Digital / lighting / projection art
Site-specific and integrated art
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Natalie Settles
Natalie Settles Studio, LLC
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Site-specificity determines materials used
Evolving Wallpaper, multi-site, large-scale, interactive, digital projection. Currently in development.
Elder, 2017, etched glass, 15′ x 22.25′ x 22.25′.
Ornament and Architecture, 2011, graphite wall and white lacquer drawing on four walls and ceiling, 10′ x 22′ x 22′
Garfield’s Roots, 2016, 41 iron tree grates, 4′ x 10′ each. Installed along Penn Avenue in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA.
Marginal, 2011, graphite wall drawing on three large walls and ceiling, 12′ x 27′ x 61′
About the Artist
Natalie Settles is an award-winning artist and scientist whose work has received funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, and has been featured in the journal Science.
Natalie Settles’ work recasts the interdisciplinary relationship between Victorian design and evolutionary biology into contemporary practice. Her current large-scale, digital-interactive works allow audiences to participate in and accelerate evolution.
Photo by Noah Purdy
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- Self-trained in software development for projects: Python, Java,
Javascript, SQL, GLSL, C#, Unity, 2012 – present; - Ayers Saint Gross Architects, Consultant for art landscape and arts
and culture asset development in Saudi Arabia, 2021; - Pilgrim in Art and Science, nine-month release online publication,
nataliesettles.com/pilgrim, 2020; - City As Living Laboratory, Artist guide for Hays Woods art and
ecology walk commissioned by the City of Pittsburgh, 2019; - University of Pittsburgh, Evolutionary Biology Lab Residency, 2011-
2014; - Heinz Endowment & Pittsburgh Foundation Residency Grant, 2011-
2013; - Featured in the journal, Science, “Wallpaper as Art and Science”,
July, 2013; - The Andy Warhol Museum, Assistant Curator & Catalogue Essayist
for the Factory Direct exhibition, 2012; - Carnegie Mellon University, School of Art, Adjunct Assistant
Professor, 2010-12; - National Science Foundation Broader Impacts Funding, 2011;
- Wisconsin Arts Board & National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship,
2008; - Cambridge and London, UK, five-month residency and research in
Victorian design and science, 2007; - Workshop at Myren Botanic Garden, Artist-in-Residence,
Kristiansand, Norway, 2005; - Smithsonian Institution, Office of Exhibits Central, On-site model
maker, Madison, WI 2004; - Smithsonian Institution, Office of Exhibits Central, Competitively
awarded model making Internship, 2003; - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art Department, Instructor, 2001-
2003; - Master of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
No
Joined the Directory
May 2022
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“I enjoy creating works that transform the spaces they inhabit and the viewers who encounter them. Unfolding over time and from one visit to the next, I aim to create pieces that shape and are shaped by both people and places.”
Natalie Settles
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
