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Westmoreland Museum of American Art and the LVR-Industriemuseum, Oberhausen, Germany, Building a Transatlantic Bridge
Contact: Judy Linsz Ross
 Greensburg, PA - The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is pleased to announce Building a Transatlantic Bridge, an innovative project that will provide opportunities for collaboration and interaction for high school students in the Greensburg Salem School District and in Oberhausen, Germany.
The Westmoreland wrote and received a grant from Museums and Community Collaborations Abroad (MCCA), a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State in partnership with the American Association of Museums (AAM).
Through this project, students from both regions will have the opportunity to create lasting bonds and cultural understanding, using current technology with a focus on the art, music and industrial heritage of the Pittsburgh and Ruhr Valley regions.
The Westmoreland has worked with the LVR-Industriemuseum for the past three years through its exhibition Born of Fire: The Valley of Work, which had its European debut in Oberhausen in 2007 before traveling to Chemnitz, Germany, and Zabrze, Poland. Portions of Born of Fire will be featured again at LVR from July 25 through Nov. 28, 2010, as part of Ruhr Region's designation as the 2010 European Capital of Culture. This finale exhibition prompted the two museums to try to bring together students from their regions.
Judith Hansen O'Toole, Director/CEO of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, noted: "We are excited to be working once again with our colleagues at the LVR-Industriemuseum to bring students and educators together around the theme of art and industry. Based on our collection of paintings that record images of Pittsburgh steel as seen through the eyes of some of our nation's most talented artists, this project between German and American schools will enhance a better understanding of our shared industrial past and how it impacts who we are as an international society today."
Teachers and students from Greensburg Salem High School, and teachers and students in Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule, Gymnasium Gustav-Heinemann-Schulzentrum, and Freiherr-vom Stein-Gymnasium in Germany will benefit from the program. Students will identify steelmaking as the major 20th century industry of southwestern Pennsylvania and the Ruhr Valley, and reasons for the decline of steelmaking in each region, and be able to state how each region has adapted to these changes.
Because the project is fully funded, the schools incur no out-of-pocket costs. As part of the grant funds, The Westmoreland will provide Greensburg Salem High School teachers with the necessary technology equipment and software, including audio/video recording devices and digital cameras, access to teacher and student blog sites, social media sites for students and teachers, web-conferencing capabilities, and lesson planning assistance. The Westmoreland has also provided the schools with Born of Fire books, music compact discs ("Songs of Steel and Industry" by the NewLanders), and The Westmoreland's DVD documentary, "How Pittsburgh Built a Nation."
Katie Barnard, Director of Education & Visitor Services at The Westmoreland, is acting as liaison between students and teachers in Oberhausen and at Greensburg Salem High School. She has been working closely with Stephanie Buchholz (Education Director at the LVR-Industriemuseum in Oberhausen). Like Barnard, Buchholz is working with teachers in Germany.
The two museum education directors have paired Greensburg Salem teachers with their counterparts overseas. The teachers have been communicating via e-mail and developed the idea of the Transatlantic Journal Project, which combines the creative writing classes and advanced art classes. The journal project's web site is http://transatlanticjournalproject.shutterfly.com/. On the site, journals and pictures from the students are posted.
Participating from Greensburg Salem High School are the classes of Lisa Bevington, an advanced creative writing teacher, and Kelley Audia, advanced art and portfolio prep teacher. The journals, according to Bevington, provide an "energy and an opportunity like I've never seen in the classroom." The journals are being sent to students in Germany, while those students will in turn send theirs to Greensburg Salem students. They will add onto each other's journals. Images from all journals will be placed on the web site. Barnard will travel to Germany the week of Dec. 7 to meet with Buchholz and other museum staff, as well as teachers and students from the three schools in Oberhausen. Barnard and a Greensburg educator will also travel to Germany twice during the project and Buchholz will reciprocate. All travel is funded through the grant.
"The journals are contagious. It's like looking at a yearbook. The students are very proud of the work that they do. There is pressure because they have an audience," said Audia, adding the faculty and parents are also getting involved in journaling for the project. The students have the option to use their name, though some prefer anonymity.
Bevington said the project gave her something new in the curriculum to be excited about. Audia said the project is a model for other schools, and views it as "the most successful in the classroom this year."
Barnard said: "In Oberhausen, we will work on connecting our technology for the project and I will get to tour the LVR-Industriemuseum and see some German industrial sites. Part of the beauty of the project is that I didn't come up with lessons. The teachers did. I presented the teachers with this opportunity to make a connection, and challenged them to fit it into their existing curriculum. They developed their own ideas and lessons that were very creative and innovative. The project fit very well with art and creative writing."
