Just Announced! Environmental Responsibility Plan and Events Schedule
2 May 2012 by Garbarino in 2012 Festival, Activities, Artists Market, Environment, Event, Featured, Music, Visual Arts
53rd Annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival 2012 June 1 – 10, 2012 – Point State Park | Cultural District | Hertz Gateway Center The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust proudly announces plans for the 53rd annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, set to take place Friday, June 1, to Sunday, June 10, 2012, in [...]
Emerging Artist Profile: Audra Azoury
14 May 2012 by Emily O'Donnell in 2012 Festival, Artists Market
The conjunction of nature and industry is what shapes the work of Audra Azoury. She is a local artist who specializes in jewelry and sculpture where these natural and man-made elements combine. Audra says that her love for art and nature has been intertwined since a young age, and that industry has always been a [...]
Local Talent, National Recognition in the Juried Visual Art Exhibition
14 May 2012 by Getz in 2012 Festival, Featured, Visual Arts
by Brandon Getz Juried art is back. Artists, public, professional and amateur appreciators: when it was swept into the shadows of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, you missed it. You wanted it back. And here it is, resurgent, esteemed as ever, and this time, regional. For seven years, the show abandoned in favor of a [...]
Gateway to the Arts in the Creativity Zone!
10 May 2012 by Emily O'Donnell in 2012 Festival, Activities, Featured
Gateway to the Arts works with 160 professional performing artists in the Pittsburgh area to bring art and arts education into local schools and communities. This year these artists will bring their talents to the Three Rivers Arts Festival to educate and inspire children of all ages in the Creativity Zone. Gateway to the Arts [...]
Insider ways to make biking to the festival easy with help from Bike Pittsburgh
7 May 2012 by Garbarino in 2012 Festival, Biking, Environment, Featured, News
by Richard Gartner More and more people bike to the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival every year, and the Festival is ready for it. This is the second year the Festival and Bike Pittsburgh have teamed up to offer free bike valet service for those getting downtown by bike. “Last year was the first [...]
Eclectic Art For Sale at the 2012 Artists Market
4 May 2012 by Getz in 2012 Festival, Artists Market, Featured, News
by Brandon Getz This year, the Artists Market, one of the best known and most visible parts of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, will spill into downtown. Booths will line Penn Avenue Extension and crowd the sidewalks of Gateway Center, bringing the throbbing heart of the festival right into the city. Over 300 [...]
Plein Air Rifle: ‘Girls ’N’ Guns’ explodes the Dutch Old Masters
3 May 2012 by Garbarino in 2012 Festival, News, Visual Arts
Girls ‘N’ Guns is an exhibit at 707 Penn Gallery that will be on display now through the end of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. It is presented through the Distinctively Dutch Festival. By Justin Hopper For the photographs in the exhibition Girls ’N’ Guns, Amsterdam-based photographer Rachel Nieborg had her finger on the shutter; her collaborator, [...]
Future Sailors: Navigating the Globe with Dutch Art
1 May 2012 by Garbarino in News, Visual Arts
Global Navigators is an exhibit spanning three galleries–Wood Street Galleries, SPACE, and 709 Penn Gallery–and will be on display now through the end of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. It is presented through the Distinctively Dutch Festival. by Justin Hopper In his video installation “Nummer Acht: Everything is Going to Be Alright,” Dutch [...]
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival is fast approaching!
23 April 2012 by Tom in Event, Featured, News
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s schedule for the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival lists the starting date as Friday, June 1, but swing by Gateway Center and Point State Park around 9pm on the Thursday before if you want to catch the activity when it really begins. 150 or so artists of the first session [...]
2012 Music Lineup
2 April 2012 by scalzott in Featured, Music
It’s time to mark your calendars! Clear the first 10 days of June! The 2012 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival featured music lineup is announced! As always, all concerts are free to the public and take place on the Dollar Bank Stage in Point State Park. And remember…the lineup of musicians represents just one [...]