Sculpture Conference Location Poll

[RuBert]

How about it, where would you like to see a ISC Sculpture conference?

Tell us something interesting about the City you nominate.

[Araich]

How about Sydney. Put meaning into the word International.

[RuBert]

Boy wouldn't that be great! Sydney is definitely one of the great cities of the world.

[anne (bxl)]

a great opportunity to discover the other face of the world (looking from my place anyway)!

[Araich]

Boy wouldn't that be great! Sydney is definitely one of the great cities of the world.
You could match it up with Sculpture by the Sea (Nov, 100 sculptors) and their symposium. There is also at least 4 serious sculpture exhibitions/competitions on at the same time here.

[sculptorsam]

Ah, it is beginning to take shape! I'm up for a trip to the Land Down-Under...

[JAZ]

How about Sydney. Put meaning into the word International.
True. Certainly running the Symposiums in other countries would build the membership outside the USA and if you really want to be global....
It would be great to be able to afford that kind of trip and the Sculpture by the Sea events sound fantastic. 100 sculptors plus other shows. That would be something to see.

[ExNihiloStudio]

How about Boston? We have sculpture. Here is the monument to the 54th regiment by the legendary St. Gaudins (I tried posting this photo on another thread but it didn't work)


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[JAZ]

I agree with Mark (selfishly, since I live just north of there) that Boston would be great. I keep thinking we're short on contemporary sculpture, except for the DeCordova and a few smaller venues, but maybe that's only because I always think there should be more. It's no Sidney in terms of contemporary sculpture, but it's a great city.
Hey, Mark, want to come up to my studio sometime?

[JAZ]

I agree with Mark (selfishly, since I live just north of there) that Boston would be great. I keep thinking we're short on contemporary sculpture, except for the DeCordova and a few smaller venues, but maybe that's only because I always think there should be more. It's no Sidney in terms of contemporary sculpture, but it's a great city.
Hey, Mark, want to come up to my studio sometime?
I've been having guilt trips ever since I posted that. I'm here trying to clean up 240 phragmites reeds for an installation for a show and instead I'm thinking about Boston sculpture and the ISC convention. The DeCordova, which is in Lincoln, a Boston suburb, is a 35 acre sculpture park, the biggest in New England. They've got lots of intriguing work everywhere on the grounds, and a great indoor museum focused on contemporary work from figurative to abstract to digital and installation. Nick Capasso and Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, both curators there, are assets to the sculpture community. the Institute of Contemporary Art has long supported outdoor and indoor installations every summer including ones by people like Olafur Eliassen. They're having a new building built for them down by the waterfront. We have the Boston Sculptors, a solid group since 1992 consistently well reviewed in the Boston Globe, UMass Boston has an outdoor sculpture area on their waterfront campus that boasts work by heavy hitters like Mark DiSuviero and Alexander Lieberman, and there are good examples of figurative sculpture in parks and open spaces all over Boston. Marty Carlock has written a guide to public sculpture in Boston that lists lots of good stuff and there are galleries and other venues in the area that focus on sculpture. The MFA has traditional and comtemporary 3 D work and both Mass College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, each within a block or two from the MFA, could probably provide some backup for convention sponsors.
The parking may not be so easy, but we've got an almost (sort of) completed humungous Big Dig and a snappy new bridge that looks like it could have been designed by Naum Gabo. Actually, the interlaced roadways around the bridge are like a monumental sculptural installation of a certain kind.
So, there's figurative, contemporary, installation, museums and sculptors. Public transportation, nightlife, culture and hotels. What more could you ask for?

[anne (bxl)]

why not a symposium in England? English artists have such a sense of 3D and also very impressive sculpture parks such as
the Henry Moore foundation http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/hmf/
or Goodwood sculpture park http://www.sculpture.org.uk/homepage/index.jsp
or the Yorkshire sculpture park http://www.ysp.co.uk/pagenotfound.html
... en so on...

[rjustin]

how about kansas city

i heard in the latest sense that kansas city has the most artist percapita then any other city in the usa.

rjustin

[fritchie]

how about kansas city

i heard in the latest sense that kansas city has the most artist percapita then any other city in the usa.

rjustin

Actually, rjustin, I believe ISC began at Lawrence, Kansas. Local people tell me that it originally was “The Casting Conference”, with annual or biennial meetings. About 1976 they decided to have the first conference outside of Lawrence, and chose New Orleans. Attendance had been between 100 and 200, and they had to cut off N. O. attendance at about 1000 because the facilities couldn’t accommodate more people. ISC was formed shortly afterward, from the same group.

