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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hand embroidered installation speaks to environmental and social issues of PA.
Contemporary Craft’s BNY Mellon Satellite Gallery features Vantage Point exhibition.
PITTSBURGH, PA – October 9, 2017 – Vantage Point, a 288-square foot hand stitched installation byembroidery artist, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, will be on view at Contemporary Craft’s (CC) BNY Mellon
Satellite Gallery located in the Lobby of the Steel Plaza T-Station at Oliver Street and Grant Street indowntown Pittsburgh. Vantage Point will be from October 6, 2017 to February 4, 2018.
The concept for Vantage Point was initially developed in April 2014 when Hiltner was selected to create
an installation for the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s Dr. Ruth Tan Lim Project Room, her largest
project to date. Hiltner began by designing an idealized landscape of a big blue sky, green grass, andpuffy white clouds. Upon researching ways of depicting cloud forms she began to think about clouds aswater vapor and then water vapor as greenhouse gas. Other clouds such as volcanic plumes, mushroom
clouds, and emissions from factories drew Hiltner’s interest as well.
Hiltner’s previous work centered on intimate figurative narratives, Dick and Jane styled kids in semiautobiographical scenes from her childhood. Being raised in Pennsylvania-the land of steel, coal, andindustrial waste, has had a profound influence on her work. Hiltner grew up in a ten-mile evacuation
radius of Limerick Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in Pottstown, PA, where she and her friends
would sometimes swim in the bathtub warm water downstream from the plant. On Thanksgiving trips toher Grandma’s her father would make short detours through Centralia to check on the progress of theunderground coal fire that had been burning there since 1962. She began to stitch these natural andmanmade disasters into her work, which details a world that she believes is still beautiful yet
significantly impacted by human consumption and the prevalence of waste.
Before its debut in Pittsburgh, Vantage Point was featured at museums, the Mesa Contemporary Arts
Museum in Mesa, AZ, the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, MT and the Lawrence Arts Center inLawrence, KS. After showing it at CC’s BNY Mellon Satellite Gallery, Vantage Point will travel to San Jose
Museum of Quilts and Textiles in San Jose, CA and the Holter Museum in Helena, MT, where it will
include another 120 square feet of additional embroidery panels on recent environmental disasters.
For more information about Vantage Point, please contact Contemporary Craft’s Marketing Manager
Stephanie Sun at ssun@contemporarycraft.org.

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General operating support for Contemporary Craft is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District,the Elizabeth R. Raphael Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and thePennsylvania Council on the Arts.
ABOUT CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
Presenting contemporary art in craft media by regional, national, and international artists since 1971, CCoffers cutting edge exhibitions focusing on multicultural diversity and non-mainstream art, as well as arange of studio workshops, community outreach programs, and a retail store. Through its mission ofengaging the public in creative experiences through contemporary craft, CC offers meaningful art
opportunities for 145,000 people a year through four core values: providing vital support for artists,filling critical gaps in public education; sharing cross cultural perspectives; and using art to buildcommunity.
CC is located at 2100 Smallman Street in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, PA. Hours are Monday throughSaturday, 10 AM to 5 PM. Exhibition and informal, hands-on art activities in the Drop-In Studio arealways free to the public. Contemporary Craft is committed to making its exhibitions, programs, andservices accessible to the public. For questions related to accessible accommodations, please contact us.
For more information, visit http://www.contemporarycraft.org or call 412.261.7003.
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