They keep coming...
On May 22, 2013 at 10:13 AM Marlene Bishop
Good day to you.
I
am so excited that I came across of your work on internet search,I am
interested in purchasing these creative artworks from
you.....................
rock face (face it han),yellowstone thermal water (frozen in motion),bryce canyon (#1462)
Let
me know their various prices.and how much discounts are you going to
give?I will be happy to have these selected artworks hung in our new
home in South Africa.As
well,I want you to take out the shipping
cost.I have been in touch with a shipping firm that will be shipping
other house decoratives.
We are traveling from our Seattle home
to our new apartment as soon as possible.On Paying for the artworks,I
will be glad to pay you with a Money Order or Cashier`s
check in
US funds that can be easily cashed at your local bank,please let me
know on how to proceed for the payment of the creative artworks.
I will await your advise on how to proceed.Have a wonderful day.
Take care,
Marlene Bishop
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Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Marlene Bishop Gets Into the Art Scam Business mbishop506@gmail.com
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Dear Pittsburgh: This Mayoral Race Should Be About Policies and Vision
It's maddening to see people already lining up for candidates who don't even have their policies published. This reminds of so many elections where it's the guy and not the specific policies and vision. And the personal comments belittling the other candidates are surfacing once again, showing how small-minded people can be. And that yeah, I really like that guy, he's one of us nonsense. And yes, I'm talking about Jack Wagner. It's been more than 30 days since Luke's announcement and his website has nothing as far as specific policies. That's a really bad sign and to me it signifies how little things like policy mean to him and Pittsburgh. He's our guy, he's been in Harrisburg for a while. That's great but I prefer candidates who take me seriously and publish their policies and vision well in advance of the primary and Bill Peduto has done this.
People that vote primarily based on the personality of the candidate stop progress. Literally. I'd also like to point out the wisdom which comes from the independent candidate Daniel Lynch which every person in the region should read and contemplate. I can't think of something more important than an outside perspective and one that is not steeped in bureaucratic thinking, especially for Pittsburgh.
P.S. The other candidates don't even have a website! It's 2013. Don't ask people to vote for you if you don't have a website.
Rick Byerly
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Eyes on Pittsburgh
Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on
cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as
locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and
interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and
Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Voter Registration Deadline for Pittsburgh Primary is April 22, 2013
The mayoral primary, May 21, 2013, will ultimately be the deciding vote for Pittsburgh's next mayor. And because we live in a highly regressive state known as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that means only registered Democrats will have a determining voice in who the next mayor will be. I have sent in a change of party status temporarily so I can vote in this most important primary. It has been over 15 years since I was a registered Democrat so that shows how important I believe this race will be.
A current list of candidates can be found here. Of particular note are Democratic candidates Bill Peduto and Michael Lamb, who declared before Ravenstahl withdrew.
You have until April 22, 2013 to register to vote and I'm assuming that means any changes in your registration as well.
The deadline for in-person voter registration is 30 days prior to each primary or election. Registration-by-mail forms must be postmarked no later than the voter registration deadline in order to be processed for the upcoming primary or election.
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Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on
cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as
locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and
interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and
Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Art All Night 2013: April 27, 28, Lawrenceville Pgh
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| Date: | April 27th through 28th, 2013 |
| Time: | 4pm Saturday until 2pm Sunday (all night long) |
| Registration: | April 27th from 10am to 2pm |
| Location: | 97 40th Street in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh |
Go to the website to register if you're interested in showing one piece of "art". It's the same warehouse location as 2012.
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Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com. The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
Pittsburgh and Braddock Murals, New Website PghMurals.com
Pittsburgh and Braddock Murals: I especially like when they do the more in-depth looks at the murals which tend to justify more information, just click on the more info icon once you have selected a mural. Great project!
Now all we need is a more balanced and varied approach to the types of mural/public art in the region in terms of language, subject matter and mediums.
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Eyes on Pittsburgh
Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on
cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as
locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and
interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and
Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Call For Ceramic Artists from The Society for Contemporary Craft, 2013
from the Society for Contemporary Craft:
Attention All Ceramics Artists!