I and a Physics Department fellow had an ancillary exhibit in Computer Graphics, a completely new field at the time. This also was within a year or two of founding of N. O.’s Contemporary Arts Center, one of the hosting institutions for this fall’s ISC Miniconferernce. Kansas has an outstanding record in U. S. sculpture.

[sculptor]

------off the beaten path----

Does this site have clock set to Greenwich mean ?

thanx for the history fritchie

rod

[cletusugoabunwa]

Well..if this confrence is the first ever,then l suggest we give Africa or Asia the opportunity to host what they gave birth to.... :cool:

[JAZ]

Well..if this confrence is the first ever,then l suggest we give Africa or Asia the opportunity to host what they gave birth to.... :cool:
Cletus,
Specifically where in Africa? What areas in your opinion are actively involved with sculpture?
JAZ
www.joyceaudyzarins.com

[anne (bxl)]

I don't know if Cletus will confirm or not but sounds to me that Dakar (Senegal) is the most active african place for contemporary art. Their biennale (which ends up right now for 2004) is unique in Africa.
http://www.dakart.org/

[cletusugoabunwa]

It is more correct to say that senegal is one of the active African Countries in contemporary arts ,but obviously not the most active...but with respect to the opinion poll for this International sculpture conference,.............l would suggest ...Egypt."The cradle of human resourse development ,,through sculpture"

[JAZ]

I don't know if Cletus will confirm or not but sounds to me that Dakar (Senegal) is the most active african place for contemporary art. Their biennale (which ends up right now for 2004) is unique in Africa.
http://www.dakart.org/

Anne, Thanks so much for posting this link. Very interesting work...all of it, but especially the artist from Madagascar.

[ewinigrad]

How about it, where would you like to see a ISC Sculpture conference?

Tell us something interesting about the City you nominate.
How about Philadelphia? It's a city with hundreds of outdoor and indoor sculptures,plus a great city to visit historically.

[Gdog]

Philadelphia sounds sweet[it's the home of the Eagles baby!]plus it's just a hop, skip and jump down the pike for me anyway, Sydney would be a nice place to visit! but you all have it where you will, it'll be nice I'm sure.
Good luck, Gdog :D

[Mike Walsh]

My vote is Havana Cuba, one of the most interesting cities in the world.

[Caldwell]

How about Boston? We have sculpture. Here is the monument to the 54th regiment by the legendary St. Gaudins (I tried posting this photo on another thread but it didn't work)


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Boston Would be very nice it has much to offer

[Yogi]

I'm new here, but this poll is what drew me in. :) How about Paris? The city is chock full of sculptures and is home to the sculpture-packed Louvre!

[ironman]

Santa fe, New Mexico. "The city different" in "the land of enchantment". The 3rd largest art market in the country. A charming and beautiful city.

[Kristin]

My vote is England, maybe get Damien Hurst or Antony Gormley to speak... the list is long of contemporary British sculptors and it would be nice to get some international influence in person...

[steponmebbbboom]

interesting how most of us are voting for the venue closest to us... :D

I think Boston would be a great venue, not only because it's reasonably close to me without being too far away for some of you, but it would give me an excuse to drive down there and see the city. I could see several museums and gardens along the way.

[de Fluiter]

How about it, where would you like to see a ISC Sculpture conference?

Tell us something interesting about the City you nominate.

Why not organising it in Europe. The small village i live in is maybe to small but you know Amsterdam is a good alternative. Many beautifull museums (Stae Museum, Van Gogh Museum, etc. and lots of galleries. Also there is a well known Academy of art. For small trips you can go to The Hague 'Sculpture by the sea' or to world famous sculpture park in natural reservation 'De Hoge Veluwe'. Also a famous collection paintings (Mondriaan) :mad: . So lets move and do it in the Netherlands

[obseq]

I'm not sure if you caught this thread:

http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=871


Looks like the advent of the ISC-E is near. Perhaps the Netherlands can host sooner than you think.

[shona]

how bout 'THE LAND OF ENCHANMENT" New Mexico, venue @ the Elmonte segrado reso :D rt.

[sculpt-uk]

Well I personally think that a great venue would be London, UK.
Alot of the Art Schools here have the Sculpture Magazine in the Libaries and is to my knowledge the only dedicated sculpture magazine. I would love to see it to actually include more international oppurtunities and reviews, I am not saying its poor, it could just be more.

