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American Society of Journalists and Authors

Guilds/Clubs ; Learning : Classes ; Services

Founded in 1948, the American Society of Journalists and Authors is the nation’s largest professional organization of independent nonfiction writers. Our membership consists of outstanding freelance writers of magazine articles, trade books, and many other forms of nonfiction writing, each of whom has met ASJA’s exacting standards of professional achievement. To its members ASJA offers extensive benefits and services focusing on professional development, including regular confidential market information, meetings with editors and others in the field, an exclusive referral service, seminars and workshops, discount services and, above all, the opportunity for members to explore professional issues and concerns with their peers. To independent writers ASJA is a primary voice in representing freelancers’ interests, serving as spokesman for their right to control and profit from uses of their work in the new media and otherwise. Join us. To editors and others ASJA offers ready access to writers proven in the marketplace, capable of producing articles, books, brochures and scripts on any imaginable subject. Click here for ASJA’s Freelance Writer Search. To the entire publishing community ASJA brings leadership in establishing professional and ethical standards, and in recognizing and encouraging the pursuit of excellence in nonfiction writing. ASJA headquarters are in New York City. The Society has active regional chapters in a variety of locations. See the Leadership section for a current list.

Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall

Culture : Historical , Literature/Poetry ; Learning : Lectures ; Performance : Dance , Music , Musical Theatre , Opera , Theatre ; Visual : Crafts

The mission of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is to serve as an outstanding library, theater, and historic site that welcomes, informs, entertains and engages its community and the region in lifelong learning.

Arquetopia Foundation & International Artist Residency – Mexico – Peru – Italy

Website: www.arquetopia.org/open-calls-deadlines E-mail info@arquetopia.org for more information. Now well into its tenth year, Arquetopia Foundation is an internationally established, nonprofit arts and cultural foundation with a social scope that emphasizes critical thinking through artistic practices. Our customized, professional International Artist-in-Residence Programs are the largest and most reputable in Latin America, with an array of content anchored in a solid structure of collaborations with prominent cultural institutions, renowned experts, and notable artists. We are invested in approaching art and art history with a critical perspective by understanding Mexico and Peru’s complexity in context and incorporating nuances in narratives and interpretation of the 3,000-year heritage of visual culture of these two countries. Since its founding, Arquetopia has raised the bar in the residency field, becoming an international reference to all residency programs in Latin America, by influencing most of them in approaching art making with more rigorous practices, critical perspectives, and high standards. Arquetopia is distinguished worldwide for its array of unique residency programs with substantial mentoring and academic content customized to each resident. Our residency spaces function exclusively for productive art professionals, writers, academics, and researchers and include comprehensive, mentored and informative programs; a network of premier collaborative workspaces, institutions, and studios; and individualized project support. Arquetopia was officially established and registered as a Mexican nonprofit foundation in 2009, with a solid International Board of Directors comprised of renowned scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, and supportive community members fully committed to social transformation. We are proud to have established through our multiple residency programs a generous and culturally diverse space by hosting every year artists, scholars, and researchers from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Our experience has been enriched by the multiplicity of perspectives of more than 600 of our resident artists and writers who have come from all regions of the world and more than 90 countries. Founded by Mexican visual artist and curator Francisco Guevara and north American classical musician Christopher Davis, our small nonprofit arts foundation was born in the vibrant, majestic city of Puebla, Mexico in 2009. Having initially functioned as an educational art center for inner-city youth, Arquetopia soon expanded its focus to offer international artist residency programs in under a year and then opened its second professional residency space in the historic city of Oaxaca, Mexico in 2011. Arquetopia has since grown to offer the premier artist residency programs of Mexico and Latin America, with extensive collaborative networks in central and southern Mexico and Peru, with Arquetopia’s third professional residency space having launched in spectacular Cusco, Peru in early 2018. In 2020, Arquetopia is set to open its fourth professional residency space and art history research center in stunning Naples, Italy. We are very honored that many of our Artists-in-Residence have returned for residencies at Arquetopia multiple times.

