Miriam Baker
SCULPTOR
P. (949) 673 3304
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Art Education
Studied oil painting with Vincent Farrel and Frank Tauriello and taught painting for 10 years.
Sculpture education
5 years at Golden West Collage, Huntington Beach, Calif. Scottsdale Artists’ School, juried classes with Bruno Lucchesi and Richard MacDonald, non juried classes with Stanley Bliefield, Blair Buzwell, Eugene Daub, Stanley Bliefield, and Lincoln Fox.
Classes with the following sculptors: Jo Saylor and Blair Buzwell at the Loveland Academy and John Coleman at the Sedona Art School. Three workshops with Paul Lucchesi in Pietrasanta, Italy and 3 more at the Artists’ League in Alexandria, Virginia.
Commissions
Life size bronzes at Chapman University in Orange, Ca. of: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Adam Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Paulo Freire, Cecil B. DeMille, George Argyros, Dr. Arnold Beckman, Harry Rinker, A.P. Giannini, Donald Kennedy, Eli Wiesel, Dr. Fammy Attallah, Donna Attallah, Marion Knott, Mozart, and Ronald Reagan.
Live size bronzes at Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences Hall Of Fame in North Hollywood, Ca. of Aaron Spelling and Dan Rather and bronzes plaques of Chet Huntley and Don Pardo.
Life size bronze of M.A. Douglas for lobby of UCI M.A. Douglas Hospital – Orange, Ca
Collectors
National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian – Bust of Eli Wiesel
Chapman University – 18 life size bronzes and 2 bas relief plaques.
Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences – UCI Douglas Hospital bust of M.A. Douglas Hall Of Fame in North Hollywood,Ca.:
Attalah Library – Busts of Dr. Fahmy Attallah and Donna Attallah – Orange Calif.
Curci Foundation – Busts of John and Luci Curci – Palm Desert, Calif.
Leatherby Library – Bas relief of Ralph Leatherby.
Anderson Library – Bas relief of Gary A. Anderson. Walter Schmidt – Palm Desert, Ca.
Beckman Foundation – Bronze busts of Dr. Arnold BeckmanU.C.I. at Irvine Ca., M.I.T. at Boston, Mass., and University of Illinois.
Gary and Gloria Gottesman – Spokane, Washington
Dr. Steven Lutzky – Baltimore, Maryland
Robert Attias – Lake Forest, Ca.
Sculpture of Eli Wiesel acquired by Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C