Blog : Arts

New Hazlett Center for the Performing Arts‘ mission is to provide a nurturing, collaborative environment for artists, leveraging people, space and technology to create and present challenging and dynamic art.

Featured photo by Renee Rosensteel.

Kente Arts Alliance is an African American arts organization whose mission is to present high-quality art of the African Diaspora. Kente presents art with a purpose by offering programs that entertain, educate and uplift the residents of underserved communities.

Hill Dance Academy Theatre’s, Home of Ju.B.Lation Spirit Filled Feet, mission is to develop and train dancers in Black Dance traditions, expand knowledge and contributions of Black Dance traditions, and create emerging professional dance artists who will sustain dance in the Black community. HDAT’s developmentally designed curriculum is rooted in Black Dance traditions.

Handmade Arcade support Pittsburgh’s maker movement by providing craft-based artists, designers, and makers with opportunities to sell products, build community, network, and share their artistic practice. Handmade Arcade celebrates the cutting edge of craft by connecting creators and consumers through making, sharing and learning. They achieve it by:

• Inspiring creativity and experimentation through the process of making
• Supporting creative commerce for local crafters, creative entrepreneurs, and small business owners
• Honoring the intersection of tradition and innovation
• Providing an alternative marketplace to mainstream retail
• Creating a welcoming atmosphere that promotes inclusivity and diversity.

$10,000 to Fractured Atlas for Other Border Wall Project to support Other Border Wall Project in their biggest initiative to date: O.B.W. 2020. They seek support for an international exhibition, public engagement-art making and conceptual campaign for their Fall 2020 exhibition opportunity at 937 Gallery in Pittsburgh.

Other Border Wall Project is started and led by an all-women team of three: Tereneh Idia, Leah Patgorski, and Jennifer Myers (formerly Meridian), who formed in the early months of the Trump administration to create work in opposition to the proposed wall at the US/MX border. Our combined strength is rooted in our individual capabilities and successes. Tereneh Idia is an internationally based fashion designer and founder of Idia’Dega, a global eco-design collaboration with OMWA: Olorgesailie Maasai Women Artisans of Kenya and The Beading Wolves, an Oneida family of artisans. Leah Patgorski is an artist and designer working with sculpture and site-specific textile installations. Jennifer Myers is a visual artist working with drawing, sculpture, and performance.  Selina Lee, a student at Carnegie Mellon University, has provided fantastic research and assistance as our intern. We are based in Pittsburgh and Southern Virginia.

Fractured Atlas empowers artists, arts organizations, and other cultural sector stakeholders by eliminating practical barriers to artistic expression, so as to foster a more agile and resilient cultural ecosystem.

$5,000 t0 Fractured Atlas for folkLAB to support the creation and documentation of three performance projects, including beginning development on our first touring work, and to assist in creating additional co-programming and partnerships with local community organizations whose missions intersect with our own.

folkLAB is an interdisciplinary, devised, performance project and an artistic community network dedicated to fair representation, compensation and access in the arts. Our two series in Our Voice and miniMythologies foster the creation of brand new performances created by under-represented artist and inspired by the intersection of personal narrative, myths or archetypes, and identity. Through this work we aim to create a new, decolonized folklore that truly represents our diverse world as it is today.

Fractured Atlas empowers artists, arts organizations, and other cultural sector stakeholders by eliminating practical barriers to artistic expression, so as to foster a more agile and resilient cultural ecosystem.

City of Asylum creates a thriving community for writers, readers, and neighbors. They provide sanctuary to endangered literary writers, so that the writers can continue to write and their voices are not silenced. And they offer a broad range of free literary, arts, and humanities programs in a community setting to build social equity through cultural exchange. City of Asylum anchors neighborhood economic development by transforming blighted properties into homes for our programs.