This is the greatest thing to happen to Pittsburgh since yinz beloved Stillers first took the field on September 20, 1933! The Penn Avenue Arts Initiative was created in 1998 as a joint strategy of Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation & Friendship Development Associates to support artists in the renovation of blighted, formerly vacant buildings & in turn create an artist niche along the Penn Avenue Cor
ridor, 4800-5500 Penn Avenue. Each month, Penn Avenue Arts Initiative hosts Unblurred: First Fridays on Penn, a monthly cultural happening where various galleries in the Penn Avenue Arts District open their doors and showcase a variety of artwork and performances across a wide range of mediums. Guests will experience new art and meet the most eclectic array of art makers, old and young, modern and classical, famous and amateur, emerging and veteran, all within walking distance of each other. The evening brings people of all backgrounds together to socialize, mingle and enjoy the art and entertainment around them. Unblurred is not your ordinary art walk. In the Penn Avenue Arts District, people not only get to enjoy art, they get to witness art being created first hand and speak to the artists who produced it.
