Minutes of NWSSA BOD Meeting 6-10-2024

NorthWest Stone Sculptors AssociationEstablished 05/27/1988 Board Meeting Minutes ORGANIZATION NAME: NWSSA Date: 06/10/2024Time: 6:35 P.M. PSTLocation: Virtual via Zoom ATTENDANCE Board members: Ellie Hochman, Jeremy Kester, Stephen Taplin, Cyra Jane Hobson, […]
What to Bring to Our Women’s Weekend Retreat

What To Bring To the Old Alcohol Plant Inn for the Women’s Weekend Hand Carving Retreat FOR YOUR WORKSPACE BRING: TOOLS: PERSONAL STUFF: POT LUCK DINNER & OTHER MEALS: […]
Featured Artist: Amy Kohl – Stone Addiction

In 2002, Chris Sorensen, my mentor and friend, invited me to join his studio where I live in Fresno California. Initially, I worked with found objects and metal scrap until […]
Cool Tools

A new 2” brazed diamond blade fits on my angle grinder. Then this power tool can almost be used as a chisel – carving and smoothing. Diamond rasps let me […]
From Bad Juju to Beauty

~by Beth Krehbiel “Orphaned Alabaster” was the article in the November issue of Sculpture NW describing the alabaster which Rick Johnson gave to Ruth Mueller for last year’s Women’s Carving […]
2024 Oregon State Stone Carving Symposium

August 25th – September 1st, 202429th Annual International Stone Carving Symposium at Camp Suttle Lake near Sisters, Oregon Early Birds! Sign up by July 15th to Save $100 on Full-Time […]
Minutes of NWSSA BOD Meeting 5-8-2024

NorthWest Stone Sculptors AssociationEstablished 05/27/1988 Board Meeting Minutes ORGANIZATION NAME: NWSSA Date: 05/8/2024Time: 6:30 P.M. PSTLocation: Virtual via Zoom ATTENDANCE Board members: Ellie Hochman, Jeremy Kester, Stephen Taplin, Cyra Jane Hobson, […]
Minutes of NWSSA BOD Meeting 3-13-2024

NorthWest Stone Sculptors AssociationEstablished 05/27/1988 Board Meeting Minutes ORGANIZATION NAME: NWSSA Date: 3/13/2024 Time: 6:33 P.M. PST Location: Virtual via Zoom ATTENDANCE Board members: Ellie Hochman, Jeremy Kester, Stephen Taplin, Cyra […]
The Form Within Us

The Form Within UsWe are all different,but all the same,our bodies, like stoneseach unique unto itself,our minds, like uncarved stonestill covering the treasure within.As we chip away our egos,the unneeded […]
Apprenticeship on Lopez Island

Given all the chips and dust involved with carving granite you don’t really expect anyone to want to watch, but it happened. A few years ago, a friend asked me […]
Minutes of NWSSA BOD Meeting 2-14-2024

NorthWest Stone Sculptors Association Established 05/27/1988 Board Meeting Minutes ORGANIZATION NAME: NWSSA Date: 2/14/2024 Time: 6:33 P.M. PST Location: Virtual via Zoom ATTENDANCE Board members: Ellie Hochman, Jeremy Kester, Stephen Taplin, […]
Tool Tuesdays With Myles Schachter 2Sculpt

Over the past two years, NWSSA has invited Myles from 2 Sculpt to lead a virtual tool session covering a variety of topics. These have been particularly engaging during the […]