For all the works dedicated to the legacy of late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson — the productions, the award-winning film adaptations, the entire arts.
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center today announced an expanded vision for August Wilson: A Writer s Landscape, the first-ever exhibition dedicated to the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. With major support provided by the Hillman Foundation and the Henry L. Hillman Foundation to support the design, creation, and implementation of the exhibition and additional support from BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania for virtual programming and future upgrades, the multi-sensory exhibition will now span 3,600 square feet, nearly doubling the originally planned size, and will be re-envisioned to ensure all elements of the exhibition can be explored without the use of touch, including motion sensor activation and more. Concurrently, the Center also announced that the University of Pittsburgh, which recently acquired August Wilson s archives from his Estate, and New York Public Radio, which produced the audio recordings of the Wilso