{"id":5211,"date":"2013-04-06T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2013-04-06T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:33:48","slug":"also-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5211","title":{"rendered":"Also in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my third day with ceramicist <a title=\"Yoko's website\" href=\"http:\/\/yokosekinobove.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yoko Sekino Bov\u00e9<\/a>, and we were joined for the second part by her partner <a title=\"Jim's Cal U page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calu.edu\/academics\/faculty\/james-bove.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bov\u00e9<\/a>, lecturer in jewelry\/metals at California University of Pennsylvania. Yoko took me out to breakfast before letting me tour around the <a title=\"Mellon Hall of Science via Gallinsky\" href=\"http:\/\/www.galinsky.com\/buildings\/mellon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mellon Hall of Science<\/a> at the downtown Duquesne University, which is a building by my home-boy Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. I was rapt to spend some time in and around the space, only the second Mies building I&#8217;ve managed to see so far. There&#8217;s a few more in the states, so with any luck I&#8217;ll be getting around some more of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=5214\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5214\" alt=\"Mellon Building Stairwell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Stairwell-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Stairwell-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Stairwell-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Stairwell-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Stairwell.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=5215\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5215\" alt=\"Mellon Building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=5216\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5216\" alt=\"Mellon Building Corner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Corner1.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Corner1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Corner1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=5217\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5217\" alt=\"Mellon Building Date\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Date1.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Date1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mellon-Building-Date1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fan-girl time over, I was then whisked to Cal U by Yoko to present a talk on my work to Jim&#8217;s metal\/3D design students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5219\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=5219\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5219\" alt=\"In full flight post lecture, discussing some of the works I brought along to show.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Melissa-at-Calu-600x385.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Melissa-at-Calu-600x385.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Melissa-at-Calu-440x282.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Melissa-at-Calu-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Melissa-at-Calu.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In full flight post lecture, discussing some of the works I brought along to show the students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=5218\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5218\" alt=\"Jim and Melissa pose with the students in the jewellery rooms at Cal U\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Jim-Melissa-Cal-U-600x450.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Jim-Melissa-Cal-U-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Jim-Melissa-Cal-U-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Jim-Melissa-Cal-U-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2013\/04\/d-Jim-Melissa-Cal-U.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that and a quick tour of the university we were back into Pittsburgh for some other commitments, which somehow resulted in an informal night tour of Carnegie Mellon University&#8217;s public art collection. Being a wealthy institution with a large campus they of course boast some interesting pieces of public art, and architecture. But no Mies buildings&#8230; Here we also caught up with <a title=\"Sharon's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonmasseymetalsmith.com\/sm_site\/sharonmasseymetalsmith\/Sharon%20Massey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Massey<\/a> and <a title=\"Adrienne's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennemgrafton.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrienne Grafton<\/a>, and with them leading the charge we headed in to Lawrenceville for drinks and finally some dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my third day with ceramicist Yoko Sekino Bov\u00e9, and we were joined for the second part by her partner Jim Bov\u00e9, lecturer in jewelry\/metals at California University of Pennsylvania. Yoko took me out to breakfast before letting me tour around the Mellon Hall of Science at the downtown Duquesne University, which is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,107,88,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-jewellery","category-lecture","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}