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Members’ Thoughts & Opinions on a wide variety of topics.  Also check out:  Articles on Travel, Book Reviews , Presidents Messages, and Letters from the Editors that have been published in NWSSA Sculpture NorthWest.

Scholarship : 2017 California Sculptors Symposium

California Sculptors Symposium
Camp B/Pilgrim Firs and the California Sculptors Symposium (Camp Ocean Pines in Cambria) are initiating an exchange scholarship program to our respective camps. The main idea is an exchange, so attendance at 2 of the last 5 Camp B Symposium’s and intention to attend again within the next two years is a qualification. And you have to promise to tell us stories when you come back 🙂 

Cambria is April 23-30, 2017.

The deadline to apply for the scholarship is March 18, 2017.

Click here for a link to the scholarship form – please fill it out and email it back to Cyra Jane by the 18th if you want to be considered for the scholarship this year.

NWSSA Staff March 3, 2017

2017 Washington State Symposium Registration

30th Annual International Stone Carving Symposiumat Camp Pilgrim Firs, Port Orchard, WA July 8th-15th 2017 NEW Location!!Pilgrim Firs Camp and Conference

NWSSA Staff February 21, 2017

Found on Facebook: James Larson

“Window Rock, A Love Affair”, Colorado marble, 62” tall. I collect stones that I like the shape of. I look

NWSSA Staff January 31, 2017

Thoughts

About NWSSA… from NWSSA members Mark AndrewPatty McPhee  Hello fellow carvers. The Suttle Lake Symposium was again a wonderful experience.

NWSSA Staff January 31, 2017

The Sculptor’s Funeral

Welcome to the podcast! The Sculptor’s Funeral is the podcast dedicated to strengthening the ties between today’s figurative sculptors and

NWSSA Staff December 2, 2016

Thoughts

About NWSSA… from NWSSA members Steve TaplinVic PicouGeorge PrattArliss Newcomb This sounds like a great bridge through winter… I’ve learned

NWSSA Staff December 2, 2016

Beach Orcas on Parade

Beach Orcas on Parade: A Public Art Juried Exhibition The Richmond Beach Community Association, in partnership with the City of

NWSSA Staff October 19, 2016

Hooked on Basalt

By Bruce Richardson Back in the last century I started carving soapstone with my pocket knife when you could find

NWSSA Staff October 7, 2016

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