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On May 23rd, a local station here in Pittsburgh, KDKA featured the shop owners of love, Pittsburgh, Kelly & Monica, on their morning show Pittsburgh Today Live to promote their new store opening at 805 Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. I knew they would be on the show and was looking forward to watching, but I didn’t know they had some of my work included in the products they were showing and least of all that they’d mention me by name or that the host, Heather Abraham would pick up my One PPG Place illustration and show it to the...

Tomorrow night is the Imani Christian Academy Annual Gala event at the Westin Hotel in Downtown Pittsburgh. I donated a print of my Duquesne Incline illustration for inclusion in an "I Love Pittsburgh" package up for auction. This is a wonderful event and helps to raise funds to provide financial aid to the at-risk, inner-city children of the Pittsburgh area who attend the Imani Christian Academy.

Probably the most recognizable piece of architecture in my hometown of New Kensington is the art deco style building built for Alcoa on Freeport Road.

On Wednesday, January 31st I stopped by the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation to drop off the shipment of prints I did for them of the Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania Railroad Station. I had the pleasure of meeting with Marlee, Kevin and Sophia who were very excited to receive the prints. I was contacted in December by Marlee about designing an illustration of the Railroad Station, which the WCDC is currently working on a restoration project of the 1916 train station. They are going to be gifting large and small prints to their donors on the project. If you are affiliated with a...

As my first blog post here on the newly redone Buildings By Shane website, I wanted to revisit the very first design that I created: the Hilltop Hose Company No. 3 fire station in New Kensington.