The Ambassador to Moldova, a country adjacent to Ukraine, has selected work from a PA Artist to decorate the walls of the embassy residence in Chișinău, Moldova’s capital. Reina “Reina 76” Wooden, whose collection of three paintings, “The Keystones 1787,” will visit with Ambassador Kent D. Logsdon in November to review the installation.
Reina 76, born in Harrisburg, raised in Philadelphia and now an artist-in-residence at The Millworks, a combination pub and artist loft in downtown Harrisburg PA, created three keystone-themed pieces of the state emblem and based on the “Song of Pennsylvania”: a 4’ x 5’ acrylic and 2- 22” x 28” acrylic, to fit the selected space.
“I called the embassy and asked them to measure the space,” said Reina 76. “I will visit Moldova in November to meet the Ambassador and review the installation. They also have planned an interview on Moldova television.”
U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Kent Logsdon is a Pennsylvania native from Sewickley. While researching PA artists, he found Reina 76 work and connected with her many keystone-themed pieces.
The artwork was selected and shipped to Moldova through the federal “Art in Embassies” program that assembles exhibitions to be displayed in U.S. ambassadors’ residences during their tenure, which is usually about three years. The artwork is on loan.
