DFAW Fall Program & Annual Meeting
Saturday, September 27, 2025
1:00 pm

Windsor Historical Society
96 Palisado Ave Windsor, CT 06095

“Replicating Revolutionary War Headstones,” Randall Nelson

Hybrid: In person or via Zoom

Registration: $10.00/Per Person
Registrations must be received by noon on Friday, September 26, 2025

Our Fall 2025 meeting will be held on Saturday, September 27, 2025, in person and via Zoom. As part of our contribution to Windsor’s celebration of the nation’s Semiquincentennial, our speaker will be our Vice President, Randall Nelson, who will present a talk on the process of researching and then carving replicas of several Revolutionary War veteran’s headstones. The program will be recorded and made available to those who have registered to attend either in person or via Zoom.

ABOUT OUR SPRING PROGRAM SPEAKER

Randall Nelson has been a working artist for thirty years, teaching art courses while maintaining his own art practice and managing a sculptural restoration business specializing in the preservation of building facades, monuments, and statuary. He has extensive experience in the different fields of sculptural production, including wood and stone carving, mold making, casting, and metal working.

Randy earned his BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1974, and then served a five-year apprenticeship in woodworking with Master Sculptor Toshio Odate from 1975 to 1980. He received his MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College for the Arts in 2006. He has been an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of CT, Storrs, and the University of Hartford, Bloomfield. He has also been on the Adjunct Faculty at Quinebaug Valley Community College, Middlesex Community College, and Asnuntuck Community College.

He has done repairs on many monuments and building facades, including the brownstone Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT, the P. T. Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT, and the famed McClellan Arched Gateway in Arlington National Cemetery. Multiple projects in Savannah, GA; New York City; Sarasota; and Key West, FL have kept him busy and often away from home. Recently, he has focused his talents more locally, working in several of the State’s oldest cemeteries, doing repairs on damaged stones and carving replicas of badly deteriorated colonial era gravestones.