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Over the past several years, ALMA | LEWIS has emerged as a vital platform for artists of the African diaspora. Through exhibitions, fellowships, and public programs, the organization supports artists at pivotal moments in their careers while fostering constructive dialogue, and creative expression dedicated to Black culture

At a time when the voices of Black artists are essential, and art’s ability to communicate across racial, social, and economic divides feels increasingly urgent, this work remains central to ALMA | LEWIS’s mission.

We invite you to join us in our mission by becoming a supporter today.

SUPPORT SCHOLARS

Your support of up to $500 allows ALMA | LEWIS to:

Host lectures and workshops by artists, authors, and researchers on Black life, culture, and history, like Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Dr. Edda Fields-Black, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Shikeith, and poet and author Lissette Norman;
Acquire new materials for The Black Archive, our non-circulating research collection that brings together rare books, exhibition catalogs, ephemera, and artworks documenting the breadth of Black creative practice and intellectual life;
Welcome students, artists, and scholars to ALMA | LEWIS to explore our exhibitions, access The Black Archive, and spend time with our artists, like curatorial students from Johns Hopkins University who visited the studio of our Fall 2025 Artist Fellow L. Kasimu Harris.

SUPPORT ARTISTS

Your support of up to $1,500 allows ALMA | LEWIS to:

Present exhibitions that foreground artists whose work explores complex questions of identity, history, and cultural memory, such as our recent presentation Élan Cadiz: Healing the Erotic;
Host cultural events, like the screening of Tunde Wey’s Hard to Swallow at The Harris Theater in downtown Pittsburgh;
Bring together past residents of our fellowship program in a collective reflection of work and study as we did with ALL STARS: A Constellation of 10 Resident Artists.

María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez and Stephen Towns in María's studio, Photography by Tara Geyer, Courtesy of ALMA|LEWIS

SUPPORT FELLOWS

Your support of up to $2,500 allows ALMA | LEWIS to:

Provide unrestricted stipends to artists through our Fellowship Program that support housing, materials, travel, and professional development resources, allowing artists to focus on the development of their work at pivotal moments in their careers;
Pay for artists to attend classes with community partners, like Pittsburgh Glass Center and Contemporary Craft, where artists can learn new skills and experiment with new techniques;
Connect artists and scholars with Pittsburgh-based cultural workers and organizations, Joy Priest, Curator of Community Programs & Practice at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP) at the University of Pittsburgh, and…

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Yaw Owusu in his ALMA | LEWIS studio, 2023. Photo by Tara Geyer, Courtesy ALMA | LEWIS.

Since 2021, through the support of our donors and funders ALMA | LEWIS has:

Given over $400,000 directly to artists in the form of unrestricted stipends for housing, materials, travel, and professional development resources;
Hosted 13 artists through our 3-month long fellowship program, like visual artist Yaw Owusu, our Winter 2023 Artist Fellow;
Presented 7 world-class exhibitions, including Naomi Sims: (Super) Model Citizen, a retrospective on the life of fashion icon, entrepreneur, author, and one of the first “supermodels,” Naomi Sims..
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