Women As Sculptors

Introduction: Women as SculptorsWho 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 […]
A Conversation About Marble

Safety for Sculptors
SAFETY FOR SCULPTORS Northwest Stone Sculptors Symposium at Camp Pilgrim Firs & Camp Suttle Lake WELCOME to our creative place where everyone is on the safety team and helps to […]
Understanding Sculpture Workshop 2018

Herbert George: Understanding Sculpture A workshop and sculpture walk with Sculptor, Professor and Author Herbert George April 6th to April 8th 2018, Orcas Island, Washington The Northwest Stone Sculptors Association […]
Flower & Garden Show 2018

What have NWSSA Members been up to all winter? Find out at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show February 7 – 11, 2018 at the Washington State Convention Center in […]
2018 Washington State Sculpture Symposium
31st Annual International Stone Carving Symposiumat Camp Pilgrim Firs, Port Orchard, WA July 7th-15th 2018 The Symposium We invite you to join us at Camp Pilgrim Firs for up to eight full […]
Exotic Peru
Dear NWSSA, I’m listening to Peruvian music and it takes me zooming back 4,500 miles to Exotic Peru. The clock went too quickly, yet I tried to take in each […]
Eirene Blomberg

Eirene Blomberg@Eirenemichelle “Purpose” Tapping into the creative process with an object so directly connected to the earth brings me great satisfaction. Before the chisel touches down I envision where these […]
Richard Beyer Remembered

Richard Beyer by George PrattOne morning I looked up from hammering at the Terry Fox sculpture to see this stranger standing quietly on the top of that huge pile of […]
‘Crossing Point’ Finds a New Home
IN LA CONNER, WASHINGTON By Tracy Powell Editors’ note: The day was bright and sunny; the kind of day that can draw stone carvers out into the open air to […]
The Wisdom Seeker in Olympia
Hi all, I recently installed a Sculpture in the City of Olympia for the 2017 exhibit on the downtown waterfront. My piece “The Wisdom Seeker” is four 4 feet high […]
President’s Message Jan-Feb 2018
From the President…. Ed. Note: As we go to press, Carl Nelson is in India. In place of his regular column we include a photo and caption from his travels. […]