Anthony Visco

Anthony Visco, director of the Atelier for the Sacred Arts, graduated from the University of the Arts, where he received Fulbright–Hayes Grant to travel and study in Florence, Italy. In 1975, he was awarded the Elizabeth T. Greensheilds Grant for figurative sculpture. He also received the coveted Arthur Ross Award twice for sculpture within an classical architectural setting for his triptych reliefs at the Catherine Pew Memorial Chapel at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian and the Stations of the Cross at St. Joseph Church in Philadelphia. He has taught at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as New York Academy of Art and currently teaches artistic anatomy, signs and symbols of Catholic art, relief composition and drawing at the Sacred Art School/ Firenze. With many ecclesiastic commissions, Visco’s sculptures, murals, and reliefs adorn the National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia also in Philadelphia as well as the Via Crucis in bronze relief for the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI where he also made the Guardian Angel of the Unborn in the shrine’s Memorial to the Unborn there.