Pittsburgh Cultural Trust To Reopen Art Galleries

PITTSBURGH, PA — After a long shutdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will be reopening its galleries and visual art spaces on June 4 with the special art installation from the #notwhite collective.

The #notwhite collective is a group of 13 women artists whose mission is to use non-individualistic, multi-disciplinary art to make their stories visible as they relate, connect, and belong to the global majority. The show takes place at 812 Liberty Avenue through Aug. 1

“In the wake of the national tragedies we have experienced with the murders of six Asian women in Georgia, in addition to the immense losses of 2020--Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd and the 2.75 million deaths worldwide due to COVID--we are in various stages of collective trauma and grief,” the #notwhite collective stated in a news release.

“It is the hope that through our gathering of art and creative spirits that we may heal and empower one another to stand firmly in solidarity against white supremacy and hate and to share love and humanity as The Global Majority.”

A capstone exhibition titled 2020 is set to open in SPACE on November 19, 2021, through January 30, 2022. Funding for the 2020 exhibition project was provided by the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Small Arts Initiative of the Heinz Endowments.