DATE: Thursday, October 23, 1997            TAG: 9710220183

SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN             PAGE: 10   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY FRANK ROBERTS, STAFF WRITER 

DATELINE: SMITHFIELD                        LENGTH:   30 lines

ARTIST TO TEACH SOAPSTONE CARVING WORKSHOP IN IOW

Artist Ben Sherman will present a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts workshop, ``Carved In Stone,'' at Smithfield High School at 8:30 a.m., Friday.

Sponsored by the Suffolk Art League, the presentation is for selected students from Smithfield High, Windsor High School, and Isle of Wight Academy.

Sherman will lead participants in the design and execution of a small soap-stone sculpture. Students will be given stones which they can examine, searching for clues and suggestions as to whether to carve an animal, human or abstract form.

Working from drawings, the students will visualize the process through which surface, volume and movement are explored. They will have the opportunity to carve, finish, and polish a small sculpture.

Sherman's work has been displayed at the Riverside Museum in New York City, and the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, N.Y. He has been a visiting artist with the New York public schools for 10 years.

For information, call 925.-0048. ILLUSTRATION: Photo courtesy of the VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Artist Ben Sherman will present a workshop for selected students

from Smithfield High, Windsor High School, and Isle of Wight

Academy.

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