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New article name is Karen Jobe Templeton

Sculptor Karen Jobe Templeton is best known as the sculptor who created the Crandall Canyon Mine memorial.

Born in Punxsutawney, PA, Karen attained a BS in Nursing from Columbia University, an MS degree at the University of Arizona. Karen's sculptures are in private and public collections from the U.S. to Japan to Bulgaria.

Awards include: the American Artists Professional League's Kathryn Thayer Hobson Memorial Award, Leonard J. Meiselman Memorial Award for Traditional Sculpture, AAPL; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club's Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal for Sculpture, and three separate awards from the Portrait Society of America, including First Place, Portfolio.