RESUME of Bill Fulk

EDUCATION

Graduate of Indiana University,  department of Fine Arts  (now the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts),   with continuing education in Colorado.  

Studied oil painting with Harry Engel, Edward Millman, and Linda Lowry, printmaking and commercial art with Arthur Deshaies and Seong Moy, design with George Rickey, drawing with Cathy Holt and Sangeeta Reddy, and photography with Scott Engle - also completed courses in ceramics, sculpture, and a lot of art history (one of my many jobs in college was operating the slide projector for art history classes).

I also completed undergraduate and graduate level courses in mathematics, project management, and computer science.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

My name is William (Bill) Fulk. I am descended from members of the Moravian sect who moved from North Carolina to Indiana Territory, on my father's side, and from Welsh immigrants to Virginia and later Kentucky on my mother's. Originally our name was Volck (Andreas Wilhelm Volck from the Rhineland), but as pioneers tended to spell everything the way it was pronounced, it became Fulk.

I grew up in extreme southern Indiana, an only child in a household of older people. I fished, hunted, swam, and rode my bicycle around town as I wished, accompanied by my big mutt Butch. I attended Indiana University, graduating with a BA in Fine Arts. I spent a couple of years in the U. S. Army in a variety of units, my favorite being a stretch with the 1st Armored Division as an intelligence specialist.

Jobs in Fine Arts being non-existent after discharge, I began a career in air transportation to support myself and later, my family, primarily in the computer science field where I achieved some recognition in computer performance evaluation and computer simulation. I painted sporadically during this period.

Several years ago, I re-entered the art world, again as a student. I took classes in oil painting, drawing, and watercolor. I began entering art shows around the country, and have been juried into quite a few national and international shows.