Assemble

Culture : Architecture/Design , Literature/Poetry , Science/Technology ; Learning : Classes ; Services ; Visual : Crafts , Exhibitions , Film , Photography

Assemble is a 501(c)3 nonprofit located in Garfield, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. We are dedicated to providing an on-ramp to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) in the community. We offer daily educational programs to youth throughout Pittsburgh, both in our 4824 Penn Avenue space and at local schools and community centers. Our programs provide a platform for experiential learning, open creative processes, and building confidence through making. Assemble is a platform that elevates ideas, activities, and relationships that build agency of the individual and empowers relationships that build a community. Our platform is exciting, can change one’s disposition, encourages creativity, and removes barriers. It provides choices to construct a better future for oneself and invites engagement of learners of all ages, from little people (kids, teens) to big kids (young adults, grown ups). We accomplish this with creativity through Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) disciplines and learning opportunities to build valuable 21st century skills. We encourage creative problem solving and critical thinking skills through the tangible application of concepts, a hands-on participatory environment, and interdisciplinary engagement. Our culture of open-ended experimentation celebrates both successes and failures as opportunities to learn, grow, and try again. Assemble is a place where people can gather around a set of values and engage in activities and collaborations. Our place is a dependable, safe, productive, and welcoming environment that is predictable, has a shared identity with the community, is trusted, and is permanent. We accomplish this with an open invitation and our consistent presence in the community. Our in house and out of house programs represent a culture and environment that can be assembled in other locations.

Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Learning : Classes ; Services

AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 550 college and university creative writing programs, and 150 writers’ conferences and centers. Our mission is to foster literary achievement, advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing. The mission of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is to foster literary achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing. Because literature is a source of awareness and enchantment, it is a medium for wisdom, creativity, and joy. Because literature maps our shared experiences, it is a builder of communities. AWP’s purpose is to cultivate the making and appreciation of contemporary literature along with the attendant virtues: wisdom, creativity, community, empathy, compassion, solidarity, and joy. As an employer, AWP is dedicated to the creation and nurturing of a workplace environment in which everyone feels valued as a dignified member of the community of writers, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Autumn House Press

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Autumn House Press is a nonprofit, literary publisher based in Pittsburgh, PA. We publish full-length collections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The press will concentrate on publishing the work of excellent contemporary writers who have a following among readers, but whose work has been overlooked by commercial publishers. We see our relationships with our authors as partnerships; we will support them by ensuring their books are edited with care and are available in a variety of locations. In the belief that a book is not only a readable text but also an object of art, the press is dedicated to producing beautifully designed, well-manufactured books on acid-free paper, as well as electronic texts of comparable quality. However, this dedication to quality will be balanced against considerations of cost in order to make the books affordable to all. We believe art and literature are essential to the growth of a community and strive to enhance the neighborhoods around us. Autumn House Press was founded in 1998 by Michael Simms when prominent American publishers, driven by economic concerns, dramatically reduced their poetry lists. As a result, influential contemporary poets were left struggling to find publishers. Today, independent presses are now publishing some of the most important work in America and are largely nurturing the great American poetic tradition. Since our launch, Autumn House has expanded to publish fiction (2008) and nonfiction titles (2010). These books receive the same attention to design and manufacturing as our award-winning poetry titles. Autumn House publications have received a great deal of recognition and acclaim. In 2011, we earned a Certificate of Appreciation from the Pennsylvania legislature recognizing our contribution to the arts. Our books are regularly reviewed in Ploughshares, Brevity, London Grip Review, The Women’s Review of Books, The Jewish Review of Books, and Poets Quarterly. Many of our poems have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily, and on various. Our titles also circulate within the local Pittsburgh community, with reviews in The Pittsburgh City Paper and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Our books have won numerous awards over the years, such as Love for Sale and Other Essays by Clifford Thompson, which won the 2013 Whiting Award. In 2016, founder and editor in chief Michael Simms retired after 18 impressive years. Christine Stroud took on the role of editor in chief and Melissa Becker became board president.

