio**
136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro) NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
 Free Dance Lessons and Demos:
Merengue 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. Attendees will enjoy making their own pierogie creation. Learn from the restaurant that is known for their signature pierogies.


Boutique 208
208 Sixth Street
 Meet several of the local artists creating art and artisan products for this all local, all handmade boutique.


Robot Repairs
210 Sixth Street
 Is your robot experiencing technical difficulties? Consider visiting this place for a potential fix.

PNC Legacy Project
600 Liberty Avenue
An interactive exhibit that showcases Pittsburgh’s transformation and reflects PNC’s dedication to revitalizing the city.
NEW ORAL HISTORIES:  Hear Dan Bylsma, Arnold Palmer, Art Rooney, Joe Grushecky, George Benson.


AFTER THE CRAWL
Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Avenue
Salsa Friday
Free Admission to Salsa Friday at the Cabaret at Theater Square with DJ Jeff Shirey of Salsa Pittsburgh from 10pm to 1:30am.  Get your Salsa! Bachata! and Cha Cha Cha on!


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

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.

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

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted.

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Cultural District Gallery Crawl

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District
Downtown Pittsburgh
Friday, January 25, 2013

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the upcoming Gallery Crawl to take place Friday, January 25, 2013, from 5:30-9:00 p.m., in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. 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.

The evening will kick off with Miguel Chevalier’s Power Pixels, two self-generative video installations located in Wood Street Galleries. Chevalier is an internationally known artist and an innovator of digital arts whose work is sure to excite the masses. The night will also mark the premiere of the Arcade Comedy Theater at 811 Liberty Avenue. The comedy club will feature improvisation jams and comedy performances within a newly renovated 60-seat performance space. In addition, the Eclectic Laboratory Chamber Orchestra (E.L.C.O.) will play music in the Trust Arts Education Center from Beck’s brand-new only-available-as-sheet-music album,Song Reader, along with their energetic and contemporary sound. This is the first time the E.L.C.O. will be performing at the Gallery Crawl.

“We are excited to present our interpretation of the music,” said Heidi Matthews, Co-founder and Operations Director of E.L.C.O. “The E.L.C.O. does a great job at presenting a fresh perspective to older songs and giving a new twist to pop pieces.”

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. CONSOL Energy Inc. is the lead sponsor of the January 2013 Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District. Other sponsors include Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP 91.3FM, Table Magazine and Kreider Printing. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visitwww.TRUSTArts.org or call (412) 456-6666.

The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings on Friday, January 25, 2013:

Wood Street Galleries

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street

Power Pixels 2013
Miguel Chevalier
Two new self-generative video installations including the world premiere of his latest work, "Digital-Archi" (Meta Cities).

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
Romper Room
Guest curated by Ladyboy
Jen Cooney, Jae Ruberto, Jacob Ciocci, Matt Barton, Thad Kellstadt, Jim Lingo, and Ladyboy

Romper Room - blanket forts, cubby holes, night lights, clubhouses, burnouts, hippies, hangouts in the woods, glow sticks, sweet jams, jam jigglers, schralping, cosmic cats, impossibles, glitches, munchies, diamonds, sasquatch, joy rides, cocoons, etc.

Music by DJ Dave Zak

Human Touch Project
The Human Touch Project is the newest body of sculptural work currently under development by artist Phoenix Savage. Human Touch is a participatory project translating the aesthetics of physical and ethereal human connectivity.

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
2nd Annual Bad Art Sale!
Bad art, picture frames, mats, art books, gently used art supplies...All at rock bottom prices!

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue
Peirce Studio (Lower Level):
CONSOL Energy Hot Spot: Re-energize with this Pittsburgh-based producer of coal and natural gas.

Continuum Dance Theater
Excerpts of THE MOVEMENT. Created by Sarah Parker, THE MOVEMENT exposes the duality between versions of ones’ self; revealing an autobiographical examination of the distinction between public lives and what lies beneath. 6pm, 7pm, 8pm
Third Floor:
Celebration
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Showcasing AAP's members' work

Fourth Floor:
Pittsburgh Print Group
Exhibit examining the end of time
Carnegie Library
Button-making: We supply the materials, you supply the creativity!

Eclectic Laboratory Chamber Orchestra (E.L.C.O.)
Music from Beck's brand-new, only-available-as-sheet-music album, Song Reader, as well as high-energy, rhythmically charged interpretations from their contemporary alt-classical repertoire. 6:15pm, 7:15pm, 8:15pm

Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue
Harris Theater Short Films
Official selections from the 2012 Three Rivers Film Festival competitive shorts program.  All Filmmakers are regional artists.

