
The Endowments’ Creativity strategic funding area builds on the legacy of its former Arts and Culture program department, the foundation’s oldest grants program which began with targeted investments in major cultural institutions and facilities and in Pittsburgh’s Downtown Cultural District.
The importance of creativity across the full spectrum of the Endowments’ work serves as a key connector between the three strategic funding areas and the increasingly important role of creative forces and voices in all aspects of the region’s vibrancy and well-being.
Creativity makes vital contributions to the Endowments’ Just Pittsburgh core principle through its focus on the importance of culture, free expression, and identity in building a healthy and equitable community. Creativity also establishes a defined and visible cluster of activities across all strategic funding areas, underscoring its critical value to the Endowments’ grantmaking portfolio.
The Endowments' vision of a creative Pittsburgh is a place where creative organizations and individuals thrive, are recognized, and contribute to the quality of life. It is a place where citizens of all ages, races, ethnicities and identities have opportunities to actively participate in a creative life; where communities and neighborhoods are distinctive, beautiful and desirable locations to live and visit; and where creativity is recognized as an important characteristic of the region and contributes to its economic well-being.
Cultivate an equitable creative arts and cultural learning network; improve access to transformative learning experiences for young people; and support meaningful professional opportunities for teaching artists in Pittsburgh's out-of-school-time (OST) ecosystem.
The primary focus for the Creative Learning goal area is the Creative Learning initiative.
Strategies:
Endowments' point of contact: Mac Howison, Program Officer for Creative Learning
Ensure that Pittsburgh has a thriving ecology of cultural organizations, artists and creative professionals who make creativity their life’s work.
Strategies:
Endowments' point of contact: Janet Sarbaugh, Vice President, Creativity
Advance design excellence, public art and sustainability to ensure that Pittsburgh’s many neighborhoods and public spaces are beautiful and reflect the culture of residents.
Strategies:
Endowments' point of contact: Janet Sarbaugh, Vice President, Creativity
The Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards program has been co-sponsored by The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation since 2012, centered on a shared commitment to the arts, and a deep appreciation for the contribution of Carol R. Brown to the vitality of the region’s cultural community. In 2021, Opportunity Fund joined the Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation as a partner in the Awards.
The program’s namesake served as president of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust from 1986 to 2001, during which Ms. Brown oversaw the transformation of a 14-square-block area of Downtown Pittsburgh from a red-light district to a nationally recognized model for arts-based community redevelopment. The awards honor both her achievements and heartfelt commitment to the arts in the Pittsburgh region.
The program is one of very few in the region that provides direct philanthropic support to individual artists, and fosters their creative processes from concept to completion. The awards program recognizes one established artist and one emerging artist. Each award comes with a $20,000 prize.
After a pandemic-induced break in 2020, the 2021 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards feature three nominees in each category, with one Established Artist and one Emerging Artist awardee announced during the digital ceremony on December 13th. The event is free and open to the public; register to attend here.
The nominees in the Established Artist category are: Dawn Lundy Martin, Mikael Owunna and Staycee R. Pearl. The nominees in the Emerging Artist category are: Theodore Alexander, Danielle “INEZ” Walker, and Janel Young.
Get to know the nominees by viewing this short introduction video.
To dive into the work of the 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards honorees, check out these videos:
Emerging Artist Cameron Barnett
Established Artist Adriana Ramirez
Videos by Joshual Franzos / Treehouse Media
The COVID-19 Arts Working Group - a collaboration of 15 foundations and a private donor in the Pittsburgh metro area - has created the Arts / Equity / Reimagined Fund in response to the unprecedented impacts of the pandemic on the region’s arts and cultural sector. The fund aims to foster collective action and identify creative solutions to operating challenges, and in recognition of long-standing disparities in funding, it will prioritize small to medium-sized arts organizations and those that serve or are led by historically marginalized communities in urban or rural southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Heinz Endowments is pleased to participate as a co-organizer of the Arts I Equity I Reimagined Fund and by contributing funds to this joint grantmaking initiative.
Additional information about the Arts I Equity I Reimagined Fund, including open-to-all information sessions, eligibility requirements, deadlines, FAQs, the application process and guiding principles can be found at www.artsreimagined.org or by calling 412-219-6584.
The Heinz Endowments recognizes 14 professional artists as key components to region’s quality of life
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Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh, a joint program of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, has awarded $456,000 to individual artists and art programs for the initiative’s 2020 grant-making cycle.
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Awards include $100,000 for emergency relief, COVID-related projects
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Endowments’ Just Arts program will distribute grants to artists, communities, organizations for art that responds to critical social challenges, injustices
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Foundations invest $169,000 in Pittsburgh-based professional artists
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The talk is free and open to the public; seating is limited.
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Pittsburgh’s most prolific set designer and the artist who created the “There Are Black People In The Future” billboard have been chosen as the 2018 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award winners.
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Acclaimed designer of 500+ sets, local artist who reminded nation that "There are Black People in the Future" honored on December 10
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Disparities persist in the number of arts grants, total amounts of funds and average amount of grant dollars received by organizations of color, compared to white, non-Hispanic groups.
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Pittsburghers bet on whether it will rain during all 10 days of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival the way other people bet on sports. But whether it rains or not, this beloved event
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The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Shaunda Miles has been appointed program officer of Arts and Culture for The Heinz Endowments. Miles’ work will focus on arts and culture grantee initiatives.
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A new, $10,000 book prize for a non-fiction manuscript by a writer who has a meaningful Pittsburgh connection will be awarded by the local Creative Nonfiction Foundation in Garfield.
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In December, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was a big honor: The NEH awards only a few dozen grants annually. City of Asylum shelters writers
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Three Pittsburgh foundations are providing more than $6 million in much-needed financial assistance to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. But instead of writing checks and going away, the foundations will have an important behind-the-scenes role monitoring
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Three local foundations are giving $6.5 million to help the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra revise its business plan and broaden its base of donors so the nonprofit can achieve financial stability.
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