Scott Pitt

One of my clearest childhood memories growing up in southern West Virginia was when I was four years old. I am looking proudly at a yarn-sewn wall hanging of the Itsy Bitsy Spider. I had assembled the pieces from the kit and stitched it myself. In that moment, something clicked. I did not have the words for it then, but I knew: I was an artist. I lovingly refer to those early days as my yarn years and mark that time as the beginning of a lifelong journey of creating.

That sense of intuitive creativity and assembling pieces together never left me. Since my yarn years, I’ve earned a B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in painting and sculpture. I have also studied my other passions which include theatre, costume design, and museum curation. Over the past eight years, my artistic focus has been creating digital mixed media collages and promoting the arts through public workshops and community-based initiatives.

Over the years, my tools and materials have changed but the impulse remains the same: to gather, to arrange, to give images an opportunity to tell their story. Today, I work primarily in digital collage, collecting fragments of discarded materials, textures, and images, which I deconstruct and reassemble into layered visual narratives. As an artist, I see my role is to bring together elements which were destined to be pieced together so their collective story can surface and be shared. The most rewarding part of my work is when each piece clicks into place and a story emerges.

This instinct to assemble stories extends into my community work as well. I design and lead art initiatives that help participants reconnect with creativity and rediscover their own narratives. Many participants haven't made art in years, sometimes decades. I guide them through both the technical and expressive aspects of visual art making, always emphasizing that art is a way to give voice to lived experience and foster deeper connections. It’s a collaborative, inclusive process. My intention is to affirm every person, like every scrap or fragment, has worth and belongs within a larger whole. 

Whether through my personal art or through community workshops, my goal is the same. I want to create spaces for meaningful, personal encounters with art. Just like the Itsy Bitsy Spider yarn art all those years ago, each image/story I help to create is a small, stitched-together moment. It is tender, intricate, and deeply personal. It is a story with new context and new breath.

Scott Pitt