Pia Agrawal

Pia Agrawal is the Curator of Performing Arts at The Momentary, an adaptive reuse project opened in February 2020 that transformed a decommissioned Kraft Foods plant south of Crystal Bridges into a multidisciplinary space for visual, culinary, and performing arts as well as an artist-in-residency program. From 2014-18, Pia was the Program Director at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, where she produced the Center’s public programming, including the annual Mitchell Artist Lecture and CounterCurrent festival.  Prior to her work at the Mitchell Center, Pia served as the the Programming Director of FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA). She is a graduate of Haverford College with a BA in sociology. Aside from the transformative power of art, Pia’s interests include Lifetime movies; Topo Chico; and her blind cat, Butchie.


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We have to do better to offer arts programs in under-resourced schools. We have to do better to offer arts programs in communities of color. We have to do better in the future. But how are we doing better now?