Mark Rossi: Wildlife and Western Sculptor - Epi. 252, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

I had Mark Rossi on my podcast today and we had a really
wonderful talk. I've known Mark for almost 30 years and he's been
in my gallery almost that long as well. He's known for his
sculptures of animals. He's focused primarily on the animals of
the Sonoran Desert, but because he's involved in so many museum
collections as well as zoo collections, he's gotten to do a lot
of exotic animals as well.

If you're in the world-famous San Diego Zoo, you're going to see
a Mark Rossi. If you're visiting the Arizona-Sonoran Desert
Museum here in Tucson, you're going to see a Mark Rossi. The
Houston Zoo, the Minnesota Zoo, and the Philadephia Zoo - all of
these places have Mark's work. So it's fun to go and find out
about his story, especially for his father,  Paul Rossi, who
was a very well-known sculptor and painter and was the director
of the Gilcrease Museum.

We talk a lot about the Gilcrease, as well as Frank Waters, who
was a novelist that wrote 26 different books on Hopi and Taos,
and the foundation that Mark operates to preserve Frank's legacy.
He was an important guy in the middle of the 20th
century. 

This was a very interesting podcast with an individual that I've
known for a very long time. It's so much fun for me when I get to
crack the nut a little bit and see somebody that I've known in a
new light. I got that today with Mark Rossi.