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About
the Instructors
Rollie Grandbois – Founder
Rollie is a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa
Tribe from
Belcourt,
North
Dakota. He has been working as a stone
sculptor for over 26 years. His teachers were all renowned stone sculptors
who guided him through the many phases of creating a piece of art in stone. Rollie graduated from the
Institute of
American
Indian Arts in
Santa Fe,
New Mexico in 1983
where he also served as student body president that year. Over the years, Rollie has had over 200 students and many have gone on to
become full-time professional sculptors. Rollie’s
work has been seen in galleries and exhibitions throughout the
United
States,
Japan,
Europe, and
Canada. Rollie’s sculptures are also included in many corporate,
private and tribal collections. His largest stone sculpture to date weighs
over 23 tons.
Jon DeCelles
Jon has been an instructor
over many years at this workshop. He has been very popular with beginners as
well as seasoned sculptors.
He has been working as a stone sculptor for over 25 years, and won numerous
awards throughout the West. He is sought after by many institutions and
private collectors because of his ability to instill lightness and movement to
the stone.
Edward
Flemming
“Ted” Fleming grew up in Washington, DC, and studied
sculpture in Los Angeles before completing a degree in architecture at Tulane
U. in
New Orleans.
Specializing in residences, he believed houses to be “sculptures that people
live in.” Returning to sculpture full-time, Ted studied marble carving in
Pietrasanta,
Italy,
and apprenticed with Doug Hyde in
Santa
Fe. In 1997, Ted and his family moved
to
Galisteo,
New Mexico.
Ted focuses on the human figure and says, “Underlying all of my work is my
need to tell the stories of creation and life through the human form.” Ted
finds stone a compelling medium. “I'm enchanted by the inherent surprises I
find when carving marble-color, light, crystal structure, and veining. I
appreciate the challenge in the making of stone sculpture, a process of
removal and discovery with no turning back.”
Cliff Fragua
Jemez Pueblo sculptor, Cliff Fragua has
learned the secret of the stone through his cultural and ancestral teachings.
Based in Native American themes, his work shows a pride for his culture and a
deep understanding of the inherent spirituality of the stone. He feels that
the honesty and purity of this most basic material permits him to express
himself from the heart and to express the spirit that Native people respect
and revere as embodied in the stone. . His most recent commission, a larger
than life sized depiction of Pope’ – a Tewa Indian
leader – represents the State of New Mexico in the National Statuary
Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington
D.C. Other works are installed in
public locations and in leading museums and in private collections.
Clifford had training in
Pietrasanta,
Italy, the San
Francisco Art Institute, and the
Institute of
American
Indian Art. He was
instrumental in the creation of the SWSCA Carving Workshop.
Kat Watson
Kat is a life long artist who has been carving stone
for over 7 years. As an Instructor at the workshop for
the last five years, she has demonstrated patience and skill in helping
novice carvers grow beyond their initial trepidation to achieve confidence in
their skills. Kat exhibits her work in the
Taos,
NM
area. She created a large memorial for the town center of
Questa,
NM.
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