Pittsburgh Art Blog Turns 3, Promoting Pittsburgh Artists

Happy Birthday to a ... Blog?

I don't celebrate my own so why not? Who knows how much longer it will make it. Jumping candlesticks can get tiresome.

Pittsburgh doesn't exactly have an abundance of art info beyond the crude basics currently so hopefully more artists will take advantage of this resource and email me about what's happening on their end.

rick byerly
rick(AT)uniquetake.com

So here are some numbers....

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Top 5 overall visited links over the past 3 years:

Sprout Fund Hothouse Events (the 2009 event)

Pittsburgh Murals and Public Art Info

Pittsburgh artists deserve more press

In Memory of Pittsburgh Artist John Metzler

Pittsburgh Skyline Photography Prints for Sale


Also the Pittsburgh Galleries website directory, ie www.pghgalleries.com , has been around for 3 years as well.

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

The Pittsburgh Art Blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20, 2007.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 art advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.

Pittsburgh Artists, Pittsburgh Art

The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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The Pittsburgh Artist Registry is a great resource for patrons, artists, non-profits, committees, foundations, galleries and beyond. Art collectors and patrons can search by medium to find work which speaks to them and local foundations and committees looking to support local art can look up artists.

Artists, make sure you have every category updated that you work in as well as custom work details etc. Make sure all of your artist friends are signed up as well.

The Pittsburgh Artist Registry is a project of The Office of Public Art. The Office of Public Art is a partnership between the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the City of Pittsburgh Department of City Planning with funding provided by The Heinz Endowments. The Pittsburgh Artist Registry is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowments for the Arts.

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Like what's posted on this blog and the website http://www.pghgalleries.com/ ? This is a volunteer effort so donations of any size are welcome which can be made via paypal here . Also at that link anyone interested in purchasing banner space, which includes placement on this blog and the PghGalleries.com website, can sign up there. Thanks! Rick Byerly
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Pittsburgh art events: http://www.pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com/ Pittsburgh art gallery directory: http://www.pghgalleries.com/
Photography from rick byerly: http://www.uniquetake.com/ and http://www.rickbyerly.com/

check out

www.PghGalleries.com

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Daydreaming about Pittsburgh Art, Part Two by Rick Byerly

What's this? Daydreaming about Pittsburgh Art? If you missed my first one check it out. This next one has occupied a lot of time, except for maybe when I was trekking Yellowstone in May. It sprang from one of those things where you're daydreaming what you would do if you won or somehow came into a lot of money. Not a completely ridiculous scenario save I don't play the lottery. It's not like daydreaming about what I would do if I possessed superpowers. Anyways with all this imaginary money I daydream about starting food co-ops and funding Pittsburgh based retraining groups like Bidwell Training Center and other projects to address the bloated college level educational experience which now is worth virtually nothing.

Beyond those important issues I think of how I would help out Pittsburgh artists and how to keep them here (like me). An almost constant daydream is the Pittsburgh Artist Museum. A museum featuring the talent of all types of visual art on the North Shore near the Warhol and Mattress Factory to further attract visitors and residents alike to see and buy the artwork which arises out of this New Pittsburgh. The art would be purchased on the gallery level thereby continuing to support galleries and artists alike and then the art would placed in the Pittsburgh Artist Museum, or Pittsburgh Art Museum if you like, on display and for sale at a higher price. When artwork is sold the artist would then get another percentage from the museum (if living) in the field of say 70% and the museum getting 30% for operating expenses.

Wherever this large amount of money would come from to fund this project it would be fully invested and only the % made over the principal would be used to buy art and keep the building running, thereby ensuring the continuing existence of the museum. In addition to buying artwork it would also fund public art, both with local and overall artistic angles, eg from sculptures of Pittsburgh Jazz legends to abstract art murals.

I'm amazed at how much money many non-profits and foundations have in the Pittsburgh region and how little they directly benefit actual Pittsburgh artists. So maybe someone has a lot of money out there they want to see go toward supporting Pittsburgh artists. Send me an email! Or maybe the Pittsburgh Foundation and the like is looking to include people on their committees who have a lot of ideas on how to keep Pittsburgh artists in Pittsburgh. Give me a call! Until then I may still be daydreaming and working on my fine art photography either in Pittsburgh or somewhere I can survive on my passions.

Rick Byerly

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www.rickbyerly.com
www.PghGalleries.com

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Like what's posted on this blog and the website http://www.pghgalleries.com/ ? This is a volunteer effort so donations of any size are welcome which can be made via paypal here . Also at that link anyone interested in purchasing banner space, which includes placement on this blog and websites, can sign up there. Banner design included. Thanks! Rick Byerly
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Pittsburgh art events: http://www.pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com/
Pittsburgh art gallery directory: http://www.pghgalleries.com/
Photography from rick byerly: http://www.uniquetake.com/ and http://www.rickbyerly.com/

check out
http://www.PghGalleries.com

sponsored by:

pittsburgh galleries is a project from
pittsburgh photographer rick byerly, http://www.uniquetake.com

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Pittsburgh Print Club welcomes you to it's inaugural meeting, May 16 2008

To art patrons, artists, and anyone interested in art!

It is a pleasure to invite you to the inaugural meeting of the PITTSBURGH PRINT CLUB.

The Club welcomes those who are interested in editions of original works of art from prints (lithographs, screenprints, etchings, mezzotints etc. ) to tapestries and three dimensional objects. In addition to deepening connoisseurship, the Club will be a venue through which members can develop their own collections by guided visits to galleries and museums, study groups, sponsoring lectures, hosting seminars by artists, lecturers, publishers and scholars.

Depending on what the membership decides, other activities might be included as well such as visits to private collections in Pittsburgh and other cities.

Please join me at the first meeting of the PITTSBURGH PRINT CLUB to organize, meet each other, and agree on a set of by-laws. I also look forward to your input about growing the Club.

Michael Berger has graciously offered his Gallery,
415 Gettysburg Street, Pittsburgh , as the site of this inaugural meeting which will take place on May 16th at 7 o'clock pm. Further info Further information: http://www.mbergerart.com or pittsburghprintclub@yahoo.com or at 412-225-9762.

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Pittsburgh art events: http://www.pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com/
Pittsburgh art gallery directory: http://www.pghgalleries.com/
Photography from rick byerly: http://www.uniquetake.com/ and http://www.rickbyerly.com/

check out
http://www.PghGalleries.com

sponsored by:

pittsburgh galleries is a project from
pittsburgh photographer

rick byerly, http://www.uniquetake.com

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