Get Involved!
The Arts Greenhouse is a two tiered program offering music technology classes weekly (Beatmakers Academy), and hip-hop workshops every few weeks (Enrichment Curriculum.)
Beatmakers Academy
The Arts Greenhouse is proud to present the first semester of the Pittsburgh Beatmakers Academy, our music technology education program. Classes will be every Saturday from 1:30pm to 4:30pm at Carnegie Mellon, in Margaret Morrison Hall, Room 119A. The Beatmakers Academy classes will be taught by J. Armstead Brown, bandleader, hip-hop producer, keyboardist, educator, and musicology masters student.
All teens interested in participating should get in contact with Program Coordinator, Amos Levy, immediately: amoslevy@cmu.edu - 412 268 5279
Enrichment Cirriculum
Arts Greenhouse Workshops on special topics relating to hip-hop take place every few weeks at different locations around the community. These workshops are lead by instructor Luqman Abdus-salaam. For information on upcoming workshops please check our calendar.
About the Arts Greenhouse
The Arts Greenhouse is a free hip-hop music education program serving Pittsburgh teens through the resources of Carnegie Melon University. We use Carnegie Mellon’s recording studio and pre-production equipment to take a small but dedicated group of Pittsburgh teens (ages 13-18) through the process of creating beats and recording a hip-hop music CD. The program is taught by J. Armstead Brown, professional beatmaker and bandleader of Eviction Notice.
Supporting workshops in special topics relating to hip-hop are lead by Luqman Abdus-salaam, professional poet, recording artist and community activist.
At the end of the program in December, the best student work will be made into a CD: Volume 2, An Arts Greenhouse Mixtape. If your music is selected to appear on the CD, you will receive 25 free copies of the disc. Placement on the CD is selected by the program instructors, and is not a guaranteed for all program participants.
The Arts Greenhouse reserves a non-exclusive right to distribute all music created with the program to publicize or fundraise for the Arts Greenhouse program. This means that participants retain rights to sell or use their music however they see fit, excepting the selling of exclusive rights.
Volunteering with the Arts Greenhouse
Interested in volunteering to help with the Arts Greenhouse? Do you have skills with music production, music performance, web development, or grant development? Contact program coordinator Amos Levy to find out more about how you could help.
