Knit the Bridge

Earlier this month, a group of 1,900 (!!) volunteers from Pittsburgh and the surrounding area covered the Andy Warhol/7th Street Bridge with 508 knitted, crocheted, and woven blankets. I heard about the project, called Knit the Bridge, a few months ago, and I checked out the finished installation yesterday. It is gorgeous, especially lit by the late afternoon sun, and I couldn't be more excited to see community arts initiatives taking place here in Pittsburgh. So awesome.

Outfit details:
1940's wrap dress via Lawrence
Coach belt
1980's oxfords purchased at an estate sale

Fiberart International

In the two-and-a-half months since my previous post, I finished my last semester at the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with an MLIS in Archives, Preservation, and Records Management. (Woo!) My dance teaching job starts up again in September, but I'd love to find an archives-related part-time gig as well. We'll see how it goes.

Yesterday I went to the Fiberart International exhibition at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Unsurprisingly, my favorite artworks incorporated vintage textiles. For her piece Love Letters, Roslyn Ritter embroidered her mother's wedding dress with excerpts from love letters written by Ritter's father. And Samantha Fields' She Speaks Folly in a Thousand Holy Ways consists of a vintage afghan dripping with heavy, dimensional beading. There are a couple more great art exhibitions coming up in the next few months (like the 2013 Carnegie International and Chiharu Shiota's show at the Mattress Factory), and I'm looking forward to enjoying them without grad school deadlines hanging over my head.

Roslyn Ritter, Love Letters, 2011.

Detail of Ritter's Love Letters.

Samantha Fields, She Speaks Folly in a Thousand Holy Ways, 2011.

My sister, Amy, in front of Scott Hunter's Untitled, 2013. The painting was part of the 30 : 2 exhibition, also on display at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Yours Truly

Last week I found myself with a couple hours to kill (I showed up at my Archival Representation class only to discover that it was cancelled), so I decided to spend some time at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The museum is currently presenting an exhibition of vintage photographic prints called Yours Truly, and I thought it might be fun to share a few of my favorite images here on the blog. These photos stood out to me for all sorts of reasons, from the enviable outfit that the subject of Atget's photo is wearing to the dreamy quality of falling rain captured by Doisneau, and I hope they are inspiring to all of you as well.

Garry Winogrand, Central Park Zoo, New York, 1963
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Édouard Boubat, Lella, Bretagne, 1947
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Robert Doisneau, Le Manège de Monsieur Barré (Mr. Barre's Carousel), 1955
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Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, Baba Beaton, Wanda Baille-Hamilton, Lady Bridget Poulett, 1920
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Clarence H. White, The Kiss, 1904
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Eugène Atget, Versailles, Maison Close, Petite Place, 1921
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Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of Dorothy Norman, 1932
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Inspiration: At the museum

For the past few months, I've been accumulating photographs of museum-goers. My job as a gallery attendant (and the extensive people-watching that comes with it) has given me a new appreciation for museums. It's strangely fascinating how they draw in all sorts of people--young couples on dates, families with little kids, sports fans trying to kill time before the game--who move about the galleries separately, each secure in their own worlds, rarely talking to anyone else.

Untitled by fabrizio mingarelli

Untitled by Sabino (via Audrey Hepburn Complex)

MOMA, 1949 (via Vintage Bobbin)

Untitled by weepy hollow (via Miss Moss)

DressCode Magazine 09/10 by lazareva valeria

lion heart vintage: lion heart + art.

via Where The Lovely Things Are