Besides offering an excellent lineup of workshops in stone carving, clay modeling and metal welding, The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in Rutland, Vermont is host to a sculpture park chock-full of outdoor delights. 

A workshop I instructed there in 2019 was the first step toward realizing a sculpture designed by Josie Dellenbaugh. The dry stone wall built by the participants became the lead-in to a grouping of granite stele. Last year Josie adorned the seven standing stones with symbolic petroglyphs. This summer Jared Flynn and I completed her vision for the work by building a circular enclosure for the pieces. Once the landscape grading and seeding is done, visitors to CSSC will have a new outdoor “room” to enjoy.

STANDING STELE RING WALL
Wall surrounding the Seven Sisters sculpture, standing stele ring, 7 steles, 8 ft tall, permanent installation by artist Josie Dellenbaugh. Inspired by the constellation Pleiades. Periphery dry stone wall, incorporates dry stone walling workshop wall from 2019. Wall layout designed by Josie Campbell Dellenbaugh and Dan Snow. Walling by Jared Flynn and Dan Snow. Stone collected from site and local gravel pit, 34 ft diameter, Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, VT, 2020.