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| Christine Bethea in Studio @ UP Photo by Nathan Shaulis |
Christine Bethea, Clay Nation exhibition curator, has organized several exhibitions and art showcases due to her love of the Pittsburgh arts community over a career span of 20+ years. The award-winning Geek Art/Green Innovators Festival, (GAGI) which she organizes in partnership with the Unblurred, art crawl on Penn Avenue, is celebrating 10 years in 2019 and was the first art and technology festival of its kind in the region featuring over 300 local and nationally known artists. Bethea has also been recognized by the the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Hill House, the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and the City of Pittsburgh for her collaborative working relationship with Pittsburgh's diverse arts community. Her curated shows include: Unbiased, a showcase of Pittsburgh's best-known fiber artists @ Mt. Lebanon's Artsmiths, She also, during the emerging years of the August Wilson Center, organized Art Kings of the Hill District, a retrospective of work by African American men which highlighted Thaddeus Mosley and a limited Edition printing of Romare Bearden's underground T-Station mural. Interest from the show increased impetus to save Bearden's artwork from destruction. Bethea is also credited, as former Manager of the East Liberty Chamber of Commerce, with a one-woman letter writing campaign to entreat Pittsburgh-born legend Gene Kelly to lend his name to East Liberty Development for a variety of projects including the naming of the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater.
Educated as a journalist, Christine Bethea, first looked to quilt-making as an art form. It taught her to make use of what was already in her home--critical while raising three young children--and quilting took her through a difficult divorce. It was then, realizing her potential as an artist, that she went on to experiment with other techniques including assemblage, painting, glass work and photography. Today, utilizing a grant from the Advancing the Black Arts Program, she is expanding her work by adding works of clay created at UP to her artistic portfolio.
Bethea has partnered with Union Project on several occasions, is a former board member, and is pleased to once again, be part of the organization's on-going history, enriching and expanding the artistic field for residents in the City of Pittsburgh. She hopes you will enjoy the exhibition: Clay Nation: Ceramics, Community and Collaboration, and return to this blog for updates on the artists!
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| Red Dog Jar Photo by: Jaclyn Harris |
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| Striped Clay Bowls Photo by Jaclyn Harris |
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Christine Bethea, Clay Nation exhibition curator, has organized several exhibitions and art showcases due to her love of the Pittsburgh arts community over a career span of 20+ years. The award-winning Geek Art/Green Innovators Festival, (GAGI) which she organizes in partnership with the Unblurred, art crawl on Penn Avenue, is celebrating 10 years in 2019 and was the first art and technology festival of its kind in the region featuring over 300 local and nationally known artists. Bethea has also been recognized by the the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Hill House, the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and the City of Pittsburgh for her collaborative working relationship with Pittsburgh's diverse arts community. Her curated shows include: Unbiased, a showcase of Pittsburgh's best-known fiber artists @ Mt. Lebanon's Artsmiths, She also, during the emerging years of the August Wilson Center, organized Art Kings of the Hill District, a retrospective of work by African American men which highlighted Thaddeus Mosley and a limited Edition printing of Romare Bearden's underground T-Station mural. Interest from the show increased impetus to save Bearden's artwork from destruction. Bethea is also credited, as former Manager of the East Liberty Chamber of Commerce, with a one-woman letter writing campaign to entreat Pittsburgh-born legend Gene Kelly to lend his name to East Liberty Development for a variety of projects including the naming of the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater. 
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