2007-08 MCG Youth & Arts Exhibitions
Admission to all MCG Youth & Arts exhibitions, lectures and receptions is always FREE and open to the public. We operate two gallery
spaces: the Connie Kerr Gallery—located at our main facility at 1815 Metropolitan
Street—and a satellite gallery—MCG@800
Penn Avenue—located in the heart of
the cultural district. Contact Heather Powell, 412-322-1773 Ext. 196, if you are interested in scheduling an exhibition.
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
July 11–September 5, 2008
Space and Place:SOS@MCG Reception: Friday, July 25 from 4 - 9 p.m. in conjuction with MCG's Summer Family Day!
Read the press release!
MCG is especially excited to announce its first collaboration with Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors—Space and Place: SOS@MCG—a local rendition of their annual national open exhibition. The highlighted works include carved, cast and assembled forms that span experimental processes to traditional object-making featured within and outside our 1815 Metropolitan Street facility on the North Shore. Download the exhibition announcement!
Historically sculpture has been about creating forms and volumes. Using additive and subtractive processes, sculptors manipulate plastic materials to express ideas, tell stories, commemorate history and tradition, or express qualities of the human spirit. Artists today, and particularly sculptors, have become increasingly engaged with the function of their work and the context in which it is viewed—whether decorative, expressive or conceptual.
Featured artists include Atticus Adams, Jan Barone, Peter Calaboyias, Yi-Chuan Chen, Dennis Childers, Laura DeFazio, Elizabeth Asche Douglas, Tom Estlack, Ilena Finocchi, Sarika Malik Goulatia, Adrienne Heinrich, Stanley Koepke, Michael Leahy, David W. Martin, Duncan MacDiarmid, Kyle Milne, Ronald Nigro, Terri Perpich, James Rettinger, James Shipman, Cydra Vaux, Hugh Watkins, Paula Weiner and Gary Zak.
Please join us Friday, July 25 from 4–9 p.m. for a FREE afternoon of creative fun for all ages including arts activities, a live iron pour, a chance to meet featured artists, plus food and refreshments!
July 11 - September, 2008
Space and Place:SOS@800 Penn Avenue
Reception: Friday, July 11, 6–9 p.m., in conjunction with the Cultural District Gallery Crawl
Read the press release!
MCG@800 Penn Avenue—MCG is excited to announce its first collaboration with Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors, which has led to a special site-specific installation selected from proposals submitted through an open call for entries.
Parners Ed and Carley Parrish transform the highly visible yet intimately scaled space of MCG@800 Penn Avenue Gallery into a surreal, underwater cross section of modern sea life in the North Pacific gyre. Through a multimedia, sound and light installation made from recycled and various found materials, the duo recreate what is more popularly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to convey notions of consumption, adaptation, mutation and the causal relationships between earth’s inhabitants.
Step into a cross section of the North Pacific Gyre—view a GigaPan image of the installation!!
|
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.
Decode: Featuring the multimedia artwork of Jason Van Anden & Christy Matson
October 12, 2007 - January 4, 2008
Reception: Friday, October 12, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Decode is a multimedia exhibition showcasing the work of two artists: Jason Van Anden and Christy Matson. Experienced in traditional art-making processes—Van Anden in sculpture and Matson in weaving—both have integrated traditional art with digital technologies. From sounds and projections to videogames and robots, Van Anden and Matson’s work engages the senses and challenges perceptions in compelling and innovative ways.
Van Anden’s living artworks—Neil and Iona—are just under six feet tall and three feet around and will be displayed along with Matson’s weavings and work created by MCG students during Van Anden’s weeklong workshop at the Guild
Join all the digital art fun at MCG's Fall Family Day with Christy Matson on Friday, October 26th. All are welcome!
The Frank Ross Legacy Exhibition
Learn How One Potter's Touch Affected a Generation of Artists and their Communities
January 18 – April 4, 2008
Frank Ross's impact on a young Bill Strickland laid the foundation for every aspect of what Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is today. From the classrooms of Pittsburgh's Oliver High School to the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, artist, teacher and mentor Frank Ross touched the lives and inspired many now-recognized artists. The Legacy exhibition will showcase original Frank Ross artwork along with ceramics created by his students, friends and contemporaries. Read the press release. Reception/Studio Dedication*: Join us on Tuesday, March 18th from 5:30 - 8 pm for an evening of friends, food and music in celebration of the ceramic arts. MCG founder, Bill Strickland, and NCECA board representatives will commemorate the MCG ceramics studio to Frank Ross.
Tickets*: $35 (advance), $45 (door), $25 (with valid student ID).
Includes an exclusive preview of the Table of Elements exhibition.
March 19–22, 2008
Table of Elements
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild - Celebrate the role ceramics play in creating special places and moments. Table of Elements will transform the dining hall at 1815 Metropolitan Street into a showcase of practical, decorative and expressive works by nearly 100 locally and nationally established and emerging artists and educators. MCG is especially honored to announce nationally renowned potter Suze Lindsay as Honorary Chair of the exhibition.
