Passports/Artica to Host Grove City College and Sam Perry for SamSamLand Exhibition in April 2011 @ GA/GI Festival

"Welcome To SamSamland: Don't Wear Black to My Funeral" will be a gallery and music event curated by Sam Perry of Grove City University. SamSamland's key focus is the balance between celebrating and mourning life. This will be done through the exploration of trauma and its effect on the individual and community. SamSamland serves as a freeing space for victims of trauma and their family and friends as well as an educational experience for all those involved. Recycled materials will be used for all of the pieces, showing that beauty can be created out of everyone's damaged goods. For more information, check out samsamland's blog or search "Welcome to SamSamland" on Facebook.

LIFE Pittsburgh and Passports Green Art Projects

Passports has been working with Life Pittsburgh for three years to produce art created from recycled items! Seniors have stamped vintage fabric, rolled paper beads made of magazines and wrapping paper, repurposed old string, sewed, pasted and collaged their way into producing many incredible works of art for the walls and common spaces of several local senior day cares. Other Life Centers hosting art by Passports are in the Hill District and on the North Shore. The Organization founders, Christine Bethea and Brenda Brown, have plans to work with other companies that cater to the senior population in the region, in the near future.

Shown here: Panels gracing the dining room of Life's Senior Center in Green Tree.

Passports is Looking for Artists

Think you've got a show??? Let us know! $100 bucks gets you in our window and on a wall as a guest artist for Unblurred. You may be the next Picasso! Send images to passports.art@gmail.com

For several months now, Passports has been the principal planner of the Geek Art/Green Innovators event, which will be Pittsburgh's First Art and Technology Festival! We're proud to be hosting this ground-breaking project and have enjoyed meeting the working with some of the city's finest innovators in the green and technology industries. Hope to seen you there! For more information, click here.

Passports is Publishing Update!

Passports first book of events is now available! It begins in the summer of 2008 with the success of ARTini in the Penn Avenue Arts District and documents a full year of promoting and supporting some of Pittsburgh's finest artists. Photos of all the people, events and exhibitions! Are YOU in there? Click on the book cover for more!

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ARTica goes to the Movies!

Lionsgate has informed us that a poster done for us by a former La Roche Student, will be part of a background scene in the new Russell Crowe movie being shot here in

Pittsburgh for the next several months titled The Next Three Days.

Apparently Crowe is in the Pittsburgh T-station, averting disaster while our poster looks on from the wall....cool. We'll let you know if we get on the poster's social calendar!

UPCOMING PASSPORTS/ARTica EVENTS + Classes at Storefront U

Passports/ARTica hosts: "This November, It's all about December!"
Following "Look Pumpkin, winter is coming" ....Now through November 30, enjoy the end-of-season sales and clearances on home-grown art, unique antiques and curious collectibles @ ARTica plus tons coming into the store for the holidays!


Sign up for Fall Classes @ ARTica's "Store Front University"


DEC THE HALLS with Origami! Thursday, Dec 3 7-9 p.m.
A workshop with local artist, Susan Constanse. Make decorative boxes for small gifts or ornaments for your tree. Cost $6 per person
Register by e-mail: passports.art@gmail.com




THANKS FOR MAKING OUR COOKING CLASSES A SUCCESS!

Culinary Arts--Cold Cooking.... In this series of 4 classes, East End Chefs show you how to prepare Great foods as the weather chills. Mondays in October.

October 5. First class-- "Autumn BBQ" with Chef TJ from Z-Best , 6 to 8 p.m. $7 per class gets you a seat, a beverage and food samples. ---class completed, next class 10/12



October 12, "My Fav Marinades." Vegan Chef Steve Harlow from Brillo Box gives salads some edge and shows how to take Tofu from Wimpy to Awesome with his "Take Another Look at Tofu!" Bring a notebook!

October 19, Charles Smith of the Culinary Artists Catering Group prepares Thai Curry Pumpkin Bisque and Warm Wild Mushroom Salad with crumbled Goat Cheese.

October 26, Executive Chef, Mike Flom from the Sausalido restaurant in Bloomfield comes to ARTica to show you how to prepare an easy Napa Valley dish for the holidays.

Sew, You Want to Make a Quilt Ages 18+

(TBA in January 2010)

Make a quilt--Break the rules! CreateImprov Log Cabins your way! Design your instruction time around our flexible schedule!

Bring fabric assortment or cotton clothing, needle thread and scissors; some fabric supplied. $20 person or buddy program 2/$35
Chat and bond for free! Bring snacks and beverages for your comfort;
(includes follow-up classes in coming weeks to check your progress, and help you complete your quilt; Plus opportunity to join our ARTica quilt show for Mother's day in May 2010!)

To resister by e-mail or to ask questions: passports.art@gmail.com