La Cour Des Miracles at Wood Street Galleries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Gallery Crawl Marks 10th Anniversary

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Search Name: January 2014 Gallery Crawl

JANUARY’S GALLERY CRAWL IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT
MARKS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EVENT
 Friday, January 24, 2014 | 5:30 – 9 p.m.
Select venues open until 10 p.m.
Introducing CrawlAfterDark at participating venues beginning at 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the line-up for its winter Gallery Crawl that takes place Friday, January 24, 2014, from 5:30–9 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.
 

2014 marks the 10th anniversary of Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District. To mark this special occasion, the Trust is introducing CrawlAfterDark, which features select venues with additional events beginning at 9 p.m. Each of the CrawlAfterDark activities requires admission, ranging from $5–$15.

“We are pleased to introduce CrawlAfterDark, extending hours for certain Cultural District venues participating in the Gallery Crawl and promoting the District as a late-night destination,” says Janis Burley Wilson, Vice President of Education and Community Engagement and Director of Jazz Programs for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. “CrawlAfterDark highlights the transformation of the Cultural District, promoting numerous options for late night entertainment, from comedy, music, theatre, clubs, dining, and more.”

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/Crawl 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.

The following is a line-up of the January 24, 2014, Gallery Crawl events:
Venues marked with * remain open until 10 p.m.

All locations are wheelchair accessible unless marked with **.

Wood Street Galleries*
601 Wood Street
Structures of Time and Space
Artist Erwin Redl presents an investigation of reverse engineering that translates virtual reality and 3D computer modeling through large-scale light installations.

SPACE*
812 Liberty Avenue
Behind Our Scenes
Guest curated by Jen Saffron, photographers explore the relationship between two-dimensional form and space through photographic installations and constructions. Participating artists include Nancy Andrews, Leo Hsu, Dennis Marsico, Annie O’Neill, and Barbara Weissberger.

Carnegie Library Button-making
We supply the materials, and you supply the creativity!

Music by Aaron Clark of Humanaut / Honcho

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

Cell Phone Disco by InformationLab
This surface 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
The 3rd Annual Bad Art Sale
An art show and sale of dozens of thrift store paintings and amateur art, as well as picture frames, mats, art books, and art supplies, all at rock bottom prices!

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue

Peirce Studio
Traveling by Attack Theatre
Attack Theatre’s Traveling is a witty contemporary dance performance that tells the story of a traveling salesman, his sample case of curiosities, and the enormous potential of the little things in life. With imaginative use of props, daredevil partnering, and a touch of nostalgia, Traveling transforms small objects into big ideas and physical fun. Performances at 7 and 8 p.m.

Third Floor*
Memory Terrain
From Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2014
This exhibition presents paintings by Mia Tarducci Henry; Cycle Sam by Don Jones; Pittsburgh Past and Future by Matthew Buchholz’s Alternate Histories; and Rhapsody in Steel (1959), a film with animation by John Sutherland and re-mastered by Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.

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

820 Liberty Avenue*
TRANSPOSE, a project of the Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University
From Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2014
The exhibition will open with CHIMERA, an installation of student works. Chimera: A Journal of Art and Literature is a student-produced journal that showcases the best art and literature created by Edinboro’s students.

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street
Drawing Portraits and Figures
High school students in the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Design Arts Studio explore portraiture and figures via graphite, Conte, and charcoal.

937 Liberty Avenue
Second Floor*
Welcoming the Future, Honoring the Present: New and Established AAP Member Works
From Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2014
Established in 1910, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) is an artist member organization with more than 600 members in the southwestern Pennsylvania region. This exhibition is a salon-style hanging of works by current AAP artists alongside a showcase of 21 New AAP members.

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

Toonseum
947 Liberty Avenue
Wonder Women
One of the largest exhibitions of women in comics ever presented, featuring more than 50 pieces of original art.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue

I Think I Can (Harley Stumm)

I Think I Can by Terrapin Theatre (Australia)
From the 2014 International Performing Arts for Youth Conference
This interactive installation invites the public to engage and play by becoming temporary residents via a tiny puppet. The piece asks, “What would you like to be today?” engaging participants in an optimistic task of collective storytelling that deals with dynamic notions of residency and responsibility.

