This Year at Washington State Symposium 2018
Our second year at Pilgrim Firs Camp in Port Orchard reaffirmed that the July symposium has found a great home for our group and our spirit. As intense as last […]
Let’s Meet Jeremy Kester

Editors’ note: In the spirit of connection, and because our 2018 Symposiums are over and there is not as much opportunity to get together during the rest of the year, […]
Let’s Meet Jessi Eaton

Editors’ note: In the spirit of connection, and because our 2018 Symposiums are over and there is not as much opportunity to get together during the rest of the year, […]
Let’s Meet Grant Bowman

Editors’ note: In the spirit of connection, and because our 2018 Symposiums are over and there is not as much opportunity to get together during the rest of the year, […]
Julianne Kohn – 1 X 1 X 1 (2018)

Julianne Kohn How did the idea come to you?Making an Octopus pendant has always appealed to me, it being one of my favorite animals. Process: Maquette? Drawing? Direct Carve? Other?Using […]
The Dojo

By Tamara Buchanan At each NWSSA International Symposium our organization creates an area where persons who have never carved, or haven’t carved for a long time, have an opportunity to […]
Dale Blankenship – Artist Spotlight

These 73-year-old hands have been carving jade for nearly forty of those years. Nary a penny earned for the effort. Several reasons for that. Mainly the ample financial rewards earned […]