HISTORIC PRESERVATION & ART: EXPLORING NEW VISION STUDIO

Thursday, October 10 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Energy Innovation Center 1435 Bedford Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15219
$30.00 per person
This tour is limited to 30 participants. Tickets will not be available after 11:30 p.m. on October 9.
Purchase a ticket on website: www.phlf.org
Join us for an evening of discussing art, historic preservation, and the reuse of industrial artifacts from Pittsburgh’s built environment as we tour artist Corey Bonnet’s New Vision studio housed in the Energy Innovation Center in the Hill District.
The evening will include a presentation by Bonnet, discussing his passion for painting historic and contemporary Pittsburgh scenes while utilizing salvaged materials from our city’s industrial past. Bonnet’s brilliantly illuminated 10,000-square-foot studio is located within the Energy Innovation Center which occupies the former Clifford B. Connelley Trade School building (Edward B. Lee; opened 1931). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the Connelley Trade School was thoughtfully rehabilitated to high preservation standards.
The center is an incubator for various types of entities doing research in sustainable energy and offers workforce training programs to support a green economy. Our organization controls a preservation easement on the building in which the old comfortably accommodates the new, and it is the perfect setting for Bonnet and his preservation-inspired work.
Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Parking is available directly next to the Energy Innovation Center.
Tour meeting point: Energy Innovation Center, 1435 Bedford Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. Enter through glass tower and take elevator to Main Lobby Level 1.
Tour ending point: Energy Innovation Center Lobby
Please arrive 15 minutes before start time in order to ensure that the tour gets underway on time. Dress for the weather (PHLF tours proceed rain or shine!), and wear comfortable shoes. By purchasing a ticket for this tour, you acknowledge that you are physically able to undertake the tour, assume all personal risk during the tour, consent to being photographed during the tour, and permit PHLF to use your image in our communications.
This tour is handicap accessible. Please notify us of your needs two business days in advance of the tour.