Awesome Pittsburgh

Awesome Pittsburgh grants money – cold hard cash with no strings attached – to people or groups with brilliant ideas. Pittsburgh, already a hotbed of awesomeness, is brimming with smart, passionate, creative, crazy people. Awesome Pittsburgh’s team of trustees wants to give some of you $1000 to do something amazing. We want to hear your best ideas for making the Pittsburgh region stand out in the global economy, for connecting our communities, for celebrating art or technology, for making the community a better place to live, work, and play, or for simply surprising and delighting your fellow Pittsburghers. Pittsburgh, prepare to increase your awesomeness, $1,000 at a time. If you have a project idea burning inside you, find out how to apply and get your submission to us by the next funding cycle (deadline is the last day of every month). To stay connected with us and get the latest on each award winner and proposal deadline, please follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Belt Publishing

Services

Belt Publishing is a small, independent press founded in Cleveland in 2013 as a platform for new and influential voices from the Rust Belt and Midwest. As with our sister publication, Belt Magazine, we are committed to carefully edited, complex writing. We believe in quality over quantity and community over analytics. Our titles have been praised by the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, Ebony, Ploughshares, and numerous other publications. Our growing catalog of original titles includes four core imprints. The City Anthology Series compiles essays from homegrown and expat writers about the cities they love. Neighborhood Guidebooks explore the smaller enclaves that form the larger cultural identities of major cities. Notches publishes “shortform” books (or, perhaps, “really longform essays”) by some of the nation’s best writers about often overlooked subjects of interest to the Midwest. Belt Revivals brings back influential works from the past that illuminate the present and inform our future.

Boulevard

Learning

Boulevard’s mission is to publish the finest in contemporary fiction and poetry as well as definitive essays on the arts and culture, and to publish a diversity of writers who exhibit an original sensibility. It is our conviction that creative and critical work should be presented in a variegated yet coherent ensemble—as a boulevard, which contains in one place the best a community has to offer. Boulevard 4125 Juniata Street #B St. Louis, MO 63116 editors@boulevardmagazine.org

Brittney Chantele

Performance : Music

Singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet, and activist, Brittney Chantele aspires for her music and poetry to inspire people emotionally, mentally, and physically. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Nahko and Medicine for the People, Rising Appalachia, Dead Prez, Kendrick Lamar, Chance The Rapper, Mick Jenkins, and Luka Lesson, she describes her style as “movement music” or “movement poetry”, meaning that it can begin or carry a social movement. Born in Staten Island, NY, and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Brittney developed an early admiration for several different styles of music, looking up to artists such as Michael Jackson, Nas, Amy Winehouse, Bob Marley, and Destiny’s Child. Growing up, Brittney was always involved in musical endeavors, participating in band, chorus, ensemble, and playing a number of instruments such as the trumpet and the shakers, and dabbling in wooden flute, ukulele, piano, and hand percussion. Although she began writing lyrics and poems around the age of 10, Brittney didn’t officially start recording until February 2016. The first original song she recorded was “R.I.S.E”. You can easily find social and environmental justice movements as well as making a change/difference as recurring themes in her work. Speaking on issues such as these is what separates her from other hip hop artists, which is demonstrated by her hit single “Frack You.” When she performs this song, she wants people to understand that fracking is not just an issue for a few places. Instead, it’s an issue for everyone. Brittney wrote this song because she wants people to start taking action and questioning their local government leaders on what is really going on in their cities and towns when it comes to fracking. She wants them to demand answers. Brittney enlisted in the military in order to serve her country; however, she now realizes the impact of military “brainwashing” and uses her experience to inform her art and activism. Furthermore, having earned a degree in criminal justice from Edinboro University has provided Brittney with an insight into police brutality, which is another common theme in her music and other art forms. Brittney has performed at numerous venues in Pittsburgh such as The Smiling Moose, The Mr. Roboto Project, Glitterbox Theater, Studio AM, James Street Gastropub, Ace Hotel, Cattivo, BOOM Concepts, Spirit, and LOCAL 412. She has also graced the stage at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Ohio, as well as The Vic Theater in Chicago. Past projects include the “Peace, Love, & Hope” Issue 1 poetry zine/chapbook, “Bittersweet Symphony” poetry EP, “Faith in Humanity” EP, and the single, “Operator.” Working and performing with artists like Flobots, Princess Jafar, and Merrow. Brittney continues to grow her fan base across regional and demographic boundaries.

