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Visual Art: Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District, Friday, July 6, 2018

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THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS

SUMMER GALLERY CRAWL IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT

PROGRAMMING LINEUP

FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2018 | 5:30PM- 10PM | CULTURAL DISTRICT

PITTSBURGH, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is pleased to present the complete programming and schedule for the upcoming summer 2018 Gallery Crawl. The event takes place on Friday, July 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Cultural District, downtown Pittsburgh. The Gallery Crawl occurs quarterly and boasts a combination of visual art, multimedia artists, music, live theatre, and dance events that are free and open to the public.

The Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl allows the community to participate in an immersive artistic experience throughout the 14-block Cultural District. The Crawl serves to showcase the exhibition openings of the Trust’s visual art galleries (SPACE, Wood Street and 707 Gallery). Each Crawl, the Trust partners with local businesses, artists and nonprofits to create a dynamic collaboration to engage artists and the greater Pittsburgh community. To generate a reflection of the community, each business partner selects the artistic content to feature in their space during the Crawl. These collaborative events focus on creating an inclusive environment, as well as a diverse experience, for all.

On one night, local, national, and international artists and their works share the downtown spotlight. “It’s always our goal to ‘light up’ downtown with this event and find new ways to connect people with art,” shares Sarah Gilmer, Program Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement at the Trust.

This summer’s Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District boasts an eclectic variety of 25 locations that include activities for children, live music, exhibitions, and performances. One of the evening’s featured events is the Trust-presented art exhibition, Identity Play, in SPACE gallery. This exhibition, curated by Kristen Letts Kovak, utilizes sculptures, paintings, projections, photographs, installations, and poetry in the earnest search for self through the use of childhood strategies to explore and understand the complexities of adulthood. Katz Plaza will feature the musical genres of South America with performances by local Latin 10-piece band, Azucar, complete with a dance floor, and Global Beats by local world music specialist and DJ, Carla Leininger. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership are co-presenting a party in the alley of Garrison Way with singer-songwriter, folk band, Buffalo Rose followed by a DJ under the new light exhibition, Garrison Canal by Andrea Polli. DJs Big Phill, Blakk Steel and DJ Bamboo will close out the night with the Crawl After Dark UNION Edition from 10 p.m. – midnight in the Trust Arts Education Center’s Peirce Studio; doors open at 9:30 p.m. The Crawl offers something for everyone. All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted.

For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit: TrustArts.org/Crawl or call 412-456-6666.

About the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District
The quarterly Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and exists to promote inclusion and diversity through collaborative partnerships. Since its inception in 2004, the Gallery Crawl also serves to promote the exhibition openings of Trust visual art galleries. The partnerships between the Trust and local businesses, artists and nonprofits facilitate an immersive atmosphere for communal artistic expression. Each business partner has creative choice over the content displayed in their space on a Crawl night. The community comes together in this unique event to celebrate and extend Pittsburgh’s local art scene.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org.

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