A teaching model based on the project will be developed for use by other teachers to tie related activities and the idea of international partnerships in with mandated curricula.
Central to the exchange for participants is the creation of a central blog using free, open-source publishing tools. The blog serves as the primary platform for highlighting new achievements and illustrating project activities. Postings may come from MCCA staff, project staff, students and teachers, and/or community participants. See http://buildingatransatlanticbridge.blogspot.com.
Building a Transatlantic Bridge will continue through the end of 2010. The project begins in earnest in January and there will be many other lessons and projects developed by educators, including opportunities for public participation.
About LVR-Industriemuseum
Much like Pittsburgh and its surrounding regions, Oberhausen is located in Germany's Ruhr Valley, which is renowned for industry. The people who worked in the mills shaped both regions' culture and history, and the remnants of the workers' pasts are still visible in the landscape today. The artists that depicted smoky cityscapes in Pittsburgh and in Oberhausen are featured in The Westmoreland's Born of Fire exhibitions, as well as in the LVR's exhibition From the Ruhr Valley to the Steel City, which was presented at The Westmoreland in the fall 2008. Exhibiting each other's work has created a strong partnership between the museums.
About The Westmoreland
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, situated 35 miles east of Pittsburgh at 221 N. Main St. in the heart of Greensburg, houses collections featuring artwork by
such celebrated American artists as Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Westmoreland captures the American spirit in a way few museums do. See how the American experience is brought to life through the inspired eyes of artists at The Westmoreland. It's the only museum of American art in western Pennsylvania.
General Information
The Westmoreland is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Free parking is available in the lot at the entrance of The Westmoreland. Admittance is a suggested $5 donation for adults; children under 12 and students with a valid ID are free. Guided tours can be arranged by calling 724/837-1500 ext. 10. Visit our web site for detailed directions and mapping.
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Westmoreland Museum of American Art and its Director/CEO receive highest national recognition
Contact: Judy L. Ross
 GREENSBURG, PA - The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will end its 50th anniversary year on a high note with recent reaccreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition achievable by an American museum. The Westmoreland's director and chief executive officer has also been elected to membership of the prestigious Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).
First accredited in 1972, the Museum was one of the first museums in the country to receive this endorsement. Of the nation's estimated 17,500 museums, 778 are currently accredited. To earn accreditation, a museum first must conduct a year of self-study, and then undergo a site visit by a two-person team of peers. The Accreditation Commission, an autonomous body of museum professionals appointed by the AAM Board, considers the self-study and site visit report to determine whether a museum should receive accreditation. While the time to complete the process varies by museum, it generally takes as much as three years.
Accreditation recognizes high standards in individual museums and ensures that museums continue to uphold their public trust. Developed and sustained by museum professionals for more than 35 years, AAM's museum accreditation program is the field's primary vehicle for quality assurance, self-regulation and public accountability.
According to the AAM: "The characteristics of an accreditable museum establish outcomes toward which all museums can and should strive and can achieve in ways appropriate to their resources. To best serve their communities, it is essential that museums be committed to institutional improvement, maintaining the highest standards in collection stewardship, governance, institutional planning, ethics, education and interpretation and risk management. AAM accreditation signifies excellence and accountability to the entire museum community, to government and outside agencies and to the museum-going public."
Earlier this year in a speech given by the AAM president at The Westmoreland, Ford Bell stated, "The Westmoreland represents the paradigm of what the first museum visionaries idealized for a mid-size institution, comprising a strong collection and creative public programming that not only attracts visitors from afar, but also keeps its neighbors coming back again and again."
In other news, Judith H. O'Toole was elected to the Association of Art Museum Directors whose purpose is to support its members in increasing the contribution of art museums to society. The AAMD accomplishes this mission by establishing and maintaining the highest standards of professional practice; serving as a forum for the exchange of information and ideas; acting as an advocate for its member art museums; and being a leader in shaping public discourse about the arts community and the role of art in society.
O'Toole has been director/CEO of The Westmoreland since 1993. Her first memory of The Westmoreland is still very clear. She was a graduate student at Penn State University when her predecessor, Paul A. Chew, asked her about an acquisition he had just made. He invited her to travel to Greensburg to see the canvas in question. Not knowing what to expect, but like most first-time visitors to The Westmoreland, she was impressed by the building and collection. Twelve years later, she received another invitation to The Westmoreland, this time from the Board of Trustees to interview for her current position.
