The Fall Arts Guide in tomorrow's Weekend Mag will include a hefty selection of this season's art exhibitions. But activities designed to complement those shows are often equally fascinating and enlightening. Following is a clip-and-save list of event highlights (call venues for others):

	Charles Fairfax Murray's "Beata Beatrix" is one of the dreamy beauties in "Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum" at The Frick Art & Historical Center. Click photo for larger image.

The Andy Warhol Museum (412-238-8300). In conjunction with a major exhibition of his works, artist Glenn Ligon and Warhol director Tom Sokolowski will conduct a discussion beginning at 6 p.m. Sept. 29, followed by a reception with DJ Omar-Abdul ($15).

Carnegie Museum of Art (412-622-3131) opens a major exhibition, "Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages," with a talk by curator Marilynn Johnson at 1 p.m. Oct. 14, followed by a slew of events -- more on those closer to the event.

The Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze (412-371-0600). Complementing "Waking Dreams: Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum" are 2 p.m. discussions of: Friday, artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Sept. 22, representations of the King Arthur legends; and Sept. 29, "Stunner, Elizabeth Siddal" (suggested $5 exhibition contribution). At noon Sept. 20, the film "Topsy -- William Morris" will be screened (free). At 1:30 p.m. Sept. 24 Albert Tannler, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historical Collections director, speaks on "Architectural Glass in Pittsburgh" ($10, $8 students, teachers, members). WQED's Rick Sebak talks about "Making Slightly Wacky Documentaries" at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 15 ($12, members $10; with reception $20, $15). "Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent," opening Nov. 4, brings a new set of programs (check for listing closer to the event).

Courtesy of the Polaroid Collection In "It's a Dog's Life: Photographs by William Wegman from the Polaroid Collection," at Silver Eye Center for Photography, children should enjoy the humorous images of the artist's likeable Weimaraners, such as "Railing," from 1991. Click photo for larger image.

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Shadyside (412-361-0873). A symposium on the importance, meaning and use of light in visual arts, related to the exhibitions and co-sponsored by the Center and the Pittsburgh Glass Center, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 7. Participants include Carnegie Museum of Art chief curator Louise Lippincott and artists Jane Haskell, Kim Beck, Hilary Harp, Ron Donoughe and Jill Larson. ($10, students $2, reserve by Oct. 4). Haskell, the 2006 Artist of the Year, and Emerging Artist Beck will give talks at 6 p.m. Oct. 19 ($5).

Silver Eye Center for Photography, South Side (reservations recommended, 412-431-1810), looks at 2006 Steelermania through photographs at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 20. Complementing "It's a Dog's Life: Photographs by William Wegman from the Polaroid Collection," are children's programs 10-11 a.m. Sept. 19, 26 and Oct. 3 ($18, or $7 each); a gallery talk on Wegman at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 by Barbara Hitchcock, Polaroid's director of cultural affairs ($10); and a screening of Wegman's video works from 1970-99 at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 ($5).

Society for Contemporary Craft, Strip District (412-261-7003), features metalsmiths exhibiting in "Nature/Culture: Artists Respond to Their Environment." On Sept. 30, Sue Amendolara conducts a daylong workshop, including a noon gallery talk ($90). At 6 p.m. Oct. 5, Jan Yager lectures about her work ($5).

University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, 412-648-2423, free events complement "From Pavement to Paradise: The Evolution of Schenley Plaza." At 4 p.m. Sept. 21, Cynthia Morton, associate curator of Botany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Philip Gruszka, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy director of Parks Management and Maintenance Policies, speak on "Genetic Diversity of the London Plane trees in Schenley Plaza and what it means to you!"; 6 p.m. Sept. 26, Cahill associates principal engineer Michele Adams and Nine Mile Run Watershed Association executive director Marijke Hecht address "Water and the City: The Regent Square Project for Frick Park;" 6 p.m. Oct. 5, Albert Kollar, geologist and collections manager, Section of Invertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, discusses "Pittsburgh Geology as seen in the art of John Kane;" and at 10 a.m. Oct. 7 Kollar will lead "A Walking Tour of Schenley Park."

Director/CEO Judith O'Toole and curator Barbara Jones of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg (724-837-1500), discuss "How to Buy Art" at 7 p.m. Oct. 5. At 7 p.m. October 12 four artists included in the 2006 "Westmoreland Juried Biennial" speak about their work. (Both free.)

Other events:

Sept. 22 -- 5:30 p.m., artists Ann Messner and Joyce Kozloff will speak on political unrest, the role of artists as activists, and "Disarming Images"-- a 3-screen video documentation of American protests against military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq -- at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, CMU, where the video is being screened and Kozloff, a member of the collective Artists Against the War, is exhibiting work. Messner is creative director of the video and adjunct professor at Pratt Institute. (free, 412-268-3618).

Oct. 21 -- 2:30 p.m., "Over the Digital Divide Without Eating Each Other," a lecture on photographers' switch from analog to digital imaging, by Rod Slemmons, Director of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, at the University Center, CMU. It's part of a Technology in the Arts Conference at CMU and is co-sponsored by the Center for Arts Management and Technology and Silver Eye Center for Photography. ($40, register at Silver Eye, 412-431-1810).

Nov. 2 -- 7 p.m., Master Kente Cloth Weaver Chapuchi Ahiagble, from Ghana, will talk about his work at the 6th Presbyterian Church, Squirrel Hill. Sponsored by The Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh. ($5, 724-348-9087).