Carnegie’s future mural, designed by Gregg Valley.
WALK
ALL OVER CARNEGIE!
Carnegie’s future
mural, designed by Gregg Valley.
Go
to "Previous Events" for a brief write-up on the gallery
walk!
Visit Carnegie for a mid-summer
evening event all over town!
Friday, July 15, 6 to 10 p.m.
Visit “one of the 100 best small
arts towns in America” for a tour of what we have to offer
plus some special events! The GALLERY
WALK will feature shows at three of our galleries, get
your card stamped at all of them and be entered to win a piece
of artwork by Philip Salvato...we’re having a mural painted
through the Sprout Fund—join us for the MURAL
KICKOFF event...several restaurants will welcome you with
specials during our RESTAURANT WALK,
patronize four of them to enter into a drawing for a gift certificate...plenty
of BUSINESSES up and down Main
Street and all over town will be open to greet you...visit our
Historical Society, home of the new HONUS
WAGNER MUSEUM!
On a beautiful summer
night...
What
other town the size of Carnegie can boast four galleries--not
to mention a music school, two dance schools, two long-term resident
theater companies and one grand Andrew Carnegie Free Library and
Music Hall? We invite you to walk or ride from one end of town
to the other. Visit each gallery, one completely different from
the next, offering a different atmosphere and featuring a different
type of art with an individual interpretation. Have you visited
our selection of restaurants? You'll find everything from simple
deli fare to delectable dinners plus desserts and great coffee
at our local establishments. Many retail and services businesses
will be joining us for a night on the town as well. In each section
below, you'll find the information about participants and special
offers as well as downloadable maps and cards to take to the galleries
and restaurants. If you don't get around to one or another of
the galleries or restaurants or stores, feel free to stop back
any time. We'll see you Friday!
Visit these three galleries in Carnegie,
have your gallery walk list marked at each gallery and it's entered
in a drawing for a piece of artwork by Philip Salvato, internationally-known
artist and owner of 3rd Street Gallery with his studio just upstairs
(artwork shown below).
1. download
and print out your gallery list
2. visit each gallery and have your list stamped
3. drop it off at your final destination
We'll collect them and draw the
lucky winner during the week following the gallery walk. Click
here for a printable list, including a map, to take on your tour
of the galleries.
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Visit the 3rd Street Gallery: |
Visit Lisa's website: |
Visit the Renaissance Gallery online: www.ren-art.com |
You may be lucky enough to win...
Grand Canal, Venice
Philip Salvato
signed canvas giclee,
12" x 17", unframed
Enter your invitation into a drawing for this original artwork.
Visit each gallery and have your invitation stamped, then drop it off at your final destination. We'll collect them and draw the lucky winner during the week following the gallery walk.
Carnegie’s future
mural, designed by Gregg Valley.
We're
just thrilled to be joining other communities around Pittsburgh
who've had the Sprout Public Art Program fund a mural. It will
be painted on the side of the old Rome Hardware Building, highly
visible all over town and sure to be a traffic-stopper for those
sitting at the light at the intersection of 3rd Street and West
Main Street!
Stop by the site for some goodies and meet the artist, Gregg Valley, a local freelance illustrator--he'll also have some work hanging in 3rd Street Gallery, and you may recognize some of the other things he's done. Some members of the committee will also be on hand to tell you how they worked together over the course of two months to formulate the design from brainstorming sessions to reality, and maybe even see some work being done on it, depending on conditions.
The mural is sponsored locally by Carnegie Renaissance and the Carnegie Rotary Club, and we'd like to thank Lenny Czarnecki for permitting us to use the side of his building for this mural--there's no better place in town!
Here are some other thanks, too:
--Al Sakal of Wheel N Wedge/Food Zone for donating the time, the
grill and the hot dogs at the mural site!
--Jenny Lee Bakery for donating the cookies
--Carnegie Rotary Club for helping with volunteers
Have you heard of one of our restaurants,
but just can't find it? Have you wanted to stop in one of our
restaurants just to look at the menu and see what they offered?
Here's your chance! And you just might win a gift certificate!
Several restaurants will be joining us for this evening in Carnegie,
so feel free to stop in and just purchase a beverage or appetizer,
look over the menu and have your restaurant list stamped that
you were there.
1. download
and print out your restaurant list
2. visit AT LEAST THREE of the restaurants listed, purchase a
beverage or appetizer and have your list stamped
(note that some restaurants have special offers or special instructions)
3. drop it off at your final destination
We'll collect them and draw the
lucky winner of either a $25.00 Talotta's gift certificate or
a $20.00 Babyface's gift certificate during the week following
the gallery walk. Click
here for a printable list, including a map, to take on your tour
of the restaurants.
