2009–10 MCG Youth & Arts Exhibitions
Admission to all MCG Youth & Arts exhibitions, lectures, and receptions is open to the public and offered at no cost. The exhibitions below are organized by gallery
location: the Connie Kerr Gallery—that we operate at our main facility at 1815 Metropolitan
Street—and auxiliary galleries. Contact our Exhibitions Department at 412-322-1773 Ext. 196, if you are interested in scheduling an exhibition.
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
October 19 – January 8, 2010
Spectacles of Scale
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See life of a whole new dimension in two coinciding solo exhibitions by Leat Klingman and Beth Nixon. Spectacles of Scale invites viewers into fantastical worlds created by the artists’ extraordinary modes of storytelling and puppetry. Experience transformation and role-play through a range of artistic techniques including sculpture, video, and performance, which come together to lightheartedly express universal truths. Klingman and Nixon will both conduct workshops with MCG Youth & Arts after-school students during their time here. Read the press release! |
Connie Kerr Gallery Exhibitions Calendar
Exhibitions at the 850 square foot Connie Kerr Gallery, which may also take advantage of the 1800 square foot adjacent North Lobby, showcase the work of nationally and internationally recognized artists as well as MCG staff and students. The Connie Kerr Gallery is open Monday- Friday, 9 am- 5 pm and during evenings and weekends of MCG Jazz concerts.
July 2 –August 21, 2009
New Work of Diverse Pennsylvania Artists
Reception: Friday, August 7 from 4 –7 p.m. Download the announcement!
Don't miss this traveling exhibition during its installation at MCG. Presented by The PA Council on the Arts and Penn State University, the 2008 biennial showcases the work of some of Pennsylvania's most talented artists from diverse multicultural communities across the state.
Join us Friday, August 7 from 4–7 p.m. for a culminating celebration in honor of exhibiting artists as well as the students of MCG Youth's summer program. Free and open to the public, the event will include hands-on activities in MCG's arts studios, a gallery talk by artist Tina Brewer, and food!
On exhibit are works by Jo-Anne L. Bates,
Brian Keith Bazemore,
Tina Williams Brewer,
Barbara Bullock,
Syd Carpenter,
Elizabeth Asche Douglas,
Timmy Graham,
Theodore Harris,
Christina E. Johnson,
LeRoy Johnson,
Martina Johnson-Allen,
Padmini Mongia,
Michelle Ortiz,
Ruth G. Richardson,
Marta Sanchez,
Richard Watson,
Victoria Weaver, Naola Mitchell Williams.
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A Mind of Its Own, ceramic, 15"x24"x15".
Syd Carpenter.
The American Love Story, oil, 60"x72".
Timmy Graham.
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Humble Beginnings, quilted collage,
90"x53". Tina Brewer.
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 August 31 – October 9, 2009
Summer Students & Staff Show
Reception: Thursday, October 8 from 5:30–8 p.m.
Kick off the start of a new school year with MCG’s annual exhibition honoring the student and staff artists of our Summer Studio Intensive program. From ceramics to photography, podcasting to screenprinting and fashion—plus everything in between—the Summer Students & Staff Show commemorates our hard-working and talented students and the dedicated staff who mentor and inspire them. Download the invitation!
October 19 – January 8, 2010
Spectacles of Scale
Artist Talk with Leat Klingman: Thursday, October 29 from 6–8:30 p.m.
Artist Talk with Beth Nixon: Thursday, November 12 from 6–8:30 p.m.
Download the announcement!
See life of a whole new dimension in two coinciding solo exhibitions by Leat Klingman and Beth Nixon. Spectacles of Scale invites viewers into fantastical worlds created by the artists’ extraordinary modes of storytelling and puppetry. Experience transformation and role-play through a range of artistic techniques including sculpture, video, and performance, which come together to lightheartedly express universal truths. Klingman and Nixon will both conduct workshops with MCG Youth & Arts after-school students during their time here.
Read the press release!
