Allure of Japanese Glass @ Pittsburgh Glass Center until Sept. 16

Sono Kago - Chiisana Niwa (small garden)

Several promising young Japanese artists are showing their work at Pittsburgh Glass Center’s first international exhibition, Allure of Japanese Glass.

Most of the artists have never exhibited in the United States, but are well known in Japan.

“It’s our intention,” said Janet McCall, PGC program manager, “to showcase these artists, introduce some new young faces and make the public aware of the creative energy that exists in glass in Japan,”

To help raise awareness PGC is offering several Japanese-related programs and classes for free to the public, which you can find out more about at www.pittsburghglasscenter.org

Kentaro Senuma - Vase g, o, p, c, b

Tomoe Shizumi - Mizuumi

Pittsburgh Glass Center
5472 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206
412-365-2145

Pittsburgh Rated Number One Mid Sized Art City

Last year readers of American Style Magazine, ranked Pittsburgh the number three mid sized arts destinations and this year, perhaps due to a little ballot stuffing- we are number one. "Excitement around the city is driven largely by glass-related events, such as the Dale Chihuly exhibition starting next month at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, the Glass Art Society international conference in June and related events, according to publisher Wendy Rosen. Pittsburgh also scored points among readers for The Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art and smaller private art galleries."

Well, anyway you slice it, it's hard to argue that readers made a bad choice. The benefit's of cross promoting and branding shows around the glass conference is really likely to pay off. Of course it might pay off better if we had a gallery guide or a bunch of people contributed to an art blog that covered the city or if we had a great online art portal that was attatched to the visit Pittsburgh website.