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Y FIRST VISIT TO THE Carnegie Museum of Art in months is relatively quiet. It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I’m the only person in the An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain exhibit. I had been looking forward to the show and planned on seeing it when it first opened in March, before the pandemic changed everything. If any place is tailor-made for social distancing, it’s the spacious CMOA Heinz Galleries, throughout which hang blown-up copies of Lê’s many photos. But right now, I don’t mind being alone, as it gives me room to truly savor each breathtaking silver gelatin or inkjet print. It was, for the most part, the same experience I had when walking through the Mattress Factory campus the previous week. As I entered each floor of the museum’s giant main building, I was met with empty galleries through which I could browse and dawdle as much as I pleased. This was a short time after the museum officially reopened on Aug. 12, and, as Mattress Factory interim executive director, Hayley Haldeman, points out, the mostly solo viewing isn’t exclusive to just me. “Oftentimes, when people come into the museum, they might be the only person on their floor for the entire duration of their experience,” she says, adding how this is due to a staggered ticketing where only 15 visitors are permitted in the Mattress Factory each half hour. While this is antithetical to the pre-coronavirus mission of bringing in as many visitors as possible, she believes the new system actually has its benefits. “In a unique way, I actually feel like it is perhaps more enjoyable to walk through the museums right now,” she says, adding how drastically different the vibe is from 2019, when the Mattress Factory had what she claims was the busiest year in the museum’s history. “It’s just really hard to experience the art the way that the artists want you to when you have 40 or 50 other people on the same floor.” As a result, she says visitor feedback shows appreciation for an environment that is now “quieter and potentially more meditative.” “I think you actually do get to really absorb and experience the exhibitions in a way that we hope certainly is more meaningful,” Haldeman adds. How long this new-found serenity will last is still unknown. As museums and galleries in Pittsburgh
and beyond are slowly welcoming back eager, albeit limited crowds, the question remains whether or not cultural institutions used to presenting not only exhibitions, but a wide variety of interactive educational workshops, galas, and live performances, will ever return to pre-coronavirus normalcy. And while the current states of things might be pleasant for visitors who value solitary and intimate experiences, it restricts possibilities for places that thrive on finding creative, new ways to connect communities with artists and their work. Haldeman touches on this by mentioning how the museum had originally planned on creating additional programming around Feeling The Spirit In The Dark, a show by Pittsburgh-based artist Shikeith currently on view at MF’s Monterey Annex building. Now, instead of planning receptions for exciting new exhibitions or artist talks, museums are focused on ensuring visitors and staff are wearing face masks at all times and social distancing, and that everything is substantially cleaned and sanitized. This includes CMOA, where I noticed staff walking around with spray bottles, wiping down couches, door handles, and glass cases. Since CMOA reopened on June 29, Eric Crosby, the Henry J. Heinz II director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, says they have “instituted updated health and safety measures” at the museum. This is evident in the many touchscreen displays being shut down to decrease the number of so-called high touch-points. (All of them now read, “Visitor health and safety is our top priority. Please refrain from touching for the time being.”) The changes are especially noticeable next door at the more child-friendly Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where hands-on areas like the Bone Hunter’s Quarry are temporarily closed to families and young visitors, with arrows on the floor directing them through the various exhibits. There are also numerous hand sanitizing stations and signage gently reminding everyone to wear their masks and stay at least six-feet apart. “Our team has worked diligently to create an environment that is safe and welcoming,” says Crosby. “We want each person visiting the museum to feel comfortable and confident that they will have a positive, meaningful experience.” Programming that would have been in-person has been moved online, and to compensate for the months of lost