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Ballerina.
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Leat Klingman.
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February 22 – April 9, 2010
Table of Elements 2010
Benefit Reception: Friday, March 19, 5:30–8:30 p.m. (ticket prices coming soon)
Art Sale: Saturday, March 20, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. 
Visit MCG’s gallery to experience why bonds, friendships, and teaching and learning are often shared around the table. Enjoy a dazzling display of ceramic tableware complemented by two-dimensional artwork to commemorate the role that beautiful objects—whether practical, decorative, expressive or conceptual in intent—play in the creation of special places and moments. |
MCG Auxiliary Exhibitions Calendar
Mentors and Makers
Because the transformative power of mentorship represents the roots of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, MCG Youth & Arts previously utilized its MCG@800 Penn Avenue gallery space (now closed) explicitly as a venue to showcase installations developed by students and their mentors,
which may be either a MCG teaching artist or PPS faculty member. Through these Mentors and Makers exhibitions, MCG Youth & Arts
celebrates and makes public the power of Pittsburgh educators working with youth.
 June 15 –August 30, 2009
Paths to the Park
Exhibition Reception: Friday, July 17, 6–9 p.m., in conjunction with the Cultural District Gallery Crawl
Make your own paths around the Cultural District by participating in a special scavenger hunt: Saturday, July 18, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., in conjunction with the Cultural District Kids Crawl
MCG@800 Penn Avenue—Internationally-renown performance and mixed media artist Julia Mandle visits Pittsburgh to conduct a 4-day workshop with MCG after-school students. While producing their own pair of chalk shoes, students learned about Mandle's artistic practice as well as issues surrounding art and activism!
Then representatives from fellow North Side organizations joined the students in a performance combiningcostume and path making to highlight community amenities. Read the press release!
Performance, picnic and celebration: Friday, May 29 from 5-7 p.m. at Lake Elizabeth in Allegheny Commons (West Park). Download an invitation!
In 1996, Julia Mandle founded J Mandle Performance—a Brooklyn-based not-for-profit arts organization that creates site-specific performances in unexpected locations to heighten the perception of the everyday environment.
This collaboration between MCG and the New Hazlett Theater is partially funded by generous support from the Grable Foundation as part of the Charm Bracelet Project Fund.
July 17 –September 11, 2009
Serve & Project
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, July 23 from 4–6 p.m. in the Children's Musem Theater Gallery
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 Exhibition at Children's Museum of Pittsburgh* —For three days in June, visiting artists Lisa Link and Io Palmer led MCG after-school students in the concoction of intergenerational exchanges, culinary customs, and contemporary community art-making. From a documentary blog online (www.sandpmeetsmcg.blogspot.com), to a workshop facilitating dialogue with residents of the City of Pittsburgh Senior Community Center in Brighton Heights, to the production of a very unique recipe book--Link and Palmer share their artistic practice as means to initiate civic engagement and cultural understanding among North Side residents and others who participate in the community. Read the press release!
Serve & Project utilizes the arts to promote civic engagement, cultural understanding and positive social change. Co-directed by artists Lisa Link and Io Palmer, their work seeks to serve the community by offering space within which to discuss and create as well as project by lending artistic voice to given community dialogue and conversation stimulated by the making, production or consumption of food.
The artists and MCG are proud to see Serve & Project come together thanks to funding provided in part by generous support from the Grable Foundation through the Charm Bracelet Project Fund.
*Exhibition is free during public open hours. Museum admission not included.
January 18–February 12, 2010
Mentors & Makers: Spectacles of Scale by Pittsburgh Youth
Kerr Gallery at 1815 Metropolitan Street—View artwork created by MCG after-school Apprenticeship Training Program (ATP) students who were mentored during visiting artist workshops by Leat Klingman and Beth Nixon.
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MCG after-school student, Guy practices animating his finger puppet during the workshop with Leat Klingman.
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MCG after-school student, Miles models his mask during a reception after Beth Nixon's workshop.
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