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March 20, 2015

Come Fly With Me

airplane insetworkerWorkers are busy installing Art Professor Clayton Merrell's biggest public art project to date.

Merrell (bottom, left) is transforming the airside center core floor at the Pittsburgh International Airport into an intricately patterned terrazzo image of the sky.

airport artThe terrazzo is being laid out like a paint-by-number, with sections that include drawings of various flying machines.

The project is expected to be completed by October 2015.

Learn more about the project and listen to a podcast 
with Merrell at http://dipodcast.com/2015/02/10/
s02e07-clayton-merrell/.