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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.
Meadowcroft Set to Open Season on May 6th
Just an hour’s drive from Pittsburgh, Meadowcroft is a National Historic Landmark in Avella, Washington County, Pa. Visitors of all ages can explore the Rockshelter, an archaeological wonder where the region’s earliest inhabitants dwelled more than 19,000 years ago.
Crawford County Historical Society Celebrates Museums 180th Birthday
21,765 days ago, the Crawford County Historical Society made the purchase of a generation. Katherine Shryock Reynolds, one of the area's leading citizens, had passed away and her home, a time capsule of history, was available for sale to the Society.
Woodstreet to Open New Exhibit April 28th
Vantage Points brings together two works, Present Shock and Vanishing Point 3:1 #3, both concerned with perspective and perception and how we experience and try to make sense of the world around us.
Beaver Area Heritage Foundation awarded 2023 Institutional Award of Merit
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
Message from Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society President
In keeping with the mission of Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society to improve our facility organization, the position of Museum Facilitator has been updated to Museum Manager. The title and duties have been changed to allow further enhancement and preservation of Bushy Run Battlefield as an historical, educational and recreational resource for the community.
JAHA seeks staff members
JAHA has immediate openings for three part-time positions -- some weekends and evenings required. Interested? Email Deb Winterscheidt at dwinterscheidt@jaha.org.
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.
West Overton Museums celebrates 95 years by reopening museum's second floor.
On June 16, 1928, 500 visitors gathered in the yard of the 1838 Overholt home for the dedication of the “History House.” Henry Clay Frick’s daughter Helen oversaw and funded the transformation of the home into a historic site to feature the history of Westmoreland and Fayette Counties. Shortly after, the shuttered 1859 distillery was recommissioned as a museum.
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.
Pittsburgh’s public art could be likened to the city’s fingerprint. It is unique, celebratory of local voices, and a testament to its post-industrial landscape.
As public art invites everyone to interact with the creative spirit of Pittsburgh, The (New) Pittsburgh Exposition offers seven public art sites in and around the city that have helped define its civic art scene.