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#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

The Writing on the Wall, or Rather, in the Sky

September 30, 2010 Lindsay

If you are out and about in Downtown or Oakland on Friday and Saturday around 5:30pm – look up in the sky.  The Sky is the Limit is a new project from Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor of Art Kim Beck.  An airplane skywriter will write messages over Pittsburgh taken from billboard advertising. The Sky Is The Limit Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 2 5:30pm The plane will fly over downtown Pittsburgh, the North Side and Oakland. Each letter will be one mile high and will be visible throughout the area. More info here and follow @idealcities on twitter… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Visual Tagged With: Carnegie Mellon University, kim beck, skywriter

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