Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh has awarded $1.2 million in new grants to 24 individual artists, collectives and arts organizations. This is the second year the program funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation & the Endowments has provided two-year grants for project-specific support.

Hazelwood’s long history as a home for industry, art, community, and recreation continues to evolve with the announcement of a new residential development at Hazelwood Green. Plans for a 50-unit apartment building at the site have been announced and will include 40 units of affordable housing. Through a partnership with Pittsburgh Scholar House, 13 of those units will be reserved for single parents pursuing a college degree.

Acclaimed artist & co-founder of multidisciplinary art collective Rainbow Serpent, Marques Redd is helping create the future of art by reviving ancient – & often erased – traditions. By uplifting Black LGBTQ creativity & culture through exploration of emerging technologies, innovative healing protocols, African cosmologies & multimedia art, he is sparking important dialogue & reconsideration of the Western artistic canon.

The Heinz Endowments is happy to welcome Sameera Fazili and Patrick Gallagher to our Board of Directors. Ms. Fazili is an economic policy expert who was Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy Director of the White House’s National Economic Council in the Biden administration. Dr. Gallagher was University of Pittsburgh chancellor from 2014-23, where he is currently a professor in the university’s department of physics & astronomy.

Heinz Award for the Environment honoree Colette Pichon Battle joins Endowments President/host Chris DeCardy for a deep dive into the inequities of climate change in this episode of “We Can Be.” A lawyer and leader at environmental advocacy organization Taproot Earth, Colette shares how increasingly severe weather is affecting generational land ownership from Louisiana’s bayous to Appalachia and welcomes a special guest questioner: environmental legend and Love Canal clean-up hero Lois Gibbs. 

The $10 million Pittsburgh Cultural Treasures Initiative (PCTI), launched by the Endowments and the Ford and POISE foundations, is wrapping up its grantmaking with a collection of grants to 50 Black arts organizations, artist collectives and individual artists. The awards totaling $505,000 mark the first time individual artists have been direct recipients of PCTI funding.