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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust operates Wood Street Galleries, which features multi-disciplinary artists from all over the world.
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Through an agreement with the Port Authority of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust leases the upper floors of the former Max Azen Company building above the Wood Street subway station and operates the Wood Street Galleries. Opened in 1992, the galleries feature two floors of exhibition and performance space, and subsidized office space for emerging performing arts organizations throughout P

ittsburgh. Wood Street Galleries feature primarily digital media, film, video, robotic, and new media installations. Recent Wood Street Galleries exhibitions featured work by artists Bill Vorn and Louis-Philippe Demers (2014); Alexandre Burton and Edwin van der Heide (2014); Erwin Redl (2014); Kurt Hentschläger (2013); Chang-Jin Lee (2013); Ryoji Ikeda (2013, 2016); Martin Messier (2016); Jennifer Angus (2016); and Tessa Farmer (2016).

05/26/2026

THIS FRIDAY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Whitney Review of New Writing presents readings, performances, music, and video inside Marianne Vitale’s On Liberty: A Summoning at SPACE gallery, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Join us for an evening of live performances by:
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

And a program of video art curated by Molly Soda features work by Michel Auder, Mike Kelley, Lauren Cook, Isaiah Davis, Kembra Pfahler, Cruz Valdez, John Pilson, Jacob Ciocci, and E. Jane.

The Whitney Review of New Writing is an independent journal of literary criticism based in New York City. Each issue features interviews, essays, poetry, and short-format reviews. At once a place of discovery—guiding readers toward their next book—it also stands as a record of the zeitgeist, connecting cultures of reading to art, design, performance, music, nightlife, and fashion, brought to life through its live programming and collaborative events.

The new seventh issue of The Whitney Review marks three years of the project’s evolving interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. It will be available for sale, alongside printed matter and ephemera courtesy of the featured performers.

The Whitney Review

Readings & Performances
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

Video art program curated by Molly Soda
Michel Auder
Mike Kelley
Lauren Cook
Isaiah Davis and Kembra Pfahler
Cruz Valdez
John Pilson
Jacob Ciocci
E. Jane

05/13/2026

On Friday, May 29, The Whitney Review of New Writing presents readings, performances, music, and video inside Marianne Vitale’s On Liberty: A Summoning at SPACE gallery, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Join us for an evening of live performances by:
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

And a program of video art curated by Molly Soda features work by Michel Auder, Mike Kelley, Lauren Cook, Isaiah Davis, Kembra Pfahler, Cruz Valdez, John Pilson, Jacob Ciocci, and E. Jane.

The Whitney Review of New Writing is an independent journal of literary criticism based in New York City. Each issue features interviews, essays, poetry, and short-format reviews. At once a place of discovery—guiding readers toward their next book—it also stands as a record of the zeitgeist, connecting cultures of reading to art, design, performance, music, nightlife, and fashion, brought to life through its live programming and collaborative events.

The new seventh issue of The Whitney Review marks three years of the project’s evolving interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. It will be available for sale, alongside printed matter and ephemera courtesy of the featured performers.

The Whitney Review

Readings & Performances
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

Video art program curated by Molly Soda
Michel Auder
Mike Kelley
Lauren Cook
Isaiah Davis and Kembra Pfahler
Cruz Valdez
John Pilson
Jacob Ciocci
E. Jane

04/27/2026

This Thursday April 30th at 7pm 🎶🎺🎷🍸

Please join us to celebrate the opening of:

MARIANNE VITALE
ON LIBERTY:
A Summoning

🗓️ April 30– October 11, 2026
📍 SPACE gallery, 812 Liberty Ave.
🍸 Opening: Reception: Thursday April 30th doors at 7pm. Performance starts at 8pm

FREE

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is excited to announce the opening of: Marianne Vitale – On Liberty: A Summoning.

