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PGH International Airport Call for Visual & Performing Artists
The Allegheny County Airport Authority (ACAA) accepts applications from individual artists or artist collaboratives for Rotating Art Installations at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Respondents are encouraged to submit work samples of 2Dimensional, 3Dimensional, Video and Installation work for display in various locations around the airport.
Silver Eye Announces New Lab
The Lab @ Silver Eye is expanding! Silver Eye is creating an Education Center where our growing community of photographers, artists, researchers, and art lovers can come together to create, learn, and connect.
Bunker Projects Announces Open Call for Residency
Our mission is to provide the resources and supportive environment emerging artists need to self-direct their artistic growth. Bunker Projects provides an immersive space for living, working, and exhibition alongside intimate cultural programming. By blending production, exhibition, and art interpretation, our programs center the work made by artists from diverse backgrounds in Pittsburgh.
Heinz History Center wins S.K. Stevens Award
The Pennsylvania Historical Association secured a PA Museums Institutional Award of Merit as part of our 2023 Special Achievement Awards, and PA Museums is also recognizing Senator John Heinz History Center with an S.K. Stevens Award for its exhibition on American Democracy.
Three Rivers Arts Festival Releases Featured Music Lineup
The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival returns this June for 10 days of free art and music! The featured concerts run the gamut this year, representing hip-hop, pop, funk, jazz, classical, rock, and more. Experience an incredible and diverse mix of celebrated musicians in the heart of the Cultural District—free and open to everyone.
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.
Dale Vaughn, founder of the community event SpaceBurgh which connects people to Pittsburgh's growing space industry, as well as the owner of space themed Space Bar, sits down with Brian Crawford to discuss the event, the bar, craft beer and hard hitting sci-fi questions.