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Pittsburgh will be one of three cities, along with New York and Los Angeles, to host pop-up exhibitions celebrating the music and legacy of the rapper, launched in partnership with Amazon Music. Entry is free and all net proceeds from pop-up merchandise sales will go to The Mac Miller Fund, established at The Pittsburgh Foundation, to help emerging artists.

Foundation President and CEO Lisa Schroeder is mentioned in this slideshow: 

The Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards stands out from the crowd by celebrating not just institutions and organizations that support the arts, but the individual artists. The award winners each receive a $15,000 grant provided by The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. #SEEN includes: Celeste Smith, Saleem Ghubril and Doug Root.

Maxwell King sips tea in his elegant Squirrel Hill living room, a morning ritual for a man who’s working hard to get the hang of retirement. He means it this time — honest — even though his first three tries ended in miserable failure. Now 75, his signature beard more white than gray, King sits in a chair with his two large dogs, a poodle and a Labradoodle, sprawled at his feet. Paintings of famous Pittsburgh artists line the tan walls above him.

Mac Miller had a vision of helping give young people the chance to explore the arts and perhaps even build creative careers. He wanted to have this positive impact in his hometown of Pittsburgh and in communities throughout the country. In the wake of his untimely death at 26 in September of last year, the Mac Miller Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation was set up to fulfill that vision. Last spring, two $50,000 grants to music programs in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles were announced.

The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh, a joint program of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, has awarded $388,000 to individual artists and art programs for the initiative’s fall 2019 grantmaking cycle. Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh is dedicated to supporting excellence in presenting and producing artwork rooted in the Black experience.

For the first time since their revival, in 2012, the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards have gone to a pair of artists whose medium is words. Both nonfiction writer and performance poet Adriana Ramirez and poet Cameron Barnett explore the ways historical events resonate across time and geography. The awards are sponsored by The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation.