Joyce Killebrew
Art Studio
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
" Born in Jerome, Arizona in 1947, I am a third generation offspring of central Arizona
pioneer families. I was raised on a small ranch south of Cottonwood and spent much of my recreational time as a youngster in the Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona area. The first art instruction I received was at the Sedona Art Barn, at the age of thirteen. Working several winters for the National Park Service as a site interpreter at Montezuma Castle National Monument, and for over twenty seasons for the U.S. Forest Service, Coconino and Prescott National Forests, as a recreation foreman, wildland firefighter, prevention technician and fire lookout, my appreciation of the central Arizona region grew even stronger and I have happily made this area my permanent home.
I have painted and drawn, selling some art work, throughout my life, and began pursuing a full time art career in the late 1980’s. My main focus of work is on the human figure in bronze sculpture with secondary interest in various painting media and other sculptural media including stoneware and alabaster. I am primarily self taught but have studied under sculptors Bruno Lucchesi at Loveland Academy of Fine Arts and Eugenia Everett at Sedona Arts Center, as well as several prominent painters including Jay Datus and Al Nestler. My art work is in collections nationally and internationally .”
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
City of Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Storm King 14 Firefighter Memorial
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Kimberling City, Missouri
Witchita Botanical Garden, Witchita, KS
Sedona United Methodist Church, Sedona, AZ
City of Delta, Colorado
ART PURCHASED FOR, AND/OR ON DISPLAY, IN PUBLIC PLACES
Sedona Public Library, Sedona, AZ
Sedona Cultural Park Office, Sedona, AZ
Branch District Library, Coldwater, Michigan
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ (Director Kay McKay’s office)
Official Participant in the Oklahoma City Murrah Building Bombing Memorial Competition
(maquette proposal in permanent archive for eventual museum display)
WORK SEEN OR FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS
Southwest Art MagazineHilton Guest Magazine
Art of the WestArt-Talk Sedona’s Best GuidebookRed Rock News Artscene
Arizona Daily SunWildland Firefighter Magazine
Guest Informant, Arizona edition
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Reflections Gallery -- Santa Fe, New Mexico Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, Arizona
Pueblo Sedona Gallery, Sedona , Arizona
Ago Fine Art Gallery, Ouray, Colorado
Hudgeons Fine Art, Flagstaff, AZ
ORGANIZATIONS
Sedona Arts Center
Women Artists of the West (WAOW)
National Sculpture Society
Wind River Valley Artists Guild
Northern Arizona Watercolor Society
CLASSES OFFERED - 2001-2006
Northern Arizona University Elderhostel, Sedona Program -- “Sculpture Principles and Practices”, “Beginning through advanced Watercolor”
Sedona Arts Center -- “Beginning Sculpting, Mold-making, and Casting”, “Sculpting for the Garden”, “Sculpting the Figure”, “Sculpting for All Levels”
Delta, Colorado Art Association -- “Beginning Sculpting, Mold-making, and Casting”
Killebrew Studio, offering custom workshops here and abroad in ceramic sculpture and watercolor. Also offering private and semi-private instruction in various ceramic, sculptural and painting media.
RECENT JURIED SHOW PARTICIPATION
Loveland Sculpture Invitational, Loveland, Colorado
Sedona Sculpture Walk
WAOW International Show, Biloxi, Mississippi & Membership Show, Taos, New Mexico
WAOW Invitational Shows, Calistoga, California and San Juan Capistrano, California
WAOW Sedona Arts Center Show
WAOW Invitational held at the Ronald Regan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California
George E. Ohr Invitational Show, Biloxi, Mississippi
Danada Sculpture Garden Show, Catigny Park, Wheaton Illinois
Wind River Valley Art Show, Dubois, Wyoming
Northern Arizona Watercolor Society Spring Show
COLLECTORS include:
Senator & Mrs. Wayne Allard, Washington, D.C.
The Eugene Munson family, Sedona, AZ
Ms. Arthemus Blossman, Biloxi, MS
Mr. & Mrs. Dick Gray, Brazelton,GA
Mr. & Mrs. Neil Sundeen, Phoenix, AZ
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Fulkerson, Newport Coast, CA
Mr. Lloyd Morgan, Seattle, WA