Bunker Projects

Culture : Literature/Poetry ; Learning : Classes , Lectures ; Performance : Dance , Music ; Visual : Crafts , Exhibitions , Photography

The Bunker Projects Gallery and Residency space was reclaimed from fire and abandon in 2012 by three founding artists and dozens of community members. We are rooted in DIY culture – always asking ourselves ‘what can we do to enhance the arts experience for artist and community alike?’ and then quickly acting to see it through. We open our doors each First Friday with a new show of ambitious works by emerging artists from the Pittsburgh region and those from all over the world. Our artists in residence live in one of our third floor apartments, work in their private studio, and take full advantage of the resources provided by the community of arts organizations and community. Since 2013 We Have… Worked with over 200 individual artists Hosted over 30 residents who engage in a rigorous self-directed practice for average of 3-4 months Presented 47 First-Friday exhibitions at our space Facilitated dozens of artist talks and workshops Produced 22 special events including International Performance Art Festivals Erotica Night Talking With Your Mouth Full Experimental Music Shows

Center for African American Poetry and Poetics

Culture : Heritage/Culture Specific , Literature/Poetry ; Learning : Classes , Lectures ; Services

Founded in 2016, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics is a creative think tank for African American and African diasporic poetries and poetics. Our mission is to highlight, promote, and share the work of African American and African diasporic poets and to pollinate cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration. Our programming aims to present exciting live poetry and conversation, contextualize the meaning of that work, and archive it for future generations. We are a space for innovative collaboration between writers, scholars, and other artists thinking through poetics as a unique and contemporary movement. In its effort to highlight, promote, archive, research, and generally advance the practices and epistemologies of African American and African diasporic poetry and poetics, CAAPP supports individual writers, artists, scholars, and others nationally and at a range of career stages and academic ranks. We also prioritize providing opportunities for poets and artists outside of academia, in the Pittsburgh community and beyond. Origins The Center emerged in a brainstorming session between Pitt poetry professors Terrance Hayes, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Yona Harvey. This meeting was initiated by English Department Chair and Professor Don Bialostosky, who wanted to discuss how the department might best celebrate the presence of three acclaimed African American poets on its faculty. In short, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics was brought into being through true collaboration, an approach now at the heart of CAAPP’s philosophy and work. What is our poetics? We are concerned with a practice-based poetics, where creating is centralized as a way of working through questions to arrive at new ideas. Collaboration, then, the process of creating in partnership, in community, is an expression of the practice of poetics at its most dynamic. It is also an opportunity for greater inclusion and cross pollination. The spirit of cultural collaboration and conversation is at the core of our philosophy, programming, and aspirations. Why now? The work of the Center is vital at this particular time, when so many black poets are at the forefront of contemporary American poetry. African American and African diasporic poets are pushing the envelope of poetics and expressions of blackness through art. Though some attention has been paid to the fact of black poetry, there has been little discussion of what the diverse black poetries of this particular moment mean and do. In a climate of renewed attention on racial disparities and systematic violence against African Americans, the Center is focused on a poetics of engagement, in relation to this historic moment and with an eye toward moments to come.

City of Asylum @ Alphabet City

Culture : Heritage/Culture Specific , Historical , Literature/Poetry ; Learning : Lectures ; Performance : Music ; Visual : Film , Public Art

City of Asylum @ Alphabet City is a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe—a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. And it is also a home for many partnering artists and organizations in our own community. By establishing a safe haven for writers and artists who voice ideas that are new, different, or provocative in a diverse urban community, we encourage new lines of communication, cultural exchange, and collaboration. Sharing one another’s narratives can transform the lives of both residents and artists and combat intolerance and exclusion.

