Fiasco Art Center sits close to the highest point in Pittsburgh. Ben and Noelle live in the art house while they continue to renovate Incarnation Academy Middle School into a community driven art space.
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Ben and Noelle Tolman, cofounders of Fiasco Art Center, pose for a portrait at their home in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
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Ben Tolman looks out of his frame shop window onto McKees Rocks on July 29, 2023. Ben and Noelle moved to Pittsburgh in 2019 from Washington DC to repurpose the former Incarnation Academy Middle School of 1954 into a community driven art center. -
Ben Tolman opens the door for his partner Noelle at their art center in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. The engraving above the entrance to the former middle school has been changed from ‘Nativity’ to ‘Creativity’. Just one of the many exciting renovations that the Tolmans have implemented at Fiasco Art Center. -
Urinals from the school have been repurposed into potted plants in the Tolman’s front yard. -
Ben and Noelle Tolman, cofounders of Fiasco Art Center, pose for a portrait in the front yard of their artist compound in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
Ben Tolman holds a peach that he picked from the front yard of Fiasco Art Center in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
Alex Goldstein, former owner of ‘The Fridge’ art gallery in Washington DC, stands in a future studio space inside of Fiasco Art Center on July 29, 2023. -
Valve handles and silverware have been repurposed into a flower boquet at Fiasco Art Center in Observatory Hill. -
Noelle and Ben Tolman prepare a ladder to climb on the roof of Fiasco Art Center on July 29, 2023. -
Noelle Tolman stands on the roof of Fiasco Art Center and looks out over Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
The Tolman’s home is full of mosaic art works like this one on their bathroom floor. -
Ben Tolman points to a mosaic scene that he completed recently on the patio of their art center on July 29, 2023. -
A scene from Fiasco Art Center run by Ben and Noelle Tolman in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
Ben and Noelle Tolman stand on the roof of Fiasco Art Center and look out over Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
The view from the rooftop of Ben and Noelle Tolman’s community art center in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
Ben Tolman holds a Pittsburgh banner made at Fiasco Art Center in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
A statue sits in a studio space of Fiasco Art Center in Observatory Hill on July 29, 2023. -
Ben and Noelle Tolman look out of the windows of the frame shop of Fiasco Art Center on July 29, 2023. -
Noelle and Ben Tolman sit on the patio of Fiasco Art Center on July 29, 2023.
