people and ideas at the edge of innovation
Handmade Arcade, started with support from a Sprout Seed Award, continues to expand each year. Nearly 10,000 are expected this weekend at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
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Pittsburgh City Council honored Sprout’s 10th anniversary and declared November 1, 2011 as “Sprout Fund Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.
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Pop City Media profiles the South Side Sculpture Project, a Sprout-supported piece of public artwork more than ten years in the making!
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Diana Nelson-Jones profiles Sprout’s 10-year milestone and reviews long-lasting investments in the people and ideas that have had a dramatic impact on the quality of life in Pittsburgh.
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A small group of artists has published three hand-bolund volumes of graphic art and creative design, from drawings of wolves and zeppelins to speculations about the sexualities of extraterrestrial life forms.
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A tale of two men who have gone missing, and two women trying to find them–is inspired by the true migration and detention stories of two Pittsburgh immigrants.
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Auberle’s new Outdoor Classroom is serving as an arena for hands-on learning of the sciences and teaching the children in Auberle’s care valuable lessons about their role in the community.
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Burgh Bees teaches Pittsburghers how to keep bees through classes and workshops, helps network local beekeepers, and provides delicious, local honey.
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Bikes are everywhere in Pittsburgh today—which wasn’t the case 10 years ago. Sprout’s support for several Bike Pittsburgh initiatives has been part of that transformation.
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Follow Freddy as he prepares for kindergarten and attends his first day of class. Through reading the new online version of the book, children learn what they can look forward to on their first day at school.
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Sprout’s community mural program has helped artists and neighborhoods create more than 50 works of permanent public art for the region’s largest gallery show.
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Teacher and student from Southmoreland Middle School aim to resolve issues of erosion and flooding in the Jacobs Creek Watershed area by increasing the biodiversity of run-off near the school.
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Spring projects are building biodiversity in the Pittsburgh region and three organizations are starting to reap the seeds they’ve sown.
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ReefBot at Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium allows children to navigate, find, record, and identify marine life in a coral reef habitat.
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Turning up the volume and raising the profile for Pittsburgh’s emerging arts scene, Sprout showcased hundreds of musicians and visual and performing artists during two series in 2003 and 2004.
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