Larry Thibos, left, of Bloomington, carefully watches the techniques John Fisher is using on Thibos’ sculpture at the 2017 Indiana Limestone Symposium at Bybee Stone Co. in Ellettsville.

Students are creating their own masterpieces, similar to the professionals. They even got to learn some of their techniques. “So [the professional stone carvers] are doing it on a larger level.

Protected by a mask, Ulrike Zugelder uses a diamond-coated power grinder to shape a 125-pound block of marble into a representation of an oxtail vertebrae, sitting atop the stone at left, July 18 ...

There are perhaps 200 stone-carving workshops in Escolásticas, all small and open air. Around 300 of the local men work in these shops as artisan stone carvers, and refer to their finished work ...