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THE BLOOMFIELD GARDEN CLUB 2021 Season Announced
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THE BLOOMFIELD GARDEN CLUB 2021 Season Announced

TD Projects (Tina Dillman, independent artist and curator) will be launching the second season of The Bloomfield Garden Club (BGC), a monthly salon highlighting local and regional artists working in dance, music, comedy, literary, visual, and/or performance art. The goal of the BGC is to provide an experimental platform for artists from various backgrounds to create new work, and to provide sources of revenue for those that are the most vulnerable- females, mothers, artists along the queer spectrum, and artists whom identify as other than just white.

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Black Mary
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Black Mary

On behalf of DEMASKUS Theater Collective, a national service-oriented collective of artists and administrators seeking to make known the messages of the marginalized through the production and presentation of quality, compassionate, and inclusive artistic events. We are excited to announce that tickets are currently on sale for BLACK MARY, an interactive experience honoring the life and times of Mary Fields, the first African American female United States Star Route mail carrier. The production is presented by DEMASKUS and in association with Post Theatrical, a festival of plays that use the post as a theatrical medium conceived and coordinated by RealTime Interventions.

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“ F. A . E . ( F r i e n d s A r e E v e r y w h e r e ) ” B y Anthony Queen and Casper Pauclul
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“ F. A . E . ( F r i e n d s A r e E v e r y w h e r e ) ” B y Anthony Queen and Casper Pauclul

Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is proud to present F.A.E. (Friends Are Everywhere), an exhibition by Anthony Queen and Casper Pauclul.

F.A.E. opens on Friday, April 2nd, 2021 with a reception from 3 - 7 PM. The show will be up through April, with a soft closing on April 18th - 19th. Gallery Hours will be on Sundays from 2 - 5 pm, or by appointment. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is located on 5006 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224.

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New exhibit, "New to the Collection", opens at CMOA

For the last 125 years, Carnegie Museum of Art has collected the art of its time, recording artistic innovation in our complex and ever-changing present moment. On the occasion of this significant anniversary, we are proud to present this snapshot of collecting activity with notable examples of contemporary art that have entered the collection since 2018.

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Woodville Plantation's 2021 Season is Beginning
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Woodville Plantation's 2021 Season is Beginning

We hope you are staying warm and that you've had a nice 2021 so far. Again, we want to extend our thanks to those that supported us in any capacity back in 2020 with it being the crazy year that it was.
When it came to events, other avenues needed to be explored and like many other
establishments, we down the path of virtual presentations. Even our sewing circles went online. Going virtual allowed us to extend our reach and also gave us new ideas on proceeding forward into the 2021 season.
This year, there will be a few

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Humaira Abid: Searching for Home  Gives Powerful Voice to Worldwide Refugee Crisis
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Humaira Abid: Searching for Home Gives Powerful Voice to Worldwide Refugee Crisis

Searching for Home—a solo exhibition of Seattle-based, Pakistan-born artist Humaira Abid—opens at Contemporary Craft on Friday, April 9 and runs through Saturday, August 21, 2021. This powerful exhibition presents a human-scaled look at the worldwide refugee crisis, focusing on women and girls, who make up a disproportionate percentage of the millions of people who have fled their home countries as a result of political conflict and strife, ethnic cleansing and persecution, domestic abuse, climate change and crimes against humanity.

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Handmade Arcade to host its first-ever hyperlocal marketplace for makers living and/or working in Allegheny County.
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Handmade Arcade to host its first-ever hyperlocal marketplace for makers living and/or working in Allegheny County.

Following the success of its inaugural virtual marketplace this past December, Handmade Arcade is thrilled to announce the launch of its first hyperlocal marketplace for makers in Allegheny County. This virtual event, which will run from April 30 through May 2, provides a new opportunity for locally-minded shoppers to connect with and support the resilient makers who face incredible challenges in maintaining business during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Miniature Railroad and Village NEW MODELS!
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Miniature Railroad and Village NEW MODELS!

