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FEATURE STORY
08/11/08
Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship announces fall programs for Allegheny and Washington counties
By Paul A. Kovach, Vice President for University Communications
Pittsburgh, PA - (August 11, 2008) … Since its founding in 2005, the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship (CWE) at Chatham University has endeavored to address Pennsylvania low national ranking in women-owned businesses. With programs designed for established women entrepreneurs and women just starting a business, CWE has now successfully expanded its programming into Washington County. The Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Chatham University (CWE) is pleased to announce its fall 2008 program schedule, according to an announcement by Mary Riebe, Ph.D., CWE director.
The CWE’s targeted programs will include (details follow below):
• CWE and SCORE Pittsburgh “Small Business Basics” workshop on Saturday, August 23rd 2008
• FastTrac programs in Pittsburgh and Washington PA for emerging and established women business owners
• CWE “Listening to Your Business” workshop on Wednesday, September 10th 2008
• CWE’s Mentoring for Women Business Owners 2008-2009 program kick-off on September 16th 2008
• 2008 “Think Big” forum on October 14th 2008
• Ongoing registration for CWE’s Peer-to-Peer Learning Monthly Roundtables
Online registration is available for all programs at www.chatham.edu/ccwe. More information is available at 412-365-1253 or email womens-entrepreneurship@chatham.edu. A limited number of partial scholarships are available for FastTrac and Mentoring programs. Scholarship applications are available online and must be submitted by September 15th. Scholarships are offered through funds provided by the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and Bridgeway Capital.
“Small Business Basics” Workshop
August 23, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Chatham University Science Complex
Cost: $25.00 ($15.00 for veterans)
Register by: August 21st
CWE and SCORE Pittsburgh are partnering to present the “Small Business Basics” workshop to women interested in starting their own business or expanding their current business. Topics include: business planning, financing, marketing, legal and a personal story on business challenges by a CWE FastTrac® graduate. “Small Business Basics” is partially underwritten by ESB Bank.
FastTrac® NewVenture™
Ten Saturdays, September 20 - November 22
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Chatham University Shadyside Campus
Cost: $295.00 per person
Register by: September 17
A ten-week training program that assists the start-up entrepreneur in developing their business concept and evaluating it through each step of the business planning process.
FastTrac GrowthVenture™
Eight Thursdays, October 2 - November 20
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Chatham University Shadyside Campus
Cost: $395.00 per person
An 8-week training program that helps women business owners evaluate their current business framework and determine the changes needed to boost profits and increase the growth of their business.
Mentoring for Women Business Owners: 2008-2009
Kick-off: September 16, 2008
Location: Chatham University Shadyside Campus
Cost: $695.00 per 12 month program
A limited number of partial scholarships are available
CWE is now accepting applications for the 2008-2009 mentoring program. This is a twelve-month program where women business owners (mentees) are matched with seasoned, successful entrepreneur mentors in the region. Funded by the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, admission is by online application and interview process. Interested mentees and mentors should register online at www.chatham.edu/ccwe by September 12th.
“Think Big” Forum
“Envisioning your company’s move to higher ground”
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Chatham University Shadyside Campus
Early Bird Offer: Register before Friday August 29, 2008
• Individual $ 75:00
• Table of 10 $750:00
Registration after August 29, 2008
• Individual $85:00
• Table of 10 $850:00
What is your vision for your business? Are you restricting your own growth? At Think Big... you’ll learn from successful women entrepreneurs what it really takes to grow your business.
FastTrac Programs in Washington County
“Listening to Your Business” Workshop
Wednesday, September 10
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Citizen's Library, 55 South College Street, Washington, PA 15301
Cost: $20.00 (includes all materials and morning refreshments)
A half-day facilitated workshop designed to provide women business owners and managers with the critical evaluation tools and action steps they need to maximize the growth and profitability of their business and create a three-year vision plan. The “Listening to Your Business” workshop is supported by Bridgeway Capital www.bridgewaycapital.org
FastTrac NewVenture™ in Washington County
Ten Tuesdays, September 16 - November 18
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Plaza Building, 4th Floor, Room 408, 150 West Beau, Washington, PA, 15301
Cost: $295.00 per person
FastTrac NewVenture program is offered to women entrepreneurs in Washington, Fayette and Greene County who are ready to start their own businesses.
FastTrac GrowthVenture™ in Washington County
Eight Thursdays, September 25 - November 13
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Plaza Building, 4th Floor, Room 408, 150 West Beau, Washington, PA, 15301
Cost: $395.00 per person
FastTrac GrowthVenture program is offered to women entrepreneurs in Washington, Fayette and Greene County who are ready to grow their current businesses.
The Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Chatham University was established in 2005 to provide greater support for women entrepreneurs in the Pittsburgh region. Designed to assist both current and future women business owners, The Center provides new and innovative services and programs that are unique to both established and start-up businesses owned by women. It is funded through grants from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the Lois Tack Thompson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
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FEATURE STORY
07/29/08
Chatham named a Best in the Northeast university by The Princeton Review
By Paul A. Kovach, Vice President for University Communications
Pittsburgh, PA - (July 29, 2008) … Chatham University is one of the best colleges and universities in the Northeast according to The Princeton Review. The New York City-based education services company selected the school as one of 212 institutions it recommends in its “Best in the Northeast” section on its PrincetonReview.com feature 2009 Best Colleges Region by Region. Chatham also scored high in Princeton Review's first "Green Rating" of colleges and universities. Chatham's profile is included in The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2009 Edition (Random House / Princeton Review Books, On Sale Date August 5, 2008, $16.95).
Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s V.P., Publishing, “We commend all of the schools we name this year as our ‘regional best’ colleges primarily for their excellent academic programs. We selected them based on institutional data we collected from several hundred schools in each region, our visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of independent and high school-based college advisors whose recommendations we invite. We also take into account what each school’s customers – their students – report to us about their campus experiences at their schools on our 80-question student survey. Finally, we work to have our annual roster of ‘regional best’ colleges present a range of institutions in each region that varies by size, selectivity, character and locale.”
The 212 colleges The Princeton Review chose for its “Best in the Northeast” website designations and “The Best Northeastern Colleges” book are located in eleven states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont and the District of Columbia. On its website 2009 Best Colleges Region by Region feature, The Princeton Review also designated 159 colleges in the Midwest, 120 in the West, and 139 in the Southeast as “regional best” colleges in their locales. The 630 colleges named “regional best(s)” represent about 25% (one out of four) of the nation’s 2,500 four-year colleges.
The Princeton Review survey for this project asks students to rate their own schools on several issues -- from the accessibility of their professors to quality of the campus food -- and answer questions about themselves, their fellow students, and their campus life. Actual comments from surveyed students pepper each Princeton Review college profile on its website and in the book.
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in its Best Colleges: Region by Region or in its The Best Northeastern Colleges book. Unlike The Princeton Review’s annual college guide The Best 368 Colleges, The Best Northeastern Colleges book does not have ranking lists based on student surveys. The Best Northeastern Colleges -- 2009 Edition is the fifth edition of the book and part of a line of nearly 200 Princeton Review books published by Random House.
The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com) is a New York-based company known for its test preparation, college admission and other education services. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.
Chatham University provides its almost 2,300 students with a solid education built upon strong academics, public leadership and global perspectives. Chatham’s graduate programs, continuing education and certification programs provide women and men with advanced education for professional careers. Founded in 1869, the University includes Chatham College for Women; the College of Graduate Studies; and the College for Continuing and Professional Studies. For more information call 800-837-1290 or visit www.chatham.edu.
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FEATURE STORY
07/25/08
Jessica's Labyrinth dedicated as a path of meditation at Berry Hall
By Paul A. Kovach, Vice President for University Communications
Pittsburgh, PA - (July 25, 2008) … The evocative path of the labyrinth serves as a meditative journey for all who set foot toward and away from the center. An ancient tradition spanning 4,000 years and across many cultures and religions, the labyrinth today can be found throughout the world in settings that provide a place of solace and of mental renewal. Chatham University became one of the newest locations with the dedication of a stone and grass labyrinth through the generosity of Diana and Dr. Peter Jannetta of Pittsburgh and Diana’s son, Robert M. Davant III, in memory of Diana’s daughter, Jessica Grimes Davant.
“This labyrinth is dedicated to Jessica by me, her mother, her brother Robert, and her stepfather and buddy Peter,” Mrs. Jannetta said at the ceremony. “When Jessica was a child we lived in Squirrel Hill and she attended The Ellis School, and so the Chatham campus became for Jessica a shortcut home, a place for her to play with her friends, and a quiet place to walk. She would spend summers at Chatham’s Music and Arts Day Camp and winters sled riding down Chapel Hill. She was an extremely bright and fun individual, and we think that the setting for Jessica’s labyrinth is perfect.
“My family thanks Chatham for their guidance, their understanding of the labyrinth’s history and for their high-profile placement of Jessica’s labyrinth.”
“We are honored to provide such an idyllic setting for Jessica’s labyrinth, and I want to thank Diana, Peter and Robert for their gift to the community,” noted Chatham President Esther L. Barazzone, Ph.D. “The labyrinth can allow individuals to release the cares of their daily lives, contemplate and find peace. Chatham welcomes visitors, neighbors and friends to the labyrinth to share in its meditative qualities and to remember Jessica.”
