UnSmoke Systems Artspace

Pittsburgh’s Second Annual Art Fair for Photography

We are pleased to announce PGH Photo Fair, Pittsburgh’s first art fair promoting the discussion of photography within the contemporary and fine art market. PGH Photo Fair will host twelve internationally known dealers to exhibit museum-quality prints and photo-based art spanning the history of the medium, from nineteenth-century vintage prints to contemporary photography, as well as photographic books and photo-based magazines. The two-day event will be held at Unsmoke Systems Artspace in Braddock, PA. 

PGH Photo Fair founder Evan Mirapaul, a Pittsburgh-based photography collector, described this year’s event as growing in many key ways. “Building on the successes of our first year, we haven’t just doubled our numbers of exhibitors,” said Mirapaul. “The scope of galleries we will be hosting has expanded as well.” 

This expanded scope means greater internationalism and historical breadth. In addition to Stephen Bulger Gallery from Canada, PGH Photo Fair welcomes Next Level Projects from London and Only Photography from Berlin. 

Returning this year are Gitterman Gallery and L. Parker Stephenson, both specializing in classic and mid-century work. But the time line has expanded in both directions. New, and with a very strong representation of the best in contemporary photography, are Higher Pictures and Sasha Wolf Gallery. In nineteenth-century works the excellent program of Gary Edwards Gallery is expected from the DC area as well as Winter Works on Paper, a trailblazer in showing the best in vernacular photography. Rounding out the roster with books, limited edition prints and magazines are newcomers from Blind Spot, and returning exhibitors Aperture Foundation and Spaces Corners, all with compelling programs of contemporary work.

“Above all, my goal is to present Pittsburgh with the highest quality photographic work available for sale anywhere at any price,” says Mirapaul. “There will be rare books, limited editions, one of a kind prints, and a full range of photographic processes. Really there is something for anyone interested in the medium of photography.”

PGH Photo Fair will be held Saturday May 18 and Sunday May 19, 2013 at Unsmoke Systems Artspace at 1137 Braddock Avenue, Braddock, Pennsylvania. Entry to the fair will be free and open to the public from 12 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 18, & 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 19. Check www.pghphotofair.com for information and updates.

Food will be generously provided by Kevin Sousa and Salt of the Earth. Among the many delicious offerings, the onsite brick oven will be turning out made-to order pizzas, and Union Pig and Chicken will be roasting whole pigs. 

For media inquires or visual materials, contact: Evan Mirapaul: info@pghphotofair.com or 646-436-4698. 

Opening reception Friday, May 10th!

“To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.” - Tom Robbins

Possible is a collection of works that aim to question the bounds of impossible material construction and physicality in art making. These selected pieces stretch the limits of the medium they were created with, using traditional materials in nontraditional ways and using nontraditional materials to create something truly magical. The creators of these works activate their media in unexpected and newfangled ways.

Stand by the road and hold out your thumb. It sounds easy, but hitchhiking is a world of danger, exhaustion, freedom. To bum a ride is to give in to fate— and participate in a great American tradition.

"Faster Than Walking,” an interactive multimedia installation comprising new work by Lindsey Peck Scherloum and painting by Sarah Leavens, opens Saturday, April 6th from 6pm – 9pm at Braddock's UnSmoke Systems Artspace. The event also includes pie baked in Braddock’s community brick oven at the UnSmoke site. Admission is free.

This exhibit is a series of installations using photography, video, sculpture and painting to explore the freedom of travel and the emotional impact of the US highway system. The exhibit documents ten years of hitch-hiking in America with evocative experiential pieces that bring intimacy with strangers, as seen through profiles of people who pick up hitch-hikers; and a sense of the spaces we ignore while traveling in cars. At a time when environmental impact and carbon footprints are in public debate, car culture, and the environments created to support it, still dominates American lifestyle. Fusing narrative and images in multimedia environments the audience can enter, artists Lindsey Scherloum and Sarah Leavens collaborate on installations designed specifically for the gallery at UnSmoke Systems.

Lindsey Peck Scherloum works in sculpture, photography installation and performance that explores human relationships with objects and the impact of space on emotion and behavior. Her work blends visual and written narrative with interactivity on environmental and temporal levels, and likes to explore the spontaneous reactions created by public settings. She holds a BA in art and anthropology from NYU's Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Study, and an MFA in creative writing from Chatham University. She has shown in Gallery A and Edward Thorpe Gallery in New York City, Garage Gallery in Rockville, MD, Transmission Gallery in Albany, CA and Most Wanted Fine Art in Pittsburgh. Past projects have also included the Traveling Puppet Fias Co. (2004) and The Mississippi River Project (2008). Her work has appeared recently in Weave Magazine, Mudthroat Records, The Fourth River and Hot Metal Bridge. For more information visit her website www.AMapOfUs.com

Sarah Leavens is a writer and visual artist interested in the overlap between images, words, and acts of creating. Content and context. Gray area. Flux. Leavens is the current “Out of the Forge” writer-in-residence in Braddock, PA. Her recent work has appeared in Stone Highway Review, The Diverse Arts Press and Blast Furnace and is forthcoming from Weave and So to Speak. She received her MFA in Nonfiction and Poetry from Chatham University in 2012 and her BFA in oil painting from Wittenberg University in 2006. She teaches visual art and writing in Pittsburgh. Read more at sarahleavens.com

In addition to the opening, the work will be on view by appointment through April 28th. Please email unsmoke@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30TH

8PM -11PM

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

BYOB (BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER) IS A SERIES OF ONE-NIGHT EXHIBITIONS HOSTING ARTISTS AND THEIR PROJECTORS. 

THE EVENT, TITLED TBA/BYOB, WILL BE A USER-GENERATED AD-HOC EXHIBITON, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE GALLERY, PRESENTING AS MANY GIFS, MOVS, AND OTHER VARIOUS MOVEMENT BASED MEDIA AS POSSIBLE.

TO PARTICIPATE, SIMPLY COME PREPARED WITH A FULLY CHARGED LAPTOP AND EXHIBIT WHATEVER CONTENT YOU LIKE. ACQUIRING A PROJECTOR IS NOT NECESSARY BUT HELPFUL, AS THERE WILL BE A FINITE NUMBER AVAILABLE.

INTERESTED ARTISTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THEIR OWN PROJECTORS, ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTACT PATRICK QUINN AT aduulterie@gmail.com. PLEASE SHOW UP AT 7PM IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE.

CONFIRMED LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Kevin Clancy | Julie Mallis | Dan Wilcox | Isla Hansen | Craig Fahner | Steve Gurysh | Felipe Castelblanco | Luke Loeffler | Carl Bajandas | Elizabeth Buschman | Lucia Nhamo | Jingjing Chen | Matthew Torti | Amalia Ulman | Daniel Temkin | David Dao Ellena | Morgan Higby-Flowers | Jon Cates | Alfredo Salazar-Caro | Kevin Carey | Shawne Holloway | Anthony Dunn | Bryan Peterson | Nick Kegeyan | A Bill Miller | Patrick Quinn | Daniel Mazzocco | Jenna Kelly 

TBA/BYOB WILL ALSO FEATURE MUSIC BY:

Soundcloud.com/yxu (Braddock, PA)

SON OF DAVID (Pittsburgh, PA), and

dither d00m (Chicago, IL). 

ONCE AGAIN, EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO COME AND PARTICIPATE//

BYOB IS AN IDEA BY RAFAEL ROZENDAAL. THE FIRST EDITION OF BYOB WAS INITIATED BY ANNE DE VRIES & RAFAEL ROZENDAAL IN BERLIN. 

THIS EVENT IS CO-ORGANIZED BY PATRICK QUINN AND A. BILL MILLER.

A. BILL MILLER

ARTIST STATEMENT

We exist within a built environment that is constantly mediated by the grid. Grids organize space through coordinate mapping and patterns of development. Grids compress, redisplay, and reorder information. Grids are an enforcement system imposed upon both nature and culture. I respond to this ubiquity by creating gridworks. These forms examine the blurred boundary between the machine and the human - the tool of data collection and the interpretive mind.

BIO

A. Bill Miller, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, at Penn State Altoona earned his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His nationally and internationally exhibited works include his acclaimed Gridworks Project, which comprises abstract ASCII drawings, animated GIFs and videos, as well as live audio/visual performances.

SITE

http://www.master-list2000.com/abillmiller

PATRICK QUINN

Technology, and more specifically computer culture, is typically associated with organized interfaces, efficient, high-resolution screens and, particularly in the context of Western civilization, the problematic notion of “progress”. I attempt to challenge the utilitarian purpose of the interface, and problematize certain notions intrinsically tied to Internet culture. I investigate the digital, appropriative archive as not only a collection of media artifacts, but also as a subversive mechanism and agent for channeling social unrest. To me, this subversion, an attempt at re-structuring technological hierarchies and processes, encapsulates the essence of civil disobedience in the twenty-first century.

