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🎨 Step inside the creative world of Ashanté Josey!
Pittsburgh-based visual artist Ashanté Josey invites you to a special studio experience rooted in Black culture, spirituality, emotion, and the beauty of Black life. Working in blended acrylic and oil, her portraits draw inspiration from Frida Kahlo and Kehinde Wiley while staying grounded in connection and feeling.
For more than 13 years, Josey has built a practice centered on art as communication. Inspired by music, the conscious mind, and the depth of Black culture, her work explores the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. Each piece is created to be felt, not just viewed.
🖼️ Collectors’ Preview
Monday, March 9th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
A ticketed, limited-capacity evening for collectors to preview new work, explore acquisition opportunities, and connect directly with the artist.
✨ Open Studio
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
Open to the public. Community members, neighbors, and art lovers are invited to experience the work and spend time in the studio with the artist.
🔗Register using the link in our bio!
🎨 Step inside the creative world of Ashanté Josey!
Pittsburgh-based visual artist Ashanté Josey invites you to a special studio experience rooted in Black culture, spirituality, emotion, and the beauty of Black life. Working in blended acrylic and oil, her portraits draw inspiration from Frida Kahlo and Kehinde Wiley while staying grounded in connection and feeling.
For more than 13 years, Josey has built a practice centered on art as communication. Inspired by music, the conscious mind, and the depth of Black culture, her work explores the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. Each piece is created to be felt, not just viewed.
🖼️ Collectors’ Preview
Monday, March 9th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
A ticketed, limited-capacity evening for collectors to preview new work, explore acquisition opportunities, and connect directly with the artist.
✨ Open Studio
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
Open to the public. Community members, neighbors, and art lovers are invited to experience the work and spend time in the studio with the artist.
🔗Register using the link in our bio!
🏡“Pittsburgh City Councilors took steps [last] Wednesday towards creating a database that will track the creation of housing across the city.
Council gave preliminary approval to a bill that would direct city officials to assemble a “Housing Data Dashboard” that would gather information on how many new units of housing are being constructed, as well as how many units have been taken out of the supply.”
🔗Read more and sign up for future editions of the Weekend Roundup using the link in our bio!
🏡“Pittsburgh City Councilors took steps [last] Wednesday towards creating a database that will track the creation of housing across the city.
Council gave preliminary approval to a bill that would direct city officials to assemble a “Housing Data Dashboard” that would gather information on how many new units of housing are being constructed, as well as how many units have been taken out of the supply.”
🔗Read more and sign up for future editions of the Weekend Roundup using the link in our bio!
🏘️ The next Hill District Community Meeting is almost here!
Join the Hill CDC on Thursday, March 19th at the Blakey Center, 1908 Wylie Avenue. Doors open at 5:30 PM with dinner, and the meeting begins at 6:00 PM. The conversation will also stream live on Facebook for those who cannot attend in person.
This month’s agenda includes updates on the Historic New Granada and progress at New Granada Square, along with a community vote on the Duquesne Rangos School of Health Sciences project, which recently passed the DRP at the committee level with an 86.47% - B score.
The Development Review Panel (DRP) is the Hill District’s unified voice on community development that gives each and every Hill District resident a voice in the redevelopment of their neighborhood.
We will also share updates on the Lower Hill District, LERTA funds, the New Pathways (RAISE) initiative, and the University Line Art Project, which will incorporate Hill District history into new public art along the Fifth & Forbes corridor in Uptown. You’ll also hear about new storefronts on Centre Avenue and upcoming events and programs across the Hill.
Join us, stay informed, and make your voice heard!
🔗Register now using the link in our bio!
🏘️ The next Hill District Community Meeting is almost here!
Join the Hill CDC on Thursday, March 19th at the Blakey Center, 1908 Wylie Avenue. Doors open at 5:30 PM with dinner, and the meeting begins at 6:00 PM. The conversation will also stream live on Facebook for those who cannot attend in person.
This month’s agenda includes updates on the Historic New Granada and progress at New Granada Square, along with a community vote on the Duquesne Rangos School of Health Sciences project, which recently passed the DRP at the committee level with an 86.47% - B score.
The Development Review Panel (DRP) is the Hill District’s unified voice on community development that gives each and every Hill District resident a voice in the redevelopment of their neighborhood.
We will also share updates on the Lower Hill District, LERTA funds, the New Pathways (RAISE) initiative, and the University Line Art Project, which will incorporate Hill District history into new public art along the Fifth & Forbes corridor in Uptown. You’ll also hear about new storefronts on Centre Avenue and upcoming events and programs across the Hill.
Join us, stay informed, and make your voice heard!
🔗Register now using the link in our bio!
🎥 Missed the livestream?
This morning’s Pittsburgh City Council meeting is now available to watch on YouTube. Catch up on the discussion and stay informed about what’s happening at City Hall.
