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Thursday, April 16, 2020
August Wilson African American Cultural Center invites world to view recent exhibitions with first-ever virtual tours
Features | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: In response to the COVID-19 shutdown, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center has launched its first-ever virtual tours to provide access to its two recent visual arts exhibitions.
Ahh, I remember the first project I had at Carnegie Mellon was the Scavenger hunt project in Susan's Basic Design class. I was unsure to go explore Pittsburgh but still eager to look at the local theater scenes. I got the August Wilson Center as my project and as Susan suggested, I went to the location! This was one of my first times in downtown Pittsburgh and when I got to the location I found out that the Center was closed due to construction. That said, I was disappointed and changed my project slightly around August Wilson's impact in Pittsburgh. Still never having the change to visit this place (and was planning to once Spring break was over), I am content that I can now visit the space virtually. A new addition to the virtual tours, the artists also get to narrate what we are observing. I really appreciate commentary from the artist themselves so I'm glad we have this opportunity to hear what they want to tell us.
I love that in the midst of all of the chaos going on during this pandemic, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center still finds a way to get out the incredibly important messages and topics they speak on. Showcasing African American artists' work about the lives of African Americans is so important in order to educate the public on the lives of these people. Not only is the cultural center virtually opening their exhibits to the public, but this includes the public all over the world and, I think that's even more beautiful. I'm always going to be supportive and excited about art being made accessible for more and more people. I think it's even better that the cultural center is not only planning on having these virtual tours during this time of social distancing, but they are also planning to continue a monthly streaming conversation with the artists. This opens the conversation up to people of all different backgrounds and of all different cultures which I think is absolutely amazing.
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Ahh, I remember the first project I had at Carnegie Mellon was the Scavenger hunt project in Susan's Basic Design class. I was unsure to go explore Pittsburgh but still eager to look at the local theater scenes. I got the August Wilson Center as my project and as Susan suggested, I went to the location! This was one of my first times in downtown Pittsburgh and when I got to the location I found out that the Center was closed due to construction. That said, I was disappointed and changed my project slightly around August Wilson's impact in Pittsburgh. Still never having the change to visit this place (and was planning to once Spring break was over), I am content that I can now visit the space virtually. A new addition to the virtual tours, the artists also get to narrate what we are observing. I really appreciate commentary from the artist themselves so I'm glad we have this opportunity to hear what they want to tell us.
Pablo Anton
I love that in the midst of all of the chaos going on during this pandemic, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center still finds a way to get out the incredibly important messages and topics they speak on. Showcasing African American artists' work about the lives of African Americans is so important in order to educate the public on the lives of these people. Not only is the cultural center virtually opening their exhibits to the public, but this includes the public all over the world and, I think that's even more beautiful. I'm always going to be supportive and excited about art being made accessible for more and more people. I think it's even better that the cultural center is not only planning on having these virtual tours during this time of social distancing, but they are also planning to continue a monthly streaming conversation with the artists. This opens the conversation up to people of all different backgrounds and of all different cultures which I think is absolutely amazing.
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