Meet Pages. Pages sits by the door of the Millvale Community Library, ready to great their customers. James Simon – sculptor, artist, musician, and patron of Pittsburgh Arts in general – created this book–balancing schnauzer. The library held a naming contest for their concrete guard dog, and Pages was selected.
The new library (the first library ever for Millvale) opened in 2013. It was an all volunteer project and has really taken off in the past couple of years. Much more than books, this small community library offers so much to this community with various programs and activities. In Jan 2016 they became accepted as members of the Allegheny County Library Association. Congratulations to them!
They’re inside the library and seem a bit out of our scope of outdoor public art for this project, however they were quite remarkable and worth stopping by to see. They depict images from the area including the street car that used to run to Millvale.
The door handles are another very cool artistic addition to the library. These creations were also custom made for the library by Red Star Iron Works and they turned out beautifully!
Of course we can't ignore the bike rack installed out front, another of Red Star Iron Works creations. How cool is this?
For information on the library and it's programs, see their website or their Facebook page.