Creating Space for Virgil Cantini in Pittsburgh
Holden Slattery2021-02-12T11:49:30-05:00January 22, 2021| Cantini, who was a vital part of Pittsburgh’s public art scene in the twentieth century, believed art should be free and available to everyone By Holden Slattery In 1930, eleven-year-old Virgil Cantini was struggling to adjust to his new life as an immigrant in Weirton, West Virginia. He’d recently moved from a sunny Italian village to a smoky American steel town. His father and oldest brother had already been in America for years, w...
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