Will Kurtz

Will Kurtz is a sculptor who was born in Flint, Michigan. He received his Bachelor ofLandscape Architecture from Michigan State University in 1981 and practiced as alandscape architect for 25 years, throughout the United States and Canada. It wasn’t until he was in his mid-thirties that he began creating art as a self-taught artist. Eventually his passion for art superseded landscape architecture and he moved to New York at the age of 50 to attend graduate school at the New York Academy of Art. After graduation with an MFA, he was selected to remain and do a one-year fellowship. He had many solo and group shows and public installations with his sculptures in New York and Florida and at galleries and museums in the US, Canada and Europe. His sculptures are in many prominent collections around the world. He is currently represented by Avant Gallery, Miami, White Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY. and Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA. He is a full-time artist and teacher and has taught sculpture, drawing and painting at The New York Academy of Art, Lyme Academy and Penn State University. He has a studio in Athens, NY and splits his time living in both Athens and Brooklyn.

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