time, On Contested Terrain and another exhibition, Counterpressures, have been extended. Crosby says they will also debut new exhibitions, including Trevor Paglen: Opposite Geometries, on view from Sept. 4-March 14, 2021, and Locally Sourced: Contemporary Pittsburgh, a show “spotlighting local Pittsburgh artists, designers and makers” set to open on Nov. 20. He adds that while they looked forward to bringing back crowds, they were cautious about reopening after closing on March 14. While he feels confident that the museum has executed proper safety protocols based on recommendations by the Center for Disease Control, the work is not done. “The uncertainty of the pandemic and evolving state of information on the virus was and continues to be a challenge,” he says. “First and foremost, our priority is safety, so while we were eager to reopen, we needed to ensure that we did it safely and sustainably. We continue to monitor the situation and update our protocols to keep the museum as safe as possible for all.” Haldeman says planning their reopening started back in April, when the Mattress Factory joined forces with 30 museums and cultural institutions throughout the region, including Fayette and Westmoreland counties, as well as Fallingwater. Over time, the collaborative hosted regular virtual meetings to trade information about their responses to the pandemic and stay updated on national, state, and local health agency information. They also developed sub-teams to explore and address specific issues related to staff and volunteers, visitors, facilities, communications and advocacy, and more. Even with months of preparation, Haldeman says staff continues to monitor their spaces and spot areas in need of improvement. “We’re still tweaking and seeing how visitors are experiencing the space,” she says. “Some things are short term fixes, others are longer term.” For now, she believes keeping attendance hovering between 15-25% — the standard at museums in Pittsburgh and nationwide — is the way to go. “We, frankly, were really pleased with starting out slow, and that was by design,” she says, adding how the approach provides “breathing room” for staff and visitors to adjust and feel more comfortable and confident. “We could always scale up.” CONTINUES ON PG. 6
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Fellowship exhibition at CDCP Project Space
Smaller galleries might not face the same pressures as museums, which have hundreds of members, as well as boards and funders to worry about, but their troubles are no less serious. After closing on March 15, Casey Droege Cultural Productions (CDCP) Project Space reopened on Aug. 29 with the debut of a fellowship exhibition. And so I attended my first reception in months, walking into the Wilkinsburg space to view a small but varied selection of paintings, sculpture, and more. The show paired six Pittsburghbased artists with partners from Creative Citizen Studios, which helps artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities make, exhibit, and sell their work. Nicole Czapinski, project manager at CDCP, says the fellowship project started in March and was quickly affected by the pandemic, as what was originally supposed to be in-person turned into partners meeting over Zoom, mailing each other back and forth, and working outside to allow for social distancing. “It just created a different kind of opportunity for artists to respond to in a creative way,” says Czapinski. Beyond receptions, however, smaller galleries and artist-run spaces already operate at a limited capacity with appointment-only schedules. Even that approach, it seems, has been expanded
— walking into the Project Space, I was immediately greeted by a masked gallery attendant who asked if I had signed up for a time slot.
“IN A UNIQUE WAY, I ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE IT IS PERHAPS MORE ENJOYABLE TO WALK THROUGH THE MUSEUMS RIGHT NOW.” Czapinski believes that, like them, many smaller arts and cultural spaces are adopting time slots, which could actually benefit them. “It kind of holds people accountable, in a way, because it’s more official and you’re signed up for a specific time, whereas at an art opening, it’s like, ‘Maybe I’ll see you there.’ This is ticketed.” She adds that the pandemic has also pushed them to do more programming right outside their doors. This includes a sidewalk sale they hosted in late June with several local businesses, including Meshwork Press and the bowtie studio, Knotzland. Visitors are also still welcome to shop for artist-made goods at Small Mall, another CDCP creation located within the Project Space and in Lawrenceville.
Now that Project Space has reopened, Czapinski says they plan to continue the residency program they started in January, which will include a future solo show. A potential group show is also in talks for November. Czapinski says time slots will be the norm for now, but within that system, they’re trying to find ways to enhance the visitor experience. This might include allowing ticket-holders to create their own music playlists that would play at the gallery as they view the exhibition. CDCP also transitioned many of its regular in-person events to virtual, such as Tiny Talks, where artists present their work and interact with the community. Czapinski says they are also planning to host a virtual version of their SIX x ATE roving dinner lecture series, during which participants will have food delivered to their homes. While the present seems tentatively bright, Haldeman believes that the most challenging period for museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions was not the last six months but “the next 18 to 24 months to come.” Right now, she and her staff foresee not making any “hard and fast decisions” and instead are focused on staying flexible should new problems arise. “We’re trying to stay as strong as we can right now,” she says.
