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: Isabel C. Kelley

Location: Windham, ME

Favorite Tool: Hand tracer chisel

Favorite Stone: Blue Macaubas

About the Artist: Isabel creates primarily with Maine granite. Direct carving, and pairing contrasting varieties of stones has become the regular method serving her studio practice. Her work is often influenced by nature, archetypes, and history. Kelley's sculptures emote a feminine quality through form, activate natural stone color, and invite viewers to a sensation of tactile experiences.

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, ME

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.

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: Kevin Percevault

Location: Stamford, Lincolnshire, England

Favorite Tool: Pneumatic hammer

Favorite Stone: Limestone

About the Artist: Introduced to traditional stoneworking at the age of 12 by his grandfather, a lifelong stonemason, KōV aka Kevin Percevault began a five-year apprenticeship at 14 with Les Compagnons du Devoir. There, he studied stonework, drawing, history, and the history of art and architecture.

Between the ages of 20 and 25, he honed his skills in Switzerland, working on high-end building projects around Leman Lake, from Geneva to Montreux. During this time, he also began exploring his own artistic ideas through oil painting, photography, and collage.

At 25, he relocated from the Swiss Alps to the United Kingdom, where he has since specialized in luxury architectural stonework, particularly bespoke staircases and structural elements. Over the past seven years, he has managed, carved, and installed prestigious stonework on projects across the globe.

In 2023, he was invited by Jim Larson to participate in the International Stone Sculpture Symposium in Nashua, USA, where he was encouraged to merge his artistic vision with his craftsmanship. The following year, at the 2024 Nashua Sculpture Symposium, he created The Missing Piece, a monumental stone sculpture that marked a turning point in his artistic journey.

While he continues to work daily as a stonemason, his focus has increasingly shifted toward sculpture. With 18 years of experience in high-end architectural stonework and a decade of artistic exploration, he sees monumental stone symposiums as a dynamic space for creative expression and experimentation.

Name: Noah Pasquinelli

Location: Charleston, SC

Favorite Tool: Bull-nose chisel

Favorite Stone: Indiana limestone

About the Artist: Noah is sculptor and stone carver. he has been carving for five years, working mainly with limestone. Noah plans to study at the American College of the Building Arts to focus on architecture, wall sculpture, and traditional masonry. Charleston’s historic buildings and classical architecture inspire much of his work, connecting craft with heritage.

Name: Jesse Cameron

Studio Location: Lamoine, ME 

Home town: Pretty Marsh, ME

Favorite Tool: Wire Saw

Favorite Stone: Basalt/Schist (depends on the day) 

About the Artist: “While in College for Jazz Performance I began rock climbing, obviously that lead me to stone. I had a background in construction and when returning to Maine after college I took a job to help a friend construct some stone elements in a landscape, needless to say I fell in love and it started the obsession. It’s been almost 20 years since then and the desire to create has only grown through all of life’s experiences. “