November 25 2025, New permanent Installation opens at Pittsburgh International Airport!!!
Really happy to share Portals, my new installation at the New and Improved Pittsburgh International Airport!!! I been working on this for 4 years with some incredible folks, curators and fabricators, architects, makers. So grateful to Alexis Rosa Caldero(really wouldn’t of been done without you 🫶🏽✊🏽🫶🏽✊🏽🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👸🏽👸🏾🥹🥹🥹🥹 thank you so much)
Renee, Keny, Ben, Ray, Justin, Justin and Michael, Theresa, Jason, Kari, Colby, Brian, Kevin, so many people there everyday for years working on this airport! 🤎✊🏽🤎✊🏽🤎✊🏽🤎✊🏽🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The installation is in the new International Arrivals Corridor, has two components: on the ceiling is the “Orrery,” (70ft long) a series of chandeliers resembling solar systems. I based the patterns on airport arrivals data of migrant folks coming into our city. The map represents a body (of stars) balanced and migrant. There are constellation engravings from various First Nations star maps.
The second component is the Nebula: which is the birthplace of stars. The spirals are in the pattern of a butterfly Nebula and the stars are objects from the lost and found.
PIT Art in the Airport program and the Pittsburgh International Airport: @reneepiechocki @kenymarshall
Renee Piechocki and Kenneth Marshal🫶🏽🫶🏽
Lead support Architect
Kimberley Brown🫶🏽
Studio Designer and project manager
Alexis Rosa Caldero🫶🏽 @lexcmakes
Metal work and installation
Technique (🫶🏽Ray) @technique.ap
Lighting and installation
Ben Peoples🫶🏽 @benpeoplesind
Nebula Case work and Installation
Engine House 🫶🏽 @enginehousepgh
Glass Planets
Pittsburgh Glass Center🫶🏽 @pghglasscenter@jasforck