Pittsburgh Artist Registry

Shaunda Miles is a Writer, Producer, Creative Consultant and Entrepreneur.  A native New Yorker, she is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale University’s School of Drama.  As an artist, Shaunda’s strives to live her life seamlessly.  Her poetry and plays focus on themes themes ranging from the black church to girl-power to the obscurity of life as depicted in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

In 2005, Shaunda founded demaskus, a 501(c)3 service-oriented collective of professional artists and administrators who produce plays and musicals that make known the messages of the marginalized.  In 2010, Shaunda was honored as one of New Pittsburgh Courier’s Fab40, and was recently selected as one of Geneva College’s 2013 Urban Heroes.  Shaunda serves as a Managing Editor on the Communications Ministry of Mount Ararat Baptist Church and currently works as the Director of Public Relations for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

If I could, I would have written Kipling’s L’en`voi´ (pronounced län`vwä´) as my artists statement:

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,

When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,

We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,

Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,

But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,

Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!