SCULPTOR
Anvil Arts Studio www.studiosculpture.com
Post Office Box 147, Hwy 221 bill@studiosculpture.com
Linville Falls, NC 28647 Born 08-20-55 Wilmington, DE
1.828.765.6226
North Carolina Resident since 1960
1978 to Present - Studio Artist
EDUCATION
I was raised in an environment of artistic exploration and creative exchange at Penland School of Crafts, in the mountains of North Carolina. This unique environment gave me the rare opportunity of exposure to, and participation in, the creative process with both established and emerging artists. With a father who received his MFA in design and sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art under Eliel Saarinen and Carl Milles: artistic stimulation went from the studio to the dining room. While having a natural disposition to sculpture, and various mediums and artists such as, Don Reitz, Paul Kubick, Brent Kington, Mark Peiser, Dale Chihuly, and Toshiko Takaezu, all influenced my artistic development.
The educational process continued with a year-long apprenticeship in 1977 to Artist-Blacksmith, Ivan Bailey, in Savannah, Georgia. In 1978, I was selected, from national applications, to receive a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship grant, to participate in a research exchange project with Master Blacksmiths at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
I opened my studio in 1978, creating sculpture and sculptural commissions, for individual and corporate collectors across the United States. Invitational exhibitions, competitions, gallery shows, and museum exhibitions, have included examples of my work in a wide range of exhibitions.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2007 – 2008 Solo Exhibition, Hickory Museum of Art
2005 DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL
2005 Winthrop University Museum Galleries, Rock Hill, SC
2005 The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
2005 BRAHM Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC
2004 Green Hill Center for the Arts, Greensboro, NC
2004 The Nature of Craft & the Penland Experience, Mint Museum of Craft & Design
2002 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
2002 Gallery Victoria, Naples, Florida
2001 Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood College, Farmville, VA
2001-2002 Salmagundi V, Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC
2000 Spiers Gallery, Sims Art Center, Brevard College, Brevard, NC
2000 Penland School Faculty Show, Penland, NC
1999 From These Hills, William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, VA
1999 “Annual Summer Faculty Show” Peters Valley, Layton, NJ
1998-99 Greensboro Arboretum, Greensboro, NC
1998 Border Biennial Competition, Museum of York County, SC
1997 Spotlight ’97, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
1997-98 “Blurring the Lines” Mid-Atlantic Sculpture Competition/Exhibition William King Regional Arts Center, Abington, Virginia
1996-97 Second Annual Mass Sculpture Exhibit, City of Greensboro, Greensboro Cultural Center, Greensboro, NC
1996-95 Gallery W.D.O., Charlotte, NC
1996 “Kaleidoscope” Exhibit, Burke Arts Council, Morganton, NC
1995-96 Jones House Community Center, Watauga Arts Council Sculpture Placement, Boone, NC
1993&94 Fall Arts Celebration, Tri-County Arts Exhibit/Competition AYM Arts Association, Spruce Pine, NC
1991 Radford University, Radford, Virginia
1991 University of North Carolina, Asheville, Asheville, NC
1991 Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1991 Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC
1990 Milliken Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
1990 Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland Tri-State Sculptors Guild Show in conjunction with “International Sculpture 90”
1990 Friedholm Fine Arts, Asheville, NC
1988 Hiddenite Center for the Arts, Hiddenite, NC
SELECT INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2004 NC Craft 04: A Celebration of Penland’s 75th Anniversary, School of Art, ECU
2003 Familiar Artists, Penland, NC
2003 ArtWorks Gallery, Winston Salem, NC
2001-2002 Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Hendersonville, NC
2001 Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2001 Hiddenite Center, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hiddenite, NC
2000 Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina, Asheville, NC
2000 Sculpture on Campus 2000, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
1992 Penland Overlook” Exhibit, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina, three year traveling exhibit, touring; Asheville Art Museum, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Virginia Beach Center for the “Arts, Gaston County Museum, St. John’s Museum of Art, Greenville Center for the Arts, and Columbus (Georgia) Museum of Art
1988 Worthington Arts Council Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Metalwork, sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council and the City of Worthington
1980 Penland Residents Exhibition, Lee Hall Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
1980 Metal Design Invitational, Greenville County Museum of Art Greenville, SC
1978 - 2005 Private Collections throughout North America
SELECT COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
Bud & Suzanne Baker Exhibit Center for the State of North Carolina
North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville, NC
Robert H. & Joan Parsons Beber Sculpture Garden at Duke Law School, Durham, NC
Healy Distributing, Fayetteville, NC
All Interior Supply, Inc., Miami, FL
Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Hendersonville, NC
Cascade, Sculptural Lighting, Sculpture, private residence, Linville, NC
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Hickory, NC
Bragg Financial Corp, Charlotte, NC
Kinder-Mourn Organization of Charlotte, NC, Memorial Sculpture
Caldwell Community College, Lenoir, NC
Lucy Carol Davis Architects, Chapel Hill, NC
Dr. James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress, Washington, DC
Dr. Bradford Crain, Past President, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC
RESIDENCIES
2005 Resident Artist, Windgrove Center, Tasmania, Austrailia
2007 Given Fellowship as Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center
AWARDS
2006 22nd Annual Sculpture Celebration, Caldwell Arts Council
2001 Western North Carolina Artist’s Project Grant
2000 Norma Suddreth Award, 15th Annual Sculpture Celebration, Caldwell Arts Council
1997 13th Annual Sculpture Celebration, Caldwell Arts Council
1994 9th Annual Sculpture Celebration, Caldwell Arts Council
1994 4th Annual Celebration of the Arts, Toe River Arts Council
1992 Purchase Award, 7th Annual Sculpture Celebration, Caldwell Arts Council
1991 Best in Show, Kaleidoscope Exhibit, Burke Arts Council
1991 6th Annual Sculpture Celebration, Caldwell Arts Council
1989 5th Annual Sculpture Celebration, Caldwell Arts Council
1986 Best in Show, Art in the Park, Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce
1978 National Endowment for the Arts, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Masters Workshop
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member, International Sculpture Center
Member, Tri-State Sculptors’ Educational Association
Member, Artist-Blacksmiths’ Association of North America
Member, Mid-South Alliance Sculpture Organization
Member, Northwest Blacksmith Association
SELECT LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTED
2004 East Carolina University, Wellington Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC
2001 Mint Museum of Art, Collectors Circle Lecture Series, Charlotte, NC
1999 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
1999 & 96 Peters Valley Crafts Center, Layton, New Jersey, Metal sculpture class, slide lectures, demonstrations, group and individual instruction
1993 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina Metal and mixed media sculpture, slide lectures, group and individual instruction
1991 Tri-State Sculptors Guild Fall Conference, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, Lecture Demonstrations
1992 East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, Week long workshop for Art
Department and The Sculpture Group
1990 Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
1986 Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina
1983 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas,
1982 Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina
1980 Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
1980 Bethany College, Lindsborge, Kansas
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Art Cellar Gallery, Banner Elk, North Carolina
Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
Penland Gallery, Penland, North Carolina
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