2014 Three Rivers Arts Festival begins at Noon Today!

The 2014 Three Rivers Arts Festival opens today (June 6) and runs through Sunday of next week (June 15).

The Artists Market will be open from 12 Noon to 8 pm each day.

Again this year, my work will be in the Koolkat Designs Gallery booth, by the Gateway Plaza fountain.

Three Rivers of Steel
Our Rivers Weave Us Together

This year, I’m showing pendants—lots of pendants but only pendants—made from various metal powder formulations in copper, bronzes, and steels. Some are ones I’ve already written about (e.g., here, and here), but I’m particularly excited about my new Three Rivers series: three of those items are shown in this post.

To the left are two “Rivers of Steel” pieces, made to honor the role of the steel industry in the development of the three-rivers areas of Western Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia, and Eastern Ohio, where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join to form the Ohio River at “The Point” in Pittsburgh, PA (where the festival is being held). Below-right is one of my new “Golden Rivers” pieces (though those rivers are actually made of a golden-yellow bronze) in honor of the region’s more recent achievements in the post-steel era.

Three Rivers Circle the Point

The festival’s individual artist booths rotate in and out over the course of the festival, with each one there for somewhere between two and five days only.

But the “Gallery” booths will be there for the full ten days! Those of us who have been invited by a gallery to participate are not listed individually as market participants. Though we do lose out on that bit of publicity, on the other hand we’re the only ones whose work can be there for the full ten days. So you need not time your visit to find our wares: Just come on down any time the market is open!

Another big advantage to participating in a Gallery cooperative is that I have more time than the individual artists do to explore all aspects of the festival, which sure helps me to remember how much fun all this is!

If you want to see me in person, I’ll be working at the Koolkat Designs booth for sure on Friday, June 6 (12 – 4 pm), and again on Sunday, June 8, (4 – 8 pm).

But I’ll also be around, off and on, there and elsewhere, just enjoying all the music, art, artists, art-lovers, and more, filling up the downtown area for those ten days. So do let me know if/when I should be looking out for you at the Festival!

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Also, my ‘net connection was flaky all of Wednesday and Thursday, and I just have not had time to try to track that down. Sigh. So my apologies in advance to my blog’s “followers” who may see some later “updates” simply because my plan is to try to come back and see if I need to fix the alignment of photos, captions, and text here once I sort that out. O the joys of technology!