Biography

J.B. Blunk Chronology


1926 Born in Ottawa, Kansas
1946 Moved to California
1949 B.A. University of California at Los Angeles
1949 – 1950 Travel to West Indies
1952 – 1954 Lived and worked in Japan as potter’s apprentice
1954 – 1955 Artist in Residence at Palos Verdes College
1955 Moved to Northern California
1962 Began wood sculpture
1969 – 1970 Travel to Mexico and Peru
1971 Apprenticeship Grant from Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1978 California State Art in Public Places Program competition award for sculpture
1979 Cultural Exchange Travel Grant to Indonesia, U.S.I.C.A.
1983 Travel to Japan
1986 California State Art in Public Places Program competition award for sculpture
1988 CAL Davis Arboretum International Design Arts Competition – team member with Landscape architect – First Prize and Honorable Mention for Garden Design
1990 Art Consultant to Land Studio, Landscape Architects, MW Steele Group, Architects, and Raphael Garcia, Architect, on Kansas City Cultural Corridor – The Brush Creek Waterway
2002 Dies in Inverness, CA