Resonance Works showcases an orchestra, chorus, vocal soloists, chamber musicians, staged opera, and musical theater – often on the same program. Featuring repertoire that is championed by its artists and themes that resonate with the current climate, Resonance Works connects the arts to today’s audience.
Pittsburgh Musical Theater is committed to providing quality, affordable musical theater to the Pittsburgh region, educating youth in the arts, and employing and developing local talent. Funds support the Richard E. Rauh Conservatory Scholarship Program for under-resourced students ages 4-18 to attend the Richard E. Rauh Conservatory musical theater program.
$12,000 to support general operations in 2019-2020, with an emphasis on the implementation of Alia Musica’s recently adopted strategic plan to establish the contemporary music company as a mature arts organization.
Alia Musica Pittsburgh is dedicated to quality performances of challenging repertoire of contemporary music in all genres, focusing on Pittsburgh composers as well as major figures of the 20th and 21st centuries.
$10,000 to support the We Are All Related Public Art Installation, designed to carry conversation of cultural inclusion and perspective-sharing in Pittsburgh by way of large-scale portrait photographs of diverse residents.
New Sun Rising designs and implements programs that create economic opportunity, solve social challenges, and strengthen the vibrancy of place. We Are All Related is a multimedia exhibit of photographic portraits, audiovisual recordings, and written narratives by acclaimed Pittsburgh photographer Andrea London. The exhibit is a collection of compelling images and stories of the human experience and human and civil rights struggles of individuals and families living in the region and features images and the personal narratives of immigrants and refugees, members of the LGBTQ community, people with differing abilities, and others facing discrimination and marginalization.
$10,000 to support general operations of this black trans and queer led work that affirms, elevates, and empowers the lives and lived experiences of black trans and queer youth and families through art as resistance, healing practice, and leadership development.
Garden of Peace shifts the focus of dialogue to include those who are the most invisible and vulnerable for violence, poverty, and isolation and bridges the gap between celebration and the need for continued advocacy for and by marginalized people with innovative programming that includes both. Garden of Peace focuses on young people, mothers, and caretakers, as they recognize there is no movement for justice without the people who take care of the future.
Chamber Music Pittsburgh was established in 1961 by a group of civic leaders committed to providing Pittsburgh audiences with the opportunity to hear the world’s finest chamber music artists. Over the past five decades CMP has continued to realize that vision by presenting an impressive array of the most renowned chamber musicians.
Bodiography Originally conceived as a performance outlet for exquisite ballet dancers with healthy, athletic, but non-stereotypical ballet bodies, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet strives to bring the beauty of ballet to new dance audiences in Pittsburgh and beyond. Presenting Maria Caruso’s multi-genre movement vocabulary and popular contemporary music, Bodiography places special focus on health issues, expressing our shared humanity through intriguing, entertaining, relevant, and inspiring dance with a strong foundation in classical ballet technique.
Union Project uses the arts to bridge gaps between communities. Union Project is a historic space that is community restored and maintained; the building itself was transformed as a creative solution to a community problem. They believe that art can create change, and help us build a more inclusive, empathetic, and just community.
Front Porch Theatricals exists to provide professional, high-quality musical theater productions featuring Pittsburgh’s diverse actor, artistic and technical talent base. Emphasis is placed on mentoring young talent in leadership positions as well as youth through an internship/apprentice program, and in hiring creative up and coming and established local talent in music, directing, choreography, scenic, lighting, sound and costume design to create a high level professional vehicle for the acting and artistic team members to realize the vision of their project.
$7,500 to Fractured Atlas to support Talking with Ghosts About Freedom. While riding their bicycles over 3,000 miles connecting Underground Railroad and abolitionist sites, archives and museums, artists Kelsey Robinson and Di-ay Batted are creating musical performance, dance, video and literature in response to regional histories of slavery in North America.