🔗 Watch using the link to @CityChannelPittsburgh in our bio!
🎥 Missed the livestream?
This morning’s Pittsburgh City Council meeting is now available to watch on YouTube. Catch up on the discussion and stay informed about what’s happening at City Hall.
🔗 Watch using the link to @CityChannelPittsburgh in our bio!
🎨 Step inside the creative world of Ashanté Josey!
Pittsburgh-based visual artist Ashanté Josey invites you to a special studio experience rooted in Black culture, spirituality, emotion, and the beauty of Black life. Working in blended acrylic and oil, her portraits draw inspiration from Frida Kahlo and Kehinde Wiley while staying grounded in connection and feeling.
For more than 13 years, Josey has built a practice centered on art as communication. Inspired by music, the conscious mind, and the depth of Black culture, her work explores the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. Each piece is created to be felt, not just viewed.
🖼️ Collectors’ Preview
Monday, March 9th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
A ticketed, limited-capacity evening for collectors to preview new work, explore acquisition opportunities, and connect directly with the artist.
✨ Open Studio
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
Open to the public. Community members, neighbors, and art lovers are invited to experience the work and spend time in the studio with the artist.
🔗Register using the link in our bio!
🎨 Step inside the creative world of Ashanté Josey!
Pittsburgh-based visual artist Ashanté Josey invites you to a special studio experience rooted in Black culture, spirituality, emotion, and the beauty of Black life. Working in blended acrylic and oil, her portraits draw inspiration from Frida Kahlo and Kehinde Wiley while staying grounded in connection and feeling.
For more than 13 years, Josey has built a practice centered on art as communication. Inspired by music, the conscious mind, and the depth of Black culture, her work explores the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. Each piece is created to be felt, not just viewed.
🖼️ Collectors’ Preview
Monday, March 9th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
A ticketed, limited-capacity evening for collectors to preview new work, explore acquisition opportunities, and connect directly with the artist.
✨ Open Studio
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 PM
Open to the public. Community members, neighbors, and art lovers are invited to experience the work and spend time in the studio with the artist.
🔗Register using the link in our bio!
🏘️ The next Hill District Community Meeting is almost here!
Join the Hill CDC on Thursday, March 19th at the Blakey Center, 1908 Wylie Avenue. Doors open at 5:30 PM with dinner, and the meeting begins at 6:00 PM. The conversation will also stream live on Facebook for those who cannot attend in person.
This month’s agenda includes updates on the Historic New Granada and progress at New Granada Square, along with a community vote on the Duquesne Rangos School of Health Sciences project, which recently passed the DRP at the committee level with an 86.47% - B score.
The Development Review Panel (DRP) is the Hill District’s unified voice on community development that gives each and every Hill District resident a voice in the redevelopment of their neighborhood.
We will also share updates on the Lower Hill District, LERTA funds, the New Pathways (RAISE) initiative, and the University Line Art Project, which will incorporate Hill District history into new public art along the Fifth & Forbes corridor in Uptown. You’ll also hear about new storefronts on Centre Avenue and upcoming events and programs across the Hill.
Join us, stay informed, and make your voice heard!
🔗Register now using the link in our bio!
🏘️ The next Hill District Community Meeting is almost here!
Join the Hill CDC on Thursday, March 19th at the Blakey Center, 1908 Wylie Avenue. Doors open at 5:30 PM with dinner, and the meeting begins at 6:00 PM. The conversation will also stream live on Facebook for those who cannot attend in person.
This month’s agenda includes updates on the Historic New Granada and progress at New Granada Square, along with a community vote on the Duquesne Rangos School of Health Sciences project, which recently passed the DRP at the committee level with an 86.47% - B score.
The Development Review Panel (DRP) is the Hill District’s unified voice on community development that gives each and every Hill District resident a voice in the redevelopment of their neighborhood.
We will also share updates on the Lower Hill District, LERTA funds, the New Pathways (RAISE) initiative, and the University Line Art Project, which will incorporate Hill District history into new public art along the Fifth & Forbes corridor in Uptown. You’ll also hear about new storefronts on Centre Avenue and upcoming events and programs across the Hill.
Join us, stay informed, and make your voice heard!
🔗Register now using the link in our bio!
🚧 NOW HIRING – LOCAL 526 🚧
If you’re looking for a family-sustaining career with strong wages, full benefits, and long-term opportunity, this is it.
Local 526 Plasterers & Cement Masons are actively hiring:
💵 Starting Pay: $35.02 – $37.44 per hour
➕ Full Benefits
📈 Plenty of work coming up
✅ No experience necessary
🎓 Join the Apprentice Program – Learn a skilled trade & build your future
This is what opportunity looks like in the union construction trades — earn while you learn, receive structured training, and work on major commercial projects across our region.
