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Grand Opening for The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination
October 9, 2009
Time: 6 -10 pm
Location: 5006 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is a community art center with a mission to enrich and diversify the local community by building positive experiences in a multicultural progressive setting. We use art, including the work of Irma Freeman, to nurture the imagination. By instilling confidence through creativity and a knowledge of sustainable living, we strive to make the world a better place.
Grand Opening Exhibition
“The Art of Salvation & the Visionary Art of Irma Freeman”: A multi media group exhibition: 2-D, 3-D, Audio, Visual, Installation & Performance Art highlighting artists who use or reuse, recycle or save things from the gutter; All work will be first time exhibited in the Pittsburgh area. Best in show will be awarded.
This show runs from October 9th to December 14th, 2009. Gallery hours are Thursday to Monday 2 - 5 pm or by appointment. For more information contact Sheila Ali @ 412-418-6208 or 412-924-0634 or sheiladali at yahoo dot com.
We envision using second hand materials for art as not only a kind of salvation for the planet, but also a kind of redemption of for the creative sprit. To collect, reuse, recycle makes us feel somehow like we are countering the ravages of overproduction. A line of life connects us to every object that passes through our hands, and binds us to a responsibility for the world beyond ourselves. The act of saving things is a gesture of redemption and leads ordinary objects beyond the rubbish heap. To save is an act of Salvation. Our building itself reflects this philosophy, utilizing salvaged materials and sustainable renewable energy whenever possible. Most of our building materials have come from Construction Junction: all of our doors, windows, chairs and tiles, and even some of their assorted colored toilet tops were broken up and used for tile mosaics.