Art & Museums category, Page 31
Artists to discuss Westmoreland billboard project, which drew national attention
Two artists will discuss their involvement in the Diversity Billboard Art Project during a Jan. 14 virtual conversation hosted by The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Susanne Slavick are among 10 artists whose original commissioned work has appeared on billboards across Westmoreland County in a public...
Fort Ligonier offers virtual 12th Night celebration
The band will play on for Fort Ligonier’s Twelfth Night celebration, just not in person. One of the most popular programs at Ligonier’s reconstructed 18th-century fort, the fourth-annual Twelfth Night event will be held virtually on Jan. 9 because of covid-19 pandemic restrictions. “It’s one of our most favorite events,”...
Dad creates adventures in a box without leaving Beaver County home
Elliott Cramer was helping move a neighbor’s water heater when he had a revelation. Some might say it was out of the box — or, rather, inside a large cardboard box. “I thought, the cardboard box would make for a perfect rocket ship,” said Cramer, who was assisting a neighbor...
The Westmoreland’s online furniture series looks at a Chippendale desk
How much can you say about a desk? Pittsburgh-based designer Tony Allgeier can go on for at least 30 minutes. Granted, it’s not just any desk — it’s an 18th-century Chippendale mahogany slant-front desk that he’ll be examining during an online “For the Love of Furniture” program at 7 p.m....
The Westmoreland’s upcoming Community Day will be last for a while
Fans of Community Day programming at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art might want to make sure they join in the Jan. 3 virtual installment. Not only will it offer three hours of diverse programming, it also will be the last session for a while. “This will be the museum’s...
Sewickley artist Claire Hardy’s rose paintings will be in the background of ‘The Bachelor’Video
While drama is always in the forefront of “The Bachelor,” the background should interest Western Pennsylvania viewers when Season 25 of ABC’s romantic reality show starts Jan. 4. First, the season, starring suitor Matt James was filmed at Nemacolin Resort in Fayette County. Second, paintings by Sewickley artist Claire Hardy...
Carnegie Museum workers vote to join United Steelworkers union
Workers across the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh system have voted by a substantial margin to join the Pittsburgh-based United Steelworkers union. Out of the 529 employees eligible to vote, a total of 353 votes were counted. Of that number, there were 278 yes votes. The workers will become part of...
Latrobe woman wins Judges’ Choice award in state parks photo contest
A misty morning on the Youghiogheny River has earned a Latrobe woman an award in the Pennsylvania Parks and Forest Foundation’s “Through the Seasons” photo contest. Clare Kaczmarek, 68, won the Judges’ Choice award in the contest’s “Motion” category for her photo of the river running through a bed of...
Heinz History Center, Fort Pitt Museum temporarily closing
The Senator John Heinz History Center and Fort Pitt Museum in Pittsburgh will temporarily close due to new covid-19 restrictions. To comply with Gov. Tom Wolf’s latest covid-19 mitigation orders, the facilities will be closed to the public from Saturday through Jan. 3. “The health and safety of visitors, staff,and...
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art closes through Jan. 5
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will be closed beginning Saturday through Jan. 5. The Greensburg museum cited “recently implemented restrictions” that are part of the state’s reponse to the covid-19 pandemic for the closing. The museum is scheduled to reopen 10 a.m. Jan. 6, when the regular operating hours...
Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new exhibitions director has her own Pittsburgh history
Sarah Crawford is experiencing something of a homecoming in taking a post as director of exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section. The Flint, Mich., native studied at the former Art Institute of Pittsburgh from 2001-04, earning a degree in graphic design. One of the...
Holiday window display competition in Pittsburgh to support artists, causes
The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership is adding a twist to holiday window displays with a contest this season. “As a retail store, your window displays are one of the most important marketing tools you have,” said Suzanne Mauro, a Pittsburgh-based retail consultant. “They can make someone passing by, enter your store...
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh MuseumLab wins international design awardVideo
MuseumLab, the newest expansion of Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, was named Civic and Cultural Interior of the Year in the international Dezeen Awards 2020. Presented by the architecture and design website Dezeen, the award was revealed during an online presentation in November. The Dezeen Awards, now in its third year,...
