Gallery Crawl in Pittsburgh's Cultural District Set for Tonight

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the next Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District, downtown Pittsburgh, will take place tonight, July 10, 2015, from 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. CrawlAfterDark events begin at 10:00pm at venues throughout the Cultural District. The Gallery Crawl is held quarterly and is free and open to the public.

The crawl showcases thought-provoking works by award-winning artists, one of a kind visual arts exhibition openings and premieres as well as live music, comedy and dance performances throughout the evening at various locations. "The summer Gallery Crawl shows the Cultural District at its best," shared Janis Burley Wilson, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement. "Cool people, live music, inspiring art and more attract thousands to SPACE, Wood Street Galleries and over 25 other Crawl locations."

The Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is presented and programmed by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Since 2004, the Cultural Trust's free quarterly gallery crawls have featured thought-provoking, unique and award-winning works by local, national and international artists, accompanied by a variety of free music and dance happenings for residents and visitors alike to experience first-hand.

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit TrustArts.org/Crawl or call 412-456-6666.

The following is a line-up of the Friday, July 10, 2015, Gallery Crawl events.

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street
D-Fuse: Pattern and Noise
D-Fuse are a London-based artist collective with more than 15 years of history in installation, film, experimental documentary, photography, live cinema performance and architectural projects. In recent years much of their practice has focused on environmental issues.

Pattern and Noise is D-Fuse's first solo exhibition in the US. Artists Mike Faulkner, Matthias Kispert, Paul Mumford and Toby Harris use the two floors of the gallery to explore the different themes central to their work: Small Global, focuses on data visualization in relation to environmental issues and global interdependency, while Tekt?n, references their roots in audio-visual culture, exploring the spatio-temporal qualities of light and motion. To celebrate this, on July 10th D-Fuse will perform two A/V shows - Tekt?n and Latitude. On view through September 6.

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
Wall Paintings, curated by Robert Raczka
Twelve artists will each create a large painting directly on the walls of SPACE. There will be a live art event open to the public, with the artists working in the gallery throughout the day on July 10. The event culminates in the evening reception during which the artists complete their paintings. On view July 10 through August 30.

Music with DJ Dave Zak Party Time.

Window SPACE | Thinkerers by Randy Gilson (A Randyland project)
Thinkerers is a series of more than 200 original pieces of art created with colorful and unique faces, hand-painted on reclaimed slate tiles to bring back to life the energy of a material as old as the Earth itself. windowSPACE is an ongoing series of 'window exhibitions' from the outside looking in.

600 Liberty Avenue
Trophy Cam by Matthew Forrest
Site-specific installation with a live web feed.

Social Status
717 Liberty Avenue
Deeper than Rap by Grits Capone
Deeper than Rap is an exhibit by Grits Capone that blends influences from ancient African societies and pop culture juxtaposed against some of Hip Hop's most prolific figures through digital collage. It serves as the link between ancient African greatness to the success of their diasporic descendants in Rap music.

Tito Way
Memento Mori by Mary Mazziotti
A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be short and its end unpredictable.

Cell Phone Disco by InformationLab
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
A retrospective exhibit featuring wall-sculptures and paintings from the past two decades.

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue
Third Floor
7B:1 by Anthony Musmanno
Portrait studies of people in impoverished areas of the world.

Fourth Floor
Calligraphy Guild of Pittsburgh
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
Members of the Pittsburgh chapter of ASMP will be displaying photographs from their commercial and personal work.

Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue
5:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. (Free)
The Harris Theater will be screening the "Best of the 2015 Film Kitchen Contest."

Arcade Comedy Theater
811 Liberty Avenue
Live Improv comedy every half hour!
Every half hour catch a brand new improv show at the Cultural District's award-winning comedy theater! Members of the Arcade Comedy Theater will be presenting 15-minute improv shows featuring games and scenes inspired by audience suggestions. No two shows are the same.

Cultural District, Exchange Way
iPhone Alley by Dennis Childers
A photographic observation of Exchange Way.

943 Liberty Avenue
#CRAFT YOUR MIND by Daniel Baxter
A whimsical approach to the topic of mental health.

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street
Multimedia Nature
Students from Manchester Craftsmen's Guild A showcase of poster-sized nature images, digitally photographed in and around Pittsburgh.

937 Gallery
937 Liberty Avenue
Second Floor
Why People Photograph
The Magenta Foundation invited Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Filmmakers photography faculty to assemble an exhibition representative of the work coming out of both institutions. This group show represents students who are passionate about the medium and work in a non-traditional manner. Personal narratives, social documents, constructed still lifes, abstractions, landscape, fashion and portraiture are all explored here, along with photographic books and gelatin/silver images.

Triangle Park
Corner of Liberty Avenue at Fifth Avenue
(Across from Fairmont Hotel, 510 Market Street)
Self Portraiture
POP ART, Presented by the Students of Pittsburgh CAPA
The Magenta Foundation is pleased to bring its third public outdoor art exhibition to Triangle Park. Here, the burgeoning talent of the latest art stars from Pittsburgh CAPA present their unique one-off pop art self-portraits. The goal of this installation is to celebrate high school students and give them a platform for their creativity in a larger public venue, while inspiring all of us to celebrate artists at all stages of life.

David L. Lawrence Convention Center
1000 Ft. Duquesne Blvd.
Room 406
Lecture by artist Tony Tasset
The Office of Public Art will host a lecture with artist Tony Tasset at 6:00 p.m. at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Room 406. Seating is limited, register online. Prolific American artist Tony Tasset will discuss Magnolias for Pittsburgh and other projects completed in the public realm. A reception with the artist will take place following the lecture, at 7:00 p.m. at public art Magnolias for Pittsburgh, corner of Penn Avenue & 7th Street. Tony Tasset's Magnolias for Pittsburgh is a public art installation of two bronze hand-casted magnolia trees, showcasing nearly 800 hand-sculpted flowers each, set within a garden created by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to "create a little magic, fairy-tale moment in the daily hustle and bustle of downtown Pittsburgh."
Lecture: 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Registration: www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/public-art/public-art-events/event/289
Cost: $5

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Grand Unveiling: Pittsburgh Murals and New Student Art

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
Inti.Mate, solo exhibition by Sidney Mullis
Sidney Mullis creates performance-based video projections of invented animals. Together, they create a kingdom that exists analogous to the homo sapien realm. By playing dress-up, an activity engaged by children, Sidney portrays imagined sexes and genders to understand pre-existing constructions of how woman is realized and, furthermore, performed.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue
Seventh Floor
Chimera
Women and the Grotesque
The chimera is an implausible creature composed of disparate parts. It confounds, disrupts and indulges our imagination. This exhibition of women artists positions the chimera as the acceptance of a multivalent power that is fantastically conceived and wildly imaginative, that is both beautiful and disgusting, that is unafraid to be undefined.

Bend Yoga
808 Penn Avenue, Second Floor
Drop by for the some Downtown Dog!
Stop in for some Downtown Dog! Enjoy free yoga and a chance to meet the teachers. Free Yoga Classes: 5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Pre-register: info@bendyoga.com

Night Market
Penn Avenue & 8th Street
The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership presents Night Market, an outdoor market that features some of Pittsburgh's most creative independent vendors. Stop by the parking lots on the corner of Penn Avenue and 8th Street from 5:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. for food, music, art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, games and more!

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue
Ashley Jean Hickey: I've Been Out Walking
A mixed media exhibition featuring abstract paintings and conceptual sculptures inspired by the woods. On view through August 12.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
Travis Mitzel: As Best I Can Remember
A photographic exploration of the imperfections of human memory, Travis Mitzel recreates memories by rebuilding past moments and characters. On view through August 30.

