Pittsburgh Art Blog: September 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

non western imagery @ moxie dada October 4 2008

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moxie DaDA gallery will celebrate its 4th ANNIVERSARY this month. As always, we have a special exhibit to mark the occasion. Guest curator and Chatham University senior Kari Garber has been handed the reigns this month as part of her tutorial project examining the exhibition of non-Western imagery in Western society. Kari has selected Prajna Paramita Parasher and her works of 2D digital multimedia.

The opening reception will be held this Saturday, October 4, 2008 from 6-9:00pm and is free and open to the public. The exhibit runs through Saturday October 25, 2008.

"...beyond stimulating aesthetics, Parasher’s work in 2-D digital multimedia reveals intriguing complexities. Acting as curator on this project presents a unique learning opportunity to explore exhibition theory and practice on a more intimate level, while also serving as a foundation for deeper research into issues facing an ever-expanding global art community. From historical appropriation to the modern day Diaspora, this project seeks to examine the challenges of exhibiting cultural content outside the realms of familiar understanding. A Beholding will serve as the embodiment of research dealing with the exhibition of Non-Western themes and motifs in American society." -guest curator Kari Garber

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Pittsburgh Arts Theater Dance Ballet Directory List

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Hillman Center for Performing Arts Shady Side Academy Senior School 423 Fox Chapel Road Pittsburgh, PA 15238 Fox Chapel (412) 968-3045 http://www.thehillman.org/

Many local arts organizations share the Hillman's facilities, making it a true community venue.

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Technology in the Arts Conference Pittsburgh PA October 9-11, 2008

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Join CAMT, PTC and the Pittsburgh Filmmakers for an evening of Technology in the Arts @ the 15 Minutes Gallery Friday, October 10, 2008 7-9:30pm

Featuring live music, local artwork, a short film and the opportunity to mix with art enthusiasts from around the country Tickets: $20 To register or for more information: contact David Dombrosky [daviddom@ cmu.edu ] at 412.268.3143 or visit http://www.technologyinthearts.org/ .Tickets must be purchased in advance.

2008 U.S. Conference October 9-11, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA

The Technology in the Arts Conference is a resource for the arts community, sparking dialog around the role of technology in our planning and programming, discussing best practices as well as lessons learned, and providing hands-on, practical skills where possible.The annual Technology in the Arts Conference brings together the full spectrum of organizations within the arts, from the local to national levels, to examine the commonalities that exist in useful technologies as well as the opportunities for partnership.

For more information or to register visit: http://www.technologyinthearts.org/.

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Creation by Accident: Works by Aimee Manion & Sebastian van Gorder

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Opening Reception:

October 3, 2008
7:00 pm
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10:00 pm

Aimee Manion and Sebastian van Gorder have been Creating together for over half of a decade. Their work is both playful and searingly resolute. A melding of the abstract and the tangible, their imagery explores the wonders and mysteries of Creation.

By constructing captivating vistas of movement and provocative color overlaid with suggestive forms and figures, they aim to incite viewers to inquire within themselves about their own existence, about the unknown and the ineffable.

Drawing inspiration from science texts, headline news and everything in between, Aimee and Sebastian commit layer after layer to the canvas (or, rather, wood, paper, glass and drafting film). Each additional layer obscures the previous layers, much the way that our origins and the origins of the universe are cloaked in unending potential for discovery and question. Nothing is obvious. Nothing is intended to be interpreted in a particular way. No object or artwork is assigned a meaning.
As each piece develops, its meaning undergoes a constant metamorphosis, absorbing energy and ideas from two Beings and combining them into a single artifact that can be can be pondered endlessly.

Sebastian holds a degree in Biochemistry; Aimee in Fine Art with a minor in Anthropology. As the universe draws on all available resources to create, so does this Pair. Creation has filled a void in space. Aimee and Sebastian aim to fill a void as well. The viewer needs to bring their own void.

http://www.aimeemanion.com/

Exhibit runs through the 24th.

