On June 12, Timberline welcomed its first student created sculpture; “Cresent Moon Wolf” that now graces the inner courtyard. This beautiful artistic expression comes from the talents of Summer Knowles and Bella Lee, students of the art metal program run by teacher Stephen Johnston. Through Johnston’s mentorship, who advocates for student led efforts in his metal shop, these inspired students explored their muse with his mentorship. While he walked Knowles and Lee through the process of translating their design in to physical form including the
setting up the shapes with computer aided design (CAD) on the plasma cutting system, they did the work laying out and cutting the sheets of steel. He also taught them the welding techniques needed; thus, Knowles and Lee learned along the way all the technical aspects from design to creation. The financial support for this effort comes from the Jefferey Rubinoff Foundation on Hornby Island. In 2025 the Rubinoff Foundation which supports many artists in the visual, and musical arts, and post graduate studies with
awards decided to look at a younger demographic and awarded Steve Joyce, teacher / leader of the Outdoor Adventures Program at Timberline $7,000 for inspiring art education leadership in the secondary school setting. This money has been targeted to the physical arts at our school inspired by the work of Jeffery Rubinoff. The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island is the result of Rubinoff’s efforts to bring his art to the world. In his early years he sold his pieces around the world, but
by the mid 1980s he began buying them back and using his property as not only a place where he created his work, but also a place to store and share it. Now close to 100 pieces of his work spanning a range of “periods” in the evolution of his body of work are spread across a beautiful range of setting that he himself sculpted out of the land. Timberline’s Outdoor Adventures Program (ODA) became aware of the park in 2016 and have visited every
Fall as part of our Comparative Cultures course. Here through the patient efforts of the park curator Karun Koerning and his staff hundreds of our students have been introduced to Rubinoff’s works, philosophy and spirit and by extension why sculpture is such an important a part of human cultures here and around the world. This piece so lovingly created by Knowles and Lee will stand as an inspiration to future students at Timberline to follow their passions in any field they wish to explore.
Timberline Secondary School, student sculpture, Cresent Moon Wolf, Summer Knowles, Bella Lee, Stephen Johnston, art metal program, plasma cutting, CAD, welding, Jeffrey Rubinoff Foundation, Hornby Island, Sculpture Park, Outdoor Adventures Program, Steve Joyce, Karun Koerning
Wolf moon thing is actually kinda sick.
So wait is this sculpture made from actual wolf stuff or like… the title? Also $7,000 doesn’t seem like enough for all that metal cutting and welding, unless the school just already had the machines.
I read “plasma cutting” and immediately thought they just used plasma like in movies lol. Glad it’s for student art though. But why does it say “Cresent Moon Wolf” like that… is that a typo or the actual name?
This is nice and all, but I’m confused why this is connected to Hornby Island and some foundation stuff. Like aren’t they at Timberline? Feels like a random grant story. Also Outdoor Adventures program visiting every fall?? Sounds like they just use the park as a field trip excuse to teach arts, which hey, good for them I guess.