Brian Crawford-Content Creator

05/06/2024

I'm thrilled to say that The New Pittsburgh Exposition is a sponsor of the Mattress Factory - Museum of Contemporary Art's Garden Party: Make/Believe this Friday!

We're thrilled to be a sponsor of the Factory - Museum of Contemporary Art's Garden Party: Make/Believe this Friday evening!

The Mattress Factory invites you to ditch the mask you wear every day and step into a spotlight on the characters, caricatures, and creatures that make us believe in make believe at the Garden Party: Make Believe, June 7th.

You can find the link right on our events page and in the comments.

28/05/2024

My thank you letter to the businesses and officials who lit PA teal!

Pittsburgh’s business community made an impact. Seeing these buildings light up gave people hope, helped people feel seen, made people feel accepted. One person posted on Facebook, “This is AMAZING!!!! Maybe next year we can get Philly and other cities/towns to do this. This brings tears to my e...

20/05/2024

I had a great time talking with Russ Beckett about the PA Tourette Syndrome Alliance Light your town Teal! campaign and how The Stone Bridge in Johnstown will be lighting up to help spread awareness for Tourette Syndrome!

On Tuesday, May 21st, The Stone Bridge in Johnstown will be lit up in teal for Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. We found out more about Tourette’s and how it effects so many from Brian Crawford. Mr. Crawford is a volunteer with the PA ...

20/05/2024

Check out this cool POV video I created of the Butler Street Art District at the Millvale Music Festival!

17/04/2024

Fort Ligonier recently held a symposium on the Seven Years’ War which started right here in Southwestern Pennsylvania! Read more to see how it went and stop by Fort Ligonier and check out their museum and historic site!

Four presenters took what many of us know of as a regional conflict which we call the “French and Indian War” involving the British and French Empires, as well as several indigenous nations and confederacies, and opened our eyes to a wider world conflict.

25/03/2024

Check out this cool picture of the Pittsburgh Exposition building from a 1914 Pittsburgh Press article.

Click the link to read a cool letter from the old exposition to the new.

"Dear PGH Museums,

Congratulations on your name change and becoming the New Pittsburgh Exposition!"

Enjoy this fictional rendition of a letter penned to The New Pittsburgh Exposition from the original Pittsburgh Exposition of the late 1800s/early 1900s which comes from the creative mind of Victoria Sterling!

https://thenewpittsburghexposition.org/blog/dearpghmuseums

29/02/2024

I'm thrilled to announce that PGH Museums has undergone a transformation and is now The New Pittsburgh Exposition!

The rebranding carries on our traditions of promoting our region's culture, the new website gives it a fresh look, while also paying tribute to our past.

Please check it out and let me know what you think!

We'd like to reintroduce ourselves. PGH Museums is now The New Pittsburgh Exposition. Inspired by the Pittsburgh expositions of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, these large events brought in exhibits from all across the country and attracted people from all over our region. It was like Pittsburgh’s own local version of an annual world’s fair. The expositions were held in a large hall where Point State Park is located today along the Allegheny River. These events had a wide reach with advertisements landing in papers across the region, even reaching into Ohio, and would bring in as many as ten thousand people a day to see the show.

Exposition Hall served many purposes after the days of the expositions. At different stages the building served as a music hall, a hockey arena, and eventually as a machine shop and garage for the city. The building was demolished in 1951 for the development of Point State Park. We hope to keep the history and spirit of the former Exposition Hall and the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society (commonly called Pittsburgh Exposition) alive in our own way by adopting the name and continuing to share our regions art, museums, culture, exhibitions, and other events through our own modern digital channels (and beyond) today.

If you're wondering, our logo is a recreation of an old newspaper advertisement for the expo!

Check out our site, thenewpittsburghexposition.org and we hope you enjoy our fresh new look :)

Thanks to board member Veronica Jancuk for the leading the rebrand as well as designing and rebuilding the new site. 🖤

28/11/2023

Please consider donating to PGH Museums through Pittsburgh Magazine's Give Big Pittsburgh nonprofit fundraising drive!

