The interview took place at Art City Studios in Ventura, California on October 11, 2000 with Chris Provenzano. Chris Provenzano is a resident artist at Art City Studios (the mayor of which is Paul Lindhardt – the stone vendor everyone knows from Camp Brotherhood), in Ventura, California. Ventura is a small town by Southern California standards and has a closely-knit artists’ community. Chris lives near […]
Quotes overheard at Camp B 2000 “I couldn’t believe how open these sculptors were with anything I wanted to know. Everyone was very forthcoming with techniques that have worked for them. Hand tools, power tools, air tools — whatever tips that they had figured out through the years — they told me about them. It didn’t matter if I had been carving only a […]
I guess if I weren’t a stone sculptor I would have to become one just to be a part of the Silver Falls Symposium. Of course since I live to carve, it is a double joy. This year I got to spend time in the beautiful Oregon forest with some of the friendliest, most helpful people anywhere. On top of that, when […]
A studio floor with heaps of stone chips entangled in tools, power cords, and air hoses is dangerous as well as uncomfortable. To minimize this clutter I have mounted a power cord and an air hose on overhead booms that pivot from the studio wall. Each boom is about four feet long providing a swing that covers the […]
A look at the rain outside today makes it all the more amazing to realize that it’s only been a month (at this writing) since we gathered together at Silver Falls. Under the relaxed guidance of coordinator Mark Andrew, the symposium had the feel of a caring, sharing, educational holiday. As an indication of how smoothly everything ran, Mark volunteered to do a repeat […]
My eyes were bleary from train-lag. I had been in Europe for two weeks already, sliding the slopes of the Alps, taking in the tourist sights of Paris, with a short weekend hop to visit friends in Cologne. But the overnight train from Germany to Italy had not been as restful as I wanted. I had enjoyed the ride immensely as Florian, my […]
On Saturday, October 7, our granite group piled into cars with prybars, gloves, heavy boots, hand dolleys, an electric winch and lunch, to rescue forgotten river boulders from their cavities on the shore of mountain streams. We had selected the finest day of the fall to do this. We wanted to avoid both rain and breaking a sweat. The first stop for the […]
Oh sure, there were tons of rocks at the 2000 Silver Falls symposium and we talked about our dreams of what to do with those tons until we were all a marvelous shade of blue from the neck up. But our gathering during the last week in September provided us much more than tips on tool buying and the secrets of a perfect polish. We had […]
I thought that I would take this opportunity at the end of the year to thank all of you who have given of your time and energy to help keep this wonderful organization alive and moving forward. We have had new people step into positions that keep all of our events and symposia happening. (I will be updating the […]
Question: At the recent NWSSA Symposium a term that was used regarding stone carving was the “skin” of the stone. Please explain the meaning of this term and how it applies to stone carving. Also how do you know in the process of sanding/carving of the stone that you have removed the “skin”? Answer: In […]
Notes from the 6/20/00 membership meeting on the topic: “Found Stone” Soapstone deposits on the road to Lake Wenatchee, WA. You must get a Forest Service permit from the Ranger Station (509 763-3103) to collect it. They can also tell you where to find the stone. The permit is about $10 and the charge for stone is about $3/cubic yard. You can drive […]
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