March 19–22, 2008
To Live Harmoniously with Nature
Greenhouse at the Drew Mathieson Center for Horticultural Technology - Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild is pleased to announce a month-long international residency with distinguished Japanese ceramic artists Hiromu and Mieko Okuda. Through engagements with students, community members and teachers at MCG and Slippery Rock University, the Okudas will create a new collaborative ceramic installation—To Live Harmoniously with Nature—that will be exhibited at the Drew Mathieson Center for Horticultural Technology (1650 Metropolitan Street) during the NCECA Conference. Learn more about the Okudas!
March 19–22, 2008
Flowers & Clay
Greenhouse at the Drew Mathieson Center for Horticultural Technology - Installed exclusively for the NCECA Conference at the Drew Mathieson Center for Horticultural Techonology! Flowers & Clay is a group exhibition of Ikebana containers and flower arrangements created through workshops with members of Sogetsu Pittsburgh, regional teachers and students.
April 25 - May 23, 2008
2008 Pittsburgh Public High Schools All-City Arts Showcase
Reception and Awards Ceremony: Friday, May 9, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
This annual exhibition features juried artwork of all media created by Pittsburgh Public High School students.
Do you attend a Pittsburgh Public High School and want to submit work to All City Show? Download PDFs of all the forms you need here!
Entry Form, Submission Forms to Apply for Art Institute of Pittsburgh Scholarship, Submission Form to Apply for Pittsburgh Technical Institute Scholarship, Submission Forms to Apply for Eleanor Friedberg Fund Scholarship
Are you a teacher at Pittsburgh Public High School and want to submit student's work to All City Show? Download PDFs of all the forms you need here!
Teacher Submission Form, Artist's Statement Form, Entry Form
June 6 - July 3, 2008
26th annual Accomplishment Show
Reception: Friday, June 6 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Enjoy this mixed media display showcasing artworks created by local students in grades K - 12 during MCG Youth programs.
From pieces made at the Helen S. Faison Arts Academy as part of our Learner Centered Arts Integration (LCAI) program, to work by middle school students made during Artists in Schools (AIS) residencies, to art created by our high school after school Apprenticeship Training Program (ATP) students—this exhibition features the rising stars of Pittsburgh's art scene.
Each year MCG Youth staff has the pleasure of working with local youth who continue to amaze and inspire us, and this exhibition is our opportunity to recognize and share with the public a culmination of the staff and the students' hard work.
Please join us Friday, June 6 from 5:30 - 8 p.m. for a special evening celebration to honor the achievements of our talented students and to learn more about MCG Youth programs!
July 11 - September 5 , 2008
Space and Place: SOS@MCG Reception: Friday, July 25 from 4 - 9 p.m. in conjuction with MCG's Summer Family Day!
Read the press release!
MCG is especially excited to announce its first collaboration with Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors—Space and Place: SOS@MCG—a local rendition of their annual national open exhibition. The highlighted works include carved, cast and assembled forms that span experimental processes to traditional object-making featured within and outside our 1815 Metropolitan Street facility on the North Shore.
Historically sculpture has been about creating forms and volumes. Using additive and subtractive processes, sculptors manipulate plastic materials to express ideas, tell stories, commemorate history and tradition, or express qualities of the human spirit. Artists today, and particularly sculptors, have become increasingly engaged with the context in which their work is viewed and functions—whether decorative, expressive or conceptual. Download the exhibition announcement!
Featured artists include Atticus Adams, Jan Barone, Peter Calaboyias, Yi-Chuan Chen, Dennis Childers, Laura DeFazio, Elizabeth Asche Douglas, Tom Estlack, Ilena Finocchi, Sarika Malik Goulatia, Adrienne Heinrich, Stanley Koepke, Michael Leahy, David W. Martin, Duncan MacDiarmid, Kyle Milne, Ronald Nigro, Terri Perpich, James Rettinger, James Shipman, Cydra Vaux, Hugh Watkins, Paula Weiner and Gary Zak.
Please join us Friday, July 25 from 4–9 p.m. for a FREE afternoon of creative fun for all ages including arts activities, a live iron pour, a chance to meet featured artists, plus food and refreshments!
Open to any artist 18 years or older, the exhibition came together after submissions were juried by MCG's Vice President of Operations, Joshua Green, and Exhibitions Coordinator, Heather Powell. Want to learn more about the call for entries? Download the prospectus.
September 12–October 10, 2008
2008 Summer Students and Staff Show
Reception: Friday, September 26 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.
MCG Youth's uniqueness lies in its people: the hard-working and talented students, and the dedicated staff who mentors and inspires them. From ceramics to photography, digital arts to sculpture and fashion--plus everything in between--this exhibition celebrates the diversity and power of our creative community. |
MCG@800 Penn Avenue Exhibitions Calendar
Mentors and Makers at MCG@800 Penn Avenue
Because the transformative power of mentorship represents the roots of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, MCG Youth & Arts utilizes MCG@800 Penn Avenue 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. The 600 square foot gallery on Penn Avenue offers excellent visibility for the public to enjoy installations developed by collaborations between MCG teaching artists and their students. MCG@800 Penn Avenue is also open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and in the evenings during cultural district gallery crawls.
