Last Days Cafe

Monthly Creative Resource Meet and Chat for Pittsburgh's Creatives

Pittsburgh's Creative Community Online Roundtable
Co-presented by the Greater Pgh Arts Council, the New Hazlett Theater and the Pgh Creativity Project

July 31, 2008

5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Join us for a monthly gathering of artists and creative professionals, known as "Last Days Cafe This FREE happy hour, casual "salon" is held the last day of every month (except December) and all are welcome.

July's cafe, which features a roundtable on Pittsburgh's Creative Community Online, is presented by the Pittsburgh Creativity Project, an artist-led pilot initiative which is housed in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and is funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation and Heinz Endowments.

How do artists and other creative entities use the Internet effectively and efficiently? What free or inexpensive web resources and tools are now widely available to the public and are put to good use by Pittsburgh's Creative Community? How can you exploit what they have already learned about conceptualizing and maintaining a web presence?

Join us for a "cyber-tour" of web sites built and/or utilized by artists and other creative individuals to get words, pictures and sounds out about what they are doing. For this hour-long multimedia presentation, Teresa Foley, the Pittsburgh Creativity Project Director, will be joined by individual artists, arts venue-operators, and a member of an anonymous artist collective. These guests will share comments and stories about the choices they made and concepts they considered in order to communicate with a public audience.

The Office of Public Art's Lea Donatelli will be present to share another important resource for local artists--the Pittsburgh Artist Registry, a free on-line database of visual, literary and multidisciplinary artists living in southwestern PA. Other guests include Ayanah Moor (visual artist and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University), Eric Stern (painter and proprietor of Brillobox), a member of the Howling Mob Society, and Justin Strong (proprietor of the Shadow Lounge).

For further information about the presentation, please contact:

Teresa Foley

Pittsburgh Creativity Project Administrator

STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

College of Fine Arts, Room 111

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

tfoley@andrew.cmu.edu

412.268.9359-phone 412.268.2829-fax

Thank you to our media sponsor: WYEP 91.3 FM.

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