Background
Helmick, Ralph was born on February 8, 1952 in Pittsburgh. Son of Charles G. Junior and Marion (Sharkey) Helmick.
Helmick, Ralph was born on February 8, 1952 in Pittsburgh. Son of Charles G. Junior and Marion (Sharkey) Helmick.
He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and then earned an Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from a joint program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.
Helmick received a Bachelor at the University of Michigan. Helmick has worked in various materials (metal, stained glass, cast resin, found objects) to create large-scale public sculptures in parks, airports, schools, hospitals, museums, and other civic spaces across the United States. Helmick"s award-winning works include the Arthur Fiedler Memorial on the Charles River Esplanade. The Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial at Austin"s Auditorium Shores.
Rabble at the North Carolina Museum of Artist
Landing at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Heart and Mind at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
In 2014, Ralph Helmick juried the Public Art Network Year in Review. His own commissions had been awarded the Personal Area Networks YiR on eight previous occasions.
Helmick Sculpture is based in Newton, Massachusetts.
The studio is currently working on its first international projects. Jurisprudents (2000) Saint J. Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial (1994) Arthur Fiedler Memorial (1984) Helmick and artist-engineer Stuart Schechter (since 1958) collaborated on a number of projects, working as Helmick & Schechter from 1993 to 2008.
Married Nan Niland, September 4, 1983.