New book showcases Pittsburgh’s visual arts avant-garde

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New book showcases Pittsburgh’s visual arts avant-garde

Among the visual artists of their time, Pittsburghers like Mary Cassatt, John Kane, Selma Burke and Andy Warhol stood out as avant-garde innovators shaking up the aesthetic establishment with exciting new ways to perceive and portray the world.Are there similar groundbreaking, norm-shattering influencers shaping Pittsburgh’s art scene today?Ask Sheila Ali, founder of Garfield’s Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, and she’ll point you to her new…