GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Pittsburgh Tattoo Works
July 10-August 20, 2010
Reception: Saturday, July 10, 8:00-10:30p.m.

An exhibition featuring the artwork of Pittsburgh's professional tattoo artists. Juried by Don McDonald from Bodyworks Tattoo Studio.
www.bodyworks-tattoo.com

Sweetwater Center for the Arts
Free!

This Winter Was Toooo Long
June-August

An exhibition featuring watercolor paintings by Doug Brown painted over the looong past winter

Gallery -30-
Sewickley Herald Office, 533 Beaver Street
Free!

Don't Worry, I Carry My Own Boat with Me, by juror Vanessa German

First Fruit XIV : Come Celebrate with Me; a celebration of life, triumph, soul and creativity!
September 10 – October 9, 2010
Reception: Friday, September 24, 6:00-9:00pm
*Featuring live music by DJ Soy Sos from 6:30-8:30pm

This is MAVUNO’s 14th annual exhibition, featuring artwork created by emerging and accomplished African American artists and artists whose work celebrates African American culture. This year’s exhibition is inspired by the last 2 lines of the late Lucille Clifton’s poem, Won’t You Celebrate with Me, “Come celebrate with me the fact that everyday something has tried to kill me, and has failed!”

This exhibition is juried by Vanessa German, an award winning, multi disciplinary artist. A performer and sculptor, German creates contemporary power figures inspired by the everyday extraordinary might of the human spirit. The theme, Come Celebrate with Me, invites artists to visually acknowledge, express and exhort the grief, pain, sorrow, and triumph and transformation of our stories. From transformation to living ritual, Come Celebrate with Me is not only a call to MAVUNO, it is a call to community, a call to the connectivity of humanity, a call to join in the recognition and celebration of hands and imagination at work- and in work, in purpose. Come Celebrate with Me is an open invitation to the eyes, to the mind and to the spirit.

The reception will coincide with the Sewickley Fall Gallery Walk.

Sweetwater Center for the Arts
Free!

CALL FOR ARTISTS

If you are interested in submitting artwork for our upcoming shows, please visit our OPPORTUNITIES page.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

If you are interested in volunteering at Sweetwater Center for the Arts, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Kelly Koble, at 412.741.4405.
All volunteers earn $4/hour towards classes at Sweetwater!