In the Field: Fabrication

The second In the Field session will be held at Shiftworks' offices in East Liberty. Artist Tim Engelhardt will be joined by arts administrator and public art consultant Morton Brown to discuss the various elements and players that make a mural project possible. Brown and Engelhardt will also cover the various materials and approaches to mural making. This session is appropriate for artists, art administrators, and those interested in commissioning an artist for a mural project.

Meeting Location

Participants will enter the building using the main entrance next to Redstart Roasters. A Shiftworks representative will greet you in the lobby and escort you to the second floor where the presentation will take place.

Parking and Transportation

Free public parking is available in the parking lot for the Detective Building and paid street parking is available within the vicinity. If taking public transporation, there is a Pittsburgh Regional Transit stop at Penn Avenue and Euclid Avenue that serves routes 71C, 77, and 88. For more information, please visit the Pittsburgh Regional Transit website at: https://www.rideprt.org/.

Photography, Videography, and Other Documentation

Participants should be aware that photography, videorecording, and/or other documentation of the event by Shiftworks, other attendees, or the media may take place during the event. Participants will have an opportunity to indicate if they choose to opt out of being included in event documentation, and our team will make reasonable efforts to accommodate these preferences.

About In the Field

Now in its second year, In the Field takes participants through the artist's proecess, from an artist's perspective. From research and design ideation, to working with fabricators and implementation of the artwork, In the Field breaks down the public art process so that artists and the general public gain insight into how an artwork becomes a part of the public realm.

This year, artist Tim Engelhardt will lead the series, presenting the artistic process and resulting large mixed-media mural Above Stage, commissioned by Pittsburgh CLO for the entryway to their campus on CLO Way in downtown Pittsburgh. Each session of In the Field will be on-site at a different location significant to the project and will highlight a different step in Engelhardt's process of creating the artwork.

About Tim Engelhardt

Tim Engelhardt is a visual artist residing in Pittsburgh, PA. Throughout the past eight years, Tim has worked with businesses, communities, nonprofits, and residences to create a wide range of work that meets the creative goals of each client. Over the course of the past several years, Tim’s career in art has blossomed, taking him to Las Vegas, Reno, and Virginia Beach to create murals for local businesses, a project with the URA in Arnold, PA, a 6,000 sq. ft. mural for the Davis Companies at their apartment building Terminal 21 in Pittsburgh, a painted pathway for UPMC Children’s hospital and most recently, overseeing the installation of murals at Kennywood amusement park. Tim’s ability to diversify his styles has given him a wide window of opportunities and he has seized upon them to great success. In addition to his public artwork and murals, Tim maintains a home studio as well as space in Radiant Hall in Homewood where he is developing a body of abstract works.

About Morton Brown

Morton Brown is an artist, teacher, and public art consultant operating in Pittsburgh, PA. His professional areas of expertise include managing conservation of outdoor works of art; managing and creating new commissions of public art; artist selection and fabrication; and facilitating collaborative art-making processes with artists, architects, community and commissioning agents. Morton is also a part- time faculty member of Robert Morris University, teaching history of visual communications, foundation drawing, and 2D and 3D design courses since 2020.

Originally from Arkansas, Morton completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Central Arkansas in 1996. He earned his MFA in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, while working as a mural artist with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program - completing two murals before moving to Pittsburgh in 2001. From 2003 to 2007, he helped create and administer the Sprout Public Art Program, a program of the nonprofit Sprout Fund, in which local artists were hired to paint 35 community murals throughout the region.

From 2009-2015, he served as the Public Art Manager of the City of Pittsburgh. In this role, he was the staff of the City’s Art Commission, which included management of proposals for all new permanent structures on City property, conservation and relocation of existing monuments and artworks, and the creation of new permanent and temporary works of art on City property.

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