Paper Planet by Polyglot Theatre (Australia)
From the 2014 International Performing Arts for Youth Conference
Polyglot Theatre creates an imagined world filled with tall, strange cardboard trees, paper leaves, boulders, ponds, and other mysterious forms that transform the space. Fantastic and unusual animals hang from the branches and sit around the trunks while audience members populate the space with their own creations and rustling paper selves.

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

Tonic**
971 Liberty Avenue, second floor gallery: NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
It Is What It Is
People. Art. Live Music. Drinks. Food.

Sonoma Grille
947 Penn Avenue
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Art Show
Enter the creative world of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. View the diverse work of design, media arts, and fashion alumni and students, and meet the talented designers.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Start Anew!
Featuring a student photography and two-dimensional art exhibition, Sounds of Steel steel-pan band performances throughout the evening, and craft activities for all.

CAPA Gallery
111 Ninth Street
Places to Go and People to See
Portraits, landscapes, and ceramic works by Pittsburgh CAPA’s 11th and 12th grade visual artists are presented. Students demonstrate how to throw a bowl on the pottery wheel. The bowls will be donated to the Empty Bowl Project, which raises funds to support Just Harvest and The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
Radium Girls
Although German Dada artist Hannah Höch was active half a world away as the Radium Girls were painting watch dials, Höch was creating rebellious collages that pointed out the stark difference between reality and the media’s projected images of women. To celebrate her work, visitors are invited to “Make Your Own Radium Girl” using Hannah Höch’s collage method and materials provided.

Live music is provided by Producer Jakeisrain and the C Street Brass.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue, seventh floor
Reflective Locations
An Art on the Walls exhibition curated by D.S. Kinsel, Reflective Locations features the work of artists capturing a place that reflects their personal identity. All of the artists chosen for this exhibition are black males, giving the audience the opportunity to experience varied reflections of modern black masculinity.    

709 Penn Gallery*
709 Penn Avenue
Neverlands
Artist Terry Boyd, through mixed media drawings, presents an interpretation of life and death, with imagery originally depicted by the skies, seas, grounds, and characters described in J.M. Barrie’s stories, such as Peter Pan.

707 Penn Gallery*
707 Penn Avenue
Arena: Remembering the Igloo
The only photographer licensed by the Sports and Exhibition Authority to catalogue the Arena’s demolition process, David Aschkenas chronicles the last weeks of the Civic Arena’s operation and its demise.

131 Seventh Street*
Night Market VII
Join the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership for Night Market VII.  This indoor version of Downtown’s favorite pop-up market will feature curated vendors of unique, handcrafted arts and crafts.

Katz Plaza
Seventh Street & Penn Avenue
Steel Town Fire
Pittsburgh’s premier fire art performance wows crowds with dancing and intricate moves on poi, snakes, swords, and other burning props. Shows at 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m.

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue
Waves: Perceptions of Light and Sound
Artist Kara Ruth Snyder presents abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings.

Live music by Paul Tabachnek.

PNC Legacy Project
600 Liberty Avenue
The PNC Legacy Project is celebrating Black History Month. Oral histories include Tony Award winner Billy Porter, Pittsburgh Courier Publisher Rod Doss, Olympic champion Swin Cash, civil rights advocate Alma Speed Fox, and trumpet player Sean Jones.

Dream Cream Ice Cream
539 Liberty Avenue
As the sole benefiting Dreamer for the month of January, the CLO Academy performs musical selections from past and upcoming productions. Dream Cream sells ice cream, pastries, Dreamshakes, & Dreamsteam (hot chocolate and hot cider). Performances by the CLO Academy at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8 p.m.

Boutique 208*
208 Sixth Street
Live music by Jon Dull of the Hoffman Road Band and Brandon Yusko.
Arthur Murray Dance Studio**
136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro): NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
Free Dance Lessons and Demos: Bachata at 7 p.m., Rumba at 7:30 p.m., and Salsa at 8 p.m.

Renaissance Hotel
107 Sixth Street
The Lonely Robot Returns
Artist Toby Atticus Fraley brings back the Lonely Robot from his previous Cultural District installation. The robot and his friends appear in a swanky room window display at street level.

