Welcome to MARBLE marble Stone Carving Symposium
It’s the stone carving experience of a lifetime!
Three 8-day sessions are offered each year, always on the same dates.
Each session offers the same curriculum and is appropriate for all skill levels. Sign up for one, two, or all three sessions!
Each 8-day workshop is $1,250 and includes:
• A block of beautiful Colorado marble
• A fully-equipped outdoor carving site in a spectacular setting
• Unlimited use of tools—hand, electric, and pneumatic
• Daily open-forum classes, demos, and workshops
• One-on-one instruction throughout the workshop
An extended plan option is available for $350.00 which provides daily breakfast and lunch makings with a chef-prepared hot dinner in a remote mountain location for 8 days. (Highly recommended!)
WORKSHOPS
Open-forum workshops and demos are held each day, led by top-tier professional sculptors/instructors and include the following:
- Safety Workshop
- Cutting Facets & Flattening the Base
- Finding Your Form
- Carving the Face
- Inline Air Hammers
- Power Tools
- Relief Carving
- Hand Carving
- Texturing & Finishing
- Detail Carving
- Lettering
- Professional Art Practice
- Chisel Sharpening
- Pinning & Mounting
- Moving Sculpture
CARVING SITES & TOOLS
Carving sites at our beautiful mountain campus are scattered throughout the woods and along the river. Each carving site is fully equipped with dunnage, power, and an air hose. Visit our What To Bring page for ideas on what will make your carving site ideal.
Our Tool Shed offers a good selection of power and pneumatic tools in a variety of types and sizes incuding angle grinders, die grinders, air hammers and chisels, hand tools, and more. This is a great opportunity to experiment with tools you haven’t used before. Workshops on every type of tool are offered in each session.
Two vendors are onsite to keep you well-supplied with tools, blades, abrasives, and everything you could need or want for stone carving.
COMMUNITY
Meet and mingle with artists from around the country and the world who come to carve our beautiful Colorado marble. The Colorado Stone Quarry is nearby and always pays us a visit, sharing stories and answering questions from our participants.
The Symposium grounds are located in the quaint town of Marble, Colorado—a pristine mountain setting on the beautiful Crystal River. Guests enjoy visiting town, taking jeep tours into the wilderness, fishing the Crystal river, hiking to local waterfalls, and eating ridiculously good BBQ at Slow Groovin’ while listening to live music on the deck. The picturesque town of Redstone is just down the road where you can browse shops and galleries and enjoy a hand-packed ice cream cone.
For inspiration, wander through the ruins and century-old blocks of Marble scattered throughout the area, remnants of the National Historic Marble Mill site which is adjacent to the Symposium grounds. We offer Historic Mill Site walking tours to our participants.
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