Bradford Blakely Online Gallery

Biography & Resume

Bradford Blakely Born: Portland , Oregon 1951

Education:

• Otis-Parson Art Institute, Los Angeles, California 1980
  Graduate studies in ceramics and sculpture
• Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 1974
  Bachelor of Arts in Art and Languages
• Museum Art School, Portland, Oregon 1973
• University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 1972
• Atelier Talboutier-Martin, Paris France 1970-1971
• Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 1969-1972

Military Experience:

• U.S. Army, Fort Huachuca, Arizona
  Military Intelligence School
  Art and Ceramics Instructor 1976-1977

• Community College of Southern Nevada 2003-2005
• Clark County Community College, Vancouver, WA. 1990-1991
• Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, Oregon 1989
• UCLA Artsreach Grant Program Chino Institution for Men 1983-1984

Travels:

• France, Italy, England, Greece, Turkey Dec-Feb 1970-1971
• France, England two week trip 1986
• New York City (museum trips) 1980, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004,2004,2005, 2006, 2007
• Hawaii: Honolulu Jan. 1985, Kauai Mar. 1988
• Virginia: Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, Yorktown (two week historical tour)
• Connecticutt: Hartford University Medallic Art Conference June 1992. Toured Connecticutt for a week, side trip to Harvard (Cambridge) and Boston museums, Mystic Seaport and Museums.
• Japan: Osaka, Tokyo, Nikko, Ueno, Shigaraki, Shirahama, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Kyushu (Beppu, Yufuin) Himeji City
• Florida: Tampa, St. Petersburg (Dali Museum, Museum of Man's Machu Pichu Exhibit 1998) Naples, Saratoga (Ripley Museum)
• Canada: Calgary, Banff National Park, 2002-2003. Vancouver BC (Provincial Museum of Native Art and Crafts) Bristish Columbia, Vancouver Island and Victoria, 1978
• US Cities: San Diego, Los Angeles (resided in Pasadena 1979-1984) San Francisco, (many trips while living in Sacramento from 1977-79), Portland, Oregon (born and lived there for 30 years total). Washington D.C. 1988, 1998 (week trips to see museums on the Mall) Philadelphia, 1998, Wilmington Delaware, 1998, Seattle, Washington (various trips)

Significant Exhibitions of Artwork 1997-2007

• Arts of Pacific Asia Bi-Annual Exhibitions
  Santa Monica and New York City 1999-2006
  Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
  Santa Ana, California Imperial Japanese and Robert O.Kinsey
  Collections of Contemporary Netsuke
  Nov. 1997 thru May, 1998
• International World Bead Exhibition,
  Mingei Internaitonal Folk Arts Museum
  Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. Dec. thru June 1999
  Exhibition of World Beads and Japanese Ojime
• Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
  
• Exhibition of Contemporary Netsuke by Japanese and Western carvers. Jan. 2007 thru May 2007

Books and Publications:

• Living Masters of Netsuke, Robert 0. Kinsey 1984
• Masterworks of Netsuke, University of Miami at Coral. Gables Exhibition, Joseph Kurstin, 1986
• Netsuke, Modern Masterpeices, Masayoshi Yamada. Tokyo,Japan 1990
• Ojime, Jewels of the Orient, Robert 0. Kinsey 1993
• Contemporary Netsuke Miniature Sculpture from Japan and Beyond, Bowers Museum Press, 1997
• Robert 0. Kinsey with forward by Prince Takamado
• Contemporary Netsuke Exhibition, catalog
• Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City, Japan. Robert 0, Kinsey and Prince Takamado 2001

Special Honor:

In November 1997 I and ten other western carvers were invited to meet with Robert 0. Kinsey and TIH Prince Takamado Princess Hisako of Japan to the opening ceremonial of the Bowers Museum Joint Exhibition of the Kinsey and Japanese Imperial Contemporary Netsuke Collections