Michael Don Fess, Little Rock
"Feminine Curves"
medium: ArtStone
approximately 12' tall $2000
Currently displayed in San Antonio, TX
in the 2007 International Show
Michael was born 1935 in Haynesville, Louisiana. He was the eldest of six children; two brothers and three sisters. Grew up in Magnolia, Arkansas, graduated from Magnolia High School in 1953 and attended Southern State College’s engineering school, now SAU; Southern Arkansas University. Received his BS in Physics from Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1958.
Married Martha Sue Wilson, his high school sweetheart and raised four children in Shreveport. They presently have fourteen grandchildren, ten living in the Little Rock and four in Orlando. Was a successful real estate developer for over thirty years, awarded CCIM in early 1970’s. His h
obbies are tennis, flying, skiing, music, barbershop singing, computer, and poker tournaments.
He is the current Chairman of the Red River Sculpture Society which he and six other sculptors formed in 1994. He also created the RRSS sculpture-lease plan for office buildings, hospitals, and public areas. He also pioneered the design of special bits for the air-chisel he uses for his sculpture, and the use of construction material “EFS” for large out door sculpture he named “ArtStone.”
Fess created the Golden Heritage Sculpture Program using “Hollow Stone” to honor our past. He was inducted into the Sculpture Hall of Fame in 1998 ( Louisiana), and helped organize the Visual Arts Hall of Fame in 1998. (Louisiana) He moved to Little Rock in the fall of 2001, and currently is a Member of the Arkansas Sculptor's Guild and boardmember of the Sculptors Dominion International Invitational in San Antonio.
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