Professor
Visual Arts Department
Loyola University
6363 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 861-5456 or 5458
wgrote@loyno.edu
Home/Studio
75343 River Road
Covington, LA 70435
Studio& Fax(985) 892-3084
cell (504) 628-4187
grotestudio@charter.net
wgrote@charter.net

EDUCATION
       
1975 MFA - Washington University, St. Louis, MO;
       1972 BFA - School of Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH;

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    1975 - Present Head of Sculpture, Visual Arts Department, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
    1977-99 Chairman, Visual Arts Department, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
    1992-93 Fulbright, University of Plymouth, Exeter, England

GRANTS AND ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2007 Visiting Artist/ Visiting Scholar Program, American Academy, Rome, Italy

Loyola University, Faculty Reasearch Grant

Louisiana Atlas Grant

Santa Fe Art Institute, Artist in Residency, Santa Fe, NM

Pollock-Krasner, Residency Grant

2006 Louisiana, Rebirth Grant

Loyola University, Faculty Reasearch Grant

Joan Mitchell Foundation, Emergency Support Grant

2004 Loyola University, Faculty Reasearch Grant

2003Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Artist Residency, Omah NE

Richard Attenborough Center, Artist in Resident, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Louisiana Division of the Arts, Reasearch Grant

2002 Pollock-Krasner, Reasearch Grant, New York, NY
Loyola University, Faculty Research Grant


2001 Loughborough University, Artist Residency, Loughborough, UK


2000 Louisiana Division of the Arts' Artist Mini -Grant


1999 Gasworks Studio, Artist in Residency, London, England
Loyola University Faculty Research Grant


1998 Loyola University Faculty Research Grant


1995 Fellowship from the Southern Artist Federation to the Vermont Studio Center (declined)


1992-93 Fulbright, University of Plymouth, Exeter, England


1990-91, 1987-88, 1984-85, 1983Loyola University Faculty Research Grant

1982 NEA Grant, Division of the Arts, State of Louisiana Endowment, S.E.C.A.C. Grant


1981 National Endowment, Art Car


1980 National Endowment to the Arts, Field Grant (New Materials) Loyola University Faculty Research Grant

PUBLICATIONS

2002 WAFB TV, Baton Roug LA, "Art in the Park " Allen Tumey
Staffordshire University, News Paper, "Artist pioneer" Janine McMaster
Sentinel Stock-on-Trent, "National tour as artists gets back to basics"


2001 Loughborough Universit, England,"Fortnight X Two", Exhibition catalog
Simeon Hunter, and Neil Powell


2000 New Orleans Times-Picayune, “Sculptor gets state grant” C. Gelpi


1998 New Orleans Art Review, Mariann S. Mclellan


1996 New Orleans Art Review, Ted Calas


1995 New Orleans Times-Picayune, Chris Waddington
New Orleans Art Review, Marian S. McWellan


1994 New Orleans Art Review, Ted Calas


1991 New Orleans Times-Picayune, Roger Green, July/May


1990 New Orleans Times-Picayune, Roger Green, October


1998 New Orleans Art Review, " Things of Objects" Marian S. Mclellan, September/ October


1996 New Orleans Art Review, "Things of Guns" Ted Calas, September/ October


1995 New Orleans Times-Picayune, Chris Waddington, July
New Orleans Art Review, Marian S. Mclellan, July / May


1994 New Orleans Art Review, " Scolptors on Donald Jud" Ted Calas, September/ October


1993 Romania Libers, Romania, " Bogdan, Cannon, Grote" June 5 & 6


1991 New Orleans Times-Picayune, Roger Green, July/May


1990 New Orleans Times-Picayune, Roger Green, October


1989 New Orleans Times-Picayune, "Jazz Fest Fine Arts, A Great New Beginning," Roger Green, May
New Orleans Times-Picayune, Review, John Kemp, September


