Summer Gallery Crawl Set for Today in the Pittsburgh Cultural District

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced the date and time for its July Gallery Crawl today. Tonight, July 12, 2013, from 5:30 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., the crawl will showcase a wide variety of thought provoking art exhibitions in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District. Live bands, DJs, dance, comedy, and participatory activities are also part of the complimentary happenings during the crawl.

"Visitors can enjoy spending their summer evening in the Cultural District with over 30 event stops during the Gallery Crawl. Catch a free ride around the District on a Green Gears Pedicab! A few highlights include new exhibit openings at Wood Street Galleries, SPACE, 707 and 709 Penn Galleries. Music is a big part of the evening as well," comments Darcy Kucenic, Director of Highmark First Night Pittsburgh & Manager of Education and Operations with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Performing at Katz Plaza, The Amigos Band, hailing from New York City, blends unique harmonies from bluegrass to jazz to create their collaborative American music. In 2013, the Amigos were chosen to serve as American Cultural Ambassadors for the American Music Abroad program by the U.S. Department of State. Touring the U.S. for the first time, Muzi?ka will perform traditional Czech folk music, outdoors at 8th Street and Penn Avenue. Flo Wilson and the Old School Band will have gallery crawl patrons dancing at the August Wilson Center.

After the Crawl, participants can attend one of these two ticketed events being produced by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust on that same evening, Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh at the Byham and Ryoji Ikeda's test pattern-live set at the Trust Arts Education Center.

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit, www.TrustArts.org or call (412) 456-6666.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is a production of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Education and Community Engagement Department. Sponsors for the July 2013 Gallery Crawl include lead sponsor First Commonwealth, Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP 91.3FM and Kreider Printing.

The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl events happening on Friday, July 12, 2013:

WOOD STREET GALLERIES
601 Wood Street

2nd floor:

Ryoji Ikeda: data.tron | An audiovisual installation where each single pixel of visual image is calculated by mathematical principles, and composed from a combination of mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. Images are projected onto a large screen, heightening and intensifying the viewer's perception and immersion.

3rd floor:

Title Town Soul & Funk Party | TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party's resident DJ Gordy G. spinning rare and underground soul, boogie, electro-funk and disco grooves.

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue

Crowdsourced | Guest curator: Robert Raczka

Participating artists: Renee Ickes, Tom Sarver, Barbara Weissberger, Gabe Felice, William Kofmehl III, Lori Hepner, Shaun Slifer, Maritza Mosquera, Corey Escoto, Casey Droege, Paul Zelevansky, and Kim Beck. Artists each create a large drawing directly on the walls of the gallery, which will be open to the public to both observe and suggest input into the artistic process. Music by DJ hi-top wrangler

WYEP Music Station | Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE

TITO WAY

Between Liberty Avenue & Penn Avenue | Perpendicular to Exchange Way

Mary Mazziotti: Memento Mori | A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be short and its end unpredictable. The four "obituary" pieces show that the banalities of life continue after death, and poor Bobo is caught in an endless loop from which there is no escape from Mr. Death.

Cell Phone Disco | The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust invites you to go behind-the-scenes with this free, self-guided, cell phone audio tour of the Cultural District. Learn historical and fun facts about theaters, galleries, and properties throughout these 14 blocks that now serve as a national model for urban revitalization utilizing the arts as a catalyst.

InformationLab | A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

SHAW GALLERIES
805 Liberty Avenue

Buffon: Argonaut of Our Natural World | An exhibition exploring the widespread influence of French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author, Georges Louis Leclerc (1707-88), otherwise known as Count de Buffon. On display will be several selections from his magnum opus, Histoire Naturelle.

HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue

Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents regionally made short films on a loop.

Tiny Harris Gallery | Tryps | A group photography show focusing on triptychs.

ARCADE COMEDY THEATER
811 Liberty Avenue

Pop in for some laughs at the Arcade Comedy Theater in the Cultural District, featuring Pittsburgh's best sketch, improvisational and alternative comedy year-round. Time to play!

CATHOLIC CHARITIES SUSAN ZUBNIK WELCOME CENTER
212 Ninth Street

Inspirations - an exhibition of cell phone images | Students of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild curated and managed the entire process of this exhibition from developing a theme, creating a Call for Artists, managing submissions and designing an online exhibition of the submitted images.

AMAZING BOOKS
929 Liberty Avenue

An independent bookstore with an amazing selection of awesome new and used books. Open until 7pm.

937 LIBERTY AVENUE

2nd floor:

Gold Standard presents: 15 Minutes of Shame

Artists Mary Smull from Philadelphia, Lizzy De Vita from Pittsburgh, and Brette Gabel from Toronto will present participatory and performative karaoke works throughout the night with the help of you, the viewer. Come show off your pipes or just watch. Curated by Gold Standard (Casey Droege and Corey Escoto).

August Wilson CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
980 Liberty Avenue

Live Music by Flo Wilson & the Old School Band

Handmade Arcade | Join Handmade Arcade in celebrating a Decade of DIY. Grab a postcard with a "crafty" image outlined and color it in. Keep -- or send to a pal! Also, color and make a button!

The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis | Features more than 30 works: sculptures, drawings abd graphics by Catlett; three works by her husband, artist Francisco Mora, and artwork by her former student and friend, Dr. Samella Lewis.

Still Feel Like Goin' On | Thirty photographs by students, depicting African American community heroes.

Call & Response | Paintings celebrating visual and performing arts by August Wilson Fellow Mariana Adele Vassar.

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix | Flagship exhibition dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This modular exhibit uses imagery, film and oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, and innovations.

