Happenings

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Happenings: The Art Openings July 9, 2003 [all receptions except the Warhol Friday evening] 1. SCC: Home/land: Artists Immigration and Identity 2. MCG: Saihou Njie and Ibou N'Diaye, Fabrics and Sculpture 3. Future Tenant: SENESCENCE 4. PCA: For Eyes: Four Exhibitions. Four Perspectives. 5. Garfield Artworks: What You See Is What You Get 6. Blue Tree: *Life* 7. @ the warhol: A Party Featuring Farrah Fawcett and Fashion (Sat) 1.------------------------------------------------- Home/land: Artists Immigration and Identity - opening weekend festivities! Thursday, July 10: Yoshiko I. Wada, a fiber artist, author, and world expert on contemporary and traditional Japanese fiber, will give a lecture entitled "Kimono Inspiration: Art & Art to Wear in America," inspired by an exhibition she co-curated at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. in 1996. Society for Contemporary Craft, 21st & Smallman streets in the Strip District. 7:00 p.m., $5 suggested donation at the door. For information, 412-261-7003. Friday, July 11: Opening reception with featured guest artists Renata Stein (Germany/New York), Vesna Todorvic Miksic (Yugoslavia/Philadelphia), Kukuli Velarde (Peru/Philadelphia), and Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada (Japan/Berkeley, CA). District. 5:30 - 8 p.m., free. For information, www.contemporarycraft.org or 412-261-7003. Saturday, July 12: Inside/Out: Community Day Celebration: Artist demonstrations, music, and children¹s activities will heat up this annual community celebration held on SCC¹s outdoor plaza and in the galleries. With a special focus on ethnic crafts, food and music, the festival will be a lively celebration of diverse cultural heritage and traditions. Society for Contemporary Craft, 21st & Smallman streets in the Strip District. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., free. For information, www.contemporarycraft.org or 412-261-7003. Society for Contemporary Craft www.contemporarycraft.org 2100 Smallman Street Pittsburgh, PA 15222 p: 412.261.7003 --------------------------------------------------- 2. ------------------------------------------------ July 11, 2003 6-8 pm Saihou Njie and Ibou N'Diaye, Fabrics and Sculpture Manchester Craftsmen's Guild 1815 Metropolitan Street, North Shore Manchester Craftsmen's Guild presents a collection of handpainted fabrics and works on paper by Saihou Njie, a native of Gambia, and both carved wood and stone sculptures by Ibou N'Diaye, a native of Mali. Both artists now live in Pittsburgh. The exhibition runs through August 10. A reception will be held Friday, July 11 from 6 to 8 pm and is free and open to the public. For more information call 412-322-1773x165 or email: gschooley@mcg-btc.org. Manchester Craftsmen's Guild 1815 Metropolitan Street Pittsburgh, PA 15233 www.manchesterguild.org --------------------------------------------------- 3. ------------------------------------------------ What: SENESCENCE When: July 6 - 13 Closing Reception: July 11, 5:30-8 pm Where: Future Tenant 801 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA SENESCENCE is a collaborative installation by Pittsburgh artists Ruth Stanford and Elizabeth Byers, merging objects and images, from childhood to death, as a means of exploring human experience. The installation explores issues of time, perception of youth, fears about death, and the physical and psychological spaces we inhabit throughout life. Elizabeth Byers is a multi-media artist whose work explores the time and experience of youth and how these experiences connect and divide us as adults. Ruth Stanford is a sculptor and installation artist whose recent work concerns experiences of trauma, death, and other significant human events and their meaning in the larger world. Objects and images in the installation range from playful to serious. For more information, call 412-414-9482 or e-mail futuretenant@hotmail.com <mailto:futuretenant@hotmail.com> --------------------------------------------------- 4. ------------------------------------------------ FOR EYES: FOUR EXHIBITIONS. FOUR PERSPECTIVES. Opening Reception Friday, July 11, 2003 5:30pm-8pm, free Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Join PCA for a party celebrating the simultaneous opening of its four summer exhibitions: * Embedded - exploring issues and images embedded in our culture, as well as the physical act of embedding an object into a structure * Month Day Year - taking specific dates as inspiration, portraying events of personal or political significance from the past, present, or future * Images and Inclusions - prints by Thomas J. Norulak on handmade paper and embellished with natural inclusions * Transformations - photography by Joseph Seamans exploring ideas about the transformation of matter into life and life into death Complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres. "For Eyes" runs through August 17 and is sponsored in part by Augustiner Lager. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is located at Fifth & Shady Avenues in Shadyside. For more information call 412/361.0873. --------------------------------------------------- 5. ------------------------------------------------ Garfield Artworks (<http://www.garfieldartworks.com>) is proud to present "What You See Is What You Get," new photographs by Susannah Mira, opening July 11, 2003 and running through July 27, 2003. Opening reception July 11, 2003, 7-10pm, with performance by SARROGIT and music by CAROL BLAZE. The show will exhibit mural-size digital prints that address the relationship of people to their physical and emotional landscape, using scale and multiple-image compositions to reinterpret visual paradigms of the everyday world. Deliberate pattern making and repetition helps uncover a poetry of connections between ourselves and the environment, emphasizing both the beauty and the vulnerability inherent in acknowledging such powerful interrelatedness. This event is free to the people! feel free to byob! Show runs through July 27. Closing Reception July 25 with films by Olivia Ciummo hours are by appointment: 412-361-2262, mancusoart@cs.com Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15201 <www.garfieldartworks.com> --------------------------------------------------- 6. ------------------------------------------------ Blue Tree's July Art opening *Life* artwork by Bethany Armstrong opening reception: Friday July 11th from 7-9pm Artist open house: Saturday July 12th from 12-3pm show runs from July 2nd thru July 25th Bethany Armstrong's *Life* looks at color and contrast, line and vibration, depicting mood through living subjects. Blue Tree artisan shop and gallery is one of Pittsburgh's premiere spaces to feature up and coming local artists. Blue Tree is proudly located in East Liberty at 6006 Penn Circle South. Hours of operation are Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm Please contact Cynthia Taibbi-Kates at 412-441-0611 --------------------------------------------------- 7. ------------------------------------------------ @ the warhol: A Party Featuring Farrah Fawcett and Fashion Saturday, July 12 The Summer of Andy continues at The Warhol with an opening party for our newest exhibitions * Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett * The American Supermarket 6-7 pm Members only exhibitions tour and reception 7-9 pm Public reception At 7 p.m., join Lynn Zelevansky, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for a gallery talk about the Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett exhibition. Plus, create one-of-a-kind wearable art in the Pop Mart. (In collaboration with Luxx, a retro-modern clothing emporium in the South Side) Throughout the evening, DJ Parking Lot will be spinning popular dance music and musak from the 60's, 70's and 80's Individual Tickets: $15 Call 412.237.8300 for more information The Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett exhibition was produced by Art Production Fund. ---------------------------------------------------