Your donation will help us as we rebrand, update our website, and make changes to provide greater service to you!

You can donate here: https://www.givebigpittsburgh.com/donate?campaign_id=185980

20/10/2023

There is a great exhibit featuring the work and life of Maxo Vanka, an incredible artist who painted stunning murals in St Nicholas Church in Millvale at Rivers of Steel in Homestead.

Here’s my fantastic conversation with the exhibit curator Steffe Domike and Anna Doering, the director of the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka.

Please give it a listen and let me know what you think!

Maxo Vanka (1889 – 1963), a Croatian immigrant and renowned artist has created his “Gift to America” to the Pittsburgh region, an entire sanctuary, the Saint Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale, covered in dynamic murals depicting powerful messages of workers’ struggle, war, capita...

13/09/2023

Meet the people who take you into some of Pittsburgh’s most beautiful buildings with a collection of neighborhood events, boat tours and more!

This podcast was fun to record because I love talking about Pittsburgh culture, history, and architecture! Hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording.

https://pghmuseums.org/bloglibrary/benebby-2ndedition-the-new-pittsburgh-exposition-podcast

This month's The New Pittsburgh Exposition Podcast edition is out!

DOORS OPEN Pittsburgh has seen more than 22 thousand people attend their many events of neighborhood, destination, and boat tours, throughout the city of Pittsburgh, since its inception in 2016. Bonnie Baxter, Doors Open’s founder, had no previous event planning experience, so how was she able to achieve such success, and how does she keep bringing people back for more?

We talk to Bonnie to find out, and we talk to Doors Open Pittsburgh tour guide Todd Wilson, and Doors Open volunteer Christine Montgomery to find out how Bonnie’s vision and work created opportunities for them to live their passions. Discover how passions collide on this edition of The New Pittsburgh Exposition.

The next boat tour is Saturday September 16th and the next neighborhood event, in Pittsburgh’s South Side, will be on September 23rd.

https://pghmuseums.org/bloglibrary/benebby-2ndedition-the-new-pittsburgh-exposition-podcast

07/08/2023

I am beyond thrilled to release with you my latest podcast in its first edition! I feel this may be the best podcast production I've put together so I hope you give it a listen and I hope you enjoy it. It has some cool retro radio sounding bits which was fun to create.

Everyone knows the famous, award winning, movie star, Jimmy Stewart. Did you know his sister was an accomplished artist? This month we explore the art and life of Mary Stewart Perry.

For the first time, a comprehensive selection of her work is on display and it's right in Indiana, PA, at The Jimmy Stewart Museum. We talk to her son David Perry, and Janie McKirgan, executive director of The Jimmy Stewart Museum.

Welcome to the very first edition of The New Pittsburgh Exposition! Everyone knows the famous, award winning, movie star, Jimmy Stewart. Did you know his sister was an accomplished artist? This month we explore the art and life of Mary Stewart Perry. For the first time, a comprehensive selection

17/05/2023

Check this out!

Pittsburgh, PA, lit up TEAL yesterday on the first of Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month!

A whopping five buildings displayed their support for Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders awareness. The TAA is incredibly grateful for these acknowledgements from the Gulf Tower, Fifth Avenue Place, Koppers Building, 20 Stanwix, and the One Oxford Center.

We're so proud to be a part of a community that pushes forward initiatives like this to spread the word about TS and Tic Disorders. Stay tuned for more Awareness Month activities coming soon and find more ways you can help spread awareness at tourette.org/awareness.

16/05/2023

I’m on AwesomeCast tonight!

30/08/2022

Get to know artist Bob Freyer and learn about an upcoming beer release which features his art in my newest piece!

“Yes I do [skateboard] but it is important for me to say that I am not good” artist Bob Freyer told me when I asked him if he was a skater after a skate deck show at .5 gallery. That’s okay that he’s not a particularly good skater because he’s really good at making bad ass skate deck desig...

