/>Here’s a project many of you will be interested in:  href="http://www.fotolog.net/horsie">Horsie sent us an email yesterday to
let us know that she’s teamed up with Seak
MAC (both local artists in Pittsburgh) to launch a large scale international
outdoor street art show at the skinny
building in the center of town.  Here’s an overview of the project, written
by Seak:

“Basically there is a building right in the middle of
downtown pittsburgh that is so skinny the upper two stories have remained
perpetually vacant.  “skinny” as in the building is literally 5 and a half feet
deep. the first level is a t-shirt counter but the top two aren’t much more than
a hallway to nowhere.  there are 22 windows that measure around 6 ft. wide by 7
ft. tall that face one of the city’s busiest streets. a couple of years ago al
kovacik and pat clark wrote a proposal to the owners of the building asking to
lease it for free so that they could display artwork that could be viewed from
the street.  the owners agreed and there have been several displays which have
generally been works on paper hung inside the windows.  i was involved with a
show there about a year ago and i fell in love with the space but
felt that
more could be done with it. al and pat had given me an open invitation to use
the space again so i came up with the idea of bringing in prolific artists from
around the globe and pasting the work directly on the outside of the windows
rather than hanging it inside. because the work is viewed from 2 to 3 stories
below, scale is important. we broke the layout into 8 “spots”. artists who’s
work will be seen in these spots include seak m.a.c. (pittsburgh pa), horsie
(pittsburgh pa), swoon (new york city), bl4ckh4m (pittsburgh pa) and freaklub
(barcelona spain). the show will be installed on sunday february 1st and the
party will be on the following weekend. the outdoor part will run for a little
over a month. pittsburgh is not the largest city but it is a place where an
event like this can have an impact.  the street art scene has exploded over the
last year and i think people are becoming increasingly interested in the idea
and haven’t grown disinterested or become desensitized by it.  the city is also
strapped financially right now and there are plenty of vacant spaces to fill and
very little buffing going on… the more people exposed to the idea of putting
up work in public spaces the better.

If you’re interested in
participating by having your work included inside - and hopefully outside - the
party space for the opening, drop Horsie an email at
horsie_is_a_girl@hotmail.com. You can send your work to:

The Street
Changes Forever Everywhere
c/o Jude
424 Gold Way
Pittsburgh PA
15213

The deadline is Feb. 1, so get to work.

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