We’re excited to let you know about our partnership with LaFond Gallery located at 1711 East Carson Street in Pittsburgh’s South Side. We’ll be popping in with shopping events, workSHOPs and a storefront window that you can shop 24-7.

Find out more here. 

Marty’s Market & Wigle Whiskey on Sunday, May 19th
11 am – 3 pm  

We can’t wait for SUNDAY, MAY 19th when 35 I Made It! Market Artists  pop up INSIDE and OUTSIDE of Wigle Whiskey and in front of Marty’s Market.

This MAP will lead you right to us on Smallman St in the Strip District.

Meet the Artists

It’s a special Sunday in the Strip as fantastic I Made It! Market artists create a handmade bazaar in front of
Marty’s Market and inside (and outside) of Wigle Whiskey.  If you haven’t yet had the chance to visit either business (this would be a great time to change that) or if they are your favorite places to visit, make sure to
mark your calendar for Sunday, May 19th.

Marty’s Market is a unique food market, cafe, and coffee bar.
Wigle Whiskey is a whiskey distillery creating spirits with local ingredients and a copper pot.

Enjoy a delicious coffee and breakfast at Marty’s, tour Wigle, taste their unique whiskeys and gin, and shop from 40 local artisans who can’t wait to meet you.
We call that one perfect Sunday!

I Made It! Jr. & Healthy Living

Join us this Saturday, April 20th (Earth Day) for I Made It! Jr & Healthy Living at Bakery Square from 12 – 4 pm.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure to find us INSIDE a space by Jimmy John’s and OUTSIDE by Coffee Tree Roasters! Fifty artists will have a variety of wonderful handmade wares for you to discover.

 MEET THE MAKERS

I Made It! Jr. pops back into Bakery Square on Saturday, April 20th from 12 – 4 pm for a market filled with lovelies made for our littlest friends and family members. We will be both INSIDE a space near Jimmy John’s and OUTSIDE near Coffee Tree Roasters. 

Find clothing, accessories, art prints, toys, plush, cards, backpacks, gift items, and more all locally crafted and handmade. 

This event also features healthy living options including natural bath and body products, beautiful ceramic kitchenware, repurposed and green housewares, organic clothing, vegan baked goods and more. 

IMI Jr/Healthy Living is a part of the 2nd Annual BkSq Family Fun in the Square from Noon-3pm featuring live music by DJ Matt Donnelly and the kid-friendly entertainment duo The Gab and Josh Show. 

Family Fun in the Square is an afternoon of balloon twisters from Airheads Balloons, a special I Made It! Market Jr. featuring handmade items for kids and babies and healthy living products. BkSq and Farm to Table Pittsburgh will be hosting family friendly activities, and Franktuary and BRGR Food Trucks will be on-site as well! 

Guests over 21 can enjoy beer for a suggested donation that will benefit the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Kids Marathon & Kids of STEEL program! Family Fun in the Square is a FREE all ages event. We hope to celebrate Earth Day together at BkSq! 

ABOUT BAKERY SQUARE:

 Bakery Square is a new mixed-use development located in the East End neighborhood of Pittsburgh, built out of the existing site of the historic Nabisco Factory. Offering an exciting lifestyle center environment while hosting numerous free events to connect with its neighbors and guests, Bakery Square is home to Google, UPMC, Anthropologie, Free People, LA Fitness, Panera Bread, Coffee Tree Roasters, Learning Express Toys, Jimmy Johns, Springhill Suites Marriott Hotel, Massage Heights, Verizon Fios, Nuance Communications, University of Pittsburgh, Veteran Administration, the newly opened TechShop, and coming soon Social bar and restaurant.

www.facebook.com/bakerysquare
www.bakery-square.com

Meet our newest I Made It! Market intern, Emma Eisenbrandt! 

Hello! My name is Emma Eisenbrandt and I am a senior at California University of Pennsylvania. I am a Fine Art major and a Tourism Studies minor. On campus I run two clubs as vice president, The Ballroom & Latin Dance Club and the Travel Club. I hold a work-study position as a research assistant for Cal U and the Gettysburg Visitors & Convention Bureau. I am also the team founder/captain of a Relay for Life team, Art & Sole (Create, Fight, Save A Life!).

I spend most of my free time getting covered in clay in the ceramics studio, studying photography, and doing an array of artsy things as well as spending every minute I can outside in the wilderness. Graduation is less than a month away and I am in the search for an event planning job that will challenge my skills and expand my knowledge.

Working with I Made It! Market has been more than I ever hoped for in an internship and I appreciate every opportunity I get to work with the amazing artists that are associated with this company. I look forward to my future and all the experiences and opportunities that lay ahead of me. Thank you I Made It! Market for helping me on my path.

