$10,000 to support general operations during a period of expansion of exhibition and professional development opportunities for artists.
The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh enhances the region’s cultural vitality and promotes visual arts excellence by showcasing artists’ work through contemporary exhibitions, providing community-based education programs, and facilitating a broad dialogue to engage artists with one another and the community.
Silver Eye offers three to five exhibitions per year, including work from local, national, and international photographers, in addition to holding a call for entries for an annual juried competition, and special events. Exhibitions are enriched with lectures, panel discussions, workshops, portfolio reviews, interactive gallery tours, video screenings and more.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) is a national artists’ service organization whose mission is to safeguard and sustain the careers of artists working in craft disciplines and provide emergency resources that benefit all artists.
$10,000 to New Sun Rising to support the sound development of sym., a movement-centered performance art installation inspired by Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.
PearlArts Studios serves as a creative vehicle for the sound, dance, and visual explorations of STAYCEE PEARL dance project and Tuff Sound Recording. PearlArts Studios has firmly established a base in the Mine Factory Building in the Homewood/Point Breeze neighborhood, serving the dance community with affordable rehearsal and event space, residency opportunities, movement classes, and art and dance workshops. STAYCEE PEARL dance project exists to interpret and mirror culture and community through dance and dance centered multi-media experiences.
$15,000 to support the triennial exhibition, Fiberart International 2019, a juried exhibition of contemporary textile-based art open to artists worldwide.
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh promotes the appreciation of fiber arts and fosters its development and continuation through member support and outreach.
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall serves as an outstanding library, theater, and historic site that welcomes informs, entertains, and engages its community and the region in lifelong learning.
$10,000 to New Sun Rising to support the development and documentation of Casop: A Requiem for Rice, to be staged in Pittsburgh in 2018.
A true marriage between West African and European classical traditions, Casop: A Requiem for Rice is composed for full symphony orchestra and choir, an African and African-American inspired take on a classic requiem. Casop draws on funerary traditions among the Diola-Fogny to recount the stories of enslaved laborers building Lowcountry rice fields.
Renaissance City Winds promotes the best in wind chamber music, with an emphasis on American music, by presenting concerts and educational programs, producing recordings, commissioning new works, and collaborating with other artists.
$5,000 to Fractured Atlas to support a collective of artists working to create new musical theatre through public readings workshops and developmental productions.
Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh (MTAP) exists to foster collaboration between musical theatre artists in the Pittsburgh region, and to create opportunities for the development, presentation, and production of new musical theatre.
$10,000 to support NPN/VAN’s 2018 conference in Pittsburgh, which will support Pittsburgh’s arts community by providing local artists and arts leaders opportunities for professional development, policy-making, sharing of work, idea exchange, and field-building.
National Performance Network & Visual Artists Network believes artists and arts organizations are essential for creating a just and sustainable world, and they believe communities deserve broad access to art and culture that reflect their own experiences and inform about the experiences of others.
They seek to provide risk-taking performing and visual artists with the resources needed to develop and tour new work, to ensure arts leaders have the skills and opportunities to be change-makers in the arts presenting field, and to influence cultural policy for more just and artist-centered practices.