Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District

Art. Music. Dance. Architecture. Film. Networking. Fun. FREE!

The Gallery Crawl is a free quarterly showcase of art and entertainment in the heart of the Cultural District. All events take place at a variety of galleries and spaces and are FREE and open to the public. The event is ongoing between 5:30 and 9:00 pm, and patrons may start at any location.

2013 Gallery Crawl Schedule:

April 26 Crawl Events:

Wood Street Galleries | 601 Wood Street
Mary Mazziotti: Momento Mori | Gregory Barsamian | In a strobe lit room, kinetic sculpture spins rapidly on an armature with imagery based on Barsamian’s dream recordings. At once low-tech and approachable, Barsamian simultaneously floats between the conscious and unconscious worlds in collaboration between artist and perceiver.

SPACE | 812 Liberty Avenue
Mean Girls | Guest curated by Jill Larson | Mean Girls examines the reality that bullying among girls in America has become an epidemic in our society. The exhibition is a springboard to gain awareness, encourage dialogue and promote positive social change. This traveling exhibition is partnered with the non-profit organization: Strong Women, Strong Girls, and debuts in Pittsburgh, PA. | Music by DJ Pingting

WYEP Music Station | WYEP Live
Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE

Urban League | 610 Wood Street
Celebrating the Urban League in Pittsburgh | To celebrate the Urban League’s 100th Anniversary, artist Leslie Ansley creates vibrant paintings and murals for the Pittsburgh affiliates 95 years of service.

Tito Way

• Memento Mori | A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be short and its end unpredictable. The four “obituary” pieces show that the banalities of life continue after death, and poor Bobo is caught in an endless loop from which there is no escape from Mr. Death.
• Cell Phone Disco | A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

Shaw Galleries | 805 Liberty Avenue
Brave New World: Maps of the 19th-century An exhibit exploring world cartography in the 19th-century through period maps and engravings.

Trust Arts Education Center | 805-807 Liberty Avenue

• Peirce Studio (Lower Level):
  Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase CAPA and Brashear collaboration | Wearable art fashion show and student musical performances, 5:30pm CAPA Student Interpreters, 6:30pm
  Westinghouse Lighthouse Project Hip Hop and Step Team Show, 7:30pm
• 3rd & 4th floors:
  Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts Showcase All-City K-12 Visual Arts and Cultures Exhibitions

Harris Theater | 809 Liberty Avenue

• Harris Theater Short Films | Regionally made short films shown on a loop: Pierogies by Kristen Lauth-Shaeffer; Oneironauts by Jared McLaughlin; Steel City Sights by Brad Oskowski; Blast Off by Jonathan Gribbin.
• Tiny Harris Gallery | eye of the beholder | Heather Springer

Arcade Comedy Theater | 811 Liberty Avenue
Pop in for some laughs at the Arcade Comedy Theater in the Cultural District, featuring Pittsburgh’s best sketch, improvisational and alternative comedy year-round. Time to play!

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center | 212 Ninth Street
Darkroom Mania | During the winter of 2013, students at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild took part in an intensive after-school photography course. Using traditional darkroom processes, they printed on a variety of photographic media, including archival fiber based paper.

Amazing Books | 929 Liberty Avenue
An independent bookstore with an amazing selection of awesome new and used books. Open until 7pm.

937 Liberty Avenue

• 2nd floor:
  6p-8p - Flash performances by the New Hazlett CSA Performing Artists
  8p-9p - Mix and Mingle Performances by: Kelli Stevens Kane - Poet, Playwright, Oral Historian Zach Dorn of Miniature Curiosa - "Five Excruciatingly Ordinary Toy Theater Shows" ELCO - The Eclectic Laboratory Chamber Orchestra - "Les moutons de Parnurge" by Frederic Rzewski Dan Wilcox - "robotcowboy" Maree ReMalia | merrygogo "The Ubiquitous Mass of Us" Preview Sarah Parker and Continuum Dance Theatre - "Objects of DESIRE"
  Preview Community Supported Art | See a sneak peak of the homegrown performance artists cultivated for the new series at the New Hazlett Theater www.newhazletttheater.org/#csa
  CSA PGH | Meet the 6 visual artists who will create works to be packaged up and turned into 50 shares for the public. www.csapgh.com
• 3rd floor: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Lobby:
  August Wilson X: 10 Years of August Wilson on Stage Pittsburgh Playwright's Theatre Company displays photos, artifacts and props from the past ten years of performing August Wilson's Century Play Cycle. Monologues from the 10 plays will be performed.
  FREE performance to Crawl participants of Ma Noah at 9pm

Toonseum | 947 Liberty Avenue
Toonseum presents Cartoon Quickies! Join us for rapid fire drop in cartooning lessons. Each session is 4 minutes.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture | 980 Liberty Avenue, Theater

• Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase | Featuring the PPS All-City ESL Student Performances, Elementary Choir, Junior Honors Choir, CRAE Drumming, Dancing & Performing Ensembles, and CRAE Visual Art Exhibit. Begins at 6pm.
• SOLO Exhibits | SOLO Exhibits features individual exhibitions of fiber art, printmaking, painting and sculpture by Leslie Ansley, Jo-Anne Bates and Tina Brewer. Glamazonia by Mario Epanya This glorious showcase of Beauty features over 30 images of Black women from contemporary full color photography to vintage black-and-white images, celebrating the beauty and diversity of the Diaspora.
• Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix | Our core exhibition dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This modular exhibit uses imagery, film and oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, and innovations

Tonic | 971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery | NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
Works by D.Hopper and Justice Coughenour from Modern Pop Art Live Music by Shay and Bryan William Kinney

August Henry’s City Saloon | 946 Penn Avenue
Magic by Peter Corbett | Be prepared to be wowed!