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Artist Brittany Mucy @ Jozart Studios California PA

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"Intervals of Horrible Sanity"
A Gallery Exhibition by Brittany Mucy
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 7pm-9pm
Jozart Studios
333 Second Street, California PA 15419

The type of work being displayed is a compilation of surreal drawing based on her opinions with life issues.

Her website is http://www.brittanymucy.com/

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Pittsburgh Glass Center Art Events for October 2008

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Pittsburgh Glass Center Events for October 2008

RAD Day - FREE Family Fun on Fri., October 3, 2008 PGC will feature heat-defying acts of art in the flameworking and glass blowing studios throughout the day! Plus, visitors can explore our newest exhibition "Absence of Body" and make their own colorful glass bead for $15. RADical Day, an annual event sponsored by the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD), is a day of free admissions at a variety of regional attractions that are funded by RAD.

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Loosen Up for the 2nd Annual Art on Fire Glass Auction on Fri., October 10 Pittsburgh Glass Center & American Eagle Outfitters Present Pittsburgh-s Only Glass Art Auction on Friday, October 10 at the American Eagle Outfitters Corporate Campus located at the SouthSide Works. Loosen up Your Tie - This is a fun party!Loosen Up Your Wallet - The art featured in the auction cannot be found anywhere else and includes a one-of-a-kind "sewn" glass corset by Susan Taylor Glasgow, our honorary chair.Open your Heart - Support the region's only public access glass art facility! The event featuring glass art by internationally renowned glass artists and emerging talents begins at 7 pm. Tickets for the celebration and auction can be purchased for $75 ($100 at the door) by calling PGC at 412-365-2145 ext. 206.

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Great Glass Pumpkin on Fri., October 24A ghastly glass family event and your chance to create your own glass pumpkin. Watch artists create great glass pumpkins and ghosts in the fiery furnace. Glass pumpkins and other glass Halloween items will be for sale in a variety of shapes, sizes and costs. A free event/$25 for pumpkin making. Call ahead to make reservations for pumpkin making at 412-365-2145 ext. 201.

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Wind Chime Workshop This is a great time of year for wind chimes. Learn to make your own fused glass wind chime in one of our two-hour workshops this fall. No experience is necessary. You'll use colorful pieces of glass and copper wire to create a one-of-a-kind wind chime for your home. Workshops are available on Sunday, Oct. 12.This is one of many two-hour workshops that are offered this fall at Pittsburgh Glass Center. Questions? Call 412-365-2145 ext. 208.

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Buy a Bottle, Support PGC & Block HousePittsburgh Glass Center has partnered with the Fort Pitt Block House, located at Point State Park, to produce and sell a commemorative bottle that celebrates the historical connection between the Fort Pitt Block House and Pittsburgh-s early glass industry. For over a century, the Pittsburgh region was the center of production and marketing for America-s glass industry. The O'Hara Glass Works which opened in 1797 by General James O'Hara and Major Isaac Craig was the first of the pioneer glass-houses in the Allegheny region. Situated just opposite the Point in Pittsburgh at the current location of the Carson Street Station of the Duquesne Incline, the glass works produced dark green and black porter bottles which supplied one of O-Hara-s other investments, the Point Brewery. The blown glass replica bottle bears the concave punty mark and the asymmetrical wrap around the lip of a classic O-Hara & Craig porter bottle but with a modern flair of black and gold - the official colors of the City of Pittsburgh. Together, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Fort Pitt Block House are bridging the gap between Pittsburgh-s history as a major producer in glass to its creative future through the innovative use of glass art. Proceeds from the sale of the bottle support the Fort Pitt Block House and Pittsburgh Glass Center. Cost: $50. For more details or to order a bottle, call Fort Pitt Block House Curator Kelly Linn at 412-471-1764.

