The Downtown Pittsfield Cultural Association (DPCA) is a 501c3 non-profit organization created to promote and operate cultural, artistic, educational, and community enhancement programs in and around downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts and to support and collaborate with other Berkshire County cultural artistic, educational, and community initiatives, which favorably impact art, cultural, and educational programs, and the general well-being of downtown Pittsfield.

DPCA is a partner in projects such as First Fridays Artswalk, Artscape, Berkshire Lightscapes, and the Let It Shine! Public Art Partnership.

A Youth Alive member sits in front of Silvia Lopez Chavez's Let It Shine! mural "Sisterhood" at the Let It Shine! Block Party in 2023. Photo by Autumn Phoenix Photography.

Celebration of the Let It Shine! Photo Murals on the Berkshire Family YMCA in May of 2024. The murals include playful portraits of 173 students from Morningside Elementary School.

Artist Trinity Rivard stands in front of his Let It Shine! mural "Young Legends" on The Howard Building at 41 Federal Street. Photo by Autumn Phoenix Photography, 2023.

Lexi Weege and JJ Slater play the Downtown Pittsfield Summer Music Series in Persip Park. Photo by Autumn Phoenix Photography, 2024.

First Fridays Artswalk at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Photo by Zack Morris.

Jim Horsford gives a free pottery demo at First Fridays at Five in 2024. Photo by Stephanie Zollshan, The Berkshire Eagle.

City Hall with artistic, energy efficient LED lighting installed by Berkshire Lightscapes.

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