Tag: Braddock
- Envisioning Appalachia
American Dream Sequence: Left Behind in the Monongahela River Valley
In the Monongahela River Valley, former mill towns exist at a remove from Pittsburgh’s current economic renaissance.
- Hillman Photography Initiative
How a Childhood at the Museum Influenced One Artist’s Future
Steffani Jemison recalls a childhood encounter with art, and how that informed her future work with the museum's Hillman Photography Initiative.
- Envisioning Appalachia
Between Truth and Fiction: Pittsburgh’s Burden of Identity
Matthew Newton considers Pittsburgh's industrial past, and how that has legacy has shaped the city's identity over the last four decades.
- Envisioning Appalachia
Appalachian Youth Respond to the Museum as Classroom
The Appalachian youth of this summer's Envisioning Our Future program, a collaboration between CMOA and Appalshop, reflect on their experiences.
- Architecture
In North Braddock, Residents are Reviving a Forgotten Playground
Al Borde, a collective of young architects from Quito, Ecuador, is helping community groups in North Braddock to revive a once-vibrant playground.
- Neighborhoods
Art on Loan: Inside Braddock’s Art Lending Collection
With the Art Lending Collection in the Braddock Carnegie Library, Transformazium maintains the community's culture while subverting arts’ narrative.
- Neighborhoods
In North Braddock, a Derelict Church Offers Signs of Hope
Caledonia Curry and Tod Seelie report on efforts to resurrect a neighborhood church in the small town of North Braddock, Pennsylvania.
- Neighborhoods
Concrete Ideas and Paper Architecture: Artists Looking for Buildings in the Big City
In search of creative space, friends Joey Behrens and Haylee Ebersole explore Wilkinsburg as a potential home for their art practices.
- Teenie Harris Archive
Kings on the Hill: Rise of the Pittsburgh Crawfords
One of the greatest baseball clubs of all time began as a group of neighborhoods kids in Pittsburgh playing ball on the sandlots of the Hill District.