Terrence Karpowicz, a Chicago based American sculptor, is recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, four grants from the Illinois Arts Council, The Newhouse Award, and numerous public and private commissions. He has exhibited throughout the USA, Mexico, Europe and the Soviet Union, and has received seven commissions for public sculpture from the State of Illinois. His work is held in collections of the City of Chicago, Oklahoma City, and the U.S. General Services Administration. Karpowicz received a BFA from Albion College, Michigan and MFA from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where after a distinguished graduate study, including several exhibitions (Frank Logan Medal and Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago), Karpowicz was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to the UK, serving as Scholar to the Wind and Watermill Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, to study the technical and mechanical aspects of the country’s medieval wind and watermills.
