(1) Nine Mile Run Viewfinder design rendering, 2021, photos by artist and Clear Story, image courtesy artist (2, 3, 5, 12, 14) Nine Mile Run Viewfinder by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, 2021, photo courtesy Lindsay Dill (4, 6, 7, 10, 13) Nine Mile Run Viewfinder by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, 2021, photo courtesy OPA (8) “Viewfinder: Before the stream was made underground/ Culvert under Hamilton Avenue, looking south with Nine Mile Run, September 28, 1911,” original photo by Pittsburgh City Photographer, image courtesy artist (9) Artist-led tour of Nine Mile Run Viewfinder during Sacred Spaces Event on September 11, 2021, photo by Nica Ross, image courtesy artist (11) “Viewfinder: Before the stream was made underground/ Workers line the completed sides of the Nine Mile Run trench with liner plate, May 21, 1931,” original photo by Pittsburgh City Photographer, image courtesy artist. Nine Mile Run Viewfinder advocates for continued human awareness and intervention to our stream’s health, as well as a shared responsibility for our role in ensuring the health of a much larger ecosystem of waterways. Along its length, the health of the Run and the ecologies that surround it have been endangered by combined sewage overflow, inadequate drainage, and dumping of industrial and chemical pollutants.īy providing three points of connection along the largely-unseen underground stream, the artwork builds awareness of our subterranean reality and draws connections between rainfall, sewage overflow, and the proximity to our watershed’s source. Purchases made through the links below may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. Updated OctoRecommendations are independently chosen by Revieweds editors. It then finally empties into the Monongahela River, one of Pittsburgh’s three major waterways. Give it a test run with the Mark II Artists Viewfinder. The water then runs south through Wilkinsburg and flows out as a stream that runs through Frick Park for two miles.

Its headwaters begin north of Wilkinsburg and enter the Borough in an underground culvert, ranging from 8’ to 30’ below ground. Building on their work as well as that of her Wilkinsburg-based partner organizations – Center for Civic Arts and UpstreamPgh – Brooks Takahashi undertook extensive research into the waterway. Amazons Choice in Decorative Mobiles by The Color Wheel Company. Brooks Takahashi was inspired by the work of artists Bob Bingham, Reiko Goto and Tim Collins at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, whose efforts led to the establishment of Nine Mile Run Watershed Association (now UpstreamPgh) in the early 2000s. The Color Wheel Company 7002 View Catcher, 1pack, Multicolor.

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