Monstrous cucurbits are the perfect canvass for showcasing the giants and kings of the animal world. The carving masterpiece of the 2023 Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival will depict these behemoths to present an all organic, overwhelmingly orange zoo. Headline carvers: Dean Murray, making his seventh consecutive appearance at the event, will lead a team of experienced and award-winning artists, all performing for the first time here: Chris Foltz, Ryan Anderson and Matthew Stoddart. They take on the titanic task of sculpting nearly 10 tons of pumpkin into a seamless scene—stacking, staging, cutting and arranging pumpkins—large and small—together to make the final image appear continuous. The carvers, all renowned performers in the field of “temporary art,” arrive days before the event to begin picking, scraping, etching, chiseling and fashioning raw pumpkin into fleshy 3-D imagery. Individually, the quartet has performed around the world, on television and in major festivals everywhere—and have collected multiple titles in international competitions across varying carving disciplines [food, wood, ice].

Date:October 21 and 22,2023

Time: 10:00am to 6:00pm

venue: The Stacks at 3 Crossings 2875 Railroad Street Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Cost:
Admission is FREE and so is almost everything else at the event [except food concessions, carriage rides]

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