I am connected internationally through darknets, deaddrops, sneakernets, USB drives, tumblrs, noise shows, mixtapes, and to other like minded End Tyyymes-Aware artists and musicians//

Keywords:

Dither d00m

Pixel fetish

Digital goth

A collaborative installation by artists Keith Lemley and Taryn McMahon

Opening Reception

Saturday, November 17th 

6-9pm

FREE

Artists Keith Lemley and Taryn McMahon are merging two ongoing bodies of work, Lemley’s Dreams of an Ideal and McMahon’s Every Flower is Susceptible of Cultivation, to create a collaborative installation at UnSmoke. This exhibition intermixes the artists’ shared interests in the tension between natural and manmade constructions. Imagining the fate of a place that has been abandoned and reclaimed, McMahon and Lemley visualize a post-apocalyptic flower garden with neon light, screen-printed and cut Mylar and paper, and other found objects. The resultant installation, entitled Sweetness and Light, creates hybrid forms of simulated biological systems and idealized archetypes of industrial design.

In addition to the opening, the work will be on view by appointment through December 16th. Call 415.518.9921 or email unsmoke@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.

Keith Lemley grew up on a small ancestral farm in Pennsylvania, an experience that stimulated his early interest in the connection between the natural and man-made.  Following his undergraduate studies at The Pennsylvania State University, he received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Lemley has been awarded several residencies and grants, including Sculpture Space in Utica, NY, and an Iowa Arts Grant.  His artwork has been featured nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC; 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; and 210 N. Wells, Chicago, IL.

www.keithlemley.com

Taryn McMahon received her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was a recipient of the Leola Bergmann Graduate Fellowship and a Graduate Teaching Assistantship.  She has held artist residencies at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO; Anchor Graphics in Chicago, IL; Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY; and the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS.  She is the recipient of a Southern Graphics International Graduate Fellowship Award, and a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award through the Women’s Studio Workshop.  Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA; Islensk Grafik in Reykjavik, Iceland; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY; Dubuque Museum of Art in Dubuque, IA; and Springfield Museum of Art in Springfield, MO, among others.   McMahon’s prints can be found in collections around the world including the Art in Embassies Program, Reykjavik, Iceland; Southern Graphics Council International Print Collection; Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL; University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY.

www.tarynmcmahon.com

Sculpture exhibition by Wisconsin-based artists Aris Georgiades and Gail Simpson

Opens Saturday, October 13th

6pm- 9pm

Free

Aristotle Georgiades and Gail Simpson are sculptors who work individually and as part of the collaborative team Actual Size Artworks.

In Not Like I Remembered, Aris Georgiades will exhibit a large architectural sculpture inspired by the bridges & rivers of the Pittsburgh area, and what they meant to the local economy when he was growing up here. He will also exhibit work using salvaged woodwork and building materials. Gail Simpson will exhibit a group of sculptures using cast-off toys and lawn ornaments of the type that appear in peoples’ yards at holidays. Simpson’s work produces a kind of idiosyncratic and illogical form that looks both humorous and bizarre.

In addition to the opening, the work will be on view by appointment through November 2nd. Call 415.518.9921 or email unsmoke@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.

Of his sculptures featured in Not Like I Remembered, Georgiades says:

 “Much of my work involves objects made up of common materials. Some of the objects use material that has been salvaged from one life and given another. There are also works that use existing objects and re-purpose them into expressive sculptural forms. Most of these sculptures make reference to our continuous desire to move through life with purpose. I see these repurposed objects as a metaphor for our human need to adapt and change directions when confronted with obstacles or failures. Often the objects and materials I use are approaching obsolescence. I see a relationship between some of these objects and the situation in which many American workers, especially in the rust belt, have found themselves. We often find that we are no longer useful and there is a need to reinvent oneself in order to survive and move forward.”

Simpson explains her work by saying:

“I’m especially interested in combining objects from different decades – I’ve been able to obtain objects that people seem to have had in their garages for 20 or 30 years, and juxtaposed with more current versions of the same objects (snowmen, bouncy horses and jack-o-lanterns, for example) some very striking coincidences appear. The space outside our homes or apartments is both private and public – it is meant for use by the residents, but we often characterize it with objects that say something to the community about who we are, much as a bumper sticker or yard sign does. A nativity scene communicates one thing, pink flamingos another. Conflicting impulses towards individuality and conformity often appear together.”

Aris Georgiades is originally from the Pittsburgh area. He has an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from University of Michigan. In addition to public art projects, he makes smaller-scale sculptures using salvaged building materials and objects. These often relate to issues of adaptability and the changing nature of work, and ask questions about usefulness and ambition. http://www.arisgeorgiades.com/

Gail Simpson has an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She has exhibited temporary projects around the United States and Europe. Her recent projects reflect her interest in landscape materials and the built and natural environment and her involvement with local community issues. Actual Size Artworks has done public art projects in Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Kansas, North Carolina, Illinois and other locations nationally. http://www.gailsimpsonsculpture.com/

Both artists reside in Stoughton, Wisconsin and teach at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

For more about Actual Size Artworks, see http://www.actualsizeartworks.com/

Photos of all work by Jim Escalante.

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

7pm - 10pm

Readings will begin at 8:30pm

$7 admission

The 4th annual Wood-Fired Words will feature readings by: Sean Thomas Dougherty, Braddock’s 2013 Into the Furnace Writer-in-Residence; Sarah Leavens, Braddock’s current Out of the Forge Writer-in-Residence; and Salvatore Pane, author of the forthcoming novel Last Call in the City of Bridges, published by Braddock Avenue Books.

The event will also include The East End Book Exchange pop-up used bookstore, paintings by local artist Anna E. Mikolay, and wood-fired pizza baked in Braddock’s community pizza oven (with special chef appearance by Kevin Sousa).  Drinks are BYOB, and an ongoing potluck will occur inside the gallery.

More details about participating writers, artists, organizations and programs are available below.

Into the Furnace is a writer-in-residence program in Braddock, PA. The selected writer is housed in a two-room suite in the former St. Michael’s parochial school convent, which is located beside UnSmoke Systems Artspace, across the street from the Edgar Thompson Works, and beside the community pizza oven. Into the Furnace offers an adventuresome creative person, whose work and work ethic can benefit from the energy Braddock has to offer, up to 9 months of creative work time at our urban residency. http://www.intothefurnace.wordpress.com

Out of the Forge is a new writing residency for post-MFA graduates held in conjunction with the Into the Furnace residency. It allows time and space for an emerging writer to focus on his/her craft as well as engage with the Braddock community. Housed in the convent building next to UnSmoke for 6 to 9 months, the writer-in-residence becomes part of the heart of Braddock’s burgeoning literary community.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of thirteen books across genres including the forthcoming All I Ask for Is Longing: Poems 1994- 2014 and Scything Grace. He is the recipient of two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry and a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans. Known for his electrifying performances, Dougherty has performed at hundreds of venues, universities and festivals across North America and Europe. He has worked as a lecturer, in factories, warehouses, as a security guard, in a bakery, a sawmill, and as a teacher of at-risk youth. He currently works at a pool hall and teaches creative writing part-time at Cleveland State University.

Sarah Leavens received her MFA in Poetry and Nonfiction from Chatham University, where she served as the Margaret Whitford Fellow. While at Chatham, she organized the monthly reading series Word Circus in collaboration with Most Wanted Fine Art Gallery and earned certificates in the Pedagogy of Creative Writing and Travel Writing. Originally from the middle of four cornfields in Indiana, she has lived at length in Ohio, where she coordinated an arts outreach program for at-risk youth and families in Springfield, and served as Vice President for the Yellow Springs Arts Council. Her recent work has appeared in Fourth River and Weave; she teaches writing and visual art in Pittsburgh.

