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April 12, 2013

Art Group Hosts Painter, Sets Spring Show

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McKeesport Art Group has scheduled its spring show and is inviting Western Pennsylvania artists and crafters of all ages to participate.

Group President Jan Catalogna said entries are due by May 8. Fees are $15 for members and $20 for non-members. High school and college students are allowed to enter for free.

Art will be judged in the categories of amateur, experienced, professional and student. The show will be held May 17 to 19 at Jacob Wall Pavilion in Renziehausen Park, and will be open to the public from 5 to 9 p.m. May 17, 12 to 8 p.m. May 18 and 12 to 6 p.m. May 19.

For details or entry forms, visit the group's website at mckeesportartgroup.com.

On Monday (April 15) the art group will host Pittsburgh-area painter Barry Shields. Shields grew up in the Pittsburgh area and received his degree in fine arts from The Philadelphia College of Art and a masters from Carnegie Mellon University.

The meeting begins at 7:15 p.m. Monday in the Art Room of McKeesport Area High School, 1960 Eden Park Blvd., and the public is invited.

Shields specializes in En plein air work (outdoors) in the gouache-painting medium. Cityscapes are his routine subjects. Shields taught art in Pittsburgh Public Schools until about 10 years ago, when he began teaching at University of Pittsburgh and Penn State

He has had many exhibitions in western Pennsylvania and his work is part of numerous private and corporate collections. Presently, Shields is teaching drawing and painting at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

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