Environmental and landscape art
Live performance, including puppetry, theater, dance, music, and spoken word poetry, etc.
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Celeste Neuhaus
Conjure Creativity
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Assemblage, including found objects, multimedia
Painting / works on paper / printmaking
Conflux, site-specific interactive performance video documentation. Videography by Di-Ay Bessoro Battad.
Conflux, site-specific interactive performance events. Photo by Beth Barbis.
Ostara, site-specific public performance at crows’ roost on the Spring Equinox in the Hill District Pittsburgh, PA. Photo by Corey Escoto.
coruscate solidago, ephemeral land art installation. Video documentation by Todd Mattei.
Value System, Sidewell Project, a public mural, 3′ 8″ x 11″ x 2.” Photo by Celeste Neuhaus.
About the Artist
Celeste Neuhaus (she/they) is a multimodal artist and witch who makes devotional offerings through painting, collage, sculpture, installation, performance, video and guided interactive ritual.
Revealing the interdependencies between the somatic, psychological, ecological, and cosmological, her work invites healing and incites transformation.
Celeste is currently the 2026 Artist In Residence at the Center for PostNatural History. She completed a post graduate advanced training certification in Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. They earned their BFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago and their MFA at the University of New Mexico where they were a selected artist in the Land Arts program in Art and Ecology. She has been an invited visiting artist at Eastern Carolina University (Greenville, NC) and Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN), and has been an artist-in-residence at ACRE (Steuben, WI), Harold Arts Residency (Chesterhill, OH), Gateway to the Arts, (Hookstown, PA), and The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA).
The Nevada Museum of Art and the University of Illinois Chicago have collected her work. Local and national exhibitions include: the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Mattress Factory, and SPACE Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), White Page Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN), Sanitary Tortilla Factory (Albuquerque, NM), Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), School of Visual Art (New York, NY), and P.A.A.J. (Los Angeles, CA). She is the originator of Conjure Creativity, a service that provides targeted healing sessions empowering clients to align with the cycles of their unique creativity.
Photo by Anna Azizzy
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
Master of Fine Arts degree, 2013
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
Yes, all ages
Joined the Directory
March 2022
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“It is vital to me that my work generates experiences that offer healing. One way I do this is by creating art experiences in nature. Being in the Creative Corps has enabled me to build new relationships with organizations that center ecology, an issue essential to my work.”
Celeste Neuhaus
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Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