Urban Pathways K-5 Dance Studio | 925 Penn Avenue
Free Dance Lessons by Pittsburgh Dance Center’s Holly | Merengue at 6:30pm & Salsa at 7:30pm. Freestyle dance between and after the lessons.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery | 914 Penn Avenue
Wild Life Proudly | Presenting student artwork, photography & three dimensional design. Music by the Sounds of Steel steel pan band, 6:15pm & 7:45pm

Pilates Sol | 900 Penn
Pilates as Art in Motion | Stop by at 6pm & 7pm to play this interactive game. Match the exercise that is being demonstrated in the studio to the professional photographs displayed on the street front window. Winners receive a free private Pilates session!

CAPA | 111 Ninth St.
Push-pinned Prints and Drawings | An exhibition of screen prints, relief prints, blotted line prints, printouts, conceptual drawings and formal portrait studies by Pittsburgh CAPA Visual Art Students in grades 6-12.

Future Tenant | 819 Penn Avenue
Displacement | Guest curated by Kristen Kovak, featuring artwork by Phil Hessler and Natalia Gonzalez Requena | The show provides an opportunity to see the raw materials of industry poetically displaced in space and time.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council | 810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200
carbon first, then light | Ivette Spradlin | A photography survey of three projects, from Habana, Cuba to Philadelphia, aptly binds this exploration of the artist’s past, alongside an attempt to illuminate the invisible inhabitants and mysterious everyday objects that surround us.

Bend Yoga | 808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor
Guided meditation | 6:30pm to 7pm. Please register at mcallan@bendyoga.com
Poetry reading with Tarun Reddy from his haiku book Bru-ku | 7:30pm to 8pm, with signing afterwards.

Night Market IV | 8th Street & Penn Avenue Parking Lot
An expanded collection of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent food and art vendors – combined with music and dance in a parking lot on Penn Avenue. 7pm to 11pm.

709 Penn Gallery | 709 Penn Avenue
Cast of Characters Curated | by Cindy Lisica and Vicky Clark | Dramatis personae, fictional figures who tell a story, reveal insights while helping us to make sense of our world and our place in it.

707 Penn Gallery | 707 Penn Avenue
Adult Arcade | Marc Burgess | This new media installation will be composed of a variety of organically textured paintings, large geometric sculptures, robotic lasers and disorienting soundscapes.

Magnolias for Pittsburgh | 7th St. and Penn Avenue
Learn how Tony Tasset created this sculpture installation and craft your own (origami) magnolias with the Office of Public Art.

Katz Plaza | 7th St. and Penn Avenue

• Live Music by JD Eicher & the Goodnights
• Button-making with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | We supply the materials, you supply the creativity!
• Knit the Bridge is a grassroots, community-led arts project bringing the many diverse communities of Pittsburgh and Southwestern PA together to create a large-scale, stunning, fiberarts installation on a downtown bridge. Stop by to knit or crochet with us as we knit for the bridge!

Backstage Bar | 655 Penn Avenue

• Places & Faces Recent | works by Joyce Werwie Perry The texture and contrast of color in the paintings is achieved through the rapid application and detraction of oil with knives.
• Live Music by Elevations | 5:30pm to 7:30pm

kNOT Dance at Verve Wellness | 142 Sixth Street, Third floor
Creating Your Own Perspective | kNot Dance explores the diversity of individual perspectives from the lofty heights of the aerial silks to the baser human emotions that bubble from below. 7:30pm, 8:30pm & 9:30pm

Arthur Murray Dance Studio** | 136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro) | NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
Free Dance Lessons and Demos | Merengue at 7:30pm. Bachata at 8pm. Salsa at 8:30pm.

Braddock’s American Brasserie | 107 Sixth Street
The Art of Pierogie Making | Join Chef de Cuisine, Brian Volmrich, as he demonstrates how to create a pierogie. Attendees will enjoy making their own pierogie creation. Learn from the restaurant that is known for their signature pierogies.

Renaissance Pittsburgh | 107 Sixth Street
Three Local Artists creating masterpieces LIVE in the Renaissance lobby.

• James Houk www.jetstreet.us
• Anne Lee www.anneleestudio.com
• Sophia Kayafas http://sophiakayafas.daportfolio.com

Boutique 208 | 208 Sixth Street
Meet several of the local artists creating art and artisan products for this all local, all handmade boutique.

Robot Repairs | 210 Sixth Street
Is your robot experiencing technical difficulties? Consider visiting this place for a potential fix.

PNC Legacy Project | 600 Liberty Avenue
An interactive exhibit that showcases Pittsburgh’s transformation and reflects PNC’s dedication to revitalizing the city. 

AFTER THE CRAWL

Cabaret at Theater Square | 655 Penn Avenue
Salsa Friday | Free Admission to Salsa Friday at the Cabaret at Theater Square with DJ Jeff Shirey of Salsa Pittsburgh from 10pm to 1:30am. Get your Salsa! Bachata! and Cha Cha Cha on!

Arcade Comedy Theater | 811 Liberty Avenue
After the Gallery Crawl, plunk down your quarters at the brand-new Arcade Comedy Theater and enjoy High-Scoring improvisational comedy by our house team, Player One, and the up-and-coming Ruckus! Only $10.00 ($5 student rush), and $2.00 BYOB! http://arcadecomedytheater.com/?event=player-one-ruckus

ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

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All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted

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