Ty Nathan Clark has been creating in multiple genres since he was 4 years old. His uncle Conway “Jiggs” Pierson, the world-renowned Sculptor and Raku artist, impacted his passion for the arts at an early age. In 2021 he began the “Ty Nathan Clark Artist Mentorship Program”, a program for established and emerging international artists, made up of 44 alumni from 15 countries around the world.

The artist has traveled to 5 continents while living, creating, and learning in over 20 countries and cultures around the world. Culture Trip named Ty one of ten contemporary artists in Austin to watch in 2017 and 2019. In 2019, his Award-Winning film Jump Shot was an official selection for SXSW Film Festival. Ty is currently working on an episodic documentary series and completed his first novel in 2020.

Besides the influence of his uncle “Jiggs” Ty has studied under American sculptor William Catling and renowned Japanese-American abstract painter Makoto Fujimura. He has spearheaded collaborations with other artists, organizations, and communities around the world for the past two decades, advancing support and dialogue around issues regarding arts, culture, community building, and culture care.

Over the years Ty has mentored many artists and entrepreneurs and is committed to sharing his experience, knowledge, and gifts with others. He lives and creates from his studio in Waco, Texas, with his wife Mande and is currently represented in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Austin, Las Vegas, Miami, and New York.

“There is no denying that the artist is someone who is full of questions, who cries them out in great angst, who discovers the rainbow answers in darkness, and then rushes to canvas or paper. An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering person in this world. Along with Plato’s divine madness there is also divine discontent, a longing to find the melody in the discords of chaos, the rhyme in the cacophony, the surprised smile in time of stress or strain.

It is not that what is not enough, for it is; it is that what is had been disarranged, and is crying out to be in place. Perhaps the artist longs to sleep well every night; to eat anything without indigestion; to feel no moral qualms; to turn off the television news and make a sandwich after seeing the devastation and death caused by famine and drought and earthquake and flood. But the artist cannot manage this normalcy. Vision keeps breaking through, and must find means of expression.” Madeline L’Engle”