When, occasionally, Spotlight interviews with our members are not available, we like to take a look around the NorthWest sculpture scene to find artists whose work we can feature in Sculpture NorthWest. In this issue, we include the work of Marie Sivak, a Portland based artist who is a NWSSA member and has been the […]
Winding one’s way to Karla Matzke’s Sculpture Park on Camano Island, may not be quick, but it’s certainly a beautiful drive. We came from Whidbey Island by car, taking almost two hours to travel up the length of Whidbey, crossing over the Deception Pass Bridge to the mainland, and then going east to I-5, south to […]
REPLENISHING THE EARTH a water fountain by Candyce Garrett This granite sculpture was installed by Candace at the entrance of the Santa Fe Farmers Market building in the recently refurbished Rail Yard Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was asked by the organizers of the Farmers Market to make a granite fountain for a […]
NWSSA BOARD MEETING MINUTES NOVEMBER 20, 2009at SEATTLE CITY LIBRARY (downtown branch) Meeting opened at 2:10 pm by President Gerda Lattey. Board members present were Leon White, Lane Tompkins, Elaine Mac Kay, Gerda Lattey and Petra Brambrink. Board members absent were Bill Brayman and Carole Turner. Guests attending were Carl Nelson, Bill Gallagher and Ken Barnes. […]
Minutes of the NWSSA board meeting in the dining hall of Silver Falls State park (20022 Silver Falls Hwy SE, Sublimity, Oregon 97385 Phone: 866-575-8875) on August 25, 2009. The five board members present (constituting a quorum of the seven current members) were: Gerda Lattey, President Petra Brambrink, Treasurer Lane Tompkins, Secretary Bill Brayman Elaine Mac Kay […]
Minutes from July 16, 2009 Board of Directors meeting The meeting was held at Camp Brotherhood (24880 Brotherhood Rd., Mt. Vernon, WA) during the Stone Sculpting Symposium – in Warren Hall – immediately after the yearly general membership meeting. (The first part of these minutes was recorded by Verena Schwippert, outgoing secretary. The second part […]
Circumstances have once again made me your president until Camp B. We received a handful of emails expressing opinions about the proposed changes to our by-laws that we mailed out to you. Thanks for your input. We have attempted to answer some of your concerns through emails. At our April 19 meeting, the board […]
Pioneer Mother And Child Alaskan Cedar, 42” high, 1990 Timberline Lodge was built entirely by hand at the height of the depression by the WPA, a federal agency created by President Roosevelt to put people back to work. The Friends of Timberline was organized in l978 to participate in the restoration of this treasured landmark. A […]
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 […]
I wish to thank all those who shared little tidbits of information with me about John. My special thanks go to Beverly Pugh. Her readiness to relate John stories on the phone with someone she’d never met says a lot about her gracious indulgence and her naturally helpful attitude. She never hesitated or put me […]
Written in 1950, Stone Mad was first published in hardback in 1966 and in paperback in 1977 and 1982 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited. My copy is a 1997 paperback issue from Blackstaff Press Limited and is a photolithographic facsimile of the first edition. Illustrations are by William Harrington. Seamus Murphy lived from 1907 […]
Jim Heltsley has always carved faces; faces in alabaster, limestone, and feather stone. Recently he has stepped up to the hard stuff and is carving basalt. His new, basalt shard faces have an elegant look, a knowing presence reminiscent of ancient Pacific cultures and yet they somehow fit in today’s world and, most of […]
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