Daisy Lampkin, a dynamic Pittsburgh woman who was a leader in the civil rights and women’s suffrage movements and who lived on Webster Avenue in Pittsburgh for most of her adult life is the Miniature Railroad & Village honoree in 2020. Mrs. Lampkin started her public career in 1912 and her priorities were organizing efforts to end discrimination against and oppression of all African Americans

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As we are living history NOW,  the Mckeesport Regional History and Heritage Center wants to hear from you.
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As we are living history NOW, the Mckeesport Regional History and Heritage Center wants to hear from you.

A Global Pandemic is something we all will remember for our entire lives, and we will pass down our stories to future generations.

What is your experience living in the time of COVID-19?

Send us an account (a picture, a video, an essay, a short story, a journal entry, a poem, a play, etc) of what life is like for YOU during this global pandemic.

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LIGHT IN TRANSMISSION Pittsburgh Glass Center’s First Neon and Plasma Exhibition Opens Feb. 5
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LIGHT IN TRANSMISSION Pittsburgh Glass Center’s First Neon and Plasma Exhibition Opens Feb. 5

Penn Avenue Arts District will soon be aglow when Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) flips the switch on its first neon and plasma exhibition on Friday, Feb. 5 called, “Light in Transmission: A Neon and Plasma Light Exhibition.” This exhibition is a survey of the diverse range of light art within the shared medium of both neon and plasma sculpture curated by Percy Echols II, an artist, creator of the podcast “Taming Lighting” and PGC’s first recipient of the Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination with Glass. Funded by The Fisher Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, this exhibition features the work of 16 artists and will be on view to the public in person and online through May 9, 2021 at Pittsburgh Glass Center.

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Building the Crèche
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Building the Crèche

The Pittsburgh Crèche, or nativity scene, is the only sanctioned replica of the crèche at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. This 66,000 pound piece of art has been a part of Pittsburgh's history and Christmas tradition for 22 years. Now, we take you behind the scenes as we see how this three story structure is assembled and meet the people involved in making it happen.

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Carnegie Museum of Art Presents  Diane Severin Nguyen's Tyrant Star as Third Installment of its Online Exhibition Series
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Carnegie Museum of Art Presents Diane Severin Nguyen's Tyrant Star as Third Installment of its Online Exhibition Series

Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) unveils Diane Severin Nguyen’s video work Tyrant Star (2019) as the third installment of its online exhibition series. The museum’s inaugural presentation of Tyrant Star corresponds with the museum’s acquisition of the artwork for its permanent collection. Now through February 14, 2021, audiences can experience Nguyen’s film on cmoa.org.

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Holiday Fun: History Center Extends Free Admission for Kids through December
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Holiday Fun: History Center Extends Free Admission for Kids through December

This holiday season, Western Pa. families can relive cherished memories and make new ones at the Senator John Heinz History Center. The “Smithsonian’s home in Pittsburgh” has announced that it has extended FREE admission for kids (age 17 and under) through the end of 2020, thanks to the support of community partner Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

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  History Center Museum Shop Offers Pittsburgh-Proud Holiday Gifts In-Store and Online
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History Center Museum Shop Offers Pittsburgh-Proud Holiday Gifts In-Store and Online

This holiday season, the award-winning Senator John Heinz History Center Museum Shop is a one-stop shop for uniquely Pittsburgh gifts.

Located at 1212 Smallman Street in the Strip District and online at shop.heinzhistorycenter.org, the History Center Museum Shop offers hundreds of one-of-a-kind gifts for the Pittsburgh fans on visitors’ holiday shopping lists.

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Major August Wilson archive acquired by the University of Pittsburgh
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Major August Wilson archive acquired by the University of Pittsburgh

The University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh has acquired the archive of the late playwright and Pittsburgh native son August Wilson, best known for his unprecedented American Century Cycle—10 plays that convey the Black experience in each decade of the 20th century. All 10 of the plays have had Broadway productions and two earned Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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