All these really cool artists in Larryville will be opening their studio doors to all on October 7 & 8. And Digging Pitt Too, on 45th and Plummer Streets is going to have an artists talk-back with Jean McClung, Tom Sarver and David Gonzalez. Larryville is going to be shakin’!
The Second Annual Lawrenceville Artists’ Studio Tour
Join this free, self-guided tour of 22 Lawrenceville artists’ studios on Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8 from Noon to 5 p.m. Participating artists are independent local artists who work in a range of different media, including sculpture, painting, candlemaking, weaving, metalsmithing, photography, soapmaking, t-shirt and handbag design, custom furniture making, stained glass, and textile and jewelry design.
Maps will be available at Lawrenceville coffee shops the days of this event
Featuring the work of:
Mary Coleman, Weaving, 187 43rd St.
Ron Donoughe, Painting, 208 Main St.
Jones Furniture Designs, Custom Furniture, 5136 Butler St.
Prism Stained Glass, Stained Glass, 5234 Butler St.
Digging Pitt Gallery, Art Gallery, 4417-4419 Butler St.
Everyone An Artist, Outsider Art, 4128 Butler St.
Trinity Gallery, B&W Photography, 4747 Hatfield St.
Alexandra Etschmaier, Sculpture, 218 39th St.
Allison S. Hoge, Painting, 5314 Butler St.
Picturesque Photography & Gifts, Photography, 4300 Butler St.
Good Chemistry, T-Shirt & Handbag Design, 4728 Plummer St.
Margaret Meinzer, Painting/Metalsmith, 179 431/2 St.
Allison Meredith, Painting/Sculpture, 5136 Butler St.
Jay Design Soaps & Gifts, Soapmaking, 4603 Butler St.
Of This Earth, Candlemaking, 4021 Butler St.
Christopher O’connell, Painting, 5136 Butler St.
Gerald’s Forge, Artistic Metalwork, 5160 Butler St.
Corey LeChat, Photography, 4401 Butler St., 3fl
Mark Mentzer, Prints, Drawing, Painting, 5229 Butler St.
Kate Morrison & Teresa Lin, Textile & Jewelry Design 5304 Butler St.
Fe Gallery, Non-Profit Contemporary Art Space, 4102 Butler St.
Blackbird Artist Studios, Various Artists, 3583 Butler St.
Side one features “The Year Series” by Kate Temple, an artist known for prints that possess a “quiet, contemplative quality”. It’s a large-scale print/installation project made by leaving zinc plates outside for a year, each one buried in a location significant to it’s theme – the sky/constellation plate was created from a plate set up on a hill facing the sky, the spring/flow plate was buried near a spring, the earth/pool was a plate set face down in a vernal pool. Prints were then made from these plates, their patterns etched by time and nature. Each series is then displayed according to it’s nature – the earth/pool series, for instance, will be installed low on a flat platform, and is meant to be viewed from above.
Side Two is a reunion of sorts, as “Pittsburgh Alumni: Twenty Artists from Beyond the Rivers” opens with work from artists who have made their home here in the past and then moved on. Curator John Morris(