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We’re excited to share another round of tours highlights from Pittsburgh! Check out a library’s in-house printmaking lab, wander through rooms from the past, or take
in the view from Venice. Register
for these active, creative tours directly through the ARLIS/NA conference portal!
Please note: Adding a tour to your SCHED itinerary does not register you for the tour—sign up using the link above.
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Sample bookplates from the Text + conText Lab, University of Pittsburgh.
Bookplates at the Text + conText Lab, Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 5, 1PM–3:30PM, $25
Come make your own bookplate! This workshop will start with a brief introduction to the history of bookplates and to their importance for researchers today. You will then get to browse a curated display from Archives & Special
Collections to discover some of the most beautiful bookplates in the library. Then, we will move over to Text & conText (across the hall) where you will design your very own bookplates. Plenty of examples will be on hand for inspiration, as well as a vast
selection of tools, papers, inks, stickers and two functioning vintage letterpresses. No previous experience needed—this is a beginner-friendly workshop.
Contributed by Mackenzie Salisbury, POP! Workshops Coordinator
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View of the Indian Room, based on the ancient Buddhist university known as Nalanda. University of Pittsburgh.
Nationality Rooms at Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh
Saturday, April 6, 11AM–12:30PM, $20
Where else can you travel back in time before 1787 and visit 31 places across the globe in just 90 minutes? The
Nationality Rooms in the historic Cathedral of Learning offer this
amazing opportunity. Transport yourself through these functional classrooms ranging from a 1000 year old Armenian Apostolic monastery to an 18th Century Syrian home to the Hall of Enlightenment at Sungkyunkwan Academy in 14th Century Korea and so much more!
Beginning in 1938, committees representing ethnic heritage communities who settled in PIttsburgh worked with international designers and artisans to build these spaces as well as support student scholarships to study abroad. According to TripAdvisor, the Nationality
Rooms ranks in the top 10 things to do in Pittsburgh!
Contributed by Lynn Kawaratani,
POP! Local Arrangements Co-Chair
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Ang Li, Externalities, Everlasting Plastics (Venice, IT 2023). ReportArch/Andrea Ferro Photography.
EVERLASTING PLASTICS Exhibit
at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art
Friday, April 5, 1:30PM–3 PM, $20
If you weren’t able to visit the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture, the exhibition housed in the US Pavilion will be here in Pittsburgh! Join us for a guided tour of the works created by five artists,
architects, and designers from the United States—Xavi L. Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager—which are adapted to engage with the museum’s collection and this region known for its inextricable link to the petrochemical manufacturing
of consumer goods. Everlasting Plastics considers
the ways these materials both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment. You are also welcome to stay for a behind-the-scenes visit to the Heinz Architectural Archives at the end of the gallery tour.
Contributed by Lynn Kawaratani, POP! Local Arrangements Co-Chair