current projects

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In 2024, the release of instructional videos and interviews, numerous articles and books, tours and lectures, portraits and statuettes, the design of houses and memorials.

Foremost among new projects, America 250, Heroes, Myths & Legends, portraits in prose and silhouette of 33 Americans, and this with release of seven to nine tondos and statuettes annually into 2027, the year following our Semiquincentennial.

At Studio Books, monthly releases of verse and prose, fiction and exposition.  Also, announcements in Annals of books in progress.  

2024 releases include: Occasional Poetry: How to Write Poetry for Any Occasion;, a guide to verse form and technique; Galatea, a libretto in verse; three screen-novella, Sama the Prince, Bunyan's Chores, and Appleseed's Progress. 

2024 editions of The Beautiful Home include Cozy Houses and the Ranch House.

Also in 2024, the launch of wall art: Architectural Photographs and Architectural Prints. 

Various Beautiful Homes are under construction.

If you would like a Beautiful Home designed just for you, please inquire.  Or you might like to choose from our many preexisting house plans.  The Blue Ridge Jeffersonian links here.

In 2024 continuing projects of 2023, teachers' seminars, workshops, and practical training.

Founded in 2009, the Common Sense Society is an international network that promotes Liberty,  Prosperity, and Beauty—aspirational ideas that are indispensable to  human flourishing and happiness.  Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with chapters across North America and Europe, the Common Sense Society educates 21st-century generations and informs public discourse through fellowship programs, curriculum resources, publications, events, civic  initiatives, and media campaigns.  

In celebration of our Semiquincentennial, America's 250th Anniversary, I am creating a lasting memorial of American greatness, an honest memory of we the American people.

Our achievements and traditions, from discovery through founding, will be manifested in cameos, statuettes, tondos, and a book.  The statuary will be Classive, in the imperial style of America's Golden Age (1876 - 1945).  The book is part Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City [Rome]), part Parson Weems’ fables, part Plutarch’s Lives, and too, the book is loquacious in the manner of Herodotus.  Both the book and the statuary will be a testament.

There will be 33 cameos (now in thumbnail draft), five or six statuettes, and three medallions yearly through our Semiquincentennial (2026, the nation's 250th anniversary celebration) into 2027.  As of 3 April 2024, I am forming statuettes of General Eisenhower, Striding Liberty, and our American Eagle.  Also in 2024, Paul Bunyan, Pocahontas, and Uncle Sam statuettes, and medallions of George Washington, our American Eagle, and a longhorn bucranium.

For The Federalist Society: 

Feddie Awards, James Madison portrait medallions for university law school chapters. The Harvard Law School Federalist Society Chapter will host the 43rd annual National Student Symposium on March 8–9, 2024.  

For The Common Sense Society:

The "Courage Award", a statuette for remarkable persons who courageously oppose Progressive, communistic, and Woke attacks on body, thought, and words.

MJC Studio Projects:

Statuettes in production, soon to be released in limited editions. 

For the Benedict XVI Institute:

A portrait in relief of Pope Benedict XVI.

For Saint John Fisher University Chapel:

Chapel renewal plan including altars, tabernacle, and statues.  Returning a modern church to tradition.

I enjoy sharing my affection for our nation's capital.  If interested in a private or a group tour of Washington, The District of Columbia, please follow this link to Classical Washington Tours.  I can speak on some building or neighborhood dear to you, or we could follow a tour from my book, The Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, DC.