The online directory for Pittsburgh area art galleries has been updated and well as the Pittsburgh artist listings here.
Since August of 2007 these listings along with the Pittsburgh Art Blog have been continuously updated on a volunteer basis.
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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.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Pittsburgh Art Gallery Directory Updated
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Mon Review's (Monongahela that is) Magazine Issue # 5 is out
The Mon Review's (Monongahela that is) Magazine Issue # 5 is out. In Issuu or Pdf here.
The Monongahela Review is a pdf literary magazine attempting to coalesce various voices that excel in expressing the truths and mysteries of life with great emotion and depth.
Editor
Luke Bartolomeo
Past/Present Staff
Justin McGeary
Jenny Pichura
Jessica Rudmin
Margaret Welsh
Zachary White
Jumbled Notes on Fire
Everything in art depends upon this, its varieties. Some say it is amorous passion. Others a suffering. Others the Spirit.
Sprouting expression—genius or madness or both. Perhaps the fleshing out of all other things it can said to be. Fire undergirds, a moving thing that never moves.
For this is what happens when the fire burns brightly and cannot be contained: the necessity to do what is present, right there in your mind to do, damming all other thought, wanting to flash out, lick everything to ash. Sprouting expression.
Part and parcel of the process.
A poem is a fire, a flickering thing that heats and disposes, melts away awareness: gets at everything but what the thing is. Burns away just to build up. Makes the mind the realest the thing, the images like figments and yet like flesh: moving in the mind is still movement; images created are from brains that jolt out life and blood to welcome them.
Stories: torches. Their fire elongates, make sure to burn every part clean through, endure long enough to explain. Their fire makes us see. Their replication is a reality: things are not lost in projecting who we are and what we see, what emanates from everything around us. Things are not lost: it is just expression cannot contain. And things spread like wild flames. Something burns beyond the fire that is burning.
And one bears it at the tip of a brush or a pen. Part and parcel of the process.
Come Fire: let us play with you.
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Notes on Contributors
Eric Arnold lives in Dallas, where he studies medicine. Two of his poems recently appeared in The Labletter and others are pending publication at New York Quarterly. His short fiction has appeared in Elimae, Pindeldyboz, and Monkey Bicycle.
Michael Baccam holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University where he served as an assistant managing editor and assistant fiction editor for Willow Springs.
Jade Blackwater is a writer and artist from the Pacific Northwest. She writes copy by day as the owner of the Brainripples creative consultancy. By night, Jade is a prolific poet and fiction writer who encourages others to pursue their own, unique voice. Find her at: www.brainripples.com.
Katie Cappello lives and works in a small farming town in Northern California.
She is the author of the collection Perpetual Care (2009) and A Classic Game of Murder, a forthcoming chapbook. Her work can be found in journals such as Boxcar Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review, Fourteen Hills, and Cave Wall.
Chris Crittenden teaches environmental ethics for the University of Maine and does much of his writing in a hut in spruce forest. A featured review of his work appears in the latest issue of Arsenic Lobster (20). He blogs as Owl Who Laughs.
Mason Brown DeHoog divides his time between his beloved central Philadelphia
and south-central Texas. He has work forthcoming in Berkeley Poetry Review.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). He has published three critical
studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.
Tray Drumhann’s work explores the dimensions and depth of human nature.
His goal is to communicate the personal and cultural dynamics that
condition how we view ourselves and others as well as how our individual
experiences condition such perception. Notable publications featuring Drumhann’s work include: The Pinch Journal, Switchback and The Emerson Review.
Cyndi Gacosta was born and raised in San Diego, California spending only a few years of her early childhood in Sorsogon, Philippines. She studied literature
at UC Santa Cruz.
Nels Hanson’s fiction has received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and a citation in its Joseph Henry Jackson competition. His stories
have appeared in Antioch Review, Texas Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review, Long Story, Short Story, South Dakota Review, Starry Night Review, and other journals. Stories are currently in press at Caveat Lector, Ruminate Magazine, The Avatar Review, The Write Place at the Right Time, and the Overtime Chapbook Series at Blue Cubicle Press.
Ruth Josimovich has lived in New York City since 1978, but spent her childhood
and teenage years in Pittsburgh, walking in the woods and going to the Carnegie Library on Forbes Avenue. She now teaches literature and writing at School of Visual Arts, a four-year arts college in New York.
