The CCAC Collection at the Center for Education, Innovation & Training 

The new Center for Education, Innovation & Training at CCAC represents the college’s long-standing commitment to preparing the region’s workforce with the skills employers need now and in the future. As a part of the plan for this building, the client was interested in incorporating  artwork throughout the space that not only highlighted the fields being taught in the space but the community of CCAC. 

The finished collection has been titled “Celebrating Community in Art: The CCAC Collection at the Center for Education, Innovation & Training” and includes 19 artists and collectives, 11 of which hold connections to CCAC. The majority of artists are Pittsburgh-based, from a range of demographics, artistic media, and career levels. The collection includes five new works commissioned just for the CEIT building, three of which were conceived from workshops by Sue Abramson, Lori Hepner, and Curtis Reaves with CCAC staff and students. 

Special care was also spent creating displays for the Culinary Department’s archive. With artist Deavron Dailey creating a commission to help highlight some of the memorabilia from the Department’s impressive legacy. And artists Cory Bonnet, Nate Lucas, and Mia Tarducci, of collective Patterns of Meaning, created a commission for the Advanced Manufacturing Department to help connect the past with the future.

Working with local designer, Point Line Projects, we created a catalog to highlight the artworks and a simple brochure to help visitors to the space learn more about the works.

LOCATION
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

INDUSTRY
Higher Education

SERVICES
Curation, Procurement, Installation, Design

TIME FRAME
30 months

ARTWORK
19 artists featured; 18 are living, regional artists

34 works purchased; including 5 new commissions

1 existing work repaired