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Women’s Hand Carving Weekend at the Old Alcohol PlantPort Hadlock, Washington June 2017 There was a subtext to the weekend that I didn’t understand at first. I was caught up in the idea of women carving together in a beautiful spot. But then I got it: This weekend of “Artists in Action” carefully orchestrated by […]
Venus in Two Views for the Fat Phobia Gallery Show By Jonna Ramey (All photos by Jonna Ramey) The Venus of Willendorf is an iconic Paleolithic image of woman. To anyone familiar with the female body, this small sculpture is not a fertility goddess per se, she is young and she is fat. Gloriously, unabashedly […]
When I think of the best visionary or folk art installations in the western United States, three come to mind: Grandma’s Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California; the Rodia Watts Towers in Los Angeles; and Gilgal Garden in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a stone carver and a resident of Salt Lake, Gilgal stands out […]
Vietnam is industry in action, a country in the process of reinventing itself. Everywhere you look you see people busy making something or selling something. As we left Da Nang on our way to Hoi An, we stopped at Marble Mountain, a village situated in the midst of five mountains each named for the five […]
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