Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
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Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild is a nonprofit a multi-discipline learning community established in 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Its programs include MCG Jazz, MCG Youth and the Denali Initiative.
The organization is the brainchild of Bill Strickland. In 1987 he grew MCG with a 7.5 million dollar capital campaign to construct a 62,000 square foot vocational training and arts center. It features a 350-seat concert hall, classrooms and workshops.
Today more than 350 high school students from communities throughout the City of Pittsburgh regularly participated in Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild after-school programs. During the day, staff artists reached an additional thousand students by going into the schools.
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