William Healy

Figurative Artist

William Healy has created figurative art with pastel, oil paint, and photography since earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Indiana University South Bend in 1976. For 25 years he worked in commercial photography while spending Sunday evenings at IUSB supervising an open figure-drawing group (which continues) for students, alumni, and community artists. He is a member of the Northern Indiana Artists (served on Board of Directors as NIA representative to the South Bend Museum of Art), Northern Indiana Pastel Society, active at Fire Arts Inc. (served on the Board of Directors including time as President), and has worked with the South Bend Regional Museum of Art on their Collections Committee, donated work for their fundraising, and judged Scholastic Awards.
       William has exhibited regionally, received numerous awards and has work in many private collections and The Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana. He is represented in the book “Fine Arts of the South Bend Region 1840-2000” published in 2014 by Wolfson Press, Indiana University South Bend.