Students creating sculpture for downtown Pascagoula

Students in the Pascagoula Gautier School District are getting hands-on experience in the revamping of downtown Pascagoula.

The Walter Anderson Museum of Art and students in the college and career tech program at Pascagoula-Gautier School District have come together to design, construct, and install three 15-foot sculptures that will be placed in downtown Pascagoula.

Students have been meeting at the Downtown Design Studio every Tuesday and Thursday brainstorming, drafting, and sculpting prototypes.

The sculptures will reflect what Pascagoula means to the students and to the residents of Pascagoula. Walter Anderson Museum of Art Executive Director Julian Rankin said, “It Is really an amazing project using creativity and innovation and connecting it with these workforce training applied skills and really unleashing the student’s creativity into their own community.”

Pascagoula-Gautier School District Superintendent Wayne Rodolfich said, “Students are working with artists. They are working with their own skills to develop these art projects for the city. It’s about a fusion of ideas from a large group of people that is driven by our students and we are just really excited about the opportunity.”

Student Stanley Pauls said, “The notion of making a sculpture and bringing it to Pascagoula and being part of that really kind of interested me. It would be a great way to develop my artististic skills and exercise them.”

The theme for sculptures is ‘building blocks’ and they will showcase the development and community of the City of Pascagoula.