Mount Rushmore Offering Free Sculpting

Try an adventure in Sculpture - heck its free there is nothing to loose!

Mount Rushmore National Memorial will be offering free week-long sculpting
workshops on the Borglum View Terrace throughout the summer. Artist in
Residence Kim Henkel will be returning from New Mexico for a third season
to conduct the following sessions in stone carving and clay portraiture:

June 8-12 Stone Carving
June 22-26 Clay Portraiture

July 6-10 Stone Carving
July 20-24 Clay Portraiture

August 3-7 Stone Carving
August 17-21 Clay Portraiture

September 8-11 Stone Carving


The workshops are held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day and are open
for participants 13 years of age and older. Children 16 and under must be
accompanied by an adult. Families are encouraged to participate so that
parents and children may share the experience and learn sculpting
techniques together. No experience required. Participants will also learn
about the history of Mount Rushmore and the sculpting process of the
memorial.

The workshops are held outside and participants are encouraged to
bring a hat, sunscreen, rain jacket, lunch and drinking water. All tools
and supplies will be provided. There is a $10 annual parking fee that is
good for the remainder of the calendar year.

A 2008 workshop participant said, “The class more than met my
expectations. I not only learned a great deal about clay modeling and
making molds in my first class and stone carving in the second class, I was
given an appreciation and enthusiasm for the art form of sculpture.” A
local wood carver of over twenty years said, “The stone carving workshop
was the high point of my summer.”

Sculptor Kim Henkel has a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from
Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona and has been an instructor of
Sculpture at Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University in
Flagstaff, Arizona and Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New
Mexico. Henkel has exhibited her sculptures professionally in art
galleries and museums nationally and at the Apex gallery at the South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Participants must register in advance. Registration information is
available at

For more information and a workshop registration form, please visit the
Mount Rushmore website at www.nps.gov/moru, email Kim Henkel at

kimberly_henkel@nps.govThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call (605) 574-3178.

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