As the yearly autumn chill rolls over Pittsburgh, blankets are likely at the forefront of our minds. In the words of Johannah Hutchison, executive director of the International Sculpture Center in Lawrenceville, blankets are healing — “warm, comforting and full of care.”

This year, the center — which just opened the headquarters of its 60-year-old organization in Pittsburgh — is encouraging those in the Steel City to weave this warmth into blankets that will travel from living rooms to art galleries to the arms of local refugee families.

On Nov. 6, the center not only celebrates its grand opening, but will launch the first citywide Welcome Blanket Project — an effort to show what happens when an entire community commits to welcome.

“Nobody has adopted a citywide program before,” Hutchis

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