Mary Tremonte Featured Artist For Encyclopedia Destructica Open Studio

Mary Tremonte Mural In Braddock



The Lawrenceville Open Studios are the must see event tomorrow and a high point of that should be The Ecyclopedia Destructica studio.

Come visit the Encyclopedia Destructica Studios during the L'ville Studio Tour
Saturday, October 17th
10 am - 6 pm

all of our books and zines published since the beginning (2005) will be on display

sew together your own medieval carnival issue to take home
plus
artwork on the walls by
FLYING DESTRUCTICATE
Mary Tremonte

Holy cats and flying squirrels! Encyclopedia Destructica has selected the next FLYING DESTRUCTICATE! "Who could the next fantabulous artist in an already magnificent line of Flying Destructicates be? What could they possibly be up to now? What physical marvel of the book form could potentially be in production in the studios of Encyclopedia Destructica??!!!", you may be asking, thricely...

Well, the wait is over! Rejoice! Mary Tremonte is your new FLYING DESTRUCTICATE!!!! She astounds! She rocks! She removes your socks in a wave of undeniable awesomeness!

Mary is an artist-educator-DJ. She is a member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, a decentralized community of artsist who have banded together to both sell their work online and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. She has recently completed residencies in Providence, RI and Halifax, NS. Mary is a Youth Programs Coordinator at the Andy Warhol Museum and volunteers at Artists Image Resource. She is consumed with printmaking, totally teens, collaboration, communication and the politics of social space, especially the dancepaty.
www.justseeds.org/artists/mary_tremonte

Come check out some work by Mary on the walls of the Destructica studios THIS SATURDAY for the Lawrenceveille Artists' Studio Tour.

Artist's Open Studio Weekend

This weekend of events and happenings includes some great opportunities to see (and perhaps buy) artists work in their studios and work spaces.

The fifth annual Lawrenceville artist's studio tour on Saturday will open 16 artists work spaces and let you see work from video and performance, to traditional stained glass, textiles, sculpture and pottery.

Just download the PDF for a map.

My personal must sees would likely include the studios of

Connie Cantor

Encyclopedia Destructica

Ron Donoughe

Dan Gasser

But the Casey and Rachel Hallas studio looks very interesting.

I'm a little bummed, that Tugboat Press isn't opening up.

Then on Sunday



On Sunday, consider popping into Open studio event of Susan Constance and Christine Bethea in Bloomfield.

Orange Balloons, an aRt-O-noMic open studio event
Bloomfield, 4073 Liberty Ave – 2nd floor
Sunday, October 18, 2008: 12PM – 6PM

Now for my rant!

People familiar with the art scene and geography of Pittsburgh might guess that one could easily put together an amazing Bloomfield/Garfield/Lawrenceville open studio/ art weekend or something which could easily include 30 different art studios and galleries.

Don't hold your breath on that one.