The entrance to Legacy located at Carrie Furnace Historical Site. The work uses maps, engineering and architectural drawings found in the Carrie Furnace collection and at the Rankin Christian Center. I modified them with my own drawings detailing life, work and people of the community. Local song bird paperweights of materials once manufactured in Pittsburgh hold the drawings in place. Over the course of a month the iron, aluminum, glass, limestone, bronze, and copper that make up the birds will mark the papers like the industry has and continues to mark the people and land of Western Pennsylvania.
This is located at the entryway as you walk into the room. It highlights a few people of Rankin. Their portraits occupy architectural drawings made over years for Rankin Christian Center.
175 birds were cast of various materials and 20+ drawings were made
The figures are of kids today playing on a drawing of the gymnasium for Rankin Christian Center from the 1920s
Temporary installation September 2021
Carrie Furnace, Pittsburgh PA
Colored pencil on drawing from National Park Collection
colored pencil rendering of American Chestnut on plans for CCC on fountain made from Chestnut logs reclaimed from the Ghost Forest.
mixed media on paper
Purchased by the Shenandoah National Park Trust for United States Department of the Interior
*2009 $25,000 Voices of Youth: Art in the Public Grant Award, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation $3,000 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Supporting Grant.
LISTEN! The North Side Girls Have Something to Say! This is a youth driven public artwork that helped teenage girls develop self-confidence through exploring their identity as young African American women living on the Northside. Collaborating with girls chosen from youth service organizations; The Pittsburgh Project, Manchester Youth Development Center, Project Destiny and New Hope Neighborhood, along with arts organizations; Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Artists Image Resource and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to create an interactive map. The sixth, seventh and eighth grade girls, using video monitors installed in a bas-relief, silk screened map tell what it is like for them to grow up on Pittsburgh’s fractured North Side.