Background
Ethnicity:
Abruzzo (maternal: Deramo, Bonasia) Sicily: (paternal: Sciuto, Scuderi).
Maria was born in 1952, in Haverhill.
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Giant Shoe Sculpture
- Queen Slipper City (http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/08/02/...)
Public Art Memorial
Maria Fontaine Sciuto
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Maria attended the Haverhill Public Schools and graduated from Haverhill High School in 1970.
Career
Maris was a Teacher of Visual Arts in the Haverhill Public Schools for a period of 40+ years. She taught all grade levels, stating out in Elementary School, then moving to the Middle Schools and then finally at Haverhill High School, where she taught Digital Photography and Photoshop, Commercial Art, Sculpture and 3D Design, and ceramic, as well as Basic Foundations in Art. She developed a freshman course requirement for the Classical Academy called Classical Connections; a 3 prong approach: Research, Technology and Studio Art to studying Classical History, Arts and Sciences.
While at the high school she coauthored a grant and developed a program to provide after school programming for High School students.
Achievements
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In 2016, Maria's design was selected by the Board of the Haverhill Firefighting Museum for a 911 Memorial for the 411 First Responders who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. The design was executed by a design team and dedicated on the 15th anniversary of 9/1. The Public Art piece contains the names and ages of all 411 First responders: Firefighters, Police and EMS.
Works
Giant Shoe Sculpture
Public Art Memorial
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1970 - 1974
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2002 - 2004