7th Street Parklet
7th Street at Penn Avenue
Magnolias for Pittsburgh by Tony Tasset
Public art by Tony Tasset. Two bronze hand-casted magnolia trees by artist Tony Tasset, showcasing nearly 800 hand-sculpted flowers each, are set within a garden created by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Magnolias for Pittsburgh "creates a little magic, fairy-tale moment in the daily hustle and bustle of downtown Pittsburgh."

Katz Plaza
7th Street at Penn Avenue
Music throughout the evening with Lindsey Smith & Soul Distribution and DJ SMI.

Backstage Bar
Theater Square
655 Penn Avenue
Light, Color, Abstraction by Nadya Lapets
An exploration of natural and imaginary worlds.

Braddock's American Brasserie
107 Sixth Street (Renaissance Hotel)
Deconstructed plates throughout the entire evening. A handful of menu items will be on display with some of the item's ingredients. Guests will match the menu item to the corresponding ingredients for a chance to win a $50 Braddock's gift card. Executive Chef Jason Shaffer will also be doing a cooking demonstration at 7:00 and 8:00 of how to make the "perfect" gnocchi.

Dream Cream Ice Cream
539 Liberty Avenue
Enjoy your favorite ice cream or discover a new flavor! Dream Cream's mission is to be a social enterprise that aids others to realize their dreams - one cause, one cone, and one community at a time.

CrawlAfterDark Schedule of Events
Introduced in January 2014 to mark the 10th year of Gallery Crawl, CrawlAfterDark highlights the transformation of the Cultural District, promoting numerous options for late night entertainment, from comedy, music, theater, clubs, dining, and more.

Trust Arts Education Center
805 Liberty Avenue
Peirce Studio

D-Fuse performance
10:00 p.m.-11:30 p.m.
Cost: $10
Pattern & Noise, live! D-Fuse perform Latitude [31°10N /121°28E] , a sonic cinema journey through Chinese urban landscapes, and Tekton, a live re-imagining of D-Fuse's current exhibition at Wood Street Galleries. Doors open at 9:30pm.

Harris Theater
807 Liberty Avenue
9:30 p.m.
Film to be announced. www.cinema.pfpca.org
Cost: $8, general admission

Arcade Comedy Theater
811 Liberty Avenue
Electric Slidez: PowerPoint Throwdown
10:00 p.m.
Cost: $5
Improvisers, public speakers, and comedians compete by giving PowerPoint presentations for slides they've never seen before. Each contestant is faced with a self-playing slide deck full of surprises, and it's up to them to turn it into a presentation that makes sense. It's a loud, crazy, and often raunchy comedy show that is unlike anything else in the city. Hosted by Brad Stephenson and Gayle Pazerski.

August Henry's City Saloon
946 Penn Avenue
10:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.
Karoake starring Rock 'n Ray the DJ and YOU.

Other Happenings in the Cultural District, Friday, July 10

Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh 2015
Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Location: 980 Liberty Avenue, Cultural District, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
VIP Admission includes VIP Party 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. and The Main Event 9:00 p.m. - midnight.
Cost: $85 Trust members | $95 non-members | $125 day-of
General Admission includes The Main Event, 9:00 p.m.-Midnight
Cost: $40 Trust members | $50 non-members | $75 day-of | $25 persons 21-29 years old

Circus After Dark is this year's Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh theme, featuring music, cocktails, food, desserts and more. For more information, call 412-456-6666, visit Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Avenue or visit:
http://trustarts.culturaldistrict.org/pct_home/donation/cosmopolitan-pittsburgh-2015

General Information
All information and locations are subject to change. Visit TrustArts.org/Crawl for updated and more detailed information.

Sponsors include City Paper, WYEP 91.3, and Kreider Printing.

Car Free Fridays
Walk, bike, bus or carpool to the Gallery Crawl and celebrate another Car Free Friday with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Port Authority, and BikePGH.

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

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