As part of the Bellingham 2000 project, Ward Lynch and Janet Brown set up a week-long “Sculptors at Work” event in August at Maritime Heritage Park in Bellingham. The media were limestone, fabricated metal and wood.

The three artists who were chosen had demonstrated not only their creative abilities, but that they would enjoy interacting with the public and be able to instruct and describe what they were doing. A week was not long enough to insure a finished piece of work, but the excitement of having an idea and translating it into form was definitely communicated to the viewer.

Our own Ruth Mueseler was chosen for the stone demonstration and did a wonderful job at work and communicating with the public as did the other two artists, Chris Pauley with imaginative metal animals, and Jewell James, a Lummi carver working on two 6-foot totems.

The event was sponsored by the Bellingham Art’s Commission and had excellent response from the community. As Kay Moquin envisioned of the “Sculptors At Work” project, “Next year there’ll be more sculptors involved and the year after that even more. A wonderful opportunity for our group.”