Salvatore Pane was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His novel, Last Call in the City of Bridges, will be published by Braddock Avenue Books this fall. His chapbook, #KanyeWestSavedFromDrowning, is forthcoming from NAP. He is an Assistant Professor of English Creative Writing at the University of Indianapolis. His fiction has been nominated or shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web, and Wigleaf’s Top 50 [Very] Short Fictions. He won the 2010 Turow-Kinder Award in Fiction judged by Stewart O’ Nan with an excerpt from his novel. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Short Fiction, Hobart, PANK, Annalemma, BOMB, The Rumpus, HTMLGIANT, The American Book Review, and many other venues. http://salvatore-pane.com/

Braddock Avenue Books is an independent literary press dedicated to publishing both new and established writers and graphic artists whose work engages honestly and meaningfully with contemporary circumstances. Braddock Avenue Books especially supports writers using literary fiction, the long-form essay, or graphic fiction and nonfiction for serious explorations of what it means to be alive today. Founded by local writers Jeffery Condran and Robert Peluso in 2011, Braddock Avenue Books is located in Braddock, PA.

http://www.braddockavenuebooks.com/

Sherrie Flick is author of a novel, Reconsidering Happiness (Bison Books), and the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume). Select anthologies include Flash Fiction Forward (Norton), New Sudden Fiction (Norton), and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. She has received fellowships from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A recipient of a 2011 Work of Art Award for Artistic Vibrancy from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, she teaches at Chatham University and (for 10 years) served as Artistic Director for the Gist Street Reading Series.  Sherrie was instrumental in the creation of the Into the Furnace writing residency program.  http://www.sherrieflick.com

The East End Book Exchange was founded in the summer of 2011 on two simple ideas: love of books and love of Pittsburgh.  It is a pop-up used bookstore dedicated to connecting booklovers and books in the heart of Pittsburgh’s East End.  Each weekend, The East End Book Exchange appears in a community space or local business in a different neighborhood.  http://www.eastendbookexchange.com

Anna E. Mikolay is a painter and installation artist who lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She received a BFA from Edinboro University and maintains a studio space at Unsmoke Systems Artspace, in Braddock, PA. Upcoming Pittsburgh exhibitions include New Paintings at Concept Art Gallery, a site-specific installation at Future Tenant Gallery, and a solo exhibition at Unsmoke Systems Artspace. Recently, she was an artist in residence at the New York Student Art League's Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill, NY and a fellow with the 2011 Flight School Fellowship, Pittsburgh Filmmakers in Partnership with Creative Capital. Recent projects include, The Space Between, a solo exhibition at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, an installation for the 8 Hour Project, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA and paintings in the show, Minimalism in The 21st Century at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. http://www.annamikolay.com

Solo exhibition featuring paintings by Anna E. Mikolay

Opens Saturday, September 15th, 2012

7pm - 9pm
Free

Mikolay’s paintings use color fields, subtle marks, grids and geometric shapes to explore the idea of nothingness and the spaces beneath the perpetual hum of day-to-day existence. Activating Space: New Works also explores the idea of the painting as an object, a space activator and an optic stimulator. 

“If the world and everything therein was a symphony, than my paintings would be the “rests” in the score. They examine how a sliver of silence can permeate and expand at a given moment in time and ripple through the eye of the beholder.” - Anna E. Mikolay

In addition to the opening, the work will be on view by appointment only through October 6th. Call 412-865-9051 or email aemnow@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.

Anna E. Mikolay is a painter and installation artist who lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She received a BFA from Edinboro University and maintains a studio space at Unsmoke Systems Artspace, in Braddock, PA. 

Upcoming Pittsburgh exhibitions include New Paintings at Concept Art Gallery, a site-specific installation at Future Tenant Gallery, and a solo exhibition at Unsmoke Systems Artspace. Recently, she was an artist in residence at the New York Student Art League's Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill, NY and a fellow with the 2011 Flight School Fellowship, Pittsburgh Filmmakers in Partnership with Creative Capital. Recent projects include, The Space Between, a solo exhibition at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, an installation for the 8 Hour Project, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA and paintings in the show, Minimalism in The 21st Century at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. www.annamikolay.com

The Spacebuster, an enormous translucent plastic bubble that is both an art intervention and a mobile community gathering space, is coming to Braddock on Wednesday, September 12th from 7pm to 10pm. Admission to this family-friendly event will be free.

The Spacebuster will be placed on the 600 block of Braddock Avenue in downtown Braddock.

Come gather in and around the mobile inflatable structure. DJ Chevy and DJ Dave Zak will provide the beats while the best BBQ around will be available courtesy of Union Pig & Chicken. Meet your neighbors, bring your friends, have some bites, and enjoy hanging out inside a huge bubble.

The Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure designed by Raumlabor in 2009 and commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture to transform public spaces of all kinds into points for community gathering. Flint Public Art Project is launching the Spacebuster through the region as a part of its Congress for Urban Transformation, a research- and- urban engagement-based conference taking place in Flint through Oct. 28. Storefront for Art and Architecture has kindly loaned the Spacebuster for this event. For more information about The Spacebuster, visit http://www.raumlabor.net/?p=1799 or http://flintpublicartproject.com/.  

The Braddock event is presented in partnership with Unsmoke Artspace and Braddock Redux.

Special Thanks to:

Kevin Sousa

DJ Chevy

DJ Dave Zak

Albert Boss

Opens Saturday, August 11th

7-10pm
free

Join us for a night of merriment when 17 local artist/carnies bring the midway to Braddock with playable art pieces, stickjoints, performances, and a sugar shack! Wonder in amazement at the psychicbooth, take aim at the shooting gallery, or test your skill at tipsy bottles. Fun times for the whole family!

Shawn Watson will DJ a carnival-esque set. 

Participating artists include:

Liz Heller
Mary Tremonte
Alex Williams 
Carolyn Kelly 
Jake Reinhart 
Teresa Martuccio 
Jen Cooney
Mike Budai
Bill Rodgers
Jacob White
Heather White
Jennifer Rockage
Colin Matthes
Adrienne Rozzi 
Paul Bergeron
Caldwell Linker
Matt Smith 
..and, maybe more!

In addition to the opening, the work will be on view by appointment only through the end of August.

Opening reception Friday, June 15th, 2012 

7pm
FREE

Tired of your old apps? Find yourself longing for a software update? Log on and upload yourself to UnSmoke Systems in Braddock for a night of FREE and UNINHIBITED interactive app fun for all on June 15! THE APP EXPO presents sculpture, paintings, performance and more to peak your metafile curiosity. Take advantage of never-before-seen cardboard operating systems, repurposed internet design, applied scientific informatics, binary homepage installations and lots of hard-disk handshaking.

Boolean operators Ashley Andrews and Ashley Andrykovitch present THE APP EXPO, featuring apps by the following team of technological know-howists and modulation makers: Tommy Bones, Nina Barbuto, Ciarán Ó Conaire and Kristina Paris, Tirzah DeCaria, Mike Ferchak, Erika Johnson, Barbara Moore, Caitlyn Hogan, Sara Remaley, and Gabe Felice.

Live and simulated bandwidth performances by Brooklyn-based dance-rock band Daddy, DJ Jordan K, and Pandemic DJ’s to jumpstart your gigabytes.

July 1 - 15, 2012

www.beautifulpossibilitytour.com

Beautiful Possibility is a traveling exhibition and research project by Alison Pebworth that takes the nomadic experience of 18th and 19th century itinerant explorers and traders, and the traveling culture of Medicine Shows and Chautauquas as inspiration for engaging others about what it means to be American. The project launched from Southern Exposure in San Francisco in April 2010, for a seven-month tour from California to the Dakotas (including parts of southern Canada). In April 2012 Alison will embark again upon a ten-month tour from Minnesota to the East Coast to complete a self styled “Reverse Migration of Manifest Destiny.” 

As she travels Pebworth playfully assumes multiple roles as explorer, historian or social scientist to engage strangers about cultural viewpoints, historic remnants and regional eccentricities. Along the way she will be looking at the legacy of the claims made on the land and people, for good and bad. She will visit Indian Reservations, declining industrial cities, urban cultural centers and rural utopian experiments. Pre-scheduled venues in over 10 states will host her traveling exhibition of hand painted map and banners that re-tell American history by integrating hidden histories with popular myths. Each venue serve as headquarters for local investigations. Her research will lie in collecting opinion surveys on a reconstituted 19th century ailment once popularly known as Americanitis, and conducting social experiments with local participants. The journey is documented as she travels on the Beautiful Possibility website. Learn more about the venues and line up of events at www.beautifulpossibilitytour.com.

Opening Reception Friday, May 11, 2012

6 - 9pm

FREE
Through June 3, 2012
www.voiceofrationalbeing.us

(Voice of rational being), a two person exhibition featuring the work of Aaron Meyersand Justin Sorensen, will open on Friday, May 11th. The opening will include a continuation of Meyers' performance piece, It Must Be Nearly Finished. 

Both Meyers and Sorensen investigate existential questions through their processes. Their final products include meticulously crafted sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs, and ephemeral actions. Meyers' and Sorensen's works are not only united by their conceptual questions, but also by their minimal, poetic aesthetics. 

The title of the exhibition is a stage direction from Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Endgame—thus the parenthesis and italicization. A large portion of the play has been appropriated and transformed into the artists' joint statement, which can be viewed atwww.voiceofrationalbeing.us.

Aaron Meyers, originally from Pittsburgh, PA, received his BS in Mathematics from Bucknell University in 2010 and will begin a MFA program in Sculpture + Extended Media from the University of Texas, Austin this fall.www.aaronmeyers.us

Justin Sorensen, originally from Warren, PA, received his BFA in Studio Art from Kutztown University in 2009 and is currently an MFA candidate in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. www.justinsorensen.us

Opening Reception and Zine Release Party 

Saturday April 7th 
7:00pm - 11:00pm
FREE
Music provided by DJ Shawn Watson, beverages provided by brillobox.

Shutterclank!, in conjunction with UnSmoke Artspace and OneGiantArm present Between Day Jobs and Hangovers. The group show brings together five photographers examining what it means to live a creative life in spite of the daily grind.

