August Wilson with actress, Theresa Merritt at Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas. 1994
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Text & conText Lab print setting

The Text & conText Lab, a Center for Creativity/University Library System partnership on the Third Floor of Hillman Library, provides an active environment for the creation, manipulation, and/or disassembly of text, including papermaking, bookbinding, and more!

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Dr. Avinoff is known locally as a former Director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and as the designer of Pitt's Russian Nationality Room

Black Arts & Culture in the Archives

Get news, event information, collection updates, and more from the August Wilson Archive and Black arts and culture collections at Pitt! Our collections include the records of the Kuntu Repertory Theatre along with several others that document the history of Black performing arts in Pittsburgh. Sign up here to receive this quarterly email newsletter from the University of Pittsburgh Library System!

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Pittsburgh was selected to join cities worldwide on Google Arts & Culture, and the library is helping to tell Pittsburgh's story

The ULS was recently awarded $200,000 by the Heinz Endowments to support the acquisition of the August Wilson Archive, as well as community outreach and engagement with the Collection. The materials document a wide array of Wilson’s career and interests from the 1960s to 2010s. Included are materials from his American Century Cycle plays, artwork, poetry, and more. 

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