An energetic group of emerging local artist collaborated to design a billboard to bring the city a springtime greeting from winter. "Snowballs from the Freezer" features a photograph of a brightly colored Schenley Park playround covered with snow and icicles. In and around this frosty castle, a group of black-suited business people climb, run, leap, swing, slide, and throw snow at each other in playful gestures of "Joie de vivre," or "Joy of life."
"Snowballs from the Freezer" is located in Oakland on Bigelow Blvd at Craig Street. Click here for the location on Google Maps.
Snowballs from the Freezer
"Splat!" by Rachel Renee Stewart
"Splat!" In the middle of a car's windshield a beautiful butterfly meets a messy end. Rachel Renee Stewart mixed photography, collage, and painting to show two opposites colliding -- industrialization and the environment. No butterflies were harmed in the making of this art.
"Splat!" is located on Browns Hill Road at down the hill from the Beechwood intersection. Click here for the location on Google Maps.
Drawing of Pittsburgh by Amos Levy
"Drawing of Pittsburgh" runs counter to traditional advertising. I wanted to create something that was the opposite of a flashy, impersonal advertisement, so I made a big, loving, sloppy drawing of Pittsburgh.
"Drawing of Pittsburgh" is located on Pittsburgh's North Side on Brighton Road near Stayton Street, across from Highwood Cemetary.
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"Plywood" by Blake Unger Dvorchik
The idea behind this image is to peel back the layers of all the different ads shown over the years, and re-expose the bare wood beneath them.
"Plywood" is located on Pittsburgh's North Side on Western Ave. at Allegheny, next to the 7-11. Click here for the location on Google Maps.