Richard Pitts

Richard Pitts was born in 1940 at Fort Monmouth NJ. He was born into a military family and for the first 8 years traveled with his parents. After high school, he met his first art mentor, the well-known sculptor, Ruben Kadish at the Newark College of Fine and Industrial arts. He moved to New York and after a tour in Europe with the US Army, he graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. He began exhibiting his artworks in 1969. He was invited as an artist in residence to teach at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1970 to 1973. Returning to his studio in Chelsea NY he had numerous one-person shows. He taught in the Fine Arts Department at The Fashion Institute of Technology where he retired as a full professor. He now divides his time between his NY studio and his studio in rural Pennsylvania. Richard is represented in major museum and private collections across the country.

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This sculpture is a part of the Dogwood Arts Art in Public Places Program, an annually rotating sculpture exhibition that takes place across Knoxville, Oak Ridge, and Alcoa. While many of the artists included in the program aren’t local like the rest of the makers on display at Maker Exchange, participating in the Art in Public Places Sculpture Program connects us to other sites of cultural significance across our city. Experience more public art just a few blocks away in Krutch Park, at Zoo Knoxville, Emory Place, McGhee Tyson Airport, UT Gardens, and at ORNL Federal Credit Union branches on Northshore Drive and in Oak Ridge.