1987 Shreveport Journal, Art Notes,"Celebrate an Environment of Art," Pat Phillips, August


1986 Cincinnati Suburban, Review, Bob Firestone, Jr., June
New Orleans Times-Picayune, "Competing Couples," Millie Ball, October


1983 New Orleans Times-Picayune, Review, Roger Green, November
Houston Chronicle, "Louisiana Sculptors’ Creations, Diverse in Medium, Size," Donna Tennant


1981 New Orleans Times-Picayune, "New Orleans Sculptors Exhibit in Big Apple," Angus Lind Gambit, "Still La Vie," Terrington Calas


1980 Atlanta Journal Review, W.C.Burnett, July
Figaro, "A Disquieting and Compelling Oeuvre," Terrington Calas, April
Art News, "No Longer Afraid of the Kindness of Strangers," Roger Green, December
New Orleans Review, Cover, June
New Orleans Review, Cover, January

EXHIBITION

2007 Joie de Vivre: A Meditation on New Orleans, Katrina and the U.S. Chicago, ILL

One-Person Exhibition, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

Group Exhibition,"Storage Spaces" SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2006 Group Exhibition, "Colors" Space301, Mobile, AL

Group Exhibition, Alexandria Museum of Art, "Compition   2006" Alexandria, LA

2004 One-Person Exhibition "Lost&Found" Crown Center Gallery, Chicago, ILL

One-Person Exhibition "Heartland" Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA

Group Exhibition, "Findings" Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans,LA

LSU Sculpture Park Invitational,Louisiana State University, Baton Rough, LA


2003
One-Person Exhibition "All Things Big and Small" Gulf Alternative Art Space,Fairhope, AL
One Person Exhibition "All Things Big and Small" Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL

2002 One-Person Exhibition "Little Time Little Peices" Fine Art Building Gallery, Chicago,
Group Exhibition"Reflect" Center for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
Baton Rouge Public Sculpture Project, Baton Rouge, LA
Juried Exhibition, Slidell Cultural Center, Slidell, LA

2001 One-Person Exhibition, St. Michael Church, Honition, England
One-Person Exhibition, Staffordshire University,Stoke-on-Trent, England
One-Person Exhibition, Northbrook College, Worthing, England
One-Person Exhibition, Loughborough University, Loughborough, England

2000 One- Person Exhibition, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux,LA
Group Exhibition," A Few Friends" Houston Sculpture 2000, Houston, TX
One- Person Exhibition, University of Texas, Tyler,TX
One -Person Exhibition, Lamar Dodd Art Center, Lagrange College, Lagrange,GA

1999 "Public Art in New Orleans " Contemporarty Art Center, New Orleans, LA
One-Person Exhibition, Gasworks Gallery " From the streets of London to the gallery wall", London, England
One-Person Exhibition,Sculpture House Gallery, London, England
Group Exhibition, Kingston University, London, England
One-Person Exhibition, Contempory Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Group Exhibition, Nicholls StateUn.., Thibodaux, LA
"1981 – 1998 Artist Fellowship Exhibition", Collins C. Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans,LA
"1981 – 1998 Artist Fellowship Exhibition", Monroe Museum, Monroe, LA
"1981 – 1998 Artist Fellowship Exhibition", Alexandria Museum, Alexanderia, LA
"1981 – 1998 Artist Fellowship Exhibition", Baton Rouge Gallery, BatonRouge,LA
Faculty Exhibition, Collins C. Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
One-Person Exhibition, " Europe and the United States 1992-98"
Lousiana State Ubniversity, Baton Rouge, LA
Two- Person Exhibition, Hartwic College, Oneonta, New York
One-Person Exhibition, University of Leeds, Brenton Hall, Wakeefield, England

1997 One-Person Exhibition, Kent Institute of Art,Canterbury, England
One-Person Exhibition, University of Exeter, Exeter, England
One-Person Exhibition, Christian Siret gallery, Paris France