SCC is now accepting applications for our Raphael Prize Exhibition. All finalists to be included in exhibition at SCC. Winner receives $5,000, video profile and feature exhibition.
In 1997, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Society for Contemporary Craft, a $5,000 prize for excellence in the field of contemporary craft was established. The biennial award is given in conjunction with a catalogue, juried exhibition at SCC, and video profile. This opportunity is funded by the daughters of Elizabeth R. Raphael, the founder of SCC and a nationally known figure in the contemporary art scene for many decades.
Each year a different craft material is chosen to define the exhibition. This year (2013) explores clay. The overall theme for each iteration is “Transformation.”
Applications can be downloaded on SCC's Website.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE JUNE 14, 2013
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Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com. The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Raw Artists: Give us money and we'll throw a party with your art?
The RAW Artists wagon rolled through town this past Thursday. I am skeptical of any organization or gallery who makes the artist pay up front without anything tangible in return. I didn't attend so I don't have that end of things to contribute. I certainly wouldn't call it a scam but it certainly should be looked at critically from the standpoint of the artist.
From a numbers standpoint the artists selling tickets account for roughly 480 of the 500 people who attended the Raw Artists Pittsburgh event. From the website and fakebook page I could identify a minimum of 24 artists so figuring each artist had to sell 20 tickets at $10 a piece that accounts for 96% of the total attendance which the Post Gazette identified as 500. It doesn't look good when you look at it from the artists' perspective when you consider the 24 artists and bands brought the majority of the people who attended. That's like paying a gallery and then having to bring all the people and either make them pay to get in or cover them yourself. And we haven't even gotten to sales, real exposure etc and the artist is down $200.
Maybe it will turn into something much bigger down the line but for now I would remain skeptical and would push for details as far as who and what they are bringing to the table.
The following is worth taking a look at below.
Galleries that ask you to pay to show with them, in most cases, are a red-flag.
It seemed to me that they were using artists to promote them instead of the
other way around.
http://www.merylpataky.com/my-raw-artists-experience.html
The artist above contributed quotes to a story at LA Weekly Blogs .
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Eyes on Pittsburgh
Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on
cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as
locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and
interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and
Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Pittsburgh Artists, Art Galleries Updated
It's been a while but I updated the lists of Pittsburgh Art Galleries as well as my list of Pittsburgh Artists.
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Eyes on Pittsburgh
Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com. The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Friday, December 7, 2012
Pittsburgh's Iron City Brewery Historic Buildings in Jeopardy
It is clear Mayor Ravenstahl is failing Pittsburgh once again...
The following is re-posted from Carol Peterson at Pittsburgh House Histories.
Lawrenceville and Polish Hill community groups sent the following letter to the city regarding the Iron City Brewery:
December 5, 2012
Ms. Noor Ismail
Department of City Planning
414 Grant Street
Pittsburgh PA 15219
Dear Director Ismail,
We are writing to formally request a Special Meeting with the Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission, as allowed for in HRCʼs Rules and Procedures, at its earliest convenience so that we may discuss with the Commission our substantial objections to Collier Developmentʼs proposed plans for redevelopment of the historic Iron City Brewery.
We are strongly concerned with Collierʼs stated intent to demolish many of the propertyʼs historic component buildings, and fear that the demolitions will occur in the immediate future. We object to HRCʼs declining to meet with community representatives to discuss our concerns about the brewery, in violation of city law (see below), even as HRC staff has met privately with Collier. We object to HRC and the Bureau of Building Inspectionʼs failure to protect the brewery property from, and hold its owners accountable for, several unlawful alterations that have occurred since the property was nominated for historic protection in 2009. We want to assist the city in protecting the Iron City Brewery before it is too late to save the property, which is highly significant in the history of Lawrenceville and Polish Hill, Pittsburgh, and Western Pennsylvania.