According to Bruce M. Wolf, President of The Westmoreland's Board of Trustees, "Both the AAM reaccreditation and Judy's election to the AAMD are testimony to Judy and her dedicated team's talent and foresight. Coming in the Westmoreland's special anniversary year, these achievements confirm how fortunate we are as a community to have Judy in charge of this very special institution."
About the American Association of Museums
The American Association of Museums has been bringing museums together since 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the entire museum community. With more than 15,000 individual, 3,000 institutional and 300 corporate members, AAM is dedicated to ensuring that museums remain a vital part of the American landscape, connecting people with the greatest achievements of the human experience, past, present and future. For more information, visit www.aam-us.org.
About AAMD
Membership consists of persons who serve as directors of art museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, which by purpose, size, and standards of operation meet the eligibility requirements established by the Trustees of the Association. Membership in the Association is based on the qualifications of both the individual director and the specific art museum and no museum may be represented by more than one individual. The Association currently has 193 members.
ABOUT THE WESTMORELAND
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, situated 35 miles east of Pittsburgh at 221 N. Main St. in the heart of Greensburg, houses collections featuring artwork by
such celebrated American artists as Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Westmoreland captures the American spirit in a way few museums do. See how the American experience is brought to life through the inspired eyes of artists at The Westmoreland. It's the only museum of American art in western Pennsylvania.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Westmoreland is open Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 9 p.m. Thursdays. Free parking is available in the lot at the entrance of The Westmoreland. Admittance is a suggested $5 donation for adults; children under 12 and students with a valid ID are free. Guided tours can be arranged by calling 724/837-1500 ext. 10. Visit our web site for detailed directions and mapping.
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Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection
Contact: Judy Linsz Ross, 724-837-1500 ext. 28
 Greensburg, Pennsylvania - The Depression era was a heady time for America's artists, despite the poverty and misfortune that encompassed it. A cultural search for a unique American identity was prevalent during this period. Forty paintings featured in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art's new exhibition, Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection, revisits the decade of the 1930s through the eyes of the artists who practiced during this tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the raging war in Europe. For the artists, their subjects were the people and landscape surrounding them, and the resultant canvases evoke emotional responses to the time in which they lived. The exhibition, divided into thematic groupings, includes images of farms and factories, workers and families, entertainment and politics, and escapism in a diversity of styles that predominated including Social Realism, Regionalism, Surrealism, Magic Realism, and Precisionism. Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection opens January 24 and runs through May 16, 2010. Jason Schoen will speak at a free exhibition preview on January 23 at 6:00 PM. Reservations are suggested by calling 724-837-1500 ex. 29.
Works by well-known artists such as Charles Burchfield, John Steuart Curry, Raphael Soyer, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Doris Lee, Philip Evergood, Roy Hilton, and William Gropper are included in the exhibition, together with lesser-known artists Charles Bowling, Peppino Mangravite, James Chapin, and Francis Criss, among others.
Jason Schoen has vigorously pursued his passion for collecting American art of the 1930s and 1940s for more than 25 years. His personal collection, Coming Home, American Art 1930-1950, has been exhibited at seven museums in the south. He has compiled a significant collection that speaks to the art historical evolutions of the early twentieth century in America. Schoen has a B.A. degree in art history from the University of Texas. He attended one of the first symposiums on social-realism and has done graduate American Art studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He chose the University of Arizona because of the Leonard C. Pfeiffer Collection, one of the most important collections of American scene paintings at a university museum.
Schoen has been most interested in having his collection foster an understanding of the regionalist impulse that appeared in much of the period's art. "A goal of mine has been to create a collection of regional art," he writes, "which when seen in its totality can serve as a study collection and an introduction to an era. My wish is that this exhibition will provide an enriching experience to museum visitors, and I hope that the collection may encourage others to collect also."
Concerning the 1930s in Art is supported in part by Allied Insurance Brokers /Marty and Susan O'Brien and Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation.
The Westmoreland's exhibition coincides with the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists, which is on view at the Frick Art Museum from January 30 – April 25, 2010.
Image credit: Joe Jones (1909-1963) Conversation, 1939 Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches. Collection: Jason Schoen, Princeton, NJ, Courtesy of the Georgia Museum of Art
Visitors from Germany Headed to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art for Building a Transatlantic Bridge Project
Contact: Judy L. Ross, Director of Marketing
 GREENSBURG, PA - Stephanie Buchholz, Project Coordinator at the LVR-Industriemuseum, and Antje Reiber, a teacher at Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule, both in Oberhausen, Germany will be arriving in the United States on February 23 in conjunction with Building a Transatlantic Bridge, a partnership between the Westmoreland Museum of American Art and the LVR-Industriemuseum. During their visit, they will view The Westmoreland's collection as well as visit with Greensburg Salem High School teachers and students. The trip will also include visits to local cultural and historical sites.
