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A community-based artistic collaboration examining historic and contemporary
issues in Pittsburgh's neighborhoods resulting in the creation of 5
digital collages displayed on 20 PAT buses for one year: spring 1997 to spring 1998. These collages are designed to cross boundaries between neighborhoods symbolically
in their unifying cultural themes and literally in their method of display
on PAT buses and placement on the World Wide Web. These themes were developed
through workshops that Ms. Link & Ms. Speranza led at six Carnegie Branch
libraries in the summer of 1996. Participants contributed their oral histories
and photographs to the project and were taught how to make collages by the
artists. During the fall of 1996, the artists further refined the project
with additional visits to each neighborhood and meetings with workshop participants.
The artists then assembled the five digital collages in the computer and
created the project's web site from the project's archive during the winter
and spring of 1997. |
