Arts Ambassadors

PITT ARTS Hosts

PITT ARTS  features 100 Arts Encounters annually and these are outings for 25-50 undergraduate students that include free tickets, transportation, a meal, and a chance to meet the starts of the art world, and other educational experiences, such as hands- on workshops, backstage tours and more.

The lion’s share of these programs are managed the evening or weekend day of the program by PITT ARTS undergraduate hosts. These hosts, or Arts Ambassadors are extensively trained in leadership.  This includes the beginning of the year host training session, providing the Hosting Handbook, and the training at this session is shared by the advanced undergraduate hosts and PITT ARTS staff.  There are five additional necessary training experiences for PITT ARTS hosts.

PITT ARTS hosts are responsible to scan all students for OCC credit, sign in students, distribute tickets to students, get students on the bus to the restaurant and to the hall for the concert, play, or other arts destination, interact with arts organizations’ staff and make sure that students make it back via bus to Pitt’s campus at the end of the Arts Encounter program.

Every year PITT ARTS hosts write a Leadership Reflection Statement and meet with the PITT ARTS director to discuss it, talk about the year and how to improve their leadership in the next year. Every semester each undergraduate student host leads at least six Arts Encounters totaling more than 15 hours of leading their peers.  In addition, PITT ARTS Hosts handle Admissions events, and speak for PITT ARTS in highly sophisticated ways.

This advanced leadership program delivers some of the most talented leaders on Pitt’s campus, and many are also RA’s, in the Blue and Gold Society, and are Pitt Pathfinders.

If any Pitt undergraduate student would like to be considered for a PITT ARTS Host position, please visit us in the PITT ARTS offices at 824 William Pitt Union Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday or 431 William Pitt Union Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

PITT ARTS Student Advisory Board

The PITT ARTS Student Arts Association (PASA) consists of Pitt undergraduate students who assist PITT ARTS with ideas and follow-through with our present needs and as we develop the future of PITT ARTS. Students on PASA have already established themselves as leaders and have a passion for arts and culture. Initiatives include marketing, fundraising, and new programming concepts for PITT ARTS.

Annabelle Clippinger is the Advisor to the PITT ARTS Student Advisory Board. If any undergraduate student would like to join this dynamic Student Advisory Board, please send an email with a one paragraph statement of interest to Annabelle at abelle@pitt.edu with “Arts Advisory Board” in the subject line.