InDesign to PDF. Images: photography during Covid-19/Sunflower- the state flower of Ukraine; Apple emoji; lithographic prints– pages purchased at Caliban Books/Pittsburgh; design and writing—by Dale McNutt—extracts from book SCRAPS/Poetic Prose During the Time of Contagion–V-02. Language and impactful image in service of poetry / typography. Fonts: Sagittarius and Ringside Compressed– Hoefler&Co. / FF Kievit Serif– FontFont, by Mike Abbink and Paul van der Laan.
About the Artist
Dale McNutt grew up in Western Pennsylvania and recently resided in Uptown—a transitional urban neighborhood perched on the Bluff—high above the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lived and worked with his wife Jeanne, former director of our community redevelopment group, Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh. They surrounded themselves with 100-plus youthful change-makers; journalists, designers, entrepreneurs, maker-fabricators, and those who simply co-work—in a 13,000-sf. renovated site that was both studio and home. One of six neighborhoods of Pittsburgh’s Greater Hill District; gunshot was not uncommon at 3:00am across 5th Avenue on DeRaud Street when they took up residence in 2007.
Starting his own business in 1983, lastly named Soho and Company Inc.—National clients like M&M Mars and regional, like Carnegie Museum of Art, provided 36 years of successful communication-making with a staff of nine. McNutt founded nonprofit StartUptown in 2007—it was Pittsburgh’s first entrepreneurial coworking space and home to its first makerspace, HackPGH in 2008—now branded as 5thAVE Studio. He was a stakeholder and participant in the Uptown Ecoinnovation District planning process, and a member of the CCIP Executive Management team for the Lower Hill 28-acre development. He now resides in Arrowsic, Maine.
