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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Education and Community Engagement Department is pleased to exhibit the work of artist Lee Renninger in the show "Threaded Line," which uses couture to explore concepts of personal and political, as well as ethnic and group, identity. A preview will be held on Thursday, June 4, with a Cake, Couture & Chardonnay reception, from 4:30-8 p.m. at The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's gallery at 709 Penn Avenue. The reception will also include trunk shows by two nationally-known designers: Earth & Alchemy Jewelry by Richelle Wilson and Susan Farber Handbags.

Lee Renninger explores the use of clay as fabric. She writes, "Ceramic material is inherently dense and inflexible--qualities that have historically recommended it for utility......

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