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Chakaia Booker
Artist
New York , NY
Chakaia Booker is a prominent artist known for her work using tires as a medium. She has shown widely in museums, galleries, and sculpture parks across the U.S. and internationally. |
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Robert Edwards
Art Collector
Naples , FL
Robert Edwards is an avid collector of modern and contemporary art and is a board member of several arts organizations. He is managing director and senior portfolio manager in a Naples, Florida, based money-management firm. |
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Bill FitzGibbons
Artist/Director
San Antonio , TX
Bill FitzGibbons is an artist with over 30 public art commissions in five countries. He has been a curator and professor in St. Louis, Anchorage, and San Antonio and is now Executive Director of the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. |
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Robert Duncan
Chairmain Emeritus
Duncan Aviation
Lincoln , NE
Robert Duncan is chairman emeritus of ISC. Together with his wife, Karen, the Duncans share their extensive contemporary arts and crafts collection through loans, tours and numerous articles in national press publications. |
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David Handley
Director
David Handley is the founding Director of Sculpture by the Sea in Australia, a series of annual sculpture exhibitions at Bondi beach in Sydney and Cottesloe beach in Perth that feature a combined 160 sculptures a year by artists from across the world viewed by some 600,000 visitors over 6 weeks. The inaugural Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus – Denmark is to take place in June 2009. David is a Trustee of the Australian Museum and to force himself to stay fit in winter produces a series of open water ocean swims in Fiji. |
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John Henry
Chairman Emeritus
Artist
Chattanooga , TN
John Henry is known worldwide for his large-scale public works of art. His works are included in major museum, corporate, public, and private collections worldwide. He holds leadership positions on numerous boards of acts organizations. |
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Paul Hubbard
Artist/Educator
Philadelphia , PA
Paul R Hubbard is an artist and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. His work has been widely exhibited and he has taught sculpture at art schools in London and is currently Chair and professor of Fine Art at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. |
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Ree Kaneko
Art Administrator
Ree Kaneko has been supporting the arts for over 38 years. Her main objectives have been to support artists by providing studios, stipends and exhibition opportunities.
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Josh Kanter
Chairman
Attorney
Chicago , IL
Joshua S. Kanter is general counsel and co-investment manager of Windy City, Inc.,a private investment management firm. He is a collector and has served on the boards of numerous public, private and non-profit concerns. He has been the chairman of the ISC Board since 2005. |
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Gertrud Kohler-Aeschlimann
Art Consultant
Zofingen , Switzerland
Gertrud Kohler-Aeschlimann, who sponsors the ISC’s student residency in Switzerland, is co-founder (with her husband, Heinz) and director of art-st-urban, a private Museum, art center and sculpture park near Lucern. She is also on he board of several art organizations and companies.
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Marc LeBaron
Treasurer
Lincoln Industries
Lincoln , NE
Marc LeBaron is Chairman and CEO of Lincoln Industries in Lincoln Nebraska, one of the nation’s largest and most diverse metal finishing companies. He is an art collector and has also held leadership positions in many organizations. |
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Patricia B. Meadows
Secretary
Curator
Dallas, TX
Patricia B. Meadows is currently the Senior Curator and Collections Manager of the Hall Collection in Texas and California. She was co-founder of Dallas Visual Art Center and the Emergency Artists Support League, was president of the Dallas Art Dealers Association, and has served in many leadership capacities in support of the visual arts. |
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Creighton Michael
Artist
New York, New York
Creighton Michael is an artist whose work, based in drawing, is widely exhibited and can be found in various museum, corporate and private collections. As a teacher, he has been on the faculty at Rhode Island School of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and Princeton University. Currently he is a Visiting Professor at Hunter College in NYC. |
George Neubert
Artist
Brownville , NE
George Neubert is an artist and hasbeen a curator or director at the Oakland Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Sheldon Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, and at the San Antonio Museum of Art and presently, Director of the Flatwater Art Foundation. |
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Albert Paley
Artist
Rochester , NY
Albert Paley is the first metal sculptor to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects. His large-scale public sculpture and exhibitions are the subject of multiple publications and documentaries. |
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F. Douglas Schatz
Artist
Potsdam, New York
F. Douglass Schatz is an artist known for his wide range of artwork including cast bronze, welded steel, and fireworks. He is currently a sculptor and professor at the State University of New York, Potsdam. |
Walter Schatz
Vice Chair
Art Consultant
Nashville , TN
Walter Schatz, an art collector, consultant and arts advocate, serves on the boards of several civic and arts organizations. He is the former chair of the Metro Nashville Arts Commission and visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. |
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Mary Ellen Scherl
Artist
New York, New York
Mary Ellen Scherl is an artist known for her contemporary figurative sculpture. She is president of the Sculptors Guild in NY and founder of Mamorial, an art initiative promoting breast cancer awareness and healing.
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STRETCH
Artist
Kansas City, MO
STRETCH’s works have been on display in private and corporate collections throughout the world. The sculptures vary in scale from small approachable pieces to environmentally dominating.
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Elden Teft
Founder
Elden Tefft founded the sculpture program at the University of Kansas
where he taught for 40 years. During his tenure he built two bronze
foundries at the University and consulted and built many additional
foundries throughout the world. In 1960, Elden started the
International Sculpture Conferences and Center which became the
world's largest association of sculptors. Since 1990, Elden has been
professor emeritus at the University of Kansas and sculpts full-time
in bronze and stone. |
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Steinunn Thorarinsdottir
Artist
Reykjavik, Iceland
Steinunn has been working professionally for over 20 years and has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan, USA and Australia. Her works are in private, public and corporate collections in many countries. She works in various forms of sculpture and uses many different materials for her artistic expression.
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Boaz Vaadia
Sculptor
New York , NY
Vaadia is an internationally known sculptor whose work has been permanently sited in various public locations and is included in many museums and private collections throughout the world. The natural materials he works with and their formation in nature inspire his work. He has been working professionally for over 30 years and is represented by many galleries worldwide.
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Peter Hobart
Chairmain Emeritus
Hobart Brothers International (retired)
Troy , OH / Rome, Italy
Peter Hobart was Chair of the ISC Board of Directors for six years. He is also an international entrepreneur, Hobart Brother’s former vice president for international business, and a board member of the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology. He is also author and lecturer. |
Robert Vogele
Chairmain Emeritus
VSA Partners
Hinsdale, IL
Robert Vogele founded VSA Partners, an internationally recognized design firm. He was for five years a member of the ISC Board of Directors, serving as Treasurer and Chair. Robert is also a prominent collector of sculpture and folk art.
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