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Intervals

Advancing Arts & Culture in Pittsburgh

Intervals was designed to provide strategic support to artists and arts leaders in the Pittsburgh region working to advance their organizations or creative businesses. The program incorporates an intentionally designed curriculum with comprehensive individualized support while offering an affirming space for the arts community to connect, learn, celebrate, and collaborate.

Intervals provides the tools and resources necessary to design and implement strategies for growth. Offering an innovative and holistic approach to learning and leading, that prioritizes people and their lived experiences, centers strategy, regulates power structures, and adopts our organizational framework of equity-based principles and practices to advance the arts sector. Intervals is dedicated to serving and supporting the arts sector by amplifying and celebrating the people who make art happen at each interval within the arts sector. The program will end with a closing celebration.

For Artists

The Intervals program for Artists will follow a curriculum intentionally designed to advance creative entrepreneurs. The curriculum will focus on goal setting and strategic planning for artists, revenue generation, presenting your work, and individual strategic growth planning. Participants will also receive a $1,500 financial award at the end of the program. Up to 8 artists will be selected for this program’s first iteration.

WHO SHOULD APPLY: All artist entrepreneurs, creatives, and Equity | Impact Center program alumni are encouraged to apply.

For Arts Leaders

The Intervals program for Arts Leaders will provide the opportunity for leaders of small arts organizations to learn while developing authentic relationships within the arts community through participation in interactive growth sessions intentionally designed to address the unique challenges that arts organizations experience. The program will focus on strategic growth, equity in the arts, and wellness practices for arts and cultural organizations. Participating organizations will receive a $2,000 financial award at the end of the program. Up to 4 organizations will be selected.

The Intervals program is led and facilitated by Leigh Solomon Pugliano, Equity | Impact Center President and CEO, and Diarra Clarke, Equity | Impact Center Advisor of Wellness & Culture. Intervals was designed as part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Treasures Initiative led by the Heinz Endowments and POISE Foundation and supported by the Ford Foundation.

About Pittsburgh Cultural Treasures Initiative

The primary objective of Pittsburgh’s Cultural Treasures initiative is to develop and implement the most celebratory, elegantly strategic, streamlined, and appropriately measured regional challenge program in the nation. Learn more…

Our 2023-24 Intervals Artists & Arts Leaders

We are proud to introduce the inaugural Intervals cohort!

Artists:

Arts Leader Organizations: