Host Hanna Beightley and guest Amanda Reddy take over the OPA Instagram account to discuss lead poisoning prevention and best practices for communities.
Writer Sherrie Flick will lead this guided hour-and-a-half walking and writing tour that uses the urban environment for creative inspiration.
OPA will be onsite during this event to feature the artists and artworks of the Environment, Health, and Public Art initiative.
This first session will outline the definition of creative placemaking within Pittsburgh’s public realm. Guest speaker Njaimeh Njie will provide an overview of her experience working on Homecoming: Hill District, USA.
Registration for Public Art Training Camp 2021 is now open. This training series will focus on artists and communities building relationships and collaborative practices.
Artist Edith Abeyta will be in conversation with filmmaker Tony Buba and Judy Barricella. Buba and Barricella worked together as a team on the film Small Differences,and on Voices of Our Region, an oral history project featuring 57 first-person stories from Western Pennsylvanians living with disabilities.
An afternoon dance workshop with Shambhavi Desai and the Sanskruti School of Indian Dance and Music. Class is appropriate for all age levels.
This session will be an interactive, dynamic process to define equity within the context of cultural work, challenges in regard to achieving it, and tools needed for building it.
For this session, Joseph Claunch will be presenting on Ho'n A:wan Community Park, in conversation with lead artist Daryl Shack, and the important role that community artists and culture-bearers played in the design of the park.
Artist Ginger Brooks Takahashi will share her process and tips for preparing materials to work with a fabricator. Recently, Brooks Takahashi completed the Nine Mile Run Viewfinder, a series of portals for seeing, hearing, and smelling the underground waterways.
Cortney Stell, Executive Director and Chief Curator at Black Cube will walk artists through best practices for administering projects and creating a strong project management system.
Artist Portfolio Reviews for the fall of 2021 will be held via Zoom this December 8, 2021. Limit TWO reviews per person.
