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Westmoreland Museum plans benefit brunch for the food bank
A holiday brunch featuring a spiked hot chocolate bar is planned Dec. 15 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Presented in partnership with the Westmoreland County Food Bank, the event will provide information on the food bank’s mission to end hunger in the region. Following the meal,...
Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery showcases work by East Suburban Artists League
All of this amazing art is in one place. It’s the East Suburban Artists League’s annual holiday season art show running through Dec. 27 in the Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery. Visitors can meet the artists from 6-8 p.m. Dec. 6. Tina Booth, art gallery coordinator, says the variety...
Bugging out with Catherine Giles at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
While in Honduras in 2017, Catherine Giles spotted an enormous Black Witch Moth and started to cry. But her tears weren’t caused by fear or repulsion, but pure love. The 27-year-old is a self-confessed “crazy bug lady.” “I’m into spiders and scorpions, too,” she says. “Ticks are cool as long...
Western Pa. resorts, museum, host light up, shopping events
Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley are lighting up and offering gift ideas this holiday season. Holidays in the Highlands Seven Springs Mountain Resort will present its fourth annual celebration Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 29 through Dec. 7. Motorists...
Scottdale house tour, West Overton holiday market to get you in the spirit
Area residents and visitors will have several upcoming opportunities to enjoy the holiday season in the Scottdale area. The West Overton Village and Museums hosts its annual free Homestead Holiday Open House and Market and the Scottdale Historical Society holds its annual Christmas House Tour, both on Dec. 7. Guests...
Southern Alleghenies Museum in Ligonier plans 3 art workshops
Both would-be and accomplished artists are invited to the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Ligonier for three upcoming workshops. The first two take place before the holidays, offering participants the opportunity to create handcrafted items suitable for gift-giving. The third comes afterward, promising a fun and relaxing afternoon in the...
Kaufmann’s clock unveiled at Carnegie Science Center mini railroad exhibitVideo
You won’t be able to meet under this Kaufmann’s clock. But it can still conjure up memories of waiting for a date under the recognizable timepiece. A replica of the department store, including the clock where people met for decades in Downtown Pittsburgh, is the latest piece to be installed...
Fred Rogers’ clothing will be on display at Heinz History Center
More than 20 items of Fred Rogers’ clothing from his beloved children’s show will be added to the Strip District’s Senator John Heinz History Center’s “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” exhibit, beginning Friday. The timing is right because the much anticipated “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” a film about Rogers starring...
Modern mummy, its maker give glimpse into Egypt’s past at Carnegie Science Center
For his ninth-grade science fair project, Ronn Wade mummified a rat. Years before that, he used a pig’s heart — which is similar in structure, size and function to its human counterpart — to explain the circulatory system to a classroom full of stunned elementary school students. In addition to...
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh board names 11th president
Steven Knapp, president emeritus of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., will become the 11th president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, according to a news release. Knapp is an English professor at the university, the release adds. He previously served as provost and senior vice president for academic...
Rewind Reuse Center in Export aims to turn odds and ends into arts and craftsVideo
Val Paulisick of Murrysville is a maker. She sees a box full of paper scraps and odds and ends, and begins imagining the possibilities. “I want to save things from ending up in the landfill,” she said. She wants others to do the same, which is why she opened the...
The Westmoreland opens shopping season with holiday martVideo
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art launches the holiday shopping season this weekend, with discounts, complimentary refreshments and gift wrapping. Dwi Bartlebaugh, shop manager since June, notes several local artists and makers have items for sale. She also is adding more items for children and jewelry and ornaments featuring nearby...
Saint Vincent students to show digital photography course work
Students in the Saint Vincent College Digital Photography and Post-Production course will display their work from Nov. 15 through Dec. 14 in the Saint Vincent Gristmill. The exhibition will kick off with a reception from 7-9 p.m. Nov. 15 in the facility on Beatty County Road near the Unity campus....
