Spokane Sculptor Fowler, 88, RIP

Spokane sculptor and aviator Dorothy Fowler, whose bronze statues and striking cathedral doors can be found near and far, died Saturday. She was 88. Fowler, who grew up in Montana and California, took up sculpting in her 50s and created some of the best-known pieces of public art in the Inland Northwest, even as she battled years of arthritis. Her 8-foot-tall tribute to Spokane astronaut Michael P. Anderson, killed in the 2003 explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, stands in the breezeway between the INB Performing Arts Center and Convention Center, and also outside the Museum of Flight in Seattle/ Scott Maben , SR. More here. (1995 SR file photo of Dorothy Fowler)