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Discuss “Crawling with Art”

Last Friday night, local artists and musicians turned downtown Pittsburgh into one enormous gallery. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl performs this transformation four times a year, leaving every gallery in the Cultural District open late and packing each venue with art, music, people, and spinach dip.

The first Gallery Crawl was held in March 2004, according to a report the Heinz School prepared for the Cultural Trust. Only four galleries participated in the first crawl, but last Friday’s event included 15 venues and attracted thousands of spectators. Kathryn Heidemann, a 2004 graduate of the Heinz School and manager of the Cultural Trust’s education and community outreach program, explained that the trust’s goal is to...

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