During my undergraduate education at Allegheny College, I had the opportunity work with a group of fellow artists on the “Read between the Signs” project. This internship was a joint project between the College and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation ( PENNDOT ). This project involved turning old aluminum road signs into a fence mural that surrounds the perimeter of the PENNdot building in Meadville, PA. The mural would paint a picture of the town’s cultural and historical story, while transforming the chain-link fence housing the road equipment a more aesthetically pleasing site for visitors.

A small stack of used road signs on a wooden pallete. This was an example of the artistic materials used for the mural. We had roughly thirty stacks of signs about 1 to 2 feet in height.

I applied and was granted this internship for two consecutive summers. During this time I learned what working with other artists on a single goal entailed and also numerous fabrication skills.

After my second term as an intern concluded, I was asked by the project director to create a three point perspective snowplow for the project by myself. I accepted this task and had the luxury of getting to make art for another two weeks past my internship. During the process of constructing the snowplow, I though it would be neat to document the process through photography. I have described the process in a condensed fashion to give a brief overview, but I would refer any interested viewer’s to the public art section of my website for a more elaborate description of the process.