Jessica Grimes Davant (1962-2006) attended The Ellis School in Pittsburgh, St. Michael’s Sussex in England through the British-American Educational Foundation, and Roanoke College in Salem, Va. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor of arts and sciences degree in 1987, and was devoted to nonprofit organizations and the fine arts. She worked on the development staff of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and later the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, which dedicated a tree in Schenley Park to her memory. She was a volunteer with the Menil Collection and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Located on the lawn in front of Berry Hall on the University’s Shadyside Campus, the labyrinth is based upon the Medieval or Chartres design, an eleven-circuit labyrinth located at the 13th-century Chartres Cathedral in Paris. The landscape was designed by Matthew ‘Brody’ Little, a third year graduate student in Chatham’s Master of Landscape Architecture program, who won the labyrinth’s landscaping design competition in January 2008. The labyrinth, installed by Vento Landscaping, is 60 feet in diameter and the path measures 2,320 feet end to end. Sited on a small rise above Woodland Road, the landscaping between the paths hides the labyrinth at eye level, allowing it to be gradually discovered by visitors as they walk the slight incline from Woodland Road to the entry path. It is believed to be the largest outdoor public labyrinth in Pittsburgh.
Chatham University provides its almost 2,300 students with a solid education built upon strong academics, public leadership and global perspectives. Chatham’s graduate programs, continuing education and certification programs provide women and men with advanced education for professional careers. Founded in 1869, the University includes Chatham College for Women; the College of Graduate Studies; and the College for Continuing and Professional Studies. For more information call 800-837-1290 or visit www.chatham.edu.
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FEATURE STORY
07/08/08
Chatham University builds Bridges to Other Worlds with fall International Literary Festival
By Amanda Kennedy, Senior Public Relations Specialist
Pittsburgh, PA - (July 7, 2008) … In the City of Bridges, Chatham University’s nationally-recognized Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program will host Bridges to Other Worlds: An International Literary Festival at Chatham’s Shadyside campus October 4–5, 2008. The festival will feature former Poet Laureate Robert Hass as keynote speaker as well as ten other international writers who will participate in panel presentations, readings, round table discussions, and conversations about the ways in which place and culture inform the creative process. There is a $30 registration fee for the public. The festival is free to Chatham alumni. More information is available by emailing sstgermain@chatham.edu, calling 412-365-1190 or visiting www.chatham.edu/bridges.
Bridges to Other Worlds is made possible by the generous support of Henry and Laurie Reich, Tom and Margaret Whitford, and Bill Benter.
Small conversations on craft sessions led by one of the presenting authors will also be offered on Sunday morning and are limited to 15 participants per session. To be considered, creative writing samples of up to ten pages should be submitted at the time of registration in the selected genre: poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, children’s writing, or literary translation in any genre.
“We are incredibly excited to be gathering so much talent together in one place,” MFA director Sheryl St. Germain said. “This is a fantastic opportunity for the Pittsburgh community to be engaged with international writers of great stature in a relatively intimate environment.”
About the authors:
Laila Al-Atrash
Laila Al-Atrash has published five novels including A Woman of Five Seasons, and one short story collection. She writes a column on public issues for the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour and comments on literary topics for Amman Magazine. She has worked as a journalist in Palestine, as a radio program producer and host in Jordan, and as a TV news editor, anchor, and program producer elsewhere in the Middle East. She is a member of the High Council and Executive Committee of the Jordanian Ministry of Culture and serves as the President of PEN Jordan.
Taha Muhammad Ali
Taha Muhammad Ali has lived through the many stages of the Israeli–Arab conflict, and his poetry and fiction emerge directly from the crucible of that tragedy. He is the author of four books of poetry in Arabic and a book of short stories. So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971–2005, translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin, was published in September 2006.
Astrid Cabral
Cabral is a poet, environmentalist, critic, novelist and former diplomat from Manaus, the capital of the Amazonian region of Brazil. She has translated numerous works into Portuguese, including Thoreau's Walden. The environmental awareness that characterizes much of her writing has made her one of the leading figures in the Amazonian cultural identity recovery movement. Her book of poems, Jaula/Cage, with translations by Alexis Levitin, will be published this year.
Peter Cole
The recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Peter Cole has published three collections of poetry, Rift, Hymns & Qualms, and What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1989. Cole has worked intensively on Hebrew literature, with special emphasis on medieval Hebrew poetry. Cole’s prize-winning translations of the Hebrew Golden Age poets have helped to recreate for contemporary American readers the multifaceted world of medieval Spain, in which Jewish artistic and intellectual communities flourished under Islamic rule. His new anthology, The Dream of the Poem, traces the arc of the entire period. Among Cole’s translations from contemporary Hebrew and Arabic are also Love & Selected Poems of Aharon Shabta and So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971-2005 by Taha Muhammad Ali.
