Welcome to the Stoneyard
Welcome to The Stoneyard, Seattle’s new group stone carving studio
Author: Cyra Jane Hobson
Touch Gallery – Seattle Erotic Art Festival (SEAF) 2020
Touch Gallery The 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival (SEAF) will be featuring the Touch Gallery, curated by Cyra Jane and populated with many stone carvings and other sculptures that are sensual and fun to touch. This curated gallery within the larger festival premiered in 2018 and featured 17 sculptures by NWSSA members Cyra, Markos Weiss, […]
2019 Washington Stone Caving Symposium Centerfold
I know I say this every year, but this time I really, really mean it. You definitely want to be at the Washington State Stone Carving Symposium in Port Orchard this July! I promise. We have workshops galore, awesome Guest Artists, new staff to break in, our Saturday Sculpture Walk, presentations, communal meals, campfires, kayaks, […]
An Afternoon of Sun and Stone in Volunteer Park 2019
Sculpture Exhibition and PicnicSunday, June 9th 2019 12:00-4:00 pm Join Northwest Stone Sculptors Association members for a pop-up sculpture showcase, picnic, and sale on the lawn between SAAM and the Conservatory in Seattle’s Volunteer Park. The sculptors will be showing over 50 of their works and will be onsite to discuss the stones, techniques, and […]
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 year was, this year was just as relaxed. The entire event went so smoothly thanks to the combined efforts and positivity of so many of […]
Thoughts From Our First Symposium in Port Orchard
This year marked the 30th Anniversary of our Washington symposium, our first at the Pilgrim Firs venue and a hallmark event for everyone participating. We had nearly 100 carvers here throughout the week communing and learning and inspiring each other. I asked for everyone to write down their experiences, impressions, and thoughts on the symposium, […]
2017 Washington State Symposium Centerfold
30th Annual International Stone Carving Symposium at Camp Pilgrim Firs, Port Orchard, WA Thirty years ago a handful of stone sculptors from Washington State and British Columbia gathered for the first NWSSA symposium on a llama ranch in Pateros, WA. They carved, they moved boulders, they (you!) climbed a mountain at midnight for the Harmonic […]
The Last Camp B (now in Port Orchard)
HELLO, GOODBYE… HELLO. A WRAP OF THE 2016 CAMP B SYMPOSIUM By Cyra Jane Hobson So many thank yous to everyone who joined us for the stone carving symposium at Camp Brotherhood this July! As our final symposium at the Treacy Levine Center, we said goodbye with eight glorious days of inspired dust clouds and […]
Occidental Park Show September 1st 2016
NWSSA Members are participating in Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk Occidental Park, Seattle Thursday, September 1st 11 am – 9 pm This is the second year that the NorthWest Stone Sculptor’s Association has participated in the Art Walk. Our display is in Occidental Square, outside Arundel Books and the Grand Central Bakery. The Art Walk […]
2016 Occidental Park Show
Call to Artists: 2016 Occidental Park Show September 1-3, 2016 Occidental Park, Seattle This is a Call to Artists for all members of NWSSA to participate in the September First Thursday Art Walk in Occidental Park in downtown Seattle. This will be the second year that NWSSA has participated in the Art Walk. The Art […]
Something of a Shearing
SOMETHING OF A SHEARING By Cyra Jane Hobson In late 2013, I found myself lost. I was carving outside a metal sculptor’s studio in downtown Seattle, but it wasn’t mine and I knew it was time to start searching for my own workspace. I had a place to live in a building downtown, but I […]
An Afternoon of Sun And Stone in Volunteer Park 6-12-16
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An Afternoon of Sun and Stone in Volunteer Park
June 12, 2016 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Volunteer Park, Seattle, WA
Join Northwest Stone Sculptors Association members for a pop-up sculpture showcase, picnic, and sale on the lawn between SAAM and the Conservatory in Seattle’s Volunteer Park. The sculptors will be showing over 50 of their works and will be onsite to discuss the stones, techniques, and set up the bbq.
Volunteer Park – Seattle
1247 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112
This event is FREE to the public. Families are welcome, Picnics encouraged!