Building a Transatlantic Bridge is providing opportunities for collaboration and interaction between high school students and teachers in the Greensburg Salem School District and in Heinrich-Böll-Gesamtschule, Gymnasium Gustav-Heinemann-Schulzentrum, and Freiherr-vom Stein-Gymnasium in Oberhausen, Germany. Through this project, the teachers and students are creating lasting bonds and cultural understanding of each region by using technology with a focus on the art, music and industrial heritage of the Pittsburgh and Ruhr Valley regions.
The first collaboration created through this project was the Transatlantic Journal. Mrs. Reiber connected with Kelley Audia, an art teacher, and Lisa Bevington, a creative writing teacher, both from Greensburg Salem High School. Students in both countries expressed themselves in journals, using art and poetry to introduce themselves to the other students. These journals were then sent overseas and exchanged. Oberhausen students realized similarities and connections they had with Greensburg students by reading what the students wrote and what they drew, and vice versa. The journals from Oberhausen students are now in Audia's Greensburg Salem art room, where her students are continuing to create in the books. Soon there will be another exchange, and journals will travel back to the country of origin. Throughout this process, the teachers have scanned journal images and posted them online. View the journals at http://transatlanticjournalproject.shutterfly.com
A blog has been created to showcase the two regions, the students' projects and collaborations, and the visitors from each country. The blog, which includes links to the museums, schools, and other relevant sites, can be viewed at http://buildingatransatlanticbridge.blogspot.com/.
Building a Transatlantic Bridge is funded through a grant from Museums and Community Collaborations Abroad (MCCA), a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State in partnership with the American Association of Museums.
Katie Barnard, Director of Education & Visitor Services at The Westmoreland, is acting as liaison between students and teachers in Oberhausen and at Greensburg Salem High School. She visited with German students and teachers in December 2009 to kick off the project and has been working closely with Stephanie Buchholz. Like Barnard, Buchholz is working with teachers in Germany. Teachers in both countries are developing lessons within their curriculum for Building a Transatlantic Bridge. Students will be creating art, recording videos, contributing to the blog, and conducting interviews with community members. Using various technologies, these projects will be shared with the students overseas. Barnard used Skype, a live video chat service, to share her experience while in Germany with Greensburg Salem classrooms.
The Westmoreland has worked with the LVR-Industriemuseum for the past three years through its exhibition Born of Fire: The Valley of Work, which had its European debut in Oberhausen in 2007 before traveling to Chemnitz, Germany, and Zabrze, Poland. Portions of Born of Fire will be featured again at LVR-Industriemuseum this summer as part of an international exhibition that will also feature works from Germany, France, and Poland, among others. This finale exhibition prompted the two museums to try to bring students together utilizing Pittsburgh's and the Ruhr Valley's shared industrial heritage as a starting point for discussions and projects.
About LVR-Industriemuseum
Oberhausen is located in Germany's Ruhr Valley, which, like Pittsburgh, is renowned for industry. The people who worked in the mills shaped both regions' culture and history, and the remnants of the workers' pasts are still visible in the landscape today. The artists that depicted smoky cityscapes in Pittsburgh and in Oberhausen are featured in The Westmoreland's Born of Fire exhibition, as well as in the LVR's exhibition From the Ruhr Valley to the Steel City, which was presented at The Westmoreland in the fall 2008. Exhibiting each other's work has created a strong partnership between the museums. This partnership will culminate with the large-scale international exhibition, Feuerländer: Regions of Vulcan, which will be presented at the LVR-Industriemuseum from July 25 through Nov. 28, 2010, as part of Ruhr Region's designation as the 2010 European Capital of Culture. In addition to The Westmoreland and LVR-Industriemuseum, Feuerländer partners include: Confederation of German Trade Unions; Écomusée de la Communauté Le Creusot Montceau, France; Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Coalbrookdale, England; Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambintale della Sardegna, Italy; Muzeum Górnictwa Węglowego Zabrze, Poland; and Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa, Spain.