Anahita Firouz
Anahita Firouz was born and grew up in Tehran and authored In the Walled Gardens, a political novel about Iran shortly before the Islamic Revolution. What mattered most for her in writing this novel was to bring to life the complexity of an entire society, trying to find its sense of identity and balance, unaware that it was in fact on the verge of destruction. On her father's side, her grandfather was a prince from the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Persia from 1795 to 1923. She studied in Europe and the United States, and returned to Iran and worked for the National Iranian Television as a producer and interviewer.
Derek Green
Derek Green has spent more than a decade as a professional journalist, and a contract consultant for several multinational corporations. His work has taken him to twenty-two countries on six continents. The son of an Irish father and Puerto Rican mother, Green is a fluent speaker of Spanish. New World Order, published by Autumn House Press, is his first book. In this wide-ranging collection of stories, Derek Green takes readers on a tour of the world as America’s military-industrial complex reels into a new century.
Robert Hass
Robert Hass has published many books of poetry including Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, and Sun Under Wood, as well as a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. Hass translated many of the works of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, and he edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Tranströmer, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, and Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life. He was the guest editor of the 2001 edition of Best American Poetry. His essay collection Now & Then, which includes his Washington Post articles, was published in April 2007. As US Poet Laureate (1995-1997), his deep commitment to environmental issues led him to found River of Words (ROW), an organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, twice the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (in 1984 and 1997), and the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1973, Hass is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. His new book of poems, Time and Materials, won both the 2008 National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Samuel Hazo
Samuel Hazo is the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh. He has published many books, including poetry, novels, plays, memoir and translations. His most recent book is The Song of the Horse: Selected Poems, 1958-2008, from Autumn House Press. His translations include Denis de Rougemont’s The Growl of Deeper Waters, Nadia Tueni’s Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Adonis’ The Pages of Day and Night.
Alexis Levitin
Levitin’s translations have appeared in well over two hundred literary magazines, including Partisan Review, Grand Street, Kenyon Review, and Osiris. He has published twenty-four books of translations, including Guernica and Other Poems by Carlos de Oliveira, Inhabited Heart: Selected Poems, by Eugenio de Andrade, and Soulstorm, by Clarice Lispector. He has won two NEA grants among many other awards for his translations.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes. Her books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Words Under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006). She is also the author of Habibi and Going Going (novels for young readers); and Baby Radar and Sitti's Secrets (picture books). Other works include seven prize-winning poetry anthologies for young readers, including This Same Sky, The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East, and What Have You Lost?. Her new book of essays is entitled I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are you Okay? Tales of Driving and Being Driven. A book of poetry for young adults entitled Honeybee was published in 2008. She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow.
Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry including the award-winning Nothing in Nature is Private. In The End of the Alphabet and Plot, she welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque. Her latest book, Don't Let Me Be Lonely—an experimental multi-genre project that blends poetry, essays, and image—is an experimental and personal exploration of the condition of fragmented selfhood in contemporary America. Rankine co-edited the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language.
The MFA in Creative Writing program at Chatham University was named one of five Innovative/Unique Programs in the country by The Atlantic Monthly in its Special Fiction Issue 2007, and one of “Nine Distinctive Programs” in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers.
Chatham University provides its almost 2,100 students with a solid education built upon strong academics, public leadership and global perspectives. Chatham’s graduate programs, continuing education and certification programs provide women and men with advanced education for professional careers. Founded in 1869, the University includes Chatham College for Women; the College of Graduate Studies; and the College for Continuing and Professional Studies. For more information call 800-837-1290 or visit www.chatham.edu.
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FEATURE STORY
06/18/08
Prints from Chatham's art collection included in A Panorama of Pittsburgh at The Frick Art Museum
The Frick celebrates Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary with an exhibition of printed images of the city
By Greg Langel, Frick Art Museum
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Pittsburgh, PA - (June 18, 2008) ... A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views brings Pittsburgh’s early days and industrial development to life in a celebration of the city’s 250th anniversary. Organized by the Frick Art & Historical Center and featuring more than 130 printed views of the city, the exhibition opens June 28, 2008, and will remain on view through October 5, 2008.
