Live, Waste, Live at Future Tenant through May 30
Artist:
Marie Barcic
Artist Statement:
Through meaningful repurposing of decayed matter and abstracted images of the...
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To jumpstart our tour de Braddock that will be featured on Treading Art this week, here are a smattering of photographs that were taken from the exhibition ”Possible” that was on view earlier this month at Unsmoke Systems Artspace. Also thrown in the mix are a few others snapped from around the Unsmoke space. Appreciate the cleverness of the artwork above and tune back in every day this week for further features on Unsmoke as well as the community of Braddock.
As we have mentioned here before, Treading Art aims to support the Pittsburgh art and culture scene by not only highlighting the regions many treasures but also getting the word out about job and internship opportunities!
Read below to find out about INTERNSHIPS IN FIVE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS at the KELLY STRAYHORN THEATER in East Liberty::
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For further details, requirements, internship gain, and to fill out an application please visit the Kelly Strayhorn Theater webpage.
For employers, institutions and schools…if you have a position to fill or opportunities to share, let us know. We’d love to be of help in getting the good word out. Email us at info@treadingart.com
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Weekend Treadings of the cultural nature: some bites and sounds, some artistic expressions and whatever else you add to the mix.
THURSDAY, MAY 16th
We’re at it again with the second installment of our salon series. These private events bring together artists, creatives and most importantly, our readers. If you would like to receive an invitation to future salons and events, please sign up for our weekly events listing and newsletter.
Location disclosed upon reservation
Full capacity
Allow best-selling author and National Book Award winner, Nathaniel Philbrick, mesmerize you about Bunker Hill - the battle that brought war to the colonies and the revolutionary landscape it inhabited.
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall @ 6600 Forbes Ave - Oakland
6pm // FREE // registration required // book signing to follow
Mystery Lecture: Kathryn Miller Haines
The Lawrenceville Historical Society will host this mystery writer as she speaks about The Home Front During WWII. The writer used this period as the backdrop for her critically acclaimed Rosie Winter series.
Canterbury Place, McVey Auditorium @ 310 Fisk Street - Lawrenceville
7pm // FREE
FRIDAY, MAY 17th
Get your bike on and ride into work! BikePGH sponsored with hydration stations and swag bags all over town.
This year the National Society of Arts and Letters hosts its annual conference at Artist Image Resource where Pennsylvania artist of the year, Susan Kemenyffy, will talk about her work. Food and print activities will follow!
AIR @ 518 Foreland Ave - Northside
10am-12pm // FREE
Internationally renowned Chef Jamie Oliver started a global initiative to raise awareness about good food. Join local Pittsburghers, with family friendly events, chef competitions and great eating!
Various Locations
10am, 3pm, 5pm // FREE
- Treaders Choice -
After Hours @ The Library: Happy Hour
We bet you’ve never attended a party like this before, at a library! Live reggae from Freedom Band, Full Pint Beer, art from Tugboat Printshop, bourbon cocktail samples from 1947 Tavern, Marty’s Market desserts and mooore.
Carnegie Library @ 279 Fisk St - Lawrenceville
6-8pm // $40 // must purchase tickets in advance
To benefit Silver Eye, hundreds of 8X8 photographs, submitted from all over the world, will be up for sale at this party. VIP includes hor d’oeuvres and Wigle Whiskey cocktails then general admin offers music, photo booths, and food + drinks.
Silver Eye Center for Photography @ 1015 East Carson St - Southside
7pm vip, 8-11pm general // $15-25
SATURDAY, MAY 18th
Did you know you can harvest rainwater and reuse it in your garden? If this is something that might interest you, register for the workshop here!
Construction Junction @ 214 N Lexington St - Point Breeze
11am-12:30pm // $50 individual or $55 couple // includes needed hardware minus 55-gal. drum
With a climbing wall, fishing, boating, a river quest and more, celebrate the outdoors this weekend!
Point State Park
11am-6pm // FREE
PGH Photo Fair (5/18-19)
12 exhibitors from all over the world and country will set up shop for the weekend at the exceptional Unsmoke Systems. We think it’s time you tread your way out to Braddock for the afternoon.
Unsmoke Systems Artspace @ 1137 Braddock Ave - Braddock
12-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm // FREE
Yet again, the Mattress Factory produces an engaging Art Lab. This time - a black light booth is involved and participants are the artists!
Mattress Factory @ 500 Sampsonia Way - Northside
1-4pm // FREE w. admission
Join year two of this exciting and unusual fundraiser for Assemble. Up for auction is time spent with a local artists (15 to choose from) along with donated items. Also enjoy music, drinks and dancing!
