William T. Wiley, a founder of the Bay Area Funk Art movement and influential art teacher, has died, aged 83

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 The San Francisco Chronicle that Wiley died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, which the artist had lived with since 2014.