Tiny Harris Gallery
Loren Kantor
Original prints from carved woodcuts & linocuts inspired by classic films.

811 Liberty Avenue
Arcade Comedy
Be among the first to visit the brand new Arcade Comedy Theater in the Cultural District, which will feature Pittsburgh’s best improvisational, sketch and alternative comedy year-round!  Pop-up games, performances and mini-workshops will be held throughout the evening.  Time to Play! www.arcadecomedytheater.com

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street
Creative Reuse
During the fall of 2012, students at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild took part in a unique after-school art course, creating art from materials supplied by the Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse.

Awesome Books
929 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown

Moon Calling, an exhibition of paintings by Richard Rappaport
A gifted portraitist, Rappaport's images work their emotional force on the subjective sensibility of the viewer.

937 Liberty Avenue
2nd floor:
Six x Ate: Sound, Time, Space
SIX x ATE features the work of local artists who have participated in an ongoing dinner and lecture series of the same name.

3rd floor: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Lobby:
Twinning Photography
The first of a series of exhibitions trying to twin one hundred Africans with their African American lookalikes.

Toonseum

Toonseum
947 Liberty Avenue
Visit the new StarKist Charlie's Hall of Legends. This new exhibition presents original pieces from the ToonSeum permanent collection, featuring some of the world's most iconic cartoon characters.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue
Glamazonia by Mario Epanya
This glorious showcase of beauty features over 30 images of Black women from contemporary full color photography to vintage black-and-white images, celebrating the beauty and diversity of the Diaspora.

The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
This stirring exhibition, on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and presented in collaboration with the Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, explores the courage and triumph of athletes who boycotted, participated in, or were barred from the Games.

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix
Our core 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
Work from artist Keith Schmiedline
Live music by Dylan Reynolds.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
The Heart is Lonely…
Student artwork based on the works of Jacob Lawrence; plus Ceramics & Photography.
Poetry Slam at 6pm & 7:30pm, plus the Sounds of Steel steel pan band

CAPA
111 Ninth St.
Future Memories, Future Myths
Works by CAPA Visual Arts students, curated by Rafael Abreu-Canedo

Abby McGeehan, Assan Jackson, Brianne McKaine and Adam Linn, Elan Kandel, Libby Musacchio, Maddi Johnson, Miller Goughneour, Miller Schulman, Ron Turner, Sara Gaitens, Stacey Thomas, Todd Koger, Tyler Sing interpreting the world around them, navigating the past and the present, these young and talented minds are not satisfied with the one-size-fits-all culture that is being handed down to them.

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
Best of Arbor Aid with Tree Pittsburgh
A best-of collection of works created from reclaimed and urban wood that focuses on the theme of Story/Legacy.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200
Art on the Walls
Steel-Life II: photo assemblages
Fran Gialamas
Archival-flash-backs of men and women steel workers—their neighborhoods, homes and the mills. The work reflects the steel
industry in its heyday. Found images seduce the viewer’s eye and memory. The past is layered with the present in counterpoint to create a quiet industrial beauty.

Bend Yoga
808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor
Join Bend Yoga for free yoga at 7:00pm.  Pre-registration is recommended by emailingmcallan@bendyoga.com.

709 Penn Gallery

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue
Fabrizio Gerbino
New works by the Italian-born artist, now well-known for his paintings, drawings, and installations inspired by the post-industrial landscape of Pittsburgh, where he has lived for nearly a decade.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
Craig Freeman: Cartoon Nihilism
Explores themes of nihilism, depression, and suicide through the cartoon world.

131 Seventh Street
Symbiotic Collusion
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
AC/VC: Appalachians in Charge of Visual Culture
Derek Reese

Project Pop Up: Night Market 3
Once again bringing together some of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent vendors, artists, and desserts to an indoor market.

Katz Plaza

             
Katz Plaza
7th St. and Penn Avenue
Steel Town Fire: Pittsburgh’s premier Fire Art performance wows the crowd with dancing and intricate moves on poi, snakes, swords and other burning props. 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30pm.

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue
Symphony of Colours
Kim Freithaler, June Kielty, Nadya Lapets and Vickie Schilling

Live Music by Jason Kendall Duo

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.”

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

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

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

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

 ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!  Visit www.trustarts.org for updated and more detailed information
Lead sponsor: CONSOL Energy Inc.
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.

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

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted

Posted on behalf of Dreamweaver Marketing Associates.  Joyce Kane is the owner of Cybertary Pittsburgh, a Virtual Administrative support company, providing virtual office support, personal and executive assistance, creative design services and light bookkeeping.  Cybertary works with businesses and busy individuals to help them work 'on' their business rather than 'in' their business.  www.Cybertary.com/Pittsburgh