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
