Edith Abeyta

Edith Abeyta is a visual artist living in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her current practice is centered around people, identity and negotiating relationships with the built environment. She has been collaborating with residents in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Hazelwood since 2014. Together they founded and implement Arts Excursions Unlimited.

“I think it was a larger theme would be trying to just bring a little bit of...pleasure or joy or silliness or levity to people. How could we transfer some of these social pleasures that we were kind of always fostering on a daily basis to the people that we knew in the neighborhood, people we didn't know in the neighborhood? So how could we continue our work?”

—Edith Abeyta