The Ruins Project welcomes two new installations
Rachel Sager, left, artist and owner of The Ruins Project in Whitsett, an outdoor mosaic museum dedicated to the coal-mining culture of southwestern Pennsylvania, visits Pittsburgh artist Stevo Sadvary as he works on The Ruins' most-ambitious project: a representation of a P&LE train carrying coal cars. The Ruins Project is located at the site of the former Banning No. 2 Mine.
Pittsburgh artist Stevo Sadvary works on The Ruins' most-ambitious project: a representation of a Pennsylvania & Lake Erie train carrying coal cars. The Ruins Project in Whitsett is an outdoor mosaic museum dedicated to the coal-mining culture of southwestern Pennsylvania and located on the site of the former Banning No. 2 Mine.
Pittsburgh artist Stevo Sadvary works on The Ruins' most-ambitious project: a representation of a Pennsylvania & Lake Erie train carrying coal cars. The Ruins Project in Whitsett is an outdoor mosaic museum dedicated to the coal-mining culture of southwestern Pennsylvania and located on the site of the former Banning No. 2 Mine.
Pittsburgh artist Stevo Sadvary works on The Ruins' most-ambitious project: a representation of a Pennsylvania & Lake Erie train carrying coal cars. The Ruins Project in Whitsett is an outdoor mosaic museum dedicated to the coal-mining culture of southwestern Pennsylvania and located on the site of the former Banning No. 2 Mine.
The Ruins Project in Whitsett recently welcomed its newest pieces to this outdoor mosaic museum.
Rachel Sager, artist and owner of this tribute to the coal-mining culture of southwestern Pennsylvania at the site of the former Banning No. 2 Coal Mine, announced they include The Ruins’ first portrait.
Margy Cottingham of Green Bay, Wisconsin created a coal miner, three times life size, carrying a carbine lamp.
“He’s looking back towards the mountain, which is the coal mine,” said Sager. “We chose this spot because it’s dark and there’s no light here.”
Stevo Sadvary, of Pittsburgh, whose father and grandfather were miners, has created The Ruins’ most ambitious project: a 50-foot-long representation of a Pennsylvania & Lake Erie train pulling coal cars on the side of a wall that overlooks the Great Allegheny Passage.
“It’s very peaceful with the river and the trains going by on the other side of the river and the bikers – year hear little bits of conversation as they ride by,” Sadvary said of working at The Ruins.
Savary, who grew up in Bentleyville and whose mother was from Hiller, added, “I like the spiritual essence of the place, being an old mine and knowing that people worked here, labored and toiled, and that we’re building this tribute to miners and their endeavors to build this great country. That’s special.”
Sadvary’s project is being supported through a Go Fund Me page. Anyone who gives $100 or more will have their name placed on the piece or can donate in memory of someone.
Visit www.sagermosaics.com for more information and to book tours for The Ruins Project, which is open Tuesdays through Sundays.