Annual regional art exhibition coming to Ligonier Valley museum
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Council for the Arts 24th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition opens Nov. 15 in the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley. On view through Feb. 2, the exhibition features work by artists from the 19 southwestern counties of Pennsylvania. Featured works will span a variety...
Compass Inn Museum plans holiday candlelight tours
Holiday candlelight tours through Laughlintown’s Compass Inn Museum will take visitors back in time. From 3 to 7 p.m. Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 7, 8, 14 and 15, docents in period attire will lead guests through the historic inn. “These tours focus specifically on the history of Compass Inn, the...
The Bone Forum opens winter jazz series at The Westmoreland
Kevin McManus and The Bone Forum will open the Winter Jazz Concert Series on Nov. 13 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. The Pittsburgh-based jazz trombone ensemble will play from 7-9 p.m. that evening at the Greensburg museum, 221 N. Main St. “On the second Wednesday of the every...
The Westmoreland plans evening of good food and conversation
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg is planning a relaxing evening of good food and conversation on Nov. 14. “SIX x ATE: West” will feature dinner from The Vandal in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville section, along with short talks by seven members of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, whose 107th...
Remembering heroes: Reenactors recreate slave uprising
LaPLACE, La. — To the beat of drums and the clip clop of horses’ hooves, the crowd of African Americans dressed in period costume marched down a street Friday in southeastern Louisiana, recreating the start of what became the largest slave uprising in U.S. history. Across the street, Claudine Ory,...
You Are Here gallery artists showing their work at WCCC
An exhibition featuring artists associated with Jeannette gallery You Are Here is running through Dec. 11 in the Science Innovation Center gallery at Westmoreland County Community College near Youngwood. “Included in the group exhibition are the ceramics of Mary Briggs, paintings by Dan Overdorff and Nora Thompson and the pop...
Get in the spirit with ‘Very Merry Pittsburgh’ at the Heinz History Center
There’s no place like Western Pennsylvania for the holidays. The region’s rich heritage and family traditions during the winter months will be celebrated in a new exhibition, “A Very Merry Pittsburgh,” opening Nov. 16 at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the city’s Strip District. Anne Madarasz, chief historian...
The Westmoreland celebrates season with light installation
As part of its Nov. 8 Art on Tap event, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will flip the switch on its first Winter Lights Installation. Art on Tap: Winter Lights is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. and will including strolling through an “immersive, ethereal light display,” according to...
Kaufmann’s added to Miniature Railroad exhibit at Carnegie Science Center
The Miniature Railroad & Village exhibit at the Carnegie Science Center turns 100 this year. To celebrate, the museum is adding a model of Kaufmann’s, the department store at the center of Downtown Pittsburgh for decades. “We thought that in terms of iconic symbols of Pittsburgh that really are memorable...
Latrobe Art Center plans ‘Polka Dots & Plaid’ auction fundraiser
Attendees have the opportunity to don artful outfits for Latrobe Art Center’s annual signature fundraiser, “An Evening in The Neighborhood XII: Silent & Live Auction.” “Polka Dots & Plaid” is the theme for the semi-formal event, scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 13 at Latrobe Country Club. “This fundraiser helps us...
Re-enactor, shoemaker plans Fort Ligonier presentation
Shoemaker and historian Brett Walker will return to Fort Ligonier, where he sometimes appears as a re-enactor and where he is working on a project to examine and catalog a large cache of mid-18th-century archaeological shoes. This time, at 6 p.m. on Nov. 8, Walker will present “St. Crispin’s Lance...
Carnegie Mellon University sophomore spins wool for 28 consecutive hoursVideo
This spinning performance lasted 28 hours, though not on a stationary bike. Isabel “Iz” Horgan, a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University, started spinning wool at 5 p.m. Friday at the student-run Frame Gallery on Forbes Avenue. She spun and spun until 9 p.m. Saturday. By the end, she had spun...