1996 Group Exhibition, Gallerie Christian Siret, Paris, France
Romanian Cultural Foundation Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Group Exhibition, "Special Projects" The Living Room, Santa Monica
Southern Sculptur Invitational,Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond,LA
Group Exhibitions, Guns in the Hands of Artist , Positive Space New Orleans,LA
Gerhard Seel Residence, Neuchatel, Switzerland

1995 One-Person Exhibition, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Gallery of the Fine Arts Institute, Bucharest, Romania
Siret Gallery, Les Jardins Du Palais Royal, Paris, France
Sculpture Exhibition, University of Alabama
Juried Exhibition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Presidential Inauguration Exhibition, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

1994 River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Sylvia Schmidt Group Show, New Orleans, LA
Writers Palais Vernesco, Bucharest, Romania
Siret Gallery, Les Jardins Du Palais Royal, Paris, France

1993 Group Exhibition, U.S. Embassy, Bucharest, Romania
Exeter & Devon Art Center, Exeter, England
Exeter College of Art, Exeter, England

1992 Group Exhibition, Gallerie Christian Siret, Paris, France
Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England
Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Sylvia Schmidt, New Orleans, LA

1991 Louisiana Sculpture Tour, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA
St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA
Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1990 One-Person Exhibition, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
One-Person Exhibition, Dishman Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
Selections, University of New Orleans, LA
Sculpture Tour, Cleveland State, Cleveland, TN
Sculpture Tour, Pellississippi State, Knoxville, TN

1989 St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA
Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX
D-Erlin Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1988 Louisiana Abstraction, Windows, New Orleans, LA
Sculpture Tour, Walters State Community College, Morristown, TN
One-Person Exhibition,Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Group Exhibition, D-Erlin Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
A Tribute To Excellence, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Sandra Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1987 Sculpture Tour, University of Tennessee Art, Winston-Salem, NC
S.E.C.C.A., "10 Years of Southeastern Art", Winston-Salem, NC
Group Show, Gallerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Group Show, Cyrna International Gallery, Chicago, IL
Two-Person Exhibition, Stoner Art Center, Shreveport, LA
21st Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX

1986 Jesuit Spirit in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA (Prize)
Art for Art’s Sake, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Invitational Southeast Sculpture, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellaire, FL
Group Show, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
Two-Person Show, Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Group Show, Stern Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Invitational Sculpture at 1 Canal Place, New Orleans, LA

1985 Two-Person Collaboration Show, "Is It He or Is It She?," Gallerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Competition, Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Group Shows, Gallerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

1984 Group Shows, Gallerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Group Show, Contemporary Arts Center, Corpus Christi, TX
Art for Art’s Sake, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
One-Man Show, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1983 Southeast 7, Art Center for Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
Southeast 7, S.E.C.C.A. Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC
One-Man Show, Image South Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1982 One-Man Show, Graphic Edition, New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Sculpture Biennial, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Art Cars, Public School #1, New York, NY
Three-Person Show, Art Gallery, Lafayette, LA
New Orleans Art Academy, Group Exhibition, New Orleans, LA
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Loyola University Faculty Show, New Orleans, LA
Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1981 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1 Canal Place, New Orleans, LA
International House, New Orleans, LA
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA (Prize)
St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

1980 Three-Person Show, Image South Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Abstraction Show, Invitational, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Art for Art’s Sake, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Sculpture Biennial, Invitational, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Pensacola Invitational, Florida Junior College, Pensacola, FL
Three-Person Show, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA
One-Person Show, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Washington University Alumni Show, New Orleans, LA
One-Person Show, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

COLLECTIONS

Museums

Mobile Museum of Art ,Mobile, Al
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Southeast Museum of Art, Beaumont, TX

Commissions

Dr. and Mrs. Hansburo, Baton Rouge, LA
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
New Orleans Percent for the Arts, LA
Richard Publishing, Long Island, NY

Corporations

Pan American Insurance Company, New Orleans, LA
Wm. Hewitt, John Deere & Co., IL
Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Latter and Blum, New Orleans, LA
Friedler Insurance Co., New Orleans, LA
Linclay Corporation, Cincinnati, OH
Art Council of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Universities/Colleges

