Register now for Spring Classes and Workshops and Summer Art Camps - Catalogs available on-line!

Summer is right around the corner, so make sure to sign up for your children’s Art Camps soon! Camps start June 4 and run through August 20. We have lots to offer for ages 2 - 17. There are collaborations with The Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, The National Aviary, The Carnegie Science Center and The Dance Alloy. We also have new summer camps in ceramics, electronic media and drama arts.

There are scholarship awards available for families demonstrating financial need (the deadline for submission is May 11, 2007).

For full Art Camp info, check out:
http://www.pittsburgharts.org/school/summer07camps.html

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Music for Exhibitions concert complements exhibition of drawings and lithographs by American artist George Bellows at The Frick Art Museum

Concert: From The New World, The Pittsburgh Piano Trio
Exhibition: The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library

• Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in The Frick Art Museum auditorium.
• Exhibition galleries are open for viewing beginning at 6:30 p.m.; a Meet-the-Artists reception follows the concert.
• Tickets are $15 for Frick members and students; $20 for non-members and guests. Advance reservations recommended due to limited seating; call 412-371-0600.

Shadyside’s Changing Landscape

Topics
Bakery Row Planning, Bridge Development, McCook Mansion Proposal; Election of New Board; light refreshments to follow.

Date and Time
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. This is the “Annual Meeting” of the Shadyside Action Coalition.

Location
Winchester Thurston Lower School Auditorium, 555 Morewood Ave., Shadyside (enter on Ellsworth Ave.)

Tuesday, May 1st @ 8pm, at Make Your Mark Coffeehouse

We’re holding a meeting to kick off the next several activities of the SPBO and report on neighborhood happenings.

This meeting is open to the entire neighborhood.

The planned agenda items include:

1. open offices in the organization, time for some folks to retire, new folks to step up, and replace those that have moved on
2. Fundraiser 2007: a short term project, planned date of 6/17/2007 — 8 weeks, share in an event being planned by Dennis Inserra
3. Bonfire (where to have it, should we have it, make bonfire a summer event, can we still have it when the new building is done)?
4. Light Up Night (combine with bonfire?)
5. House Tour (help from Shadyside folks)
6. Sterrett construction update
7. Fundraiser idea #2 : SPB stickers (like the OBX ones)
8. Fundraiser idea #3 : SPB t-shirts

See you there!

April 29th 1- 3 PM
At Mellon Park (Fifth and Beechwood)

Come and party with volunteers from Homewood, Squirrel Hill, and Park Place who also will be cleaning their neighborhoods.

Found Sound Band
Kip Ruefle and Jeff Berman will be directing our Found Sound Band at the picnic. Also participating will be some of the players from a Samba Drum Ensemble, as well as members of the Three Rivers Thunder Drum Circle.

In preparation for Sunday’s Found Sound band, here are some suggestions for instruments:

Colanders and or Pasta pots played with hands, empty soda bottles with some raw rice or beans (for a maraca shaker effect), plastic spackle buckets played with your hands, sticks or wooden spoons, various lengths of pvc pipe played with ping pong paddles ( ala The Blue Men Group), empty water cooler jugs (make great drums played with your hands), wooden or metal spoons played together, tin cups or metal lids played with wooden or plastic chopsticks, large Tupperware containers (some have better sounds then others), a set of small to large empty tin cans played with bamboo skewers with superballs attached to them, etc.

Pretty much anything that can go ding, dong, bing, bang, bong, dum, tak, tik, tek, ka..etc, as long as it is safe for a child to play with.

Let’s make music!

Saturday April 28th, 10 am – 3:00 pm

Invite your friends and family to help us clean-up our neighborhood! Teams of volunteers will work their way down Penn Ave. from Fifth Ave. to Braddock St. tidying up all the streets in between!

Come out, have plenty of fun, and help us clean the community!

Gloves and bags will be provided. Please bring a rake if you have one!

Volunteer Thank You Picnic:
April 29th 1- 3 PM
Mellon Park (Fifth and Beechwood).

Come and party with volunteers from Homewood, Squirrel Hill, and Park Place who also will be cleaning their neighborhoods.

Register by email
Email your contact information and the times that you can help to Hope Feldman at hoperealestate@yahoo.com

Walk-up registration
Just come on the 28th!!!!!!
Register at the small parking lot at Mellon Park (Beechwood and Fifth).
Registration begins at 10 am and continues throughout the day.

Download the event flyer

On Saturday, April 28th, South Point Breeze residents are asked (and encouraged) to participate in the Redd Up Coalition’s Neighborhood Clean Up Weekend. The clean up will take place from 10am - 1:30pm. Please let us know if you can attend, as we need to request a sufficient number of trash bags, gloves, and other supplies for the volunteers.

There will be a picnic on the afternoon of the 29th to thank those who volunteered. Details to come.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Hope at hoperealestate@yahoo.com

Tsukioka Kôgyo (1869–1927), was a master of the Japanese wood block print at the turn of the twentieth century. Taught by his step-father, the highly regarded Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Kôgyo is now beginning to receive the serious attention of collectors, curators, and scholars. This exhibition showcases Kôgyo’s remarkably colorful images of Noh theater, a traditional form of Japanese performing arts. Kôgyo’s work on Noh covers several decades and illustrates virtually the entire range of Noh repertory since the Meiji period (1868–1912), creating an artistically elegant and beautiful record of this theatrical genre’s customs and performances.

“We were struck by the beauty of Kôgyo’s prints as artworks, not just as historical documents,” says Dick Smethurst, professor of Japanese history at the University of Pittsburgh. “They stand in their own light as works of art.” Mae Smethurst, professor of East Asian language and literature at the University of Pittsburgh, adds that with the opening of Japan to the West, Kôgyo himself was influenced by Western art, and incorporated these new perspectives into the tradition of the Japanese print. The more than 70 prints in the exhibition will also include a small selection of Kôgyo’s bird and nature prints and a few examples of his rarely shown paintings.

The Prints of Tsukioka Kôgyo is organized by the Frick Art & Historical Center and curated by Richard Smethurst, Mae J. Smethurst, Thomas Rimer, and Robert Schaap. The exhibition is made possible, in part, through the generosity of the Japan Foundation, the Townsend and Frances Burden Foundation, and members of the Frick Art & Historical Center.

A brochure for this exhibition has been made possible by the Asian Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Education programs for this exhibition are co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Frick Art & Historical Center
7227 Reynolds Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
phone: 412-371-0600 ext. 523
fax: 412-731-9415
pr@frickart.org

The prints of Tsukioka Kôgyo.pdf