Collierʼs intent to demolish: Collier purchased the former Iron City Brewery in early 2012, aware that the property had been designated a Pittsburgh historic landmark to protect its buildings and structures. Collier quickly applied for exceptions to city law in order to be allowed to demolish three large and significant buildings on the property. Collier withdrew the application, but has since reiterated intent to demolish those and other significant brewery components in “alternatives” derived from what has been billed as a master planning process with community involvement. We must note that the first two public master planning meetings featured strong community support for historic preservation at Iron City, and Collierʼs subsequent claims that community members expressed support for widespread demolition and inappropriate redevelopment are false and astonishing. The representation of the two public meetings as supporting the destruction of this historic landmark indicates that Collierʼs participation in the master planning process has been only a cynical attempt to build a legal case for demolition under City Code §1101.02(g). We are particularly concerned because HRC has declined to discuss the brewery situation with community members when requested.
HRC declined to meet with community: On October 19, 2012, Carol Peterson, co- chair of the Lawrenceville Stakeholders historic preservation committee, emailed HRC staff Sarah Quinn to formally request that the committee be placed on the agenda to discuss Iron City with HRC at HRCʼs November 7 meeting:
"Members of Lawrenceville Stakeholders and others around the community and the city continue to feel deep concern about the stewardship and fate of the historically significant component buildings in the brewery complex. In addition to the recent illegal demolitions of which you and the Commission are aware, the brewery's owners and/or their architects have stated publicly that they do not regard many of the component buildings as worth preserving, have presented plans depicting extensive demolition in all three alternatives developed in the master planning process (master plan originally suggested by HRC), and stated publicly that the Historic Review Commission will give permission for unsympathetic alterations at the property if asked. The owners are overtly hostile to historic preservation, and we fear that this locally and regionally significant historic resource will soon be irreparably damaged."
Ms. Quinn placed Ms. Peterson (not the committee) on the agenda, but on October 24 told Ms. Peterson that the HRC had instructed her to remove her from the agenda because she “wonʼt be commenting on a particular hearing item.” The removal from the agenda violated HRC Rules and Procedures:
"All applicants and those requesting to address the Commission on business other than design review shall have the right to be heard at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Commission, provided that the application has been filed by the deadline for that meeting."
This followed Ms. Quinnʼs stating on August 3, 2012 that she would not discuss recent illegal demolitions at Iron City with the Stakeholders historic preservation committee “because itʼs in litigation.” The refusal violated §1101.07(b)(9), stating that HRC is to:
"Act as liaison on behalf of the City with preservation organizations, professional societies, community and other groups, private property owners, and interested citizens, concerning conservation of the historic resources of the city."
While refusing community requests to meet, HRC staff has met privately with Collier. At the November 19 Iron City Master Planning Steering Committee meeting, Collier representatives stated that they and their architects had met with Ms. Quinn and another City Planning employee to present one of the demolition-heavy “alternatives” from the master planning meetings as the scheme favored by the community. Such a presentation strongly misrepresented community input. They said Ms. Quinn and the other employee expressed enthusiasm for the redevelopment scheme.
HRC and BBI have failed to protect the brewery: Since its historic nomination in 2009, the Iron City complex has been subjected to incremental unsympathetic alterations that violated city permitting procedures. HRC and BBI have not enforced city laws that are intended to prevent unsympathetic alterations. The most egregious example is Collierʼs removal of the top 20 feet of the iconic brewery smokestack with ornamental diaperwork. At the September 5, 2012 HRC meeting, Collierʼs project manager asked permission to take down 20 feet of the smokestack; HRC granted a Certificate of Appropriateness to repair instead of demolish. On November 14-15, Collier workers took down the top 20 feet of the stack. The city has declined to cite Collier for the demolition, saying Collier will rebuild the stack in kind as required by §1101.02(g), which requires that that work be performed in accordance with Secretary of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation. But Collier cannot do that because its workers destroyed the specially made (oversized, pie slice-shaped, and tapered) bricks. Collierʼs project manager has said that Collier will rebuild the stack with bricks they have acquired of “similar” color. We note that such work would not adhere to the Secretary of the Interior Standards, and strongly doubt the project managerʼs later claim that Collier had done adequate documentation for reconstruction. Collier knew of the requirement to adhere to those standards when it purchased the property. We ask HRC to revoke the Certificate of Appropriateness for this work, and ask BBI to revoke any building permits issued to allow this work and put a Stop Work order on the property, immediately upon receipt of this letter.
