Name: Joseph DiMauro

Location: East Boothbay, ME

Favorite Tool: Point chisel

Favorite Stone: Virginia Mist

About the Artist: Joseph has long been fascinated by the medium of stone and the artists who work with it. His experience started with, and was primarily focused on residential work. His chance to begin learning the art form came through stone sculptor and Maine Stone Workers Guild board member Dan Ucci. While working on a residential project, Ucci invited Joseph to be part of the first Hallowell Granite Symposium as an apprentice. He found Maine’s stone-working community beyond exciting during the event. Joseph has now been working with stone as a means of artistic expression passionately since his first taste.

Name: Jacob Bonney

Location: Rockland, ME

Favorite Tool: .5” chipper, three pronged tooth chipper

Favorite Stone: St. George granite, freshwater pearl, white mountain granite

About the Artist: Jacob grew up in Bristol, Maine and growing up on the rocky shoreline of the coast it didn’t take long to realize stone was the way to his truth. Jacob has worked in the stone trade his entire life specifically in the Midcoast region of the state. Outside of work, stone balancing became a fond hobby of his which has developed into carving.

Name: Christoph Beowulf Reiser

Location: Bad Teinach-Zavelstein, Germany

Favorite Tool: My hands

Favorite Material: Burgos sandstone

About the Artist:

I work with stone because it doesn’t rush.

It listens, it resists, and sometimes it gives in.

I use my hands – no filters, no distance.

It’s not about perfection or making a big statement.

It’s more like leaving something behind that feels real.

Something that stays, even when no one’s looking.

If anything lasts, it’s the moment of truth inside the work.

That’s what I’m after.

Name: John Catizone

Location: Hampton, NH & Boothbay, ME

Favorite Tool: Rondel chisel

Favorite Stone: Agata alabaster

About the Artist: John has enjoyed a life-long fascination with the ocean and draws inspiration from it for his sculpture. He seeks to create tension by capturing transient and dynamic moments in a rigid medium so that the movement is indefinitely suspended.

Name: Andreas von Huene

Location: Arrowsic, Maine

Favorite Tool: My whole studio

Favorite Stone: Gouldsboro Pink Granite

About the Artist:  von Huene grew up among musical instrument makers excited by their work. Andreas's own creativity is an adventure across a wide range of projects. His imagination is fertilized by the shapes, colors, and textures of stone to be found. Thanks to today's tools, stone feels as a facile medium to him and provides for both large gestures and sublime details. Working it is a whole mind-and-body experience that challenges and satisfies.

Name: Jim Larson

Location: South Portland, ME

Favorite Tool: Hydraulic boom crane

Favorite Stone: Danby marble

About the Artist: Jim loves rocks and tools and tooling rocks and rocking tools.