My friend and fellow sculptor David Mylan and I will be exhibiting our recent work at Art at the Cave gallery in Vancouver during the month of March. We both work with figurative concepts through very different media. David creates larger than life welded metal pieces while my work is mostly ceramic. We decided some […]
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City of Auburn Washington Call to Artisits
Press Release: City of Auburn: CALL TO ARTISTS!2022-23 Downtown Sculpture GalleryContact: Mary Ellen Bowers, Arts & Events Assistant arts@auburnwa.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 11, 2022__ 2022-23 Downtown Sculpture Gallery The City of Auburn invites sculptors to submit applications for Auburn’s Downtown Sculpture Gallery. The works selected for this public art exhibition will be on loan […]
Fundraiser for Claudia Carter
I am reaching out to PNWS members to participate in a fundraiser to support our good friend Claudia Carter in her time of need. Claudia’s leadership position in the black community in Vancouver is legendary. She works with our historical society to present events at the museum, organizes black history month at our library, as […]
Voices on Community Through Time and Space
The International Sculpture Center (ISC) is presenting, Voices on Community Through Time and Space, a series of monthly, virtual encounters with sculpture designed to inspire, inform, and bring communities together. The series runs from December 2021 through May of 2022 Registration is FREE but required for the series. To register visit this link: https://sculpture.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1563308&group=
Queen Nefertari’s Egypt at The Portland Art Museum
Oct 16, 2021 – Jan 16, 2022 Nefertari’s tomb had been raided. The “good” stuff was gone. The sarcophagus lid was smashed and the mummy gone. Remaining were small sculptures, a few stela, reed sandals and a pair of knees. These goods and other objects from the reign of Ramses II and later are now […]
Making Aliens
So, you feel a need to make creatures. Hopefully the following will assist you in pursuing this ambition. Then again you may come to your senses and pursue a career in accounting or as a cowpoke. Whatever your decision be prepared to accept the consequences. Here we will focus only on making a “thing” using […]
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Culture could save the Planet
I have posted here previously about broadening Culture, the challenge of racism and the concept of “de-colonization”…
Recognizing International Sculpture Day 2021
In the tradition of York and Sacajawea, PNWS 2021 International Sculpture Day (IS Day) was a pioneering experience. A conceptual theme was chosen: Unrecognized. This word came up as a conjunction of different sculptural phenomena that were hidden, undervalued, uncompensated or intentionally made less important. A portrait of York, an uncompensated American pioneer, was secretly […]