Art of Diversity Showcase & Competition
The arts are more crucial than ever during times of crisis as they provide a cathartic and thought-provoking outlet for self-expression.
All members of the Pitt and regional community are invited to submit creative works of any kind, relevant to aspects of their cultural identity, sociocultural topics, or social justice issues for entry in the Art of Diversity Showcase.
See the Office of Diversity & Inclusion's website for details on submission! Deadline for entries is Monday, July 6!
All members of the Pitt and regional community are invited to submit creative works of any kind, relevant to aspects of their cultural identity, sociocultural topics, or social justice issues for entry in the Art of Diversity Showcase.
See the Office of Diversity & Inclusion's website for details on submission! Deadline for entries is Monday, July 6!
Coming July 7: C4C Creative Challenge #2
Our second Center for Creativity Creative Challenge video drops on July 7! Follow our C4C staff and friends as they attempt to create a self-portrait in 60 seconds, then give it a try yourself. You can tweet your own creation and tag us @PittC4C! Check out our trailer:
Creative Interventions winners!
Creative responses to public health issues can empower and educate others, and positively affect behavior. From posters that raised awareness of safer sex practices during the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis to the use of popular music to help combat the spread of Ebola in Liberia, creativity has played a critical role in public health campaigns.
The Center for Creativity hosted a community-wide competition to craft a creative response to and intervention in this public health discussion: any format, any genre, written or visual, analog or digital. We received entries from current students, staff, alumni, and members of the Pittsburgh community. The quality of the entries made judging difficult, but we are excited to be able to share our winners here!
Winning Entries
Honorable Mentions
Lamar Abushaban, Diana Gannon, Michaela Hope, Vinci Kolodziejski, MeiMei Lewis, Taylor Robinson, Jon Rutkauskas, Sarah Sha, Boen Wang
The Center for Creativity hosted a community-wide competition to craft a creative response to and intervention in this public health discussion: any format, any genre, written or visual, analog or digital. We received entries from current students, staff, alumni, and members of the Pittsburgh community. The quality of the entries made judging difficult, but we are excited to be able to share our winners here!
Winning Entries
- Grace Hobayan, Shutdown
- Grace Garner & Jess Taylor, Crafts and Coronavirus
- Carol Stanton, Flattening the Curve
Honorable Mentions
Lamar Abushaban, Diana Gannon, Michaela Hope, Vinci Kolodziejski, MeiMei Lewis, Taylor Robinson, Jon Rutkauskas, Sarah Sha, Boen Wang
C4C Art Challenge #1 | Everyday Masterpiece
Center for Creativity staff take our first art challenge: recreate some of our favorite artworks using only what we can scavenge around the house.... Created, edited and hosted by Jasmine Green, Center for Creativity Assistant.
Pitt-Bradford Students' Original Play Becomes Podcast
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford spring theater production – like so many things these days – has gone online.
Dr. Kevin Ewert, professor of theater, and his students have turned their original production “Monsters” into a podcast available for listening on Pitt-Bradford’s YouTube Channel or embedded below.
Every other spring, Ewert leads his students through the creation of an entirely new production – written, directed and designed by students, who are also the actors, stage hands, set designers, prop masters and more.
That task became even more challenging this year when students had to decamp following the university’s spring break due to the coronavirus pandemic. The production being planned was for a live audience in the university’s studio theater.
In the beginning, the all-female cast wanted to create something to address identity, gender, victim blaming, mental health and sexual politics. In early improvisation exercises, they adopted mythological characters and threw them into various situations to explore these contemporary themes.
“It was in playing with the female characters and their wild backstories from Greek mythology that we found our guiding question,” said Ewert. “Where are all the epic quest stories with women?”
With everyone on board for a quest, students started to create scenes straight out of a Dungeons and Dragons game: assembling a team, encountering monsters, solving riddles, going on side quests, resisting temptations and, of course, fighting a Big Bad.
“We had structured it all and improvised almost all the scenes into existence before spring break,” Ewert said. “It was a lot of fun. It seemed too good to just let it go.”
Ewert and his students rewrote parts of the script to focus on sounds instead of visuals. They moved rehearsals online via teleconferencing software, then each individual recorded their own audio from home.
Patrick Tanner, Pitt-Bradford technical director, mixed the audio from home, adding effects, soundscapes and music.
Students taking part in the creation and performance were Anna Bajowsky, an interdisciplinary arts major from Bradford; Brooke Imbriale, an interdisciplinary arts major from Beaver Falls; Erica Isenberg, an interdisciplinary arts and business management student from Warren; Julie Kephart, a biology major from York; and Julian Rowe, an interdisciplinary arts major from Spring Hill, Fla.
This is our archive of #PittPrompts from March/April 2020. Originally posted daily to social media, we've archived them here to provide some creative inspiration for you. Pick one and make something new, and tag us if you share it! (@PittC4C on Twitter and Facebook, or centerforcreativity on Insta.)