Join us for our first exhibition in our 50th year celebration in 2025, A Sweet Retrospective.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 17 from 5-8 p.m., free and open to the public, refreshments provided. Please register for free tickets online.

Sweetwater’s 50 Year Retrospective will showcase Sweetwater’s graphic design, artwork, posters, and flyers that have been used to promote Sweetwater events and exhibitions throughout the years. This exhibition highlights Sweetwater’s accomplishments within the past 50 years of our existence.

We will also be celebrating the kick off of our brand new, Oliver Family Lobby and Gallery, which will serve as an exhibition space for mini solo exhibitions for artists. We are pleased to have Anna Singer showcase as our first artist of the year! Anna’s work will be on display from January 17th – March 7th.

We are pleased to have Anna exhibit with us, as Anna is a descendant of Sweetwater founding patrons, Mr. and Mrs. Harton Singer III.

About Anna Singer

Opera Singer/Music Curator/Painter in Oil – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Having been attracted at an early age to the visual and aural magic of on-stage musical productions, Anna Singer dreamed of becoming an opera singer. Through studies at Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University and supplemental instruction and coaching in New York City, Ms. Singer’s dreams were realized in decades of performance at opera houses in Europe and the United States, where she displayed her vocal and dramatic talents in the lead roles of Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Aida, Salome, Die Walkure, Susanna, and others. These productions allied Ms. Singer with skilled professionals in lighting, costume and stage design and provided her a strong grounding in the dynamic interplay of composition, color, light and shadow. Returning from New York City to her home town of Pittsburgh, Ms. Singer added another chapter to her artistic portfolio when she joined the staff of the celebrated classical music radio station, WQED FM, where she has been an on-air host and music programmer for over twenty years.

While interested in visual art from an early age, Ms. Singer’s latent interest was activated in 2009 when a friend and fellow artist literally enabled her to “try her hand”. Since that introduction, Ms. Singer has been guided by her inner muse in developing her own voice in painting, receiving guidance from numerous treatises, on-line courses and support networks, and in-person study with accomplished artists across the United States. It has been a journey of constant exploration, trial, error and course adjustment that has brought her to her current artistic waypoint and she looks forward to continued discovery.