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 book I was reading that had a dramatic image of a man whose long hair and beard were being whipped about by a ferocious wind. […]
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 Rose, a new member from Whidbey Island, has done many portrait busts in clay, but now he will show us his first one he’s ever […]
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 good friend Elaine MacKay, has affected us all. In tribute, we are re-running Elaine’s “Artist in the Spotlight” from the May/June 2000 issue. Reading about […]
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 the center of the circle was a larger than life, (2 metres 50 cm. long – nearly 10 feet) sculpture of a white marble polar […]
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 Falls Symposium Aug 27-Sept 1, 2011. Carole was more than generous with her time on the phone telling me a little more about the medium […]
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 it to carve an image in stone? The studies of many early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists indicate that women often were the principal artisans in […]
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 tons. Working on the hands every day now, Verena raises dust clouds that have reportedly been seen drifting by Orcas Island. One imagines them circling […]
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 couple of months. Not that we’re saying that the Journal itself is miraculous (although if you were to say so, we would be happy), but […]
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 – one of several gargoyles decorating the buildings in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D. C. This handsome fellow, (the gargoyle — we have […]
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