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Discuss “Not just a T-shirt shop”

It’s a vast studio space on the North Side, walls plastered with ads, posters, and various artwork. It’s not quite a gallery — more of a gallery/studio/print shop. The ever-expanding Artist Image Resource (AIR) was founded on a new approach to contemporary culture: the artist and the community.

It began as just an idea. “[We thought of] what kind of organizations didn’t exist in Pittsburgh that would facilitate creative work and help artists,” said Robert Beckman, AIR’s director. That was 1994, and print shops were sparse in the Pittsburgh area. So came the plan for a space with printmaking components, but not strictly print-making components.

AIR’s founders also wanted a way to share their own art, because, as Beckman admitted...

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