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Source: Robert Condia, 785-532-1106, condia@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Diane Potts, 785-532-1090, potts@k-state.edu

Friday, Sept. 19, 2008

MASTER OF DRY STONE CONSTRUCTION, SCULPTURE TO LECTURE AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- Sculptor and environmental artist Daniel E. Snow will present "Listening to Stone" at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, at Kansas State University. The lecture will be in the West Ballroom of the K-State Student Union.

Snow's presentation is part of the U.S. Stone Competition, which is offered through the K-State department of architecture and sponsored by U.S. Stone Industries, Prairie Village.

The lecture is one of several events associated with this year's competition, "A Place of Repose." The two-week project for second-year architecture students enrolled in K-State's College of Architecture, Planning and Design ends Friday, Oct. 3, with an awards presentation at 4 p.m. in the Pierce Commons at Seaton Hall.

Snow specializes in dry stack stone constructions made without mortar. He has been building with stone since 1972, when he worked on the restoration of a 13th-century castle in Tuscany. His career began soon after, in his native Vermont, with reconstruction of retaining walls and field fences. He apprenticed with Dave Goulder in 1986, and on return to Scotland in 1994 passed the intermediate certification of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain. Snow became a Dry Stone Walling Association master craftsman in 2000.

His dry stone constructions have included stock-proof fences, pillars, stiles, staircases and arch bridges. Works have expanded to include garden follies, grottos, grandstands and pyramids. Environmental art pieces and purely abstract sculpture have followed.

In 2001, Snow wrote "In the Company of Stone," published by Artisan, with photographs by Peter Mauss. "Stone Rising," a film by Camilla Rockwell released in 2005, captures the spirit of Snow's constructions and chronicles their creation. Snow's second book, "Listening to Stone -- Hardy Structures, Perilous Follies and Other Tangles with Nature," will be published by Artisan in October.

Design professionals can submit their attendance to the lecture for continuing education credit by contacting Diane Potts at 785-532-1090 or potts@k-state.edu.