Creative funding

AN AUDIO BOOK AND VIDEO SERIES reinterpreting a book by Pittsburgh’s first African American medical doctor, an artist residency at the Pittsburgh Glass Center exploring plasma and neon light in glass, and a graphic novel about the experiences of growing up as a Black girl are among 27 ambitious projects to receive funding from the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant-making program so far this year.

Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh supports excellence in artwork of the African diaspora. A partnership of the region’s two largest place-based philanthropies, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, this funding program was established in 2010.

Since its inception, the program has helped support careers of individual artists and increase the sustainability of cultural organizations that focus on art of the African diaspora.