Critical Mass: Celebrating Pittsburgh's Creative Class
The Andy Warhol Museum
Saturday June 29, 2002


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The message was spread strictly word-of-mouth and click-of mouse from person to person. Though the event was open to all, the invitation was addressed to Pittsburgh's Creative Class, with a message to gather and celebrate.

Drawn by the buzz, talented artists, architects, entrepreneurs, musicians, writers, thinkers and party-goers filled the foyer of the Warhol Museum and its auditorium to hear members from Ground Zero, Warhol Museum director Tom Sokolowski, Tereneh Mosley of the the Regional Alliance, and Richard Florida CMU professor and author of the Creative Class.

Ground Zero presents it's mission and brief list of projects focussed on architecturally based happenings in the city.

The Regional Alliance's Director of Talent Attraction and Retention, Tereneh Mosely, speaks about her heritage as both descendent of slaves and descendent of steel workers.

Carnegie Mellon University professor Richard Florida portrays Pittsburgh as a city with a rich history, invaluable assets and great universities that is weighed down by "cultural inertia," a lack of diversity and a blind eye to the needs of the young workers he refers to collectively as the "creative class."

MORE INFO

For more information on Richard Florida's book, The Rise of the Creative Class, go to http://www.creativeclass.org

Read a review of "The Creative Class" by Richard Florida by Fast Company Magazine and to test your city with this survey, click here.

 

"Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steelmaking,"

~ Richard Florida