Finding the balance between what you want to do and what you have to do is something that everyone is familiar with. The photographers in this exhibit each take their own personal approach towards this subject.

San Francisco based photographer, Bill Daniel is a Guggenheim fellowship award winner. His photos focus on a small collective of artists from New Orleans. While their performance space appears to be in a state of development, their community and passion for their performance is certainly established.

Joe Williams and Tommy Sussex founded the U.K. based photo project OneGiantArm. These two photographers, still in their early 20s, focus their attention on gritty street images; addicts seeking their daily buzz and BMX riders in search of their next obstacle.

Jake Reinhart and Chris Schuster grew up together in Pittsburgh. Chris, who is currently living in Memphis, uses his camera to examine the difficulties he has had in his own personal relationships. Whereas Jake expresses a sense of optimism through his im- ages of a young couple, who as tattooers, balance the responsibilities of running a small business with their independence and creativity as artists, These two photographers founded Shutterclank! photography magazine as a way to share their photographs and to collaborate with photographers from all over the world.

A group exhibition featuring painting by Mariana Escribano, sculpture by Dee Briggs, and photography by Ross Mantle

Opens Saturday, March 24th, 2012 
5pm – 9pm
FREE

SNAPSHOT features the work of three artists who are all passing through time and space together in Braddock. They each have taken a snapshot of their work through the lens of their relationship to Braddock and the Mon Valley. Escribano, a native of Mexico City, currently lives in Braddock, Briggs' steel sculptures were fabricated in our community, and Mantle has worked extensively in the Mon Valley and previously exhibited in our space.

The event is the first of the season at UnSmoke Systems Artspace and will feature free drinks and wood-fired pizza baked in Braddock’s community pizza oven. After the opening, SNAPSHOT will be available to view through April 1st by appointment only. 

Unrelated to SNAPSHOT but also on the evening of March 24th, Karina Goulordava and Sean Neely will present their video installation, I Am Palestine, in UnSmoke’s outdoor courtyard. For more information, about I Am Palestine, click here.

Mariana Escribano lives and works in Mexico City, where she has painted since 1996. The last seven months, she has created a new series of paintings while living in Braddock, PA, directly across from the last major steel mill in Pittsburgh, the Edgar Thompson Works. Combining fragments of figures found in the industrial landscape around her, with abstract backgrounds and grids, she fuses abstract and figurative art, creating a new post-abstract post-figurative art. Her work has been exhibited in various museums and galleries in Mexico, Spain, and Canada.

Dee Briggs lives and works in New York and Pittsburgh primarily in the area of sculpture. Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania and educated as an architect Briggs works primarily with building materials and has a particular focus on steel. In 1986, at the age of 17, she moved from this area to New York City in the midst of the collapse of the steel industry. The industrial landscape of Western Pennsylvania and the materials made here left a lasting impression on Briggs and have become central to her art practice. Her work included in SNAPSHOT is made of steel and was fabricated in Braddock. 

Ross Mantle splits time between his native Pittsburgh, Pa. and Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a graduate of Ohio University and his photographs have appeared in publications including Bloomberg Businessweek, Monocle,The FADER, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Ross' work often focuses on contemporary American life with particular interest in the Rust Belt. Mantle’s photographs included in this exhibition are from the early stages of a new project with the working title, California, Pa. The work is about the facades we create to disassociate from the unsettled, fragile spaces that we live in, fight against and attempt to control.

Saturday, March 24th, 5pm - 9pm

Concurrent with SNAPSHOT: A One Week Show
FREE

Artists' statement:

Today the West carries a demonized notion of the Palestinian people. Mainstream media has helped construct negative stereotypes of this population, which numbers almost eleven million. I am Palestine aims to construct a new narrative using short interviews with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, within Israel and in the Diaspora. A twenty-minute collection of these videos will be projected onto an installation representing a section of the Wall. Today the Wall separates the West Bank from Israel, Palestinians from their family members and friends, and Palestinians from their holy places of worship, all under the guise of security while stealing more Palestinian land and resources. The Wall has become a center for art, using art as a means of resistance and expression of solidarity. Professional and amateur artists alike paint and graffiti miles upon miles of the Wall, inside of the West Bank. Thus, the Wall has been reappropriated as a space for messages of hope and solidarity. I am Palestine strives to recreate a portion of the Wall, to demonstrate its effects and symbolism. Combining the Wall with the video projection will tell the story of Palestinians in the oppressive and dominating atmosphere created by the Wall.

Karina Goulordava is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Spanish and Communication-Rhetoric. Karina spent the past two summers in Bethlehem, Palestine volunteering with local NGOs. This past summer she traveled around the West Bank recording the interviews which now make up the I am Palestine videos displayed on the wall. Karina plans on returning to Palestine this summer and continuing her work as a solidarity activist.

Sean Neely is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Anthropology and History. Trained as an apprentice carpenter by the local Los Angeles design company Woodsmithe, Sean has worked primarily in the non-profit sector in the past. As an undergraduate student, Sean has had the unique opportunity to move between the worlds of academia and design, splitting time between Pittsburgh and the Arts District of Los Angeles. With an aesthetic perspective shaped by the back streets of urban centers from the East Coast and West Coast alike, Sean's installation pieces focus on the relationship between physical materials and consciousness.

NOT SO F*?@#! SERIOUS, a group show featuring the work of 20 local artists, opens Friday, October 21st at 7pm. Admission is free. 

Participating artists include Christian Breitkreutz, Dean Cercone, Ron Copeland, Maura Doern Danko, Gabe Felice, Craig Freeman, Katie Gould, Jon Hemmis, Megan Herwig, Jenny Johnston, Darrell Kinsel, Seth LeDonne, Nate McDonough, Steph Neary, Maggie Negrete, Gian Romagnoli, Andy Scott, Megan Shalonis, Lizzee Solomon, & Nick Vincenti.

NOT SO F*?@#! SERIOUS is a group art show that explores the idea of artists taking themselves a little less seriously and experimenting with ways to allow the audience to experience their own subjective reality. Artists will do this through installation, site-specific art, experiential art and other means of non-traditional art-making. For more information and to see selections from artists’ portfolios visithttp://notsofingserious.wordpress.com/. 

In addition to the opening event, the exhibition will be available to view on weekdays by appointment only through November 12th.

• A clothing exchange where everything costs $1. Clothing comes from you, the public. All sizes. All genders. All seasons.
• A drop-off for your clothing donations: Looking to clear out your closet or make a contribution to your community? Your clothes make the exchange possible. So bring your clean, gently worn stuff to the event. For a list of what we’re able to accept, please check out the donation page.
• A mending circle to help you fix or alter clothes you bring from home or score at the exchange. We’ll have comfy couches, sewing machines, and most importantly, mentors to help you do your thing.
• Free wood-fired pizza baked in our community pizza oven on Saturday, October 8th from 3-5pm. 

Are you interested in contributing your skills? Give-and-Take needs a) sewing mentors b) builders, organizers and fashionistas to help bring our store to life and c) energetic souls to help throughout the weekend. Please see theGive-and-Take website for more details about the many volunteer opportunities.

Give-and-Take is a community-based project that hosts local socials to exchange and repurpose clothing. We focus on the social side of reuse by creating small-scale, informal, face-to-face activities and events. In addition to finding ways to keep clothing in play and out of the landfill, Give-and-Take is exploring how community-driven, collaborative services take hold when the primary goal is centered on supporting meaningful social interactions and experiences. Please contact Christina Worsing at giveandtakepgh@gmail.com for more information, or visitwww.giveandtakepgh.wordpress.com.

A literary event curated by Sherrie Flick of the Gist Street Reading Series

Saturday, October 1st 
7pm – 10pm. Reading at 8pm. 
Admission is $5.
Wood-fired pizza & BYOB drinks.

The 3rd annual Wood-Fired Words will feature a fiction reading by Josh Barkan, Braddock’s first Into the Furnace Writer-in-Residence. The event will also include live music by The Emily Pinkerton Trio, The East End Book Exchange pop-up used bookstore, paintings from the “Meet the News Team” series by John Fleenor, and wood-fired pizza baked in Braddock’s community pizza oven. 

Into the Furnace is a new writer-in-residence program in Braddock, PA. The selected writer is housed in a two-room suite in the former St. Michael’s parochial school convent, which is located beside UnSmoke Systems Artspace, across the street from the Edgar Thompson Works, and beside the community pizza oven. Into the Furnace offers an adventuresome creative person, whose work and work ethic can benefit from the energy Braddock has to offer, up to 9 months of creative work time at our urban residency. 

Josh Barkan begins his Into the Furnace writing residency in September 2011. He was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught writing at Harvard, New York University, and Boston University and is the author of the short-story collection Before Hiroshima. His first novel, Blind Speed, was named a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Fiction Prize. He spent much of his childhood abroad, living in Kenya, Tanzania, France and India. After attending Yale University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, he spent a year teaching in Japan and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His writing has appeared in Esquire and as a contributor to The Boston Book Review. He lives in New York City and Mexico City. 

