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PGH Museums Hosts Cycling Church Tour
Bring your own bike and helmet and join the PGHMuseums.org volunteers for a fun bike tour of Pittsburgh's historic churches beginning at St. Augustine Church in the Lawrenceville neighborhood and ending with drinks at The Church Brew Works.
Woodville Volunteer Spotlight: Jeanne Nikolaison
The following is a question and answer with Woodville volunteer Jeanne Nikolaison
Hereafter Regional Juried Exhibition 2024 - OPEN CALL
Craft objects have long been a vehicle for processing and understanding emotions, celebrating life, and invoking memory. For this exhibition, Contemporary Craft invites artists working with craft media, (including but not limited to wood, metal, fiber, glass, ceramic, found object, and paper) to respond to themes of grief, loss, joy, healing, and mourning.
Woodville Archaeology and Archives Update
In July 2022, I returned to Woodville for the first time in two years to complete archival research for my dissertation. I came to study the Sarah Wrenshaw steinmark Papers, a collection of several thousand documents dated ca. 1790 to 1970 detailing the lives of the Cowan and Wrenshaw families of Woodville.
Art All Night Pittsburgh Returns for its 26th year
The 26th installment of Art All Night Pittsburgh will be held from 4 pm Saturday, April 29th to 2 pm Sunday, April 30th at 31st Street Studios in the Strip District. This 22 hour immersive art experience will be provided fee-free, non-juried, uncensored and open to the public for both artists and attendees.
Mattress Factory Opens Three New Distinct Exhibitions By Four Powerhouse Artists
The Mattress Factory announces the opening of three new distinct exhibitions in the Museum’s Monterey Annex from Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis, Lydia Rosenberg, and Katie Bullock.
First Chance to Purchase Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a new addition to the Penn/Fairmount line designed by John Sharvin. Although Sharvin’s work is often whimsical, this set is purely practical highlighting his passion for both engineering and art. Sharvin designed the set with functionality and finesse so that the sunburst texture gives the pitcher and cups a glint of gold
UNDEFINED to open at Glass Center
After their experience on the Netflix series "Blown Away," England, Moran, and Sharvin were in transition moving toward an unknown future. They were invited to Pittsburgh Glass Center for a residency last year to consider their newfound fame and future and to create new work individually and collaboratively for an exhibition that they call “Undefined.”
Faydra Hunter - ART TALK Episode 14
Faydra Hunter is a celebrity who creates portraits of celebrities. Well, she's on her way to celebrity at least with a lot of amazing accomplishments including even finding her work in the City County Building in the Mayor's office! She also refurbishes antique doll houses and so much more! You do not want to miss this interview.
Woodville President outlines 2023 goals, asks for support
As we come to the end of 2022, we are looking back on the wild ride we have all had the last couple of years. We are grateful to be here now, with our volunteers and our site intact! As we also look to 2023 and all that we wish to accomplish, I ask you to kindly remember Woodville in your year-end giving.
Silver Eye Interim Exec Letter to Supporters
We are so grateful to have had artists Hannah Price and Zeal Eva with us last weekend at Silver Eye's Penn Ave. gallery to open our new exhibitions! With an opening at Unblurred and a brunch reception and exhibition walk-through, both artists spoke generously about their work.
Scholarships for Glass Center Winter Intensives Deadline: December 18
The Pittsburgh Glass Center studios are open to everyone who wants to learn and create. They offer a variety of scholarships in an effort to make our classes accessible to as many people as possible. Full- and half-tuition scholarships are available for all classes and workshops including winter intensives.
Heritage Center Kicks Off Year-End Fund Drive
The McKeesport Regional History and Heritage Center has had an exciting year and there are many new things planned for 2023. They continue to expand our reach into the community through partnerships, programming, exhibitions, and publications. They have also diversified our offerings and plan to host more programming that involves minority communities such as African Americans, American Indians, and LGBTQ+, to name a few.
Rising Voices 2: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters Comes to 937 Gallery
“Beautiful, amusing, haunting, mystifying, celebratory, and surprising, these artworks invite closer examination of the artists’ perspectives and offer viewers an opportunity to evaluate their own lives, experiences, and perceptions of the world.”
History Center Partners With 15 Affiliate Program Museums to Launch Civic Empathy Project
With Election Day approaching, the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center is partnering with 15 museums, libraries, and cultural organizations across the region to activate the connection between history and civics education.
Meet Julia Castor (Video)
The Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Mediad recently sat down to talk with Julia Castor, one of the three talented ceramic artists in Path of the Flame. Over the past months, Julia has been in an apprenticeship with Dan Tomcik at Touchstone Center for Crafts, and has been learning how to master the art of wood-fired atmospheric ceramics.
2023 LEAP Award - Applications Now Open!
The LEAP Award was established in 2007 in honor of Contemporary Craft Director of Exhibitions Kate Lydon’s 20-years of service. The program recognizes exceptional emerging talent in the contemporary craft field and provides opportunities for these early career artists to bring their artwork to the consumer market. The yearlong retail program features, markets and sells the work of one winner and four finalists. The winner also receives a $1,000 prize.
Local Playwright Premieres Modern Shakespeare at New Hazlett Theater
New Hazlett Theater is thrilled to premiere Pittsburgh playwright Nathan Wagner’s Perdita on December 1. Directed by Tru Verret-Fleming and with dramaturgy by Carnegie Mellon University's Kristi Good, the play follows Ethan Cole, a high school student struggling to navigate his senior year while being constantly interrupted by the ghost of a certain famous playwright.
Charles "Teenie" Harris on PBS's Making Black America (Video)
Teenie, the preeminent photographer for The Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s most influential Black newspapers, created an unparalleled chronicle of Black history and culture during the mid-twentieth century. In 1999, Carnegie Museum of Art acquired Teenie’s archive, and today, nearly 80,000 photos are available to browse on the Carnegie Museum of Art’s website.
History Center to Host “History’s Mysteries: The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion”
On Halloween weekend, the Senator John Heinz History Center – the Smithsonian’s home in Pittsburgh – will host a book talk, “History’s Mysteries: The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion,” with History Center President and CEO Andy Masich and authors Tom Powers and James Wudarczyk of the Lawrenceville Historical Society, Friday, Oct. 28, from 6:30-8 p.m.
Four presenters took what many of us know of as a regional conflict which we call the “French and Indian War” involving the British and French Empires, as well as several indigenous nations and confederacies, and opened our eyes to a wider world conflict.