2003- 2004: Archive of Exhibitions

September 19 - October 17, 2003
Full Circle
A staff exhibition in diverse media

Closing Reception: 6-8 p.m., Thursday, October 2
(Main and North Lobby Galleries)

October 11, 2003
Harvest
Garden Reception- 2-4 p.m. Saturday, October 11
Frank Curto Park

Join MCG Arts, the Persephone Project and artist Delanie Jenkins in a Harvest of Art Celebration at Frank Curto Park. This community event is a component of a year-long Creative Heights Residency Grant generously supported by the Heinz Foundations. Delanie Jenkins is a 2003 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in sculpture recipient.

October 24- December 12, 2003
Self and Central

Hugh Merrill: Large-Scale Prints and Drawings
Artist, educator and writer, Hugh Merrill is a professor at Kansas City Art Institute and Executive Director of Chameleon , a center dedicated to arts learning with at-risk and ajudicated youth. Merrill is known for a personal body of work as well as artworks created through community interactions based on the concept of memory and the construction of self. His work has been exhibitied at Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Harvard Art Museums, the Cranbrook Museum, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, and the Nelson Atkins Museum among others.

Hugh Merrill Lecture & Reception-
Friday, November 8, 7 - 9 p.m.

Portrait of Self Residency with Hugh Merrill-
November 3-8

Family Day: 1-4 p.m., Saturday, November 8

Pottery of Nicaragua: Three Perspectives
Works by Gregorio Bracamante, the studio of San Juan de Oriente master decorator Helio Guitierrez and Ducale Grande Women's Pottery Collective of Nueva Segovia province. Ron Riviera, an artist, is the Managua based coordinator of Potters for Peace a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of indegenous craft cultures and development of sustainable technologies in Nicaragua and other developing nations.

Residency -Gregorio Bracamante and Helio Guitierrez
November 17-19

Lecture/Reception- Paul Devoti on the transition of Pre-Colombian to contemporary ceramics in Nicaragua
6-8 PM, Tuesday, November 18

Lecture/Reception- Ron Rivierra, Potters for Peace: Craft culture and sustainable technology in Nicaragua.
7-9 PM, Friday, November 21

Workshop- Ceramic water filtration systems
10 am- 4 PM, Saturday- Sunday, November 22-23, 2003

December 19, 2003- February 6, 2004
Telling Tales

John Stone: Mixed Media Constructions
Philadelphia artist, John Stone incorporates printmaking and photographic techniques into the surfaces of his sculptural constructions. Working with found materials, he explores themes of personal and cultural narrative.

John Stone Residency- January 28-30, 2004
Lecture/ Reception- NOW RESCHEDULED TO
1:30 p.m., SATURDAY, JANUARY 31.

Faith Ringgold: Narrative Quilts and Paintings
The work of artist, Faith Ringgold has been admired around the world in public and private collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More recently, her book, Tar Beach earned recognition as a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the work of an internationally accomplished creator.

Faith Ringgold Lecture- 1:30-3:30 pm, Friday, Jan. 30, 2004
Book Signing and Reception- 3:30-5 p.m.

Febr uary 13- April 2, 2004
Constructing Identity

Stephen Marc: Digital Media and Prints
A master of digital image making, Stephen Marc's surreal photographic works depict archetypal conditions of humanity and the landscape.

Stephen Marc residency- February 23-28, 2004
Lecture/Reception- 6-8 pm, Friday, February 27, 2004

Jon Yamashiro: Photography
This photographer creates complex constructions involving doll-like sculptures in seemingly natural settings comment on the interactions of self with mythic traditions.

Jon Yamashiro Residency- March 9-12, 2004

Lecture/Reception- 6-8 pm, Friday, March 12, 2004

Teachers and Photographers workshop- 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., Saturday, March 13

April 16- May 21, 2004
City-Wide
Pittsburgh Public High Schools 2004
All-City Arts Showcase
Public Reception: Thursday, May 13, 2004, 6 - 8 p.m.
Friedberg Benefit: Friday, May 21, 7-10 p.m.

