President’s Message March-April 2019
From the President…. President’s Message I set my expectations high for the CROSS+OVER show and was not disappointed. Thirteen members created a diverse set of forms from the crosses and […]
Author: NWSSA Staff
International Peace Arch Outdoor Sculpture
CALL FOR OUTDOOR SCULPTURE Twenty-second Annual Peace Arch Park International Sculpture Exhibition May 1st – October 1st, 2019 The International Peace Arch Association (IPAA) invites you to submit artwork(s) for consideration in our 2019 […]
Ethan Currier
Ethan CurrierEthanCurrierArt.com “Seaside Mother” Ethan Currier Ethan Currier is a self taught artist and sculptor who has been creating sculptures out of stone since 2001. . After spending his childhood […]
Allied Arts Foundation 3D Grants Awards
SUMMARY: Allied Arts Foundation will award three $5,000 grants to emerging and/or early-to-mid-career artists creating 3D/sculptural artworks and residing in Washington State. ARTWORK FUNDED This year’s award will focus on […]
Three Pieces for Cross+Over show – Carl Nelson
When Kim Lewis proposed a show of repurposed marble crosses from the cemetery of a convent, it set in motion a lot of ideas among the 22 of the Northwest […]
Ways of Knowing
Bob Leverich’s Commission by the Washington State Arts Commission
to create a sculpture on the grounds of Vashon Island High School.
Very early on a Saturday back in June, 2017, we loaded my pick-up with a generator and lots of supplies and headed to the Ravensdale gravel quarry to make this successful boulder split.Joseph Kincannon – Artist Spotlight
Joseph Kincannon and the Portal of Stone In 1979 I entered the world of stone through an unusual portal; a portal at a cathedral, to be specific, The Cathedral of […]
A Visit To Hank Nelson’s Cloudstone
A NWSSA VISIT TO HANK NELSON’S CLOUDSTONE
Getting Hank Nelson in front of a microphone on December 8th in front of 30-plus NWSSA members and a few Cloudstone Board Members, was the only challenging part of a talk by Hank, and tour by Board members, of Hank’s vast Whidbey Island utopia/dystopia, Cloudstone.
Hank shared some of the depth and breadth of his experience in carving stone: how he learned to carve marble in the afternoons during an early year in Italy while he learned to cast bronze in the mornings; to the “macho side of me” that led Hank to work graceful yet imposing abstractions in Cascade granite; to the “really” macho side that led to his monumental sculptures.
Let’s Meet Luke Nalker
Editors’ note: In the spirit of connection, and because our 2018 Symposiums are over and there is not as much opportunity to get together during the rest of the year, […]
Lisa Svircic – 1 X 1 X 1 (2019)
1: How did the idea come to you?The idea for this piece came to me from the shape of the original stone. It had a natural twist and arc to […]
President’s Message Jan-Feb 2019
From the President…. President’s Message Not long ago, Carl was asked what an artist should consider if they wanted to put their sculpture into a non-gallery setting, such as a […]
Artists In Action Women’s Sculpture Show
The Northwest Stone Sculptors Association invites the public to 3 Days of Artists in Action Show and Sculpture Sale May 31st – June 2nd, 2019 ART WALK: Saturday, June 1st at […]
