Judd Nelson

Judd Nelson is a Minnesota-based metal sculptor known for dynamic wildlife and figurative works in hot hammered steel. He began welding at fifteen in his high school art class and earned an art education degree from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on metal sculpture. Nelson has taught art on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and in Boise public schools, and spent fourteen years working on the PBS show Hometime. He currently teaches teen welding at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts and runs a summer sculpture studio in Grand Marais. His work captures movement and gesture with an impressionistic energy, transforming jagged steel into fluid, living forms.