A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views illustrates the breadth of the visual representation of Pittsburgh in books, magazines, newspapers, maps, corporate identity, lithographs, and other types of materials during the 1800s, including documentary prints of the riveting events that put Pittsburgh in the headlines—like labor disputes, fires, and other disasters, which were published in the popular periodicals and newspapers of the day. Advertising imagery, sheet music, job order prints, and prints of significant architecture, are also included in the exhibition, which is the first systematic study and exploration of early printed views of Pittsburgh. Prints have been selected from local public and private collections, such as the Carnegie museums and library, Hillman Company, Chatham University, University of Pittsburgh, the Duquesne Club, and Pittsburgh History
and Landmarks Foundation, as well as from institutions around the country. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide an in-depth exploration of historic depictions of Pittsburgh, as well as the development of printmaking in the city—from the first known rendering of the city made in 1790 by German-born linguist, surveyor and businessman Lewis Brantz, to prints of current events as published in popular periodicals, such as Harper’s Weekly, later in the nineteenth century.
Frick director Bill Bodine comments, “The Frick is delighted to present this very special exhibition to the City of Pittsburgh on the occasion of its 250th anniversary. The catalogue that accompanies A Panorama of Pittsburgh will serve as a lasting and invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in the growth and development of Pittsburgh during its rise to prominence, and will ensure that this important project lives on well beyond this special celebration.”
The exhibition and catalogue are planned in sections: Pittsburgh Before the Fire, Views from Books and Magazines, Documentary Views, Illustrated Newspapers, Frameable Views, Pittsburgh Lithographers, and Other Types of Prints.
Early drawings of Pittsburgh depicted the settlement that grew up around Fort Pitt. Lewis Brantz’s Pittsburgh in 1790 portrays a small group of buildings clustered on the flat bit of land where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio. Brantz was traveling to the western parts of the United States to survey the commercial possibilities of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Passing by Pittsburgh, Brantz noted, “The view enjoyed at this place, from two elevated spots is, in truth, the most beautiful I ever beheld.” Remarkably, Brantz’s watercolor has survived, providing us with the first glimpse of the town. His original ink drawing is part of the exhibition, as is the print made years later, during the nineteenth century.
As the city grew and local business developed, so did Pittsburgh’s own printmaking industry, and artistic community. William Coventry Wall was one of the first to make his living in western Pennsylvania as an artist. Wall emigrated with his family from England to Pennsylvania early in the nineteenth century. After a brief stay in Kentucky, he moved to Pittsburgh in 1841 and ran a picture frame and artist’s supply shop. It was after the Great Fire of 1845 in Pittsburgh that Wall received his first financial success as an artist. He had painted two scenes of the city after the fire and decided to have lithographs made of both. They sold well and led to more attention and work for Wall. In 1877, he gained access to a sketch of Pittsburgh made by Mrs. E. C. Gibson while on her honeymoon trip and he thought it of sufficient interest to turn into a painting, which he proceeded to exhibit in the front window of Boyd’s Gallery on Wood Street. That same year, Charles O. Lappe commissioned the Pittsburgh Lithographing Company to produce a chromolithograph after Wall’s painting, the colorful View of the City of Pittsburgh in 1817.
Visitors to the exhibition will also see nineteenth-century Pittsburgh as portrayed by itinerant artists, many of whom specialized in traveling from city to city creating printed views for a subscription base. The 1849 print View of Pittsburgh, Pa. by Edwin Whitefield is one such print. Known in only a single extant example, this first large-scale frameable view of Pittsburgh, was created based on subscriptions sold for $5 each by Whitefield’s agent in the spring of 1848. Progress of the preparatory drawings and the production of the print was followed in the local press, and the final product, printed by the New York firm of Hudson & Smith, was completed by the autumn of 1849.
Historic events shaped the commerce, prosperity and arts of the region. The War of 1812 cut off the supply of British goods, stimulating American manufacture, and by 1815, Pittsburgh was producing significant quantities of iron, brass, tin, and glass products. By the 1840s, Pittsburgh had grown into one of the largest cities west of the Allegheny Mountains, although this expansion was stalled by the fire of 1845. Recovering rapidly, the city had nearly 1,000 factories by 1857. The American Civil War boosted the city’s economy still further, with increased demand for iron and armaments, and production of steel began in 1875.
The majority of prints produced in the nineteenth century were published as illustrations in publications such as magazines, books and atlases—a role that prints had played for centuries. Another traditional function for prints over the years was that of graphically documenting current events. In the days before mass-produced photography, television and the Internet, it was mainly through the medium of printmaking that people were able to see images of events that happened outside their direct experience. Advances in printmaking processes moved quickly in the nineteenth century. Around mid- century, newspapers illustrated with wood engravings became hugely popular. Wood engravings could be printed from the same press as typeface, and with the development of procedures for quickly and easily taking a manuscript image and turning it into an engraving, it became practical to produce newspapers copiously filled with up-to-date illustrations.
Beginning in the second decade of the nineteenth century, steel began to replace copper as the medium for producing engraved images. The harder steel plate allowed for finer detail and a much higher number of impressions to be run off than from a copper plate. This drove down the price for producing prints, making it more practical for publishers to include engravings as illustrations in their books and magazines. The public responded avidly to these attractive and informative images, creating a large demand for illustrated magazines, histories, travels, gift books, and many other types of publications.
As the century progressed, another new process, lithography, gained prominence as the method for the production of illustrations. In lithography, an image can be drawn directly or transferred onto a limestone slab. Lithographs were easier and less expensive to create, so that as the century progressed, increasing numbers of book and magazine illustrations were produced by this process.
In the nineteenth century, there was one American printmaker above all who could accurately read the mood of the public and respond by producing prints that would sell—Nathaniel Currier. Currier became “America’s Printmaker,” issuing popular prints for the public in such numbers that his firm became the most successful and prolific American print publisher by the middle of the century. Early in his career, Currier had his biggest sales with prints documenting disasters—fires, floundering boats, train wrecks and the like—and to a great extent the success of his business was founded on the production of graphic images of these tragedies. His hand-colored lithograph, Great Conflagration at Pittsburgh, PA., 1845, is a wonderful example.
Pittsburgh’s first resident lithographer, William Schuchman, immigrated to Pittsburgh from Germany as a young man and opened his lithographic publishing company in 1849. In 1859, he produced one of the most attractive and successful frameable prints of the city, View of Pittsburgh, PA. This elegant lithograph contains a scene of Pittsburgh from Mt. Washington set within an oval framework. The city is shown as prosperous and busy, the rivers teaming with steam ships and smoke wafting from numerous factory smokestacks. By 1871, Pittsburgh was gaining a national reputation as a paradigm of the new industrial America, and Charles Stanley Reinhart’s wood engravings for Harper's Weekly make this point graphically.
In the later 1800s, a method was developed, known as chromolithography, to print multicolored lithographs in large quantities. Edwin Rowe’s chromolithograph, Great Battle of Homestead. Defeat & Capture of the Pinkerton Invaders July 6th 1892, illustrates this historic event in colorful vignettes arranged around a central image, leaving no doubt as to the artist’s and publishers’ sympathies.
A visually marvelous exhibition, A Panorama of Pittsburgh celebrates the city, with a panoply of images—including many iconic renderings of the Point, Pittsburgh’s distinctive hillsides, buildings, and newsworthy events that mark our past and present. Together, this variety of imagery, which ranges from the bucolic to the political, from advertising imagery to detailed bird’s-eye views, forms a panorama of Pittsburgh’s history and development from frontier town to industrial icon.
This exhibition is organized by the Frick Art & Historical Center. Major support for this exhibition and catalogue is provided by the Allegheny Foundation and The Pittsburgh Foundation. Generous support is also provided by Eichleay Foundation, Mine Safety Appliances, and Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation.
CATALOGUE
Fully-illustrated, with an essay by Guest Curator Christopher W. Lane that ties the more than 130 exhibition prints into a thematic chronology, the catalogue also will include a list of Pittsburgh-based printers and a complete list of the over four-hundred nineteenth-century historic views of Pittsburgh that Mr. Lane documented while working on the exhibition. The 224-page catalogue, distributed by University of Pittsburgh Press, is intended to be a long-lived reference for historians, print-collectors, and curators.
Guest curator Lane is an expert on antique prints, maps and books, and is well known as an appraiser on the popular PBS series Antiques Road Show. He is the co-owner of The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd., purveyors of antique prints, maps and related books. He founded the shop in 1982 with Donald H. Cresswell. Mr. Lane has authored a series of basic guides on print and map collecting, including “What Is A Print?” “A Guide To Collecting Antique Historical Prints,” “A Guide To Collecting Antique Maps,” and ‘A Guide to Collecting Currier and Ives Prints.”
THE FRICK ART MUSEUM
The Frick Art Museum at the Frick Art & Historical Center contains collections of fine and decorative arts assembled by Helen Clay Frick, daughter of Henry Clay Frick. In addition to exhibiting its permanent collection, which has strengths in Italian Renaissance and French eighteenth-century painting, the Museum has an active program of temporary exhibitions.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Frick Art & Historical Center is located at 7227 Reynolds Street in Pittsburgh’s Point Breeze neighborhood. Free parking is available in the Frick’s off-street lot or along adjacent streets. The Frick is open 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday and closed Mondays and major holidays. Admission to The Frick Art Museum, Car and Carriage Museum, Greenhouse, and Playhouse is free.