Confluence

Culture : Literature/Poetry , Science/Technology ; Learning : Classes , Lectures ; Performance : Music ; Visual : Exhibitions , Public Art

Confluence is Pittsburgh’s longest-running (1988) literary conference with a focus on speculative fiction. The conference offers a wide variety of activities including writing workshops, live music concerts, science programming, author readings, a dealers room, art show & demos, poetry readings, Saturday evening entertainment and panel discussions with award-winning authors, publishers, artist and editors on many different subjects. Confluence gives the attendees a unique opportunity to meet and chat with the writers and artists who create the SF/F/H culture today, and are shaping the future of speculative fiction. Confluence is presented by Parsec, a 501(c)(3) organization. The mission of Parsec is to promote awareness of the richness of speculative fiction as literature, art and music; further general education in the sciences and arts, support contribution, both scientific and artistic, to society and to espouse the enjoyment of speculative fiction as literature, art and music with others. https://parsec-sff.org/

Creative Commons

Learning ; Services ; Visual : Film , Photography

Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world. We unlock the full potential of the internet to drive a new era of development, growth and productivity. With a network of staff, board, and affiliates around the world, Creative Commons provides free, easy-to-use copyright licenses to make a simple and standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work–on conditions of your choice. Creative Commons Affiliate Network includes over 500 researchers, activists, legal, education and policy advocates, and volunteers who serve as CC representatives in over 85 countries. Working alongside non-governmental institutions, universities, and public agencies, CC affiliates employ region-specific approaches to copyright and intellectual property that help solve local and global challenges.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation

Learning : Classes , Lectures

The Creative Nonfiction Foundation inspires and supports writers of true stories by providing publishing venues and educational opportunities for a diverse range of creative nonfiction writing and writers; serves as a strong advocate for the genre, helping define the ethics and parameters of the field; and aims to broaden the genre’s impact not only in the publishing world but also in the arts, humanities, and sciences.

Dramatists Guild

Guilds/Clubs ; Learning : Classes ; Performance : Music , Musical Theatre , Opera , Theatre ; Services

The Dramatists Guild of America is the membership association of playwrights, librettists, composers, and lyricists writing for the stage in the United States. Since its establishment in 1919, the mission of the Guild has been to provide its members with education, advocacy, opportunity, and community. The Guild carries out its mission by: Maintaining, for use by its members, a contract that is applicable to first-class productions in the United States; Formulating other forms of model contracts and offering business advice to its members, including information about industry standards, copyright, and free expression; Promoting and protecting the interests of authors in their works, including their rights of property, artistic integrity and compensation, and the conditions under which those works are created and presented; Working with theatrical institutions, schools, governmental agencies, nonprofits, and commercial entities, to educate them on the rights that dramatic writers have in their works; Creating programs and publications to educate dramatic writers, in order to help them develop their craft, enhance their understanding of the theater business, and expand their professional opportunities; and Speaking out as an organization, and through its individual members, on issues which affect the role of dramatic authors in the theatre and in society in general. In fulfilling its mission, the Guild recognizes that much of the creative work of authorship is undertaken in isolation, so the Guild fosters a sense of union and community among its members in order to enrich, inspire and empower them to advocate for themselves, for their work, and for each other. In this way, Guild members come to realize that if they do not advance together, they do not advance at all. The Dramatists Guild of America is committed to exposing and eliminating the systemic biases that exist in all aspects of our field. We commit to doing this both within our own organization and with advocacy throughout our field. We take on this commitment on behalf of the plurality of our membership whose career paths are made demonstrably steeper by an unequal distribution of resources, mentorships, recognition, and productions. We take on this commitment because when opportunities are disproportionately concentrated in one narrow demographic, our stages are deprived of a full accounting of the world we live in. The Dramatists Guild invites all members of the theatre community to join us in taking concrete steps to challenge stereotypes of otherness and to address conscious and unconscious bias in our decision-making processes.