Sherrie Flick is author of a novel, Reconsidering Happiness (Bison Books), and the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume). Select anthologies include Flash Fiction Forward (Norton), New Sudden Fiction (Norton), and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. She has received fellowships from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She recently served as January-term writer-in-residence at Salem College. A recipient of a 2011 Work of Art Award for Artistic Vibrancy from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, she teaches at Chatham University and (for 10 years) served as Artistic Director for the Gist Street Reading Series. Sherrie was instrumental in the creation of the Into the Furnace writing residency program. 

Born in the heart of the Midwest, songwriterEmily Pinkerton has crafted a style with roots that stretch from Appalachia to the Andes. High, haunting vocals soar over pulsating guitar and banjo riffs that draw from a decade of travel between her hometown of Valparaiso, Indiana and her second home in Valparaíso, Chile. Her bandmates include Jose Layo Puentes, Lucas Savage and Daniel Marcus. 

The East End Book Exchange was founded in the summer of 2011 on two simple ideas: love of books and love of Pittsburgh. It is a pop-up used bookstore dedicated to connecting booklovers and books in the heart of Pittsburgh’s East End. Each weekend, The East End Book Exchange appears in a community space or local business in a different neighborhood. 

John Fleenor is a painter living in Pittsburgh with his wife, Helen, and his daughter, Zephy. His “Meet the News Team” series features portraits of 25 news anchors from stations across the country. Fleenor created this series during a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2009. 

Wood-Fired Words is supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PA Partners), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PA Partners is administered in Allegheny County by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. 

September 2 - 24, 2011

Opening reception on Friday, September 2nd 7pm - 11pm
FREE

Confluence merges the works of Jim Korpi and Ross Mantle from two American river valleys. The exhibition showcases the irony of the American Dream and what it means to settle in the United States. Using the Monongahela and Ohio River Valleys as geographic guides, Mantle and Korpi document the people and landscapes from Pennsylvania to Kentucky. 

The photographs in Confluence touch on issues affecting post-industrial America. The work captures the sense of home, our disconnect from the land, squandered prosperity, pride, traditions and the effects of ingrained ideals on generations to come. The images draw from a deep reservoir of historic relevance and the photographers' personal connection to the regions. Confluence portrays dignity and understanding while reflecting on the complexities of U.S. society.

Confluence has also been exhibited at Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, CA, Gallery 510 in Dayton, OH and Case Nueva in Athens, OH.

In addition to the opening event, the exhibition will be available to view on weekdays by appointment only through September 24th. Opening reception drinks courtesy of brillobox.

Ross Mantle is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa and a graduate of Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. His personal work often looks at contemporary American life and the quirks in our social landscapes. Ross currently splits his time between Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and on the road in a white truck.www.rossmantle.com 

Jim Korpi grew up in between two pig farms on the East Coast. One is now a 3000-square-foot home subdivision, and the other is soon to be an 18 hole golf course. Jim has just finished his master's degree in photography with Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. He is currently living in Saudi Arabia and trying to grow vegetables in sand. http://www.jimkorpi.com/

lostpittsburghschool.org

August 6 – 27, 2011
Lectures/performances each Saturday @7pm
or by appointment

Saturday, August 6th
Stewart O’Nan, novelist
James Weiss, performance artist and art historian

Saturday, August 13th
Charlie Humphrey, Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Bill Peduto, Pittsburgh City Council Member
Doug Shields, Pittsburgh City Council Member

Saturday, August 20th
Charlee Brodsky, documentary photographer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Jim Daniels, poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University

Saturday, August 27th
Closing reception featuring The Halftime String Band

The first comprehensive study of the earthworks and conceptual outdoor art movement in 1970's Pittsburgh opens August 6th at Braddock's UnSmoke Systems Artspace. 

Dubbed "The Lost Pittsburgh School" by now-retired CMU professor Bruce Breland, these 11 artists (and two "collectives"), widened the boundaries of public art in America. Resolutely political, they maintained a rigor of form and an aesthetic of craft endemic to the region - making a laborite art that didn't labor under doctrine. They stepped beyond Post-Industrial clichés before "Industrial" was post. And then, in step with Betty Rockwell, G.David Thompson, and Jacob Lawrence, they left Pittsburgh, ignored and neglected by the community they'd done so much to exalt. 

Working together with Canadian curator Eddy Saad, Pittsburgh-based Bessemer Press brings this remarkable group back to life again. And it happens in Braddock, the birthplace of both the industrial might and the attendant misery that lit their imaginations.

Featured Artists:

Joseph Barkoczi
Ryan Avedissian
Ereni Bariekis 
Brad Demmler
Gil Dugita
Pamela Luwderowski
Harry Macrady
Danilova Navratilova Malloy
Steve Nied
Wilem Smithammer
The 1877 Strike Collective
Allison Von Westerberg
The Skid Crews 

July 30, 2011

starts at 6pm
Free event
21+ to drink and/or byob
Pizza Oven - 6 til 7pm
Free event poster for the first 50 guests
Visual installation by C-Town
720 Records booth

Featured Artists:

Strawberryluna - strawberryluna.com 
A silk screening power house from Pittsburgh

MODESTo! - modestoprints.com 
Silk screening, collages, hand drawn awesomeness

Shannon Gustafson -shannongustafson.com
Photography, detail, detail, detail!

Stephanie Towell - stephanie-towell.com
Assemblage & Collage

Emil Industries - emilindustries.com
A new silkscreen artist in Braddock

Featured Performers:

Hooley - Pittsburgh's premier Traditional Irish Music band, brings alive the ancient and contemporary tunes and songs of Ireland, with flute, whistle, concertina, banjo, guitar and percussion. And a little poetry thrown in for good luck. Get ready to dance, or just kick back and enjoy. 7 til 8pm

Paul Dang - 720 records
House to hip hop. Erase your expectations.

Tom Cox -infinitestatemachine.com/RA/Love what you feel. Disco/house and everything in between

C-Town - Rocking Horse Gallery
Experimental sounds

Low Space - soundcloud.com/lowspace
Down tempo goodness

Opening July 15, 2011 6-10pm

Closing July 22, 2011 starting at 6 pm
Or by appointment only
FREE

The BrokenDayton Art Machine presents I AM IMMORTAL, an art exhibition based around the idea of immortality through art.

Ohio-based artists Nicholaus Arnold, Ian Briedenbach, Ren Cummings, Phillip Evans, Ashley Jonas, and Frank Travers will present work in different mediums exploring the resurgence of art and culture in Braddock, PA. 

A highlight of the show will be a time capsule available for public participation. Guests are invited to bring items from their lives for inclusion in the piece, which will be buried on site during the closing reception on July 22nd. 

The artists will be available for conversation at both the opening and closing events.

A solo exhibition by Laura Marsico

Opening Saturday, June 4, 2011, 6pm - 9pm
Friends, family, neighbors, and housewarming "gifts" are welcome!

Exhibit remains open by appointment only through June 18, 2011

Artist's statement:

A home is a formative place where we grow within its structure; it may also be a transformative place for healing to occur.

Since returning to Pennsylvania last year and spending time in the home I grew up in, I have done a whole lot of housecleaning. It always begins by looking inside and outside of personal space, by noticing what changes and what doesn’t change, and finally, by determining what to share and what to hold onto. The clearing out has been continuous and widespread, and not always by myself; at times it has been simultaneously heart-wrenching and liberating, and I have heard great stories while moving through objects. Although movement sometimes entails pain, I have found that the experience ultimately inspires clarity and joy.

The happening will be dotted with (primarily) repurposed throwaways. As I attempt to lessen the load of “stuff” in my surroundings, certain things continue to hang around with mysterious value dangling over them. They speak of fantasy, memory and functional use in ways that are unique and arbitrary. What happens with these objects and thoughts are curious and inspiring, like the windowsill decorations and garbage in the alley ways of Pittsburgh. Through observation and activity in the space that “Make yourself at home” encompasses, you are encouraged to examine what is it that allows you to feel connected and be at home.

www.lauramarsico.com

Sunday, May 29, 2011. 3pm @ UnSmoke Systems Artspace. $14 advance/$16 day of. All ages/no alcohol.

Converge

Burning Love

Trap Them

Kim Phuc

Heatless

Code Orange Kids

Saturday, May 28, 2011. 5pm @ Braddock Elks Lodge. 424 Library Street. $14 advance/$16 day of. All ages/21 to drink.

(animosity lineup)
Corrosion of Conformity
Mantic Ritual
Slices
Question
Hounds of Hate
Zeitgeist

Tickets at 61Booking and Mind Cure Records

Vanishing Point

October 1st - November 30th, 2010

Vanishing Point aims to present work that confronts the notion of a “new abstract”. Inclusive to all medium, the exhibition presents abstraction as a means of reconciliation to the dislocation of self in modern life.

