Milestones

Sandy Kessler Kaminski is an accomplished visual artist and arts educator with experience managing largescale public art installations, community-driven projects, and multidisciplinary commissions. Sandy’s artistic practice is focused on placing the viewer in a historical timeline using scientific documents and portraiture. Using reclaimed documentation from the past, she hopes to guide the viewer to understanding their place in this moment of scientific and cultural change. In addition to her artistic practice, Sandy is deeply engaged in Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape with a track record of program development, grant-funded initiatives, and collaborative partnerships with nonprofits, schools, and municipal entities.

Working from Pittsburgh’s North Side, Sandy’s community inspired works can be found all over the city. Some of her selected community inspired works: URBAN (Bakery Square), Welcome to the Strip (Sprout Fund), It’s in the Attic (Millvale), Robots Going to Read (Art Excursions Unlimited), Corner of Hope (The Pittsburgh Project), Lantern (National Endowment for the Arts), LISTEN! The North Side Girls have Something to Say! (Changemakers), A Path to Peace (Children’s Museum Pittsburgh), Time Travelers (Edith Abeyta, Trying Together, PennDOT and City of Pittsburgh).

In addition to residencies at Carrie Furnace Historical Site with Rivers of Steel, Arts Excursions Unlimited and Shenandoah National Park, and Walnut Capital Sandy’s artwork has been featured in solo exhibitions at BE Galleries, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and in nation-wide in group exhibitions at the Erie Museum of Art, Butler Museum of Art, Holt Russell Gallery at Baker University, KS, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX, State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Sandy’s work can be found in the collections of the United States Department of the Interior, Carnegie Mellon University, Ohio State University, Austin Peay State University TN, PPG Arena, Community College of Allegheny County, Dick Blick Art Supply LLC, Del Monte, Citizen’s Bank, The Public Employees Retirement System for the State of Ohio, to name a few.