Carol Gold

Miss you, still have your voice mail on my phone saying "Call me". I keep trying, you're probably laughing.

My name is Jill Marino, I am president of the Loveland High Plains Arts Council in Loveland, Colorado. Sculpture in the Park Show is celebrating 40 years August 9-11, 2024. "Fiesta" piece in Benson Sculpture Garden is being featured as part of our celebration. If possible, I would like any contact information with Carol´s family. Please contact me, [email protected] or call 970-214-4279. Thank You.

It is a perhaps not so amazing coincidence that, without being aware of this anniversary, I was just thinking about Carol yesterday and remembering times I had spent with her and her children when we all were so much younger. Those are wonderful, warm memories that I will cherish for the rest of my days.

Carol and I became friends when I was employee at Comforts in San Anselmo. If you knew Carol in her older days you knew that she would be at Comforts around 2pm nearly every day. She would get a small scoop of tuna fish and a cookie. I know she had a standard beverage but I am blanking on that. Carol was one of my favorite customers. She was kind, attentive and eager to hear any good stories that were willing to be shared. In one way or another I felt like she adopted me as a surrogate...

December 10, 2022. I met Carol through correspondence when her sculpture "Wind" was commissioned by the County of Kern in 1991. I felt like a soul mate to her from the beginning, only five years older than she, and I´ve tried to be a good steward of that work through all these years, and was grateful for my continuing connection to her through her Christmas cards. I´ve learned only today of our loss. I treasured her talent and friendship, as did all who were privileged to know her, and am...

I will always remember Carol from visits to her and her family's home in the hills of Marin County in the 70's. I can recall her delight at hearing Carole King's first album, Tapestry, which I brought to her home in 1971 on a visit with my cousin Jeff Gold. She liked it so much I gave it to her. In 1976 I visited again with my partner and 2 year old daughter. Julie and Carol thrilled my daughter with her first horse ride, on Julie's paint that lived in a stable in the bottom of their...

I have known, respected, and loved Carol since I met her at the Sausalito Art Festival in 1981. She has been my mentor and older sister. I loved our chats at Comforts in San Anselmo, and running into her on long walks in Deer Park. We used to hang out at the Loveland Art Show in Colorado and others. I am heart broken to hear about this, and also distressed. With her permission we were creating a virtual exhibit with her dancing Celebration sculpture and were about to get it shown. I was so...

Always an inspiration and such a pleasure to be with.

My deepest most heartfelt condolences are with you friends and family. Indeed Carol has a special place in my hearth. My brother Luc gained a study tour in 1981 for visiting `shell-casting´ foundries in the US and was invited to work at Carol´s (and partner AL) foundry. It happened that I was also in San-Francisco for a couple of days for my job at Lev´s Strauss. At that occasion I have had the pleasure to meet Carol. Its only when my brother suddenly died in 2013 that I found out that...