Belle Mulhern, Staff Writer

     Students of Brenda Christeleit’s Ceramics Two and Three classes are beginning a major permanent project to be installed in the Media Center with the help of a Pittsburgh artist, Emily Sciulli.

     “We are hoping to create a permanent collaborative installation piece. Ceramics students will be creating a clay mobile-like sculpture that will hang from the green beams in the Media Center,” Christeleit said regarding the project. “Emily will be here each Tuesday for 10 weeks helping students through the process.”

     Sciulli said she studied Studio Art in Florence, Italy in 2009, at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa. in 2010 and at IUP in 2013. She has multiple solo exhibitions throughout Pennsylvania, along with group exhibitions scattered throughout  the east coast.

     “Mrs. Sciulli is here courtesy of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. She has been a teaching artist at Carnegie Museum of Art and The Union Project for the last 6 years. She lives and works in Pittsburgh as a sculptor who uses a variety of materials. Her website is emilysciulli.com,” said Christeleit.

     In 2011, Sciulli founded the “One Good Thing” project, where individuals reflect on the good that happens to them each day. She currently works as a Ceramics Studio Manager at the Carnegie Museum of Art, an art professor at Washington & Jefferson College and as a Museum Educator for schools around Pittsburgh.

     While the art department regularly meets with local Pittsburgh artists, this type of installation is a project that has never been done at Penn-Trafford before.

     Christeleit also mentioned that she and her students are hoping for the installation to last for years to come, along with several evolutions of it as time passes.

     All ceramics classes will conclude the project in early December of this year.