Eric Boyd

Eric Boyd is a recipient of the PEN Prison Writing Award, Slice Magazine’s Bridging the Gap Award, and was a semi-finalist for the H.E. Francis Award. His stories have appeared in Joyland, Guernica, The Offing, Hobart, The Masters Review, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, as well as the anthologies Prison Noir(Akashic Books) and Words Without Walls (Trinity University Press). Living in Pittsburgh, Boyd holds an MFA from the Writer’s Foundry in Brooklyn. He is the editor of The Pittsburgh Anthology (Belt Publishing), which Ploughsharescalled “diverse, surprising, eloquent, playful, scrappy, and tenacious.” Boyd is now completing his debut story collection, Brownfields and has begun work on a novel about young freight train hoppers.

Future Tenant

Learning : Lectures ; Performance : Music ; Services ; Visual : Exhibitions , Film , Photography

Future Tenant’s mission is to provide a laboratory setting for artists, arts managers, and audiences to explore the limits of the creative expression, presentation, and interpretation of various art forms. Future Tenant was founded in 2002 as an initiative of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts and Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Arts Management program, with the collaboration of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council (GPAC) champions the arts in Southwestern Pennsylvania, providing financial, professional, and political support for the arts and culture sector. Comprised of more than 400 diverse artists and nonprofit organizations, GPAC offers valuable research, legal and business consulting, networking and professional development opportunities so that artists, as well as arts leaders and organizations, can grow their skills and advance their practice. GPAC provides grants for artists and arts organizations, leads the region’s arts advocacy at the local, state, and national level, and models best practices for accessibility and equity in the arts. Vision: An equitable, innovative, and flourishing arts and culture community that shapes our thriving region. Mission: To expand the reach and impact of the region’s diverse and vibrant arts and culture community by providing leadership, advocacy, capacity building, and connections. Guiding Principle: The arts transform lives and communities. Values: Creativity, Collaboration, Accessibility, Equity, Inclusion, Knowledge Goals: Serve as a change agent to increase visibility, relevance, and support for the arts. Enhance the capacity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the arts and culture community. Create an environment and opportunities that are supportive of individual artists. Serve as a model organization that strives to incorporate best practices, increase internal efficiency, and ensure organizational sustainability. History: In 2005, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council formed from a merger of ProArts and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance. Initially a grassroots organization comprised of a group of arts organizations committed to driving shared resources and political will, GPAC early on recognized its critical role at helping to build arts audiences and patrons to sustain and grow the cultural community. Over the past decade, GPAC has expanded to offer an array of services and resources to help arts nonprofits build their foundation, and has served as the region’s authority on arts and culture to the political and business sectors as well as the media. GPAC has consistently cultivated important relationships with city, state, and federal partners to ensure support for our region’s creative sector as a contributing industry. This includes hosting Americans for the Arts’ 2013 National Convention; spearheading the creation of the bicameral, bipartisan Arts and Culture Caucus in the Pennsylvania State Legislature; and chairing the Board of Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania.

Joan Mitchell Foundation

Learning ; Performance : Music , Theatre ; Services ; Visual : Exhibitions , Film , Photography

Mission The Joan Mitchell Foundation celebrates the life of abstract artist Joan Mitchell by expanding awareness of her pioneering work and fulfilling her wish to support and provide opportunities for visual artists. Through grants, residencies, and related initiatives, the Foundation advances the work of today’s artists and amplifies their essential contributions to communities around the world. Vision The Joan Mitchell Foundation is both a model for how resources can be offered to artists, and an advocate for the value of artists. The impact the Foundation seeks to have is to help to create a world in which the following conditions exist: • Artists are valued and thriving • The visual artists who are recognized in contemporary culture reflect and represent the diverse world in which we live • A comprehensible and comprehensive set of systems provide resources for artists’ lives and careers Values The Joan Mitchell Foundation is: • Artist-centered • Diverse in demographics and perspectives • Responsive • Comprehensive • Sustainable Joan Mitchell Center 2275 Bayou Road New Orleans, LA 70119 (504) 940-2500 info@joanmitchellcenter.org