TONIC
971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery. NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE

Live Music by Brittany Morganrose

Breathe, Fly, and Think | A collection of new and favorite works by Photographer Crystal Marie Acker designed to stimulate your sense of freedom, relief, adventure, and nostalgia.

AUGUST HENRY'S CITY SALOON
946 Penn Avenue

Magic by Peter Corbett | Be prepared to be wowed!

NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION
928 Penn Avenue

So You Think THAT'S Fair? | We all think we know what's fair-but is your idea the same as hers? Explore the symbols, the characters and the legal cases that have defined and changed American ideas about fairness and equality. Plus cookies!!

URBAN PATHWAYS 6-12 GALLERY
914 Penn Avenue

Live Music by: Sounds of Steel Junior

Middle School Regional Art Exhibition | Featuring middle school students' artwork from Urban Pathways Charter Schools, St. Edmund's Academy, Propel East, Falk Laboratory School and Manchester Academic Charter School.

FUTURE TENANT
819 Penn Avenue

I N V E N T O R Y: The Orgone Archive, Pittsburgh 13 (2002-2013) | Showcasing a decade's worth of promotion and propaganda in the form of posters, stickers and bits of paper created by The Orgone Archive for its cinema outings. Orgone is a motion picture archive and screening outfit based in Pittsburgh.

GREATER PITTSBURGH Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200

carbon first, then light

Ivette Spradlin | A photography survey of three projects, from Habana, Cuba to Philadelphia, aptly binds this exploration of the artist's past, alongside an attempt to illuminate the invisible inhabitants and mysterious everyday objects that surround us.

BEND YOGA
808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor

Celebrate Bend Yoga's 1st Birthday! | Come for one of two 30-minute donation-based classes for charity and stay for cake. Classes at 6pm and 7:15pm.

8th STREET & PENN AVENUE

Live Music by Muzi?ka

NIGHT MARKET V | An outdoor market that brings together some of Pittsburgh's most creative independent vendors, featuring art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, food, music and more. 5:30pm to 11pm.

709 PENN GALLERY
709 Penn Avenue

Chris McGinnis: The Productive Machine | A series of oil paintings and a video installation explores American optimism and utopianism seen through the lens of industrial culture, past and present.

707 PENN GALLERY
707 Penn Avenue

Lynn Johnson and Jen Saffron: The Koraput Survivors Project | This photographic exhibition explores the destruction and recreation of a small community in Odisha State, India, documenting the stories of 500 villagers violently driven from their homes in a rising tide of religious intolerance.

KATZ PLAZA
7th St. and Penn Avenue

Live Music by The Amigos Band

First Commonwealth Bank | Try your hand at Plinko and to get a slap bracelet. Be on the look-out for the FCB Crew in red t-shirts to find out how to enter to win $1,000 this summer!

Button-making with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: We supply the materials, you supply the creativity!

Highmark First Night Ice: Free icy treats when you say "Highmark First Night Ice Is Nice."

Propel Pittsburgh Commission, Action Shots: Get your Pittsburgh-themed photo taken, and receive a free, customizable Pittsburgh postcard. Featuring the work of Jen Cooney and other local artists.

BACKSTAGE BAR
655 Penn Avenue

Live Music by Tony DePaolis Group. 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Magical Mystical Tour | Jay Ressler's multi-layered photographic images take us into a surreal world of imagination and interpretation.

KNOT DANCE AT VERVE WELLNESS
142 Sixth Street, Third floor

T O U C H | Pittsburgh's aerial Dance Company explores the connection of relationships and the responsiveness of the body in the silks and on the ground. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30pm

ARTHUR MURRAY DANCE STUDIO**
136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro) NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE

Free Dance Lessons and Demos | Rhumba / Fox Trot at 7:30pm. Club Swing / Jitterbug at 8pm. Salsa at 8:30pm.

BRADDOCK'S AMERICAN BRASSERIE
107 Sixth Street

Local Cuisine from a Pittsburgh Native | Join Braddock's new Executive Chef for a cooking demonstration! Explore the unique flavors of Pittsburgh cuisine as Chef Jason gives a peak into his new menu ideas.

BOUTIQUE 208
208 Sixth Street

Meet several of the local artists creating art and artisan products for this all local, all handmade boutique.

PNC LEGACY PROJECT
600 Liberty Avenue

An exhibit celebrating Pittsburgh. New oral histories include Dan Bylsma, Steve Blass, Art Rooney II, Joe Grushecky, Roger Humphries, George Benson, Arnold Palmer.

THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT | Watch for Mary Miller Dance Company, City Dance/Car Radio Dance

ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

Visit www.TrustArts.org for updated and more detailed information

Lead Sponsor: FIRST COMMONWEALTH

Sponsors: City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, Kreider Printing.

Free rides around the District by GREEN GEARS PEDICABS!

All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.

TEXT "CRAWL" TO SMASH (76274) to receive special exclusive offers and more!

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted

AFTER THE CRAWL

Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh | To the Moon

Byham Theater

Voyage beyond the Earth's atmosphere to a lunar party in the Cultural District!

Presenting Sponsor: Consol Energy

Event Sponsors: UPMC and UPMC Health Plan

Tickets: $40-$125. Visit TrustArts.org/cosmo for details.

Ryoji Ikeda: test pattern - Live Set

Peirce Studio, 805-807 Liberty Avenue | 10:00 p.m.

In test pattern-live set, Ryoji Ikeda presents intense flickering black and white imagery, which floats in darkness to a stark and powerful, highly synchronized soundtrack. A 'not to be missed' performance by one of the major artists working today. Also see Ryoji Ikeda at Wood Street Galleries. Tickets: $10 & $15

Photo by: Great Productive Machine #10, Courtesy of artist Chris McGinnis.

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