Fest includes more than 80 events and exhibits around town, and an international component.<\/p>\n
Making art out of old stuff is nothing new. In Pittsburgh, the practice had a heyday in the 1990s, not least due to the Industrial Arts Co-op, which repurposed the copious tailings of vanished local industry and commerce \u2014 from scrap steel to old billboards \u2014 into public, often guerrilla-style, artworks.<\/p>\n
Direct legacies of the IAC include \u201cThe Workers,\u201d the large-scale 2012 commissioned sculpture in South Side Riverfront Park, and the giant deer head at Rankin\u2019s historic Carrie Furnaces (completed surreptitiously with materials found on site, now embraced as iconic). Indirect legacies include the work of Bill Miller, an IAC associate who back around 1994 was out scavenging for materials when he ran across some old linoleum. Its pattern impressed him……<\/p>\n