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Martine Vaugel welcomes you to this site, and hopes you enjoy your journey through her work and workshops.
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The "DREAM OF THE PHOENIX" in the Collegial de Lamballe 2013
Martine Vaugel
is an internationally acclaimed sculptor and winner of two awards in the International Rodin Grand Prize Monumental Figure Competition. Her work can be found in Japan’s Hakone and Utsi Guch ga Hara Open Air Museums, The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The New Tate Modern Museum, Nelson Rockefeller Collection, the collections of Presidents’ Carter, Aquino, Gorbachev, Reagan and Bush. She also has sculpted Mayor Tom Bradley, Mother Teresa, Sir Richard Attenborough, and additional sculptures are displayed at Self Realization Fellowship, Patsouras Plaza in the City of Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Center, and at the Chateau Brissac in France.
She was awarded a Bronze Medal and a Silver Medal in the Salon des Artistes Francais 2013 & 2016 respectively, in the Grand Palais in Paris. She also received the First Prize in the Versaille Biennal d’arte Contemporaire 2017 in Versaille France.
In 2018 Martine won the Arthur LeDuc Jury Prize
for the best sculpture in the Salon Des Artistes Francais in the 2018 ART CAPITOL at the Grand Palais in Paris France.
Her celebrity portraits include, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, William Polk Carey, John Lennon, Sylvester Stallone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ronald Reagan, Katherine Hepburn, Nick Nolte, Lee Majors and many more.
She was Sculpture Director at the New York Academy of Art, taught Portrait and Figure Modeling at the Sculpture Center in NYC, and has opened four studio schools in California, North Carolina, New York and France. Martine receives heartfelt and rave reviews from both students and commission clients alike and a partial list can be viewed on her Testimonials page.
The goal of the Vaugel Sculpture Studio is to teach each student how to find the creativity in the world that lives in each of them and make great figure and portrait sculptures using techniques that are based on knowledge, anatomy, structure, and proven to work.
"I am dedicated to empowering creative beings to fulfill their sculpture dreams and desires in a relaxed studio atmosphere, using a proven geometric system of seeing, and the fine art of figure modeling." M. Vaugel
2018 Workshop Schedule
France
In the Loire Valley, France 49310
Avril (April) 2018
Avril 09 - 13 - Corps Allonger (Reclining Figure)
Avril 16 - 20 - Portrait Sculpture
Avril 23 - 27 - Corps Debout (Standing Figure)
Avril 30 - Mai 04 - Corps en Movement
L'ete 2018 (summer 2018)
Juillet 02 - 06 - Portrait Sculpture
Juillet 09 - 13 - Corps Debout ( Standing Figure)
** Juillet 23 - 27 - Corps en Movement
Juillet 30 - Aout 03 - Portrait Sculpture
Aout 06 - 10 - Corps Allonger ( reclining Figure)
Autumn 2018
Octobre 22 - 26 - Portrait Sculpture
Octobre 29 - Novembre 2 - Corps allonger
** corps en movement - emphasis on armatures.. for more details, email Martine
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Year round
Private Workshops available
contact the artist directly for more information