Engaging concepts of science, personal histories, politics and beyond, these artists build upon the histories of abstract art to fashion a sense of stability in an environment ever changing, ever updating – an environment built upon a constant feed for more information, with its reference point focused evermore on the self in synthetic environments.

Through this visual “storm” these artists have honed their use of abstraction not only as a means to understand their world, but as a mechanism to locate themselves as an individual in a sea of turbulent messages and meaning. Our understanding of our self becomes more abstract each day – these artists represent a direction where abstraction is no longer universal, but an intrinsically personal understanding.

Below – Excerpt from the curatorial statement by Alexander Conner

In Holland Cotter’s February New York Times article entitled, “The Boom is Over, Long Live The Art!”, he poses a variety of rhetorical questions:

%“Will the art industry continue to cling to art’s traditional analog status, to insist that the material, buyable object is the only truly legitimate form of art, which is what the painting revival of the last few years has really been about? Will contemporary art continue to be, as it is now, a fancyish Fortunoff’s, a party supply shop for the Love Boat crew? Or will artists — and teachers, and critics — jump ship, swim for land that is still hard to locate on existing maps and make it their home and workplace?”

These questions touch on an aspect of revolution through parsing escapism that we at Adaptation have noticed for some time in work by early-career artists today. This is not an ascetic endeavor, but one which has relegated itself beyond the realms of objective inclusion and into subjective collusion. Artists who have graduated from academies into the world of day jobs experience the comfort of camaraderie with so many others like themselves. However, this large amount of makers, competing with one another tooth-and-nail for exhibition, residency, and grant opportunities, leads to a more competitive and complex field of advancement and play within individual’s art-making practice.

Abstraction, as a conceptual entity within art-making, is a handy vehicle for the artist to attempt to make sense of, as well as obfuscate, the quickly approaching future (or for the nihilistic, perhaps end) of their art-making. These artists treat the abstract with a sensibility of engagement and distance that is dependent on the manifestation of their own belonging within different contexts. And it is this constant hindsight, this nostalgia without irony, that is particularly indicative of their individual interpretations of their collective revolution.%

Artists

Strauss Borque-LaFrance / Jenna Hannum / Katie Hinton / Simona Josan / Michael Kalmbach / Adam Lister / Caroline Santa / Cullen Stephenson / Matthew West

Adaptation info 
Our goal is to provide challenging and dynamic curatorial interventions to traditional and non-traditional art venues. We curate, develop and produce exhibitions and related events at off-site venues ranging from houses, storefronts, backyards as well as traditional gallery and museum spaces. The activities generated and developed by Adaptation attempt to provide a venue and a context for artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, designers, architects and others of the creative ilk to actively engage in the cross-pollination of ideas, practice and inspiration through the activation of a space.

FOOLS GOLD

A NIGHT OF NEW WORK / NEW PERFORMANCES
By: Agnes Bolt, Julie Leidner, Daniel Luchman, Jennifer Myers & Michelle Gratacos-Arill

Saturday September 18 / 8 - 11 pm
Unsmoke Art Space / Braddock

FOOLS GOLD will showcase three new works by five artists:

2+2=4
Julie Leidner & Agnes Bolt
Made in collaboration with 2 residents of Braddock and combining power, play, and a bit of unfiltered reality, this piece examines different kinds of currencies that exist in Braddock.

Ordeal by Gold
Daniel Luchman
For three hours a wandering continent will circumambulate the gallery, be skewered by rods and arrows, as golden artifacts are collected and mounted onto its back until it collapses from exhaustion.

The Blind Spot of the Dream
Jennifer Myers & Michelle Gratacos-Arill
A tour of a blind dream that leads you to an extinct mammal.

Woodness

August 7 - August 25, 2010

Woodness
A sixth sense of feeling familiar in the woods, nauseous or disoriented when away. 
*photo by jason loree

What: An Art Exhibition
When: Opening August 7th, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
When Else: Up through the 27th of August and open by appointment.
Where: Unsmoke Systems, 1137 Braddock Avenue, Braddock PA

Who:
Chele Isaac
Jim Lingo
Darren Myers
Jackie McDowell
Matt McDowell
Todd Rodgers
Naomi Schliesman
Paul Bergeron
Robin Russo
Jen Cooney
Katyana Gradler
Gregory Witt
Matt Barton
Bec Young
Michael Vandegrift
Katherine McGinn
Eric Shows
Heather White
Brett Davis
Aris Georgiades
Jason Loree

June 19 - July 25, 2010

Five new site specific works by Dee Briggs

Reverberation: Rhythm, reflection and balance are the ideas that organize this work and preoccupy its maker. Physical, tactile, spatial balance, syncopated visual rhythm, multisensory reverberation are the places where Dee Briggs begins and ends with five new site specific works opening at UnSmoke ArtSpace in Braddock, June 19th. Five new works will be installed in large and small-scale spaces that exist between the architecture. Briggs has chosen the interstitial spaces of the gallery (and it’s context) and allowed this work to reverberate within it. The results are an ongoing exploration of spatial experiences defined by line and plane, light and shadow, volume and void. The exhibition will also include a new collaborative experimentation with sound artist Herman Pearl.

May 1 - June 5, 2010

For more information please go to: Gold in Braddock

Organized by artist Elise Adibi, in partnership with Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and UnSmoke Systems Artspace

Gold in Braddock is an exhibition featuring artists working in all media from Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. They have been invited to explore the theme of gold – including its physical, visual, monetary, social, historic, symbolic, decorative and sacred properties, in the town of Braddock, PA.

Participating Artists: Elise Adibi, Keil Borrman, Pilar Conde, Jenelle Covino, Mark Dilks, Tracey Goodman, Violet Hopkins, Jon Lewis, Abby Manock, David Muenzer, Kate Nesin, Julian Pozzi, Jon Rajkovich, Annie Shaw, Sara Stracey, Josh Tonsfeldt and Dan Torop

Opening Night Party: May 1, 5pm- 10pm
1137 Braddock Avenue
Braddock, PA 15104

The Opening Night Party includes pizza prepared in the Community Brick Oven by artist, Keil Borrman. Raise your Spirits will provide artisan cocktails. Artist Annie Shaw will be performing the installation of her piece during the opening. Also, there will be a rare musical performance by The Shanks, an independent rock band, featuring Charlie Humphrey. 

This show is made possible with generous support from the foundation community in Pittsburgh.

February 2 - February 28, 2010

Art Exhibit: Finding Meaning in Braddock’s Unsmoke Systems 

This collective started as a discussion group at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and investigates various approaches to translating meaning in visual imagery. Once a week for the better part of 2009, this group of students, recent graduates, and one faculty member met to discuss and analyze the work of various artists including Rembrandt, Hogarth, Leland Bell, Turner, Amy Sillman, Chardin and many others. The focus was the discussion of what contributed to convey content in visual terms. The categories outlined as lynchpins for analysis included iconography, formalism, the haptic experience and the viewer’s orientation. The presentation of work at Braddock’s Unsmoke Systems gallery site is the culmination of these discussions now posed in visual terms that include various mediums.

Participants include: Jordan Bush, Andre Costello, Maura Doern Danko, Nate McDonough, Max Pokrzywa, Jaycen Poole, Andrew Scott, Josh Troy, Nick Vincenti 

Exhibit Dates: February 2 – 28, 2010

Event Dates: Opening Reception: Saturday, February 6, 7-10 p.m.

Closing Open House: Sunday, February 28, 3-5 p.m.

E.Q. Show

December 4th, 2009

Dec. 4, 2009 Reception @7:00 Screening @ 8:00
A one night multimedia extravaganza brought to you by the staff of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Equipment Office.
Featuring new films, videos photography and installation by:

Tess Allard
Sam Boese
Mike Bonello
Matthew R. Day
Julie Gonzalez
Anna Hawins
Laura Jean Kahl
Tom McConnell
Gretchen Neidert
Marina Pfenning
Christopher Smalley
and surprise guests

November 15, 2009

Tess Allard, astralsled.com - lyrical super8 narrative. 
Erik Sorenson - special guest lecture.
Matt Wellins & Sarah Halpern, radiopticon.com - live sound and projection
Merissa Lombardo, merissalombardo.com - film screening

Driftwood is a weekly platform for local artists presenting new work. The program presents a varietal showcase of live works, with the aim of promoting an exchange of ideas within each grouping of performances and from one Sunday evening to the next.

November 22nd, 2009

Hello!
Please join us this week as Driftwood steps out on the town in her Sunday's best at the Fe Arts Gallery. This Sunday's program, curated by Josh Tonies, includes a local lineup of films, videos, and live performance:

Tess Allard, astralsled.com - lyrical super8 narrative. 
Erik Sorenson - special guest lecture.
Matt Wellins & Sarah Halpern, radiopticon.com - live sound and projection

Merissa Lombardo, merissalombardo.com - film screening

Ladies and Germanophiles,

Please mark your Yorkshire Terrier pin-up calendar for the upcoming edition of Driftwood, curated by Jim Storch:

Jim Storch/Nathan Kukulski....with video by Ryan Emmett.
MySpace Link

Cottonballman....with slides by Jim Storch.
YouTube Link

Daniel Patrick McCloskey (from the zine/writers' space Cyberpunk Apocalypse)
Blog Link

Tom McClure (poet, writer, copy editor [for Wax Poetics Magazine], and raconteur).
YouTube Link

The show starts at 8PM. It's FREE, but donations are completely acceptable!

