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Pittsburgh Art Related Article Links, October 2008

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Tossed Off BY MELISSA MEINZER, Pittsburgh City Paper

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Mr. Rogers' neighborhood nitpickers
By Dimitri Vassilaros TRIBUNE-REVIEW

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Frank Vittor, sculptor of the past

By Craig Smith TRIBUNE-REVIEW

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Clay artists fired up about potters' tour

By Gina Delfavero BLAIRSVILLE DISPATCH

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'Steep in thought' exhibit makes a political statement

By Kurt Shaw TRIBUNE-REVIEW ART CRITIC

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International Festival of Firsts: Shakespeare Meets Radiohead

By Jane Vranish, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Festival of Firsts: 'Gravity of Light' attracts us to flame

By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Venue Vetting: The Pipe Building

Posted by: Justin Hopper

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Silver Eye director to head museum's photo department

By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Artist Journalist Matthew Newton

I first came across Matthew Newton's work when he wrote the impressive Art Company Inc piece on Pittsburgh art.

Check out an article and interview with him here The Tastemakers Society article on Matthew Newton

More About Matthew Newton:

From his website: http://www.matthewnewton.us/about

Matthew Newton is an independent journalist documenting contemporary American life. He strives to tell stories that capture the wonder and absurdity of the modern world.

Matthew Newton's work has been featured in publications including SPIN, Swindle, Anthem, XLR8R, Juxtapoz, and Next American City. Throughout his career, Mr. Newton's diverse assignments have reflected his desire to document the people, places, and events that influence the world around him, and to tell stories that would otherwise be overlooked. He has conducted in-depth reporting about the lives of traditional Cambodian musicians who survived Pol Pot's killing fields; documented the work and lives of vanishing American craftsmen ("American Twilight," Swindle); coaxed candid conversations from graffiti artists about their obsession with illegal art ("Writers' Bloc," Pittsburgh City Paper); investigated how rust-belt cities are attempting to use art as a catalyst for social and economic change ("Art Company, Inc.," Next American City); and spoken with survivors of the Jonestown Massacre about their hopes of building a utopia in the jungles of Guyana, and the social fallout following life after Peoples Temple ("Surviving Utopia," Lemon - not yet published).In addition to long-form narrative journalism, Newton has interviewed and profiled a diverse collection of artists, musicians, and other assorted people of interest. From Ira Glass (host of NPR's This American Life), Icelandic post-rockers Múm, and comedian Patton Oswalt, to legendary Japanese turntablist DJ Krush, renegade artist David Choe, and MoWax Records founder James Lavelle. With a specific interest in documenting music and visual culture, Newton's work delves deeper than your average glossy magazine fare. His conversations often intersect with current events or controversial topics, and lend insight beyond the obvious. Mr. Newton lives and works in the City of Champions (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). His wife Michelle and son Ethan keep him in check.

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The Sprout Fund: Banking on Community-Changing Ideas

The Sprout Fund: Banking on Community-Changing Ideas

Article by Abby Mendelson Of Pop City

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Pittsburgh Art Articles: The Art of Failure and Non-traditional Venues

There are two Pittsburgh Tribune Review art related articles worth checking out and the link to info on the documentary done on Chuck Connelly by Pittsburgh native Jeff Stimmel here.

"The Art of Failure, Chuck Connelly Not For Sale", written by William Loeffler

His name is Chuck Connelly. He may be the greatest Pittsburgh artist you never heard of.

Nearly six years in the making, Stimmel's film paints a portrait of a brilliant and charismatic artist who sabotaged a promising career through hubris, bad business decisions and a seemingly pathological inability to keep his big mouth shut.

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and "Non-traditional venues can inspire art, or just great performances", written by Alice T Carter
Not all theater takes place in theaters.

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New Yinzer Is Back Spring 2008

The New Yinzer is back! Thanks to IHeartPgh for the heads up- check the new online issue here http://www.newyinzer.com/

A comic by Ed Piskor, articles, poems and more.

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Pittsburgh Art: Art Company, Inc Article on Pgh Arts

I wanted to repost the below article link to independent journalist Matthew Newton's article on Pittsburgh art, a must read for anyone in the region and of any so called "rust belt" region (i personally don't like the rust belt jargon which so many people use but don't worry it doesn't take away from the great content and quotes in the below article).

Art Company, Inc.: The history that once defined Pittsburgh and the questions that nearly every Rust Belt city currently faces
By Matthew Newton , The Next American City

http://americancity.org/magazine/article/art-company-inc-newton/

A great article- in particular I appreciated the honest comments from Manny Theiner of Garfield Artworks about the relation of a strong economy in Pittsburgh, job creation and how that relates to the arts.

[Editorial disclaimer from Rick Byerly] The elephant in the room as far as I'm concerned is the lack of creation of jobs in the for-profit sector in the Pittsburgh region. The high tax syndrome simply cannot be a non-issue in that debate.

Rick Byerly
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The Pittsburgh PA Primary Art Report from the Pittsburgh Galleries Blog

As the national political scene focuses on Pittsburgh and many other places in Pennsylvania for the upcoming primary I think it's a good time to highlight Pittsburgh art and what has been going on here in the region and what is up ahead. The obvious art gallery magnates like the Mattress Factory, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and the Silver Eye Center for Photography continue to place Pittsburgh in the national and international spotlights. Who in the art world doesn't know about the upcoming Carnegie International's "Life on Mars"? The exhibits will debut May 3, 2008. And Next American City recently ran a detailed article on the Pittsburgh art scene and challenges, one anyone should find worth the read.

