A free, public Somerset Mural Tour will be led from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday by Rachel Klipa, manager of community engagement for the Pittsburgh-based Office of Public Art.
The tour will begin at the Somerset Post Office, 201 N. Center Ave., and attendees will then walk a half-mile to the Mary S. Biesecker Library. The tour is not wheelchair accessible.
The murals were painted in the 1930s and ’40s by Alexander J. Kostellow, Kindred McLeary and Esther Topp, who were industrial design or painting professors at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). Many of the art faculty vacationed in Somerset where they painted, collaborated and led workshops.
The office is a public private partnership between the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the City of Pittsburgh Department of City Planning. Its programming includes monthly walking tours and lectures.
Although free, participants are asked to register at www.publicartpittsburgh.org or 412-391-2060, ext. 237.
Arthur Lubetz talk
Architect Arthur Lubetz, the designer of some of the most intriguing buildings in the region, will give a free public talk at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Carnegie Museum of Art. His projects include the Glass Lofts in Garfield and the Sharpsburg Community Library.
The talk is given in conjunction with the exhibition “Action, Ideas, Architecture: Arthur Lubetz/Front Studio,” which opened this month in the museum’s Heinz Architectural Center and continues through May 22. Mr. Lubetz will talk about architecture through his own five-decade practice, now operating as Front Studio in Pittsburgh and New York.
A reception follows and the exhibition will be open until 9 p.m. Due to limited space, reservations are recommended at www.cmoa.org.
Artistic anglers
The third annual “Artistry in Angling” event will be held from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturdayat Disobedient Spirits, 30 S. Main St., Homer City, Indiana County. Event organizer Andrea Larko is an artist, angler and founding member of Able Women, which seeks to attract more women to fly fishing. The 14 exhibitors include fly tiers, custom rod builders from as far as South Carolina and visual artists including jewelers, painters and printmakers from as far as Tennessee. Free and family-friendly. Information including a vendor list is on the event’s Facebook site.
Scott Hunter mural
Artist Scott Hunter, a Boston University graduate now residing in Bethel Park, has completed a wall mural, “Authorized Personnel Only,” that flows the length of the Robertshaw Gallery in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
The mural is a series of scenes that reflect on our private lives and the outside forces that seek to infiltrate, Mr. Hunter says in his artist statement. “We worry for our privacy, our source of information and the consequences of our actions. the arrangement of interiors, populated with familiar figures, show an interconnectedness that may discomfort the viewer while appealing to a certain sense of humor,” he wrote.
Mr. Hunter, who has exhibited frequently locally, also creates abstract expressionist works.
The mural will remain through June 4 at 221 N. Main St., Greensburg. It is the first in a museum initiative, “Artist in Action,” that “aims to demystify the work of an artist and to create an engaging experiences for visitors.” Museum visitors had opportunity to talk with Mr. Hunter in the gallery while he created the work.
M. Thomas: mthomas@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1925.
First Published: March 22, 2017, 4:00 a.m.