Opening night performance hosted by
Michael Portoy
featuring
Kiko Soiree
Alex Tatarsky .biz
Sis Thee Doll
and
Peter Drungle his Slippery Sextet 🎺🎷
Patrick Breiner
Tommy Lehman
John Shannon
Tony De Paolis
David Throckmorton
and Ben Opie

On Liberty: A Summoning is a site-responsive exhibition and performance project by the contemporary artist Marianne Vitale rooted in the layered social and cultural history of 812/818 Liberty Avenue. Over the twentieth century, the building housed a succession of influential nightlife and performance venues, including The Liberty Theater, The Music Box, The Staircase Lounge, Villa Madrid, The Pin Up Lounge, The Twilight Room, Lenny Litman’s Copa, and Pegasus which functioned as radically open spaces for music, performance, q***r nightlife, and gathering. Vitale reanimates this history through sculpture, performance, film, and printed matter, creating a project that operates simultaneously as a formal exhibition and a series of live, time-based activations. Installed within a bar-and-stage framework referencing the site’s former nightclub configurations, the exhibition remains open daily as a sculptural environment and transforms into a functioning club during the Cultural Trust’s Final Fridays Gallery Crawls between May and October.

Marianne Vitale On Liberty: A Summoning is guest curated by Benjamin Tischer in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

03/26/2026

🏈📸✨ TOMORROW NIGHT 🏈

Opening Reception of Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography—and Pittsburgh football fans won’t want to miss it!

FIRST TWENTY VISITORS WILL RECEIVE A FULL SET OF THE LIMITED EDITION TRADING CARDS MADE FOR THE EXHIBITION!

Join us at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust on Friday March 27, 2026, from 5:30–9:00 PM at 707 Penn Avenue for the opening reception. Even better—Michael Zagaris himself will be here, meeting visitors and sharing stories from the sidelines of football history.

To celebrate the opening, limited edition football cards will be available during the reception—a special keepsake for fans and collectors. Catalogues will also be available for sale and only available at the exhibition!

This exhibition arrives as we mark more than 50 years since the dawn of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ legendary Steel Curtain dynasty, a golden era that changed the game forever. The exhibition features iconic Zagaris photographs from the Steelers’ championship years, including unforgettable images of Lynn Swann, Hall of Fame wide receiver, four-time Super Bowl champion, and Super Bowl X MVP, whose grace and athleticism defined Steelers greatness in the 1970s.

One featured photograph captures Swann—captured in Zagaris’ words—“signaling he and the Steelers are No. 1 in the waning seconds of a 24–13 playoff win.”

🏈📸✨Opening March 27, 2026Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography📍 707 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA🗓 Opening Reception: March 27 | 5:30–9:00 PM🎟 Free and open to the public

From locker rooms to Super Bowls, from the Steelers’ golden years to the heart of NFL history—this is one exhibition football fans won’t want to miss.

03/17/2026

Swipe to see the free programs we have in store for the March 27th Gallery Crawl!* —>

Please join us for the opening reception of ‘Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography’ at 707 Gallery! In celebration of the 2026 NFL Draft hosted in Pittsburgh, this exhibition offers a glimpse into the world of professional football through photographer Michael Zagaris. Selected from Zagaris’ rarely seen archive spanning decades of his legendary career, these photographs transcend traditional game-day shots, capturing fleeting moments that define the sport’s culture. Limited trading cards and catalogs available for purchase. ‘Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography’ is curated by Anastasia James and presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s partnership with VaultArt Studio continues with ‘Spidrmanthemusical’ at Wood Street Galleries. Sam Berner and Chris Donadio began creating Spidrmanthemusical performances in 2011. Their performances utilize low-fi props and technology paired with humorous dialog that draws from comics, pop culture, and everyday life. Issue 4 will feature a presentation of Pittsburgh and superhero themed artwork by Kim Bond, Tafara Bundrige, Tarira Bundrige, Wendy Davis, Kahyll Holyfield, Darian Johnson, Heikeem Johnson, Maggie Kambic, Lee Kennedy, Cicely Murray, Steph Neary, Frank Principe, Charlie Scott, Edith Sullivan, Sean Regis Traynor, Charlie Wallace and feature a 25 minute action packed live performance that starts at 7:30pm. All artwork is available for purchase through VaultArt Studio.

