Morgan Dummitt was awarded the first Walker Hancock Sculptor-in-Residence, a joint program with the National Sculpture Society in 2024. Dummitt began studying the figure at the Art Students League of New York. He earned a Certificate from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and studied at the Florence Academy of Art, and the Pelletieri Stone Carving Academy. He also served an extensive apprenticeship with renowned marble carver Fred X. Brownstein and has studied wood carving with Gloucester artist David Calvo. He has been an active member of the Philadelphia Traction Company since 2013. In 2016 he was awarded a residency at the St. Gaudens Historic Site in Cornish, NH. He has exhibited throughout the country and completed numerous public and private commissions, and teaches sculpture at the PAFA.
