Turning Bull
Canadian Soapstone
9 inches tall, 16 ½ lbs.

J. Gail Geer carves figurative and animal forms from Carrera marble, Colorado Alabaster, and Virginia soapstone. She also works in pewter and bronze. An artist from childhood, she discovered the joy of three-dimensions while learning to make jewelry using the lost wax processs from the Navaho at Glendale Community College in Arizona. Later she studied stone carving with Chi Che Davis at Virginia Western Community College. Her most recent training was a summer spent at Artspace in Pietrosanto, Italy where she learned the traditional techniques for carving marble.

Gail teaches sculpting classes for children and adults at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, as well as after school programs in the Roanoke City and County schools. She also teaches one-day workshops in August County, Virginia, and a class on stone carving for art teachers at the annual convention of the Virginia Arts Educators Association. In 2007 she won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts to support an Artist in Residence program at Allegheny High School. Her work can be seen at Gallery 108 and Signature 9 Gallery in Roanoke, at Crossroads Art Center in Richmond, and the Allegheny Highlands Arts and Crafts Center in Clifton Forge, VA. You can keep up with her latest work on Blogger and Facebook, as well as on her own web site, GeersCreations.com