**Sunday, 11/15 at 8pm. Unsmoke Systems, 1137 Braddock Ave., Braddock PA.**

Obscurae: Photographs of Braddock, PA Exhibition & Art Lottery Event

September 19th, 2009

Fueled by the success of last year’s Art Lottery, the Braddock, PA project Obscurae will hold its second photography exhibition and fundraiser on Saturday, September 19, 2009. Benefiting the many continuing art and community revitalization efforts of this historic steel mill town, Obscurae features more than 75 donated and framed photographs of Braddock from over 25 photographers. Public viewing of the work, open to all and free of charge, begins 7pm Saturday; the art lottery commences at 8:30pm. Those attending Obscurae, held at UnSmoke Systems Artspace at 1137 Braddock Avenue, are invited to take part in the Portrait Booth Project, an interactive photo booth by Portland Oregon artist John Ryan Brubaker, and taste fresh-baked breads made in Braddock’s very own outdoor wood-fire community oven located next to UnSmoke Systems Artspace. 

There is no charge to attend Obscurae and view the exhibition; visitors wishing to take home a work of art can purchase lottery tickets for $45 through the website, www.obscuraegallery.org, or for $55 at the door. In this time of economic turbulence there is more of a need for individual support. The lottery offers those in favor of Braddock’s many art and community projects the opportunity to contribute directly to their continuation. At the same time, supporters will be able to enjoy the exhibit, local food and drinks, the photo booth installation, AND leave with a limited edition framed art photograph. Photographs included in the lottery range from 8x10 to 17x22 and are mounted and framed using a variety of reclaimed materials. A Sneak Peak of the show is available for viewing online.

Change is underway in Braddock as groups working within and with the community bring renewed energy to a town that many wrote off. Artists, social entrepreneurs, community organizers, urban homesteaders and others with a pioneering spirit are inspired by the town’s potential for grassroots urban renewal and are using the inherent energy in Braddock to fuel their creativity. It is with this spirit that Obscurae views the maligned town – turning a photographic eye towards the borough’s oft-overlooked beauty amidst the former grandeur and “urban blight” that Braddock has come to represent for many in the Pittsburgh area.

Curated by Braddock residents Jodi Morrison and Jenny Fremlin, with special guest curator Jeanine Hall of UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Obscurae pays homage to Braddock’s unique post-industrial urban beauty. From the borough’s Victorian and industrial-era construction to particulars of its natural surroundings, each photograph captures a unique perspective of the town. Works are mounted and framed with found and reclaimed materials. In creating Obscurae, curators Morrison, Fremlin and Hall hope to encourage others to look deeper and appreciate the small wonders that drew them to Braddock.

How does the Art Lottery work?
Donated pieces are exhibited throughout the gallery, and pieces displayed will go home with a ticket holder that evening. Lottery participants are encouraged to browse the gallery before the lottery begins and compile a list of at least their first 25 favorites. The lottery begins with the first ticket being randomly chosen. When a ticket holder’s number is called, he or she has up to 60 seconds to choose a piece. Once a piece is selected it is removed and packaged for the winner. The lottery continues until all the ticket holders have chosen a one-of-a-kind framed photograph.

In addition to the show, Obscurae’s online gallery offers the chance to purchase frames and prints from both the 2008 and 2009 exhibitions. Proceeds from the gallery will support both the continued efforts in Braddock as well as the photographers who donated pieces for the exhibition. Some photographers participating in the show have also contributed additional pieces for purchase only available online. Visit www.obscuraegallery.org to view the work.

Obscurae: Photographs of Braddock, PA Show & Art Photography Lottery fundraiser, hosted by UnSmoke Systems Artspace, will be held Saturday September 19, 2009 at 7pm.

September 4th, 2009

The constant experience of urban decay and physical deterioration is the catalyst for these artist explorations of Braddock Pa. The materials, objects and structures left behind help to organize information creating beauty in the aspects of deterioration that are usually looked on as unsightly. The environment causes the decay that surrounds us, and the results are left for the artist’s investigation. The deteriorated surroundings hold moments that are usually overlooked by the public and show the remnants of how man-made objects interfere with the natural world. The significance of these structures and the objects they hold are much more relevant to how people should move forward and have productive insight into the world around them.

Justin Coleman is graduate of R.I.S.D. and ceramic artist from Pittsburgh who works in Braddock. Justin is exploring the permanence and place of functional ceramic objects found in houses in Braddock. 

Shawn Gilheeney has his B.F.A. in Printmaking from Rhode Island College and works in Providence. Shawn is drawing inspiration from the beauty in natural elements conflicting with structures. 

Greg Penisten is a social pariah from Providence who is interested in the reinvention of discarded objects particularly the details in them and how they mimic natural forms. Think obsessive junk collector with a passion for drawing on things.

Liz Potenza is a glass artist and graduate of Mass art who works at the Glass Center in Pittsburgh. Liz is reclaiming windows and putting her own spin on the broken window theory. 

August 15th, 2009

a party to celebrate one year of events at Unsmoke Systems

In July of 2008, UnSmoke Systems Artspace was launched with their inaugural event, Out of this Furnace, in conjunction with the 55th Carnegie International. Since the studio’s debut, UnSmoke Systems has become integral to promoting the arts in Braddock. 

On August 15, from 7:30 – 10:30pm,UnSmoke Systems will be hosting Night Out: Braddock - a party to celebrate our first year of events. Featuring the artwork of resident and guest artists, Humanaut DJ’s Aaron Clark and Paul Alexander (resident DJ’s at Hijack, New Amsterdam) and refreshments. Delicious Donations will be present and raising money for the regional artists, with a cash award (typically between $100 - $250) to be given away at the end of the night. Join us for an evening of art, music, and socializing to kick off one more year. This event is free and open to the public. Donations appreciated, but not required. 

Participating artists: Barb Antel, Stephanie Armbruster, Emilia Edwards, Jeanine Hall, Eric Harberle, Marc Nieson, Tara Powley, Fitzhugh Shaw, Josh Tonies, and Paulina Wilkowska

Support for Night Out: Braddock is generously provided through a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) – Project Stream Grant.

June 15 - 27, 2009

UnSmoke Systems keeps with their theme of promoting young artists and encouraging community participation in a fund-raising event and exhibition of recent works by artists Heather Powell and Gavin Kenyon. Wear and Tear is the first exhibition in the Pittsburgh region to feature a collection of works by Powell and Kenyon including cast iron sculpture, drawing, and installation. They’ve teamed up with Jeanine Hall founder of Delicious Donations for a fun fund-raising event and reception for the artists on June 20, 2009.

Inspired by the dream-like exploration of liminal states through free verse writing and object-making artist Heather Powell will present an installation of cast, carved and constructed forms that explore the personal and collective meaning of infrastructure. A casting of a snow angel taken from an original impression and intergalactic orbs, these works are a conduit between the periphery and core, the subjective and objective, the tangible and intangible; they are essential.

For a little boy growing up in rural upstate New York any stick can be a sword or a gun. In this recent series of works Gavin Kenyon sets out to explore the world with a repertoire of imagery from his childhood. From taxonomic drawings and velvet panels displaying intuitively produced wooden toy swords to a darker series of works called Flaccid Axes, each work is a meditation on our place in the world. None of these objects are functiononal and they fail at their purpose, yet they’re seductive with their lushly painted surfaces and simplified gestures. Roughly hewn knives are packed together cheek by jowl, and cast iron axes become bodies with all the frailties of flesh.

This spring Jeanine Hall, recent arts management graduate from CMU, initiated Delicious Donations, a peer-selected mini grant for art projects, to support and encourage new ideas by local talent. Artists from the region are encouraged to submit proposals through an open call for artists that can range from plans for creative urban gardens to the fabrication of life-size puppets of city council persons. For a small donation participants attending the upcoming event can indulge in a Dave and Andy’s ice cream cone and vote for their favorite proposal. The artist with the most votes at the conclusion of the event will receive eighty percent of the proceeds from the evening. Treat yourself to a Delicious Donation!

Wear and Tear runs from June 15, 2009 through June 27, 2009. The space is open by appointment only. Please contact Jeanine Hall at unsmoke@gmail.com.

Opening May 23, 2009 @ 7pm

May 2nd, 2009

Come explore works of art created in Braddock, as CMU students find hope, vibrancy, and community in a city of modern ruins. This diverse exhibition includes photography, performance, instructables, nonlinear documentary, and installation art. Generously supported by the Leonard Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach, the Mayor's Office of Braddock, PA, The UPMC Cot Club, and the School of Art and Human Computer Interaction Institute.

