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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Colleagues: I would like to take a moment to tell you about the wonderful selection of tours that the Tours and Transportation Committee has put together for people who attend the Pittsburgh conference from March 16-22, 2000. Here is a listing with a brief description of the tour selections. If you have not already done so, please select the tours in which you are interested and register for the conference as soon as possible. Only five more days to take advantage of the pre-conference registration rate! I can tell you, as a resident of Pittsburgh who after fifteen years is still considered to be a new-comer, that we are showing off Pittsburgh in a way that has never before been done! This listing of tour offerings is truly outstanding and there are several Pittsburgh natives that are hoping ARLIS/NA members do not sign up for them so THEY can go along! Don't let the natives take our tour slots! Sign up now and enjoy this remarkable city that has risen from the closing of the steel mills during the 1980s to a truly renaissance city! SIGN UP NOW and have the time of your life! All of us on the Conference Planning Advisory Committee look forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh for the beginning of Spring! Ray Anne Lockard Conference Local Arrangements Co-Chair Friday, March 17, 2000 Tour One - Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob (will be repeated on Wednesday, March 22) Spend an entire day experiencing two houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of which is considered to be the most famous house of the 20th century! Price: $125.00 Tour2 - Highlighting Pittsburgh Glass Enjoy a day-long view of the history of glass in Pittsburgh, the center of America's glass industry during the 19th century. We will visit sites renowned for their stained glass, tour a permanent glass exhibition in the Heinz History Center, lunch under the splendor of a stained glass vault in the Grand Concourse, visit Hunt Stained Glass Studios, view the 73-foot towering stained glass windows of Heinz Chapel, and wind up with a visit to Morgan Art Gallery where we will see art glass created by contemporary artists. Price: $50.00 Tour 3 - Corporate Art Collections Take advantage of a rare opportunity to see the art collection at Mellon Bank and the 19th century works collected by the Duequesne Club. Several native Pittsburghers are excited about this trip -- a once in a life time experience that none of us has experienced! Price: $40.00 Tour 4 - Beaux Arts and Hi-Tech: A Tour of Carnegie Mellon University CMU is renowned for its reputation for innovation in higher learning and the arts has always been a major part of the schools curriculum. See Henry Hornbostel's Beaux-Arts campus, brand new buildings created on campus (including the new Purnell Center for the Arts), the intriguing Studio for Creative Inquiry, the Intelligent Workplace, and end-up with a reception in Hunt Library on campus. Price: $30.00 Saturday, March 18, 2000 Tour 5 - Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob = SOLD OUT Tour 6 -Grant Street Walking Tour This is one of Pittsburgh's most important downtown streets and has a fascinating history. Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation will lead a tour of this landmark street that includes H. H. Richardson's famed Allegheney County Court House and Jail, The Frick Building by Daniel Burnham, the Union Trust Building by Pittsburgh architect Frederick Oesterling (1915-1917) and three other architectural masterpieces. Price: $15.00 Tour 7 - Fourth Avenue Walking Tour A part of the original city, Fourth Avenue was once considered Pittsburgh's "Wall Street." Once again Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation will lead participants on a walking tour of classic 19th century buildings that formed an important part of early Pittsburgh. Price: $15.00 Tour 8 - Frick Art and Historical Center (repeated on Wednesday, march 22, 2000) Created by Helen Clay Frick, founder of the famed Frick Art Reference Library in New York, the Frick Art and Historical Center opened to the public in 1990. The grounds include Clayton, the family's Pittsburgh mansion, that people may visit with a tour guide; the Frick Art Museum (a Millais exhibition will be mounted during the ARLIS/NA conference); the Car and Carriage Museum; and the Frick Cafe which has won Pittsburgh Magazine's award for the best place to lunch twice. The cafe also serves high tea -- an elegant experience after spending an afternoon amidst a grand Gilded Age experience. Price: $25.00 Tour 9 - The Andy Warhol Museum and The Mattress Factory (repeated on Wednesday, march 22, 2000) Tour the world of contemporary art as we have a grand tour of The Andy Warhol Museum -- the largest museum devoted to the work of a single artist. The tour will include a visit to the Archives and Study Center in the museum and the museum incluldes films, videos, and installations as well as prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, and wallpaper by Andy Warhol. The Mattress Factory will provide registrants with a real "factory" experience! Housed in a renovated mattress factory, this unique museum offers the visitor several installation pieces. including a show entitled New Installations by Asian Artists in Residence. Price: $30.00 Tour 10 - A Pilgrimage to Ethnic Churches Dr. Arnold Klukas (architectural historian) will lead the group on a tour of fascinating ethnic churches located in Pittsburgh. The tour will present visitors with a unique experience not to be repeated in a life time! Visitors will view murals by Croatian artist, Maximillian Vanka and Jocko Knezevich; the Presbyterians will be represented by the luxurious gothic Revival church (Ralph Adams Cram) donated to the city during the height of the Great Depression by Richard Beatty Mellon; Jewish faith will be represented by a visit to Temple Rodef Shalom, one of the best temple designs in this country; the Greek Orthodox experience will be represented by a visit to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church; we will include a visit to H. H. Richardson's Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The grand finale will be a visit to St. Anthony of Padua Shrine to see how one Roman Catholic parish expresses its faith by means of the largest collection of relics outside Europe. Price: $60.00 Wednesday, March 22, 2000 Tour 11 - Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob (see tour 1 above) Tour 12 - The Cleveland Museum of Art The CMA, one of the preeminent art museums in the country, is onyl a two and one-half hour dive from Pittsburgh. This tour will allow registrants to visit a collection that includes nearly 4,800 art works from all time periods. The CMA is noted for its Asian art collection, its collection of European medieval art, and its Pre-columbian holdings. In addition, special exhibitions that will be mounted during the ARLIS/NA conferenceinclude: Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur, Twentieth Century Japanese Prints, and two other exhibitions. Tour participants will be the guest of the Ingalls Library at a wine and chees reception in the library prior to returning to Pittsburgh. Price: $125.00 Tour 13 - Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation The collections of this fascinating museum are truly magnificent and will delight the eye of those interested in botanical prints and botanical illustration. The Hunt Institute's exemplary resources include the Library, Art Department, Archives and Bibliography Department. The Art Department's holdings constitute one of the world's largest collections of botanical art and illustration in the world. Price: $25.00 Tour 14 - Pittsburgh Architects and Their Buildings: The Quiet Cutting Edge Pittsburgh's wealth of architecture includes many architects that are too little known beyond the region! This is your opportunity to visit the work of cretive local architecture heroes ranging from the Beaux Arts (Henry Hornbostel) to the Progressive (Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr.) to the Wrightian (Peter Berndtson), and more! The tour will end at Chatham Village, the innovative 1930s garden suburb by New York planners and Pittsburgh architects. Price: $50.00 Tour 15 - Frick Art and Historical Center (see tour 8 above) Tour 16 - The Andy Warhol Museum and The Mattress Factory (see tour 9 above) __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]