Find us next:

April 13 & 14: Tanger Outlet’s Washington’s A Taste & Style Experience.

Learn more and meet our artists. 

April 20: I Made It! Jr. / Healthy Living at Bakery Square.

Learn more and meet our artists.

Local screen printers kick off t-­shirt season with a sale, art and local food on Friday, April 5. 

PITTSBURGH, PA – March 26 –Celebrate the return of t–‐shirt season with screen printers The Cotton Factory and TeeRex Syndicate during Unblurred on Friday, April 5. This event is part of the GA/GI Festival, which celebrates eco–‐technology and the arts.  Attendees can add a unique flair to their warmer weather wardrobe with our irrationally affordable, hand–‐printed tees by local designers. New 2013 designs will be available. Buy 2 regularly priced tees and get one of equal or lesser value FREE!!! We will also be hosting several local guests who will provide fun, food and information about the Green Arts and Green Initiative movement! Learn more here: http://gagi4.blogspot.com/

April 5th special guests will include:

•cityLAB 6% Place is a non–‐profit organization that performs experiments with the city as their laboratory. Experiments are chosen to seed economic development, attract talent, create a buzz and effect positive change in the city, from both inside and outside. cityLAB is a do tank not a think tank. http://www.citylabpgh.org/experiments/six–‐percent–‐place/

•From 8:00pm to 10:30pm, artist Felipe Castelblanco collaborates with Iontank to create a public intervention in front of our studio. Featuring experimental video works by 10 Pittsburgh–‐based multimedia artists, the intervention will take over the facades of empty buildings and turn the surrounding architecture into a cinematic surface for large video projections. http://www.felipecastelblanco.com/

•Brassero Grill will provide a variety of Mexican tacos or burritos served fresh from their trailer outside the studio (veggie and vegan options always available). https://www.facebook.com/brasserogrill

•Dozen Bakeshop will be here to satisfy your sweet tooth with cupcakes (of course!) and an array of other baked goods from their truck outside the studio (veggie and vegan options always available). http://dozenbakeshop.com/

Along with these special guests, The Cotton Factory and TeeRex Syndicate will provide while–‐you- ‐ wait tees, and East End Brewery Beer. $5 will get you a brand new tee with one of the many transfer designs to choose from, pressed right before your very eyes. The Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project is always in need of new or gently used totes. Donations of tote bags, canned foods, hygiene products or pet goodies will be accepted. Anyone who donates will be entered to win a free tee from our shop http://tote4pgh.blogspot.com/ 

About TeeRex Syndicate: TeeRex hand prints quality apparel with original designs created by a devoted staff of local designers. The TeeRex items found in the storefront are unique, experimental one-­offs that can’t be found in their online store, CottonFactory.com. Based in Pittsburgh, PA TeeRex often partners with local groups such as the Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance, Hello Bully, Rabbit Wranglers, Bike Pittsburgh and more.  TeeRex’s studio is located at 5440 Penn Ave. 

TeeRex Syndicate: www.teerex.com | @teerexsyndicate | mf@cottonfactory.com

The Cotton Factory: www.cottonfactory.com | @Cotton_Factory | mf@cottonfactory.com

What do you do when sewing instruction seems to be falling out of fashion? If you are Tameka Reed, you found Urban Stitches, a sewing studio that offers lessons and a space for private events (with or without the use of machines). Located in Monroeville, Tameka opened Urban Stitches doors in March and has several classes for the month and April open for registration.

A graduate of the Clarissa School of Fashion Design Institute, Tameka wished to work as an instructor at Peabody (her alma mater) when to her dismay she learned that sewing instruction was no longer offered. Not wanting to let a useful skill and hobby fall out of popularity, this avid seamstress’ plan is for Urban Stitches to offer a one-stop-shop for all of your sewing needs. Within the year, Urban Stitches will offer hard-to-find sewing goodies and have a weekly sewing social. Tameka has designed a special curriculum for younger students as well.

With more than 20 years of sewing experience, Tameka enjoys creating reproductions of her favorite vintage fashions with a modern twist. And she knows how important sewing skills can be – “About an hour before I was to be picked up to attend my college graduation I burned a hole in my gown!  Fortunately the gown was a bit big anyway so I sewed two “decorative” seams down either side of the back. Talk about anxiety!” Urban Stitches not only will provide instruction, but also space rental. If your machine malfunctions during a project you can rent machine time and finish that fabulous fashion.

“My goal is for Urban Stitches to be a social sewing studio, where people come not just to learn a new skill, but to enjoy being around like-minded crafty people.  Sewing is so much fun, but it can be a lonely craft,” and with a new venue like Urban Stitches, Tameka will make sure that we are all having fun!

