I sit writing this, my first missive to you, my fellow stone carvers, under the passing haze of another symposium season gone. I thought I about busted a gut laughing at the Camp Brotherhood Auction. Turns out I did. Had to get it fixed, part of the haze may be modern pain management. I […]
Amy Brier is the real thing. She is a working stone sculptor who carves limestone and uses several sculptural media. She is equally comfortable in conceptual art discourse as in restoring a 12th Century French cathedral, and her founding and directing the annual International Limestone Symposium in Indiana (now in its 13th year) exemplifies her […]
My truck is packed – all full of the regular accoutrements one requires to holiday: air hammer, die grinder, chisels, diamond pads, angle grinder, air hose and extension cords, plinths to carve upon, a tent to sleep in, beer cooler for important storage and a guitar for random entertainment needs. This is the annual trip […]
Feature interviews have taken Cathy Rae Smith from the Parisian couture house of Yves Saint Laurent to private tete a tetes with the likes of Heidi Klum, Michael Kors, David Yurman and Oscar de la Renta. She divides her energies between writing and creating contemporary art, stone carving being her most recent fascination. She is […]
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.” –Last two lines from the e.e. cummings poem, You Shall Above All Things Be Glad And Young Paul Buckner’s lectures on figure drawing were for years a standard feature of the Silver Falls Symposiums. Sharing his understanding of the […]
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