For further information:

Connie Cantor, Interplay Chair

412-848-5963

connie@conniecantor.com

Jeanine Hall, Managing Director

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

412-361-1370

aap@aapgh.org

Carol O’Sullivan

Pittsburgh Filmmakers/

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

412-681-5449

carolo@pghfilmmakers.org

FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010

Interplay Opens June 25^th

First Collaborative Exhibition of AAP,

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Eight Artist Guilds

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — The first collaborative exhibition of works by members of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP), Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PF/PCA) and its eight artist guilds is scheduled to open next month as part of AAP’s Centennial celebration. Interplay runs from June 25-August 22, 2010 at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA), 6300 Fifth Avenue. Eric Shiner, Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum, served as juror. The opening reception is Friday, June 25, 5:30- 8:00pm at PCA. It is open to the public; a donation of $5.00 is requested.

“Interplay provides an exceptional view of Pittsburgh’s fertile and diverse arts community,” says artist and Interplay Chair Connie Cantor. “The exhibition features compelling works by emerging and established artists working across the full spectrum of media—from installation, video, photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, fiber arts and more.”

“Interplay” is defined as a mutual action, influence and interaction. Artists submitted more than 200 works relating to the ways people, things or ideas repeatedly act on and react to each other. Shiner selected 50 works for the exhibition.

“It was incredibly difficult to whittle the many works of art submitted into a unified exhibition that clearly represented the essence of the show’s title,” says Shiner in a juror statement. “In the end, Interplay, for me, became a meeting place of the highly talented minds of Pittsburgh’s artists…”

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh sponsored the three Juror’s Choice Awards. The Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh, Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Group A, Pittsburgh Print Group, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors and Women of Visions, Inc. each sponsored an award for the show.

The artist guilds affiliated with the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts have a long and rich history with the organization. Some of the older guilds helped to establish PCA, then called the Arts and Crafts Center of Pittsburgh. Today, the guilds continue to plan an important role in the Center’s exhibition program, providing opportunities for regional, national and international artists to exhibit in its galleries.

The Interplay catalog features every work in the show and offers a history of each guild, AAP and PF/PCA. It is the first publication to bring this important historical information together. The 28-page catalog will be available opening night.

About Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

PF/PCA is committed to the artist and the advancement of artistic excellence in visual arts. Founded by artists in 1945, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is a non-profit community arts campus that offers contemporary art exhibitions and art education programs, providing services and resources for individual artists throughout Western Pennsylvania. In 2006 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts merged with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Founded in 1971, Pittsburgh Filmmakers is a private, 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. For more information about PF, visit pghfilmmakers.org; for more information about PCA, visit pittsburgharts.org.

About Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

AAP is the oldest continuously exhibiting visual arts organization in the country. Founded in 1910, AAP is celebrating 100 years as a driving force in Pittsburgh’s dynamic cultural life, providing a vital and challenging environment for nearly 500 member artists to exhibit new work in the widest possible range of media.

Interplay is one of over 70 exhibitions throughout the region celebrating AAP’s Centennial and ARTrageous! year of art. Sitko Rodella Bruno, a Pittsburgh law firm specializing in commercial real estate, has graciously underwritten the Interplay exhibition and catalog. For a complete calendar of ARTrageous! exhibitions, go to aapgh.org.

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh sponsored three Juror’s Choice Awards. They went to:

Alan Byrne

Hisham Youssef

James Maszle

Eight guilds affiliated with PCA helped to underwrite the following awards:

Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh

Best 3D - Jane Haskell

Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh

Best in Fiberart  - Mary Towner

Group A

Best Conceptual Art - Becky Slemmons

Pittsburgh Print Group

Excellent Use of a Printmaking Technique - Paula Garrick Klein & Sharon Wilson Wilcox

Pittsburgh Society of Artists

Best Demonstration of Theme - Lori Hepner

Pittsburgh Society of Sculpture

Best Sculptural Interpretation of Theme - Daniel Brickman

Pittsburgh Watercolor Society

Most Innovative Use of Materials - Wendy Osher

Women of Visions, Inc.

Most Visionary - Christina Zarris

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Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA) is located at the corner of Fifth and Shady Avenues in Shadyside. For more information about the Center, about current exhibits or about special events, call: 412-361-0873, or visit: www.pittsburgharts.org.