Emerging Artist Profile: John Lee
by Emily O'DonnellImaginary people dominate the paintings of John Lee, he calls them ‘Clohn People’ based off his brand Clohn Art. Wide eyes peer out of colorful faces in surreal scenes, and there is a chance you might find them looking up at you from a Pittsburgh street, when you least expect it. Lee’s work is a [...]
Anqwenique & the Groove Aesthetic Fuse Classical and Opera with the Local Jazz Scene
by Brandon GetzThe Groove Aesthetic isn’t a band. It’s a hodgepodge. With the Groove Aesthetic, Anqwenique Wingfield has created an artist collective that brings together a unique mix of performers and musicians, ranging from poets and dancers to classical symphonists and jazz trumpet masters. From blues and spoken-word to operatic arias, the group isn’t a band—it’s several [...]
Emerging Artist Profile: Celëne Petrulak
by Brandon GetzCelëne Petrulak’s pastels are a glimpse through the looking glass. In her artwork, her own wonderland comes to life as men row boats through women’s hair, girls breathe hummingbirds into being, and kraken mothers teach their daughters the proper way to sink a ship. Everything from trees to hair to the gondolier crow on a [...]
Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival Brings the World of Jazz to the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
by Brandon GetzPittsburgh JazzLive International Festival isn’t just putting Pittsburgh on the map—it’s putting Pittsburgh on the globe. Over two hundred musicians from around the world will descend on the Steel City on June 7, kicking off 72 hours of jazz, blues, funk, salsa, and soul. Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival, the city’s biggest jazz festival, is back [...]
Line-up Announced!
by Meredith FeingoldThe 2013 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival is quickly approaching with an exciting line-up full of performing art, visual art, and creativity in motion. The highly-anticipated 10-day celebration of the arts remains free and open to the public. This year’s Festival runs Friday, June 7 through Sunday, June 16 and opens with Riverlights at [...]
Emerging Artist Profile: Rose Duggan
by Brandon GetzThere is something on the horizon in Rose Duggan’s paintings. That something, more often than not, is a cloud. The 2013 Emerging Artist scholar’s Belvedere series riffs on this motif—flat cloud sitting on a flat horizon—in an explosive exploration of shape and color somewhere between Japanese landscapes and urban graffiti. In Belvedere (New), a bright [...]
We Are Makers
by Meredith FeingoldWe don’t just live, we make. Dale Dougherty, founder of MAKE magazine “The maker movement is a trend in which individuals or groups of individuals create and market products that are recreated and assembled using unused, discarded or broken electronic, plastic, silicon or virtually any raw material and/or product from a computer-related device.” –techopedia.com In [...]
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by Meredith FeingoldWith temperatures dropping into the single digits this month, it’s hard to imagine that soon enough you’ll be frantically digging out your summer wardrobe tucked underneath those winter cobwebs, or worse, trapped by a blockade of stink bugs. The countdown to spring is just a short 21 days away and a mere 114 days until [...]
SAVE THE DATE – Reopening of the Point State Park Fountain at the 2013 Arts Festival!
by Kristin GarbarinoYou’re invited to celebrate the grand return of the Point State Park Fountain on Friday, June 7, 2013! Save the date for a free evening of fun, entertainment and dazzling lights on the water. Be there when the 150-foot fountain is turned back on for the first time. Riverlights at The Point kicks off the [...]
Weekend 2 Artists Market Awards
by Kristin GarbarinoThis weekend $5,000 in cash awards were given to select Artists Market participants. Three Jurors–Adam Welch, Nicole Capozzi, and Melissa Kuntz–evaluated all of the work and handed out awards. An additional $5,000 in cash awards was handed out during the first weekend of the Artists Market, for a total of $10,000. Second Weekend Artists [...]