Pittsburgh Portraits Adorn the Riverwalk Beneath the Fort Duquesne Bridge pittsburghmagazine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pittsburghmagazine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Camo Nesbit (left) and Harry Jones III continue prepping the mural site.
Starting this week, the big Black Lives Matter mural Downtown, along the Allegheny River beneath the Fort Duquesne Bridge, is getting a facelift. And it includes at least a few faces you might recognize.
Last weekend, artist Camerin “Camo” Nesbit and three assistants began what is expected to be the two-week process of revising the mural, which began life last year as a guerrilla art project in response to the police killing of George Floyd.
Bill O Driscoll A detail of the existing mural
Nesbit is the resident artist for Riverlife, the nonprofit organization working to enliven the Riverwalk there, which is frequented by bicyclists, runners and sightseers, and is plainly visible from the north bank of the river occupied by PNC Park.
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Newly opened art exhibitions include a Women’s History Month retrospective and a showcase of watercolor works.
For music, there’s everything from “trucker rock” to swing to choral works.
Both kids and adults can put pen to paper for Ligonier Valley Writers programs, while Pittsburgh Public Theater is seeking reminiscences of the past year and hopes for the future.
The details are here, in this week’s Big List.
Art
• Leading ladies: Latrobe Art Center is celebrating Women’s History Month with the free exhibit, “Remembering Her: A Reflection on Latrobe’s Women in the Arts,” on display through March 31. The exhibit focuses on five women who were gifted artists and also leaders in the development and growth of Latrobe, including art center co-founders Elizabeth Hazlett and Nancy Rogers Crozier.