41 Local Arts Groups and Artists to receive $69,891 in Funding

Pittsburgh—November 22, 2019 – This month the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council announced the distribution of $69,891 in Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Project Stream grants across the seven-county Greater Pittsburgh region. The Arts Council honored the 41 grantees during a grant ceremony on Wednesday, November 20 at the Arts Council’s Downtown Pittsburgh office.

Project Stream provides grants of up to $2,500 to eligible individuals and organizations conducting arts projects in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Lawrence and Washington counties. This year 41 individual artists, arts collectives and organizations received project funding.

“The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council is proud to distribute Project Stream grants on behalf of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,” said Mitch Swain, CEO of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. “Project Stream supports community art projects and arts and cultural programming, which in turn increases access to the arts throughout our region.”

These annual grants are made possible through the PCA’s Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program. To learn more about this grant program, visit PittsburghArtsCouncil.org/programs/grants.

2019-2020 Project Stream Grant Highlights

• Lawrenceville Corporation ($2,159.91): Funding will support Art All Night, a celebration of arts, community, inclusion, and creativity that after 22 years has become one of Pittsburgh's most popular and beloved events.
• Handmade Arcade ($1,946.29): Funding will support the annual Handmade Arcade, Pittsburgh’s premier independent craft fair on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh. The event showcases innovative products, artwork, designs, home decor and other goods, made by more than 200 craft-based artists, makers and designers from Pittsburgh, southwestern PA, West Virginia, Ohio and around the United States.
• Kamraton ($1,447.85): Funding will support the all-women chamber ensemble's musical concert, planned for June 28, 2020. Kamraton commissions and performs contemporary classical music with a focus on woman-identifying artists.
• Allegheny Brass Band ($2,175): Funding will support up to six free concerts presented to underserved residents and patients of area Veterans Affairs hospitals and at the Woodlands Foundation summer music camps for handicapped individuals.
• Center of Life ($2,048.45): Funding will support the purchase of iPads to enrolled students, enabling them to have greater access to arts education.
• Friendship Community Church ($1,946.29): Funding will support The Corner's Jazz and Music Performances and Open Mic/Spoken Word Performances, a program of Friendship Community Church, for artists and residents from Pittsburgh's West Oakland and Oak Hill.
• Alumni Theater Company ($1,566.53): Funding will support its Professional Ensemble Short Play Festival, where professional ensemble members create five 15 minute performances for a production on February 7-8, 2020.