Penelope Crittenden – Artist Spotlight (2023)
NWSSA: What got you started being a sculptor? A long time ago two things occurred simultaneously, that led to my becoming a sculptor. The first was the cover of a […]
Author: Penelope Crittenden
From the Editors May-June 2018
Letter from the Editors While the spring rains continue and you are making your symposium plans, we’ve got some things we hope you will be interested to read about. Frank […]
From the Editors March-April 2017
It has been cold carving for those of us working outside. But warmer days are coming and we’ll all be glad to see them. The loss, in January, of our […]
Sculptors We Hardly Ever Hear About: François Pompon
One October afternoon, a few years ago, I sat cross-legged in a circle with about twenty 4th grade school children, on the main floor of the Musée d’Orsayin Paris. In […]
Carol Murphy – Autoclaved Cement at Silver Falls
Autoclaved Aerated Cement Is Coming To Silver Falls by Penelope Crittenden Carole Murphy, President of Pacific Northwest Sculptors, will be giving a workshop on Sculpting Autoclaved Aerated Cement at the Silver […]
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Also Carves the Monuments
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Also Carves The MonumentsWomen as Stone Sculptors By Penelope Crittenden Who knows when the first woman picked up something sharp and decided to use […]
Report on Verena Schwipperts Granite Hands Commission – May/June 2007
The three chubby, granite boulders Verena started with weighed in at a whopping eighteen tons. By virtue of her hard work, she has slimed then down to a trim sixteen […]
The Making of Sculpture Northwest 2007
We, as editors, thought you might like to know a little bit about what goes into putting together this miracle known as Sculpture NorthWest that appears in your mail every […]
Aging Stone Gargoyle from Washington DC Finds New Life
Once upon a time, a long time ago, an unnamed stone carver completed his carving of a manly gargoyle, with a broad nose, steady gaze and leafy hair and beard […]
