The City of Bellingham is excited to announce an opportunity for artists or artist teams to design, fabricate and install artwork at the North End Regional Pond (NERP) along Mahogany Avenue in Bellingham, WA. The North End Regional Pond (NERP) is a large stormwater facility located adjacent to Mahogany Avenue north of Costco in the […]
City of Sequim News & Alerts Posted on: September 25, 2018 Rocks, Gems & Jewels Art Exhibit to Open at the Sequim Civic Center Please join the City Arts Advisory Commission (CAAC) for the opening of the “Rocks, Gems & Jewels” exhibit and artist reception on Friday, October 5, 2018 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. […]
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, we’d like to use the Journal to introduce ourselves to each other. Each issue will have a photograph of one or two newer members and […]
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, we’d like to use the Journal to introduce ourselves to each other. Each issue will have a photograph of one or two newer members and […]
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, we’d like to use the Journal to introduce ourselves to each other. Each issue will have a photograph of one or two newer members and […]
Julianne Kohn How did the idea come to you?Making an Octopus pendant has always appealed to me, it being one of my favorite animals. Process: Maquette? Drawing? Direct Carve? Other?Using a cheap enamel pendant as a general idea, I altered the design so that it was my own. Secondly a waterproof double-sided template was made […]
These 73-year-old hands have been carving jade for nearly forty of those years. Nary a penny earned for the effort. Several reasons for that. Mainly the ample financial rewards earned by these hands working on telecommunication electronics and main frame computers dissuaded any thoughts of pursuing a life of starving artist. The attached ten digits […]
Looking for something to do, I found the world of stone at Marenakos’ StoneFest 2011. I have done other artistic endeavors in my life but not sculpture and never stone as a medium. John Fisher was the carving instructor that year and those of you who know him can understand that I was hooked by […]
Ten years ago, I found a remarkable piece of what I dubbed ‘Malaspina Blue Granite’ right here on my own property i.e., very close to Secret Cove on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. Over the years I have carved some handsome sculptures from it, exploiting the numerous white quartz veins throughout to create ring-necked birds; see […]
“We don’t make mistakes, we just make happy accidents.” – Bob Ross Every writer at some point will experience writer’s block. Carvers too can have the experience of feeling as though they have come to a creative dead end. Sometimes facing a new stone is all it takes. Unless we have A Plan. Often we carve […]
Soapstone Carving Workshop for Youth Kubota Garden is hosting a unique, community arts experience on Thursday, August 19th brought to us by the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association who will lead local youth, ages 8-17 in discovering the art of crafting a sculpture through soapstone carving. Instructors will guide participants through the process of shaping this […]
24th Annual International Stone Carving Symposium • Camp Suttle Lake • Sisters, OregonAugust 12th – 19th, 2018 East & West: From Classical to High-Tech The NWSSA continues our tradition of bringing together world-class sculpting masters for unique opportunities to provide instruction and discuss where we are today. From classical hand tools to new high-tech machining […]
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