Sculpture Newsletter

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February - March 2005 Issue of
The Third Dimension, newsletter of

Contents on this page include:

Benini Sculpture Ranch
New Treasurer -- Gary Beyer
Member News
Opportunity -- Sculptors' Dominion 2005 Update
Opportunity -- Carve Stone with Ukrainian Master Vasily Fedorouk
Submission Guidelines

Benini Sculpture Ranch

Meet The Artist Series

The Meet the Artists Series at the Benini Foundation Galleries and Sculpture Ranch continues - February 26 and 27th. The project will be open Saturday 10 to 6 and Sunday from 1 until 6, with appearances throughout the day of artists and creative professionals, including some whose work is displayed on the Sculpture Ranch.

Of special interest to sculptors this month will be the talk by Paul Sumrall from the Houston Foundry. For advance information on the metal fabrication work of his company, visit on the web Blumenthalsheetmetal.com, then Metal Fabrication, then Art. Artists please call or email ahead so we can have an artist name tag for you.

This will be an ongoing series - the last weekend of each month. Future events may include filmmakers, winemakers, poets, and other creative people on schedule to talk and exchange info.

The setting is informal, with the Studios Building and the Sculpture Ranch open for visitations. Visit our website www.Benini.com or SculptureRanch.com for additional information or call 830-868-5244. Open to you and your guests, and free of charge.

Contact info:
Lorraine Benini
The Benini Foundation -- Galleries and Sculpture Ranch
377 Shiloh Road
Johnson City, TX 78636
Phone: 830-868-5244
www.SculptureRanch.com

[Benini Sculpture Ranch]
Above: Benini Sculpture Ranch

TSOS MEMBER & SCULPTURE NEWS

New Treasurer for TSOS

TSOS welcomes Gary Beyer on board as our new treasurer. Thanks, Gary for volunteering for this very important position. We'd also like to thank our former treasurer, Richard Von Hatten, for all the work he has done for us in the past. In addition to his duties as treasurer, Richard has been a tremendous help during Sculptfest. Hats off to Richard!

[Casting Day, Former Treasurer with New Treasurer]
From left: Bronze casting instructor Bill Barnett, Gary Flemmons, Carol Schumacher, (outgoing TSOS Treasurer) Richard Von Hatten, and (incoming TSOS Treasurer) Gary Beyer. Bill Barnett teaches a bronze casting class at the Austin Sculpture Center.
Photo courtesy of Kelly Borsheim, taken outside Bill Barnett's studio 22 January 2005.

More Member News

Gary Lott Go For Gold

"Go For Gold" a piece by Pflugerville sculptor Gary Lott was chosen for AVAA's Mostly Annual Membership show in Austin, Texas, Oct/Nov 2004. In addition Gary Lott has been invited to register for the Sculptors Dominion - Outdoor Sculpture Garden Exhibit and Gallery 2005 located in San Antonio, Texas. "Symmetry Quest" and "The Promise" will be on exhibit. Another work, "Serena", will be auctioned off to help support the local AIDS foundation benefit being held at the Octopus Club Austin, Texas. To view more works by Gary Lott: www.lottoart.com

"Go For Gold" 2004 by Gary Lott
62" h x 22.25" w x 12.5" d, Brass/Steel
Photo by G.Lott. www.lottoart.com

Rudolf Lailson Offers New Open Sculpture Studio, Classes

TSOS member Rudolf Lailson Studio is sponsoring figure sculpture open sessions for amateur and experienced sculptors. Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Jonestown, Texas, which is only 8 miles from Cedar Park, Texas. Studio is located on a beautiful property overlooking the lake. Classes and other sessions are also available and scheduled based on registration. Open sessions start as low as $10 per 3 hour session. Rudolf Lailson is an experienced sculptor and designer with a M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Please call 267-3131 for information.
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Bob Coffee Awards and Activities

Bob Coffee's statuette of a girl and her show calf, entitled "First Love", was chosen by the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America as their Youth Excellence Award: for presentation at their January national convention in Ft. Worth, Texas. A photo of "Partners," Coffee's 3/4 life-size equestrian statue of an early-day frontier lawman, is featured on the cover of the Fall 2004 Issue of the Texas Lawman magazine.

The Rockport Center for the Arts is displaying a mid-sized version of Coffee's "Pop the Whip" on its grounds through the months of January and February, 2005.

On January 18th the artist gave a power-point presentation to a University of Texas continuing education group relating his experiences in developing a statue to memorialize ³Marjan², the famous lion of the Zoo in Kabul, Afghanistan. The 3/4 life size bronze of an African lion - currently on display at the North Carolina Zoo - is scheduled to make its final journey to Afghanistan in March, 2005.
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[bronze sculpture]
"Pop the Whip" by Bob Coffee

[Coffee art cartoon]
Art Cartoon by Bob Coffee

TSOS Member News in a Nutshell

The following artists won awards at TSOS' "West and Wild" Exhibit at The Preserve at Walnut Creek 1st Place: "He'll Wrangle Nevermore" by Clay Stubbs
2nd Place: (5 way tie): "Navajo Maiden" by Kate Wilson; "Eagle Fury" by Dan Pogue; "Ghost Bird" by Gary Beyer; "War Horse" by Bob Coffee; "Secrets" by Bob Coffee.
3rd place: "Fish" by Ken Burns.

Sculptor Randy Jewart was a featured artist in the Benini Sculpture Ranch Meet the Artist Series in January 2005.

