Stone Carvers Guild Podcast In this unique episode, Killian and Petra O’Flaherty join us from Ireland to discuss their lineage of stone carving, Ballyknockan (the “granite village”), and the importance of taking on apprentices. This is the Stone Carvers Guild’s first internationally recorded podcast! Learn more about Killian and Petra’s business at www.oflahertystone.com. Here are… Read More »

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast Myles Schachter of 2Sculpt joins the podcast crew to discuss his unique perspectives as a sculptor, supplier, teacher, and more in this eclectic episode. As a stone sculptor and a supplier of stone and stone carving tools, he operates a business called 2Sculpt based in Lawrence, Kansas, where he has a… Read More »

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast In this episode of the Stone Carvers Guild Podcast, Matthew and Joel mix things up by chatting with fellow stone enthusiasts from the Maine Stone Workers Guild. Guests Norman Casas and Sam Finkelstein share about their work, the mission of their guild, and give us a preview of the upcoming Rockland… Read More »

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast In which Robin Antar sits down with Bethany, Joel, and Matt to talk realism, pop‑culture and storytelling in stone carving. Find out more about Robin’s work at her website, www.robinantar.com.

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast In this episode, Matt and Bethany interview Ron Clamp, a third generation carver from originally from stone industry hotspot Elberton, GA and now residing in South Carolina. Ron has passed through many phases in his carving career, from monument making to sandblasting, digital designing, gilding, and running a traveling workshop. He… Read More »

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast In this episode, carvers from the two major training grounds of stone carvers in the US in the last 50 years – the stone yards of St. John the Divine in New York City and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. – sit down with Matt, Bethany, and Joel and discuss… Read More »

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast In this episode, Vermont stone carver Sean Hunter Williams explains how to work in granite, talks about getting diamond grinding tools in Italy, and tells how he returned to Vermont after art school to learn stone carving in his father’s studio (as well as how he stays warm there in the… Read More »

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast Oleg Lobykin, Russian-born stone carver and artist, shares his knowledge about public monumental sculpture, restoration, sculptures in wildly varying mediums, training in the former USSR, and his experience learning as a young carver at St. John the Divine. His websites, referenced extensively in this episode, include www.lobykin.com and www.customstonecarving.com.

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast In this Interview, Italian-trained, Vermont-based carver Fred X Brownstein gets into the nitty-gritty of replication using the pointing machine (machinetta) and the history of replication methods. He also discusses his own education in human figure sculpture at the studio of Nerina Simi in Florence as well as his current projects and… Read More »

Stone Carvers Guild Podcast     Episode 15 – In this interview with Minnesotan carver Scott Halverson, the business of architectural carving is front and center. Scott and his business partner run a studio in Northeast Minneapolis and travel around the country restoring monuments. Of course, Scott had a long journey that ran through Texas… Read More »