Isaac Duncan III is a Chattanooga-based artist of Caribbean decent who grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Duncan received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame, his Certification of Secondary Art Education from St. Mary's College, and his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky. His mentors include Richard Hunt, John Henry, Robert Stackhouse and Carol Mickett. Duncan's large scale sculptures have been collected by Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, Ohio, Lexington Diagnostic Center, Kentucky, African-American Heritage Center, Kentucky, Columbia State College, Tennessee, City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Erlanger Children’s Hospital Kennedy Outpatient Center and Le Domaine Forget, Quebec, Canada and numerous private art collectors. He was a recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for 2017. Isaac is a past President of Mid-South Sculpture Alliance and former board member of Sculpture Fields at Montague Park, Association for Visual Artists, and ArtsBuild. He currently sits on the Boards of the International Sculpture Center and StoveWorks, and serves on granting committees for the Tennessee Arts Commission.
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We're excited to hear more about Isaac's work during his Keynote lecture on Saturday, October 4th.
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