Working twelve years as a full time artist, I have sold thousands of pieces throughout the United States and beyond. With a staff, a

large studio in Providence, a background in engineering and construction, I have enjoyed the opportunity to work with architects

and owners to create pieces that suit the environment while adding a new vision. It is important to me to balance strong

craftsmanship and attention to reputation. The goal of the work is often to let nature itself flow through and help design the work.

Selected Corporate Clients and Public Art

Public Art at Cherry and Webb Building, Fall River, MA 2007

20’ by 20’ wall sculpture installed as part of the adjacent park area on South Main Street.

Not Your Average Joe’s restaurant, headquarters in Dartmouth, MA 2004-2007

Installed complete artwork for new restaurants constructed for numerous locations:

Newburyport, Acton, Lexington, Burlington, Norwell, Hyannis MA and Norfolk, VA with

partial artwork at Beverly, Dartmouth and Methuen MA. Work has included large outdoor

pieces, wall sculptures, indoor sculptures, mobiles, screens, as well as functional pieces.

BCP Bank Building, Fall River, MA 2005

Ten foot tall stainless steel sculpture with building number incorporated in piece.

Back Eddy Restaurant, Westport, MA, extensive artwork installed, 2003-2007

Work includes outdoor sculpture, benches, wall pieces and a hostess station.

Westport Free Public Library, Westport, MA 2001

Stainless steel abstract in front of building adjacent to main entrance.

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Brookline, MA, 2002

Colorful, abstract sculpture permanently installed adjacent to hospital main entrance.

Lees Supermarket, Westport, MA. Large outdoor piece with food theme, 2001

Galleries and Museums

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2006-2007

Kinetic sculpture made with stainless steel, steel and glass installed on the grounds.

Tiverton Art Center, Tiverton, RI, Outdoor Summer Group Show, 2007, 2006, 2004

L’Attitude Gallery, Boston, MA, ongoing and featured artist, 1999-2007 and 2004

Handworks Gallery, Acton, MA Featured Artist, 2003

Sakonnet Artist Gallery , Tiverton, RI, Solo Show, 2000

Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, Group Outdoor Show, 2000

L’Attitude Gallery, Anna Maria, FL, Group Show, 2000

Artful Hand Gallery, Boston, MA, Featured Artist, 1998

Cadeaux Du Monde, Newport, RI, Featured Artist, 1998

DeBlois Gallery, Newport, RI, Featured Artist, 1997

Hooloomooloo Gallery, Boston, MA, Featured Artist, 1996

Objects and Images Gallery, New York, NY, Featured Artist, 1996

Student Union Art Gallery, UMass, Amherst, MA, Solo Show, 1995

Aids Show - Amherst College, Amherst, MA, Group Show, 1994

Alumni Show - Middlesex School, Concord, MA, Solo Show, 1994

Art Festivals

Paradise City Arts Festival, Northampton and Marlborough, MA 1995-2007

Westport Art Sale, Westport, MA, organizer and artist, 1998-2007

DeCordova Art in the Park, Lincoln, MA 2000-2007

Fine Furnishings Show, Providence, RI 2000-2007

Craftproducers Art Festival, Manchester, VT 2000-2005

Women’s ORT Art Festival, Waltham, MA, 1999-2001

Danforth Museum Art Festival, Framingham, MA 1999

Awards and Other Projects

Westport Shakespeare Theatre Company, Eight sculptures on top of ten foot posts in the

theme of 1930’s American whirligigs surrounding the audience seating area. 1999

Westport Shakespeare Theatre Company, Twelve giant flowers with translucent

petals in the theme of 1960’s flower power. 1998

Finalist for Amherst Public Art Commission, May 1995 - Corten figure carrying an aluminum

book walking up three granite stairs which was supported by design review board and

architect.

Co-coordinator, City Year Serv-a-thon, 1993 - Worked on the Cambridge Community Center

painting a large aquatic mural in the Center’s stairwell.

House Portrait Company, 1984 to 1990 - Created over 450 house portraits from New

Orleans to Boston.

Thoreau Medal for Woodworking, 1983 - Original design for rocking chair at Middlesex School.

Art Director at Public School #6 in New York, NY, 1975 - Gave tour to Andy Warhol at school

art show.

School Christmas card design winner, St. David’s, New York, NY, 1971 - Chosen from grades

K through 12.

Education

B. S. Civil Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 1987

Advanced Jewelry - Boston Continuing Adult Education, Boston, MA 1994

Introduction to Welding - North Shore Vocational School, Middleton, MA 1993

Creative Drawing - Mass College of Art, Boston, MA 1993

Public Speaking - South Coast Learning Network, New Bedford, MA 2001

Article from the November 2004 Boston Globe Magazine:

Whitmore Boogaerts is an artist, but not a starving one.

