Center for Creativity

Hindsight 20/20

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How would you describe 2020? This past year brought us challenges and opportunities to inspire growth and evolution. How are you channeling these feelings?

Express yourself through spoken word, painting, music, DIY projects, poetry, and more, and be featured in an online gallery! For details and a link to the submission form, check out our webpage.

Submission deadline is Monday, Apr. 12. Pitt students, faculty, and staff are all invited to participate. Student submissions will be entered in a bi-weekly prize raffle!

Pitt Day of Giving

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Tomorrow is Pitt Day of Giving, and our first time ever participating in this annual Pitt tradition!

We've set a goal of 42 donors for our first PDoG campaign. (Why 42? We bet some of you know the answer to this universal question.

The minimum donation is just $5; your gift can make an even bigger impact during our PDoG Power Hour from 2-3 p.m. tomorrow. The area with the most number of donors will unlock special challenge funds!

The C4C turns 5 years old in March. Will you help us celebrate with a $5 gift to keep the creativity, collaboration, and connection flowing for the next five?

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Random PAWSitivity

Spread joy with our Random PAWSitivity project! Get inspired to make and share mini-artworks at our PAWSitivity workshop on Feb. 23, and find out how your creativity can brighten the days of strangers across your campus and community.

In Our Own Write: LGBTQ+ Writers in Conversation

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Join us for a reading and conversation series with some amazing LGBTQ+ writers this spring! 

Caroline Earleywine (Lesbian Fashion Struggles) teaches high school English in Arkansas where she tries to convince teenagers that poetry is actually cool. She earned her MFA from Queens University in Charlotte and lives in Little Rock with her wife and two dogs.

Jubi Arriola-Headley (original kink) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, and first-generation United Statesian who lives with his husband in South Florida and whose work explores themes of manhood, vulnerability, rage, tenderness and joy.

Savannah Sipple (WWJD & Other Poems) explores what it is to be a queer woman in Appalachia, and her work is rooted in its culture and in her body. A professor, editor, and writing mentor, she resides in Lexington with her wife.

Register now for one or more!

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Join Our Team: Graduate Student Assistant

Want to use your skills and talents to help promote creativity throughout the Pitt community? We're looking for a Graduate Student Assistant for 2021-22! Check our website for details.

Podcast Season 3: Calling All Font Fans

Season three of our Processing... podcast is all about printing, from the nuts and bolts to the social impact and implications. And we want to hear from you! What's your favorite typeface? Do you favor Futura, stan for Schoolbook, or represent for Roboto? Give us a call, and your voicemail may be featured on an upcoming episode!


Creativity Around the Community

 
 
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Black Is... Black Ain't

Mar. 3-Apr. 21 | CAAPP presents the Black Study 2.0 series, Black Is…Black Ain’t, featuring five events that explore ideas of Blackness’s fugitivity, its runaway state, how it can attach to other bodies who must then take up a disparaged subjectivity, and creativity.

 
 

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