David Belitz's abilities were not taught to him through any rigid course of academia but rather
God-given from birth, although not fully-realized until later in life. David was working in a factory and one day, desperate for guidance, said a prayer in the break room. A few weeks later David was fired from the factory position and asked by his friend, an art teacher named Bob Donlan, to create a wire sculpture. It took David 10-minutes to complete his first sculpture and Mr. Donlan applauded David's genius and encouraged him to do this for a living. He sold a few pieces for $5 each the next week but one day, while making a wire dolphin in the Old Market, a gallery-owner asked David if he sold his work. The gallery eventually sold 86 pieces of his art and he was on his way to earning a living. After a year of creating small pieces he purchased a welder and torch and began making life-sized pieces of people and continued the trend of steel sculpture working with a variety of metals, coatings and graduating up to the use of plasma arc torches.
David lives in Murray, NE.
