Crating and Shipping Sculptures for Museum Exhibitions

Whether it's small or large, crating sculptures for museum exhibitions takes a complete day away from sculpting.

Living in a rural area requires Ken carpentry skills to create crates for 20lb to 200lb sculptures.Crate are made out of 3/4 inch plywood and 1x3's. Dense foam is used and creating 2x4 supports is an art in itself.

It is all in the details. Ken is off to Boise today to pick up crating supplies.

Observing Grace and Composed bronze curlews, are heading off to museum exhibitions next week. Between shows, crates are being made to accommodate their safe travel to The San Diego Natural History Museum in San Diego, California and the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau WI.

Ken even came back with the smaller crate foamed in. He is now saving his pennies to purchase the machine. A man can never have enough tools!

Back to work on wood sculpture in Idaho

Back from Bellevue Art Festival and working on wood sculpture for upcoming shows in Loveland CO and Sun Valley Idaho

It will be a marriage of steel with the wood with stone.

Hope to have it together in a couple days.

Ken is carving and grinding wood for the metal plate which the wood will sit on.

Next weekend at http://www.artonthegreen.org/ in Coeur d'Alene Idaho

Next Stop - Bellevue Art Museum's ArtsFair

Next Stop - Bellevue Washington

The last time we were in Bellevue was 2007 - and we are heading back Bellevue ArtsFair Sculptors The show space allows large sculptures so Precipitous Drop - Coyote flushing Chukars as well a large "Work in Progress" will be at the show this year.

Only an 8 hour drive from our small town of Cambridge ID, we will leave with truck and small trailer on Wednesday and pull in to Bellevue at 7am to start setup. We will be meeting with local clients while in the area. Looking forward to temps in the mid 70's, it is suppose to be 98 in Idaho today. See you in Bellevue!

Precipitous Drop

Work in Progress

 

How does Ken Newman do what he does with WOOD?

Here are a couple "In Progress" images of a new sculpture. The medium is Curly Redwood, Stainless Steel, Marble on Redwood Base.

A commissioned sculpture - Client chose a fish-Ken delivered an albacore!

Artists in Action at the new McCall Art + Commerce Center in Idaho

An ambitious project in McCall is now ready and last weekend's Artists in Action event was the first of many events to come for the community to enjoy. The vision was an Art Center Complex in McCall and over a period of three years the concept was developed an implemented. Although not entirely completed, the concept was to build a place where artists could come, live, work, teach and sell art. Idaho natives, Dave and Donna Armstrong originally from Twin Falls-love the arts and their vision is coming to life. The new non-profit The Artists' Community Center is in the works to support and grow the arts in McCall. The organization seeks to provide a facility which can be utilized by individuals and groups for arts and cultural education, community enrichment activities and other community gatherings for the greater McCall area.

Goals:

Provide a functional space for local artists and for arts and educational activities.

Encourage high-caliber non-local professional artists and educators to teach, perform or present in McCall by providing an affordable venue.

Provide a space to enable emerging artists and organizations to experiment, plan, collaborate and develop their work

Encourage citizens to embrace the arts as a significant component in the McCall area's economy, culture and identity.

Serve the greater McCall area by providing an inclusive, celebratory venue for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Below are images from this weekend event; Artists in Action where visitors interacted with local and regional artists.

Wind River Valley National Art Guild Show - Dubois Wyoming

61st Annual Wind River Valley National Art Show - Dubois WY
Exhibition runs July 17-26 10am-8pm daily

Founded in 1949, this year's show will also include a photography component. It is an annual non-prejuried fine art and photography show nestled in the Rocky Mountains just over the mountain from Jackson and Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.


The Wind River Valley Artists' Guild was founded by Mary Back in 1949 and the first show featured and promoted the work of her students. Mary and Joe Back were local artists who were well known for their paintings and sculptures.
 
Visit http://www.wrvag.org/ to learn more about this organization based in Dubois Wyoming.

Work at the Foundry - Another Part of a Sculptor's Journey

Spent two days at Adonis Bronze near Salt Lake City to do metal check and patina on ten sculptures. Here are some images from the foundry. The bronze process is time consuming and the foundry workers worked hard to meet Ken's high standards. Several of the sculptures are heading to museum exhibitions. Thank you Denny and the Adonis foundry staff for going the extra mile. :}

Image of Metal Check                                                   

Final Metal

Prepping for Patinas

One After Another in Metal

One After Another-Completed Patina

Packing and back on the Road Again

Busy week, off to foundry in Sacramento to pick up the final editions of Well Worn.  Then back on the road to Tahoe to reconnect with the kids and celebrate their 30th birthdays! Lots of fun! Then back on the road again to the foundry in Utah to do metal check, patinas on 10 sculptures.  Back in Idaho soon, next show is on August 16-17 in McCall Idaho. Below is an image of new wood sculpture - heading to the new owner in a couple weeks.

Not yet named - Subject Albacore Wood Curly Redwood