Gifted Sculptor Craigger Browne Transforms World-Famous Marble in His Home State

By Jim Plott
Alabama Living

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Craigger Browne’s search for quality marble took him a continent away. Little did he know at the time that it was waiting for him almost in his own backyard.

The Alabama sculptor, whose carving resume is spread all over the state, took up sculpting while in art school in France. He continued it near Carrara, Italy, home to the oldest stone studios and marble quarries in the world. Even when he returned home to Birmingham, Carrara was his marble of choice.

“I sort of laugh that I spent almost four years working there in Italy, and then going back and forth from Birmingham to Italy to get marble,” Browne said. “All that time I had no idea that I grew up 45 minutes north and went to college (at Montevallo) just west of the only other source of this beautiful pure white marble.”

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