Sergio Ortiz has a B.A. in English literature from Inter-American University, and a M.A. in philosophy from World University. His poetry has appeared in over 200 online and print journals. He has been recently published, or his poems are forthcoming in: The Battered Suitcase, Zygote in my Coffee, Right Hand Pointing, Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, Writers’ Bloc and Temenos: Central Michigan University’s Literary Journal. Flutter Press published his chapbook, At the Tail End of Dusk (2009).
Mary Packett spent her childhood equally in suburbia and the countryside. To this she directly relates her indecisiveness. The most important thing she ever learned was from her grandmother: how to float in water. Scared to ever forget anything, as a child she started taking photos of what she did daily, and never looked back. Mary now resides in Brooklyn and by day works as an assistant photo rep. She is still focusing on her own projects while not at the office.
Tania Runyan’s chapbook, Delicious Air, was published by Finishing Line Press and awarded the 2007 Book of the Year citation by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. In 2011, her full-length collection of poetry will be released by WordFarm. Her poems have also appeared in several journals and anthologies, such as Poetry, The Christian Century, Atlanta Review, Willow Springs, Indiana Review, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, and A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare.
Joel Solonche is coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). His work has been appearing in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the 1970s. He teaches at Orange County Community College in Middletown,
New York.
Yvonne Valenza graduated with a BFA in 2006 from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and concentrated in Printmaking. Most of her work takes on relationships: the struggle of bondage and freedom between one another, with God, and with the self. An integral part of processing relationships this way is discerning what is known, tangible, or visible, and what unknown, mysterious, or invisible. What we see, how we act in our relationships with people and the world around us is wound up in intangible variables such as history, spirituality within and without, and the way we think and feel. Yvonne is married and lives with her husband, two cats, and two turtles in Philadelphia.
Brian Wilkins is the editor of Scarab, a literary magazine for the iPhone. He holds a MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire. His work is available or forthcoming in Two Review, Permafrost, Pure Francis, and Sententia.
Changming Yuan authored several books before emigrating out of China and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan’s poem have appeared in Barrow
Street, Best Canadian Poetry, Exquisite Corpse, the London Magazine and nearly 200 other literary publications worldwide. His debut collection (Chansons of a Chinaman) and monograph (Politics and Poetics) were both released recently, and he has had work nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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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.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
This Pittsburgh Art Blog Needs Your Help!
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 Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and 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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I'm hoping to keep up the volunteer effort here and could use some help. Passing the word on to anyone in the Pittsburgh region who has even a remote interest in visual art and asking them to bookmark or subscribe the blog would be a huge help. There are a ton of art events going on in the area and the blog is an attempt to get the word out on "quality" art events.
Most of the traffic to this blog is a result of search engine tagging (accounts for 8,000 of the 10,000 monthly hits right now) and in order for me to take this to the next level I'm looking for return visits. Also I need your input on whether to continue the Pittsburgh art articles summary for the month, eg November is here, as well as the monthly art event guide, November 2008 is here.
If you have a blog or website linking the blog and website would be great. Yours may even be linked on my blog already, if not then shoot me an email. Donations, advertising, and sponsor info is here.
Thanks, I appreciate your help.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Open Thread: Pittsburgh Region Art Organization
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Open Thread is a new regional arts organization, which seeks to establish frameworks for artistic discovery in Pittsburgh and the surrounding tri-state area. Open Thread provides local communities with arts outreach, education, and opportunities for publication, performance or exhibition.
Open Thread is currently at work on its inaugural project: Open Thread Regional Review, Vol. 1, a journal series featuring regional art and literature. Our call for online submissions is always open, however submissions for Vol. 1 are officially closed. The Regional Review Vol. 1 will be released later this year, so check back soon for details about the release event.
Please join us at any of our upcoming events to help raise funds for the release of our journal. These events include our Variety Variety Variety show at brillobox, our new POETSBURGH reading series and more!
Future manifestations of Open Thread's goals will include publications, performances, readings, lectures, workshops, and much more. Check our Events page for up-to-date information, or to see how you can get involved.
We're always looking for writers, performance artists, dancers, burlesque performers, DJs, VJs, video artists, local bands, theatre troupes, art vendors…the list goes on and on!
Register with Open Thread today to tell us what you can contribute!
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
This is Happening, Pittsburgh Events Info
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I've been a fan and follower of This Is Happening for several years and recommend you create a profile and specify your event preferences so you can receive a rundown on what's going on in Pittsburgh. It's the most comprehensive and customizable resource for Pittsburgh events I know of. I don't recommend going hog wild with the event preferences as you'll end up with a seemingly endless list ( cause there's like a lot goin and stuff).
