Cut Pathways: Season 3 "Steel City Outsiders & The Institutional Avant-Garde" (Trailer)
Channel: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Date: 06/10/2022

Steel City Outsiders and the Institutional Avant-Garde, the third season of Cut Pathways, a podcast produced by the Carnegie Mellon University Oral History Program, investigates the history of avant-garde arts organizations and communities in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood in and around the 1970s.

In the 1970s, Oakland emerged as an unlikely center for avant-garde arts. Influential Oakland institutions like Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh, along with emerging arts organizations like Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Selma Burke Art Center, began producing spaces where artists could experiment and establish communities built around non-mainstream ideas.