More than one-hundred works in a variety of media created by students of Pittsburgh's public high schools. Over $90,000 in scholarships and awards is available through this exhibition. Entries by Pittsburgh Public High School students will be accepted at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild from March 29-April 2. Entry forms are available with Pittsburgh Public High School Art Teachers, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Manchester Craftsmen's Guild.

June 3 - July 9, 2004
Accomplishment XXII
Highlights of 2003-04 MCG Youth student artists

Reception- Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 6 - 8 p.m.

June 19, 2004
To Gather Again: an eco-art planting event

Join artist, Delanie Jenkins to replant her garden-based artwork in Frank Curo Park. This project is supported by the Creative Heights Residency fund of the Heinz Endowmnents in collaboration with MCG Arts and the Persephone Project.

Jenkins has maintained a garden in Persephone Project's ArtGardens of Pittsburgh at Frank Curto Park since spring 2003. An installation artist and great gradndaughter of Texas sharecroppers, this project draws on her agricultural roots and memories in relation to plant material, scent, and sense of place. Her garden at Frank Curto Park has previously been planted with cotton, okra, luffa sponges and honeysuckle among other plant varieties. Visitors to Frank Curto Park on Saturday, June 19 from 10 am to 2 pm can help plant potential "art products" and are invited to participate in informal educational sessions with the artist.

Directions to Frank Curto Park:
Located along Bigelow Boulevard, the park is accessible from the inbound (toward downtown Pittsburgh) lane. The entrance is 1/2 mile from the traffic light at Herron Ave. and Bigelow Blvd. Orange posts are located on both sides of the entry into the park.

July 16- September 3, 2004
To Gather Again
An installation on autobiography, agriculture and metaphor by Delanie Jenkins

The culmination of a Creative Heights Residency grant supported by the Heinz Endowmnents in collaboration with MCG Arts and the Persephone Project, this project brings materials harvested from artist's Frank Curto Park garden into the gallery.

Delanie Jenkins Reception- 6-8 pm, Friday, July 16

Dark Matters
Janyce Erlich-Moss: Environmental Portraits

Large scale photographic prints that transform familiar surroundings through use of the pin-hole camera

Residency: Large format pinhole photography-
July 27-30

Janyce Erlich-Moss Reception- 6-8 pm, Thursday,
July 29

MCG @ 800 Penn Ave. 2004 - 05 ExhibitionsSchedule

Mentors and Makers
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild maintains a satellite gallery in the heart of the downtown cultural district. This venue serves as the base of operations for an ongoing exhibition program entitled Mentors and Makers. In addtion to exhibiting works created in the MCG studios, a series of exhibtions that highlight the work of teachers and students in Pittsburgh Public Schools will appear each month. If you are a teacher interested in scheduling a future exhibition, please contact Angeliki Georgiou at (412) 322-1773, ext. 196.

July 14 - August 10, 2003
Ceramics by Seville Jackshon
Clayworks by an alumnus of MCG Youth and Bidwell Training Center's Culinary Arts Program.

August 12 - October 12, 2003
Ceramics by Seville Jackshon
Clayworks by an alumnus of MCG Youth and Bidwell Training Center's Culinary Arts Program.

October 12- December 14, 2003
Digital Domains II
Prints by Dennis Childers, Media Arts Instructor at the Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts

December 15, 2003 - February 15, 2004
Coal Patch Kids
Family photographs of the 1920's-1950's from Joe Katrencik, art teacher at Reizenstein Middle School

February 17 - March 21, 2004
CAPA Students of Mary Barr
Paintings and Works on paper from the Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts

March 16 - May 9, 2004
Mary Barr
Paintings and Works on paper by the painting instructor Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts

May 11 - July 5, 2004
Art After Dark I
Clay works by Manchester Craftsmen's Guild Adult Education and Professional Development Programs.