Caitlin Bruce was awarded a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Caitlin Bruce, associate professor in Pitt’s Department of Communication within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, was awarded $60,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in support of her Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project (HCUAP).

HCUAP uses urban art as a platform for larger discussions about just development, transnational aesthetic movements, youth activism and postindustrial identity. The project offers free youth street art workshops with local Pittsburgh artists, including Juliandra Jones, Marie Mejia, Maggie Lynn Negrete and Alison Zapata. 

The Andy Warhol Foundation manages an innovative and dynamic grants program, which, to date, has given nearly $300 million in cash grants to more than 1,000 arts organizations around the country and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.