The Velvet Hearts! beat pandemic boredom through virtual burlesque shows
When the pandemic hit, local burlesque performers traded their pumps and pasties for sweatpants and Netflix.
As days turned into months, however, members of The...
Local Podcaster Marta Exposes Her Out of Town Guests to Pittsburgh Artists at Her...
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
-Thomas Merton.
My husband and I started staying in other people’s spaces on...
Spilling the True T on black queer culture and community initiatives
True T Founders: Superheroes for social justice
From the catwalks and the categories to the clacking heels—we’re gagged (in a good way) and in awe...
Fall Gallery Roundup from LOCAL’s Visual Arts Editor L.E. McCullough
CITY OF MURALS!
Pittsburgh has about as many public artworks, sculptures and street paintings as it does bridges ... and there’s more coming.
The city’s...
BREAKING NEWS (of a good kind) !!!
... Contemporary Craft opens its new Lawrenceville home (5645 Butler St.) Thur. Sept. 3 with full safety protocols and an amazing exhibition by Swoon:...
LIVE ARTISTS RECEPTION FOR a lively new exhibit “DeathDANCE”
LIVE ARTISTS RECEPTION FOR a lively new exhibit “DeathDANCE” ... this Sat Aug. 15 6-9 pm @ ZYNKA Gallery, 904 Main St., Sharpsburg ......
Rachel Mica Weiss: “Space speaks to me”
RACHEL MICA WEISS is one of seven Pittsburgh artists who recently received a $10,000 grant from the Investing in Professional Artists: The Pittsburgh Region...
Summer Gallery Roundup from LOCAL’s Visual Arts Editor L.E. McCullough
PITTSBURGH’S GALLERIES and art centers continue to re-open with a wide range of exhibits, classes, fundraisers and online artist talks. Check your favorite gallery...
Brenda Stumpf: Looking for things we can’t see
SAND, ROPE, plastic flowers, animal bones, wallpaper scrapings, steeped tea bags, discarded bits of metal and wood ... utterly common materials Pittsburgh artist Brenda...
Latrobe Art Center’s Annual Open Show can be seen in a virtual Exhibition
Latrobe Art Center’s Annual Open Show showcases the work of all artists—aspiring or experienced—in not only the Greater Latrobe Community, but in the southwestern...
Soup is good food, and my rainy day, cold weather obsession
When it gets cold, I think soup! It becomes a bit of an obsession. When roving around the city and suburbs I start to...