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Jim Dolan, Sculptor

My goal is to intrigue and delight with enduring texture, unlikely spatial relationships and fragile balance. I mix the non-traditional and unforeseen with the traditional and familiar. I often place outdoor sculptures where their counterparts in nature could be. I try to capture isolated moments. To do that, I include details such as wind direction and wildlife subjects responding to one another. My sculpture always implies motion.

I'm deliberate in my choices of metals. Each metal weathers at its own distinct rate, and so years of exposure only enhance my sculptures' contrasts. I may choose stainless steel for an outdoor piece because of its reflective quality over distance. I might use steel mesh to create an outdoor sculpture that responds to changing light during a day or a season. I design sculptures to withstand the test of being viewed from every angle. I believe every sculpture should give new pleasure to the same audience at each viewing.

• Gingershed Gallery, Whitehall, Montana
• Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana
• Danforth Gallery, Livingston, Montana
• National Wildlife Association, Atlanta, Georgia
• National Wildlife Association, Phoenix, Arizona
• Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana
• Kennesaw Museum, Kennesaw, Georgia
• Nancy Martin Studios, McLean, Virginia

• Subject in a public television documentary series on Montana Artists.
• Subject of a television special on KUED, Utah Public Broadcasting System, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Recipient of Federal Aviation Agency Award: Art and Architecture for Airports in America. "FLIGHT OF CANADA GEESE."
• Elected member of New York-based Society of Animal Artists.
• Honored member of the Society of Centennial Alumni, Montana State University (one of 100 top graduates in the first 100 years of M.S.U.).
• Elected member of the Quest for Knowledge Society

• Over 95 public art sculptures in the United States:
  museums, business parks, universities, airports, sculpture gardens, hospitals, industrial parks, colleges, schools, office buildings, financial institutions, hotels, shopping malls, etc.
• Nine public pieces in Japan:
  Birds, Caribou, California Sea Lions, American Bison (10), Pelicans, Hawks, Bald Eagles, and a Golden Eagle (36' wingspan, 27' tall
• Expansive area of Individual Pieces in U.S., Canada, Belgium, France, Australia, Brazil and Japan

• 3-D heat-endured, metal wall pictures

• 10 foot wingspan, stainless steel, blue heron for High Point, North Carolina.
• Cow moose and two calves 1.5 times life-size for private client.

• University level guest sculptor and lecturer: M.S.U. Bozeman, MT, M.S.U. Northern, Havre, MT.
• Various workshops in Dolan Studio.
• Four summers teaching Japanese students from the Hamano Nature School of Yokohama, Japan.
• Teacher in Montana for the Manchester Craftsman Guild of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Art Show Juror Experience
• Art Spectrum, Helena, Montana
• Ducks Unlimited, Bozeman, Montana
• Montana Winter Fair, Bozeman, Montana