From the President…. The Symposium NWSSA holds in July at the Treacy Levine Center and has traditionally been called “Camp Brotherhood,” will be at Pilgrim Firs July 8th thru 16th in 2017. It is a great environment with trees surrounding the carving field, cabins and group lodges. There’s a small lake, boats to take out, […]
EDDIE ONETO’S “STONE SPLITTING PARTY.” MAY 20, 2016 Editors’ note: Carlo A. Dondero came to America as a boy with his Italian parents. By 1858, he owned a print shop at 417 Clay St San Francisco. Soon thereafter he bought the quarry land from a distant relative of Eddie Oneto’s and in SF he met […]
From the President…. One of the many things I’ve learned about the creative process, is that you have to be flexible. For example, the Association was notifies in May that the Treacy Levine facility, where we hold Camp Brotherhood symposium in July, would be put up for sale in June and would close August 31st. […]
29th Annual Stone Carving Symposium at Camp Brotherhood, Mount Vernon, WAJuly 9 – 16th, 2016 We had a wonderful week at Camp Brotherhood in Mount Vernon, WA with over 80 of our closest stone carving friends, celebrating camaraderie, knowledge and inspiration while working on a variety of stone; from jade pendants with Deborah Wilson to […]
NWSSA Schedule of events for our 29th Annual Stone Carving Symposium at Camp Brotherhood July 9th – 16th, 2016 Tentative schedule, subject to change. Updates will be posted on site at the Symposium
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The Northwest Stone Sculptors Association invites you to join us at the Treacy Levine Center at Camp Brotherhood for up to eight days of stone carving, communing with nature, and enjoying the camaraderie of fellow stone enthusiasts. Bring yourself, your creative energy, your humor, tools, and a favorite piece of stone. If you don’t have stone or tools, we have an entire tent set up for beginners with tools and instructors.
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The Northwest Stone Sculptors Association Celebrates our 29th Anniversary with an Outdoor Sculpture Show on Saturday, July 16th, 2016 from 11 am – 4 pm
Our week-long International Stone Carving Symposium culminates with an art show in the meadow of Camp Brotherhood in Mt. Vernon. See artists at work, learn about the stone and tools used to create these 3-dimensional works of art. Rain or Shine!
Start Summer at Marenakos! Tool Day, Yard Sale & Granite Cutting Workshop Marenakos Rock Center, Preston, WA June 18-19, 2016 Saturday, June 18, 2016 10am-4pm All Tools Great & Small Tool companies, Trow and Holden, Concut & Kubota will be giving talks in the morning explaining their line of tools and demonstrations in the afternoon. […]
CAMP BROTHERHOOD JULY 9 THROUGH 17, 2016 It’s been hours, or days, or a lifetime. Time lost its ticking in the tiny landscape of stone in front of you, only evident in the growing pile of chips and dust around your feet, and the minutely drastic changes in the stone’s current face. You’re making progress! […]
Page from the Past…Keith Philips: Tools of the Trade by Terry SlatonDressed as a 19th century instructor in a trade school he explained many things about the conditions when stone work was the major building method. Then he quick-changed into the garb of a turn-of-the-century stone cutter, or banker mason, with black coat, vest and […]
Daniel Michael talks about stone and shows us a marble piece Slowly walking through the morning air, listen to the warble of thrushes moving through the remaining trees around the wetlands. A haze of dust begins to rise above the green field. A cloud moves over the gathered workers and their canopies. An energetic flirtation […]
Carl Nelson currently loves Olivene I don’t have a favorite stone, but I’m currently in a serious courtship with Olivene, better known to most of you as “dunite”. The stone, as found at the top of the Cascade Mountains by Mount Baker in Washington, is a tan orange on the outside and anywhere from a […]
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