William T. Wiley, a founder of the Bay Area Funk Art movement and influential art teacher, has died, aged 83
The artist William T. Wiley in 1997 Jack Fulton William T. Wiley, a beloved Bay Area artist and teacher and one of the founders of the Funk Art movement—which included Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Jim Nutt and others—has died, aged 83. His son Ethan Wiley confirmed to that Wiley died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, which the artist had lived with since 2014. Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1937. His father was a construction foreman who frequently moved the family around the country, and they ultimately settl...