Joseph Conrad Stone Cutter

Joseph Conrad has worked & played in the stone industry for fifty years. From architectural drafting to quarrying to stone installations to founding a stone fabrication business to stone exploring and eventually to sculpture. His blog shares his lifetime of experience. It is meant to make the urban landscape understandable to everyone. He hopes to help provide a sense of place in the urban environment by providing his insights on stone history & fabrication.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Alaska Marble Story

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Alaska marble sculpture The only indigenous Pacific northwest marble that was used nationally, was quarried on a remote island in South...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

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Stone sculpture is a totally unique, for it is a singularly subtractive process. Even in polishing the finished piece, there is only remova...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

THE ITALIAN MYSTIQUE PROVIDES A BUMP - BUT DOES LOCAL STONE SPEAK TO YOU?

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"Speak to me" It seems to me Arts are local, and are based on local history and local knowledge, not in itself a bad thing...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

There's Marble in Them There Islands, Part 3

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There is a wealth of misinformation surrounding the marble industry. One example is illustrated here. Many people assume marble has value...
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How Are You Inspired?

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I once asked a friend, what do you think was on the mind of the woodcarver when he was carving a wall sculpture he had purchased. I think...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Twenty frequent comments from visitors at my stone sculpture studio

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The stone yard 1 Do you know Mary Jo? (Mary Jo Anderson is a well-known Oregon sculptor) 2 I know a person who makes ...
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Joseph Conrad has fifty years experience working in the stone fabrication industry. He is the founder of Conrad Stonecutter in Portland, Oregon (http://www.conradstonecutter.com).
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