Peace Church

Here is the design for Peace Church in Duluth. Gail Blum designed this to attach to the new addition to the church. To keep the object within budget I am building a structure to laminate the bronze sheeting to. The circle is 8 feet across.



Second image shows the 8 foot circle cut and laminated together with a steel bracket built to fasten the piece to the wall.

            








Here I'm applying the first of several coats of enamel to preserve the medium density overlay board.

Judie helps Pour

This is a picture of Judie Johnson with me in the foundry. Judie came to help pour the Cyrus bench. Cyrus was Judie's beloved father and she wanted to be a part of the process in making the sculpture to help memorialize him. The bench will be finished early next week. I'll post a picture of the finished piece then.

Good News

Good news, it has been a long held goal of mine to be represented by a quality gallery in a large market. I now have Xanadu Gallery representing me in Scottsdale online.

They have a unique method of partnering with artists in the online gallery. They promote the virtual gallery to their clients and to visitors stopping in at the Scottsdale location. After an artist proves themselves they are invited to show in the physical gallery as well.

Marcia and I were visiting two weeks ago and stopped in at Xanadu. There we met Elaine who is an enthusiastic supporter of the gallery artists. She was interested to find I did sculpture and asked for my web address. The result is Xanadu will represent me in the huge Scottsdale art market.

I feel blessed to add them along with Last Chance in Lutsen and Grand Hand in St. Paul as partners in my art career.

Cyrus Bench

This is a cardboard pattern for a bench for the Johnson family of southern Illinois. I will be casting this in bronze, after making a few refinements.

New Web Site

Sometimes in the business of art making one needs to pay more attention to the business rather than the making. This past week I have launched a new web site for my work. www.tcsculpture.com is the new place to find my work. www.lastchancefab.com is still up and running. We have plans to revamp that site which will be the place to see what is going on at the gallery and the studio. When I say I have launched a new site I should really say Melanie has launched a new site. Melanie Lundheim of Good Copy Fast in Minnetonka put the new site up very quickly from the content I sent her. Melanie also is a terrific copy writer and editor. I should also mention she is my daughter.

Please check out the new site and stay tuned for more updates. I hope to be learning soon about the Children's Hospital Project and I will be updating about the Cyrus Bench, the St. Frank Birdbath and a new project I just got, The Peace Church Project, Duluth, MN.

Jeremy Raverty and Rita Sloane picked up their matching bronze sinks yesterday. They look like the one pictured here. I took photos of the new ones but can't seem to get them to copy correctly. It amazes me how well new technology works most of the time and how surprised I am when it doesn't. I think it should be the opposite, amazed that it works at all.

Now I am putting together a proposal for Children's Hospital in the Twin Cities. They are spending a great deal of money on art for both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. Children's is limiting art work to Minnesota artists. This doesn't happen often and I think it is just great they have the confidence in Minnesota artists to fill their needs.

I have just finished a baptismal for First Lutheran Church of Duluth. They are refurbishing the sanctuary and have a new pipe organ in process. My part is the bronze basin for the baptismal, the base is wood from Rob's Mill Work in Superior WI. The design is by Steve Edwins of SMSQ Architects in Northfield MN.