Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Membership Directory

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Quantum Theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in unexpected ways. Quantum Theatre is known for its adventurous, environmentally-staged theatre productions that take place all over the city of Pittsburgh. From rustic settings, like an abandoned industrial site or grove of trees, to grand settings, like major museums, Quantum creates gripping live theatre in unique Pittsburgh places. The plays are international contemporary or updated classics. Directors, performers, and designers come from all over the world as well as represent the best local talent. Quantum produces a year-long subscription series of four plays, and educational residency program for high school students, and conducts community outreach programs which inform and involve the region's citizens.

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Renaissance & Baroque's concerts and outreach activities further the mission to educate the community by fostering the understanding and appreciation of the music, arts, and culture of the Renaissance and Baroque and by presenting historically informed performances of music from the Medieval through Early Classical time periods.

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The mission of the Renaissance City Wind Music Society is to promote the best in wind chamber music, with an emphasis on American music, through presenting concerts and educational programs, producing recordings, commissioning new works, and collaborating with other artists.

 The Renaissance City Winds Music Society sponors its own performing group, the Renaissance City Winds. Founded in 1975, the Winds form the city's oldest professional chamber music ensemble and tour throughout the East and Midwest, with two CDs released on the Centaur and Elan labels. In Pittsburgh, they present a subscription series and do extensive educational work in regional schools, often involving partnerships with Gateway to the Arts and Meet the Composer. The Renaissance City Winds has been in residence at Carlow University since 1978.

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The REP is Point Park University’s professional theatre company.  The REP functions as a laboratory for provocative theatre, producing plays that ask more questions than they answer.  A major part of The REP’s mission is to articulate a Pittsburgh voice, whether by cultivating and exporting works with a local accent or by importing works that speak to this community, while serving as an artistic laboratory for our Conservatory and its professional artists.

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To promote the Arts in Allegheny County with emphasis on targeting youth that are at-risk economically and socially disadvantaged in an effort to provide them with a better quality of life.

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The Senator John Heinz History Center is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and the largest history museum in Pennsylvania.  The new Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, which opened on November 13, 2004, is a museum within a museum, comprehensively presenting the region’s remarkable sports story through hundreds of artifacts and interactive experiences for visitors of all ages.  The History Center also includes the Library & Archives and is associated with the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life, Pennsylvania’s newest National Historic Landmark, in Avella, Pa.

Silk Screen Asian American Festival 1 North Shore Center 12 Federal Street, Suite 201 Pittsburgh, PA  15212-5816 Phone:  724.969.2565 Fax:      412.322.3226  www.silkscreenfestival.org hsaluja@silkscreenfestival.org   Budget Size:  < $100,000  Number Full-time Staff:   1 Number Part-time Staff:  6 Number Volunteers:       120

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Silk Screen aims to promote diversity and multicultural appreciation through the Arts. In particular, we hope to build cultural bridges to Asia through films at first, and the other arts later. Asia is defined as Turkey to Japan.

Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 East Carson Street Pittsburgh, PA  15203-1109 Phone:  412.431.1810 Fax:      412.431.5777  www.silvereye.org info@silvereye.org   Budget Size:  $100,001 - $250,000  Number Full-time Staff:   1 Number Part-time Staff:  2 Number Volunteers:       8

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The mission of Silver Eye Center for Photography is   to serve the public through exposure to a wide range of work by locally, nationally and internationally recognized photographers.  Silver Eye is the oldest non-profit organization in Western Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the understanding, appreciation, education, and promotion of photography as an art form and as an expressive form of visual communication.  Four premier exhibitions are featured each year in the Main Gallery, with additional exhibitions in our New Works Galleries.

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Presenting contemporary art in craft media by international, national and regional artists since 1971, the Society for Contemporary Craft offers cutting edge exhibitions focused on multicultural diversity and non-mainstream art, as well as a range of classes, community outreach programs and a fantastic retail store.

Sounds of Pittsburgh Chorus 284 Oriole Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15220 Phone:  412.531.2894  www.soundsofpgh.org sounds100@aol.com   Budget Size:  < $100,000  Number Full-time Staff:   1 Number Volunteers:       75

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Sounds of Pittsburgh is a dynamic women's chorus whose mission is to be recognized as the areas premiere source of education in and performing of, women's four part a cappella harmony.

South Hills Chorale 110 Fort Couch Road Pittsburgh, PA  15241-1030 Phone:  412.347.0175 Fax:      412.347.0174  www.southhillschorale.org jeankwright@msn.com   Budget Size:  < $100,000  Number Part-time Staff:  4 Number Volunteers:       50

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The South Hills Chorale is a not-for-profit organization that provides an opportunity for adults to develop and share their choral talents by performing professional quality concerts throughout western Pennsylvania for conventions, meetings, community events, and facilities serving seniors and infirm persons.