September 14, 2007 - October 28, 2007
Growing Panes - A photo-based installation by MCG Teaching Artist Dror Yaron and Photography student Kirsten McLaughlin and Ana Tsulahres
MCG @ 800 Penn Avenue
Reception: Friday, October 19, 6:00–9:00 p.m., in conjunction with the Cultural District Gallery Crawl
This photographic exhibition explores questions of personal identity and origin through visual representation of personal mementos. The artists created digital images by scanning objects that they felt symbolized important parts of their personal history.
Ana Tsulahres, a junior at Pittsburgh Schenley, explores her transition into womanhood by using jewelry that belongs to her mother and grandmother. Kirsten McLaughlin, a sophomore at Pittsburgh Schenley, reflects on the childhood experiences of her family by depicting three generation of teddy bears. Dror Yaron connects to his ethnic roots through images of food.
Thanks to the Pittsburgh branch of Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., a copy machine will be placed in the gallery for visitors to use to create their own scanned images!
Dror Yaron is the Photography Studio Coordinator at MCG. He studied at the International Center of Photography in New York and has exhibited in galleries, museums and alternative venues both nationally and internationally.
November 2, 2007 - January 6, 2008
Decode 2
MCG @ 800 Penn Avenue
An installation inspired by the sights and sounds of the Jacquard loom. Decode 2 features digital weavings created by MCG students during a three-day workshop with sound and textile artist Christy Matson.
Christy Matson is a weaver who utilizes both hand-operated and industrial Jacquard looms. By connecting her weaving to pressure-sensitive circuits that generate sound when touched, Matson explores ways to imitate human experience and perception through art.
January 11 - February 24, 2008
Original Spin
Revisiting Historic Panoramas of Pittsburgh
Reception: January 25, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m. in conjunction with the cultural district gallery crawl.
This Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Mentors and Makers exhibition features contemporary renditions of historic panoramas, created by MCG Youth photo students working with mentor/artist Dror Yaron. Thanks to the gigapan—a camera developed by CMU’s Robotics Institute—and the guidance of Rivers of Steel, this large-scale installation gives viewers a whole new perspective of the steel city. Featured student artists include Barry Taylor, Ben Page, Felicia Chapman, Ariel Morris-Holtz and Bryan Mullen.
Visit www.gigapan.org and search the keyword “MCG” to view student photos taken throughout the semester! Or visit www.riversofsteel.com to learn more about Steel City history.
February 29 - April 28, 2008
Between Surface and Self
Ceramic Printmaking
Reception: April 25, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. in conjunction with the cultural district gallery crawl.
Featuring images on clay created by Pittsburgh area teens during a special collaborative workshop! Thanks to a partnership between Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, the Andy Warhol Museum and Artists Image Resource, author, curator, ceramic artist and educator, Paul Wandless conducted a residency with local teens. Participants worked with monoprinting, laser transfer and screen printing techniques to create the installation on view at MCG@800 Penn Avenue and other venues around the city!
May 16 - July 6, 2008
From Violence to Vision
Benefit Reception: Friday, June 20 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
MCG@800 Penn Avenue - MCG Youth’s dedicated after-school students, the Arts Leadership and Public Service (ALPS) interns, use art to raise money to support the Center for Victims of Violence and Crime (CVVC). Through art exhibition, sales of pins featuring the student-designed logo shown here and a benefit reception including a silent auction of art work, student-artists become advocates for support services, crisis intervention, counseling and community education programs that address the causes and impacts of all types of violence and crime. A portion of all proceeds made during the exhibition will be donated to the CVVC.
Read the press release!
Please join us Friday, June 20 from 5:30–8 p.m. for a special benefit reception to celebrate activism through the arts and raise money to support victims of violence!
Interested in making a $5 donation and receiving a pin for the cause? Contact Heather Powell at 412-322-1773 Ext. 196 or Jeff Schwarz (Ext. 198)
July 11 - September 7, 2008
Space and Place:SOS@800 Penn Avenue
Reception: Friday, July 11, 6–9 p.m., in conjunction with the Cultural District Gallery Crawl
Read the press release!MCG@800 Penn Avenue—MCG is excited to announce its first collaboration with Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors, which has led to a special site-specific installation selected from proposals submitted through an open call for entries.
Parners Ed and Carley Parrish transform the highly visible yet intimately scaled space of MCG@800 Penn Avenue Gallery into a surreal, underwater cross section of modern sea life in the North Pacific gyre. Through a multimedia, sound and light installation made from recycled and various found materials, the duo recreate what is more popularly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to convey notions of consumption, adaptation, mutation and the causal relationships between earth’s inhabitants.
Download the exhibition announcement!
Visit during the Gallery Crawl on Friday, July 11 from 6–9 p.m. and step into a cross section of the North Pacific Gyre!!
Want to learn more about the call for entries? Download the prospectus.
|