Docent-led tours of A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views are available free of charge on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Groups of five or more and those interested in scheduling a tour of the permanent collection are requested to schedule a private tour at an alternate time. The cost for group tours of the exhibition and permanent collection is $7 per person, and reservations must be made one to two weeks in advance. Call 412-371-0600, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00p.m., Monday—Sunday.
For additional information or images, please contact Greg Langel, Media and Marketing Manager, at 412-371-0600 ext. 524 or GLangel@TheFrickPittsburgh.org.
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The Frick Art & Historical Center, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, is an historic site and cultural center with a mission to serve the public through preservation, presentation, and interpretation of the fine and decorative arts and historically significant artifacts for all residents of and visitors to Western Pennsylvania. FEATURE STORY
06/11/08
Shadyside campus expands into Pittsburgh’s East End with new Chatham Eastside
By Paul A. Kovach, Vice President for University Communications
Pittsburgh, PA - (June 11, 2008) … Responding to significant growth in academic programs and student population, Chatham University today announced that it will purchase 6585 Penn Avenue, a large office building at the corner of Penn Avenue and Washington Blvd., in Pittsburgh’s fast-growing East End. Acquisition of the 250,000 square foot building comes on the heels of last month’s announcement that Eden Hall Foundation donated the 388-acre Eden Hall Farm in Richland Township to Chatham, creating the largest university campus in Allegheny County. According to University President Esther L. Barazzone, Ph.D., “The acquisition of this building, as well as last month’s acquisition of Eden Hall Farm, reflect Chatham’s transformation from being one of the oldest women’s colleges in the country -- which it still is -- to being a comprehensive university with degrees through the doctoral level, and one that is unique by virtue of having a vibrant city campus, as well as a suburban operation with a focus on sustainability.”
To be christened “Chatham Eastside,” the building will satisfy several programming space needs and provide the University with enhanced space flexibility and capacity in the longer-term. Initially, Chatham expects its Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant Studies degree programs to occupy 47,150 square feet of the building’s leasable space, satisfying the estimated five-year needs of those programs. The remainder of the space will be leased to the building’s current occupants. The move will allow these growing programs to further expand while opening more classroom space for undergraduate and graduate programs on the University’s Woodland Road campus.
“Chatham University remains firmly committed both to its role in the City and to its historic Woodland Road campus, and certain of our programs are best served by remaining in the City,” noted Dr. Barazzone. “Expansion to Chatham Eastside will allow us to accommodate our enrollment growth, which has quadrupled since 1994, while helping to preserve the beauty and special qualities of the Woodland Road campus that have captivated generations of students and community members alike. The Woodland Road campus has been our anchor for 139 years; it will continue to be so even as we pursue the many exciting opportunities that the Eden Hall Farm Campus and Chatham Eastside present.”
The University has also secured the purchase of the Haber Apartment Building at Fifth and Maryland avenues in Shadyside, across from Chatham’s apartment complexes on Fifth Avenue. The purchase of this ten-unit building, which will serve Chatham’s graduate students, follows the University’s summer 2007 acquisition of the Pelletreau Apartments, located at 5826 Fifth Avenue. “We have increased demand for both undergraduate and graduate housing,” Dr. Barazzone noted, “because our student population will be at an all-time high of 2,100 this fall and is expected to continue to grow in the future.”
Chatham University’s academic programs have special emphasis on public leadership and global perspectives. Chatham’s graduate programs, begun in 1994, include continuing education and certification programs and provide women and men with advanced education for professional careers. The University also includes Chatham College for Women, founded in 1869 and one of the oldest women’s colleges in the country. For more information call 800-837-1290 or visit www.chatham.edu.
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05/01/08
Chatham University establishes largest campus in Allegheny County with gift of 400-acre Eden Hall Farm, from Eden Hall Foundation
By Paul A. Kovach, Vice President for University Communications
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Pittsburgh, PA - (May 1, 2008) … Chatham University today accepted a gift unequaled in the institution’s 139-year history: the nearly 400-acre Eden Hall Farm in Richland Township, Pennsylvania from Eden Hall Foundation. The gift establishes the largest university campus in Allegheny County and enables Chatham to expand its academic and environmental programs for the University’s nearly 2,000 students and for the North Hills community at large.
“With the Eden Hall Foundation’s generous gift of the Eden Hall Farm, Chatham University will become one of the most unique university campuses in the country,” said Esther L. Barazzone, Ph.D., president of Chatham University. “Eden Hall Farm campus will be a living laboratory, where students will engage in a broad range of studies including programs aimed at improving the lives of women and addressing issues of environmental sustainability that will impact our lives,” she said.