Other examples include:
--BBIʼs March 2012 issuance of a demolition permit for the Pipe Shop on Sassafras Street. HRC had granted a Certificate of Appropriateness to former owner Tim Hickman in February 2011. The COA had expired before the demolition permit was granted, and the granting of the demolition permit was therefore unlawful.
--On July 30, 2012, community members discovered the illegal demolition of two brewery buildings adjoining the former Pipe Shop site. We understand that BBI and HRC staff were already aware of the illegal demolition, but did not cite Collier for it until community outcry following the July 30 discovery.
--More than 200 tons of demolition rubble rests against brewery buildings that Collier wishes to demolish. Community residents have witnessed Collier adding to the pile, and fear that the weight will destabilize the buildings. Why have BBI and HRC allowed this?
--When the Cityʼs protection of the brewery began, a network of elevated steam pipes ran between buildings. Many or all of the steam pipes, which were visible from public rights-of-way and contributed to the breweryʼs historic significance, have been removed. We do not know whether that occurred during Collier ownership or previous ownership, but hope to determine this.
--A one-story brick addition to the Boiler House has been demolished. We do not know whether that occurred during Collier or previous ownership, but hope to determine this.
--In the September 5 HRC meeting, Collier Development acknowledged having performed additional un-permitted work, consisting of having removed sidewalk light fixtures along Liberty Avenue. Collier has not been cited for this illegal alteration.
Summary: The Iron City Brewery is immediately threatened by the plans and actions of its owners, and community residents and city officials and departments must work together immediately to prevent its destruction. The brewery is an enormously significant part of our communitiesʼ, cityʼs, and regionʼs past, and will be just as vital to our future with our proper stewardship.
Therefore,
(1) We respectfully request a Special Meeting with HRC as indicated by HRC Rules and Procedures as soon as possible- no later than December 13- so that we may communicate our concerns about process and plans.
(2) We ask HRC to revoke the Certificate of Appropriateness for work on the smokestack, and ask BBI to revoke any building permits issued to allow this work and put a Stop Work order on the property, immediately upon receipt of this letter.
(3) We would like to be present at all discussions between the City and Collier Development.
(4) All HRC decisions pertaining to Iron City should fully uphold the letter and spirit of the Pittsburgh Historic Preservation Code- including but not limited to ensuring that demolition and other unsympathetic alterations are permitted only when it is certain that no feasible alternative exists.
Sincerely,
Keith Cochran, Lawrenceville Stakeholders
Carol Peterson, Lawrenceville Stakeholders
Lauren Byrne, Lawrenceville United
Alexis Miller, Polish Hill Civic Association
cc:
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl
City Solicitor Dan Regan
Sen. James Ferlo
Councilman Patrick Dowd
Councilwoman Darlene Harris
Councilman William Peduto
Councilman Corey OʼConnor
Councilman Ricky Burgess
Councilman Daniel Lavelle
Councilman Bruce Kraus
Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak
Councilwoman Theresa Kail-Smith
City Controller Michael Lamb
John Jennings, Bureau of Building Inspection
Mindy Crawford, Preservation Pennsylvania
Bill Callahan, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Stephanie Meeks, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Matthew Galluzzo, Lawrenceville Corporation
Arthur Ziegler, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
Scott Leib, Preservation Pittsburgh
Richard Fitzgerald, Allegheny County Executive
Amanda Green Hawkins, Allegheny County Council
State Rep. Adam Ravenstahl
Steve Glassman, Design Center Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Young Preservationists Association
Robert Rubenstein, Urban Redevelopment Authority
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Formerly the Pittsburgh Art Blog, Eyes on Pittsburgh focuses on cultural aspects of the region, including visual and performing arts, as well as locavore, development and environmental issues through original, analytical writing and interviews. Pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com. The blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and Pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
