Kit Ayars is the director of the Center for Creativity.The Beagle Pup, the civilian predecessor to the Bulldog, was so inelegantly arranged for assembly that Flight magazine originally mused it, “designed not for production but as a one-off special in which cost was no object.” The Pup cost nearly double its sticker price to produce and the manufacturer expected to break even only after 4,000 of the type sold Beagle halted production at fewer than 200. Learn something new or practice something you haven’t touched in 20 years. You don’t need an excuse to stop by during a frustrating moment in the workday and knit for 15 minutes until you’ve reset. Our hours, locations and specific resources are outlined at. If you’re not sure what your group would like to do, Erik Schuckers, manager of programming and communications, can help you with ideas on how best to make use of the C4C to fit your goals. Email to connect with your creative self? You, as an employee of the University, are welcome to use the Center for Creativity spaces for your own enrichment, mental health, or creative outlet. Thinking of a group or class visit? Our website ( ) includes information on how to reserve a space. Enjoy the connection you can make with a coworker or stranger when you are both trying something new for the first time. Discover what happens when you are doing something with your hands or your body and your mind can reset itself. Staff members have backgrounds as poets, carpenters, fiber artists, filmmakers, musicians, cartoonists and printmakers. For instance, Season 2 of “ Processing…,” the Center’s podcast, engaged members of the Pitt community in conversation about how the intense personal and political uncertainties of 2020 affected their creative work.Īll of the Center’s spaces are staffed with experienced employees who are delighted to show you around or to help introduce you to materials or processes. The Pittsburgh Lens, a virtual spoke of the C4C, provides targeted opportunities for telling stories of our region through media such as film or podcast recording. Regular Open Mics here foster not just a creative outlet but a sense of supportive community. Its proximity to Archives & Special Collections provides a unique opportunity to be inspired by how others have engaged with paper and texts throughout history.Ĭ4C: The Understory, in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning, focuses on performance: A sprung-floor rehearsal area with a professional lighting grid and sound system, music practice rooms, a small podcast studio, instruments (from a drum kit to an electric violin), sewing machines, and a project table with whiteboard walls. The Text & conText Lab in Hillman Library, a partnership with the University Library System, focuses on the work involved in creating a physical book: making paper, setting type, marbling paper, running a letterpress, designing a linocut, and more. Our original space, C4C: The Workshop, located in the University Store, offers a broad array of creative engagement opportunities: paints, pottery wheel, laser cutter, a wall full of creative re-use materials, typewriters, origami paper, chalk, fabric and more. The Center runs three spaces (or spokes) on the Pittsburgh campus, as well as a virtual spoke. And it is available to you - a Pitt staff or faculty member - at any of the Center for Creativity spaces. That sense of wonder, of being outside our work personas and fully inhabiting our own personal selves, is important to everyone. You are welcome to use our resources in your work as an instructor or staff member, but, just as importantly, you are welcome to use our resources as an individual.ĭiana Khoi Nguyễn, assistant professor of English in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, has observed in her students “the activation of childlike wonder” when her classes are engaged in the Center for Creativity spaces. Pitt’s Center for Creativity (C4C) was founded as a no-barrier-to-entry space for everyone in the Pitt community - faculty, staff, and students. And of course, in our new AI era, creativity is an essential means for us as individuals to connect with what makes us human: imperfect learners, innovators and mess-makers. Editor’s note: This new column from the Center for Creativity will appear regularly in the University Times.Ĭreativity is central to the mission of the University: It powers the leaps of imagination and practice at the heart of new ideas and discoveries.
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