University of Texas, Tyle, TX
Loughborough University, Loughborough,UK
Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, FL

Personal

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Barger, Celina OH Mr. and Mrs. Jef Ingraham, Celina, OH
Wanda Sullivan Allred, Mobile, AL Mr. Jonnie Brien, La Combe, LA
Mr. Jim Watson, Picayune, MS Mr . R G Brown, Athens, GA
Mr .& Mrs. Jennings, New Orleans.LA Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elliott, London England
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Magill, New Orleans, LA Mrs. Frances Richardson, London, England
Mrs. Georgiana Decomb, London, England Mrs. A. Carter, New Orleans, LA
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mellon, New York, NY Mr. and Mrs. Miles Biggs, Covington, LA
Dr. and Mrs. D. Diaz, New Orleans, LA Ms. Raddman, Long Island, NY
Mr. Swiss, Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Christovich, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Max Medvin, Beverly Hills, CA Mr. and Mrs. Roy Taylor, New Orleans, LA
Dr. and Mrs. Ronnie Schwartz, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. Don Trossman, New Orleans, LA
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Besthoff, New Orleans, LA Ms. Francis Williams, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Abadie, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. Richard Green, New Orleans, LA
Thomas Lemann Collection, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, New Orleans, LA
Dr. and Mrs. Zurik, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Chauvin, New Orleans, LA
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Rucker, New Orleans, LA Dr. and Mrs. A. Banks, Alexandria, LA
Mr. P. Warren, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. T. Winningder, Columbus, OH
Mr. and Mrs. K. Mckalshane, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kearney, New Orleans, LA
Mr. Charles Hebert, Lafayette, LA Mr.and Mrs. Tim Taunten, LaGrange, GA
Mr. Don Marshall, New Orleans, LA Mrs. D. Leake, New Orleans, LA
Mrs. Alfred Moran, New Orleans, LA Mr. G. Febres, New Orleans, LA
Mr. Wayne Amedee, New Orleans, LA Mrs. X. Conroy, New Orleans, LA
Mrs. N. Moss, New Orleans, LA Mrs. Ida Kohlmeyer, New Orleans, LA
Mrs. Lin Emery, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gay, New Orleans, LA
Mrs. Stanton Frazar, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. David Fettig, Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rench, Dayton, OH Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beckemeyer, Cleveland, OH
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fox, Celina, OH Mr. Daniel Kadish, Dayton, OH
Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Christovich, New Orleans, LA Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Trombatore, Athens, GA
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Sills, Baton Rough, LA

LECTURES

2002
Spring Hill College, Mobile,A
University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
2001 Loughborough University, Loughborough, England
Northbrook College, Worthing, England
2000 Nicholls State University,Thibadaux, LA
University of Texas, Tyler,TX
1999 Loughbourgh University, Loughbourgh, England
Kingston University,Kingston on the Thems, Emgland
Chelsea College of Art, London,England
1998 Louisiana State University,BatonRouge, LA
1997 Norwich School of Art, Norwich, England
Sheffiel Halland University,Sheffield, England
Leeds University,Bretton Hall School of Art, Wakefield, England
Loughbourgh College of Art,Loughbourgh, England
Kent Institute of Art,Kent,England
1996 Louisiana State University, BatonRouge,LA
University of Colorado,Bolder, Colorado
1995 Hoosac School, Hoosick, New York
1993 University of Plymouth, Exeter, England
University of Georgia Study Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
1992 Polytechnic South West, Exeter, England
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
1991 Centenary College, Shreveport, LA
1990 Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
1989 University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY
1988 Walter State University, Morristown, TN
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
1987 Louisiana Watercolor Society, New Orleans, LA
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
1986 Archbishop Rummel High School, Metairie, LA
1984 Southeast Medical Association Conference, New Orleans, LA
1981 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
1980 University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1978 Wright State University, Dayton, OH