For five years now he's been putting welding torch and plasma cutter to steel, creating pieces as endearing as they are enduring, as stunning as they are stainless.

And quite a nice living has resulted since he's gone full-time, in part because his prices are right, in part because he's so prolific.

His portfolio is thick with smile-provoking photos of everything from curlicue ornaments to funky lady bugs to dancing elephants to lamps with hands and feet. And then there are the towering sculptures meant to enhance a piece of ground and elegant mobiles commissioned to dangle over staircases.

Prices range from $15 for an ornament to $100 for a table lamp to $2000 or so for an outdoor sculpture.

"I have a broad market," says Boogaerts. "I crank it out, but it is all quality, one-of-a-kind pieces."

If he sound a a bit more pragmatic that most artists, it's probably because building is in his genes. His father is an architect, his mother is a landscape designer, and he's a civil engineer, with a degree from Tulane University, where his grandfather taught most of his professors.

With that background, as well as a childhood growing up in New York City - visiting prestigious uptown museums, avant garde downtown galleries - it's no wonder Boogaerts can't recall a time when he wasn't drawing, building or sculpting this and that.

"I've been making furniture all my life," he says, recalling a plywood rocking chair he created very early on.

When Boogaerts wasn't doing that, he was up on the roof of the family's Manhattan townhouse erecting a tree house complete with balcony to take advantage of the commanding view of Central Park.

Even at St. David's School in New York, art played a big part in his life: He won the school's Christmas card design competition in third grade. At PS #6 as "art director", he squired Andy Warhol around the educational facility's annual art show and took lunch breaks at the Metropolitan Museum.

Later at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the lesser-known works of artist Alexander Calder caught his eye, and Boogaerts tried his hand at mobile making. "It was raw stuff, I could see how they were made," he explains. "I've made 500 since then and haven't slowed down."

By then he'd graduated from college and was in a seven-year stint as a Boston area civil engineer, all the while making and exhibiting award-winning art.

The Artful Hand a gallery in that city's elegant Copley Place, was showing and selling a sampling of his work, and Boogaerts says the steady paycheck helped futher his decision to give up engineering for art.

Three years ago, the 35-year-old artist and his wife Cali Almy, whose family has been in the area for generations - bought the property at 498 Cornell Road, Westport. "It's a nice place to raise children," says Boogaerts the father of Lucy 4 and Anna 2.

He built a barn/studio on the land - now home to WB Sculpture Studio - and devotes about 45 hours a week to his work, 40 percent furniture, 60 percent sculpture.

"It's my own style, I'm not copying anybody else," says Boogaerts, agreeing his work is funky, stylish and fun. "I'm able to look at what's needed, what would be nice ... they're my only prerequisites."

While some might question the wisdom of turning out so much - he's got 3000 pieces in Massachusetts alone - Boogaerts says matter-of-factly, "I realize the more I make, the better I get, and the key is to get rid of them ... and they go to good homes where they're liked."

By selling directly - virtually eliminating the gallery of agent that take up to 50 percent of every sale - Boogaerts is able to keep his costs low. "Everybody says my work is a bargain."

The reasonable prices enable Boogaerts to move the work, go on to other things and also afford art lovers of modest means the opportunity to become collectors.

"I'm happy, I'm the captain of my own ship," says Boogaerts, who each morning draws up a list of things to do.

Often the manifest includes a trip to Mid-City Steel in Westport, where he hunts through steel, stock and scrap for pieces to meet his immediate and long-term needs.

Boogaerts is disarmingly frank about what happens when the raw materials reach his studio. "I kind of plow through things, make mistakes," he admits. "Making art is like that ... you don't know what you're looking for ... you try to catch a mood in a piece.

That ability, coupled with Boogaerts' wickedly whimsical way, is what turned a simple commission for a "lively mammal" into a life-sized dancing elephant and caused him to weld a spiral onto a charcoal grill so it appears to be teetering on a spring.

The artist does 10 shows a year - at a recent Providence furniture show he won a $500 prize - and says he likes nothing more that to sit in has booth and "watch people come up and smile, it's really revealing."

A visit to his studio offers the chance to try one of his steel and wood chairs that appears torturous but is comfortable beyond belief.

Asked to explain exactly what goes into making a chair, and show off the tools of his trade, Boogaerts again proves decidedly refreshing. He points to the full leather jacket and protective visor he uses while working and observes. "The welding torch is the glue, the plasma cutter is the scissors ... the rest is just dirt and noise."