The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council has awarded 30 Southwestern Pennsylvania arts organizations a total of $150,000, as part of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Sector Flex Fund program. 

The grant program provides $5,000 grants to arts organizations in Allegheny, Beaver, Greene and Washington counties, each with average annual revenues between $10,000 and $200,000. 

A press release on Thursday announcing the funding said, “Grantees include a studio for adult artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, an organization celebrating traditional West African dance, a film archive and cinema preserving and exhibiting Pittsburgh’s film history, a choir affirming LGBTQIA+ voices, a space providing enrichment opportunities for emerging comedians, and more.” 

“The Creative Sector Flex Fund provides crucial support for small arts and culture organizations,” Mona Wiley, program specialist at the Arts Council, said in a statement. “The flexibility also allows the grantees to use the awarded funding in ways that ensure the most significant impact for their organizations and communities.” 

The Creative Sector Flex Fund is a new grant program funded statewide by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency under the Office of the Governor, and administered regionally by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, with the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council the partner for Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties.

2023-2024 Creative Sector Flex Fund grantees include: 

● Autumn House Press 

● Bach Choir of Pittsburgh 

● Balafon West African Dance Ensemble 

● Belle Voci 

● Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh 

● Confluence Ballet Company 

● Corningworks 

● Creative Citizen Studios 

● East Winds Symphonic Band Association 

● Handmade Arcade 

● Mon River Arts 

● Mon Valley Academy for the Arts 

● Nandanik Dance Troupe 

● NAT 28 

● Pittsburgh Concert Chorale 

● Pittsburgh Public Media 

● Pittsburgh Sound and Image 

● RealTime Arts 

● Renaissance City Choir 

● Renaissance City Wind Music Society 

● Resonance Works 

● Shana Simmons Dance 

● South Hills Children’s Choir

● South Hills Chorale

● South Park Theatre 

● Stage 62 

● Steel City Arts Foundation 

● The Genesis Collective 

● The Sonny Pugar Memorial 

● Washington Symphonic Orchestra 

For more information on Greater Pittsburgh Art Council grant programs, visit pittsburghartscouncil.org/programs/grants.

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