From March 19-22 of 2008 Pittsburgh experienced a truly amazing phenomenon with hundreds of art exhibits for the NCECA Ceramics Convention which brought over 5,000 members and collectors to the city. Due in large part to Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen Guild's luminary President Bill Strickland and the efforts of MCG Arts Director Josh Green and many, many volunteers Pittsburgh was immersed in ceramic art and many local exhibits went on for the month. For someone like myself I was grateful to be introduced to an art medium I knew little of and have become a true fan as a result.

While the national and international scene is obviously important to artists and patrons there are siginifcant reasons why Pittsburgh stands on it's own in terms of public art and art of many mediums in general created here in Pittsburgh. The famous Pittsburgh pride is evident by the hundreds of beautiful art murals which can be found in the many city neighborhoods. Emerging artists and established ones exhibit their work in the 120 plus art galleries within the city limits as well as other venues and galleries in the region. On the non-proft front the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council announced a breakthrough in affordable health care options available to artists and non-profits who are members and I recently joined for that and may other reasons.

Gallery crawls are a mainstay in the art scene here which bring out tons of people. Galleries with regular hours who feature talented emerging artists from the area like La Vie, are receiving well deserved attention in the form of regular patrons, sales and an upcoming national article about them. Zombo Gallery in Lawrenceville adds greatly to the scene with hip "lowbrow" art, a genre once thought by many in the art world to be unworthy but it's clear when a nationally known artist like Mr. Hooper from Tennessee came to Moxie Dada Gallery that lowbrow art is celebrated and compelling. And it's good to see artists like Andy Kehoe who have made their way to showing in New York and California, a reminder to many the limits of any "local" art scene when it comes to varying mediums and subject matter.

On the immediate horizon of events we have an Obama Art Auction Fundraiser this Sunday, April 20 which brings together many Pittsburgh artists and their work to raise money for Barack Obama. It's at a temporary art space called the Green Building Gallery in Garfield. Living Jazz legend Roger Humphries plays for free at the Pgh Cultural Trust's Backstage Bar on Tuesday, April 22, something groups like the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and MCAI (Multicultural Arts Initiative) are known and respected for. If you're lucky enough to be reading this in time you can check out the tribute to Roy Eldredge from the Kente Arts Alliance.

The downtown Pittsburgh gallery crawl is this Friday April 25 as well as Fein Art Gallery's Pittsburgh 150-250 on the North Side, which includes never before seen images of Pittsburgh from 1908 as well as current artwork in many mediums. The widely participated Art All Night is set for April 26/27 and will be full of art, music and no censorship. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Pittsburgh Filmmakers hold their Biennial which kicks off May 3, 2008. Persad's Celebrate Life, Celebrate Art auction will be held May 12, 2008 at the Carnegie Museum of Art and one it's longstanding participants and donors is Artist Charles Smith II. The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh are getting ready for their annual at the Andy Warhol Museum which runs from August 1 to September 14, 2008 and have even started planning their centennial celebration in 2010!

I find myself wanting to endlessly write about all the art events and developments happening here in Pittsburgh and in truth there are so many events it's hard to get a handle on everything, another testament to this region's arts scene.

The Pittsburgh art scene is one I'm proud to be a part of and spread the word about.

Rick Byerly

This story was written to primarily participate in the Pittsburgh Primary Project, but also because I'm a bit of an art nut.

Rick Byerly is a fine art photographer who runs the Pittsburgh Galleries Blog and Gallery Directory Website on a volunteer basis. His photography websites are uniquetake.com and rickbyerly.com . When he's not working on his photography or promoting art events he's daydreaming about Pittsburgh art.

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Pittsburgh Visual Artists: Illustrators, Photographers, Digital Artists: A Warning Story about the book Colorful Illustrations 93°C

A story which just broke a few days ago online is one both visual artists and art patrons need to know about. A book named Colorful Illustrations 93°C is being sold with stolen images and interviews from 93 artists across the world. The images were downloaded from the Little Chimp Society , some even with watermarks and copyright notices and made in this book which is being sold. The full story is here and images of the fraudulent book here . These criminals even included a cd of all of the images as well. Please spread the word about this crime and keep in mind how your images are displayed online. I hop that pro bono copyright and trademark lawyers step forward to help out the artist involved as well as government entities.

The one thing I noticed about the watermarks and copyrights is that they were artistic enough that they blended in with the image so my advice is to to make it stand out and apart from the image and don't worry about the end result. Displaying images online is only to get exposure and sell whatever products you've spent a lot of time in creating so people shouldn't get the full experience online anyways! You can also show lower resolution images which can't end up being used for much of anything but there's a line there of what you were willing to look at yourself. So spread the word, I know a lot of artists online who don't even watermark and copyright their images.

Update: Unfortunately I found out that talented Pittsburgh artist Mike Egan had his images stolen and used in the book.

Rick Byerly



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Pittsburgh Art: A Must Read National News Article on Pittsburgh, Art Company Inc

Art Company, Inc.: The history that once defined Pittsburgh and the questions that nearly every Rust Belt city currently faces
By Matthew Newton , The Next American City

http://americancity.org/magazine/article/art-company-inc-newton/

A great article- in particular I appreciated the honest comments from Manny Theiner of Garfield Artworks about the relation of a strong economy in Pittsburgh, job creation and how that relates to the arts.

[Editorial disclaimer from Rick Byerly] The elephant in the room as far as I'm concerned is the lack of creation of jobs in the for-profit sector in the Pittsburgh region. The high tax syndrome simply cannot be a non-issue in that debate.

Rick Byerly
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Pittsburgh Artist Wayno covered in Pop City article

a Pop City article written by Justin Hopper on Pittsburgh artist Wayno:

http://www.popcitymedia.com/features/wayno0312.aspx

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