At 388 acres, Eden Hall Farm is almost ten times the size of Chatham’s historic 39-acre Shadyside campus and was originally assembled by Sebastian Mueller, one of the first executives at the H.J. Heinz Company, who utilized the farm to benefit the working women of Pittsburgh. The gift and initial plans for Chatham’s new campus were announced this morning by George C. Greer, chairman and president of Eden Hall Foundation; Esther L. Barazzone, Ph.D., president of Chatham University; and S. Murray Rust III, chair of Chatham’s Board of Trustees, at Eden Hall Farm, north of Pittsburgh in the Pine Richland School District.
“Sebastian Mueller, with great foresight, created a retreat at his Richland Township summer home, Eden Hall Farm,” Mr. Greer said. “The Farm, following the direction of his will in 1938, became a place of respite and recreation for working women and a place to further their appreciation and enjoyment of the natural environment. Mr. Mueller directed that the scope of the Farm should broaden when the needs changed. Currently, the challenges of working women are often best met through educational opportunities. The Eden Hall Foundation is pleased that Mr. Mueller’s legacy will continue under the guidance of Chatham University, which has long shared his vision and devotion to enhance the lives of women through higher education.”
Chatham University has quadrupled its enrollment in recent years, increasing programs for young women and graduate students, enhancing its arboretum campus and launching online degree programs, and is recognized for its vibrant, innovative and highly involved approach to learning. The addition of Eden Hall Farm to its campus is, according to Dr. Barazzone, “an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue to realize our vision for the future of our school, our students and our campus.”
“This gift is a true ‘alignment of the stars’ for both Chatham University’s long-term growth and Eden Hall Farm’s mission,” Dr. Barazzone said. “Sebastian Mueller’s legacy of serving the working women of Pittsburgh and Chatham’s history of advancing the cause for women in western Pennsylvania and beyond are closely intertwined,” she said.
“As the alma mater of environmentalist Rachel Carson, we think that Eden Hall Farm will enable us to advance environmental education through specific additions to our curriculum,” Dr. Barazzone said. “Our undergraduate and graduate programs will play a key role in shaping our Eden Hall Farm offerings, both to our own students and to the North Hills community at large. The possibilities are almost endless and will enable us to establish a learning community unlike any other.”
About Sebastian Mueller and Eden Hall Farm
Sebastian Mueller (1860-1938) immigrated to Pittsburgh from his native Germany in 1884 at the age of 24 to work for his cousin Henry J. Heinz in his fledgling food processing operation. Mr. Mueller spent more than five decades working for what was then called “The House of Heinz.” He headed the company’s manufacturing operations, served on its board of directors and ran the organization during Mr. Heinz’ absence.
Mr. Mueller won the respect and gratitude of not only the company’s founder but also its legion of working women. He was generous in providing Heinz’ female employees with medical care and financial assistance – long before the existence of corporate health care plans or government programs. Having no heirs, Mr. Mueller willed his entire estate, including Eden Hall Farm, to serve as a vacation and respite destination for the working and retired women of the H.J. Heinz Company, as well as for women throughout the region.
The property – much of which is agricultural and forest land – includes the Mueller’s former home, a conference center with guest rooms and a dining facility, a barn and caretaker home, as well as several smaller structures.
About Chatham University
Chatham University now offers 23 masters level programs and four doctoral level programs, all applied degrees, for women and men. As Chatham College, the institution offered undergraduate degrees to women only until 1994, when it launched its first graduate program for women and men. Of Chatham’s 2,000 degree-seeking students, more than 800 are graduate students. Along with 440 full- and part-time faculty and staff, the University’s campus population was quickly outgrowing its landlocked 39-acre Shadyside campus, and so the addition of Eden Hall Farms provides a new opportunity for growth.
Chatham University offers undergraduate liberal arts degrees for women through Chatham College for Women, its historic residential women’s college. The College for Graduate Studies offers master’s- and doctoral-level programs for women and men; and the College for Continuing and Professional Studies provides online and hybrid degree programs, and community programs including the 52-year-old Summer Music and Arts Day Camp.
Founded in 1869 as Pennsylvania Female College and today housing one of the oldest women’s undergraduate colleges in the United States, Chatham also today celebrated its first year as a University, which was granted on April 24, 2007 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and announced on May 1. The Eden Hall Farm gift marks yet another remarkable milestone in almost 15 years of growth.
“Eden Hall Farm has served so many individuals since Sebastian Mueller began his first summer program for women in 1935. Because of Chatham University’s historic commitment to women and the environment, Sebastian Mueller’s legacy will live on to serve even more than he could have imagined,” Mr. Greer said. “Today we witness the evolution of one man’s dream into what I believe will become a unique learning community for people from around the world.”
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