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Teapots! at Morgan Contemporary GlassThe show "Teapots! Steep in Thought" marks Morgan's 3rd invitational and its first thematic teapot exhibition, which challenges the 40+ invited artists to respond to the ideas, issues and realities of the current social, political and environmental climate. The show opens with a First Friday Artwalk on October 3 from 5:30 - 9 pm and runs through Dec. 31.Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery is located at 5833 Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside.

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Scott Hunter Planet Art Gallery New Works October 4 2008

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New Works in Painting and Collage, Scott Hunter

October 4-25, 2008 Planet Art Gallery

Please join us for an opening reception
Saturday, October 4th, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

A closing reception will be held
Saturday, October 25th, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Planet Art Gallery
632 Washington Rd
Mt Lebanon, PA 15228
412-343-3808

www.planetartgallery.com

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Pittsburgh Artists, Pittsburgh Art

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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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RAD Board Proposes Funding Freeze

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RAD board proposes funding freeze
Most capital aid also dropped as tax revenues decline

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Among those taking hits is the city-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority, whose request for $2 million to cover a chronic operating deficit at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center was sliced by half.
Others losing out include the organizations that oversee the Benedum Center, Heinz Hall, the Byham Theater and the Senator John Heinz History Center, which were denied capital assistance to make roof or other repairs to those buildings.

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Predrive Mattress Factory Nov 14 2008 Pittsburgh PA

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OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 14, 2008 8.00PM - 10.00PM

The Futurist-like newspeak that is often used to describe new media and web-based artworks is amusing, but limited. Technology is a tool, not necessarily a portal to another universe.

PREDRIVE: After Technology, a commissioned exhibition of new works by five international artists, explores themes of lo-fi digital effects/dysfunctions, ready-made cyber-kitsch, software aesthetics, and the performativity of digital environments in real space. The relationships between drawing and new technologies, performance and new media tools, as well as past and current technologies will be interrogated across the disparate, but related styles of artists Takeshi Murata, Brody Condon, Paperrad, Gretchen Skogerson, and Antoine Catala. The exhibition is curated by Melissa Ragona.

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Pittsburgh Celebrates 250: October 4, 2008

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Pittsburgh Celebrates 250: October 4, 2008

PDF Schedule for Saturday October 4, 2008 here.

Road Closures PDF here.

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October Radical Days Pittsburgh Events Venues 2008

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2008 Radical Days for October

Oct. 1• Heinz Field, free tours 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Enter under the Coca-Cola Great Hall sign along Art Rooney Avenue, North Shore. Web site

Oct. 2• Phipps Conservatory, free admission 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. One Schenley Park, Oakland. Web site• Soldiers & Sailors Museum, free admission 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; free Marine Band Concert at 7:30 p.m. Requesting free tickets for concert in advance is recommended; call 412-621-4253. 4141 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Web site

Oct. 3• Pittsburgh Glass Center, free admission 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; glassblowing demonstrations. 5472 Penn Ave., Friendship. Web site• August Wilson Center for African American Culture, free admission 5:30-9 p.m., Juncture of Liberty Ave./10th Street/Wm. Penn Place, Downtown. Web site• Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, free admission to Gallery Crawl 5:30-9 p.m. Multiple galleries in the Downtown Cultural District Web site• Pittsburgh Filmmakers, free admission to screenings from the Ann Arbor Film Festival at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland. Web site• Attack Theatre, free admission for games and excerpts from upcoming show from 8-11 p.m.; performances at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., 4805 Penn Ave., Garfield. Web site

Oct. 4• Bulgarian Cultural Center, free admission 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 449-451 West Eighth Ave., West Homestead. Web site• Sen. John Heinz History Center and Western PA Sports Museum, free admission 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 1212 Smallman St., Strip District. Web site• Society for Contemporary Craft, free admission 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 2100 Smallman St., Strip District. Web site• Pittsburgh Opera, free admission for open house at new headquarters 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.,2425 Liberty Ave., Strip District. Web site• WQED-FM's Carolyn M. Byham Studio, free tours 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for tours. See Sept. 27• Silver Eye Center for Photography, free admission 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 1015 East Carson St., South Side. Web site• Mellon Arena, free admission noon-5 p.m. for tours, skating and watching the Pens live from Sweden! Web site• Pittsburgh Filmmakers, free admission at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. See Oct. 3