Littsburgh

Culture : Literature/Poetry

The online destination for the writers, publishing professionals, organizers, institutions, and readers who make Pittsburgh one of the world’s most literary cities. Littsburgh™ showcases Pittsburgh as a hub of literary talent and activity, and serves as a resource to foster further collaboration and connection within this community. We hope you join us by browsing our interviews and excerpts with local and visitingauthors, our book recommendations, our breaking literary news, our comprehensive local events calendar, and our growing literary roster (which features authors, organizers, booksellers — and more! — with strong ties to Pittsburgh). While you’re here, see what people are saying about Littsburgh! Littsburgh was inspired by Pittsburgh’s rich literary tradition and its current dynamic literary scene. So much is happening in our city—poetry readings, book signings, writing workshops, conferences, lectures—that Pittsburgh is becoming a true literary destination. We want to help highlight these events, celebrate authors with strong ties to Pittsburgh, and foster connections among booksellers, publishers, reviewers, other publishing professionals, and of course, the readers who make it all possible.

Monongalia Arts Center (MAC)

Learning : Classes , Lectures ; Performance : Music , Musical Theatre , Opera , Theatre ; Services ; Visual : Exhibitions , Film , Photography

Monongalia Arts Center (MAC) is a non-profit arts and culture center serving Monongalia County and surrounding areas. MAC offers classes in both the visual and performing arts, as well as houses the Benedum Gallery, Davis Gallery, Tanner Theatre, and a gift shop featuring unique gifts and artwork from various local artists. Located between the historic Hotel Morgan and the old Morgantown Post Office on South High Street, Monongalia Arts Center is hard to miss. We have one of the oldest and most beautiful buildings in Morgantown. We are also the only building with a lawn downtown. Mission: Monongalia Arts Center is committed to providing a home for the visual, performing, and literary arts through programming and educational outreach. History: The Louis F. Tanner family purchased the building from the federal government on September 13, 1975. When this beautiful, 1913 Neo-classical building was purchased, the intentions of the Tanner family were for the property to be developed and maintained as a cultural center for the perpetuation of the arts and history of the community, and to be a place for those efforts to be displayed, taught, and practiced. The creation of such a center was a long held dream of Mabel DeVries Tanner. Mrs. Tanner was born in New York City on August 2, 1898. She came to Morgantown with her husband, Louis immediately after their marriage in 1924. Mrs. Tanner founded the Morgantown Players, a highly active community theatre group. She was a critic of the arts for the local newspapers for forty years and remained devoted to the arts until her death in 1974. Mrs. Tanner had envisioned a facility complete with a theatre, art gallery, classrooms, and workshop space that would house the performing and creative arts, as well as provide a central point from which to foster the arts and encourage their growth. In June 1976, the Monongalia County Arts Center Association, Inc. was chartered. After two years of planning and development, MAC opened its doors to the public in June of 1978. In 1979, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Stop by to see our current exhibits, sign up for a class, or converse with local artists at our receptions. We can’t wait to see you!

Nandanik Dance Troupe

Culture : Heritage/Culture Specific , Historical , Literature/Poetry ; Performance : Dance , Music , Musical Theatre

Nandanik Dance Troupe is a Pittsburgh-based 501(c)(3)Non-profit organization that seeks to promote, propagate, and preserve Indian classical dance styles in USA. Its goal is to spread the beauty and richness of Indian dance and music so that it transcends all barriers and creates an awareness that helps to spread global harmony and understanding. Nandanik Dance Troupe’s mission is to promote and exhibit the richness of Indian culture and heritage through performances incorporating various Indian dance forms especially the classical dance styles of India ,and to disseminate the traditional art, music through performances, lecture-demonstrations, and active participation and interaction of the audience and the performers. Nandanik Dance Troupe fosters international understanding of diverse cultures through active participation in community activities and events, through creating awareness of Indian culture and supporting its acceptance, and through understanding as well as intermingling of diverse cultures and ethnic values. Nandanik Dance Troupe strongly believes in reaching positive values in the community that build spirit, mind, and body, and welcomes every one to enjoy Indian culture and heritage through various Indian dance forms.

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