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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

Alisa Looney

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’

Andy Kennedy

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

Rocky Jaeger

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

Andy Kennedy

Reflections on Meditation and Sculpture Process Recently, my meditation practice expanded into my clay studio. There was a spontaneous notion to stop…

Chas Martin - 3D Form - July 2020 - PNWS

Spatial Relations: Seeing 3D Form in the Void

Chas Martin

Humans have a natural ability to see and recognize things. You see something and your brain immediately matches the image to a…

Ben Sams - Modern Ceramic Sculpture - Texas Ranger - Nov 2019 - PNWS

Ben Sams – A Nearly Forgotten Genius in Modern Ceramic Sculpture

Robert Dale

Reprint of Zig Lambo’s article from the Art and Museum magazine spring 2019

Martin Eichinger - Bronze Sculptor - Nov 2019 - PNWS

Bronze Sculptor Shifts Gears to Explore Collaborative Opportunities

Martin Eichinger

Many PNWS members know me as a bronze sculptor involved exclusively with narrative bronzes. But there is another side bubbling up that…

ISC - October 2019 - Banner

Local Sculptors Attend 29th International Sculpture Center Conference

Alisa Looney

The Multifaceted Maker: An incredible adventure into the work and minds of both International and local sculptors! Alisa Looney Although I have…

2019 International Sculpture Conference - PNWS -small sculpture

International Sculpture Conference comes to Portland

George Heath

We, the members of the Pacific Northwest Sculptors Association, wish to extend a warm welcome to all those attending the 29th International…

Michele Collier - Teaching Sculpting Workshops - Sept 2019

Teaching Sculpting Workshops– One Sculptor’s Dilemma

Michele Collier

I taught four sculpting workshops this year and did a lot of driving to get to those places. Of course, I planned…

2019 Inami International Wooden Sculpture Camp Patrick Gracewood brochure

Studying Sculpture in Japan at the Inami International Wooden Sculpture Camp

Patrick Gracewood

Japanese art has been a big influence on my aesthetic and choice of wood as my primary medium. This August, I will…

Patrick Gracewood - June 2019 -Green Man Process - 5

Sculpture Process: The Green Man from Sketch to Finished Sculpture

Patrick Gracewood

As a gardener, I’ve been cultivating plants for 60 years. As a sculptor, I’ve been researching the Green Man in books, museums,…

Pacific Northwest Sculptors and Northwest Stone Sculptors Association to host a Joint Sculpture Exhibition - 2

Collaboration to Host Joint Stone Sculpture Exhibition

Rocky Jaeger

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 - May 2019

Wood Sculpture Techniques at the Portland Japanese Garden

Patrick Gracewood

My art tells stories, my collaborator is wood. In my current series, I recycle construction debris, coaxing these manufactured shapes into revealing…

International Sculpture Day - May 2019 - 7

Sculptors Share Secrets At International Sculpture Day 2019

George Heath

We’ve yet to have an International Sculpture Day celebration that was not a great success. This one was slimmed down from previous…

Alisa Looney Interview - May 2019 - PNWS - 2

“I am Leading this from What I Need as a Sculptor.”

Patrick Gracewood

Patrick Gracewood interviews sculptor, Alisa Looney PG. I’m curious about artists who combine different disciplines. We share a love of drawing, dance,…

Patrick Gracewood - Create a Video of Your Sculpture

How To Create A Video Of Your Sculpture

Patrick Gracewood

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

George Heath

Some years ago, I read a short blurb about a new 3D technology that could paint an image directly onto the retina.…

Patrick Gracewood: Sculpture, Dance and Creative Collaboration

Dance with Me: Sculpture, Dance and Creative Collaboration

Patrick Gracewood

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

Michele Collier

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.

Joe Cartino - Sculptor - 2019 - Dada Dodads

Riipppp – How to Create Spontaneous Visual Art

Joe Cartino

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

Patrick Gracewood

Sculpture takes a great deal of time to create. How do you think through a sculpture?  Not just the mechanical/technical process, but…

Pacific Northwest Sculptors member George Heath's classic comic collection

Elements of art: Thoughts about Lines

George Heath

Just there on the office floor are 3 good sized boxes of comics. They are there because a friend of my nephew’s…

Carole Murphy Frogwood Collaboration Boat

Frogwood Collaborations: Sculptors share techniques and perspectives

Carole Murphy

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

Chas Martin

Perhaps the most valuable feature of a group as diverse as ours is that we’re such a diverse group. Every meeting I’ve…

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