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Discuss “Mapping Pittsburgh”

Pittsburgh is home to art studios, galleries, independent museums, music venues, and a grassroots culture that is rapidly expanding and attracting out-of-towners to the city — and most people don’t even know it. In every neighborhood of Pittsburgh, movers and shakers are creating new works and contributing to the art community that pervades the city’s cultural underground. Yet, without a forum to discover artists’ new projects, many visitors and residents alike tend to overlook Pittsburgh’s various forms of artistic representation.

Those involved in a collaborative project between the Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh company DeepLocal are working to solve this problem. The Warhol’s Leslie Clague and Peter Spynda conceived of Mapping...

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Comment allison
Apr 24, 2007 at 06:32 PM

There is an organization that is already devoted to serving as a forum in the Pittsburgh Art scene.

Art-iculate Pittsburgh Creative Network (sponsored in part by a seed award) has been working for over a year and a half on a social networking website for the visual arts in Pittsburgh. We also launched our website this weekend (April 21, 2007). Our launch party had over 500 people in attendence and featured 11 local installation artists. One could only say that it was a hit, as well as a classy event! Even Coucilman Bill Peduto was present.

Articulate is Pittsburgh Visual Art Online. Articulate is a "virtual community" that will provide artists with the resources that they need to be successful in their careers and to strengthen the visual arts audience in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. Articulate will serve as the premier online resource and centralized hub for artists, galleries, arts organizations, and the general public (both art enthusiasts and passive viewers) for the Southwestern Pennsylvania area. The Articulate website is an E-Networking, E-Commerce website. In addition, Articulate will energize the local art community through non-virtual exhibitions, educational programs, as well as "Go Public" - art in public spaces. Articulate is technology driven and will bridge the gap between artists, galleries, art organizations, and the public.
Articulate is a A virtual community to broaden the available possibilities for information and idea exchange between artists, galleries, art organizations and the public (i.e. the Art Community). You can check this site out at www.art-iculate.org

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