Greetings, fellow Art and Techies!

Exciting news: The Art + Technology Blog is moving to be incorporated as part of the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s TechBurger blog. As a Google-approved news source, Techburger will open our work up to a far greater readership and opportunities for Pittsburgh artists and companies.

Please update the following url in your browsers and information:
Creative Tech-burger: http://techburgher.com/category/creative-tech/

You can also find more information on Art + Tech at the Council’s website, at these links:
http://www.pghtech.org/events/art-and-technology/default.aspx
http://www.pghtech.org/networks/creative-technology/default.aspx

We look forward to seeing you there!

Happy creating!
The Art + Tech Team

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The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, with funding from the Grable Foundation and support from The Sprout Fund and The Pittsburgh Foundation, will provide “Maker” micro grants to organizations who work with children and youth.

Micro Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support programs that engage Youth Makers, children aged 7 to 17, in the hands-on design and production of objects that respond to two themes: Wearables and Rideables. Youth Makers will be encouraged to think broadly about the themes and create items as diverse as a wearable gaming system or cupcakes on wheels.

Download a Micro Grant Application and get started on your MakeShop idea today!

Micro Grant applications are due on Monday, January 30, 2012.

Micro Grants will be awarded through public selection using an online voting process developed by The Pittsburgh Foundation. The general public will have the chance to vote on their favorite projects and thereby select the final Youth Makers for grants.

Posted in Art and Technology, Awards, Design

The Fred Rogers Center is announcing a special competition for the 2012 Early Career Fellow in Early Literacy.  This Early Career Fellow, to be selected from the southwestern Pennsylvania region, will be awarded a $10,000 stipend and will work with a team of videographers and an established expert in early childhood education to create a series of videos designed to demonstrate best early literacy and digital media literacy practices, in cooperation with the Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children (PAEYC).

Since 2009, the Early Career Fellows program has supported 12 new and aspiring creators of children’s media, who have produced an array of creative projects—in robotics, interactive sculpture, media-based curriculum development, assistive technology, web blogging, and mobile gaming.  The program provides a unique career development opportunity for new and aspiring professionals who demonstrate a commitment to the same principles that guided Fred Rogers in his work.

Qualified candidates should  submit applications for the 2012 Early Career Fellow in Early Literacy.  The announcement and the application form are attached and also are available through the Fred Rogers Center’s website.

The submission deadline for applications is December 22, 2011.

For background information on all of our work at the Fred Rogers Center, including past years’ Early Career Fellows, please see our Center video on YouTube.

Posted in Art and Technology, Calls for Proposals

ABOUT PUZZLE CLUBHOUSE

Crowd-designed?

That’s right. We’re trying for something a little crazy. The idea behind Puzzle Clubhouse is an online community for a new kind of game development process, one that is crowd designed, and crowd supported. It’s a creative experiment and we need your help to get it started!

Want to know more? Keep reading!

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