Stone Foundation Inc

-to honor stonework and stone art-to celebrate stone and the skilled and creative use of stone-to preserve and to perpetuate the time-honored craft of stonework, particularly structural stonework-to encourara and to inform a resurgance of interest in it through publications, workshops, specially selected building projects, seminars, simposiums-to reserach and to report the history, traditions and culture of stonework-to explore and to expand the potential for principled applications in conteporary structures-to cultivate an international community of stonemasons-to be a resource and to enable information and experience to be shared-to provide education and training for stonemasons, professiona and amateur, and all those involved with working stone such as quarrying, supplying, processing, cutting, shaping, builidng, sculpting, carving, lettering and conserving stoneinlcluding architects, engineers, surveyors, contractors and others interested in stone work.