Check out Urban Stitches for yourself with this recent Groupon:

http://www.groupon.com/deals/urban-stitches?pt=aUVGvczAAAACgATEi2hP2naffW2APy82h

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts SHOP ARTIST SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be post marked by Friday April 19, 2013. 

The Shop at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts will be screening artwork by new consignment artists to complement the existing mix of work currently represented. Because the Shop receives many requests from those who wish to show with us, we ask that interested artists submit to our digital screening for review.  As our main focus during business hours is to represent and promote the artwork we currently have available, please be aware that PCA Shop staff will not review artwork on a walk-in basis. Artists living or working within a 150-mile radius of the Center are invited to submit for consideration. We appreciate your interest in submitting your artwork to the Shop at PCA!

About:

Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is committed to the artist and the advancement of artistic excellence in visual arts.

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Founded in 1945, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is a non-profit community arts campus that offers arts education programs and contemporary art exhibitions, providing services and resources for individual artists throughout Western Pennsylvania. The Center is where the community can create, see, support, and learn about visual arts. In January 2006, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts merged with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Founded in 1971, Pittsburgh Filmmakers is a nonprofit corporation designed to encourage the creation and understanding of media for noncommercial artistic and literary purposes. To this end, Filmmakers offers a curriculum of courses in film, video, and photography to university and independent students in the Pittsburgh region. Filmmakers also exhibit the work of prominent photographers and filmmakers in its two galleries, Melwood Screening Room, Regent Square Theater and Harris Theater. A key component of Filmmakers’ mission is to provide equipment access and funding for independent media artists.

The Shop at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is a consignment gallery. Current Members of Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts are eligible for 55% artist/45% PCA commission split of the retail sales price; Non-Members receive a 50% artist/50% PCA commission split.

Selection Process:

Quality of work as well as the diversity of the work in comparison to existing inventory will drive the screening committee’s decisions. We are particularly interested in the artists overall “hand” in the creation of the finished work (i.e. artists must be creating elements of finished design, as opposed to decorating or embellishing purchased readymade objects).

Notification of selection results will be mailed by May 3, 2013.

Additional work or information may be requested for review.

How to Apply:

Please complete the enclosed submission form, including a printed copy of the transcript of works as well as an artist bio.

Mail or drop off (at front desk) completed applications to:

The Shop @ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

6300 Fifth Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15232

T: 412.361.0873 x 303

F: 412.361.8338

Name 

Street Address

City State Zip code

Daytime phone Evening Phone

E-mail website 

Include with this submission form:

1. Documentation: Artists must include no more than 10 visual digital images or other samples of their work for consideration.

CD/DVD: 2D, 3D and multimedia works can be submitted on CD/DVD

Digital images must be in .jpg format no larger than 2MB, set to 300 DPI, and no smaller than 4” on its shortest side.

All images should correspond to the transcript of works.

Filename must be as follows: artist’s last name, number as listed on transcript of works and title. For example: smith-01-titleofwork.jpg

DVD must be formatted for viewing with QuickTime™ Version 7.1.2, Player Version 7.1.2.

Disc should be labeled with the artist’s name.

Video: Labeled (artist name, title) and encased DVD will be accepted for multimedia works. Please have a five-minute segment for preview.

2.Transcript of Works: Include artist’s name, and list the following for each entry: title of work, medium, dimensions, year created, and suggested retail price. Include a detailed description of process and materials used. 

3. Digital copy of transcript of works and digital copy of artist bio as either PDF or Word documents.

*Application materials will not be returned.

For additional information contact:

Tiffany Whitfield, Shop Manager
twhitfield@pittsburgharts.org
412-361-0873 ext. 308

Open Studio with Amber Coppings

Come join Amber Coppings, maker of Xmittens, as she opens her new studio in Lawrenceville this Saturday, March 23!

Stop by anytime between 11am-5pm to say hi, enter a raffle to win free Xmittens or a free workshop Amber will be teaching in her new space (Open Studios: Fabric Dyeing and Sugar & Shibori Workshops) and take advantage of automatic discounts for attendees. There will be a $5 box full of silk scarves and discontinued Xmittens, too!

Where: 5258 Butler Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201 2nd floor

RSVP on Eventbrite

YOBRO Apparel

Yobro is a fresh new clothing line just for boys! We are 2 Mom’s on a mission – to create affordable and hip apparel and raise awareness for children’s charities. This season 10% of our proceeds will go to the Noah Angelici Hope Foundation which raises money for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Team at Pittsburgh’s Magee-Womens Hospital as well as for The Children’s Home and Lemieux Family Center. Their mission is to be an advocate for families with critically ill children by providing financial, medical, and spiritual support. To learn more, visit www.noahshouseofhope.com.