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Florida Keys Community College, Metal Sculpture, Key West, FL, 1991.
Independent Study Abroad, Marble Carving, Pietra Santa, Italy, 1987-1988.
Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy, 1987-1988.
Cleveland Institute of Art, Sculpture, Cleveland, OH, 1986-1987.
Ursaline
College, Art Therapy, Cleveland, OH, 1981-1982.
Cooper School of Art,
Cleveland, OH, 1974-1977.
Founder, Sculpture Key West, Key West, FL, 1995.
In an effort
to combine LARGE SCALE SCULPTURES with the dramatic OUTDOOR
VISTAS of
the Keys and to PROMOTE CONTEMPORARY ART to the
COMMUNITY. Jim
started SCULPTURE KEY WEST. Sculpture Key West is a
temporary
outdoor sculpture exhibition held annually within three garden venues
throughout Key West, Fl. This event has grown into a six week long
internationally-
known event with global artist participation, where
instead of people going to a museum,
the museum goes to them for
UNEXPECTED EXPERIENCES.
Board Member, Sculpture Key West,
Key West, FL, 1998-2011.
Mentor, Key West High School Art Class Project
for Sculpture Key West, 2008.
Metal Sculpture Technique, Florida Keys
Community College, Key West, FL, 98/93
Tin Shui Way Park, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Key Largo, FL.
Key West Airport,
Monroe County Arts Council, Key West, FL..
Town Hall Civic Sedliste,
Czech Republic.
Sculpture Key West, Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park,
Key West, FL, 1995-present.
Summer Exhibition, Key West Art & Historical
Museum, Key West, FL, 2006.
The Locals Show, Charest-Weinberg Gallery,
Key West, FL, 2006.
Art Studio Lock-In, Lemonade Stand, Key West, FL,
2005.
Under The Sun, Key West Art & Historical Museum, Key West, FL,
2000.
7th Annual Membership Juried Exhibition, Bakehouse Art Complex,
Miami, FL, 1997.
46th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton
Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, 1997.
In Motion, Betcher Gallery, Miami,
FL, 1996,
Superstition, Tennessee Williams Find Arts Center, Key West,
FL, 1995.
Racchi, Vesek, Passions Gallery, Key West, FL, 1995.
Heavy Metal, Art Collectors Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, 1994.
The Acts of
Hope, Jackie Gleason Theater of Performing Arts, Miami Beach, FL, 1994.
The Bakehouse Art Complex Selected Artist, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL,
1994.
Racchi, Vesek, P.S. Lane Gallery, Key West, FL, 1994.
Jim
Racchi, Rik o'Che, Miami Beach, FL, 1993.
A Capitol Idea: The Endurance
of Neoclassicism, Tregoning Fine Art, Inc., Cleveland, OH, 1998.
The May
Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1985.
Artmusement Cafe for
Cleveland Art Focus, Cleveland, OH, 1985.
Ramifications of Instant
Gratification, Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, 1983.
Tin Sui Way International Sculpture Symposium, Hong Kong, China,
2008.
International Sculpture Symposium, Sedliste Czech Republic, 2005.
Hal Bromm, New York, NY.
Paul and Yvette Spencer, Miami Beach,
FL.
Robert Venable, London, UK.
Elaine & Hy Wietzen, New York, NY.
Alvaro Martinez-Fonts, New York, NY.
Deborah M. League, Washington,
DC.
Stone Soup Gallery, Key West, FL, 2011.
Certification of Appreciation, Community Foundation of the Florida
Keys, 2006.
Certification of Distinction, Key West Art in Public Places
Board, 2003.
Anne McKee Artist Fund Grant, Key West, FL, 2002.
Anne McKee Artist Fund Grant, Key West, FL, 1995.
Studio Art Center
International Scholarship, Florence, Italy, 1987.
Key Wester Magazine, Key West, FL. January 2005.
Key Wester
Magazine, Key West, FL. January 2004.
Solares Hill, Key West, FL.
November 21, 2003.
Solares Hill, Key West, FL. December 13, 2002.
Celebrate!, Key West, FL. February 25, 2000.
Solares Hill, Key West, FL.
February 18, 2000.
Paradise This Week, Key West, FL. February 11, 1999.
Celebrate!, Key West, FL. December 18, 1998.
Solares Hill, Key West,
FL. March 19, 1998.
The Miami Herald, Miami FL. February 15, 1998.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH. September 20, 1995.
Solares
Hill, Key West, FL. March 30, 1995.
El Nuevo Herald, Miami, FL. October
15, 1994.
Cleveland Gazette, Cleveland, OH. February, 1994.
Island
Life, Key West, FL. January 20, 1994.
The thing I like about SCULPTURE is that it can be viewed from all
sides and that it can be TACTILE and bring in another sense… that of TOUCH. My
friend Chappelle Letman, a blind sculptor, says my work CONTAINS THE FOURTH
DIMENSION.
I am most ENTHUSED about FIGURE STUDIES, and my work is more
emotional than cerebral but has (or I would like it to have) AN UNEXPECTED
DEPTH. As a former park ranger, I find inspiration in NATURE: the horizon of the
ocean, tropical birds and animals, people, the movement of waters and its open
space.
Central to my work is a BALANCE and ORDER that underlies the
OUTLINE. I like the PHYSICALITY of sculpture and I create “one of a kind” steel
sculptures. Steel is such a wonderful material in that it allows me to DRAW
directly in SPACE. Steel can be PLIABLE and SUBTLE. I can CARVE it, CONSTRUCT
with it and actually MODEL it. I can HEAT and BEND and WRAP a steel line into
shape. I am so lucky to have developed this technique of DRAWING IN SPACE as it
allows me to GET in a CREATIVE FLOW.
In order to keep EVOLVING as an
artist I keep CHALLENGING myself to new ways of INVENTING FORMS. I recently
began creating small, one-of-a-kind glazed CERAMIC SCULPTURES.