Foster Willey Jr.

Foster Willey Jr. is a sculptor and public artist whose large-scale commissions in bronze, fabricated metal, stone, and concrete have shaped civic spaces across the Midwest for over two decades. Trained in traditional figurative sculpture at the Naguib School in Chicago and at Grand Valley State University, Willey brings a deep knowledge of craft to his explorations of negative space, mass, and transparency. His notable public works include the Centrifuge water feature in Burnsville, Minnesota, and the 4th Avenue South Bridge Project in Minneapolis. He teaches figurative sculpture and bronze casting at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts.