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Outreach Programs


Greater Pittsburgh Area

SCC’s focus on multiculturalism is unique in the contemporary craft field.  By partnering with community organizations, SCC can reach nontraditional and diverse audiences, explore fresh, exciting ways of approaching old problems, and develop programs that have a richer level of input and development.  These include:


Dreaming Pillow Project

Dreaming Pillow provides at-risk, homeless children and families-in-transition with art activities that foster communication and personal growth while enhancing visual literacy skills. Artists work with children to create "Dreaming Pillows," beautifully embellished painted fabric pillows that invite the young artists to focus on dreams and possibilities, providing a tangible way for these at-risk youth to express hope for their future.


Nursing Home Program

This project recognizes that the creative process can be as vital at the end of life as in early childhood and helps to  restore a sense of beauty, dignity, and celebration to residents of assisted living facilities and nursing homes throughout Allegheny County . An art therapist from SCC guides residents through several hands-on projects in a variety of media through a six-week residency.


Museum/School Partnership

SCC’s intensive arts program partners artists with a Pittsburgh Public School to use art in support of interdisciplinary learning in core subjects – math, science, social studies, communications and language arts. Students from 6th, 7th, and 8th grades make craft projects with our resident instructors including fiber artists Tina Brewer and Sandy Trimble and Woodturner Linda VanGehuchten.


Visual Arts Apprenticeship Program

This program is for gifted and talented high school students and is offered through a partnership with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit.  This partnership enables students to work with accomplished teaching artists and museum professionals to discover what it is like to be a professional artist or work in a visual arts organization. The learning experience uses tours, hands-on activities, artist presentations, discussion and time in SCC’s education center to give participants the opportunity to develop a finished contemporary craft piece, as well as to explore aspects of exhibition development and careers in visual arts organizations. 


For more information about any of these programs, please contact Sherrard Bostwick at 412-261-7003 x25 or thestudio@contemporarycraft.org


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