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Ashley Andrykovitch, ASSISTANT CURATOR OF EDUCATION | May 1, 2013
We just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday, April 14 to mark the opening of The Art Connection Annual Student Exhibition! Check out the video to see our student artists hard at work in the museum’s studios as they prepared for this year’s exhibition. Throughout the school year, students in grades 5–9 worked through the…
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Marilyn Russell, Chair and Curator of Education | April 29, 2013
Oh Snap! combined 13 new photographs from our collection with nearly 1,500 photo submissions from the public. Wrap Party, Lytro Workshop, and more—Saturday, May 4 First things first—submissions for Oh Snap! Your Take on our Photographs are now closed, but we are excited to celebrate the thoughtful and creative collaboration of the hundreds of participants in the project. Don’t miss the three…
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April 15, 2013
“A good haiku is like a finger pointing at the moon; once you’ve seen it, you no longer need the finger.” Ever wonder about haiku, where it came from and what it really is? Come on out to this week’s Culture Club on Thursday April 18 for happy hour (5:30–9 p.m.) and a gallery conversation (6– 7 p.m.). Listen to some classic…
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Kerin Shellenbarger, Archivist, Teenie Harris Archive | March 29, 2013
Photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris was a well-known athlete in his youth long before he earned his moniker of “One Shot.” In the first half of the 1920s, along with Bill Harris (no relation), he founded the Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball team that would become a Negro League powerhouse. Around the same time, he was developing a reputation as an ace dribbler…
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Ashley Andrykovitch, assistant curator of education | February 27, 2013
When I’m not working on CMOA’s Kids and Family Programs, I’ve been working on my own art and technology endeavor, The App Expo, with fellow artist Ashley Andrews. This weekend, we teamed up with Google programmer and fellow artist, Ciarán Ó Conaire and entered the first ever Steel City Codefest, a 24-hour app making competition at Google’s Bakery Square offices….
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Jonathan Gaugler, Media Relations Manager | February 21, 2013
That mailbox. Oh man, that mailbox! If you’ve seen the mailbox that came hanging by my front door when we bought our house in Pittsburgh, you’d understand. Black-painted steel, with a bent newspaper rack and weird plastic emblem, I had to chip the former owner’s name and two sets of house numbers off of it with a razor blade. And it’s…
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Raymund Ryan, Curator of Architecture | February 21, 2013
White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes has traveled from the Carnegie to Yale School of Architecture where it is on view through May 4. I was delighted to discover this banner (below) prominently displayed on the School’s exterior at the intersection of York Street and Chapel Street in downtown New Haven. The banner uses an aerial view by photographer…
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Alyssum Skjeie, Curatorial Assistant, Architecture & Rosemary Burk, Development Assistant | February 13, 2013
This past Saturday, five teams of local architects and bakers competed for the title of “Master CAKEitect” to mark the opening of 20/20: Celebrating Two Decades of the Heinz Architectural Center. The teams wowed everyone with their edible versions of iconic architecture from Pittsburgh and around the globe. Guest judges Virginia Montanez (aka PittGirl), Charles Rosenblum, and Jason Roth rated each…
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Kerin Shellenbarger, Archivist, Teenie Harris Archive | February 5, 2013
Seventy-five years ago today, in 1938, the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper printed pictures of a young Lena Horne (a Pittsburgher at the time) at the Allegheny County Airport as she departed for Hollywood. She spent the hours before at a farewell party in her honor at the Loendi Club in the Hill District. At the airport, her husband Louis Jones, her…
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Dawn Reid, Curatorial Assistant, Decorative Arts & Design | January 24, 2013
Installation view, Carlo Bugatti, Cobra chair, 1902, wood, parchment with painted decoration, and copper, Berdan Memorial Trust Fund, Helen Johnston Acquisition Fund, and Decorative Arts Purchase Fund Choosing my favorite object from Inventing the Modern World is nearly impossible—my “favorite” tends to shift by the hour or according to my mood (this says more about my love of objects than it does…
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