Braddock Light Show

2009

Two Day Event: April 24th and 25th from Dusk to Midnight

Join us for the 2009 Light Art Exhibition hosted by UnSmoke Systems. The two day event is a unique and exciting art event that exhibits works of art from artists around the region. For the past 20 years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been hosting national exhibits for artists who use light as a medium. This year they have decided to take it on the road, to Braddock, PA, a city that is in the midst of a gradual and dynamic revitalization and come and transform UnSmoke Systems. This event is presented by The University of Wisconsin - Madison Art/Glass Dept., UnSmoke Systems and The Mayor’s Office.

March 19th, 2009

No Longer Disturbing: Beneath the Paper Thin Surface
Large works by Firelei Baez and Zoe McCloskey

March 19th-April 2nd (by appointment)
Opening: Saturday March 21st 7-10:30
DJ'd by Morgan Cahn (aka mc2) 

Zoe McCloskey (zoemccloskey.net) is primarily a wood cut artist who uses text and symbols to create indoor installations, drawings, and site-specific street art. Simple hand carved prints are repeated, overlaid, and mixed with text to convey complex and alternating meanings that can be interpreted as social commentary, deeply personal, or simply aesthetic.

The artist writes: "My work is informed by an exploration of psychological obstacles and aspirations that particularly affected my generation of first world suburbanites born into the 80's and 90's. Feelings of isolation and disillusionment, overexposure to history and information, a deep understanding of sarcasm and irony, corporate misappropriation of counter-culture, the effects of psychotropic pharmaceuticals, and cynicism are all examples of obstacles. The desire to achieve a real, sincere, or meaningful experience, the desire to believe in something, and the desire to escape to a place that is innocent without becoming complacent or ignorant are all aspirations particular to my generation."

Beyond her personal fine art practice Ms. McCloskey is deeply committed to art for its social and generative value and has collaborated on community art projects in Belize, Argentina, Mexico, and El Salvador. While her work can be seen on the streets of cities throughout the Americas, this is the first presentation of her work in the greater Pittsburgh area.

Firelei Baez (fireleibaez.com), born in the Dominican Republic, is a New York based artist who creates giant works of intricate detail. Flesh, hair and bodies are poised in inhuman contortions and depicted with such delicate precision that her works are at once repelling and enticing.

The artist writes, “My artwork…regard[s] my physical self, my personal history, and Caribbean folklore. Afro-Caribbean folklore allows for malleability in the creation of the self, but I find my status as an Afro-Latina in the United States static and limiting in comparison. In response, I try to disrupt the current system of social categorization through the creation of characters that refuse definition….In Caribbean folklore any part of the body represents the soul, especially hair. It is necessary to protect one’s soul by making sure that any hair that is shed does not wind up in the hands of others. If a bird picks up one’s hair and incorporates it into its nest, then the person’s soul is placed in limbo. I use this symbolically loaded scenario, among others, to metaphorically illustrate the multiplicities and hypocrisies that make up the current discussion about race and class within popular culture.”

Ms. Baez attended the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, The Cooper Union, and the Hunter MFA Program. Others of her large works are concurrently on display at the Hunter MFA Times Square Gallery in NYC.

February 6th, 2009

February 6 - February 28

Opening Reception: February 7 from 6-8pm

After Hurricane Mitch devastated much of Central America, Ron Rivera, the international coordinator for Potter’s for Peace, developed the ceramic water filter to help relieve the problems in Nicaragua. The filter is made by pressing a mixture of clay and sawdust into a flower pot shape. When it is fired, the sawdust is burned away, leaving numerous holes to allow water to pass through the permeable walls. The filter is then impregnated with nano-particles of silver that act as an antimicrobial agent. The filter element fits into a standard-sized 5 gallon bucket as a water receptacle. A plastic spigot at the bottom enables the clean water to be drawn off. In some countries where the water filter is produced, local potters make ceramic vessels as receptacles.

Water borne disease is the world’s biggest health challenge. Each day, over 5,000 children die from bad drinking water. In an effort to promote the water filter and gain greater recognition of the viability of this simple, life-saving design, members of the Slippery Rock University Potter’s Guild organized the first Potter’s for Peace water filter receptacle show.

An exhibition of ceramic receptacles was mounted in Slippery Rock in November of 2005. The show traveled to West Virginia, then North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Missouri. At each venue, more ceramic artists joined and contributed pieces. Some of the water filter receptacles to be displayed at the Braddock Gallery were first exhibited in Pittsburgh during the NCECA Conference. New work has been added and afterwards, the pieces will be shipped to Phoenix and continue to travel on the West Coast.

Our Braddock exhibition will serve as a launch point for the pottery shop in the original Carnegie Library. Currently, Jeff Swartz, an AmeriCorps volunteer, is the director of the first filter production facility in North America.

More information at: 
Shoulder to Shoulder Pittsburgh
Pure Water for All - Forest Hills Rotary

OBSCURAE Photography Exhibition & Art Lottery Event

2008

Photography

The Art Lottery Fundraiser was a resounding success. We had a solid showing on Friday night, and despite the snow on Saturday the lottery was a lot of fun. We met some great people and shared some of the small beautiful details found around Braddock.

After the lottery we offered the remaining pieces for sale and by the end of the night we'd sold out the entire show. Thanks to everyone who pitched in to help!

photo by Jenny Whittemore Fremlin

2008

An evening celebrating arts and culture in the industrial community of Braddock, Pennsylvania, will be held on Saturday, July 19, 2008. The evening will present three special events, including the first screening of the Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International film series; the launch of Unsmoke Systems, Braddock’s new arts and cultural venue, with Out of This Furnace, an exhibition featuring 16 Pittsburgh-based artists; and an afterparty featuring DJs, live performances and open bar. Organized in collaboration with Carnegie Museum of Art and the Mayor’s Office of Braddock, the evening is free and open to the public.

The evening begins with a screening of Life on Mars artist Wilhelm Sasnal’s short films in Braddock Carnegie Library’s historic Music Hall from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m. This event marks the first in the Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International film series.

Out of This Furnace, opening to the public in the newly renovated Unsmoke Systems building from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., takes its title from the book of the same name by Thomas Bell that narrates the history—through the stories of four generations of immigrants—of this former industrial town, which collapsed along with the steel industry in the early 1980s. The exhibition, like the space, celebrates the revitalization of the town through arts and culture. Heather Pesanti, assistant curator of contemporary art at Carnegie Museum of Art and organizer of the exhibition, asked Out of This Furnace artists to create work in reaction to Braddock’s history.

“The theme of this first exhibition really just chose itself. To my mind, it couldn’t be anything else but responding to the powerful, gritty, and historically rich site,” says Pesanti. “I fear the Braddock ghosts would return to haunt the space forever if we hadn’t honored them.”

Participating artists are:
Stephanie Armbruster
Bianca Butti
Dallah Cesen
Thommy Conroy & James Maszle
Kerry Gaydos
Christopher Kardambikis
Merissa Lombardo
Anton Miriello
David Montano
Danny Paracat
Carley Jean Parrish
Ed Parrish Jr.
Ally Reeves
Josh Tonies
Mary Tremonte 

The exhibition is followed by an afterparty, featuring top Pittsburgh-based DJs and other performers, plus refreshments and open bar, from 10:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m.

Unsmoke Systems is located at 1137 Braddock Avenue. The building, previously an abandoned Catholic schoolhouse located across from the Edgar S. Thompson steel mill, is a short walk from the Braddock Carnegie Library, location of the Sasnal film screening.

Out of This Furnace will be on view by appointment through August 2, 2008. Requests for scheduling visits should be directed to Jeb Feldman at braddockmayor@gmail.com.

Mayor John Fetterman, assisted by Deputy Mayor Jeb Feldman since 2006, has been vigorously engaged since 2001 in reviving Braddock through attracting artists, art, and culture to the region. Pesanti, who came to Pittsburgh in 2005 to work on the 2008 Carnegie International with Douglas Fogle, Carnegie Museum of Art’s curator of contemporary art and curator of the International, has been actively involved with Pittsburgh’s art community. She has visited scores of artist studios during her time here and organized several exhibitions, including Forum 58: Jonathan Borofsky—Human Structures and Forum 60: Rivane Neuenschwander, both at Carnegie Museum of Art, and the most recent Gestures show at the Mattress Factory, Illustrations of Catastrophe and Remote Times.

Images of Unsmoke Systems are available by contacting the communications office at 412.622.8690 or stitelert@carnegiemuseums.org

Support:
This project is supported in part by a Seed Award from The Sprout Fund. Additional in-kind support has been provided by the Mattress Factory and Penn Brewery. Media sponsorship provided by WYEP and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Afterparty promotions by Nakturnal, a female-owned events, marketing, and promotions agency based in Pittsburgh.

Carnegie Museum of Art
Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh and founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the sixteenth century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit our web site at www.cmoa.org. 

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