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South Park Theatre will introduce affordable, quality theatre to children and families to encourage participation in the arts and involvement in the arts through children's productions, adult productions and educational programs.

Squonk Opera 307 George Street Turtle Creek, PA 15145 Phone:  412.824.9399 www.squonkopera.org jackie@squonkopera.org   Budget Size:  $100,001 - $250,000  Number Full-time Staff:   2 Number Part-time Staff:  25

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Squonk Opera creates accessible, original work by combining music and multimedia imagery with humor.  Squonk Opera has been presented across America from Stanford University to the American Visionary Art Museum.  We have toured internationally through Belgium and Germany, opened the World Music Theater Festival in South Korea, and in the U.K. where The Scotsman headlined "Insane Majesty!"  American critics have called our work "surreal and poetic" (USA Today) and "ingenious, hallucinatory, hypnotic" (NY Times).  Squonk Opera has received over 60 grants and awards from organizations including the American Theater Wing, the NEA and Rockefeller M.A.P. Fund.

Stage 62 PO Box 462 Carnegie, PA  15106-0462 Phone:  412.429.6262  www.stage62.com callboard@stage62.com   Budget Size:  < $100,000

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Stage 62 is a non-profit theater group which performs at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Musica Hall in Carnegie, Pennsylvania; the hall is located just a few minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.  We produce four shows each year. We invite all persons interested in performing arts and stagecraft from all over Allegheny County and the Greater Pittsburgh area to audition for our productions, work "behind the scenes" both on the technical crews or production staff, or to enjoy some of the many performances staged each year as members of our audience. Our mission is to unite the community in the joy of producing the highest quality theatre for all ages.

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Steel Valley Arts Council strives to sponsor, promote, encourage and initiate artistic activity in the Steel Valley communities of Homestead, Munhall, and West Homestead; to inform residents on issues related to the arts, and to seek their involvement in and support for local artistic activity; to sponsor activities involving students and to encourage those arts which are indigenous to this area and which reflect its cultural and historical qualities; and to foster partnerships which result in the development and enhancement of facilities for the arts in the communities within the Steel Valley.

Steeltown Entertainment Project 4802 5th Avenue Pittsburgh, PA  15213 Phone:  412.622.1325 Fax:      412.622.6443 www.steeltown.org info@steeltown.org  Budget Size:  < $100,000  Number Full-time Staff:   5 Number Part-time Staff:  0 Number Volunteers:       5

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The Steeltown Entertainment Project is a 501©(3) organization that was founded in 2003 by Carl Kurlander (screenwriter, "St. Elmo's Fire"; TV writer/producer "Saved by the Bell"), Ellen Weiss Kander (a former Wall Street lawyer) and Maxine Lapiduss (TV writer/producer "Roseanne," "Ellen" ) as a way to tap into the talent and expertise of entertainment industry leaders who had strong ties to Southwestern Pennsylvania. The mission of the Steeltown Entertainment Project ("Steeltown") is to nurture promising talent and to incubate meaningful and commercially viable entertainment projects in Southwestern Pennsylvania by connecting former Pittsburghers who are working in the entertainment industry with the region's human, cultural, educational and economic resources. Steeltown's objective is to bring attention to this "incubation" phenomenon and to create an organization that would provide a return on the region's investment by helping to convert its creative capital into a regional entertainment industry that would allow it to retain its talent.

StorySwap P.O. Box 90161 Pittsburgh, PA  15224-0561 Phone:  412.621.4361  www.storyswap.org storyswap@gmail.com   Budget Size:  < $100,000  Number Volunteers:        15

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StorySwap is dedicated to promoting the art of storytelling in the Pittsburgh area.

STUDIO for Creative Inquiry College of Fine Arts, Room 111 Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890 Phone:  412.268.3454 Fax:      412.268.2829 www.cmu.edu/studio mmbm@andrew.cmu.edu   Budget Size:  $250,001 - $500,000  Number Full-time Staff:   3 Number Part-time Staff:  6 Number Volunteers:       1

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The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry is a research center, founded in 1989 in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. It's mission is to support creation and exploration, especially projects that bring together the arts, science, technology and the humanities, and impact local and global communities. It's fellowships and public programs ar supported by Carnegie Mellon, foundations and public agencies.

Sweetwater Center for the Arts 200 Broad Street Sewickley, PA  15143-1525 Phone:  412.741.4405 Fax:      412.741.1178  www.sweetwaterartcenter.org info@sweetwaterartcenter.org   Budget Size:  $250,001 - $500,000  Number Full-time Staff:   4 Number Part-time Staff:  3 Number Volunteers:       60

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Believing that the arts are necessary to human life, that they know no geographic, racial or religious boundaries, and that they must be readily available and accessible to everyone, Sweetwater Center for the Arts seeks to stimulate broad-based interest in and support for those who create and appreciate the arts of all cultures through quality art education experiences.