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Author: NWSSA Staff

Camp B Symposium 2011, July 9-17- Mt. Vernon, Wa

Mount Vernon International Symposium 2011 is pleased to announce Guest Artist:  Matt Auvinen Matt Auvinen has been carving for over 30 years. He received his BA from California State University, Chico and his MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. In 1988 Matt moved to Pietrasanta where he worked as an artisan for several […]

Artist Spotlight – Nichole Sharpe

First Bird ‘First Bird’ was carved from a 300lb block of Yellow Wave Pyrophyllite that I purchased a couple years ago. I was attracted to the beautiful colors and the almost wood-like grain. After studying the stone for a couple years I still could not sense the sculpture within. I’ve never had this much trouble […]

Dave Haslett – Artist Spotlight (2011)

Yesterday Begins Tomorrow by Dave Haslett ‘Yesterday Begins Tomorrow’ Now there’s a title for you! It makes a statement and then answers its own implied question. Hopefully that gets you to think – to stop and look at the sculpture. Not an easy thing to pull off in a public setting. This extremely hard stone, with what I hope is some […]

Caveat Venditor

Scams against sculptor’s websites (and postings). Early 2011 NWSSA email correspondence on the Listserve detailed scams that sculptors with websites might be prey to: They are all versions of the “I Must Have Your Art Right Now,” scam. This came to us via a friend of George Pratt. Let’s say someone purporting to live abroad, […]

Karen Ryer – Artist Spotlight

Funery Cat  by Karen Ryer As a lawyer, I spent many, many years on the front lines of civil rights law in the San Francisco Bay Area. I retired to devote myself to learning the art of stone carving and to our two small companies (Stone Sculptors Supplies and Withywindle Gallery) here in Guerneville, California, […]

Randy Zieber’s BC Stone Yard

Randy Zieber’s BC Stone Yard Yes, it’s winter in the Pacific Northwest. The forecast is for periods of rain mixed with snow showers and the wind is downright bone chilling ugly. This is definitely not the time to be sloshing through a stone yard looking for something to carve if spring ever gets here. But is that really true? Maybe […]

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ARTWALK 2010- Saturday July 17th

Every year over 50 stone carvers from Washington, Oregon, B.C., and further afield pack up their stone carving tools and drive to Camp Brotherhood annual symposium near Mount Vernon Washington for the North West Stone Sculptors annual symposium.  They spend 6 days carving stone, engaging in discussions about art and stone, and then place their […]

Michael Gardner – Artist Spotlight

MIDNIGHT KILL By Michael Gardner Editors’ note: While it may be true that Michael is a beginner at stone carving, he is no fledgling in the art world. Michael routinely adorns human skin with amazing creatures of his own design at the Tattoo Garden in Everett, Washington. The sculpture “Midnight kill” has waited a long […]

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