Bill Hopen Résumé
2010-2011 Wedding at Cana Eight life size bronze figures with 6 large wine/water jars
Spiritual life Center, Wichita, Kansas
2009 Trancendant Christ, Copper repousse' figure 1.25 life size'
St Francis Chapel, Ball State university, Muncie, Indiana
2008 "St. Maria DeMatius with student" two life size bronze figures,
Newman University Campus Grounds
Wichita, Kansas
2007 "Father DuBois" Founders Plaza, St Mary's University and Seminary Emmitsburg Maryland
2006 "Living Water" two life size bronze figures, Jesus and the Woman at the Well, set in desert tableau with hammered copper fountain Co-Sculpted with AiQiu Hopen Church of God, Princeton, WV
2006 “Father Dubois, Beginning” 2x life (4meters tall) Portrait of Fr Dubois, founder of St.Mary’s College, planting a wooden cross in the ground St Mary’s College, Emmetsburg, Md
2005 “Living Water” two life size bronze figures, Jesus and the Woman at the Well, set in desert tableau with hammered copper fountain Co-Sculpted with AiQiu Hopen Church of God, Princeton, WV
2005 “St Francis Desales the Teacher” Three Bronze figures, St Francis with two school children in modern dress St Francis DeSales School, Morgantown, WV
2004 Spent this entire year completing and casting over 50 small original bronze works, all of them produced in bronze editions.
2003 “Copper Tree” 12meter by 8 meter tall oak tree, with hammered leaves and massive trunk and limbs, installed in clubhouse of “The Oaks” golf course The Oaks Golf Course, De Moins Iowa
2003 “Sisters in Learning” 3 life-size bronze figures, a teacher and two students, seated on limestone slabs under a shade tree Benedictine College, Atchison, Ks
2003 “Pope John Paul VI” Bronze bust portrait, 1.25 life, on granite pedestal 2003 “Memories of the Mount” 3 meter by 3meter bronze bas relief depicting two Catholic Sisters in the garden at Mount St Scholastica College St Scholastic plaza, Benedictine College, Atchison, Ks
2002 Three Harts Three life scale bronze bucks atop a large bronze boulder, to complete 100 year old architect’s vision of artwork for peristal arch of Bavarian castle entrance Boldt Castle, Hart Island, Thousand Isles Bridge, St. Lawrence River auth, U.S./ Canada
2001 St Joseph the Worker with Family 3 bronze partial figures, 2x life scale, St Joseph embracing Mary and child Jesus in front of a work bench with woodworking tools
2000 Maria De Matius Bronze, seated 6’ figure on an iron & copper bench The Adorer’s Chapel Wichita, Kansas
1999 The Bridge Builders Bronze, four heroic busts within of mountains, 10’wide landscape, depicting bridge built over a stream. L.J.Harless Community Center, Gilbert WV.
1998 Woman of the New Covenant Bronze,7’ Figure, St Mary walking, mounted a large “floating” sandstone shard, below large sandstone disk. The Adorer’s chapel, Wichita, Kansas
The Bridge Bronze, 4’figure Mother with newborn child St Vincent’s Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd Portrait Bronze, 3.3 meter bronze figure mounted on 1.3 meter carved marble pedestal Capitol Rotunda, Charleston, WV
1996 Gov.Gaston Caperton Bronze,Bas Relief On natural Boulder Caperton Center, Beckley, WV 1995” “Mortality Bronze,6’figure natural boulder Tamarack Pavilion, Tamarack Arts and Craft exposition center Beckley ,WV
1995 Sen. Robert Byrd Bronze, portrait bust Heroic scale Wheeling Jesuit College Wheeling,WV 1994 Santiago Bronze, life-size Figure On marble plinth St.James Catholic Church, Clarksburg, WV 1994 St.Vincent De Paul Bronze,4 Life size figures On stair pediment St.Vincent’s Children’s Services, Brooklyn, NYC
1993 Dialogue of the Heart Bronze, 2 Life-size figures and Bas relief panel on granite pediment Catholic High School Baton Rouge,LA
1994 Alma McDonough Bronze, portrait bust Heroic scale Wheeling Jesuit College, Wheeling, WV 1993 Dance of Appalachia Bronze, 4 small Figures On cherry bases Davis and Elkins College library, Elkins, WV 1992 Christ within Carved limestone, Life-size figure carved deeply within limestone column 2.5 meters St. Margaret-Mary Church, Parkersburg, WV
1990 La Premiere Vue Bronze, 3 life-size Figures mounted on large boulder by river Gallipolis City Park, Gallipolis, Ohio 1989 Fallen Partner Bronze, 9’figure on 4’ granite base State Capitol Grounds Charleston,Wv
1989 Sister of Healing ,2 Bronze figures, 1.25x life scale, set on designed brick pediment in healing garden Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA
1988 St.Joseph and Jesus Bronze, 2figures1.25 X life size, Joseph and young Jesus seated on large hewn beams with carpenter tools St. .Joseph Hospital Parkersburg, WV
1987 Christa McAuliffe Bronze, life size bust, museum garden (McAuliffe was The American teacher who perished in the 1986space shuttle disaster with 7 other astronauts) Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV 1986 St.Francis of Assisi Bronze, 8’ figure, set in garden at main hospital entrance St.Francis Hospital , Charleston,WV 1986 St.Michael, St.Mary, St.Joseph 3 Carved cherry Figures, each 1 meter tall St.Michael’s Catholic Church Vienna,WV 1985 Immigrants Cast stone,15 8’ Figures Harrison County Courthouse, Clarksburg, WV
1985 Booker T.Washington Bronze,lifesize bust State Capitol Grounds Charleston,WV 1984 Burial monument: Bronze,bas relief Gary Huber High Knob Church,Sutton,WV 1983 St.Stephan cast stone, the first martyr of Christianity, dying, reaching up to heaven asking forgiveness for those who stoned him St Stephan’s Catholic Center, Hurricane WV
1983 Mary and Jesus Carved cherry, 2 lifesize figures St. Mary’s catholic Church, Wheeling, WV
1983 12 Apostles and Christ Terra cotta and liturgical appointments Wheeling, WV Hornorable collectors
1982 Mother With Children 4 ton marble carving , 2 meter tall Mother and two children National Mothers day shrine, Grafton WV |