Articles on Creating Sculpture
This selection of articles by members of Pacific Northwest Sculptors covers a variety of sculpture topics, sculpture processes, sculpture critiques and issues related to contemporary and traditional sculpture. Members of Pacific Northwest Sculptors share insights and perspectives through these articles and through live demonstrations and classes.
PNWS International Sculpture Day – Participant Bios
The live stream Zoom event will include observations by the following leadership from Helensview School, OSA and interviews with members of Pacific Northwest Sculptors.
PNWS International Sculpture Day 2021 – ‘Unrecognized’
A space for possibilities opened up when an anonymous sculptor installed a portrait of an American Pioneer on Mt. Tabor…
New Sculpture Park seeks Pacific Northwest Sculptors to Exhibit
Price Sculpture Forest on Whidbey Island near Seattle is preparing to open soon. Infrastructure is already in place, including professionally constructed walking…
Space is the Place
Reflections on Meditation and Sculpture Process Recently, my meditation practice expanded into my clay studio. There was a spontaneous notion to stop…
Spatial Relations: Seeing 3D Form in the Void
Humans have a natural ability to see and recognize things. You see something and your brain immediately matches the image to a…
Ben Sams – A Nearly Forgotten Genius in Modern Ceramic Sculpture
Reprint of Zig Lambo’s article from the Art and Museum magazine spring 2019
Bronze Sculptor Shifts Gears to Explore Collaborative Opportunities
Many PNWS members know me as a bronze sculptor involved exclusively with narrative bronzes. But there is another side bubbling up that…
Local Sculptors Attend 29th International Sculpture Center Conference
The Multifaceted Maker: An incredible adventure into the work and minds of both International and local sculptors! Alisa Looney Although I have…
International Sculpture Conference comes to Portland
We, the members of the Pacific Northwest Sculptors Association, wish to extend a warm welcome to all those attending the 29th International…
Teaching Sculpting Workshops– One Sculptor’s Dilemma
I taught four sculpting workshops this year and did a lot of driving to get to those places. Of course, I planned…
Studying Sculpture in Japan at the Inami International Wooden Sculpture Camp
Japanese art has been a big influence on my aesthetic and choice of wood as my primary medium. This August, I will…
Sculpture Process: The Green Man from Sketch to Finished Sculpture
As a gardener, I’ve been cultivating plants for 60 years. As a sculptor, I’ve been researching the Green Man in books, museums,…
Collaboration to Host Joint Stone Sculpture Exhibition
Members of Pacific NW Sculptors, (PNWS) and the NW Stone Sculptors Assn., (NWSSA), will soon receive a call for an exhibition to…
Wood Sculpture Techniques at the Portland Japanese Garden
My art tells stories, my collaborator is wood. In my current series, I recycle construction debris, coaxing these manufactured shapes into revealing…
Sculptors Share Secrets At International Sculpture Day 2019
We’ve yet to have an International Sculpture Day celebration that was not a great success. This one was slimmed down from previous…
“I am Leading this from What I Need as a Sculptor.”
Patrick Gracewood interviews sculptor, Alisa Looney PG. I’m curious about artists who combine different disciplines. We share a love of drawing, dance,…
How To Create A Video Of Your Sculpture
A video of your sculpture is a tremendous way to introduce your sculpture to the world. There’s a very real chance that…
Descartes’s Ipad – When 3D Technology and Sculpture Combine
Some years ago, I read a short blurb about a new 3D technology that could paint an image directly onto the retina.…
Dance with Me: Sculpture, Dance and Creative Collaboration
My comment, “Sculpture and dance are closely related, much like a creative collaboration” had left some people puzzled at a recent Pacific…
Art Inspiration – My Oracle…The Ocean
My sculpture medium is paper clay. It has a high water content and I have found that I can slam a slab of it against a “rock” that I set up in my studio and the effect is very like what I observe at the beach.
Riipppp – How to Create Spontaneous Visual Art
The joy of creation is why I do art. Over the past few decades I’ve explored the “anything can be art” philosophy found in Dada and Pop art in traditional sculpture, collage, and a series of satirical toy and game assemblages.
How drawing influences sculpture
Sculpture takes a great deal of time to create. How do you think through a sculpture? Not just the mechanical/technical process, but…
Elements of art: Thoughts about Lines
Just there on the office floor are 3 good sized boxes of comics. They are there because a friend of my nephew’s…
Frogwood Collaborations: Sculptors share techniques and perspectives
6 days and 6 nights filled with making art with 38 other artists… what could be better? We usually were at work…
Sculptors Near Me – How Collaboration makes us all better sculptors
Perhaps the most valuable feature of a group as diverse as ours is that we’re such a diverse group. Every meeting I’ve…