The mission of Chatham Baroque is to connect diverse audiences to the passion and depth of the music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and Early Classical periods through vivid and compelling performances and educational experiences.
New Sun Rising for Casey Droege Cultural Productions (CDCP)
$10,700 to New Sun Rising to support CDCP Project Space first year of programming at CDCP’s new project space with two new exhibitions of artists who work with textiles and found objects.
Casey Droege Cultural Productions (CDCP) is an artist-run/woman-owned business created in 2017. Droege built the business to house the ongoing programs of SIX x ATE, CSA PGH, and PGH Photo Fair. CDCP is an experiment in sustaining a for-profit, socially minded arts business while building arts economy in a city with a small arts ecosystem. CDCP has grown to offer its concept store Small Mall, a Project Space in Wilkinsburg, and an arts consulting arm.
Bunker Projects
Bunker Projects is an artist residency program and experimental gallery in Pittsburgh, PA that serves as a platform for emerging artists to develop their practice and create new works for exhibition, by providing an immersive live-work-exhibition space alongside intimate cultural programming, Bunker Projects fosters a spirit of innovative support, connecting artists at all stages of their careers with Pittsburgh’s active, growing, and hungry arts community.
Bach Choir of Pittsburgh
$5,000 to support the Bach Choir’s 85th season, Dreams and Nightmares, which will explore musical settings of literary works. Their third concert – Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Re-imagined – will premiere a newly-commissioned work by local composer Ben Opie in a jazz, funk, hip-hop style. The Bach Choir will perform the work as sound-track to the 1931 Frankenstein film.
The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh is dedicated to inspiring the highest levels of artistic excellence among its members and to building enthusiasm for choral performance in audiences across the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. We do this through:
• The bold leadership of our Artistic Director
• Our annual season of concerts presented in a variety of interesting and historic settings
• Communication with our loyal audiences and outreach to new audiences
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts organizations throughout Southwestern PA.
By sharing resources, fostering significant relationships, leading advocacy initiatives, and increasing public awareness of arts and culture, the Arts Council cultivates a thriving, vibrant arts community for the Greater Pittsburgh region.
Squonk Opera
Squonk Opera‘s mission is to:
- Inspire diverse audiences to explore their creativity and common humanity.
- Invigorate live performance and develop young and non-traditional audiences with music, multimedia spectacle and humor.
- Embrace the unique culture of our home in Western Pennsylvania, and the world.
Photo by John Altdorfer.
Alumni Theater Company
Alumni Theater Company is a driven ensemble that creates bold theatrical work that gives fresh voice to the experience of young urban artists and highlights their rich contribution to our community. ATC’s work validates the perspective of urban youth to both its members and its audience, building an increasingly growing and diverse community of support for both the performers and their ideas.
Alia Musica Pittsburgh for Afro Yaqui Music Collective
Alia Musica Pittsburgh is the fiscal sponsor for Afro Yaqui Music Collective, a postcolonial big band committed to a decolonized music and theater practice. The emphasis on jazz, under-recognized as having a vibrant cultural life on the Mexico-U.S. border, aligns with the collective’s goals of using music as a bridge between communities in the service of dismantling apartheid. You can learn more about their artistry here.
New Sun Rising for Arts Excursions Unlimited
Arts Excursions Unlimited was the result of a year long residency at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Hazelwood under the Office of Public Art’s Artist in the Public Realm Residency program. Artist Edith Abeyta worked with Hazelwood residents to develop a creative project based on a year’s worth of one on one conversations, group discussions, art activities, and numerous meetings. AEU has grown to include the Satellite Studio, a maker space in Hazelwood that provides residents open studio time and coordinated projects, and the United Hazelwood Design Team, who plan and connect with neighborhood beautification opportunities.
University of Pittsburgh / Music on the Edge
University of Pittsburgh / Music on the Edge is dedicated to exploring the enormous diversity of today’s vital new music from around the globe through its series of concerts, lectures and residencies for the general, artistic and academic communities of Pittsburgh and its surrounding communities. MOTE hosts a biennial “Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival” that features international and local performers and composers.