The Art Center, 344 S. Main St., continues "Hot Pink, Art, Education, Awareness and Action," "My Cloth Souls" and "Art of Horror" through Oct. 31. Regular hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon to 9 p.m. Fridays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Call 724-283-6922 or visit www.theartcenterbutlerpa.org.

Maridon Museum, 322 N. McKean St., features a display of white elephants and other ivory pieces plus 19 Japanese samurai dolls and the permanent exhibits of hundreds of pieces of ancient and contemporary Asian art as well as Meissen porcelain. Regular museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays and holidays. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students, and free for children younger than age 8; children must be accompanied by an adult. Tours are led by trained docents and are available with advance notice. The museum also has a gift shop specializing in gifts and decorative art objects relating to China and Japan. Call 724-282-0123.

<B>"In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists"</B> is showing through Jan. 10, 2009, at Fe Arts Gallery, 4102 Butler St. in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh. Admission is free. This salon-style exhibition celebrates Pittsburgh's 250th birthday by featuring the work of 250 Southwestern Pennsylvania artists from fourteen counties. Representing Butler County are Debbie Kuminkoski, Akiko Kotani and Rhoda Taylor. Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, glass, jewelry and fiber arts will be showcased, as well as work in less conventional mediums. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, and some hours on holidays. Call 412-860-6028.<B>Carnegie Museum of Art</B>, 4400 Forbes Ave., will show the architectural etchings and engravings of "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture and the Spaces of the Imagination" from Saturday through Feb. 15, 2009. Continuing are "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes" through Jan. 18 and "Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International," through Jan. 11. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, plus for the summer, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays as well. Closed major holidays. Admission, which includes the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens, and $11 for students and children age 3 and older. Call 412-622-3131 or visit the Web site, www.cmoa.org.<B>Pittsburgh Glass Center</B>, 5472 Penn Ave., presents Susan Taylor Glasgow's giant glass birds, the focal point of her newest exhibition called "Absence Of Body" running through Jan. 9. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays; and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Call 412-365-2145.<B>Andy Warhol Museum</B>, 117 Sandusky St., is exhibiting two sections, "Detroit, Carbro Prints, 1958" and "Isn't That Amazing!, The Appeal and Spiel of Ronco and Popei"l as well as a selection of never before shown Warhol drawings from the 1950s, through Jan. 11. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; closed Mondays. Admission is $15 for adults, $9 for senior citizens, $8 for children and students. Admission is half-price from 5 to 10 p.m. Fridays. Call 412-237-8300 or visit the Web site, www.warhol.org.

<B>Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts</B>, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, through Friday is presenting its annual mid-Atlantic exhibition featuring artwork by Michael Ward of Butler. Ward's pastel "Gotham City News" received a merit award. Artists from Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. submitted 368 entries. From these, only 58 pieces were accepted by juror Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Admission is free. New gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Call 724-652-2882, or visit the Web site, www.hoytartcenter.