Over the past 30 years Bruce Allen has served the civic, commercial, and academic community as a panelist, board member, juror, and consultant for a variety of public and private art organizations. He has adjudicated and/or curated exhibitions, festivals, art educators, art commissions (both public and private), and participated in the design and creation of several projects in public spaces. He has been working with local, regional, national and internationally known artists in workshops, exhibitions and the creation of art works. All this experience has given him a unique set of skills and insights into the arena of public art and artistic collaboration. He has a BA in Art and a BS in Mathematics from Centenary College of Louisiana and an MFA from the University of Wyoming. He spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany during graduate school and a spent a semester in Xian, China studying Chinese painting and sculptural arts. Bruce has broad experience in the public arena of education, arts administration, and non-profits and a strong background in the materials and techniques of sculpture. He also has strong communications skills and has worked with a wide variety of collaborators from nationally known figures like William Joyce, Clyde Connell, James Surls, Bob Wade, and Dwayne Hansen to K-12 students. His collaborative work explores the media that he uses and he has a strong commitment to the use of recycled and green materials. Whether it’s drawing, painting or printmaking; casting iron, bronze, aluminum, or plastics; carving in wood, stone or plastic foam; welding or sewing; he tries to use his materials to express their own unique nature and the ideas of the society in which we live and work. Irony and social comment are often a subtle presence in his works of art. However, he strives to communicate with a wide audience, especially in public works, using humor and playfulness as well as seriousness and structure.