Video Screens, Pittsburgh

Video Screen, Creative and Performing Arts High School, Pittsburgh
Originally uploaded by rllayman

(More on digital billboards and citizen media and promoting arts and culture.)

The top photo is a shot of the Video Screen at the Creative and Performing Arts High School, Pittsburgh, which is adjacent to the Convention Center.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust--the owner and operator of many cultural assets in Downtown--has a video screen mounted on one of its buildings. It uses this screen for promotional messages, mostly for its own projects, but also for general Pittsburgh tourism and promotional efforts. Below is a photo from the website of the actor Charles Shaughnessy. The video on the screen is from his performance in "My Fair Lady," at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera in 2003.



The Verizon Center video screen is located in the heart of the developing Downtown Arts District and its spine on 7th Street NW. Along just 7th Street NW, we have the Goethe Institut, Carnegie Building housing the Historical Society of Washington and a developing music museum, art galleries, Lansburgh Theater, Harman Theater, Smithsonian Reynolds Center holding the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, and the Clara Barton National Historic Site, among others..

Certainly it would be appropriate for the Verizon Center video screen to be used to promote arts and cultural activities in this area.