6119 Penn Ave - East Liberty
7-10pm // $20
Enjoy a live poetry reading from artists Yona Harvey, Lori Wilson and Nancy Krygowski as part of Versify, East End Book Exchanges monthly poetry reading.
East End Book Exchange @ 4754 Liberty Ave - Bloomfield
7:30-9pm // FREE
SUNDAY, MAY 19th
Furious Gypsy Jazz & Soulful Klezmer
Join German clarinetist Susanne Ortner-Roberts, guitarist John Marcinizyn and Bulgarian accordionist Vladimir Mollov for an afternoon of exhilarating, toe-tapping fun!
3rd Street Gallery @ 220 Third St - Carnegie
3-4:30pm // $15 // BYOB
The Gospel Singer by C.S. Wyatt
Bricolage’s In the Raw series gives the opportunity to three local playwrights to work with a dramaturg to strengthen new work. Catch this piece about a cult-followed jazz performer who desires to switch paths to gospel singer.
Bricolage @ 937 Liberty Ave, 1st Fl - Cultural District
7pm // give-what-you-can at door
Do you know of any cultural happenings that weren’t listed this week? Don’t forget you can submit events to info@treadingart.com.
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Enjoy these photographs of Felipe Castelblanco’s new media and interactive artwork along with shots from his studio at CMU.
Thank you Felipe for letting us into your lair for the afternoon and sharing your inventive world with us!!
A few weeks back we had the pleasure of visiting with CMU MFA graduate (then in his last weeks as a student), Felipe Castelblanco, to talk about his art adventures and living in Pittsburgh. Besides being a full-time media artist he also works as an artist educator at the Warhol Museum, and when we sat down with him, he was days away from participating in Camagüey International Video Art Festival in Cuba.
Name: Felipe Castelblanco
Age: 27
Educational background: BFA, Visual Arts, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Where do you live currently? Friendship
A background on what Felipe was doing before CMU?
For nine years Felipe collaborated on the Venice Biennial of Bogota, an event that poked fun at the esteemed Italian Biennial. The biennial still occurs today in Colombia, his home state. This festival of sorts took place in a rough, working class Bogota neighborhood, named Venice, and boasted such satires as the French Bakery (think French Pavilion). Felipe pointed out this was more of a curatorial project for him versus producing his own art.
Another aspect of the Biennial was finishing a stalled community center project which turned into The Ephemeral Museum of Venice, also in Bogota. The museum was built atop the community center and artists were invited to create copies of famous artworks to be included in the museum collection. The temporary museum functioned just like others with traveling exhibitions and public programming in order to create visibility around the lack of such institutions and art classes in these kinds of neighborhoods. It gave attention back to the community center project that had remained unfinished for two years.
Favorite part of the CMU MFA program?
The people, everyone from the undergraduates to fellow working artists and the professors.
What do you like about Pittsburgh?
PGH is the perfect size for an artist. It is easy to navigate and easy to create a network, but it runs the risk of becoming insular. You only recognize certain artists.
Influential artists?
South American artists and Carsten Höller.
Art practice interests?
New media and museums. Felipe worked for a design studio post-BFA and was commissioned to created the first children’s interactive room at The Museum of the Bank of the Republic in Bogota. Felipe talked to us about how sometimes ideas are his medium, “ideas become the experience.”
Post-MFA desires and/or plans?
Teaching and applying for residences and making a living. He plans to keep working hard, and developing projects, including ones that are “appealing for institutions.”
Favorite Pittsburgh spots?
The Allegheny Cemetery (one of our favorites, too!) during the Winter. Bike Rides from Downtown to Bloomfield under the 31st Bridge; especially during work week hours. He gets a sense of freedom and intrigue from peering into the windows and lives of those at their cubicles.
An interesting point to end on is Felipe’s comment about how his “work was challenged by moving here.” We all can imagine how that would be, moving from South America to the rust belt region. But what Melissa and I appreciated (and so often get the chance to do with Treading Art) was his open mind and enthusiastic nature. Again, we’ve had the pleasure to be entertained for an afternoon by an interesting creative and introduced to a body of work we can’t wait to watch evolve.
Check back tomorrow for more photographs of Felipe’s work and studio!!
Calling all Treaders!
Just a reminder that the PGH Primary Election is exactly one week away on Tuesday, May 21st. Take advantage of this clever website and take a pledge to vote here! Then invite your friends and family to get involved by taking the pledge as well.
Happy political treading out there!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY!
Our love for students prevails! Remember Marie Barcic? She’s an artist who caught our eye when we were attending the CMU Senior and Junior Open Studios in December. She’ll be having a window exhibition showing at Future Tenant in downtown tonight through May 30th… We recommend you check it out.
