Come and explore the nearby Penn Avenue Arts District this Friday for Unblurred! Hope you can join us! Unblurred: Friday, November 6 5PM-7PM | BRILLOBOX - 4104 PENN AVE. SOFT ROCK HAPPY HOUR Come start your art-world wanderings listening to the smooth sounds of soft rock. $2 domestic bottle specials, $3 well drinks specials. http://www.brillobox.net/ 6PM-8:30PM | WALDORF SCHOOL OF PITTSBURGH - 201 S. WINEBIDDLE ST. SIT & KNIT! Feel free to stop by during these hours to knit, crochet, and socialize with members of our community and early childhood faculty. Adults and children (with knitting experience) welcome! Held in our school’s Morning Garden classroom. www.waldorfpittsburgh.org 6PM-9PM | ARTica GALLERY - 5110 PENN AVE. COOL STUFF FOR HAPPIER HOLIDAYS! If finding the odd, the cool or the whimsical is just your holiday game, ARTica is your one-stop shop for the gift-giving season. Lamps, mirrors, chairs, dressers, orginal art, prints, antiques, collectibles, toys, vintage clothing jewelry and other unique items abound in Penn Avenue's "Seinfeld" gallery! Allso Enjoy a visit from our neighbor Trader Joes, bearing holiday food samples! This November.....its all about December! www.passportsart.blogspot.com. 6PM-9PM & 9PM Performance | KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER - 5941 PENN AVE. GO EAST celebrates East End Artists with a free mix and mingle from 6 until 9pm, when choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace takes the stage with STORE, a new dance/performance art piece. Tickets for STORE range from $5 to $30. 412-363-3000, www.kelly-strayhorn.org. 6PM-9PM | PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER - 5472 PENN AVE. HOT JAM. Free open house featuring heat defying acts of art in Pittsburgh Glass Center’s state-of the-art glass studios. Explore our newest exhibition “The Return” by Sheila Klein. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 412-365-2145 ext. 201. www.pittsburghglasscenter.org. 6PM-10PM | MOST WANTED FINE ART - 5015 PENN AVE. MWFA is showing Fine Artists: Cory Bonnet and Ryan Dunmeyer. This opening will have paintings on canvas with accompanying prints, mostly of Pittsburgh by Cory. On the other wall will be photographs by world traveler and natural scientist, Ryan. These images are great for the art connoisseur on your holiday shopping list. Come see how the Penn Ave Arts Scene is the best in the country!! Grand Snafu performs at 9PM. Please search www.youtube.com/mostwantedfineart. Hours: Wed-Fri, 1pm-6pm and Sat. by appointment. mostwantedfineart@yahoo.com or call 412-889-7526. 7PM-9PM | DANCE ALLOY THEATER - 5530 PENN AVE. BEHIND THE CURTAIN: Pearlann Porter & Gwen Hunter Ritchie. Dance Alloy Theater continues its series voted “best cultural buy in the city.” See what goes on before the curtain goes up, as Dance Alloy opens its in-house studio to let audiences take a first glimpse at the two mainstage home season performances. Meet, greet, and ask questions with two rising artistic voices in the region: The Pillow Project’s Pearlann Porter and former LABCO director Gwen Hunter Ritchie. Enjoy a glass of wine, light appetizers, and the lively discussion that follows these exciting work-in-progress showings. Tickets $5 at the door. www.dancealloy.org. 7PM-9PM | VOLUTO COFFEE - 5467 PENN AVE. CONNECT. Alicia Fronczek will be exhibiting her series featuring watercolors, oils, and paper, executed in hues of blue and orange. This series explores the opposing and complementary aspects of the Sacral and Throat Chakras. Espresso Bar Open. 20% OFF www.volutocoffee.com. 7PM-10PM | < c > SPACE : COLLECTIVE - 4823 PENN AVE. CYCLE ON : ART + DESIGN. This November three Pittsburgh designers with a passion for cycling and fine craft bring their innovative and functional designs to the collective. In addition, artist Richard Pian displays his mixed media works on canvas. More about the designers and artists: www.cspacecollective.wordpress.com. 7PM-10PM | EDGE STUDIO - 5411 PENN AVE. URBAN RESEARCH. Winner of the Gindroz Prize and 4th year Carnegie Mellon SoArch Student Kaitlin Miciunas presents an installation of sculptural relief drawings paired with sound recording in analysis of city culture of eight prominent European cities as a product of summer travel abroad. 412-345-5005. 7PM-10PM | GARFIELD ARTWORKS - 4931 PENN AVE. EVOLUTION IN ART IX. Artwork by Charmaine Baldt, Obsolete, Elan Wojchiechowski, Matthew Holsapple, and visiting West Virginia artists Maggie Black and Chris Lively. Performances by the band Berlin Way and Media Friendly, poetry by the Langston Hughes Society, and music from DJ Ohmss. Donation requested. 