Event

Walldogs

*Please note that online ticket sales close on Noon the day of the performance. This does not mean that we are sold out, at we have reserved some seats for door sales. If any of this changes, we'll post about it on Facebook!*

Hatch Arts Collective premieres Walldogs, a new play and art-making event at Artists Image Resource on Pittsburgh's North Side. It weaves together four stories that explore what it means to mark a wall with text and image. A 1930's wall sign painter, or "walldog," buys advertising space on a rural woman's home. Two teens tag an abandoned wall. A hipster street artist gets a lesson in economics. And, as in the biblical account, a drunken King Belshazzar seeks the meaning of the writing on the wall from Daniel. Saturated with sharp humor and coded references, Walldogs probes a simple action that humans have performed since we learned to draw. Walldogs stars Mallory Fuccella and Parag S. Gohel, and features art-making events led by Katie Kaplan and Saric Feng, two Pittsburgh-based visual artists.

Hatch Arts Collective, founded in June 2013 by Paul Kruse, Adil Mansoor, and Nicole Shero, gathers interdisciplinary artist communities to create performance and media-based work. We believe that meaningful, human interaction mediated by an arts experience can be transformative for individuals and communities. Hatch's previous work includes Chickens, which premiered to sold-out audiences at Lawrenceville's former Fe Gallery. www.hatcharts.org