Penn State
1970 to Present - Artist
Background in Arts:1962-70 - 8 years in Photography
1970 - 1 year in Stained Glass and WoodSculpture
Art Shows: Albatross Gallery, Harper's Ferry, WV - June 1978
Union Carbide, WV Show on Park Ave., NY,September 1978
WV Bi-Annual Juried Exhibition, 1978
AFSCME (American Federation of State andCounty Municipal
Employee Union) sponsored a one-man show -May 1979
Franz Bader - One-Man Show - July 1979, July1981, July 1983
WV Allied Artist Juried Show - 1979
Galleries Featuring Work-present and past
The Works Gallery , Phila. Pa,
The Albatross Gallery Harpers Ferry WV
Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
Gallery 1897, Lewisburg, WV
Art Store, Charleston, WV
The Greenbrier, Glass Roots Gallery,White SulphurSpring WV
Art Gallery, Homestead, Hot Springs, VA
The OutPost, Homestead , Hot Springs VA
Cooper Gallery , Lewisburg, WV
Blumenstein Gallery @ Mountain Trading Co. Chas WV
Mc Junkin Gallery , Chas WV
Terra Salis, Chas WV
Greenbrier Nursery, Talcott WV
Matsumoto Gallery, Sanibel Island Fl
Ivy Gallery, Charlottesville Va
Grounds Keeper Nursery North, Morgantown WV
Browning Artworks, Frisco NC
Vivians Art fir Living Charlottesville Va
Taylor Books Annex Gallery
Tamarack , Beckley WV
One Man shows
Sunrise Art Gallery One-Man Show - July 1982
Huntington Galleries One-Man Show - Oct '84--Aug'85
Southern WV Youth Museum- November 1988
Piedimont Arts Center- Sept 1988
Waynesboro Arts Center - June 1990
Swift Level, Lewisburg, WV May 96
Vivians Art for Living Gallery, Charlottesville VA
Owners of MCB Sculpture:
Sculptures are now located from Los Angeles, CA to
Minneapolis, MN as far South as Sanibel, FL toWells,
England as well as in the collection of Ex-President, Gerald Ford
Canada, Switzerland
Large Sculptures For Public Places:
Two outdoor sculptures in Courtyard in Wells, England
20 foot mobile built for shopping mall in Fairlea, WV
purchased and completed Spring 1981
10 foot fountain for garden in Sanibel, FL
10 foot mobile designed for private home in Glade
Springs, November 1980
2 - 14 foot outdoor sculpture flower
25 foot Peace Totem for Southern WV Children's museum
November 1988
Samples of Recent Unique Commissions:
8 foot wall sculpture - Watergate Offices, Washington, DC
Septernber 1983
12 foot custom design deck railing in Arlington, VA
October 1983
10 foot exterior copper shower - Charleston, WV - Nov '1983
12 foot bird squadron mobile for private home - Dec 1988
Wall installation for restaurant - October 1987
30 foot copper sculpture Beckley WV - June 91
Unique Contributions:
Informance at the WV Governors Mansion
Founder of Greenbrier Valley Artisans Guild in Lewisburg, WV
Guild is a juried artists cooperative for the purpose of
providing an outlet for WV artists for their arts
and crafts 1975
Juror in Alderson Arts and Crarts Fair in August 1980
Conducted Workshop at Federal Reforniatory for Women in
Alderson, WV in April 1978
Art show in conjunction with the Charleston Symphony
for Southern Art Commission in Fayetteville, WV in September 1979
Was focal point of the Clarksburg Arts Council Show in
Clarksburg, WV October 1980
WV Juried Exhibition - 1987
Huntington Galleries 280 Show - 1989
One Man Show, 2 months, Parkersburg Art Center, WV 1998
One of the 5 selected Artists to sit on the Tamarack advisory
board during conceptual phase of the $17 Million Arts & Crafts center
Founder of: The Concerned Citizens of Alderson/Glenray 1989
The Greenbrier River Watershed Association 1993
Founder: Friends of the Lower Greenbrier River 1999
Past Board Member of WV Arts Advocacy
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