Eccentricities:
an eclectic cafe
222 Third Avenue
412-249-8169
showing art, textiles, jewelry,
and light refreshments in a cafe setting by proprietor Lisa Rasmussen,
and a double billing as part of the restaurant walk!
Visit Lisa's website: eccentricitiescafe.home.comcast.net
Ciao: an Italian Cafe
131 East Main Street
412-276-9914
offering a mix of classic
Italian cuisine--using Nick's own sauces--and some classic burgers
and sandwiches, too, in both the bar and restaurant as well as
sidewalk tables.
Talotta's
Main Street Inn
513 West Main Street
412-276-2655
offering family style Italian
plus burgers and hot sandwiches. And don't worry if they look
busy on Friday night--the wait for a table in the dining room
can be long, so just take a seat in the bar and order a soft drink
or mixed drink, even an appetizer, while you look over the menu.
Take your list to the bartender to have it stamped.
Papa J's
Ristorante
200 East Main Street
412-429-7272
offering exotic Northern
Italian cuisine, salads, desserts and a full wine list, Pap J's
is known all over the city for its excellent food and relaxed,
open ambience.
Cefalo's
428 Washington Avenue
412-276-6600
Visit between 5:00 p.m.
and 8:30 p.m. (there's a cover charge after 8:30) and take a seat
in the lounge if the restaurant is full. Have a drink or an appetizer
and ask to see the lunch or dinner menus, and ask for Lenny or
Dean if you'd like a brief tour of the newly-opened restaurant.
Babyface's
Carnegie Grill
146 East Main Street
412-278-1233
Brian will be open for dessert
and coffee in his diner-style restaurant on Main Street, and he's
also offering a gift certificate in our raffle so be sure to check
his menu!
Several retail and service businesses will be open for you to visit during the walk, too! Some may not be able to stay open for the entire time, so make sure you take the time to browse:
Stage 62
will have a table at the bottom of Beechwood Avenue to offer information
about their upcoming show, "Into the Woods", and to
offer you a chance to win tickets to the show!
Izzy Miller Furniture
Main Street Pianos
Southwest Ballet
Carnegie Antiques
Children's Choices
Pittsburgh Kitchen and Bath Design
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY OF CARNEGIE and the HONUS WAGNER MUSEUM
photo courtesy the Baseball Hall of
Fame website
What better place to have a museum dedicated to one of the first baseball heroes than our Historical Society? One of the Hall of Fame's five original inductees in 1936, Honus Wagner combined rare offensive and defensive excellence throughout a 21-year career. Despite his awkward appearance — stocky, barrel chested and bow-legged — the longtime Pirates shortstop broke into the big leagues by hitting .344 in 1897 with Louisville, the first of 17 consecutive seasons of hitting over .300, including eight as the National League batting champion, compiling a lifetime average of .329. The "Flying Dutchman" also stole 722 bases and led the league in thefts on five occasions. Stop in to see newspaper clippings, photographs, trophies and artwork featuring Honus Wagner.
The Historical Society is housed
in the historic 1896 Husler Building at 1 West Main Street. The
prime artifact on permanent display is Walter Stasik's Miniature
Main Street, a painstakingly-detailed scale model of the shops
and buildings of Carnegie's Main Street in the town's heyday of
the 1940s and 1950s. Like a Carnegie version of "things that
aren't there anymore", there is Isaly's, Bill Stephen's Mens
Shop and McCrory's, where other businesses have moved into the
buildings. Now just a memory are the watchtower next to the bridge
over Chartiers Creek, the train station, the telegraph office
and the old jail, just to name a few. Looking at it can be disorienting
if you know Carnegie today; when the mall was constructed and
traffic flow was changed, whole blocks of buildings were removed
to allow for parking and for larger intersections.
But
the collection doesn't end there. It continues with a stack of
yearbooks from Carnegie High School, plus uniforms, photos, diplomas,
certificates, report cards and all sorts of school memorabilia.
Also on display are items from local clubs and organizations,
records from local churches, and mementos from local businesses,
including a good many items from the steel mills that powered
the town's economy, down to the metal stamper that pressed Superior
Steel's seal into a document and a tall, filigree-crusted cash
register with steel keys that mechanically flip the numbers into
the display window at the top, no electronics involved.
The 3rd
Street Gallery
Eccentricities
The Renaissance
Art Gallery