about us

Our Mission

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Founded in 1945, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is a non-profit community arts campus that offers arts education programs and contemporary art exhibitions, providing services and resources for individual artists throughout Western Pennsylvania. The Center is where the community can create, see, support, and learn about visual arts.

In January 2006, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts merged with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Founded in 1971, Pittsburgh Filmmakers is a nonprofit corporation designed to encourage the creation and understanding of media for noncommercial artistic and literary purposes. To this end, Filmmakers offers a curriculum of courses in film, video, and photography to university and independent students in the Pittsburgh region. Filmmakers also exhibits the work of prominent photographers and filmmakers in its two galleries, Melwood Screening Room, Regent Square Theater and Harris Theater. A key component of Filmmakers’ mission is to provide equipment access and funding for independent media artists.

PF/PCA is committed to the artist and the advancement of artistic excellence in visual arts.

PF/PCA Supporters

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The Allegheny Regional Asset District
The Alcoa Foundation
The Armstrong Foundation
The Heinz Endowments
The Hillman Foundation
The Richard King Mellon Foundation
The Laurel Foundation
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundaton
William Talbot Hillman Foundation
Mary Hillman Jennings Foundation
United Jewish Federation Foundation
Ralph and Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable Foundation
Tippins Foundation
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Ira H. Gordon
The Donald and Sylvia Robinson Foundation
The Equitable Resources Foundation
Grable Foundation
PA Department of Community & Economic Development
Phillip H. Wimmer and Betty L. Wimmer Family Foundation
Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC
The Hillman Company
Giant Eagle Foundation
Mellon Financial Corporation
Ayers Foundation
The David Bermant Foundation
Citizens Bank
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Our Members

our programs

Summer Art Camps

The PCA offers classes in printmaking, photography, ceramics, creative writing, painting, drawing, decorative arts and much, much more. Our classes are taught by some of the best working artists in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Online Registration

Register for classes, workshops and art camps from your home, without the fuss of paperwork or phonecalls.
Use our convient online registration page to signup and pay for classes, its easy and secure.

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Filmmakers at the Center

Our comprehensive and progressive program of media education for teens and older is centered at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Annie Seamans Media Arts Lab.

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