Category: Arts & Culture
Playwright promotes women’s empowerment through theater
By Laurie Smith, Point Park News Service: As an author, director and actress, Virginia Wall Gruenert noticed gender bias in business, education and science, and the creative worlds of cinema, media and theatre arts. When she and her husband opened their own theatre, Off the Wall Theatre Productions, they made sure to encourage, foster and […]
Baron Batch paints new path after football
By Kristopher Lancaster, Point Park News Service: Sundays in the fall used to be a little more chaotic for Baron Batch. The South Side resident spent parts of three seasons as a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers before being released at the end of training camp in August. Now away from the bright lights […]
CLO’s ‘Plaid Tidings’ star talks about his new role
By Harrison Buzzatto, Point Park News Service: Brandon Lambert, a Point Park University graduate, stars in Pittsburgh CLO’s “Plaid Tidings.” The show runs Nov. 7 through Jan. 12 at The Cabaret at Theater Square. How do you feel about getting a role in a show like this right out of college? B: I’m so blessed […]
An unusual happenstance: Monsters remake history
By Lauren Dantella, Point Park News Service: Whenever Matthew Buchholz watched his friend’s Lawrenceville gift shop, he would send her emails saying, “Everything is alright” – along with computer-edited images of monsters wreaking havoc. Interested in history, the New York University film graduate would research old maps and prints while working at the store. Then […]
Gallery Crawl drives up interest in mobile art
By Liz Furrer, Point Park News Service: Four parked cars that have been morphed into a tiki bar, a demolition car and a bedazzled auto canvas will call Eighth Street and Penn Avenue home for one night this fall. With initial popularity in the southern United States, these artists aim to increase mobile art interest […]
Photographer captures old Pittsburgh on film
By Kris Lancaster, Point Park News Service: To most, a billboard or a sign on the side of the road might not mean much. But to photographer Mark Perrott, these signs seem like art. “One of the themes of my work is always an interest in things passing,” Perrott said. “Things that are ignored, things […]
Pittsburgh Fashion Week reveals city’s unique style
By Emily Bastaroli, Point Park News Service: Spend a day in Miyoshi Anderson’s stilettos and you’ll be begging for just five seconds of rest. Anderson is a woman of many talents: She is a model, spokeswoman, former dancer and the founder and executive director of Pittsburgh Fashion Week. She was not initially highly involved in the […]
Student-actors face real-world audition factors
By Harrison Buzzatto, Point Park News Service: A young actor or actress who attends Point Park University to study theater, expects that, at some point, he or she will be cast in a play. But some student-actors graduate from the competitive Conservatory of Performing Arts program – which is highly regarded among theater conservatories worldwide — […]
Artist uses exhibits to bring attention to social causes
By Kineen Dillard Point Park News Service Jill Larson used her love of art to teach adults with mental instability how to create wood sculptures and wire work animals. With that experience and more she now addresses the growing bullying epidemic through conscious art pieces in the “Mean Girls” exhibit. For several years, Larson used […]
Pitt student gets creative outside of classroom
Lauren Dantella Point Park News Service Although her job of analyzing medical specimens does not allow for much creativity, Hanna Choi considers herself an artist. Choi, a recent University of Pittsburgh biology graduate, works as a specimen processor at Allegheny General Hospital on Pittsburgh’s North Side, but she is also a self-taught amateur jewelry maker […]
