MONDAY, October 18th, 

5:00 PM — 10:00 PM, At a place to be announced:

The ROCKNOCKERS RENDEZVOUS and Symposium Registration.

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TUESDAY, October 19th 

7:30 AM. . .Meet and depart for Chaco Canyon excursion.

1:30 PM. . .Presentation at Chaco Canyon’s Pueblo Bonito site.

6:00 — 10:00 PM, ROCKNOCKERS RENDEZVOUS II.

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WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, the 20th to 22nd

11:00 AM — 12:00 Noon. . .Late registration and lunch

1:00 — 5:30 PM. . .Presentations

5:30 — 7:30 PM. . .Dinner

8:00 — 10:00 PM. . .Presentations 

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Friday: GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

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SATURDAY the 23rd

10:00: — 12:00 Noon. . .Communal Creative Stonework Project: 

THE RING OF CAIRNS

12:00 — 1:00 PM. . .Lunch

1:00 — 6:00 PM. . .Communal Creative Stonework Project: 

THE CIRCULAR DRY STONE SEATING BENCH

6:30 PM. . .Communal Dinner?

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SUNDAY 

9:00 AM —??: Finish work on Seating Bench.

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SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS intending to join the Chaco Canyon tour should plan to arrive on Monday the 18th to register, and participate in the ROCKNOCKERS RENDEZVOUS. 

MORNINGS: Wednesday and Thursday mornings are unscheduled. 

Participants are at liberty to do as they please, or do nothing.

There will be Lithobolos (stone ball bocce) practice games (Finals on Friday morning)

There will be tours of nearby Amerindian petroglyph sites.  

Santa Fe Museums will be open.

LITHIC OLYMPICS: 

Friday morning: LITHOBOLOS,  the WHEELBARROW STEEPLECHASE, STONE-STACKING, the SHOT-PUT and other games.

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This year will be a little different. Although there will be several Long-Form presentations by notable guests, there will not be the usual succession of hour-long sessions. 

These will instead alternate with a series of 10 minute presentations by Symposium Participants displaying a wide range of stonework images and commenting upon them.

These Short-Form presentations will be in the Pecha Kucha style with presenters showing 20 images of stonework—their own stonework, stonework they’ve seen and photographed on their travels, or stonework of their region. Each  image will be shown for 20 seconds as the presenter comments on the material. Q&A later. Each presentation will last approximately 10 minutes.

ALL Symposium participants are encouraged to make such presentations. please show us what you and/or others have zdone.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULES:

STONE CARVING, DRY STONE and HOT LIME MORTAR workshops will begin on Wednesday the 13th and run through Monday the18th. Participants should plan to arrive on Tuesday the 12th.

STONE LETTER CARVING & CEMETERY RESTORATION workshops: Sunday and Monday, 17th and 18th. Participants in these workshops should plan to arrive on Saturday the 16th

Workshop participation is for Stone Foundation members only.

MEALS:
Wednesday through Saturday, Lunch will be provided. 

Participants will make their own breakfast and dinner arrangements.

LODGING:
There is a wide range of lodging available in Santa Fe.
Google—Hotels Motels Santa Fe NM Expedia—for a long list with prices ranging from $50 a night to much, much more.
We recommend the the SAGE INN.
In 2013 they gave a substantial discount to Stonework Symposium attendees and many of them stayed  there. 
Their prices have risen considerably since:
Single rooms with one king bed now go for $177 per night. 
Double rooms with two queen beds are $205 per night.
But they are offering us a generous discount: for either option the discount price for us is $111, fees and taxes included. 
Individuals wishing to reduce expenses by sharing a room with another participant should let us know and we will make the necessary connections. (tomas@stonefoundation.org)
The main advantage of the Sage Inn (besides the discount and having friends as neighbors) is its location: proximity to several excellent restaurants, the Whole Foods Market, and a public park. Also it is within walking distance of downtown Santa Fe and the Symposium events, so a rental car is not a necessity. (The Sage Inn as well provides shuttle bus service to the downtown area.)
To reserve a discounted room call The Sage Inn at 505-982-5952 and tell them you are attending the STONEWORK SYMPOSIUM.

Invited PRESENTERS

LEW FRENCH, Stonemason, Artist-Stonemason

http://lewfrenchstone.com/
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ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: Artist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
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JOHN K. GRANDE: Author, Art Critic

Land Art, Earth Art, Rock Art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Grande

http://www.johnkgrande.com/
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MICHAEL GRAB: Stone Balancing Magician (Demonstrations)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Grab
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STEVE LEKSON: Archaeologist, Anthropologist, Author

https://www.farhorizons.com/our-tour-scholars-leaders/steven-lekson-biography-and-tours/
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JESSE SALISBURY: Stone Sculptor

A review of five stone Sculpture Symposiums Jesse organized in Maine from 2007 t0 2014  

http://www.slipperyrockgazette.net/index.cfm/pageId/1076
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ROGER MURPHY: Scholar
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MARK SAX: Artist, Educator, Gallery Owner

The Construction of St. John the Divine  Cathedral, 1892-1992

https://divinestone.org/
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POLLY SCHAAFSMA: Artist, Anthropologist, Archaeologist

Petraglyph Rock Art of the Southwest 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Schaafsma
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DAN SNOW: Dry Stone Waller, Artist

A Gathering of Stone (Projects)

https://www.dansnowstoneworks.com/
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AND OTHERS, to be announced.

