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Frank Lloyd Wright home in Phoenix sells for $7.25 million
PHOENIX — A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Phoenix has sold more than $7 million. The Arizona Republic reported Monday that the David and Gladys Wright House sold for $7.25 million. The group of buyers include businessman Jim Benson and architect Bing Hu, who apprenticed at Wright’s Taliesin West school...
Latrobe Art Center classes help youngsters unlock creativity
Latrobe Art Center will offer various fall art classes for young people, from first grade through high-school. All class sizes at the center at 819 Ligonier St. are limited to no more than eight participants. Staff members will meet all required safety guidelines and all in-person students will need to...
Western Pa. veterans create art for virtual exhibit
The pieces of art were created by heroes. Twelve veterans from the Southwestern Veterans Center are part of the exhibit, “We Are Beautiful Art!” An opening was planned for March at the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Downtown, but was canceled because of the pandemic. The 35-piece collection can be viewed...
Frick Pittsburgh opens some of its exhibits, grounds
Portions of The Frick Pittsburgh have reopened. The East End museum is operating with limited hours and is opening in phases. Not everything is available because of social distancing constraints inside the Clayton House, the cafe and the greenhouse, said Frick spokesman Greg Langel. The Car and Carriage museum and...
Ligonier museum plans garden tour, plein air painting weekend
The natural beauty of the Ligonier area is the focus of two September programs scheduled at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley. • The museum’s head gardener, Anne Clark, will lead a tour of the gardens on the museum grounds at 1 p.m. Sept. 18. “This tour...
Artist creating huge street mural in Downtown PittsburghVideo
When Jayla Patton was 13 years old, her family’s cable television service got cut off. “The bills were expensive,” said Patton. “My father told me to forget about watching TV and to draw instead. It gave me something to do.” These days, it’s not just a way to pass the...
Southwestern Pa. artists vie for ‘Art of the State’ exhibition awards
Finalists for awards in the 53rd annual “Art of the State” juried exhibition at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg include six artists from Westmoreland County and nine from Allegheny. Because the museum remains closed due to the covid-19 pandemic, winners will be announced on Facebook and Twitter at...
First lady opens student art exhibit on women’s suffrage
WASHINGTON — Melania Trump is marking the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote with an art exhibit based on works by children from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The first lady called adoption of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that granted women voting...
Greensburg’s new Green Beacon Gallery aims to encompass art, music, more
Three young entrepreneurs have ambitious plans for a new art and music space in downtown Greensburg. The name is painted on the window and art already fills the walls of the Green Beacon Gallery at 235 W. Pittsburgh St., but there’s no date yet for when the doors will open....
Mattress Factory installations explore race, sexuality, ecology
Two new exhibits at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh’s North Side explore timely issues of life on earth. “Feeling the Spirit in the Dark,” by Pittsburgh-based artist Shikeith, and “The Museum of All Things,” by Canadian-born artist Jennifer Angus, will run through March 31 in the installation art facility’s Monterey...
Depreciation Lands Museum open for the season
The Depreciation Lands Museum in Hampton Township opened for the season on Aug. 16. It will remain open from 1-4 p.m. each Sunday through the end of October. Jonathan Klemens, vice president of the museum, said that the buildings and exhibits are roped off to ensure social distancing and that...
En plein air: Crabtree sunflower field inspires outdoor painting session for local artists
Crabtree, part of Westmoreland County’s rural landscape, is a long way from Italy and its country vistas of vineyards and olive groves. But it didn’t seem that way for some area artists on Wednesday. “It’s beautiful; it looks like Tuscany out here,” said art instructor Doreen Currie of Unity while...
Potential covid-19 exposure closes Compass Inn Museum, cancels militia re-enactment
The Compass Inn Museum in Laughlintown and the adjacent Ligonier Valley Historical Society headquarters are closed for two weeks because an employee may have been exposed to the coronavirus. The precautionary closure will be in effect through Aug. 28. The employee did not come into contact with museum visitors since...
