Cultural Trusts Virtual Gallery Crawl Continues Online and Through Downtown Street Displays (Wed., 4/14/21)

Bekezela Mguni’s poster art can be seen along Penn Avenue.

The Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District: Virtual Edition has begun. Stop one is 202021: a new constellation, curated by Tereneh Idia. Some Indigenous communities, such as the Incas, created constellations out of the darkness between the stars. Similarly, the space between this installation and the viewer “creates a new celestial body; a ground constellation; a space for celebration of Black creativity and people,” according to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Patrons should mask and social distance as they walk through the Cultural District to view work by the installations’ twelve Black Pittsburgh-based artists; mediums range from video to vintage clothing. (A map, photographs, audio commentary, and a time-lapsed video walkthrough is online.) Stop two spotlights local artists’ work—available for purchase—via live-streamed, behind-the-scenes events on April 16 and 30. The SPACE Gallery windows mark stop three: phase one of We Are the Global Majority by the #nonwhite collective. On May 14, patrons can meet the collective virtually before the full exhibit opens in-person June 4—a first since the pandemic’s start. (More information on stops two and three is forthcoming.) Cultural District. (CM)

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