The mission of the August Wilson House is to celebrate the literary and personal legacy of August Wilson and serve as an arts center to nurture the historic Hill District community and arts practitioners and scholars influenced by his work. The August Wilson House is a project of the Daisy Wilson Artist Community, Inc.
$10,000 to support a world stage premiere of two of Fred Rogers’ operas, originally seen on his show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, in the 2019 summer festival season.
Pittsburgh Festival Opera presents innovative opera, producing American works, reinterpretations of older works, and new works, for the widest possible audience. The company focuses on diversity in programming and casting, on crossing boundaries and bringing together talents from all the arts, on encouraging new talent, and on broadening audiences through outreach and education, to create a body of work that is original, entertaining, contemporary and relevant.
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble‘s Theatre of Music seeks to bring together the people and the arts of our time. Using music as the vehicle for larger ideas, they commission, perform, and present new work, constantly reinventing the concert experience in a relentless pursuit to bring meaningful experiences to the audience.
Dreams of Hope uses art to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, allied and HIV+ (LGBTQIA+) youth grow in confidence, express themselves and develop as leaders; and to educate audiences and increase acceptance.
1Hood Media is a collective of socially conscious artists and activists who believe that art is the best way to challenge inequity, raise awareness and unify humanity. They are young creatives who work in and with community, telling their own stories, amplifying voices, and partnering with those of like minds and vision. Their mission is to build liberated communities through art, activism, and social justice.
$15,000 to support MCG Jazz‘s 2019-20 concert season.
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 Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc./Pentacle to support The Blanket bringing award-winning choreographer Beth Gill to Pittsburgh to work with local dancers and produce the company’s first artistic premiere at the historic Carrie Furnaces.
The Blanket is a producing organization that seeks to help artists realize collaborative projects that bridge the gap between Pittsburgh and the greater dance community. The Blanket commissions choreographers and artists from the wider dance world to create work on Pittsburgh dancers, in Pittsburgh venues, in collaboration with Pittsburgh artists/organizations.
$10,000 to PF/PCA to support Daylighting the Stream Collaborative and the development and workshop of a new experiential, immersive, site-specific theater work in Pittsburgh and New York City.
Construction Junction acting as fiscal sponsorship for The Pillow Project. The Pillow Project (est. 2004) is a postmodern-dance company creating improvisational, and choreographed multimedia performances and happenings. Our two decades is the evidence to our continued success and cache of artistic credibility. Our impact is twenty-years in duration, and thriving through long-running events and consistently successful and acclaimed performances.
Since 2006, The Space Upstairs (located above Construction Junction) has been our self-designed, permanent artistic residence for hosting curated jazz dance and music events in Pittsburgh. The Space Upstairs is the laboratory in which we innovate high-quality audience experiences, and our studio for improving ourselves through continued learning. We perform without the formal division of a traditional stage, to give our audiences the most close-up, candid view into our play of the moment.
NAT 28 strives to champion the work that will shape the next phase of musical and artistic evolution. To that end, NAT 28 seeks to:
– Amplify the voices of Pittsburgh artists
– Reflect Pittsburgh’s innovation and diversity through the creation of internationally competitive works of art
– Perform music by a diverse body of composers
– Present contemporary classical music at the highest level of craftsmanship and artistry