Today’s Post is by Lori Woodward, from the newsletter FineArtViews. Lori is a regular contributing writer for FineArtViews. Find out how you can be a guest author on FineArtViews. She is also a contributing editor for American Artist’s Watercolor and Workshop magazines,

Alyson B. Stanfield was a museum curator for a number of years, so she has quite a background in the making, presenting and marketing of art. She also worked in a surprising place you’d never think anyone in the arts would work – you’ll hear about that, and how it affected

I was doing some research on soapstone this week, and came across this series of entries on wikipedia.com. I lifted almost the entire thing – read the rest here. Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. It is largely composed of

Here’s a little info from the http://globalstoneworkshop.com page I saw this morning. This looks really awesome – go all over the world and carve in different countries’ stone! Both images below © Global Workshops. You can see way more on their site. GLOBAL STONE