Industrial Arts Co-Op Archives - jcl photography & designjcl photography & design

I recently had the opportunity to check out some work that a friend of mine is doing (along with other members of the IAC – Industrial Arts Co-Op) at the old LTV Mill site. This is a work that is 15 years in the making and is nearing its end (fingers crossed). Some more details can be found in a recent article found on Pop City Pittsburgh (an AWESOME site, by the way…). I was caught up to date on the project itself and we just wandered for a little bit on an incredibly foggy day. I love what these guys have done – the work itself stands on its own, in my opinion – but it’s great to see an industry that literally built the city of Pittsburgh honored in this manner.

In addition to the work on this specific project, I had the opportunity to just observe — if you know me at all, you know that I’m fascinated with the creative process — whether that be a painting, a poem, a song or a sculpture.

I love to talk to people about how they’ve come up with what they’ve come up with and I really enjoyed learning about the history of this project.

Here are some behind the scenes type pics, if you will — some shots that lend an idea to all of the little things that have gone into creating the entire project as a whole.

Yes, that is a Charlie’s Angels sticker on that welding helmet…

It’s also really cool just to see some cool objects — and this site was filled with them.

It feels weird for me to say that a computer is ancient – but this one obviously was. Loved it sitting on the boxes with fragile and please do not drop and handle with care on them…