Braddock’s American Brasserie
107 Sixth Street
Chef Jason creates deconstructed plates pleasantly familiar to the taste but intriguingly disguised to the eye. Get up-close-and-personal to his mysterious creations and try to figure out what classic dish it could be. The winner who correctly solves the “plating puzzle” receives a complimentary gift card to dine at Braddock’s.

CrawlAfterDark

Wood Street Galleries, third floor, 601 Wood Street
The Freya String Quartet: Electric
10 p.m., $15 / $8 students & seniors
FSQ plugs in its instruments for an amplified concert. Work by Steve Reich, Ingram Marshall, and Sean Neukom. Special Guest: Symbiotic Collusion Orchestra.

Trust Arts Education Center, Peirce Studio, 805-807 Liberty Avenue
FRENDZ: An evening of Pittsburgh-created music
10 p.m., $5, cash bar
Avant-rock band Host Skull, The Gotobeds, and Meeting of Important People’s Josh Verbanets. Host Skull was recently included on NPR’s World Cafe.

Arcade Comedy Theater, 811 Liberty Avenue
After the Crawl Comedy Show
10 p.m., $10 / $5 for students
A mix of local stand-up comedians and some of the Arcade’s best improv comedy troupes. BYOB.

Toonseum, 947 Liberty Avenue
Kartoon Karaoke
9 p.m., $5, ages 21+
Sing along to music from classic animations in this first ever cartoon-themed karaoke party.

Enigma Lounge, 130 7th St
Global Beats
9 p.m., $5
Guest DJ Dave “7up” Sanchez spins globally influenced house and electronica with two percussionists, plus a live light show via LED screens.

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.

Gallery Crawl sponsors include City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, and Kreider Printing.
ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Visit www.TrustArts.org/Crawl 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.

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

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

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS 

STRUCTURES OF TIME AND SPACE

FEATURING A PREMIERE INSTALLATION BY ARTIST ERWIN REDL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.
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HIVE at Wood St Galleries Through December 31

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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST’S
PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FIRSTS
Presents
LARGE-SCALE AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATIONS
BY KURT HENTSCHLÄGER IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT
HIVE | through December 31 | Wood Street Galleries


PITTSBURGH, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces two large-scale audiovisual installations by Chicago-based, Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger as part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts*.

HIVE is open through December 31, 2013, at Wood Street Galleries.

HIVE is a 3D-animated audiovisual installation in which visitors encounter swirling amorphous human figures appearing as a mass, or hive, rather than as individual beings. The choreographed, projected motion, light, and sound patterns create an immersive audiovisual landscape without a beginning or an end. The computer-generated HIVE takes on a life of its own, creating an artificial organism in perpetual motion.

Kurt Hentschläger began exhibiting his work in 1983. He creates audiovisual installations and performances, featuring film, video, animation, and sound. The immersive nature of his work investigates human perception and the impact of new technologies on consciousness. Granular Synthesis has exhibited internationally, at such venues as the Venice Biennal; National Art Museum of China; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Rotterdam Film Festival; Museum for Contemporary Arts, Taipei; Eyebeam, New York; PS1 New York; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Korea. Hentschläger is currently a full-time visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

*Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts (PIFOF), a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is a city-wide, 16-day performing and visual arts festival (Sept. 27–Oct. 26, 2013) featuring exclusive U.S. 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.

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

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

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Comfort Women Wanted at Wood Street Galleries

For Immediate Release

Media Contacts:
Shaunda Miles, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS THE VISUAL ART EXHIBITION

COMFORT WOMEN WANTED

BY INTERNATIONALLY EXHIBITED ARTIST CHANG-JIN LEE

November 1–December 1, 2013 | Wood Street Galleries | Third Floor

Exhibition Opening | November 1, 5:30–8 p.m. | Artist Talk 6:30 p.m.


Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Comfort Women Wanted, an exhibition by Korean-born, New York-based visual artist Chang-Jin Lee. The exhibition is on view at Wood Street Galleries, third floor, November 1–December 1, 2013. The opening night event, 5:30–8 p.m., features an artist talk with Chang-Jin Lee at 6:30 p.m.

