The Art of Stone Carving

Jun 09, 2026

Karin Sprague, Stone Carver

Karin’s greatest joy is being a mother to three adult children. Karin has been carving stone since 1991. She and her team compassionately design and hand carve monuments for families across the United States. Her formal education was at Paier College of Art but she credits the many teachers she has been blessed to meet along the way and who have opened their studios to share their knowledge. In 1996 she hand carved her first gravestone for her father-in-law. She moved with her family to Scituate in 1998 to open her new studio. Today she is grateful to share the work with her daughter and several artists who continue the tradition of carving monuments by hand. Karin understands this work is her ministry. Her studio is hidden in the woods of Scituate, behind her stone cottage, where she feeds the birds and the woodstove.

Kristin has worked for the shop since 2021 and moved from Brooklyn, NY, to Providence, Rhode Island in 2024 to join the shop full time. Her work consists of creating designs, project management, and impressing Karin with her computer "wizardry." She spent much of her childhood tagging along with her mother to many old cemeteries across New England. Not much has changed.