Pittsburgh Public Schools All City 2010 Art Showcase

All City 2010

April 26–May 21, 2010

Pittsburgh Public High Schools All City Arts Showcase

Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 6:00pm

1815 Metropolitan Street, Pittsburgh PA 15233

Reception and Awards Ceremony: Thursday, May 13 from 6–9 p.m.

Don’t miss this year’s installation of the annual exhibition featuring juried artwork of all media by the talented student-artists of Pittsburgh Public High Schools.

Last year, the work of well over 150 Pittsburgh Public high school students was displayed at MCG and more than $113,000 in scholarships and prizes were awarded to entrants. MCG is looking forward to exceeding last year’s success and we invite you to participate!

Join us Thursday, May 13 from 6–9 p.m. to honor these emerging artists!

6:00-7:30 – Meet the artists. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments.

7:30-8:30 – Awards Ceremony

8:30-9:00 – Mingle with artists and conclude festivities.

Download the 2010 Entry Guidelines! (PDF)

Please note that we have made changes in an effort to improve the submission process this year.

Electronic entry forms were due by midnight on Thursday, March 25, 2010.

Work that does not correspond to an electronic pre-submission will be turned away.

Artwork drop-offs will be accepted by appointment only at MCG on Tuesday – Wednesday, April 6–7 from 9 a.m. – Noon & 3 – 7 p.m. and Thursday, April 8 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Thank you to the following for their generous donations of awards for this exhibition (as of 3/29/10): Allegheny City Society, Andy Warhol Museum, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College Art Program, Carnegie Museum of Art, Eleanor Friedberg Family, Eleanor Friedberg Art Scholarship Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation, Betsy and Dale Huffman, MCG Jazz, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts/Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh Technical Insitute (PTI), Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, Robert Morris University, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Whole Foods Market.

MCG Youth & Arts programs are funded in part by: Alcoa Foundation, Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pittsburgh Public School District, and Surdna Foundation.

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

pittsburgh galleries is reborn anew as The Pittsburgh Art Blog. the blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20, 2007.pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh art advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.
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Pittsburgh 3rd Annual EcoFest October 10, 2009

ECOFEST- Saturday, October 10th, 2009 10:00AM-2:00PM

Our 3rd Annual EcoFest is bigger than ever!

Featuring the Pittsburgh Power Flower!

Drop off working and non-working computers, printers and TVs thanks to environment-friendly Goodwill

Donate bikes you've been meaning to get rid of to Free Ride, and attend a bike workshop

Learn how to make inexpensive, safe, environmentally-kind cleaning products for your home

Hear a representative of the Sierra Club speak and take your questions about coal energy

Start tracking your ecological efforts as PennFuture brings the “Black and Gold City Goes Green” campaign to Regent Square

Hear representatives of the Frick Park Nature Center speak about Frick Park and bring your children for Nature Center activities

Be involved in a Children’s Art show

Donate perennials for our hillside, and help beautify our neighborhood


at the Wilkins School Community Center, 7604 Charleston Avenue in the Regent Square area.

Trekking Down Memory Lane

Image courtesy of the school website

I hated high school. My parents, thinking they were doing the best thing for me, sent me to one of the finest schools in the country. I did so not fit in. I’d come from a small, nurturing school where I was a sporty A Grade student and found myself in a school that was, to my 12 year old perception, huge, cold and frightening. The happy, bright child morphed into a timid, resentful and underperforming teen. Grades plummeted, I refused to participate in sports - and I found myself friendless. My best friend was at another school, having the time of her life and my world felt like it had come crashing down around my ears. I went through high school almost completely alone. Lunch-breaks were spent mostly in the library or sitting outside with a small group of girls – and then ducking off to the library. I never bonded with anyone, was never part of my class. I was there and yet not there, leading some strange half-life.

This weekend I went to my 30th school reunion - and enjoyed myself. Multiple things struck me. First of all, I was acutely aware of how removed I’d been. There were these women sharing memories and events of which I wasn’t even remotely aware. School year books were brought out and laughed over. I didn’t even know that we’d had school year books! It was a surreal experience which left me wondering where I’d been. Then someone asked me who I’d been friends with at school and I had to reply “No one – my friends were at another school.” I was struck then by something I found almost surprising – and that was what wonderful people all these women are. Maybe it has much to do with me finally growing into myself and maybe it has to do with all of us being comfortable in our own skins. 30 years on we’ve all experienced that much more of life - the pain, the trauma, the highs and the lows. I still can’t say that I totally feel like I “belong” (I am missing years of connectivity), but I really enjoyed the time I spent with them. And curiously, I found they accepted me as being part of them. That was heartwarming - and a whimsy little voice inside wondered what school life might have been like.

I think one of the most interesting things was there was little talk of “back then” (it had no doubt happened at earlier reunions) and conversations focused on the here and now, journeys undertaken and experiences shared. The “girls” were not, I discovered, vicious bitches or űber-cool ladies of leisure – they were just regular folk. Sure, some of them I was more drawn to than others, as one inevitably is. Some I had more in common with. Some I didn’t even get to speak to and really wish I had. Overall, I was struck by what nice women they all are.

I’m not given to regrets but I have to confess to just wishing, for a brief moment, that perhaps it could all have been different. High school would not have been such a thoroughly intimidating and lonely place. Then again, perhaps I would not have so much material for teen fiction had it all been that much easier! Silver linings are everywhere.

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