10 artists to create original works for Diversity Billboard Art Project
Ten artists have been chosen to create original work for the Diversity Billboard Art Project created by the Westmoreland Diversity Coalition in partnership with The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Their commissions will be inspired by the theme “Make Our Differences Our Strengths” to convey how diversity and inclusion can...
Greensburg artists’ mosaic finds home in Puerto Rican church
A mosaic created for a show at the Greensburg Art Center will have a permanent home at a chapel in Puerto Rico. Artists Rosemary Sovyak of Hempfield and Tom Niggel of Greensburg combined their talents for the piece that was part of last winter’s “Collaborations” exhibition, featuring works made by...
Militia encampment planned at Compass Inn Museum
Editor’s Note: This event has been canceled. The Compass Inn Museum and Ligonier Valley Historical Society headquarters are closed as a precaution for two weeks, through Aug. 28, because of an employee’s potential exposure to the coronavirus. A local re-enactment group that portrays a Revolutionary War-era militia unit and working...
‘Art Neighbors’ lend their talents to Greensburg Art Center show
Many hands make light work, and they also can make beautiful art — as illustrated by the upcoming “Art Neighbors” exhibition at Greensburg Art Center. Now in its second year, the show features work by artists who are members of either, or both, the Greensburg and Latrobe art centers. The...
Animals in motel rooms star in Carnegie’s next online exhibitionVideo
The Carnegie Museum of Art’s next online exhibition will feature video vignettes of “wild North American migratory animals relocated from their natural habitats to vacant motel rooms.” Launching Aug. 19, the unusual work is “migration (empire),” a 24-minute video by multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken. The film was exhibited on the...
The Westmoreland reopens: A safe space to contemplate art in the midst of pandemicVideo
Doug and Connie Clutter of Washington, Pa., were the first guests through the door when The Westmoreland Museum of American Art reopened Wednesday. A watercolor painter, Connie said she was in need of some inspiration for her work. “We needed an outing, too,” her husband said. “I just missed art...
Heinz History Center is part of national collaboration for ‘Made By Us’ initiative
When Senator John Heinz History Center learned about the chance to collaborate with other museums to present U.S. history — geared to the younger generation, giving them a platform to express their thoughts — the center’s president and CEO, Andy Masich, jumped at the opportunity. The history center has teamed...
Free children’s admission at Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
August is a good time to take the children to the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, in Avella, Washington County. Kids 17 and under will be admitted free courtesy of UPMC. The museum, which is part of the Senator John Heinz History Center’s family of museums, was designated a National...
Pittsburgh’s Handmade Arcade looking for vendors as it goes virtual
The annual Handmade Arcade will be held virtually this year. The event’s “Virtual Marketplace” will launch on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 28, and run through Dec. 6. Vendor applications are being accepted. The deadline is Aug. 22. Apply here. Everyone who applies will get a link to a free webinar....
Sage’s Army online art auction features Western Pa. artists’ work
The work of noted area artists will be available in an online art auction to benefit Sage’s Army. Bidding will begin at noon Wednesday. Among more than two dozen artists donating work are prominent local artists including Dan Overdorff, Mary Ellen Raneri and Toni Antonucci, along with national and international...
Carnegie Science Center hires STEM education, museum experiences directors
Carnegie Science Center has hired two new senior staff members to lead efforts in STEM education and museum experiences. Lisa Herrmann takes over as the new senior director of STEM education and Marcus Harshaw is the new senior director of museum experiences. Herrmann most recently worked as education manager at...
It’s all fun and games as ‘Boxes of Joy’ distributed to children in Pittsburgh regionVideo
Bringing a little fun and some learning, too, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Reading is FUNdamental (RIF) Pittsburgh and The Education Partnership teamed up to assemble and deliver “Boxes of Joy” this summer. The boxes contain more than $100 worth of items, including sketch books, colored paper, footballs, bug stamp...
