When it comes to carving alabaster, there are two approaches: make a mock-up or ask the stone what it wants to be. Loveland artist Laurie White combines both approaches, she told her six students ...

Purchase a signed copy or a piece of alabaster from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday at High Country Gems and Minerals, 311 8th St. in Glenwood Springs. Garfield County native Jeremy Russell’s story is one of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...

“When you hit it (with a flat hammer), it should ring,” said Laurie White during a demonstration on alabaster carving at the Loveland Museum/Gallery on Sunday. She was demonstrating how to find a ...

For many anglophone readers, alabaster—a crystalline form of gypsum—is synonymous with English late medieval sculpture, a misapprehension reinforced by the entry on the subject in the otherwise ...

An artisan works on an alabaster artwork at a workshop in Luxor, Egypt, on Jan. 10, 2025. Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a ...

The English Reformation of the 1530s wasn’t just an upheaval of the country’s spirituality as the Church of England severed its Catholic ties; it disrupted whole industries. One was the alabaster ...

Seven alabaster carvings discovered during restoration work at St. Marie's Roman Catholic Cathedral had not been seen for 42 years Seven rare 15th Century alabaster carvings have been discovered ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs -- into ...