Michelle O'Michael is showing at Craighead-Green Gallery in Dallas, Texas, with her "Sensuality of Line" January 14 - February 11, 2005. www.craigheadgreen.com

Meredy Crisman is showing her work in the Greater Austin Clay Artists show "Attachments 2005, at the edge of Texas" at the Rockport Center for Arts in Rockport, Texas. She is also showing at the Winedale Texas Crafts Exhibition in Round Top, Texas, on April 9 and 10.
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"Sensitivity" by Rodney Bohl. Tangerine alabaster, about the size of a large fist.
There is a pair of lips carved on the back. copyright 2005 Photo by Rodney Bohl.

[stone sculpture]

"Mother and Child"
by Herb Goldman
www.herbgoldman.com

Herb Goldman's Sculptures at Carefree Station AZ

By Lisa Goldman
Herb Goldman, master sculptor of 60+ years from Ft. Worth, has a one-man show in courtyard and Carefree Station restaurant in Spanish Village, 7208 Ho Road, Carefree, Arizona. Six monumental sculptures in foundry-cast bronze will be exhibited through May 2005. The Three Figure Group, "Mother & Child" (24" h), "Father and Child", "Mae", "Hurricane/Galaxy" and "Icarus" (silver nitrite patina) are all foundry-cast bronze. The other pieces are either resin/aluminum or resin bronze: BronzeForms with Figure. "Cosmic Incubator I & II", "Mother & Child" (8' h).
www.herbgoldman.com

Sculptor¹s Dominion 2005

Press Release by Gilbert E. Barrera

Deadline Extended
Sculptor¹s Dominion has extended its invitations and installation deadline to March 13, 2005. There are about 50 sculptors already registered; we are expecting approximately 20 more registrations.

The Sculptors Dominion will hold its third annual show this April. Installations are due by the second week of March but preferably earlier. The Dominion tries to hold a few places open for clearly talented college level sculptors, a few for serious part timers, but most positions go to the full time career sculptor of large scale outdoor works. All media are included.

Interested sculptors need only send their Web site [or digital photos] to invitational@sculptorsdominion.com for jury. Upon selection artists will be e-mailed an invitation.

Demonstrations
This year the Sculptors Dominion invites sculptors to demonstrate during the show any of 6 weekends. Bring a work in progress and spend the day or weekend or a couple of weekends.
Since each sculptor demonstrator will demo for only one or two days there are several weekends open. Demonstrating sculptors are invited to exhibit a finished for sale work next to the demo, and of course sell it. Demonstrations may be of large or small work.
Contact gilbertebarrera@sculptorsdominion.com.
Volunteer demonstrators already signed up include Vince Villafranca, bronze pour; Danville Chadbourne, large ceramic; Marla Ripperda, cement; Gisel Luna, plasteline for bronze; Kelly Borsheim, stone/clay, and Centaur Forge, blacksmith forged sculpture.

Gallery
The Sculptors Dominion will now offer Gallery services for after the show to large outdoor sculptures that either were in the show or for sculptors whose work will not be ready till after the show. All works must be changed out each February.

Future Plans Under planning and study at this time is the Sculptors Dominion School of Sculpture in San Antonio and a Sculpture Guild both scheduled to open in 2006.

Dominion Dates & Location
When: The dates are April 16 through May 22 only on Saturdays and Sundays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and each Thursday night a lighted show from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Opening night Gala Thursday April 14 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Where: Villa del Carmen, 11356 Vance Jackson [between Wurzbach and Huebner]
San Antonio, Texas 78230
Phone: 1-210-696-9813
Web: www.sculptorsdominion.com
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Opportunity -- Carve Stone with Ukrainian Master Vasily Fedorouk

Press Release by Kelly Borsheim

Chicago-based Ukrainian-born and trained master sculptor Vasily Fedorouk has been invited to central Texas and he will be exhibiting his stone sculpture at the Sculptor¹s Dominion in San Antonio this spring. In addition, he will be teaching stone carving, drawing, and other art topics of interest at the 10-acre home studio of TSOS Webmaster Kelly Borsheim in Cedar Creek, Texas. Vasily has been working as a sculptor since 1977. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in private collections in the USA, Ukraine, Russia, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Brazil, Norway, Korea and Israel. Several of his sculptures are in the permanent collections of museums in Ukraine and Russia. He has created many public works around the world, including one for a symposium in Brazil in which he carved a 10-foot marble sculpture of two figures in three weeks! Vasily was an invited guest to the Seattle 1990 Goodwill Games, which led to his move to the United States.

Workshop dates are Saturday March 26 through Sunday, April 3, with various learning packages available from the entire nine days to weekend workshops and even individual demonstrations or events. Workshop attendees can expect to finish a small-size (2 feet or less) stone carving. And if students bring a maquette, Vasily can visualize their idea better, discuss any composition improvements, and help them realize the work from start to finish.

In addition to Vasily¹s teaching, students and visitors will have the opportunity to buy a wonderful variety of stone and stone carving tools from grinders, diamond blades, and pneumatic hammers to hand and finishing tools. Myles Schachter, sculptor and owner of stone sculpture supplier 2Sculpt, is also offering his teaching services to students during the workshop. Myles will even have pneumatic hammers available for students to try out first during the workshop.

Free camping is available to students and this is another great opportunity to hang out with the instructors and other carvers and learn more at the informal gatherings after work hours. The workshop site is about 20 minutes southeast of Bergstrom International Airport in Austin.

For more information about Vasily and his work, please visit his Web site: vasilyfedorouk.com. Myles' info. is online at: www.2sculpt.com For more information about this tremendous opportunity, please contact Kelly Borsheim at 512.303.3929 or e-mail borsheim@tsos.org. borsheimarts.com/workshop.htm

[Stone Sculpture Fountain]
Above: Belly Dancer Fountain (Detail)
by Vasily Fedorouk, 2001

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