ArtistAngelo Ciotti

Angelo Ciotti is an environmental reclamation artist, who presents alternative ways to reclaim abandoned urban and industrial sites. He has collaborated with industries, governments, naturalists and communities to find solutions to environmental problems, while encouraging public awareness through natural art. As a painter and sculptor he utilizes found objects from abandoned coal mining sites, creating works of art dedicated to women who have lost husbands and sons in coal mining accidents. He has taught at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University where he was a fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry. He has worked on public art projects and lectured in Italy, England, Bolivia, People’s Republic of China and throughout the United States. He has received grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the arts, The Mid-Atlantic States, Geraldine Stutz foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Angelo has an MA from the Villa Schifanoia, Rosary college, Old Dominion University graduate school of fine arts in Florence Italy, and the Academia de Belle Arte, Rome and the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts.