Let’s say you live in a quiet residential area and would like your own sculpting studio. Let’s further assume that your neighbors are unwilling to tolerate stone dust or grinder noises. Golly, you think, it can’t happen. It just cannot be done.On the contrary, brothers and sisters, it is possible. Just follow Ken Barnes’ and […]
The Snohomish Arts Council, headquartered in the historic Monte Cristo Building in Everett began, in l994, choosing one artist per year that they especially honor. This person is selected for the artistic merit of her/his works and also for supporting the artistic community as well as for actions and services in the art supporting communities. […]
On July the 16th, last summer, a truck owned by Walla Walla Community College arrived at my doorstep in Arlington, WA. They were there to collect the three finished, six ton hands and to whisk them over the passes to their new home. I had also hired the local cement company’s crane truck, which arrived […]
Scientists have told us for a while now that there is no center of the universe. This disturbing lack has been astutely and courageously remedied by one of our own fellow artists, Kirk McLean. As luck might have it, his center is where we live, where we are, in Arlington, WA and it happens to […]
This interview was conducted by Verena Schwippert on Orcas Island at Pete’s home and studio. There is art, almost all made by him, everywhere. The house was built by Pete for his family. The yard, several acres of it, is full of many large sculptures. Some metal, some stone, some a combination of both. The […]
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