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Maxo Vanka Murals & St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale

May 12, 2017 Lindsay

Maxo Vanka MuralsToday’s preservation month post is inspired by the Millvale Musical Festival, which is happening on Saturday, May 13. Millvale continues to gain popularity as a destination for breweries, music, community projects and some impressive community events. If you are headed to Millvale then you need to know about the Maxo Vanka murals, which might be one of the best kept secrets in Pittsburgh. If you are headed to Millvale for the music festival, you might want to take a little break to check these unique works of art. Even if you are not headed to the music festivals, the Maxo… Read the rest

Filed Under: Churches, Historic Preservation Tagged With: #thisplacematters, Coit Tower, millvale, murals, Pennsylvania, preservation month, San Francisco, Society to Preserve Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka, St. Nicholas Croatian Church (Millvale, Works Progress Administration, WPA artists

#tbd: Paint a mural during the Three Rivers Arts Festival

June 6, 2015 Ray Bowman

The Three Rivers Arts Festival opened yesterday. Lots of people are planning on coming down to see the art, but come between 11am and 2pm from today through June 14th and you can help create it. Muralist Kim Beck has begun stenciling an 850-foot mural underneath the Fort Duquesne Bridge and is ready for volunteers to help fill in the “paint by number” with black, white and gray paint. Looking at her Tumblr, you can see that Kim Beck (previously featured on I Heart PGH) has a fascination with the mundane and ephemeral aspects of the urban landscape, like billboards,… Read the rest

Filed Under: Annual Events, Arts & Culture, Events Tagged With: aia, american institute of architects, Arts & Culture, arts festival, kim beck, murals, riverlife, Three Rivers Arts Fest, three rivers arts festival, yasc, young architects studio competition

More Public Art Please

October 21, 2008 Lindsay

Image by wallyg via FlickrA few years ago I attended an informational meeting about the Sprout Fund’s public art program to learn more about murals in cities. What I took away from that brief meeting was a new appreciation of the idea of public art – I had never thought much about the idea of bringing art to people in their neighborhoods. Museums are great and Pittsburgh has some great museums but you have to go there to see the art. The Sprout Fund’s program was based on the public art program in Philadelphia which now has over 2200 murals… Read the rest

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Albuquerque New Mexico, arts, Boston Massachusetts, murals, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Public Art, Sprout Fund

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