Craig Breitbach Gallery
Craig Breitbachwww.craigbreitbach.com Fall City
NWSSA Staff
December 14, 2009
Articles on Travel, Thoughts & Opinions, Book Reviews , Presidents Messages, and Letters from the Editors that have been published in NWSSA Sculpture NorthWest.
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.
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(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
Yes, you can buy tools and stone at Silver Falls and Camp B. Here is an interview with one of
July 2009 we came to carve, learn, share, create, and be part of a community north of Seattle at Camp
View or download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2009 issue of the NWSSA journal and newsletter….
Circumstances have once again made me your president until Camp B. We received a handful of emails expressing opinions
The word, “workmanship” in the title of this book may have raised your curiosity. If I then told you that
There are five to six inches of storage space under your car. Try the color enhancer on a scrap
White, creamy limestone has been a staple of Pacific Northwest sculptors since 1992 when 6 tons of Utah oolitic found
Driving directions to Art City are easy you say? Ha! They go something like this: Take the California St. exit
A recent project I did this past summer through Path with Art, an organization which works with people in transitional
SAVE THE DATES! SATURDAY, JANUARY 25th – NWSSA HOLIDAY PARTY – 4-8PM Stone Carving Folks, Family and Friends, our winter potluck party will be hosted at a
August 25th – September 1st, 202429th Annual International Stone Carving Symposium at Camp Suttle Lake near Sisters, Oregon Early Birds! Sign up by July 15th
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
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