Nestled high in the Colorado Rockies, the annual MARBLE/marble Stone Carving Symposium has drawn sculptors, both professional and aspiring, for decades. It took around a decade for that seed to ...

In all, it took him "a heavy week" to do the carving using a diamond-head grinder and a dremel tool, followed by dental tools for the fine-detail work. The marble was taken from an former ice ...

But fine marble is becoming increasingly rare, and workers can toil for months to extract a 45-tonne slab that sells for up to $40,000. Carving workshops began to thrive in the early 1990s ...