29/08/2022

Super exciting to be bringing this program, interviewing local artists, back!!!

I’m working behind the scenes!

26/08/2022

Check out the top news this week at PGH Museums! It includes my story about Bob Freyer's skate deck show and upcoming beer release!

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Check out this week's top stories in our newsletter!
1. Artist Bob Freyer releases new IPA, exhibits skate decks.
2. History of Carnegie International in video.
3. Drake Well Museum to host annual fall "Gas Up"

All these stories are in this week's newsletter: https://pghmuseums.org/reviews/l50a5ncj7ypce03gsr7thm5gn8ufta

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19/08/2022

I AM THE RETAIL ANTI-HERO!

Check out this super cool podcast, ‘The Patronarchy’ where I tell stories where I go toe to toe with jerk customers and teach them an important lesson: the customer is RARELY right.

Thanks so much to Vincent Anthony Didiano for inviting me into this very cool show.

Brian Crawford tells me off all the worst customers he has dealt with and how he didn't back down to any of them.SOCIAL MEDIAFacbook: https://www.facebook.co...

11/07/2022

I was invited to this but couldn’t make it. Sounds like I should have rescheduled my things. Looking forward to seeing the next one!

The music was sublime, a mix of classical, jazz, and some styles I’m not even sure have names. All of it brilliant. None of it too heady to enjoy. If you weren’t there, you missed something special.

06/06/2022

Check out my latest piece on the Millvale murals of Maxo Vanka! this is a must read and a place you MUST visit!

133 years young, the painter known for his murals at Millvale’s Saint Nicholas Croatian Church, Maxo Vanka is alive and well in 2022. He’s also hip to 2022 tech. Though he’s shed his earthly body, his soul can be felt through new works of art and his voice heard through the murals on the churc...

29/04/2022

I'm thrilled to welcome 4 new members to the PGH Museums Board of Directors! Click below to learn more about these all stars and how they plan to impact PGH Museums. I'm thrilled to welcome 4 new members to the PGH Museums Board of Directors! Click below to learn more about these all stars and how they plan to impact PGH Museums.

PGH Museums is excited to announce an expansion to its board of directors replacing departing board members Amanda Narcisi and Jeremy Lese and adding an additional two members. The expansion will increase the size of the board from a nine person body to eleven. The move was made to address specifi

29/04/2022

Read about my experience seeing the US Navy Band Sea Chanters ad Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum!

The powerful sound of the Battle Hymn of the Republic thundered through the majestic and commodious auditorium of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, as the US Navy Band Sea Chanters closed out their Pittsburgh performance on a nationwide tour.

21/04/2022

Thank you Amanda for all the work you have done in Pittsburgh!

Occasionally, when you are starting to launch a new project, you get one of those messages that lets you know, ‘hey, I’ve got a great idea’. Early 2019 Amanda Narcisi sent me one of those messages when she texted me that she was learned about a museum project I was working on and that she was ...

30/07/2021

Check out my conversation with Stephanie Dissen about living as an adult with Tourette Syndrome, growing up with Tourette Syndrome, and raising a child with Tourette Syndrome.

https://youtu.be/Xb1TkQ1MUQQ

This video captures Stephanie's experience as an adult with Tourette Syndrome. She speaks of of her diagnosis when she was a child, growing up with TS, relat...

11/05/2021

I’m excited to announce that I am working with the PA Tourette Syndrome Alliance to create an ongoing video series. The series will include information on advocacy and events, the science behind TS and how it works, medical practices used to treat TS, conversations between teens with TS, and 4 features of adults living with TS (that’s what I’ll be hosting and filming). I will be working with editing all of the features. The videos will come out twice a month.

In its inaugural video I speak with PATSA executive Sara Woolf about what PATSA is and does, and what to expect in upcoming videos. I hope you enjoy!

This video is a first is a series of videos and it covers a background of the PA Tourette Syndrome Alliance and the services they provide, as well as an intr...