Michael Wickerson

Westminster Secondary School

Class of 1990

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Michael Wickerson - Class of 1990 - Westminster Secondary School

First Name	Michael
Last Name	Wickerson
Graduation Year	Class of 1990
Gender	Male
Hometown	London, Ontario
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	BORN IN 1971, Michael David Wickerson, tenured Associate Professor and Chair of the Sculpture Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, teaches a variety of traditional and contemporary skills and crafts. Wickerson is a Canadian artist working in Kansas City, experienced in woodworking and metal casting. He has exhibited throughout North America since 1994 and has displayed artworks overseas in Holland since 2008. Currently, he has completed two adobe and rammed earth buildings at Wickerson Studios located on his 11-acre property in Kansas City, Kansas: Hamlet's Mill and the Grieve Foundry. Wickerson Studios is a 'state' created from the clay of the earth and the timber of the fallen trees. Sunlight is the only light that is ever provided. The winds and rains penetrate the privacy of these two special places. Everything is seasonal. The summer sun exhausts and the winter chill bites. It is easy to feel alive in this place. In 2005, his installation, This Equipment Belongs to the Earth, was displayed at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City and his aluminum casting, House of the Sun, was recognized in Spaces Magazine in the spring of 2006. In 2007, Wickerson received a Lighton International Exchange Grant from the Lighton Foundation, and he began a yearlong working relationship with 7 Rivers Resort in Tally Bend, Missouri. Michael has received the Excellence in Teaching Grant from the Kansas City Learning Exchange and assisted in establishing the Art in R Park program in Roeland Park, Kansas. He is a current member of the American Foundry Society (MK Chapter), the Kansas City International Visitors Council, and the Kansas City Artist Coalition. Previously, he co-founded and co-directed the Beth Allison Gallery in Missouri and has taught at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Recently, Michael Wickerson has begun collaborating with two separate businesses in The Netherlands. Naked Architecture provides Michael with the opportunity to share in the design and fabrication of architectural cast metal components on a variety of projects and CornbreadWorks photography and image editing has assisted in further developing his interest in the mechanics of complex tools through the use of digital photography. Wickerson holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo and a master's of fine arts degree from York University in Toronto, Canada. I wish to further develop the private studio and sculptural landscape of Wickerson Studios by facilitating it with additional equipment, supplies and materials in order to serve a growing community of artists. My efforts and ambitions seem to be moving beyond the my personal development and exhibition of sculptures and ideas. I feel the need to expand my efforts in the arts. My American arts community has grown from 12 students in 2001, when I moved here from Canada, into an international exchange of ideas spanning the globe. Beginning to develop my private studios on an institutional level will allow me to continue to serve the alumni and artists that I have come to know. I look forward to creating new artworks, all the while, serving other artists with the same enthusiasm and drive that has inspired me to make a life for myself in America that develops personally and professionally with creative individuals. Specifically, I wish to pursue a series of artworks, Cupola/Cupola, and events focused on bronze casting, iron casting, and clay kiln firing. Cupola/Cupola is a collection of new fangled drawings, bronze sculptures and outdoor public works that have been inspired by the time I have spent traveling, working and living in the Netherlands, specifically Friesland. It is the northern Klokkenstoelen that captured my imagination and later melded with my iron cupola designs. These bell towers and furnace wagons are the subject of my past art...(read more)