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South Side Works Exposed 2010 – Music and Arts Festival

Another popular event from 2009 is back again for an even bigger event in 2010.  This weekend the South Side Works shopping area will become a street festival with music, artist market (organized by the good folks at Imadeit Market) and kids area. 3 days of fun in the streets of the south side.

SHOW HOURS:

July 16, 5 – 10 pm
July 17, 2 – 10 pm
July 18, 12 – 5 pm

south-side-works-exposed-2010Exposed Artist Market – over 70 different artists will be selling their hand made wares this weekend at the Southside works.  Here are a few of our favorites.  Check out the entire list of vendors here on the IMadeIt Market Blog.

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In case you missed Handmade Arcade…

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Image by tigerlillyshop via Flickr

Pittsburgh filmmaker Brian Staszal posted a link to his video about HandMade Arcade in the comments back in December.  It is a really nice look at the handmade festivities so I wanted to share the video in a post too.  Even if you missed the handmade marketplace in December – most of the vendors have online websites or a shop at Etsy too.   The video includes an interview with Jennifer Barron – check out her Etsy Shop Fresh Popcorn Productions and the “Black and Gold is the new black t-shirt.  Also seen at Handmade Arcade are the guys from Campfire Goods – they have lots of great t-shirts too.

Handmade Arcade, December 2009 from Brian Staszel on Vimeo.

Pittsburgh’s largest indie craft fair, Handmade Arcade, took over the Hunt Armory in Shadyside December 12, 2009. It was a challenge to show so much talent and all the hard work that went into making the event a success in a short video.

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Behind Our Scenes:"Backstage" Artists at SPACE

Often times museum employees “are artists who dedicate their days promoting the artwork of others and their nights & weekends creating artwork of their own.” Curators Laura Mustio and Nicole Rosato celebrate this fact with a new show, Behind Our Scenes, opening Friday night from 6-9PM at SPACE (812 Liberty Ave. in Downtown). Rosato herself is the Visitor Services and Volunteer Coordinator at The Mattress Factory, and the artists are all employees of some of the most well-known Pittsburgh cultural institutions: The Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland; The Mattress Factory, North Side; The Andy Warhol Museum, North Side; Fe Gallery, Lawrenceville; Future Tenant, Downtown; Wood Street Galleries, Downtown. The show runs through February 13, 2010. Read a guest post by curator Nicole Rosato over at The Mattress Factory’s blog!

Links Worth a Look – August 17th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

  • BLOGSKI » Blog Archive » Pittsburgh Entrepreneur Fund – Blogski has a nice write up on the Pittsburgh Entrepreneurship Fund – a loan fund for start ups and growing businesses
  • Bittersweet Harvest | Your Source for the Emerging Pittsburgh Art Scene – I wanted to point out this great blog about the Pittsburgh Arts Scene – they have had some nice posts recently. Here is some more info about Bittersweet Harvest "This blog is designed by artists for artists to inform you about what is going on in the Pittsburgh arts community. This includes a wide range of the arts, so feel free to share with me what you are working on! Bittersweet Harvest is your source to find out what is happening locally in the 'burgh while providing inspiration and information about the galleries and artists of Pittsburgh. The best of the best of PGH's art scene! Thank you for stopping by!"
  • New Coffee Shop and New Cantina Open in Lawrenceville – Check out the Lawrenceville Corporation newsletter – there is a new coffee shop and a new bar/restaurant (they are currently just serving drinks, but food is coming soon) on Butler Street in Lawrenceville

Follow IheartPGH on Twitter – we share more links there almost daily!

Visionary Arts Festival in Schenley Plaza

eye_open_leftPittsburgh neighborhoods are abound with arts festivals this summer, but the first Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival promises to be a bringing together more than 50 local visionary artists and art innovators into a single venue. For three full days, these artists will share their work, vision and unique ideas in a friendly outdoors festival setting. The VAF will feature a rich diversity of minds, covering the full spectrum of art mediums: from painting to mixed media, from digital media to sound art, through recycled and self-taught art… and beyond! This festival is intended primarily as a visual and sensitory experience of art. While much of the work presented will be available for purchase, a large portion of the work will not be for sale. Experience a slice of Pittsburgh’s greatest visionary art, in a festival that hopes to decorate your soul rather than your living room! Free and open to the public. August 7, 8 and 9, from 12pm to 9pm. Schenley Plaza, (directly in front of the Cathedral of Learning, in the heart of Oakland.)  Visit http://www.pghvisionaryartsfestival.com/ for more information on the artists and the event.

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