Too often, people overlook careers like plastering and concrete finishing. These are highly skilled crafts that quite literally build the foundation of our communities.
If you or someone you know is ready to get started:
📞 Call 412-761-6310 for more information
Exposure matters. Opportunity matters. Pathways matter.
hashtag#UnionTrades hashtag#ConstructionCareers hashtag#Apprenticeship hashtag#EarnWhileYouLearn hashtag#WorkforceDevelopment hashtag#BuildYourFuture
🚧 NOW HIRING – LOCAL 526 🚧
If you’re looking for a family-sustaining career with strong wages, full benefits, and long-term opportunity, this is it.
Local 526 Plasterers & Cement Masons are actively hiring:
💵 Starting Pay: $35.02 – $37.44 per hour
➕ Full Benefits
📈 Plenty of work coming up
✅ No experience necessary
🎓 Join the Apprentice Program – Learn a skilled trade & build your future
This is what opportunity looks like in the union construction trades — earn while you learn, receive structured training, and work on major commercial projects across our region.
Too often, people overlook careers like plastering and concrete finishing. These are highly skilled crafts that quite literally build the foundation of our communities.
If you or someone you know is ready to get started:
📞 Call 412-761-6310 for more information
Exposure matters. Opportunity matters. Pathways matter.
hashtag#UnionTrades hashtag#ConstructionCareers hashtag#Apprenticeship hashtag#EarnWhileYouLearn hashtag#WorkforceDevelopment hashtag#BuildYourFuture
🏙️“In Pittsburgh, Centre Avenue was once a thriving commercial corridor for the Hill District, a cluster of historically Black neighborhoods just east of downtown. At the center of that corridor stands the New Granada Theater, designed by Louis Bellinger, one of only 60 Black architects in the United States in the 1930s. When it first opened in 1927, the theater served as the temple for the Colored Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order. Over the decades, the venue hosted Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne, among many other Black legends."
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“Founded in 1987, Hill Community Development Corporation acquired the New Granada Theater in the early 1990s. Years later, [Marimba] Milliones approached the organization back then with a pitch to turn the long-vacant theater into a tech-job training hub. Instead, the nonprofit recruited her to its board, and eventually hired her as executive director in 2011. Since then, she’s been working to revive the theater, raising funds from a wide range of largely Pittsburgh-based foundations, tax credits, and state and local public dollars.
“At first we were looking for a more experienced developer to partner with us but we ended up doing the development ourselves,” Milliones says. No viable options stepped up.
“It’s been very, very complex with regard to the architectural solutions, construction, approvals from the National Park Service as a landmarked structure,” says Milliones. “One of our key tenants is the University of Pittsburgh’s community engagement center, which comes with its specific high standards as an office of a university.”
The plan has always been for the New Granada Theater to serve as the cultural anchor for the revival of the Centre Avenue Corridor. Challenging as it was, it proved to be essential that Hill Community Development Corporation, led by someone born and raised in the neighborhood, was the final decision-maker on every decision and detail about the renovation…”
👀Read this story and more in the latest Weekend Roundup, and sign up for future editions using the 🔗 link in our bio!
🏙️“In Pittsburgh, Centre Avenue was once a thriving commercial corridor for the Hill District, a cluster of historically Black neighborhoods just east of downtown. At the center of that corridor stands the New Granada Theater, designed by Louis Bellinger, one of only 60 Black architects in the United States in the 1930s. When it first opened in 1927, the theater served as the temple for the Colored Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order. Over the decades, the venue hosted Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne, among many other Black legends."
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“Founded in 1987, Hill Community Development Corporation acquired the New Granada Theater in the early 1990s. Years later, [Marimba] Milliones approached the organization back then with a pitch to turn the long-vacant theater into a tech-job training hub. Instead, the nonprofit recruited her to its board, and eventually hired her as executive director in 2011. Since then, she’s been working to revive the theater, raising funds from a wide range of largely Pittsburgh-based foundations, tax credits, and state and local public dollars.
“At first we were looking for a more experienced developer to partner with us but we ended up doing the development ourselves,” Milliones says. No viable options stepped up.
“It’s been very, very complex with regard to the architectural solutions, construction, approvals from the National Park Service as a landmarked structure,” says Milliones. “One of our key tenants is the University of Pittsburgh’s community engagement center, which comes with its specific high standards as an office of a university.”
The plan has always been for the New Granada Theater to serve as the cultural anchor for the revival of the Centre Avenue Corridor. Challenging as it was, it proved to be essential that Hill Community Development Corporation, led by someone born and raised in the neighborhood, was the final decision-maker on every decision and detail about the renovation…”
👀Read this story and more in the latest Weekend Roundup, and sign up for future editions using the 🔗 link in our bio!
