The spring '23 Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is here! Free and open to everyone, this multi-venue "open house" showcasing Pittsburgh’s dynamic art and entertainment scene features 17 Crawl Stops. Join fellow arts lovers and discover new gallery exhibitions, enjoy live music, paint your own masterpiece, and dance at the silent disco event to keep the party going until midnight. Experience the vibrancy and energy of the Gallery Crawl - the liveliest night in the city!
Trap + Paint: Cultural Edition
Trust Arts Education Center
Create your own masterpiece in a painting session with instruction by local artist Kuwame Kinsel of BOOM Concepts, or contribute to the community mural with Max Gonzales and Shane Pilster. At the same time, jam to your favorite rap, trap, and R&B hits to celebrate the 50th anniversary year of hip hop! Painting sessions are offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Crawl After Dark: Silent Disco
SPACE Gallery | 10pm-midnight
Dance to the beat of DJ Samuel Andres, DJ QRX, and DJ Icey Pisces at the Silent Disco Party at SPACE Gallery! Silent Disco lets you choose whom to jam to with a simple flick of a switch. The blue, red, or green light on each headset shows what DJ other partygoers have in their ears. Dance along to the same song as your friends or tap into your own tune - the possibilities are endless.
Additional Crawl stops to enjoy include: Vinyl Happy Hour at Con Alma; A Night of Art at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center; the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership’s Night Market in Market Square; Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery including an evening of visual art, steelpan music, vendors, and family art activities; steelpan music, vendors, and family art activities; An Exhibition of Printmaking and Textiles created by students at Pittsburgh CAPA; Love, MuseumLab, a show of works made by students in Afterschool at Museum Lab on display at love, Pittsburgh; Fashion is Art, a joint mother-and-daughter arts pop-up at Fresh Nostalgia Boutique; Improv Comedy Shows at Arcade Comedy; Quesen x Kinsel - BIG PRINT SHOW, a wide-ranging collection of works by Pittsburgh artists Kinsel and Quesen at Quesen Art Studio; and Street Magic by Liberty Magic house magicians. Making their last Crawl appearance are the #notwhite collective 2016-2022 at SPACE Gallery and Exploration of COLOR 2.0: A Retrospective of Works by Jo-Anne Bates at 820 Liberty Gallery. Both exhibits will have live performances throughout the night from DJ HUNY XO and Madame Dolores at SPACE Gallery and the Dwayne Dolphin Trio at 820 Liberty Gallery.
WPTS Radio Local Music Showcase
Trust Arts Education Center
The University of Pittsburgh's student-run radio station, WPTS Radio, will showcase two live musical acts as they broadcast live on WPTS throughout the evening!
New Gallery Exhibitions
Multiple Locations
The spring Crawl includes three featured gallery exhibits making their Crawl debut: And, The Lord Spoke by Jacob Pesci at 937 Liberty Gallery, Vantage Points by United Visual Artists at Wood Street Galleries, and in spite of me, here you are by Steve Alexis at 707 Gallery.
