Scott Rogers has heard “the voice” speak to him twice. Both times it changed his life. The first time came about after he had purchased a sculpture created by his uncle, Grant Speed. He had seen the sculpture, entitled "Rough String" in 1982 and knew he had to have it but, being a college student, he couldn’t afford it. “In 1990, when I had a little money, I called uncle Grant and said I wanted to buy it,” Rogers says. It had sold out, but Speed, through an art gallery, was able to locate one that would soon become available during an estate sale. Rogers was able to purchase it for $10,000. READ FULL ARTICLE IN JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE.
ABOUT SCOTT ROGERS
History and Art course through the veins of Scott Rogers - sculptor. John Rogers, his Great Grandfather (six times removed) died as a martyr, burned at the stake in 1555, for translating and printing one of the first English Bibles. Two of his relatives, Thomas Rogers & Samuel Fuller, signed the Mayflower Compact - Plymouth 1620. His great, great grandfather, Henry Clay Rogers, was part of the expedition that settled Lehi, Arizona, 1877 (now present day Mesa) the very town in which Scott was born. His Uncle, Grant Speed (1930-2011), was a renowned sculptor in western art. As a youth, Scott was not drawn to creating art. However, it gives insight into his present artistic outlook, to learn of a few enriching experiences that permeated his life at a young age. At twelve years old, he gave mouth to mouth to a drowned boy, “then witnessed first hand, life returning”. In becoming an Eagle Scout Scott swam for miles, camped in snow, ran raging rivers in canoes and found himself caught in lightning storms (at 12,000 ft) in the Rockies. At the age of sixteen Scott won a Golden Gloves boxing championship (mix in a few street fights too). He played football, ran track (discus), rode bulls in rodeos throughout Texas and Oklahoma and acted and sang in plays. Scott also set world records picking pineapple in the fields of Hawaii, trapped and skinned hundreds of animals, was selected as a principle nominee to attend the Naval Academy (a broken back suffered from bull riding prevented him from attending), worked a rock crusher in an Alaskan gold mine, all…in some measure...have found their way into the believability people see and feel in his work. Scott experiences life and then puts it into form. Look closely at his sculpture, for when you do, you’re seeing life experiences - self-portraits - left by its creator.
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