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Carrara Marble
13 in. tall, 25 lbs.

J. Gail Geer carves figurative and animal forms from Carrera marble and Virginia soapstone. An artist from childhood, she discovered the joy of three-dimensions while learning lost-wax jewelry making 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 at Artspace in Pietrosanto, Italy where she learned the techniques for carving marble.

Gail teaches sculpture at the Art Museum of Western Virginia, and at Roanoke City and County Schools, sponsored by the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge and the KICS program. She recently received a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts for an Artist in Residency program at Allegheny High School.

Here she is demonstrating and teaching at the University of Virginia Art Museum.