Posts Tagged ‘Oil City’

June 19

Art in Unexpected Places

By: Michael Dittman | No Comments

Last weekend, during Oil City’s Indie Fest, I ducked into the National Transit Building on the corner of Seneca and Center Streets. After making it to the top of the foyer’s marble steps and, I was looking at a mural stretching 708 square feet 30 feet above the floor.
The National Transit is an old oil [...]

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June 5

A Gusher of Art and Music in Oil City

By: Michael Dittman | 1 Comment

When I was a kid, my uncle and grandfather worked in Oil City at factories with names like Pennzoil and Quaker State. Today, the factories are gone and my friends who live there are filmmakers and musicians.
So, next weekend, visitors will be forgiven if they can’t figure out where the “oil” in Oil City’s [...]

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