Oct. 5• Frick Art & Historical Center, free admission 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Point Breeze. Web site

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Wood Fired Words: Braddock Community Bread Oven and Gist Street Reading October 4 2008

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Please come join us for a collaboration between the community of Braddock and the Gist Street Reading Series Wood-Fired Words: Braddock, PA

Grand Opening of the Braddock Community Bread Oven and Gist Street Reading

The Unsmoke Systems Compound 1137 Braddock Ave. Braddock, PA 15104

Directly across from the USS offices

A collaboration between the community of Braddock and the Gist Street Reading Series, Wood-Fired Words features 4 fiction writers, a poet, and a brand new Community Bread Oven. On Saturday, October 4th (The day after Gist Street’s reading featuring Jan Beatty and Amy Knox Brown on Friday, October 3rd), Gist Street will take to the road (on Penn Avenue through Wilkinsburg to Ardmore Blvd to Braddock Avenue – Mayor John Fetterman warns to NOT take the Rankin Bridge to Braddock for this event. There is construction and Fright-Night at Kennywood.) A link to Google-map directions is at http://www.giststreet.org/ (on the home page).

Gist Street is hosting a reading at 1137 Braddock Ave. in the shadow of the region’s last operating steel mill, which serves to christen Braddock’s new bread oven. John McNally, Amy Knox Brown, Sherrie Flick, and Nancy Krygowski will read for 10 minutes each. Bios follow. It’s $2 at the door, which gets audience members literature read aloud along with free hand-made, wood-fired bread and pizzas. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 8pm. It’s BYOB.

Last month Gist Street hit the North Side for Writers in the Gardens; this month they hit Braddock for Wood-Fired Words. The Wood-fired Oven was built by a North Braddock mason using over 75% salvaged and reclaimed materials. Braddock's Community Bread Oven will be churning out free hand-made, wood-fired pizzas topped with ingredients grown organically on Braddock Farms and artisan breads crafted by Braddock’s own Josh Tonies.

This event is made possible by and special thanks to Gist Street Reading Series, Mayor John Fetterman, Joe Bonifate Masonry, and Ray Werner. Come listen and eat. BIOS:John McNally is author of two novels, The Book of Ralph and America’s Report Card, and two story collections, Troublemaker and Ghosts of Chicago. He’s also edited six anthologies, most recently Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories, co-edited with Owen King. A finalist for the National Magazine Award, John has published short stories in over sixty magazines, including Virginia Quarterly Review, Open City, and The Sun, and he’s a frequent book reviewer for the Washington Post. A native of Burbank, Illinois, John now lives and works in North Carolina.

Amy Knox Brown is a fourth-generation Nebraskan currently living in Winston-Salem, NC, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing and English at Salem College and director of the college’s creative writing major. Her collection of stories, Three Versions of the Truth, was published in September 2007. It was a finalist for the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Amy is also the author of a poetry chapbook titled Advice from Household Gods.

Sherrie Flick is author of the award-winning flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume Press, 2004). Anthologies include two from Norton: New Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction Forward. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, she has had residencies at Ucross, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is co-founder and artistic director of the Gist Street Reading Series. Her novel Reconsidering Happiness will be published in Fall 2009.

Nancy Krygowski’s book of poems, Velocity, won the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She’s received grants from the PA Council on the Arts and from the Pittsburgh Foundation, plus residencies at the Jentel Foundation and The Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for the Arts. She works as an adult literacy instructor and is co-founder and assistant artistic director of the Gist Street Reading Series.

This project was supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PA Partners), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PA Partners is administered in Allegheny County by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.

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