They are the faces of the next revolution in making.

Pittsburgh has a long tradition of artisans and industry. Today it is home to a growing cohort of independent designers and makers working in traditional media such as clay, glass, metal, fiber, wood, and paper, and with emergent materials and technologies. Locally Sourced highlights new work by some of the region’s most talented artists and makers of functional goods and furnishings.

These are the producers who are creating opportunities—developing their craft into a business. These are the innovators who are reinventing traditional handwork processes and manufacturing technologies to transform raw and reclaimed materials into products that have utility, durability, and good design. These are the locally sourced.

Locally Sourced is organized by Alyssa Velazquez, curatorial assistant for Decorative Arts & Design.

https://cmoa.org/exhibition/locally-sourced/

Since the American Studio Glass movement erupted in the 1960s, artists have amazed viewers with the strength and fragility of the material, their expertise in manipulating it, and the diversity of innovative and contemporary ideas they tackle using glass as their main medium. Three States of Glass brings together glass artworks from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia that highlight contemporary concepts and techniques explored by glass artists today, as well as the amazing talent of artists in our region.


Artists: Dan Buchanan, Davin K Ebanks, Alexandra Fresch, Jarrod Futscher, Scott Goss, Richard Harned, Alison Helm, Benjamin Johnson, Drew Kail, Barrie Kaufman, Margaret Spacapan, Kellie Sylvester, and Zac Weinberg


Three States of Glass is juried by Rachel Delphia. Rachel Delphia joined Carnegie Museum of Art’s Decorative Arts and Design Department in 2005. Since 2013, she has served as The Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator and head of department. A specialist in in modern and contemporary design and craft, Delphia has worked extensively with the museum’s collections of European and American objects from ca. 1750–present. In 2019 she co-organized A Pittsburgh Anthology, an interdisciplinary, collections-based exploration of creative life in Pittsburgh. She is currently working on Extraordinary Ordinary Things, which will reimagine the decorative arts and design galleries. Her previous projects include Silver to Steel: the Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk (2015) and Sebastian Errazuriz: Look Again (2014). Rachel received a BFA in Industrial Design and MA in English from Carnegie Mellon University and MA in American Material Culture from the Winterthur Program at the University of Delaware.

This second annual Monmade exhibition prompted the region’s craft businesses, maker enterprises, entrepreneurial artists, and design-build shops to develop thoughtfully designed and skillfully made goods. Attendees experienced furniture, table and barware, lighting, textiles, décor, jewelry, and apparel handmade or manufactured in Pittsburgh for debut to the national marketplace.

Fifteen Pittsburgh glass artists transformed an ordinary material into extraordinary art in this exhibition.   
The work was diverse and showed the great depth and breadth of what is possible in glass art. The unifying themes for this exhibition were the material of glass and the location of the artists. All 15 artists call Pittsburgh home, but most of them are originally from locations around the country. What brought them to Pittsburgh was the vision of Kathleen Mulcahy and her late husband Ron Desmett, the founding artists of Pittsburgh Glass Center. "Making the Ordinary Extraordinary" refers to Desmett and Mulcahy’s belief that an arts organization can transform a community and to the awe-inspiring and eye-opening experience that viewers had when they saw this display of ordinary material through the extraordinary perspective of 15 artists. 
 
Artists included:

• Chris Clarke

• Sarah Cohen

• Ron Desmett

• Jason Forck

• Liz Fortunato

• Dana Laskowski

• Mike Mangiafico

• Ashley McFarland

• Kathleen Mulcahy

• Lyla Nelson

• Ed Pinto

• Travis Rohrbaugh

• John Sharvin

• Becky Smith

• Margaret Spacapan

Pittsburgh supports a vibrant and growing ecosystem of craft businesses, maker enterprises, entrepreneurial artists, and design/build shops. The local producers featured in this exhibition make innovative, attractive, and useful products with heart and skill. They also develop their businesses in ways that strengthen, expand, and diversify the regional economy. They reignite and reimagine Pittsburgh manufacturing for the 21st century.