| For Immediate Release | Contact: Carol O'Sullivan |
| Jun 1, 2006 | 412-681-5449 x205 |
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(Pittsburgh, PA) — Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Pittsburgh Filmmakers will hold an opening reception – a christening of sorts – for the new media arts lab, on Thursday, June 15. Student work will be on display and light refreshments will be served from 5:30 to 8:30 pm at the Scaife building on the campus of Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (the corner of Fifth and Shady in Shadyside). The "gestation period," taking approximately six months, involved the transformation of the former artist's apartment in the Scaife building (PCA classrooms). The state-of-the-art facility is now equipped with digital video, photographic and audio equipment, including Macintosh computers, mini-dv camcorders, microphones, hard-disk recorders, a digital printer and a video projector. The guardian of the lab and new program is Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Media Literacy Coordinator, T. Foley, a nationally recognized artist and educator. This summer a series of workshops are being held for teens. They range from video fundamentals to making original music videos. While the aesthetics of these courses emphasize principles of photographic arts, the classes are very much geared for anyone interested -- film school lingo translated for the Average Joe. Starting this fall, classes will also be offered for adults, and in the winter, for families. T. Foley's films and videos have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a past recipient of fellowships from both the PA Council on the Arts and the Pittsburgh Foundation. In 2005 she was chosen to work with youth technology educators from around the world at the first IDEAS Institute at MIT's Media Laboratory. Ms. Foley had her first solo show in Pittsburgh, at SPACE gallery in March 2006. For more information, call 412-361-0455 or go to www.pittsburgharts.org/school/emalab.html |
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