Biography:
Sculptor Brad Story is a native of Essex, Massachusetts and a seventh-generation boatbuilder. He has always been fascinated with flight and winged things and has been modeling and sculpting all his life. He grew up around the family shipyard, sailing, biking, and walking near the saltmarsh, and lives on the Essex River estuary now. Red-tailed hawks, ducks, crows, owls, kingfishers, great blue heron, egrets, and glossy ibis are regular visitors.

At Kenyon College in the late '60s, where Brad earned a Phi Beta Kappa majoring in art, he began to sculpt the human form, and for the next decade his sculptures and reliefs were mostly of faces or human torsos. The knowledge of working in wood and materials such as epoxy and fiberglass that Brad gained as a boatbuilder is now directed towards his current sculpture. His work features themes of flight, form, and transformation.

Brad's work is currently showing at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. In recent years he has installed two large public art pieces - one at the Cape Ann Historical Museum in Gloucester and one at SeaTac Airport in Seattle. He has numerous pieces in private collections throughout the country. In 2004 he received the Artist's Excellence Award from the Society of Arts and Crafts.