NSS News

Posted :: Jan 26, 2012
2012 Sculpture Celebration Weekend The 2012 Sculpture Celebration Weekend will be held May 18-20 in Loveland, CO. We look forward to seeing you there.

Posted :: Dec 15, 2011
2011 Fellows NSS is pleased to announce the election of new Fellows: Amy Kann (PA), Leo Osborne (WA) and Christopher Smith (PA).

Posted :: Oct 20, 2011
78th Annual Exhibition Award Winners Dan Ostermiller, FNSS; sculptor Stephen H. Smith; and Bart Mullin of Read & Mullin Appraisal and Fine Art Services selected the 78th Annual Exhibition award winners. The top prizes went to Blair Buswell for his work How Many More...; to Bart Walter for Giraffe Trio and Deon Duncan for After Botticelli. The fourteen awards, worth over $12,000, were granted to artists from the works on display at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina through October 30th. They can also be viewed online.

Posted :: Sep 1, 2011
2011 Elected Sculptor Members NSS is pleased to announce that Angela Mia De la Vega, Clay Enoch, Timothy S. Hooton, Brian Keith, Matt Lewis, Roy Paul Madsen, Garret McFann, Bruce Papitto, Pedro Ramos, Wayne Salge, Wendy Salin, Peter Schifrin, Daniel Sinclair, Ryoichi Suzuki, Wesley Wofford, Steve Worthington and Christa Zinner are new elected Sculptor Members and that Al Henderson of Canada and Jivko of France are new elected Foreign Sculptor Members. Congratulations!

Posted :: Aug 10, 2011
Performance in Sculpture An exhibit of thirteen sculptures by elected NSS members will open at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in late September. Located in Tampa Bay, Florida, the Center is the largest performing arts complex south of the Kennedy Center, with five performance venues and a conservatory. The sculptures will be on display at the Carol Morsani Hall through the 2013 season.

Posted :: Jun 27, 2011
2011 Dexter Jones Award Jedediah Morfit of New Jersey won the Dexter Jones Award for his piece Ad Infinitum.

The Dexter Jones Award is an annual, unrestricted prize of $5,000, which is presented to an emerging sculptor for an outstanding work of sculpture in bas-relief.

Posted :: Jun 23, 2011
2011 Figure Modeling Competition The 2011 Figure Modeling Competition took place June 13-17 at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. Ben Hammond won the $5,000 Charlotte Geffken Prize. Joshua Koffman received the Roger T. Williams Prize for $1,500; Lucian Goff received the Walter & Michael Lantz Prize for $750. Julia Ambrose won the Edward Fenno Hoffman Prize for $350 and Mark Porter received the Gloria Medal, given in memory of C. Paul Jennewein.

The other finalists were: Adrian Alexander Andrade, Emily Bedard, Angela Cunningham, Zachary Kainz, Julia Levitina, Mark Utreras, Erik Durant, Jamie Henderson and Alex Rane, LaQuincey Reed. The fifteen competitors reside in 8 different states, some making the trip to Old Lyme, Connecticut from California, Oklahoma and Utah.

Posted :: Jun 9, 2011
Sculpture Celebration Weekend The 2011 Sculpture Celebration Weekend was a big success! Sculptors, curators and patrons gathered from across the U.S. to enjoy various events.

The weekend started off with the dedication of Carl Paul Jennewein Place. Carl Paul Jennewein, past president of NSS, had a studio in the Bronx for 50 years.

The following night, we gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a tour of the Greek and Roman Galleries. Participants also enjoyed the view at a cocktail reception held on the Cantor Roof.

On Saturday, Karen Lemmey and Jeff Richman gave a unique sculpture tour of The Green-Wood Cemetery. Bas-reliefs by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Azrael statue by Solon Borglum, and the DeWitt Clinton Memorial by Henry Kirke Brown are just a few of the sculptures they spoke about.

The weekend ended with the Honors and Awards Dinner at the National Arts Club. NSS honored Kate Brockman for her commitment to sculpting and honored Richard J. Moylan and Jim Jennewein for their service to NSS.

Posted :: Nov 9, 2010
The Gottschalk Project The Green-Wood Historic Fund, through its Saved in Time: The Gottschalk Project, is pleased to announce that the artistic team of Jill Burkee and Giancarlo Biagi has been selected to create the new Angel of Music to adorn the gravemarker of 19th century composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

The year-long competition was held in collaboration with National Sculpture Society. Five Fellows of NSS were asked to create an angel for the legendary musician's grave. Among the finalists: Kirsten Kokkin, Tuck Langland and Myra Weisgold.

The Historic Fund's Saved in Time program works to conserve and restore Green-Wood Cemetery's most endangered monuments. To learn more about the project, make a donation and view images, go to Green-Wood Historic Fund's website