Arts
The mission of Uncommon Grounds Cafe's Art department is to provide artists of all skill levels and stages of maturity with opportunities for community, exploration, and expression. We desire to help develop vision and structure for art-making within community, to foster creativity in all aspects of the café ministry, and to help Uncommon Grounds Cafe to be a gracious, subversive, and transforming presence in the city of Aliquippa.
Our GoAls
Loving the Whole Community:
Our goal is to see everyone who comes into Uncommon Grounds grow together, learn together, and make and experience great art together.
The Opportunity and Discipline of Making Art:
We desire to provide people of all ages and experience with opportunities to experiment in diverse settings and in a variety of media. We invite artists to take healthy risks and to develop and to express their art in a safe environment.
Participating in the Arts Community of Aliquippa, Beaver County, and Pittsburgh:
We seek to venture with courage and skill into the city with works of art that are hopeful, subversive, allusive, challenging, and compelling; works that invite people into a new way of living and that challenge what is really real.
The Need for Life-Long Learning:
We want to have clear, careful, and creative thinking about art and its relation to God, ourselves, the community, and our life in the world at large.
Our goal is to see everyone who comes into Uncommon Grounds grow together, learn together, and make and experience great art together.
The Opportunity and Discipline of Making Art:
We desire to provide people of all ages and experience with opportunities to experiment in diverse settings and in a variety of media. We invite artists to take healthy risks and to develop and to express their art in a safe environment.
Participating in the Arts Community of Aliquippa, Beaver County, and Pittsburgh:
We seek to venture with courage and skill into the city with works of art that are hopeful, subversive, allusive, challenging, and compelling; works that invite people into a new way of living and that challenge what is really real.
The Need for Life-Long Learning:
We want to have clear, careful, and creative thinking about art and its relation to God, ourselves, the community, and our life in the world at large.
Get Involved
We're looking for writers at the cafe! We have opportunities for:
- Poets and spoken-word artists to read their stuff at the Thursday Night Open Mic night.
- Writers to join a Writer's Workshop Group on Wednesday Night, 7:30-8:30.
- Reporters and Writers to write articles for a Cafe newsletter.
- Song-lyric writers to create songs that be set to music and performed at the Cafe.
- Material for an "Old Time Radio" show at the Cafe in January.
- Skits for future production.
- Writing for special events like the Stations of The Cross service in April.
