One Large: art project gives black-owned business a boost – $10 at a time

Prompted by gentrification in Pittsburgh, Joy Katz and Cynthia Croot gave 100 artists $10 each – then tracked where the bills were spent across the USWhen artist and poet Joy Katz learned that Ace Hotel was opening in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, a historically black neighborhood, she wondered whether developers of the trendy chain were employing black designers and craftspeople on their team. “I was familiar with their design aesthetic, which I find to be very white,” Katz said