I will be hosting a PNWS Board meeting on Sunday September 24th at 2pm. 310 NE 106th Ave. Portland. It’s a Board meeting and studio visit. in some ways it will be like a Member meeting studio potluck. You are welcome to attend. While working with the Board, I’ll often return to the question, […]
President's Message
A Sculptors Peer group
Pacific Northwest Sculptors started informally, when several Portland area artists saw the inherent value of sharing resources. People got together and talked, visited each other’s studios, started a mailing list, formed a 501 C3, with an educational Mission. There have been countless ups and downs for our group since that time, over twenty years […]
PNWS Request for Volunteers
Pacific Northwest Sculptors Board has revived the Education Committee on the Board, lead by artist and teacher, Toni Parque. Education is the Mission of our non-profit organization, fulfilled by our ongoing schedule of meetings, demos, and online posting. Recreating the goals for an PNWS Education Committee became more obvious while organizing our group show, […]
PNWS Wisdom of the Coast
PNWS the personal and the digital
We will always be more than what we think we are. More than what we can measure, define, value or digitize. Even while we keep finding more ways to quantify ourselves and our world, there will always be something unseen, unexpected, nuanced and absurd beyond definition about our existence. This elusive human experience can be […]
Plan for International Sculpture Day 2023
I.S. Day 2023, Pacific Northwest Sculptors has rented a classroom within a wild assortment of cheap art supplies. Hot glue guns, scissors, sewing machines and other tools are provided. The event is at 4:30 pm April 29th International Sculpture Day, and will take place at SCRAP (School Community Reuse Action Project) 1736 SW Alder street, […]
PNWS Solution and Challenge
Becoming PNWS President
The goal as President of PNWS is to think well about each Member and about the group as a whole, with the underlying challenge: to relax, be authentically myself, among my peers while I’m doing those Presidential things. There’s a kind of tightrope walk of bringing lightness into a serious situation. I’m another sculptor like […]