Arts Festival aims to give voice to the unheard

Arts Festival aims to give voice to the unheard

Mary Thomas, May 31, 2015 Pittsburgh Press
“The theme underlies the festival’s public artworks — visitors’ repressed feelings or unfortunate historic events in Rudy Shepherd’s Energy Absorber; muted memories in M. Michelle Illuminato’s Factory; the complicated fallout of colonization and inter-cultural encounters in Fernando Orellana’s “Confluence” and Michael Arcega’s “Baby, Corps of Rediscovery,” inspired by encounters with Native Americans and the Lewis and Clark expedition. respectively.
Independent curator Nadine Wasserman selected the public work artists with the hope that they “will help visitors to see the location in a new light and that the art will inspire new discoveries that are waiting to be uncovered and explored,” she wrote in a curatorial statement.”

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