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Amir Rashidd​: ​
AmirRashiddart@gmail.com​

Multi-media Artist, Educator, Musician and Writer experienced in several platforms of imaginative and social communicative program structures and objectives.  

Exhibitions 

2017: Pittsburgh Office of Public Art: Selected community artist for Allegheny County and Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh mixed media art project: Gateway to the Arts 

2016: Hill House: Artist of the Week 2014: Community Empowerment Association: artist and educator  

2009: August Wilson Center: sculptures, music, and lecture 2006: Artica: Mix-media art exhibit 

Group Exhibitions​  

2016: Harambee Arts Festival: Featured Artist 

2015: Frick Fine Arts: Exposure, Black Art 2014: Sweetwater Mavuno Festival: Connected at the Roots 

2011: Brigadoon Art Salon: African American Artists of Pittsburgh 

2008: August Wilson Center: Art Kings of the Hill: Life in Pittsburgh's Hill District 

Educator/Art Instructor, Pittsburgh, PA 

2019,2018,2017: Love My Neighbor: ​https://lovemyneighborgrants.org/ 

2015: The Legacy Arts Project: ​Children’s art, bead, mask, and musical instrument making 

2014: Yemaya Pittsburgh: Advocating positive social change through the arts 

2007: Gateway to the Arts: Educating children through music, art, and storytelling 

Educational Art Exchanges 

2009: Ottawa, Canada: The Underground Railroad 

2007: Cienfuegos, Cuba: Artist Friendship Caravan 

2005: Salvador, Brazil: Worked with artists in various communities 

2003: Tanzania: Traveled throughout meeting and collaborating with Tanzanian artists 

Selected Writings  

2016: Breath of Blood and Milk: Poems and Stories 

2012: Three Rivers Run Deep: A Pittsburgh Poet’s Anthology, edited by Dessie Bey 

1977: Sweet Blood Call: The Poetry of Amir Rashidd 

1972: Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writing, eds., Quincy Troupe and Rainer Schulte 

Memberships  

Founding member Muntu Poets Society, Cleveland Ohio, Pittsburgh Legacy Arts Project