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HEN I FIRST MET Sarah McAlee earlier this year, her smallbatch soup project Brothmonger had around 1,000 Instagram followers. In the past seven months, Brothmonger has boomed — even in summer, which is not the typical soup season — garnering almost 3,000 followers. Now, McAlee’s quarts of homemade broths, chowders, and bisques are even harder to procure.
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If you’re unfamiliar with the soupstagram, here’s a quick rundown of how it works. McAlee sells homemade soups through Instagram, under the Brothmonger moniker. Each new batch is available for a limited time — she operates with a first-come, first-served model — and you order through her DMs. She’ll typically divulge the release time of the weekly soups beforehand, but catching posts and sliding into her DMs fast enough often requires a bit of luck. But with an alarm set as a reminder to check my Instagram feed, I managed to snag a quart of her tomato-based lamb stew, paired with a cheddar and chive cornbread. I’ve never thought of stew as something that belongs in summer. I associate it with cold, winter nights; the hearty,
thick broth and heavy mix of beef, red wine, and potatoes, a comfort against grey skies. McAlee’s stew wasn’t anything like the dense, gravy-like mixture you’d expect. The broth was robust without being overly rich or weighty for the heat. The accompanying vegetables were not dreary, middle-of-the winter vegetables; they were noticeably fresh. Vibrant, deeporange carrots, juicy, savory mushrooms, and chunks of mellow potato filled out the broth — which McAlee made from additional lamb and other bones, and a blend of herbs and vegetables. The lamb, which McAlee bought at Salem’s Halal Market & Grill, was marinated overnight in whole grain mustard, garlic, shallots, and rosemary. After rubbing it with grapeseed oil, she cooked it over an open fire for the better part of an hour, until it was charred. The result was magnificent, so good I’d eat it with or without the stew. I expected, based on the stews of my past, a stringy, tough meat, but McAlee turned the lamb completely tender. It was slightly bitter from the char, contrasting with the soup’s sweeter, fresh broth. As I soaked up the final spoonfuls of broth in my bowl with her homemade cornbread — a perfect addition of sharp cheese and garlic-flavored chives for the mild broth — I came to terms to what McAlee had clearly proven: stew is a summer food.
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debut short-story collection is a bit misleading. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press) may spark a visceral image of Black women who lead quiet or unseen lives. But Philyaw insists that, in her community, these stories are prominent, and the relative anonymity of the title characters mirrors culture in general. “I think about what Toni Morrison said about Ralph Ellison titling his book Invisible Man,” Philyaw says. “She said,
‘Invisible to whom?’ We’re not invisible to ourselves, but as a larger society, when we look at what we call our canon, when you think about the books that kids have to read in high school or college, it’s not always reflective of the whole of who we are as a culture.” Philyaw will launch her book tour for The Secret Lives of Church Ladies with a virtual appearance on Thu., Sept. 3 as part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Made Local series. The stories in Secret Lives are richly
MADE LOCAL: DEESHA PHILYAW A video conversation with Khirsten Scott, assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. 6 p.m. Thu., Sept. 3. Free, but registration is required. pittsburghlectures.org
rendered tableaus of the lives of Black women. In “Peach Cobbler,” a young girl misinterprets her mother’s liaison with a pastor, thinking she’s dating God. “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” is a not-so tongue-in-cheek manual for men seeking to have an affair. And “Jael,” arguably the book’s centerpiece, features the alternating voices of a teenager and her great-grandmother, illustrating the gulf between them. Philyaw, a native of Jacksonville, Fla. who lives in Wilkinsburg, says the stories are drawn from the folk wisdom and mindset of Black women she knew who were able to “make way out of no way. That’s something I always grew up hearing. … You see these women, these girls, these characters making do with
what they had. That’s something that’s a thread, a theme that runs through the stories I heard from women growing up.” The collection is also a window into the rich and varied lives of Black women and Black communities. There is a tendency to look at such lives as being monolithic or uniform. But every story in Secret Lives reveals the subtle nuances, and sometimes the dynamic range of differences, in her subjects. “I think about myself as a child, as a girl, watching church ladies,” Philyaw says, “but also watching women outside of church. And even within the church there’s a diversity of types. And as a kid, you’re watching and thinking, ‘Who am I going to be?’ And so often, we’re presented either with a monolith, or CONTINUES ON PG. 10
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we’re presented with a binary: you’re going to be the whore or the Madonna, in the church or out of the church, when real life is just not that black and white. It was important to me that the women and girls in the stories were different ages. They had different mindsets and experiences and outlooks.”