About The Westmoreland
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, situated 35 miles east of Pittsburgh at 221 N. Main St. in the heart of Greensburg, houses collections featuring artwork by such celebrated American artists as Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Westmoreland captures the American spirit in a way few museums do. See how the American experience is brought to life through the inspired eyes of artists at The Westmoreland. It's the only museum of American art in western Pennsylvania.
About Born of Fire
Born of Fire: The Valley of Work is the story of a shared past and future forged from steel, as seen through the eyes of both national and regional artists. These images express the immense energy, power, wonder and force of the vast industrial complex that took shape in the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth-century, a time when Pittsburgh became the nation's foremost center of iron making and mass-produced steel. The collection also includes works by contemporary artists that represent remnants of the steel city. Together, they form a lasting record of the artistic and historic legacy of the southwestern Pennsylvania region. Selections from Born of Fire are always on view at The Westmoreland. For more information, visit the exhibition website at http://www.bornoffire.org/.
General Information
The Westmoreland is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Free parking is available in the lot at the entrance to The Westmoreland. Admittance is a suggested $5 donation for adults; children under 12 and students with a valid ID are free. An American Marketplace - The Museum Shop at The Westmoreland carries books on American art, posters and notecards, children's books and activities, unique giftware, jewelry and features a coffee bar. For directions to the WMAA or other information, the public should call 724/837-1500 or visit our web site at www.wmuseumaa.org.
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Exhibition of American art reverts to a time and place | | • | Jun. 29, 2008
Art history, Pennsylvania style | | • | Jun. 11, 2008
Westmoreland Museum of American Art plans expansion | | • | Apr. 19, 2008
Westmoreland Museum acquires fraktur collection | | • | Mar. 09, 2008
Sloan's New York morphs from intimate scenes to cityscapes | | • | Feb. 24, 2008
Not just watchers: Arts lovers yearn to be educated participants | | • | Feb. 24, 2008
Region could do more to provide public art, some say | | • | Feb. 24, 2008
Artists have captured evolving landscape during city's 250 years | | • | Feb. 10, 2008
'Seeing the City' offers in-depth view of N.Y. | | • | Jan. 29, 2008
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Best art exhibit: Chihuly | | • | Sep. 20, 2007
Museum fund-raiser opens doors of unique kitchens | | • | Jul. 03, 2007
Made In Pennsylvania: A Folk Art Tradition | | • | Jul. 01, 2007
Current and Upcoming | | • | Jun. 24, 2007
Westmoreland Museum of American Art presents Pennsylvania folk art exhibit | | • | Jun. 22, 2007
Exhibit celebrates Pennsylvania's folk art tradition | | • | Jun. 20, 2007
A celebration of folk art: Several programs complement exhibit | | • | Jun. 20, 2007
A celebration of folk art: Greensburg museum displays largest collection of regional craftwork | | • | May. 05, 2007
Museum to exhibit Hudson River School artists | | • | May. 04, 2007
Art of expansion | | • | May. 03, 2007
'Picturing What Matters' is a photo survey loaded with emotion | | • | May. 01, 2007
Celebrating Mayday in Oberhausen with “Songs of Steel and Industry” | | • | Apr. 28, 2007
Through a child's eye | | • | Mar. 09, 2007
'Pittsburgh Roars' louder than ever | | • | Feb. 15, 2007
German official inspired by art exhibit to visit city | | • | Feb. 10, 2007
German dignitary views art at Westmoreland museum | | • | Feb. 09, 2007
German official visits museum | | • | Jan. 15, 2007
Art Sale is On | | • | Dec. 28, 2006
Best art exhibit: 'Fierce Friends' | | • | Dec. 06, 2006
Students work together on creating mural | | • | Nov. 16, 2006
'Art of Toys' | | • | Oct. 04, 2006
Art Review: Diverse expressions enliven eclectic Biennial show | | • | Aug. 31, 2006
NewLanders bring old mill culture to life | | • | Jul. 13, 2006
Art Review: 'Born of Fire' exhibit celebrates Pittsburgh at work | | • | Jun. 11, 2006
