WILLIAM S. ARMS

Sculpture and Murals

PROFILE:

William S Arms was born in Fort Worth, Texas, May 1940.  Mr. Arms, an international artist, has been awarded major grants for his work in painting and sculpture; he received the prestigious Ingram Merill Artist Grant for painting and sculpting two years running while working in New York City.  Most recently, November 2007, Bill was awarded the University of Arizona’s award for outstanding professional achievement, the only artist to receive this award – all others being scientists and doctors from across the United States.  He currently resides in Taos, New Mexico, where, along with painting and sculpting, he is writing and producing a television show that will change how art awards are presented. 

William has painted major murals from Kuwait on the Persian Gulf to Chicago, Miami, Arizona, California and Hawaii.  He has designed home interiors, murals and sculpture for sports notables, celebrities and other designers.  Bill’s sculptures are in major collections around the world.  His Hamlet sculpture, “A Trilogy” at the University of Arizona’s Peter Maroney Theater, is the largest theatrical sculpture in the world made from silicon bronze.  It weighs approximately one ton, excluding the base, and is formed from ¾” solid silicone bronze.  He is currently designing the largest baseball figure in the world, a seventeen foot high “Batter”, to be constructed in cor-ten steel.

Along with sculpture, design, and painting, during the last three years, Bill has written an original musical based on the blended culture of music and art in northern New Mexico.  This event has been co-produced with the prominent art collector Paul G. Johnson, also of Taos, New Mexico.  A first for an event of this kind, the show was first aired as an hour long Christmas special and again as a Thanksgiving special the following year.  It will air again on Channel 11 in Santa Fe’s Son Broadcast Network as a Thanksgiving Prime Time Special.

In Bill’s free time he has been the treasurer of the Fall Arts Festival in Taos, New Mexico (where he’s served on the committee for eight years).  He also is researching and writing a book on a little known area of JMW Turner’s life, and is working on a sculpture and drawing show for a return to New York City. 

EDUCATION:

·         Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona                                      1962

·          Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California

·          Riverside Art Center, Riverside, California

·          University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

·          UCLA, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, California

AWARD / GRANTS:

·          WA Moncrief Scholarship                                                                                              4 years

·          University of Arizona

·          WA Moncrief Grant for Studies Abroad                                                                         1962 - 1966

·          Paris, France

·          WA Moncrief Grant                                

·          New York City, New York

·          Ingram Merrill Award, Painting and Drawing                                                                  1996

·          New York City, New York

·          Ingram Merrill Award, Sculpture                                                                                     1981

·          New York City, New York

GENERAL:

Puplished:  Flannel Board Stories for Children, 158 Illustrations

11th Annual Festival Show, Tucson, Arizona – awarded HM

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC – National Collections of Fine Arts, National Prints and Drawings

Centennial Exhibition of Land Grant Colleges and Universities – awarded HM

State Art Exhibition, Arizona – awarded HM

PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Gallery Vantadour, Rue De Beaux Arts (one man show)                                                  Paris, France

Richard Dembeck Gallery (one man show)                                                                      London, England

Drian Gallery (one man show)                                                                                         London, England

Studio 58 (one man show)                                                                                               New York City, New York

Zachary Waller Fine Art                                                                                                   Los Angeles, California

Pasadena Art Museum Library Show                                                                              Pasadena, California

A-Arts Gallery                                                                                                                  Palm Springs, California

The Art Connection                                                                                                         Palm Springs, California

Imago Art Gallery                                                                                                            Palm Springs, California

Tom Moxley Gallery                                                                                                        Santa Fe, New Mexico

Wilder Nightengale Fine Art                                                                                            Taos, New Mexico

Philip Bareiss Art Gallery                                                                                                Taos, New Mexico

Salt Lake City Museum of Fine Arts                                                                                Salt Lake City, Utah

Ted Turner Stadium, Baseball Sculture Show                                                                 Atlanta, Georgia

Isotopes Stadium Baseball Park, Sports Sculpture                                                          Albuquerque, NM

Gill Baston Fine Art                                                                                                          Taos, New Mexico