Not all of these invited presenters have confirmed and there may be others invited. Andy Goldsworthy, for instance hasn’t (yet) responded to our invitation. . .. But we’re hoping he can arrange to come since the Stone Foundation has, over the years, been providing letters to the INS to aid the visa process for  the English wallers he brings to the US to work on his projects. It would be big if he shows, but, you know, he’s a busy guy.

The principal INVITED PRESENTERS are YOU, the participants.

Workshop INSTRUCTORS

ARCHITECTURAL STONE CARVING:

Nicholas Fairplay  

https://fairplaystonecarver.com/
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HOT LIME MORTAR STONEMASONRY

Nigel Copsey   

http://www.nigelcopsey.com/#2
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DRY STONE WALLING:

A select group of Stone Foundation wallers will build a wall with a crew of trainees. Trainee/ Instructor ratio: 2 to 1
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STONE LETTER CARVING:

Karin Sprague  

https://www.karinsprague.com/
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GRAVESTONE RESTORATION

Jonathan Appel 

https://gravestoneconservation.com/
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NOTES: 

CHACO CANYON EXCURSION:

An opportunity to experience the stone skeleton and the spirit of Chaco Canyon and hear about its history from someone who has studied and written about it has enlarged the programme: the Symposium was originally scheduled to start the evening of October 19th but our group has been invited to join an archaeological tour at Chaco—on the afternoon of the 19th.

SO, there will be two ROCKNOCKERS RENDEZVOUS/Registration events, on the evening of the 18th and the evening of the 19th. 

Those willing to get up very early the morning of the 19th and drive for three and a half hours through northern New Mexican to Chaco Canyon will meet at Whole Foods Market at 7:30 drink coffee, buy lunch provisions, coordinate rides and riders, and depart. 

PARTICIPATION: 

Previous Symposium registrants were referred to as ‘Attendees.’

‘Participants’ is a better designation.

Please participate by coming to Santa Fe and interacting with us.
Participate by selecting twenty images of stonework, your own, or not. Prepare a short, informative spoken ‘caption’ for each image. Rehearse it often. Come and share that with us. See what your fellow rocknockers are up to, hear what they have to say. Experience actual, in-person real-time contact with others of your ilk.
Participate in the Lithic Olympics.
Participate in the General Membership Meeting.
If you have dry stone walling skills, volunteer to participate in the Saturday ‘performance’ piece.
And/or its completion on Sunday.

STONEWORK SYMPOSIUM 2021

The RING OF CAIRNS 

and the ZIA COMPASS

Two Communal Creative Stonework Performance Projects

Saturday, October 23,
Fort Marcy Park,
Santa Fe NM

A select troupe of 24 skilled Stone Foundation stonemason/waller members will take part in a stonework ‘performance’ in the course of which 12 or more tons of stone will be assembled to create two articulate structural-sculptural installations, one temporary, the other permanent—in a single day

• RING OF CAIRNS

In a public park a wide circle, 40 feet in diameter—with a mature sycamore tree at its center—will be scribed on the earth and 12 equidistant points marked along its circumference.

Approximately 12 tons of assorted types, sizes and colors of stone will be placed in a ring 25 feet in diameter.

In the morning of the 23rd, 12 pairs of professional artisans—24 skilled mason/wallers from around the US, Canada, Ireland and the UK—will use these stones to build tall (about 6 feet high) stone cairns at the 12 designated points on the circumference of the circle. Because they are skilled stoneworkers this will only take an hour or so.

It will be a publicised performance, a joyfully strenuous dance that Santa Fe townsfolk and tourists alike will be invited to witness. It will be accompanied by music made by a group of local percussionists and other musicians.

Photographers and videographers will record the event.

This Ring of Cairns, each one with its own artistic character, will stand and be admired and photographed with their builders—but only for an hour or so.

• CIRCULAR SEATING WALL

At the end of this “intermission” the cairns (which cannot remain in place due to public safety concerns) will be disassembled and the stoneworkers will use the stones to artfully construct a circular dry stone wall around the tree that will be 11 feet in diameter, 1.5 feet wide and about 3 feet tall.

At the height of 18-20 inches, 4 stone slabs will be placed in the wall. These cantilevered slabs (oriented to the cardinal points of the compass) will project a foot and a half from the outside face of the wall providing seating for the public and structural stability to the wall—’through stones’ in the parlance of the trade.

This will consume the rest of the day and because masterful stonework is the goal, it will need to be finished the next morning, brought to height and capped, the excess stone soon removed and the site cleared. 

It will remain in place (with mortared cap stones), a permanent and pleasing amenity for the park.

• THE ZIA COMPASS

The rays of the sun in the Zia symbol—New Mexico’s state emblem—will be represented by four sets of four parallel strips of stone, each strip five inches wide with five inches of space between the strips. These will extend outward from the circular wall beneath each cantilevered slab in the four cardinal directions—like the Zia symbol.