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Pittsburgh Arts Blog, Regional Theater News
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It's good to see a blog which covers Pittsburgh and regional theater news. The extent of my involvement with theater info is the venue directory listed here.
Pittsburgh Arts, Regional Theatre, New Work, Producing, Copyright, Labor Unions, New Products, Coping Skills, J-O-Bs... Theatre industry news, University & School of Drama Announcements, plus occasional course support for Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni.
News from the "Real World"
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
New CMU Regina Miller Gallery Curator Astria Suparak
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Thanks to Merge Divide's post over at Digging Pitt I caught the news about CMU's new Regina Miller Gallery Curator, Astria Suparak, at the Pittsburgh City Paper. Welcome to Astria.
Current exhibit:
Your Town, Inc.
Big Box Reuse with Julia ChristensenCurated by Astria Suparak >>>Aug. 29 - Nov. 23, 2008
Events:
Hometown BBQ Reception Sept. 19, Fri. 6-8pm
Carnegie Mellon University Lecture Series: Big Box Reuse Presentation + Book SigningNov. 13, Thurs. 4:30-6pm
Related:
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes Feb. 2008 - Jan. 2009
Society For Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic 2008 Conference, Nov. 7-8
Big box buildings have increasingly dominated the American landscape since the 1960s. Author, artist, and researcher Julia Christensen spent the last six years studying these monolithic, free-standing structures and their resulting effects on our culture. Organized by the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Your Town, Inc. features photographs and new installation work examining how communities are changing in the shadow of corporate real estate
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Pittsburgh Artist John Lienert
On May 24, 2008, the art of Pittsburgh artist John Lienert was on display at the Bellevue Art Crawl. If you were lucky enough to see his work I would appreciate any posts here about what you were able to see and if you have photographs. I was hiking through Yellowstone's backcountry at the time and wish I had at least been able to blog the event. These are the types of rare exhibits which reward those who keep an eye out for what's going on in Pittsburgh. There was a May 22 Tribune article and I came across a flickr page with some images and a write up... Also you can see his work again Saturday July 12, 2008, more info here.
Excerpts:
John Lienert: 1924 - 1974
John Lienert was a fireman, ironworker, husband, father and artist. Lienert’s work has been viewed by very few people outside of his immediate family since his death in 1974. Lienert began sketching in pencil and charcoal in the 1950s, progressing to water colors and oils. In the 1960s he began sculpting. He started with plaster, then wood, stone and finally metal.
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In 1966, John Lienert was a Pittsburgh firefighter, stationed on the fireboat, the “Scully.” The “Scully was docked at the bottom of Fourth Street on Pittsburgh’s Southside. To pass the time between fire calls and maintenance duties, he set up a workbench on the dock to do his sculpting. A June 2, 1966 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article and photo shows him sculpting plaster busts on the shore of the Monongahela River.
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Unfortunately John Lienert passed away at the young age of forty-nine in April of 1974. Since that time no one outside of his immediate family and friends has viewed any of his work. For the first time in thirty-four years Lienert’s paintings and sculptures will be displayed at the Bellevue Art Crawl on May 24. The third floor of the old G C Murphy building will be transformed into an art gallery.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
GPAC Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Health Coverage Option Deadline Extended
The deadline for health coverage through HM Care Advantage via the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council has been extended. More info here. Check the details to see if it fits your needs. GPAC membership required.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
15 Minutes Gallery Opening Reception Party Thursday June 12, 2008 at 5:30 pm
15 Minutes Gallery Opening Reception Party June 12, 2008 at 5:30 pm
The Pittsburgh Technology Council is proud to announce the 15 MINUTES GALLERY — a new exhibition space that will showcase the works of regional artists and innovators. The 15 minutes Gallery will launch an exhibition beginning this June. All artwork will be displayed from June 1 through August 31, 2008. Through this progressive initiative, it is the Council’s intent to recognize the synergy that exists between the technological and the artistic communities in Pittsburgh and the impact each component will have on the region’s future. To strengthen the link between these dynamic and innovative communities, the Council has partnered with Pittsburgh’s Sirani Gallery. All works of art in the 15 Minutes Gallery will be for sale to the general public. http://www.15minutesgallery.org/
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Westmoreland Museum of American Art 2008 Juried Biennial Saturday May 10, 2008
Westmoreland Museum of American Art 2008 Juried Biennial Saturday May 10, 2008
Exhibition Preview 6:30 - 8:30 PM Cost : Free Preview the work of 80 regional artists selected for the 2008 Juried Biennial. Free reception with cash bar. Reservations appreciated by calling 724-837-1500 ext. 33.