Born of Fire | | • | Jun. 08, 2006
History alive | | • | Jun. 07, 2006
Exhibit Preview: 'Born of Fire' forges overview of steelmaking heritage | | • | May. 18, 2006
Museum fundraiser features art interpreted in flowers | | • | Apr. 02, 2006
Exhibition displays Pennsylvania's role in Realism | | • | Mar. 26, 2006
I am Pittsburgh, Hear Me Roar! | | • | Mar. 05, 2006
Exhibit examines Pittsburgh's early role in art development | | • | Mar. 03, 2006
Jewelry maker to show work at museum | | • | Dec. 16, 2005
Tie up some art gifts with local ties | | • | Dec. 15, 2005
'Playthings' makes return, in miniature | | • | Dec. 12, 2005
Westmoreland Society Dinner | | • | Dec. 11, 2005
Fan Fare: Good as Gold | | • | Dec. 09, 2005
Westmoreland Society to honor Trib publisher | | • | Dec. 09, 2005
Art Review: Westmoreland takes in views of the Hudson River School | | • | Nov. 19, 2005
Publisher to receive Gold Medal | | • | Sep. 08, 2005
Fall Arts Preview: Observe and imagine | | • | Aug. 11, 2005
Museum features art for nature lovers | | • | Aug. 07, 2005
Early American paintings set scene at Westmoreland | | • | Aug. 04, 2005
Arts Preview: Artist creates a dream realm in Westmoreland show | | • | Jun. 30, 2005
Fine Arts Review: Visions of Homestead | | • | Jun. 22, 2005
Museum hosts photos that grew to symbolize Great Depression | | • | Jun. 02, 2005
Haunting images of Great Depression remain vivid | | • | May. 11, 2005
Summer Guide 2005: Fine Art | | • | May. 05, 2005
Art museum presents exhibit on Fortune magazine project | | • | Mar. 20, 2005
Welcome to the manly art of making | | • | Mar. 17, 2005
Introducing American Art Bingo | | • | Mar. 14, 2005
Jazz clinic on tap at Seton Hill | | • | Mar. 13, 2005
Quilting exhibit shows media isn't only for women | | • | Mar. 13, 2005
Survival strategies: Get bigger, get smaller, get married | | • | Feb. 23, 2005
Male quilters on display | | • | Feb. 16, 2005
Museum's reach grasped in documentary | | • | Dec. 22, 2004
A great year at the museum | | • | Nov. 24, 2004
Westmoreland Society to honor Strickland | | • | Nov. 24, 2004
Art Notes: Strickland to receive Westmoreland Medal | | • | Nov. 17, 2004
Exhibit features toys, treasures | | • | Nov. 03, 2004
'American Marketplace' sale opens at art museum | | • | Sep. 11, 2004
Art Review: Maurer show reveals a modern marvel | | • | Aug. 01, 2004
Alfred Maurer exhibit traces artist's career through several movements | | • | Jul. 01, 2004
Westmoreland Biennial celebrates regional art | | • | Jun. 13, 2004
The Top 50 Cultural Forces in Pittsburgh | | • | Jun. 13, 2004
Westmoreland Museum's inaugural 'Juried Biennial' shows promise | | • | May. 22, 2004
Still lives: They seem so real, these sculptures taking a seat in a museum | | • | May. 09, 2004
Sculptures blend in with the crowd | | • | May. 08, 2004
Passing scenery: Photographer finds depth in the details along the highway | | • | May. 08, 2004
'Visionaries' films episode at Westmoreland Museum | | • | May. 06, 2004
Filming starts at museum | | • | Apr. 29, 2004
Museum will be featured on tv series | | • | Mar. 28, 2004
Western Pennsylvania's museums rich in art, crafts and history | | • | Mar. 14, 2004
Landmark exhibit documents Lincoln Highway | | • | Mar. 04, 2004
Historic Lincoln Highway drives exhibition of painting, photography | | • | Feb. 04, 2004
Intriguing depiction of city donated to art museum |
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| • | Mar. 13, 2010
Fun with a Brush | | • | Mar. 17, 2010
Conserving Our Paper Heritage | | • | Mar. 20, 2010
"Won't You Be My Neighbor?" Day | | • | Mar. 25, 2010
The 1930s: A Decade of Change | | • | Apr. 10, 2010
Paintings and Puppets | | • | Apr. 13, 2010
Picturing the American Scene of the 1930s | | • | Apr. 14, 2010
Hard Times: Reaching Out to Americans in the Great Depression | | • | Apr. 22, 2010
When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy | | • | Apr. 24, 2010
Spring Artist Fair | | • | May. 15, 2010
Appraisal Day hosted by Garth’s Auctions | | • | May. 16, 2010
Paul Binai: Pulp Nation Closing Reception | | • | Jun. 14, 2010
Art Discovery | | • | Jun. 21, 2010
Critter Creations | | • | Jun. 28, 2010
Awesome Art Everyday | | • | Jul. 19, 2010
Pencil, Brush and Beyond | | • | Jul. 26, 2010
Mixed Media and Sensational Sculpture |
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