Comfort Women Wanted exposes the fates of nearly 200,000 young women who were exploited as sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army in Asia during World War II. The artist uses the remembrance of these “comfort women”—some of whom are still alive today—to increase awareness of sexual violence against women during wartime.

“In Asia, the comfort women issue remains taboo and controversial, while at the same time, it is almost unknown in the West,” says artist Chang-Jin Lee. “The comfort women system is the largest case of human trafficking in the 20th century. Human trafficking is the fastest growing industry in the world, and the second largest business after arms dealing in the 21st century. So, the comfort women issue is not just about the past, but it is very relevant today.”

The exhibition features a video documentary featuring interviews of Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch “comfort women” survivors, and a former Japanese soldier, each speaking about their experiences at military “comfort stations”, as well as about their own hopes and dreams. Additional projections show former military “comfort stations” in China and Indonesia, recalling the history and memory of place.

The exhibition’s print works include posters reminiscent of advertisements that feature images of the young “comfort women” and are set alongside posters featuring the silhouettes of the now aged women. Each image is enclosed by the bold, black text COMFORT WOMEN WANTED, which refers to the language newspapers used to advertise for “comfort women” during WWII.

Chang-Jin Lee’s artworks deal with identity, gender, globalism, nationalism, human trafficking, and religion. She based this project on her visits to Asia since 2008, where she met Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch “comfort women” survivors, as well as a former WWII Japanese soldier. Comfort Women Wanted has been exhibited at The Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Korea; The Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; 1a Space Gallery, Hong Kong; Spaces Gallery, Ohio; George Mason University Gallery, Virginia; and The Boston Center for the Arts, Massachusetts. Video screenings have been shown at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York; and Columbia University, New York. Lee’s artwork Floating Echo—a transparent inflatable statue of Buddha—was featured at the 2013 Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival.


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

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

Image Courtesy of the Artist Chang-Jin Lee
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data.tron Exhibit Opens at Wood Street Galleries

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: July Gallery Opening

WOOD STREET GALLERIES OFFERS
INNOVATIVE LIVE SET WITH
ELECTRONIC COMPOSER & VISUAL ARTIST

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street
Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

data.tron
by Ryoji Ikeda
July 12 – September 8, 2013

Pittsburgh, PA: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is excited to announce an innovative new exhibit opening at Wood Street Galleries as a part of the July 12th Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District. Ryoji Ikeda’s data.tron is part of the datamatics project, which is a series of experiments that explore such questions, physically and mathematically. Visitors will experience the vast universe of data in the infinite between 0 and 1. data.tron is an audiovisual installation, where each single pixel of visual image is strictly calculated by mathematical principle, composed from a combination of pure mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. These images are projected onto a large screen, heightening and intensifying the viewer’s perception and total immersion within the work.

The exhibit will be open to the public July 12 through September 8, 2013. On Friday, July 12 at 10:00 p.m., Ryoji Ikeda will perform a live set of “test pattern” at the Cultural Trust Arts Education Center, Pierce Studio located at 805-807 Liberty Avenue. Tickets are $10 (standing) or $15 (seating). For ticket information, visit: www.TrustArts.org or call (412) 456-6666.

data.tron [3 SXGA+version] photo by Ryulchl Maruo

Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. “The purest beauty is the world of mathematics,” noted the artist. (Dazeddigital.com, 2008, Paris, France) Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. “To me, beauty is crystal; rationality, precision, simplicity, elegance, delicacy. The sublime is infinity, infinitesimal, immensity, indescribable, ineffable.” Ikeda has written. (Dazeddigital.com review of data.tron 2008, Paris, France)

For more information about the artist visit, http://www.ryojiikeda.com

About Wood Street Galleries
Wood Street Galleries Hours: Wed. & Thur. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. For more information, visit: www.TrustArts.org

Wood Street Galleries is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Support for Wood Street Galleries has been provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Port Authority of Allegheny County.

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

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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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Memento Mori at Wood Street Galleries

Memento Mori

works by Gregory Barsamian

April 26-June 16, 2013

Wood Street Galleries

601 Wood Street, downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

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

5 Stages of  Grief by Artist Gregory Barsamian

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

Hands by Artist Gregory Barsamian

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

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

Runner:  Steel, Wood, Bronze by Artist Gregory Barsamian

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

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

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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

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