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Alive
The Greensburg Art Center brings unique opportunities to cultivate creativity to Greensburg and surrounding communities.
By Nicole Tafe
Pottery Instructor Ben Eisaman.
For years, a small group of dedicated artists has been keeping art alive in the Greensburg area. The Greensburg Art Club brings the Greensburg Art Center( GAC) and all of its enrichment to the community year round.
The original Greensburg Art Club was a local painting group that began in 1929, under the leadership of Alex Fletcher. At that time, the club was called the Kinderhook Group. In 1952, they became the Greensburg Art Club.
The club purchased Todd Schoolhouse from Hempfield School District in 1955, resulting in one of the few art centers owned by an independent arts organization nationwide. The Greensburg Art Center is located in the Hempfield School District on Todd School Road, but reaches beyond those boundaries to all of Westmoreland County, Fayette County, Indiana County and even into the greater Pittsburgh area, according to club president Renie Pollock.
“ The Greensburg Art Center boasts a permanent collection of many of our former members, teachers and students with some very notable names including Henry Koerner who was the main illustrator for nearly every Time magazine cover for more than 40 years,” says Pollock.
The exterior grounds feature a growing“ garden” of large-scale sculptures highlighted by an immense sculpture— originally located at the former Greengate Mall— by international recognized Virgil Cantini. Additionally, many well respected area professors and awardwinning artists at the national and international level have taught at the center and are represented throughout the collections as well.
A lending library of art books is used by students and visitors alike, while the center’ s classrooms, studios, full kitchen and gallery are rented by outside groups and individuals alike, for meetings, parties, showers and even weddings. The facilities serve homeschoolers, scout groups, 4H, IDD( Intellectual and Developmental Disabled) persons and nursing home residents.
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