{"id":191568,"date":"2026-05-13T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191568\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:58:07","slug":"city-of-pittsburgh-introduces-new-market-style-event-highlighting-local-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191568\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Pittsburgh introduces new market-style event highlighting local art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The City of Pittsburgh is holding a new market-style event designed to highlight local artists and their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Department of Parks and Recreation is hosting \u201cArt on Braddock\u201d on Saturday. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Local artists will have vendor booths set up at the corner of Forbes and Braddock Avenues in the area of Frick Park and Regent Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThis event will celebrate Pittsburgh through creativity and community,\u201d CitiParks Director Eric Sloan said. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to bring to life a new and vibrant space where we can uplift local artists, makers and growers, connecting them with both their neighbors and financial opportunity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers said the artists will be showcasing their creativity with a wide variety of offerings, including painted acrylic and watercolor pieces, woodworks and handmade body care products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Treats will also be available, with sweet and savory foods and beverages being offered at some booths, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Gianna Rockoff will play live music at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials said the Allegheny Regional Asset District helped bring the event to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The City of Pittsburgh is holding a new market-style event designed to highlight local artists and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6889,85307,85305,85308,85315,85316,85313,85314,85309,85311,73,85310,85306,85317,13091,85312,75,74],"class_list":["post-191568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-art","tag-art-event-pittsburgh","tag-art-in-pittsburgh","tag-art-market-pittsburgh","tag-art-on-broadway","tag-art-on-broadway-pittsburgh","tag-arts-on-broadway","tag-arts-on-broadway-pittsburgh","tag-buy-art-in-pittsburgh","tag-eric-sloan","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-area-artists","tag-pittsburgh-art-event","tag-pittsburgh-art-on-broadway","tag-pittsburgh-artists","tag-pittsburgh-citiparks","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}