[anne (bxl)]

the Sculpture Magazine .... the only dedicated sculpture magazine.

there is also a quebec magazine "espace" bilingual french/english with local informations and a very few international.
http://www.espace-sculpture.com/espace/en/en.html

As I already said, London is my first choice for a sculpture conference

[bruce paul fink]

I vote for an ISC Conference in Boston

[iron ant]

I agree,SantaFe would great.When I first took my work there in 95,picking up work from Scotsdale<AZ,I fell in love with NM.When you live on the east coast there is nothing like the big sky of NM.Although ther is as much bad work as good,it is peaceful inspiring place to be.When I started having kids and moving studios I slowed down on my western shows,but I might even be motivated for this one.London,us beer drinking loud sculptors can't go somewhere that closes down at ten.Well,maybe things are differnt there now,but that is the way it was for me in 80/85.

[shona]

iron ant ,knows the deal.
everyone would like it to be in they own back yard , personally i'd much ruther be out under the big sky and nature than to be in big concrete jungle , like London or Boston which robs your imagination.
i have lived in all the most universe cities of the world and new mexico , the land , the wind, the sunsets the geography and the old spirits blowing in the wind make this place my most favorate place in the world after Mozambique Beira, madagascar and matopos in Zimbabwe,

[davizm]

Orlando Florida is perfect for a conference as we have all kinds of great spaces for sculpture. Look over the site http://www.artistsregistry.com we have so many artists also . The messege boards will help you discuss any topic that effects artists such as insurance needs and even a webstreaming discussion aimed at forming an online webstreamed arts news network.Check usout.

[bluedogshuz]

:o
I know everyone wants it in their backyard...so... how about St. Petersburg, Fl.? We are surronded by beaches, in fact we have the no.#1 beach in the nation: Fort Desoto Park. Camping etc. In addition, the Dali museum, building 40,000 sq ft of exhibit space in the Arts Center, St. Pete Clay Co., and a city dying to embrace art! In fact the City has one of the most beautiful unobstructed waterfront in the country. Average age 40. Almost zero sculpture in the city, what an oppurtunity! 100's of million $ condos being built.
If your not sold then I nominate Miami because at the rate they are going they will soon eclipse NY!

[Merlion]

If we want to go international, I would be happy with having the Conference in Sydney.

On the other hand, I would also welcome the Conference to be held in Singapore which is one of the top convention and tourism cities in Asia, and English is widely spoken. Here is website giving information about holding conventions here, http://mice.visitsingapore.com/secb/convention/con_main.html

In the longer term, say 10 years time, it may be a good idea to have a sculpture conference in Changchun, China, or more realistically to jointly hold one there. It is the top sculpture centre of China. For information, although outdated, is a website about an International Sculpture Convention there in 2003, http://www.sculpture-design.com/sculpture_convention_2003.htm

John

[bluedogshuz]

Does anyone know when the next conference is scheduled? Like what time of the year? I would love to go to Europe or Asia but limited funds. Someone mentioned New Mexico, its not in the middle of US but I've always wanted to go there, Texas too! How many are interested in these locations? I would think Texas would have a number of educational resources? Eastern Tn. would be nice. Why aren't more cities listed on the poll list? :)

[Jamo]

Toronto? is that too far out of the question? or what about St. John's Newfoundland the oldest city in North America? I know everyone would have a huge welcome if they were to come Newfoundland. icebergs, puffins, brand new multi million dollar art gallery. I cant say much about cheap gas but who can nowadays? http://www.therooms.ca/
(no bias here) :)

[bluedogshuz]

I am for either or even Montreal, where is that one? But, again not in the winter!

[marblecutter]

If we want to go international, I would be happy with having the Conference in Sydney.
In the longer term, say 10 years time, it may be a good idea to have a sculpture conference in Changchun, China, or more realistically to jointly hold one there. It is the top sculpture centre of China. For information, although outdated, is a website about an International Sculpture Convention there in 2003, http://www.sculpture-design.com/sculpture_convention_2003.htm

John

Early September 2008 Changchun will host its second conference
at the conclusion of the 9th sculpture symposium.
http://2007.changchun.gov.cn/yingwenban/xinwen_detail.jsp?ID=121300000000000000,4067

[marblecutter]

2008 Sculpture Conference and the 9th Changchun Sculpture symposium (http://samludden.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-have-just-finished-my-domestic-duties.html) in China

[marblecutter]

9th Changchun Symposium Sculptors at Culture Square