Pittsburgh museums receive state grants for support during pandemic
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Carnegie Science Center and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh were among several local museums to receive grants to support them during the covid-19 pandemic. The three museums, along with the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, each received a $40,000 grant from the Pennsylvania...
Winners announced for Pittsburgh’s Gingerbread House Display and Competition, can vote for People’s Choice
Barbara Rothermel received a text message from her daughter Monica Gesk when she heard the City of Pittsburgh’s Gingerbread House Display and Competition was returning this year despite the pandemic. “She told me she had the perfect idea,” said Rothermel of Peters. “She said ‘Mom, we have to make the...
First piece in Penn-Trafford gallery commemorates masked Class of 2020
When art teacher Brenda Christeleit attended Greater Latrobe High School, she and other students had a chance to appreciate the district’s Art Conservation Trust. Established in 1991, the trust is a unique art collection, in that its 200 paintings are chosen by students. Today, Christeleit teaches in the Penn-Trafford School...
Museum Store Sunday offers deals on unique, curated merchandise
The weekend after Thanksgiving offers an array of shopping opportunities, from Black Friday to Small Business Saturday to Museum Store Sunday. On Nov. 29, about 1,600 museum stores across all 50 states and 24 countries will participate in this year’s edition of the special event, showcasing collections of items that...
Handmade Arcade marketplace goes virtual, adds classes, studio tours
Pittsburgh’s popular Handmade Arcade, a twice-yearly market featuring wares from cutting-edge craft-based artists, designers and makers, is going virtual. The winter marketplace is usually a Friday evening and all-day Saturday event in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Going online due to the pandemic just might have...
Sewickley Tavern showcases local history with works by 3 artists
Visitors to the Sewickley Tavern will find more than a hearty meal and a bracing beverage. From the minute they walk in the door of the recently opened upscale eatery, they’ll be surrounded by the work of three local artists. “When architect Nathan St.Germain first met with owner Courtney Yates...
Pittsburgh Carnegie Science Center’s Buhl Planetarium reopensVideo
See craters on the moon in a much clearer picture. That’s just one of the close-ups you can view inside the Carnegie Science Center’s updated Buhl Planetarium on Pittsburgh’s North Side. A multi-million dollar renovation was unveiled Tuesday. The attraction — the country’s fifth-oldest planetarium — will show more realistic...
Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
The Lincoln Highway Experience museum on Route 30 in Unity has joined forces with a community farther east on the historic highway to provide visitors a glimpse of Civil War-era life “On the Home Front.” The exhibit, on loan from the Bedford County Historical Society through Jan. 18, features a...
Drag queen art critics return for The Westmoreland’s online program
Drag performers know a thing or two about fashion, hair and makeup. Some of them also know a thing or two about fine art. Through their lush false eyelashes, Pittsburgh-based performers Alora Chateaux and Tootsie Snyder will take a look at works from The Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s permanent...
Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory sues insurer over pandemic closure claim
The Mattress Factory museum in Pittsburgh filed a federal lawsuit against its insurer last week, alleging that the company refused to cover the museum’s “catastrophic losses” caused by the covid-19 pandemic. To date, the complaint said, the contemporary art museum on the North Side has lost more than $600,000. “The...
Carnegie Science Center unveils latest model for its miniature railroadVideo
Dr. Earl Douglas Childs recalled visiting the Carnegie Science Center’s Miniature Railroad & Village as a young boy, when it was located at the Buhl Planetarium. The trains mesmerized him. On Tuesday, the grown man was drawn to something else. The miniature model of his childhood home was unveiled at...
Pittsburgh artist Ellen Chisdes Neuberg mulls life in Westmoreland exhibit
Are you puzzled by the state of the world? You’re not the only one. Artist Ellen Chisdes Neuberg turned her “lack of understanding about what’s going on in the world” into an exhibition opening Friday in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. “Living a Life … A Puzzlement,”...