412-361-2262. www.garfieldartworks.com. 7PM-10PM | IMAGEBOX - 4933 PENN AVE. WOMEN–SOUL AND BEAUTY. One man showing of creations on glass by Joseph Holtz (Hands of Holtz). These works display the beauty and dynamics of the female form. The works express the culture and diversity of the "WOMAN UNIVERSAL". "WOMEN–SOUL AND BEAUTY" portray the rising confidence and independence of the female in the twenty- first century. 7PM-10PM | IRMA FREEMAN CENTER FOR IMAGINATION - 5006 PENN AVE. THE ART OF SALVATION AND THE VISIONARY ART OF IRMA FREEMAN with refreshments and music: Brass Chariot, Duane Jones Duo and Al Zavacky. Galllery hours are Saturday, Sunday and Monday 2 - 5 pm or by appointment. 412- 924-0634. www.irmafreeman.com. 7PM-10PM | MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY AND PERFORMANCE SPACE - 4919 PENN AVE. PIGEON PAIR. A two-person exhibition featuring the newest work of Jason Rosemeyer and Christian Breitkreutz. See how the two explore the age of innocence and what happens in it's absence: as artistic technique, as visual narrative. Jason and Christian collectively convey the purity life while not being afraid to leave an aftertaste in your mouth that might make you feel out of step with the world as you know it. Innocence is lost, can it be gained? That is a question the Pigeon Pair will consider. 412-362-0274. www.modernformations.com. 7PM-10PM | REBELLIOUS NATURE - 104 N. GRAHAM ST. ARIANNA MASON’S ART & FEEDING THE HUNGRY. Local artist and poet, Arianna Mason, shows paintings of ‘abstract organic patterns’ – “The patterns are reflections of those in my life…what I see on the outside - the inherent patterns in nature, and humanity, combined with how I feel on the inside.” Bring a donation of non-perishable food to support Pittsburgh Food Not Bombs efforts and receive 10% off at Rebellious Nature. 412-576-1883. www.rebelliousnature.com. 8PM | FORMER DON ALLEN AUTO CITY - 5315 BAUM BLVD. OPENING NIGHT QUANTUM THEATRE CANDIDE Leonard Bernstein’s musical genius combines with Voltaire’s raucous satire in Candide, a sublimely sung tale about the discovery of evil and the endurance of hope. An ensemble of twenty amazing singers and musicians perform one tour-de-force melody after another under the direction of Andres Cladera, the artistic director of the Renaissance City Men and Women’s Choirs. In typical fashion, Quantum removes the stage and presents this masterpiece in the former Don Allen Auto City on Baum Boulevard. Tickets $40 (includes post show reception at Café Sam) Tickets available by phone at 412.394.3353, or online at www.ProArtsTickets.org. Show runs through November 22, Wed.-Sat., 8 pm and Sun., 7pm. www.quantumtheatre.com. 7PM-11PM | 4800 PENN AVE. PAINTING PARTY Join artist Bob Ziller for an evening of painting for the Pittsburgh Beautification Project. Participants will paint Warhol's Flowers on chipboard, which will then be installed on abandoned/neglected buildings throughout the city. 7PM-11PM | 4810 PENN AVE. GRAND OPENING of the Penn Avenue Bookstore. 7 - 9,000 high quality books will be set up in the "gallery" room of 4810 Penn Ave. 10PM-2AM | BRILLOBOX - 4104 PENN AVE. PANDEMIC DJ DANCE PARTY Come end your art-world wanderings by getting down with the global groove sounds of Pandemic. www.brillobox.net. Saturday, November 7, 6PM-9PM | ARTica GALLERY - 5110 PENN AVE. COOL STUFF FOR HAPPIER HOLIDAYS Continues! Make ARTica your one-stop shop for the gift-giving season! Art, Antiques, Collectibles, original art, prints and many unusal items! New holiday hours: Thursday-Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. This November.....its all about December! www.passportsart.blogspot.com. Friday, November 13, 6PM-10PM | FAST>>FWD GALLERY - 3700 PENN AVE. BREATH DEEP: An Ecological Exhibition by Ross Hardy. Please join us at fast>>fwd Gallery for a solo exhibition of recent California University of Pennsylvania graduate Ross Hardy. On display will be his series of ecological themed work. fastfwdart@gmail.com. Unblurred is a monthly event that opens the Penn Avenue Arts District (4800-5500 Penn) for exploration by adults & children. The Penn Avenue Arts Initiative (PAAI) is a joint strategy of Bloomfield- Garfield Corporation & Friendship Development Associates to support artists in the renovation of blighted, formerly vacant buildings & in turn create an artist niche along the Penn Avenue Corridor. 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