After years working online, up to my eyeballs in technology, I really appreciate the tactile sensation of hands-on work. It’s the fundamental connection and eye/hand coordination that I find fulfilling. However, I have not lost my fascination with what technology can do. And, since my marketing communications genes are still alive and well, I cannot […]
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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…
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 the important aesthetic work of meaning. What do you want it to say, and how do you shape a physical object to have emotional resonance for others? Drawing sharpens both your eye and […]
Portland’s top art event – Art in the Pearl 2018
The Art in the Pearl was a success for the 15th year of demonstrating artists from the Pacific Northwest Sculptors!
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 by 7:30 am and continued sometimes to 11:30 and later. It was amazing to see people simply drop their egos within a couple of days and simply play with one another, creating art. […]
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 attended has resulted in some insight, recommendation, introduction, new product idea, new connection that I had not expected from someone I had not known before. Networks like ours are rich with opportunities like […]
Giacometti – Charioteers Rolling in the Money
A hundred and one million dollars is a lot of money but that’s what hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen paid in 2015 for Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture, The Chariot. Giacometti was a multifaceted artist who achieved his greatest recognition for his freakishly elongated spider-like human figures. A prominent existentialist philosopher explained Giacometti’s figures as depicting […]
Rick Gregg Steel Sculpture Turns Up At Portland Estate Auction
A Portland woman attending an estate auction came home with much more than she bargained for recently when she bought a small and very distinctive steel sculpture. Past PNWS President Carole Murphy was contacted by the woman who purchased a 12-inch steel sculpture that turned out to be the work of the late PNWS member […]