About me
Jimmy Rhea received his Master of Fine Arts in 2007 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He worked as a founder for three years at the Inferno Art Foundry in Atlanta, and as a carpenter, after completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of West Georgia.
Rhea is an artist-educator specializing in sculpture who incorporates casting techniques, forging processes, carpentry, and electronics into his artwork. An important component of his work is the fusion of imagination with traditional craft and contemporary processes.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Pensacola State College, where he has taught for the past 10 years and was inducted into the Academy of Teaching Excellence in 2024. Recently, Rhea was a guest curator for Dualities: National Exhibition of Sculpture at the Pensacola Museum of Art and had a solo exhibition, To Be Defined, in 2025.
