Virginia San Fratello

{{short description|American architect, designer and creative technologist}}

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| birth_place = Savannah, Georgia

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| education = North Carolina State University, Columbia University

| field = 3d printing, architecture, ceramics

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Virginia San Fratello (born 1971 in Savannah, Georgia){{cite web |title=Virginia San Fratello |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/virginia-san-fratello-33567 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=22 December 2022}} is an American artist known for 3D printing, architecture, and ceramics.{{cite web |title=Architect Virginia San Fratello Melds Tech and Craft to Create Otherworldly Vessels |url=https://interiordesign.net/products/virginia-san-fratello-emerging-objects/ |website=Interior Design |access-date=22 December 2022}} She attended North Carolina State University and Columbia University.{{cite web |title=Virginia San Fratello {{!}} Department of Design |url=https://www.sjsu.edu/design/undergraduate-programs/interior-design/faculty/vsfratello.php |website=San Jose State University |access-date=22 December 2022}} She collaborates with Ronald Rael under the name Rael San Fratello.{{cite web |title=Rael San Fratello |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Rael_San_Fratello/ |website=SFMOMA |access-date=22 December 2022}} In 2014 Rael San Fratello received the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York.{{cite web |title=Emerging Voices 2014 |url=https://archleague.org/competition/emerging-voices-2014-2/ |website=The Architectural League of New York |access-date=22 December 2022}} Rael San Fratello operate the venture Emerging Objects which develops 3D printed objects.{{cite web |last1=V |first1=Carlota |title=Emerging Objects on their unique approach to materials and architecture thanks to 3D printing |url=https://www.3dnatives.com/en/emerging-objects-090520194/ |website=3Dnatives |access-date=22 December 2022 |date=9 May 2019}}

Her collaborative work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art,{{cite web |title=Virginia San Fratello |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/49889 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=22 December 2022 |language=en}} and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Their series, Bad Ombres v.2, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.{{cite book |last1=Savig |first1=Mary |last2=Atkinson |first2=Nora |last3=Montiel |first3=Anya |title=This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World |date=2022 |publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum |location=Washington, DC |isbn=9781913875268 |pages=228–238}}{{cite web |title=Bad Ombrés v.2 |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/bad-ombres-v2-118824 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=22 December 2022}}