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WHEREAS, Thaddeus G. Mosley, born in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1926, is a world renowned sculptor with an illustrious career who works mostly in wood and is currently based in Pittsburgh; and,
WHEREAS, after enlisting in the U.S. Navy
, Mr. Mosley graduated in 1950 from the University of Pittsburgh , where he majored in English and Journalism, going on to work as a freelance journalist in the 1950s for the Pittsburgh Courier and various national magazines, where his love and interest in carving and sculpture was initially sparked; and,
WHEREAS, Mr. Mosley's solo and two-person exhibits include events at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1968 and 1997, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA) Artist of the Year show in 1979, the Three Rivers Arts Festival with Selma Burke in 1990, and the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in 1995; and,
WHEREAS, his best-known sculptures in Pittsburgh are the 14-foot cedar Phoenix at the corner of Centre Avenue and Dinwiddie in the Hill District and the Mountaintop limestone at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in the Hill District at Herron and Milwaukee Streets; and,
WHEREAS, Mr. Mosley is the honoree of several arts awards, which include the 1999 Governor's Award for Artist of the Year in Pennsylvania Visual Arts, the PCA 2000 Cultural Award, and the PCA 2002 Service to the Arts Award and Exhibition, the latter of which was first awarded in 1997, and is given to a member of the local arts community for demonstrating inspiration, involvement, commitment and passion for the arts; and,
WHEREAS, his commi...
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