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(b. Corpus Christi, Texas, 1950). Jesús Bautista Moroles, by the age of eight, displayed an ability and interest in art His father enrolled him in classes at the local YMCA, where he caught the eye of his instructor, who gave him free secret tutorials. When Moroles was twelve, his uncle, Julián Tapia, introduced him to masonry. By sixteen, he owned his own silk screen business, which was forced to close after he was drafted. After serving for several years in the Air Force, Moroles studied sculpture and engineering at El Centro Community College in Dallas, and finished up at North Texas State University in Denton, where he discovered his favorite material, granite. Moroles studied under Luis Jimenez for a year after graduating, and decided the following year that he would work solely in granite. The artist was appointed to the Board of Commissioners of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 1996.
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