EXHIBITIONS

June-July  2009  "52nd Chautauqua Annual Exhibiton of Contemporary Art,"  Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution,  Chautauqua,  NY.   Juror  -  Denise Bibro,  Director,  Denise Bibro Fine Art,  NYC.
June-July  2009  "26th Annual All Colorado Art Show," Curtis Center for the Arts and Humanities,  Greenwood Village  (Denver),  Colorado  -  Juror, Deborah Jordy,  Executive Director,  Colorado Business Committee for the Arts.
Dec.   2008 - April 2009 "Best of the West Invitational",   Desert Art Collection & Sculpture Garden,   Palm Desert,   CA   -   Juror, Jana Koroczynsky, art consultant.
Oct. 2008  "10th Annual Abstraction International",  Upstream People Gallery,  Omaha  -   Juror,  Prof.  Larry Bradshaw,  U. of NE  (five works accepted)
May-July, 2008  "Gateway to Imagination"  National Juried Exhibition,  Gateway Museum,  Farmington,  NM
October-January 2007-8   42nd Annual Juried Exhibition - "Own An Original" - Littleton Museum, Littleton, CO - Juror, Patricia Aaron, Sculptor, Faculty Univ. of Colorado.
June-August  2007   "Exhibition for the Arts 2007",  1212 Gallery,  Richmond,  VA -  Juror,  Lee Hansley,  Lee Hansley Gallery,  Raleigh,  NC
June-July 2007  "All Colorado Juried Exhibition 2007",  Curtis Center for the Arts and Humanities,  Greenwood Village, CO. Juror Dean Sobel, Director, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO
October-November 2006  "Abstraction VIII International Online Juried Art Exhibition",  Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE (Five works accepted)
February-March  2006 "Explosions in Color",  LoPressionism Gallery, (three person show),   Melbourne,  FL  -   Juried by gallery owner.
November 2005-January  2006  - "Own an Original",  Littleton Museum, Littleton,  CO  -   Juried by panel.
October 1-Novenber 1, 2005  - "Abstraction VII", Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE  - Juried by Larry Bradshaw, Professor of Art,  curator,  artist.
April-June,  2004  –  “6th Rocky Mountain Biennial”,  Museum of Contemporary Art,  Ft.  Collins, CO  –  Juried by Jan Ernst Adlmann,  frmr. Asst. director,  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,  NYC.
April-May,  2004  -  “13th National Juried Exhibition”,  Lincoln Center,  Ft.  Collins,  CO  – Juried by Jennifer Cook,  Executive Director,  Foothills Art Center,   Golden,  CO
October-December,  2004  –  “Own an Original”  exhibition,  the Gallery at Bemis Library,  Littleton,  CO  –  Juried by Susan Elliott,  artist and educator.
August,  2003  –  “Abstraction ’03” International Juried Exhibition,  Period Gallery,  Omaha,  NE  –   Juried by David McLeod,  Art Educator.
August,  2002  -  “2002 Fine Arts Exhibition”,  Colorado State Fair,  Pueblo,  CO  –  Juried by Lena Bartula,  gallery owner,  Guy Cross,  art magazine publisher,  and Sha Sha Higby,  artist.
January-March,  2001 -   Inaugural Exhibit,  Millennium Arts Center,  Washington,  D.C.  -  Juried by a panel of artists/judges.
August,  2001  "Abstraction '01" International Juried Exhibition,  Period Gallery,  Omaha,  NE.   -   Juried by David McLeod,  Art Educator,  Metropolitan Community College of Omaha.
April,  2001  - نth Annual Artists of Colorado Exhibition, Mitchell Gallery at the Denver Botanic Gardens,   Denver, CO.  -  Juror,  Tony Ortega,  artist.
September-October,  2001  "60th Annual National Art Exhibition",  Southern Utah University,  Cedar City, UT  -  Juried by Thomas A. Leek,  artist and former Professor of Art,  Southern Utah U.
January-March,   2001  -  Colorado Art Open Exhibition 2001  -  Foothills Art Center,  Golden,  CO  -  Juried by Carol Dickinson,  critic,  journalist,  and art center director.
October,  2000  - Invitational 6 Artist Exhibition  ( I showed 18 pieces),   William R. Frizzell Cultural Centre,  Fort Myers,  FL  -  Sponsored by the Alliance for the Arts.
August/September,  2000  -  5th Annual Artists of Colorado Exhibition,  Mitchell Gallery at the Denver Botanic Gardens,  Denver,  CO.  -  Juror,  Rick Brogan,  Artist and Teacher,  Art Students League of Denver.
January/April,  2000  -  Colorado 2000,  A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art,   Colorado Springs Fine Art Center,  Colorado Springs,  CO.  - Juror,  Sally Perisho,  Director of the Center For Visual Arts,  Metropolitan State College,  Denver,  CO.
August, 1999  -  Abstraction '99 International Juried Art Exhibition,  Period Gallery, Omaha,  NE  -  Juror,  Larry Bradshaw,  Professor of Art,  University of Nebraska.
November,   1999 -  Scene/Unseen 8th Annual National Juried Exhibition,  Eastern New Mexico University,   Runnels Gallery,  Portales, NM  -  Juror,  William T. Wiley,  artist.
September/October,  1999  -  Northwest New Mexico Regional Juried Show,  Farmington Museum,  Farmington, NM.  -  Juror,  Larry Basky,  printmaker and painter.
August/September,   1999  -   16th Annual All-Colorado Art Show,  Curtis Arts and Humanities Center,  Greenwood Village,   CO.  -  Juror, Rick Brogan, artist  and teacher,  Art Students League of Denver.
April,  1999  -  Artists in Colorado IV,  Colorado History Museum,  Denver, CO   Juror,  Desmond O'Hagan,  PSA.
July/August,   1999 -  "The Passion of Christ,  The Sorrows of Mary,"  El Santuario De Guadalupe,  Santa Fe,  NM  -  Juried by the St. Bernadette Institute of Sacred Art.
February/March,  1998  -  International Juried Show '98,  New Jersey Center For Visual Art,   Summit,  NJ.  Juror,  Nan Rosenthal,   20th Century Art Consultant,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  NYC.
July/August,   1997  -  Hillcrest Art Center 1997 International Juried Exhibition,  Memorial Exhibit Hall,  Cambria,  CA.   Jurors:   Ted Goerschner,  Marilyn Simandle,  Urania Christy Tarbet,  Jan Janas,  artists.
April,  1997  -  New Orleans Art Association Eighteenth National Juried Exhibition,  World Trade Center,  New Orleans,  LA. Juror:  Frank Federico,  artist,  AWS,  PSA.
March/April,   1997  -  6th National Art Exhibition,  Northern Colorado Artist Association,  Lincoln Center Gallery,  Ft. Collins,  CO.  Juror:  Doug Dawson,  artist and teacher, AWS, PSA. February/March,  1997  -  Group show,  Wrightstone Fine Arts Gallery,  McCook,  Nebraska. Juror:   Sondra L. Jonson,  artist.
March/April,   1996  -  International Juried Show,  New Jersey Center For Visual Art -  Summit,  NJ. Juror:   Thelma Golden,  Curator, Whitney Museum,  New York.
June/July,  1996  -  39th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art,  Chautauqua Art Association Gallery,  Chautauqua,  New York.  Juror:   John D. O'Hern,  Director, Arnot Art Museum,  Elmira,  NY.
May/June,  1996  -  Inland Exhibition XXXII,  San Bernardino County Museum,  San Bernardino,  California.  Juror:   Mary-Kay Lombino,  Curator,  Armand Hammer Museum,  Los Angeles.
April/May,  1996  -  '96 National Juried Exhibition,  Art Center of Northern New Jersey,  New Milford,  NJ.   Juror:   Susan Cooke,  Curator,  Whitney Museum,  New York.
June/July  1996  -  1996 Colorado Art Open,  Foothills Art Center, Golden,  Colorado.   Jurors:  Lon Seymour,  Director of The Arts Education Equity Network,  and Erick Johnson,  sculptor.