www.suetavessculpture.com Sue blends a unique combination of movement and spirit in each of her sculptures. Her background in physical therapy and lifelong love of nature provide a constant source of inspiration. Sue has been sculpting in stone since 1995 and in 2004 she moved to Whidbey Island and began sculpting larger scale work. She loves to […]
Patty McPhee http://www.plmcphee-artist.com/ The moment when I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up did not occur until I was 40 years old. I always knew that I was an artist, but what kind? Then, for my 40th birthday, my husband gave me my choice of classes at the local art center. The […]
Craig Breitbachwww.craigbreitbach.com Fall City
Matt Auvinen has been carving for over 30 years. He received his BA from California StateUniversity, 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 sculpturelaboratories. For 12 of his 20 years in Italy, Matt taught sculpture and drawing for a private,university level, art program in Florence. His sculptural foundation is from working withmixed media. Matt has worked with cast bronze, welded steel, plaster and wood. Found objectassemblage became a focus of his work in the late 80s and this sensibility has been projectedon to his work in stone. – Matt will be offering comprehensive workshops on mold-making, reproductions, pointing, and direct carving methods.
Symposium Schedule (as of June 28th) [click here]
Register on-line – [click here]
To download a PDF of the registration form: click here
To view and download a PDF of our 2011 Camp B brochure- click here
To view and download a flyer for the Art Walk in the Meadow July 16th – click here
(For those who registered, due to the Canadian Postal strike, we are posting
these “post registration” documents: “Registration Thank You” & “What to Bring“)
NWSSA’s fall stone carving symposium happens every year in a special place. Oregon’s Silver Falls State Park has preserved a lavish display of dense forest stitched with miles of trails leading us to no fewer than ten magnificent waterfalls. Right in the center of this wonder is a tree shrouded meadow where we set […]
Yes, you can buy tools and stone at Silver Falls and Camp B. Here is an interview with one of our vendors: www.neolithicstone.com
The Northwest Stone Sculptors Association maintains an email list sever that sends mail to others in the association. This email list is our main way to send and receive email throughout the association. Anyone on the list can send a message to the whole group. Replies just go to the originator, unless you tell your […]
July 2009 we came to carve, learn, share, create, and be part of a community north of Seattle at Camp Brotherhood. Click to watch video by Tom Small and Carl Billington.
Michael Smithwww.sculpturebymichael.com
View or download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2009 issue of the NWSSA journal and newsletter….
A membership survey was done in 2009 summary of the results from the NWSSA membership survey:
When they sent me a list of questions to prompt my submitting material for an article about myself, the first question was: Who are you? I’ve never thought bio’s to be of enduring interest to anyone but the person they describe—so I’ve contrived shortest sketch possible to show how I fit in our stone sculpture […]
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