About the Artist
Blake M Conroy
Sparks Md
443-717-2424
Bmconroy22@yahoo.com
www.blakemconroy.com
bmconroy22@instagram
Education:
Public Art:
Public Art and Community Art Resumé
1981 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Drawing, Magna Cum Laude 1979 Syracuse University, Illustration Major, 1977-1979
Brooklyn O’Malley Boys and Girls Club, 2022, funded by Public Art Across Maryland New Artworks, Maryland State Arts Council, $20,000. Worked with the students including their drawings in the design. Nicole Fall is the co- artist on this project
Brooklyn O’Malley Boys and Girls Club, , window grilles, Baltimore, MD, 2019, funded by Gutierrez Memorial Fund, $15,000. Nicole Fall is the co-artist on this project.
Examples of Public Art/Community Projects for New Arts Foundry:
Blake Conroy was the Foundry Foreman for New Arts Foundry from 1981 to 2019.
His responsibilities included managing 15 employees, managing production schedules, and installations.
The New Arts Foundry was a full service fine art ,casting, foundry dedicated to quality. Their involvement in the projects included from producing and finishing bronze castings, to being responsible for the work in its entirety, from conception to installation. New Arts Foundry produced hundreds of castings each year for artists, craftsmen, and architects, from; architectural recreation of light sconces to monumental sculpture of up to 24 feet. New Arts Foundry had a customer list of close to one thousand sculptors, architects, museums, and public sites.
Unveiling Date 2017
2014
Title
“Fearless Girl”
“Ray Lewis”
Artist
Kristen Visbal
Fred Kail
Budget Site
$50,000 New York, NY
$70,000 Baltimore Md
May 13,2017
“The Clinton 12 - Walking into History”
William Duffy
$156,000.00
Green McAdoo Museum - Clinton, TN
July 15, 2017
“Maggie Walker”
Antonio Tobias Mendez - sculptor
$90,000.00
Richmond Virginia Maggie Walker Plaza
2007
“Major Taylor Monument”
Antonio Tobias Mendez - sculptor
$100,000
Worcester Public Library, Worcester MA
2006
“Beacon”
Lisa Scheer - sculptor McKey Scheer Studios
$149,400.00
United States Courthouse, Brooklyn New York
July 18,1998
“The Spirit of Freedom-African American Civil War Memorial”
Ed Hamilton
$65,000
10th and U Streets - Washington, D.C.
1998
“Wall Mural” by Yuriko Yamaguchi
Yuriko Yamaguchi
$40,000
Bethesda Md
1993
“Freedom Statue” Restoration on United States Capitol
Architect of the
Capitol
$30,000
United States
Capital,
Washington DC
1991 “Kahlil Gibran” Gordan Kray $30,000 Washington DC
Selected Awards, Residencies, Professional Development:
Solo Shows
2018, Field Study, Cut Paper, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore Md 2017, Manifest Gallery, Abstract Nature, Cincinnati Ohio
2017, Hardesty Art Center, Abstract Nature 2, Tulsa Ok
2017, Bloomsburg University, Abstract Nature, Bloomsburg Pennsylvania
2016 Garden Abstractions, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, Md
Honors
2018 Glo'Art Belgium Artist's Residency, Lanaken, Belgium
2017 Clark Hulings Fellowship, Clark Hulings Fund, Santa Fe, N M Collections
Glo'Art Belgium
Cincinnatti Childrens Hospital
Blake Conroy is represented by MassoniArt Gallery, Chestertown, Md
