About Jim Branscum

James Branscum is an award-winning American artist and sculptor, often acknowledged as the first non-Native American artist to exhibit major Native American-inspired pieces in the marketplace. Born in Oklahoma in 1945, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1964 and dedicated his life to art in 1977. Branscum found success marketing his own work, that of which has been featured in numerous exhibitions and magazines across the United States. For years he ran the Jim Branscum Arts Studio at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, which also included a gallery. Branscum closed the studio in the mid-1990s as he trekked across the country for his “Aging in America” project: a landmark series of drawings that captured a cross-section of America’s elderly from many racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to large-scale endeavors like “Aging in America,” Branscum was often commissioned to sculpt pieces like a Korean War Memorial located in Phoenix.