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is being released during a time of burgeoning awareness of Black communities and culture in the U.S. Philyaw acknowledges
that there’s been a corresponding increase in interest in these types of stories which have been traditionally overlooked. “We have to be really intentional about seeking stories about experiences that aren’t our own,” Philyaw says, “and that haven’t been spoon fed to us from day one that these are the stories worth reading. We have to reject that, all of us, and read more broadly. I think we’re at a moment now where folks are reaching out to that. … We’re in this moment where we’re seeing the interconnectedness of our stories, we’re seeing stories that have been left out. And this pandemic certainly shows us how we’re connected and rely on each other to survive, literally to survive. And we haven’t been good at that as a country. That’s not our history.”
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hat comes to mind when you think of a standard church lady? An innocent, naive woman with eyes closed and hands raised in prayer? A modest woman with a conservative dress, who makes sure not a hair is out of place, never speaks out of line, and does all the right Godly things? In The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Wilkinsburg author Deesha Philyaw shows the unseen side of church-going Black women as the real, flawed humans they are — not the uppity stereotype so many make them out to be. Broken up into nine short stories, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies gives readers a peek into the lives of multiple women over four generations. There’s Lyra, who, at THE SECRET LIVES 42-years-old, realizes the discomfort she feels about OF CHURCH LADIES how her body is holding her back from love and out now via West Virginia standing in the way of a healthy relationship with a University Press. partner. 14-year-old Jael has a crush on the pastor’s wvupressonline.com wife, and her grandmother has found her journal detailing all those feelings. And in what I found to be the most robust story of them all, teenage Oliva watches as her single mother has an affair with a man she believes to be God, who turns out to actually be their pastor, who loves her mother’s peach cobbler. While the collection of stories follows a slew of different religious Black women and girls, the one thing they all have in common is their deeply relatable struggle and yearning to express their individuality while trying to find themselves in the discipline of their beliefs. It’s incredibly moving. Even if one doesn’t personally practice a religion, readers will find a piece of themselves in one of the characters. We can all connect with the feeling of trying to fit, or break out of, a mold created by our society or upbringing. In the small amount of time spent with each character, Philyaw crafts strong, distinct women that I wish I could better know. She shows these women, these Black women, in spaces they aren’t usually seen — having sex in a parking lot, in same-sex relationships, going to therapy, as a person filled with longing and desire. There are no immaculate beings in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Just all-out, passionate, vulnerable, voluptuous women who are learning to love their perfectly imperfect selves. •
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Is it unfair to recommend a band based primarily on its well-designed flyers? Perhaps, but we know folks are desperate for some live music, and cover band Three Legged Dog’s promo art of a Photoshopped dog and a robot couple chillin’ at the bar was a good enough reason for us to search out video of the guys belting out some rockin’ tunes and garnerning our approval.
