Our print gallery features images from over 25 photographers, for sale online as a fundraiser for Obscuræ and projects in Braddock.
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2009 Art Show & Lottery
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Hosted at the UnSmoke Systems Artspace
1137 Braddock Avenue, Braddock, PA
Public Viewing begins 7pm
Art Lottery starts 8:30pm
Admission: Free
Lottery Tickets: $45 through website;
$55 at the Door
Fundraiser to benefit art and community projects in Braddock, PA
Change is underway in Braddock as groups working within and with the community bring renewed energy to a town that many wrote off. Artists, social entrepreneurs, community organizers, urban homesteaders and others with a pioneering spirit are inspired by the town’s potential for grassroots urban renewal and are using the inherent energy in Braddock to fuel their creativity. It is with this spirit that Obscuræ views the maligned town – turning a photographic eye towards the borough’s oft-overlooked beauty amidst the former grandeur and “urban blight” that Braddock has come to represent for many in the Pittsburgh area.
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We are happy to say that some proceeds from the online gallery have gone to start Delicious Donations, a mini-grant by Jeanine Hall, the director of UnSmoke Art Space Gallery. Delicious Donations is a monthly, community-created mini grant with an open-to-all application process. We are very excited that Obscurae helped to fund another project whose purpose is to help fund even more projects that will create new work in the Pittsburgh area. Small ripples….
The first official Delicious Donations was a Belgian Waffle Brunch in Braddock on Saturday May 9. There were a variety of projects submitted for this round—a victory garden/ guerrilla gardening project for abandoned buildings – a bi-monthly film screening series called “one take on super eight”—a textile sculpture project – a philosophical documentary style book of the changes the recent economic decline has created in the US—an online social media project—… and more. For $8 participants voted on the project they wanted to fund and enjoyed a waffle brunch as a thank you for supporting the projects. All of the money raised during the day went to support the project with the most votes. The winner was “Avant-Savant Micro-Cinema” One Take Super 8 PGH event. Artists: Cody Darling, James Rowell & Brett Kashmere.
If you are interested in submitting a project for the next round, the deadline is June 16. http://deliciousdonations.wordpress.com/
