Fostering Sculptural Arts And Community Awareness
Posted in PNWS Featured Artist, Shows & Exhibitions on Dec 30th, 2011
Following is the opening excerpt from the current issue of American Craft Magazine: “The Stories Within In her measured creation of colorful figures and forms, sculptor Sara Swink coaxes deeper meaning out of clay. BY Carolyn Hazel Drake It’s a brisk Sunday morning in sculptor Sara Swink’s West Linn, Oregon, studio, and the sun [...]
Posted in Education, Shows & Exhibitions on Sep 4th, 2011
Submitted by PNWS member Jim Talt I spent several days last week at the Silver Falls Stone Sculptors Symposium. I’d never been to a stone symposium and wasn’t sure what to expect. My personal goal was to learn. To learn; stone, tools, techniques, and attitude. The following is a distillation of those days into 4 minutes of video. [...]
Posted in Shows & Exhibitions, Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2011
Here are some photos for those of you that couldn’t make the Lake Oswego Festival. I want you to know that I risked life and limb to capture several of these shots. The festival prohibits all photography in or near the art exhibits so I clicked these photos and then ran for my life when discovered. [...]
Posted in Shows & Exhibitions, Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2011
Submitted by PNWS member Jim Talt Helen and I visited San Antonio during spring break. After several days consuming our body weight in fine food, chips, salsa, and green beer along the River Walk, we left the crowds to follow the calming river path to the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA). SAMA is [...]
Posted in Shows & Exhibitions on Jul 31st, 2010
This show highlights some of Carole’s newest works along with the sculptures of 12 of her students! The show runs through the month of August with the opening reception on the ‘Last Thursday’, July 29th, 6pm, 2215 NE Alberta St. 503 493 1909 All sculptures are created from a “green” building material that is even better put to work as a sculpture [...]
Posted in Shows & Exhibitions on Jul 12th, 2010
Sculpting on a sunny day at Evergreen Aviation Contributed by Susan Gallacher-Turner Torches were lit. Cement dust was flying. Wax was melting on the pancake griddle. Glue was drying and screening was bent into shape as seven members of the guild demonstrated their work at Evergreen Aviation on Saturday, July 10th. Carole Murphy worked on [...]
Posted in Shows & Exhibitions on Jul 2nd, 2010
Carole Turner will be a guest artist and instructor at the 23rd Northwest Stone Sculptors Association’s International Stone Carving Symposium in Arlington, Washington, taking place July 10-18, 2010. If you are a stone carver – or are interested in becoming one – you won’t want to miss this annual event. About 100 sculptors, many very [...]
Posted in Shows & Exhibitions on Jun 17th, 2010
Ok, so the show has ended but the wineries are still there so I’m leaving this post for those of you that might want a easy quick trip to the wine country: Traveling from Portland to the PNWS Aviation Museum sculpture show brings you within 5 miles of 100 wineries tucked into the hills and back country of Yamhill county. Here are [...]
Posted in Shows & Exhibitions on May 16th, 2010
Todji recently participated in the Nova Terra Festival in Brazil. His 7-foot tall sculpture “MINOTAURA”, and the festival were featured on Brazilian Globo Morning News. The festival’s mission is to grow community, and exchange learning between indigenous Americans and the public. The intent of the festival is to expand ecological consciousness, inspired by the teachings of nature [...]