Larry Steele was a staff member of the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture from 1985 to 2003. He was also a sculptor instructor at the International School of Art in Italy in 1990 and 1996. His works have been shown at galleries in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, including regular exhibits at Quietude Sculpture Garden in East Brunswick, and at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Vincennes University in Indiana, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Steele has been the recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, awards from The Herk Van Tongeren Memorial Sculpture Fund, and The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial Challenge Series.