Wood Street Galleries 3rd fl., 820 Gallery, and SPACE Gallery will be open late with our current exhibitions for the Crawl, 5:30-9pm.

*The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawls will now occur on a monthly basis falling on the final Friday of each month (excluding April and December). All exhibitions will be open 5:30-9pm with special one-night-only programs announced each month. For full details on this Crawl’s offerings, please visit Crawl.TrustArts.org.

03/11/2026

🏈📸✨ We’re getting excited for the opening of Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography—and Pittsburgh football fans won’t want to miss it!

Join us at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust on March 27, 2026, from 5:30–9:00 PM at 707 Penn Avenue for the opening reception. Even better—Michael Zagaris himself will be here, meeting visitors and sharing stories from the sidelines of football history.

To celebrate the opening, limited edition football cards will be available during the reception—a special keepsake for fans and collectors.

This exhibition arrives as we mark more than 50 years since the dawn of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ legendary Steel Curtain dynasty, a golden era that changed the game forever. The exhibition features iconic Zagaris photographs from the Steelers’ championship years, including unforgettable images of Lynn Swann, Hall of Fame wide receiver, four-time Super Bowl champion, and Super Bowl X MVP, whose grace and athleticism defined Steelers greatness in the 1970s.

One featured photograph captures Swann—captured in Zagaris’ words—“signaling he and the Steelers are No. 1 in the waning seconds of a 24–13 playoff win.”

🏈📸✨Opening March 27, 2026Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography📍 707 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA🗓 Opening Reception: March 27 | 5:30–9:00 PM🎟 Free and open to the public

From locker rooms to Super Bowls, from the Steelers’ golden years to the heart of NFL history—this is one exhibition football fans won’t want to miss.

02/28/2026

Reception Invitation ☕🍩🎉

Meet the Artist: Katarzyna Perlak
In Conversation with Anastasia James, Director of Public Art & Galleries

🗓️ Wednesday, March 4, 2026
🕥 10:30 AM
📍 Wood Street Galleries, Floor 2

Join us for a special reception celebrating the opening of The land beneath sleeps lightly and meet the artist, Katarzyna Perlak.

The morning will feature a conversation between Perlak and Anastasia James, Director of Public Art & Galleries.

Originally commissioned for Liverpool Biennial 2025 (BEDROCK), “The land beneath sleeps lightly” was made in collaboration with First Take and participants from their REEL: Q***r programme. The film is set within the decaying opulence of the Adelphi Hotel, a site dense with memory, fantasy, and unresolved histories. Once a destination for wealthy travellers, the hotel’s deteriorating interiors now fuel legends and myths. Through a non-linear, dreamlike structure shaped by repetition and disorientation, the film draws on the affective language of horror to explore q***r becoming under conditions of precarity. The Adelphi is reimagined as a haunted architecture where desire lingers, bodies shift, and identities remain unstable, allowing decay, monstrosity, and transformation to become sites of intimacy, resistance, and possibility.

For more information visit Trustarts.org/visualarts

☕ Coffee and donuts will be served!
🎟️ Free and open to the public

For more information, visit Trustarts.org/visualarts

02/07/2026

We spoke with the inaugural group of the artists creating public art for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Arts Landing about why Public Art matters.

Hear from .redd 🎬

In 2026, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will launch its inaugural public art program at Arts Landing - a bold and visionary initiative that reimagines the role of art and culture in civic life.

The debut exhibition will feature newly commissioned projects by 9 artists with deep ties to Pittsburgh, presented alongside an exhibition of 8 bronze sculptures by acclaimed sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, organized in collaboration with Public Art Fund.