Regular Hours Wednesday through Sunday 11 AM to 5 PM, Thursday 11 AM to 9 PM Closed Monday, Tuesday and most holidays Admission$5 suggested donation for adults, children under 12 and students with valid ID are free. We have plenty of free parking. Contact Us(724) 837-1500 : Phone(724) 837-2921 : Fax info@wmuseumaa.org
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is located in southwestern Pennsylvania on North Main Street in downtown Greensburg, 35 miles east of Pittsburgh
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Friday, April 4, 2008
New Pittsburgh Health Care Option for Artists Info, GPAC
This is a groundbreaking opportunity for Pittsburgh area artists to get affordable health coverage. To learn more about GPAC, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, check out their website http://pittsburghartscouncil.org
This info is from the GPAC April 2008 Newsletter. A full pdf copy of the GPAC newsletter can be found directly here and you can sign up for future newsletters here .
Announcing Health Coverage for the Arts
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council is proud to announce the arrival of health coverage for local individual artists and part-time and seasonal employeesof local cultural organizations. This is not a traditional health insurance program, but a limited benefit medical plan that was designed based on input from the arts community about desired benefits and pricing.The HM Care Advantage plan, underwritten by HM Life Insurance Company,starts at under $60 per month.
Eligible Arts Council members will have the opportunity to choose from three tiers of coverage. The plan pays a fixed amount for benefits including physician office visits, annual wellness tests and screenings, ambulance and emergency room coverage as well as discounts on pharmacy, vision, fitness and wellness services. Some plans also include an additional critical illness component and coverage options include individual, spouse, family or child(ren)only coverage. Coverage becomes effective on July 1, 2008. You can’t be turned down for coverage, and there are no medical questions to answer.
Visit the Arts Council’s website for dates of upcoming information meetings and webinars and to download an informational brochure. With the introduction of this plan, the Arts Council has taken an important first step towards making healthcare coverage available to everyone in the local artscommunity who needs it. We look forward to taking more steps forward in the future!
Questions about specifics of the plan? Download a brochure at www.pittsburghartscouncil.org. Further information can be accessed by calling 800.481.9979 where customer service representatives for the HM Care Advantage plan are available to answer your questions from 8:30 am to 7 pm, Monday through Friday. Are you part of an organization or arts business interested in offering this plan to your parttimeor seasonal employees? Contact Bridget Sinneway or Jim Patton at Triad USA, Inc. 412.880.4999 and mark your calendar for a special information breakfast meeting on April 22(location TBA). Other questions? Contact Ryan Freytag or Tiffany Wilhelm, your friendly membership staff at theArts Council!
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Art Events Resources
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A great resource for art patrons, artists and art groups. Their art event listings page is here http://www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/recentevents.htm and you can subscribe to their newsletter here http://www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/events.htm and find more about becoming a member.
Also Pittsburgh area artists remember to sign up for the registry here http://www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/artistdb.htm
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galleries,pittsburgh art,photography,] [where:pittsburgh,shadyside,fox chapel]
[category:galleries,arts and entertainment]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
To Pittsburgh Artists Art Galleries and Venues- Free Online Event and Show Annoucements
check out http://www.pghgalleries.com
sponsored by:
To Visual Artists, Art Galleries, and Venues in Pittsburgh and Western PA in general:
The Pittsburgh Art blog i run http://pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com/ gets good search engine placement and appears regularly on the site http://outside.in/Pittsburgh_PA . I post Pittsburgh area art show and event information ( not just Pittsburgh but Western PA in general) so all you need to do is send an email to rick(at)uniquetake.com with the information as you want it shown (preparing it in html helps me but not necessary). you can attach an image as well in the email. Please understand that due to this being a volunteer effort I'm limiting requests to Visual Artists eg mediums like sculpture, metal, glass, painting,photography etc etc ( sorry but I can't cover Musicians, Performing Artists etc).
If you're a gallery and you have a newsletter all i need is signed up for that and I will post new info as i receive it.
Rick Byerly
www.pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com
pittsburgh galleries is a project from
pittsburgh photographer rick byerly, http://www.uniquetake.com
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[where:15203,15233,15208,15220,15217,15215,15238]
[what:pittsburgh,art,gallery,galleries,show,pittsburgh gallery,pittsburgh
galleries,pittsburgh art,photography,] [where:pittsburgh,shadyside,fox chapel]
[category:galleries,arts and entertainment]