SAT., SEPT. 5 (MUSIC TO STREAM) PITTSBURGH GUITARS SATURDAY PLAYLIST. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 1305 E. Carson St., South Side. pittsburghguitars.com
Every Saturday, Pittsburgh Guitars asks its customers to post song requests on Facebook for its in-store soundtrack. As of last week, the South Side guitar shop clocked in at almost 2,500 songs and over 175 hours of music. Listen in the store as you shop for banjos and amps, or play along at home by streaming “Pittsburgh Guitars Saturday Playlist” on Spotify.
SUN., SEPT. 6 (LIVESTREAM) CINDY DEALMEIDA AND BILL CABALLERO. 6:30 p.m. Musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on Facebook
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MON., SEPT. 7 (LIVESTREAM) SNWV. 8-9 p.m. onezeromusic.com:8000 Unwind after a long Monday by listening to the ambient electronic tunes of Pittsburgh musician snwv. Make sure to log in on time: the weekly stream starts just before the event, and stops shortly after, according to snwv’s Facebook page.
TUE., SEPT. 8 (STREAMING) JAZZ POETRY MONTH: WACLAW ZIMPEL “PROGROM” FEATURING POET ALEX FREIHEIT. 7-8:30 p.m. Alphabet City at City of Asylum. Free with registration. alphabetcity.org
Polish spoken word poet and punk singer Alex Freiheit joins classicallytrained alto-clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel in Warsaw for a night of jazz poetry. Longtime fans of City of Asylum will recognize Zimpel from his three sold-out solo shows in 2017. The 75-minute “PROGROM” includes an English translation.
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For those who feel safe eating inside a restaurant during the pandemic, Crafthouse Stage and Grill is hosting live music on its indoor stage to provide entertainment while you dine. Catch the jazz, folk, and rock stylings of Colin McCann Band. Masks are required, and all guests must remain seated. Reservations are suggested.
This week’s listings were guest curated by Pittsburgh City Paper editor Lisa Cunningham. Email your latest music happenings today to jsnowden@pghcitypaper.com
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YOUR SHOW THE TIPPING POINT, WHICH INCORPORATED A DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS EXHIBIT, WAS SUPPOSED TO PREMIERE IN MARCH, BUT HAD TO BE CANCELED. DO YOU HAVE TENTATIVE PLANS TO STAGE IT IN THE FUTURE? Oh, absolutely. I worked two years on that. That was a major production. Probably one of the biggest productions I’ve done in my 40-year career, on many levels. Collaborating with Doctors Without Borders was huge — you don’t just walk
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audience we can separate, the audience we can take down to five people if we have to. But I’m not about to do this as a piece of Zoom theater. I WAS GONNA SAY THIS DOESN’T SOUND LIKE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE JUST DONE VIRTUALLY. I don’t think any good art can be done virtually just like that. Film work is a whole ‘nother artistic genre. It takes years of practice, it takes years of education to film dance, to film theater. Theater’s a little bit easier because we, as an audience, are used to seeing people stand still and talk, but not dance. And not the visceral experience of theater, really. The arts have lasted 2,500 years, through collapse of civilizations, through pandemics, through wars, through every imaginable stumbling block, and live performing arts has continued. It will continue. Now it’s just a matter of using this time gainfully, mindfully, thoughtfully, and that’s the hard part. I think we’re all in a bit of shock with the COVID and the politics. It’s been endless.
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WED., SEPT. 9 VISUAL ART Peruse artwork in two new exhibits in BoxHeart Gallery. In the main gallery, Ellen Chisdes Neuberg’s Missing Persons & Other Puzzlements brings colorful, cheerful-appearing paintings that may be hiding secrets. Upstairs, the works in Erin Treacy’s Reciprocal Relationships focus on the artist’s Compost Project, “depicting an evolving scene where pieces fall, compositions shift, and colors change.” 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Continues through Fri., Sept. 25. 4523 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. boxheartgallery.com
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