SAVE THE DATES! NWSSA HOLIDAY PARTY – Seattle, WA APRIL 12 & 13 2025 – BEST OF THE NORTHWEST SHOW & SALE – Seattle, WA (two day event)NWSSA will be featured in a special exhibit for this Northwest Art Alliance event. We will host a youth stone carving workshop and have a display booth of stone sculptures […]
Calls for Art Resources NWSSA frequently hosts member-only sculpture show events throughout the year. These will always be posted on our website under the Events page and promoted on our list serve and social media accounts. In addition to these member only opportunities, we are contacted by communities our artists have formed relationships with regarding […]
Gallery Without Walls 2025–2027 Rotating Exhibition On behalf of the City of Lake Oswego, the Arts Council of Lake Oswego (ACLO) is pleased to invite artist submissions of up to three works of art per artist to be considered for outdoor public display in Lake Oswego’s nationally recognized outdoor Gallery Without Walls rotating collection. In […]
Percival Plinth Project 2025 The City of Olympia is seeking up to 18 loaned sculptures from Washington and Oregon state artists for temporary outdoor display on Percival Landing a popular .9 mile waterfront boardwalk and sculpture promenade located at the tip of the Puget Sound in the shadow of the state Capitol located in Olympia, WA. Selected […]
Written by M.J. Anderson When making plans autumn 2023 to visit our niece in Christchurch, New Zealand, I thought to look up points of interest that we might not want to miss while “down under.” I googled sculpture garden in the locations we planned to go and found the recently new Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden, […]
NWSSA is looking forward to offering another Hand Carving Event for women from June 7-9, 2024 at the Old Alcohol Plant (OAP) and Inn. This is the 6th year that OAP will be our venue for this popular event. “Popular” as evident by how quickly the response was to reserve a spot for the weekend! […]
Display Opportunity for NWSSA Sculptors The NWSSA has an agreement with King County Parks to place large scale stone sculpture in Marymoor Park. The park is located between Redmond and Bellevue. We placed two sculptures before COVID and have five more plinths available for installation. The sculptures will stay in place for 2-3 years before […]
Outdoor Sculpture Show Saturday, August 31st 11 am – 4 pm Suttle Lake Camp 29551 SW Suttle Loop Sisters, OR 97759 Join members of the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association our Annual outdoor stone sculpture show & afternoon exhibition of their work. Visit with over 50 Artists from Japan and the Pacific Northwest region to discuss […]
The Northwest Stone Sculptors Associationis excited to host an Outdoor Sculpture Showon Saturday, July 13th, 2024from 12 pm – 4 pm Our week-long Annual International Stone Carving Symposium culminates with an art show at Camp Pilgrim Firs in Port Orchard, WA.See artists at work, learn about the stone and tools used to create these 3-dimensional […]
What To Bring To the Old Alcohol Plant Inn for the Women’s Weekend Hand Carving Retreat FOR YOUR WORKSPACE BRING: TOOLS: PERSONAL STUFF: POT LUCK DINNER & OTHER MEALS: SCULPTURE RELATED: ESSENTIAL: Have FUN!!!
In 2002, Chris Sorensen, my mentor and friend, invited me to join his studio where I live in Fresno California. Initially, I worked with found objects and metal scrap until my friend Buck gave me a piece of limestone, handed me some tools, and my life changed. Thanks to him, the California Sculptors Symposium, and […]
A new 2” brazed diamond blade fits on my angle grinder. Then this power tool can almost be used as a chisel – carving and smoothing. Diamond rasps let me work in both directions (as compared to the steel ones) and last much longer. There are coarser brazed diamond ones and medium electroplated ones in […]
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