The artists:

Thaddeus Mosley: Touching the Earth in partnership with Public Art Fund

Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis

vanessa german

Darian Johnson in partnership with VaultArt Studio

Mikael Owunna and Marques Redd .redd

John Pena in partnership with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s Tough Art program

Sharmistha Ray

Shikeith

For more information about Arts Landing visit trustarts.org/artslanding

Thaddeus Mosley: Touching the Earth was originally presented by Public Art Fund in New York City, NY and curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Assistant Curator, Public Art Fund.

Arts Landing is a four-acre, outdoor civic space envisioned by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust centered in the city’s Cultural District, a 14-block area in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh.

The inaugural exhibition will foreground artists of global renown with strong ties to the region and is curated by Anastasia James, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Director of Galleries & Public Art

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02/05/2026

🏈📸✨ Mark your calendars, Pittsburgh!

Join us at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the opening reception of Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography on March 27, 2026, from 5:30–9:00 PM at 707 Penn Avenue—and yes, Michael Zagaris himself will be here, meeting visitors and sharing stories from the sidelines of football history.

This opening comes as we celebrate more than 50 years since the dawn of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ legendary Steel Curtain dynasty, a golden era that changed the game forever. The exhibition features iconic Zagaris photographs of the Steelers in their championship years, including unforgettable images of Lynn Swann, Hall of Fame wide receiver, four-time Super Bowl champion, and Super Bowl X MVP, whose grace and athleticism defined Steelers greatness in the 1970s. This photograph captures Swann, in Zagaris’ words “ signaling he and the Steelers are no. 1 in wanning seconds of a 24-13 win in the playoff.”

🏈📸✨
Opening March 27, 2026
Michael Zagaris: 60 Years of NFL Photography
📍 707 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
🗓 Opening Reception: March 27 | 5:30–9:00 PM
🎟 Free and open to the public

From locker rooms to Super Bowls, from the Steelers’ golden years to the heart of NFL history—this is one night (and exhibition) football fans won’t want to miss.

Image: Michael Zagaris, Lynn Swann 88 WR Pittsburgh Steelers, 1974 AFC Championship: Pittsburgh Steelers (24) at Oakland Raiders (13), 1974. Courtesy Michael Zagaris.

02/03/2026

Exhibition Announcement 📣🎉

Katarzyna Perlak: The land beneath us sleeps lightly

🗓️ March 4 – March 22, 2026
📍 Wood Street Galleries, Floor 2 
Wood Street Galleries is excited to present “The land beneath us sleeps lightly” by Katarzyna Perlak, a Polish-born contemporary artist based in London, UK. Perlak’s multidisciplinary practice includes moving image, performance, textiles, sculpture, and installation, and explores how history, tradition, and identity are constructed, remembered, and embodied. Drawing on feminist, q***r, and diasporic perspectives, she re-examines folklore, craft, and affect as alternative forms of knowledge, and investigates the potential of affect as a tool for registering and archiving both present, continuous experience and past historical moments.

Originally commissioned for Liverpool Biennial 2025 (BEDROCK), “The land beneath us sleeps lightly” was made in collaboration with First Take and participants from their REEL: Q***r programme. The film is set within the decaying opulence of the Adelphi Hotel, a site dense with memory, fantasy, and unresolved histories. Once a destination for wealthy travellers, the hotel’s deteriorating interiors now fuel legends and myths. Through a non-linear, dreamlike structure shaped by repetition and disorientation, the film draws on the affective language of horror to explore q***r becoming under conditions of precarity. The Adelphi is reimagined as a haunted architecture where desire lingers, bodies shift, and identities remain unstable, allowing decay, monstrosity, and transformation to become sites of intimacy, resistance, and possibility.

Image credit: Katarzyna Perlak, The land beneath us sleeps lightly, 2025, video still. Courtesy the artist.
 
For more information visit Trustarts.org/visualarts

01/25/2026

Due to snow, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Galleries are closed TODAY Sunday, January 25. Galleries will resume regular operating hours on Wednesday January 28th. For more information about current and upcoming exhibitions and programs visit Trustarts.org/visualarts

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Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 8pm
Saturday	11am - 8pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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