$7,500 to PF/PCA to support A Letter Compiled From All Letters, an evening-length, contemporary dance production merging live performance and video with movement, sound, and text.
Maree ReMalia | merrygogo – Maree ReMalia is a choreographer who uses creative process and performance to build intimate human connections. merrygogo is her platform for creating project-based performance works with communities of shifting collaborators.
Brew House Association provides artists with the support necessary to foster invention, creation, and collaboration, and encourages creative risk-taking and the pursuit of artistic excellence. Founded in the early 1990’s by a community of artists and visionaries who transformed an abandoned space into a vibrant place where art thrives, Brew House Association is a testament to the power of what art can do. Today, BHA activates 14,000 sq. ft in the historic Duquesne Brew House. All that BHA does, programming, operations, and governance start and revolve around the organization’s core values of connection, representation, mentorship, livability, and practice.
MCG Jazz’s mission is to preserve, present and promote jazz. Through performances, MCG Jazz strengthens the long time Pittsburgh jazz community and contribute to the overall cultural and artistic diversity of the region. Through its live recordings, MCG Jazz reaches a national and international audience. Through educational programs, they are able to have students attend the concerts at low or no cost to them, make artists available for master classes and provide opportunities for internships in production and marketing.
$10,000 to support the fall 2018 season.
Kinetic Theatre Company explores the issues facing our diverse and rapidly-changing world through the language of theatre. They value text, both classic and contemporary, as their primary source of inspiration; and they honor, value, and respectfully compensate the artist.
Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is a National Historic Landmark that opened in 1889 as the first public library built by Andrew Carnegie in the United States. For over 135 years, the BCLA has served as an anchor to an evolving community. The BCLA opened the Art Lending Library in 2013 as a result of its participation in the Carnegie International. This collection is a unique opportunity for community members to borrow art, including life-sized puppets, to take into their homes or offices for a few weeks. The BCLA also offers a robust arts program including a Fab Lab, Ceramics Studio, and Printshop. BCLA’s programs and services make it a vital piece of social infrastructure. The BCLA is an essential safe place of self-determination, community imagination, life-long learning, and development that honors the knowledge, cultures, needs, desires, histories, and lived experiences of our neighbors.
Shiftworks Community + Public Arts envisions a region in which the creative practices of artists are fully engaged to collaboratively shape the public realm and catalyze community-led change. Shiftworks builds capacity for this work through civically engaged public art, artist resources, public programming, and technical assistance.
$10,000 to Construction Junction to support The Pillow Project‘s Thought Pockets, a series of immersive public performance-art created site-specifically for the thoroughfares and alleyways of Downtown Pittsburgh.
The Pillow Project was founded in 2004 by Artistic Director Pearlann Porter. The Pillow Projects have been all about creating and investigating new ideas in a postjazz improvisation and challenging how dance and performance is experienced. Rooted in Pittsburgh at The Space Upstairs, Projects have launched from the Pillow in Paris, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and New York City.
$5,000 to 1Hood Media to support an experimental stage piece and art installation-in-motion co-created and performed by artists Lori Hepner and Kendra Ross.
Intersection*ology explores where gender, power, and technology converge to grapple with the disparate ways in which women are displaced, abandoned, and rendered invisible using live performance and audience interactivity through light, sound, image, and personal movement to situate memories of the feminine past and corporeality in the natural world into new, technologically mediated locations and spaces.
barebones productions is a Pittsburgh theater company whose mission is to facilitate the growth of local theater artists through the production of challenging, entertaining, thought-provoking plays and to attract new, young audiences by employing minimal production elements for maximum impact. Founded in 2003 by theater artist Patrick Jordan, barebones has garnered a reputation for producing high-quality, risk-taking plays.
Dreams for Hope is acting as fiscal sponsor for Hatch Arts Collective, a Pittsburgh-based performance incubator that develops new, interdisciplinary, and queer- or BIPOC-led performance projects. Over the last decade, Hatch has presented 11 productions, hired 100+ artists, and engaged 4,000+ audience members. Hatch collaborates with institutions like Quantum Theatre, Drift, Artist Image Resource, and others to present socially urgent and formally experimental performances. Hatch has produced plays about a queer couple raising four chickens in their backyard and the impacts of Western PA’s addiction to fracking. Often, Hatch productions take place in intimate and unusual venues: a screenprinting studio, a temporary stage built on a river, and an abandoned mall transformed into a crime scene.