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]

Originally Posted by RuBert

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]

Originally Posted by Araich

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)


-Edit Picture- Hi Mark, I had to edit this picture because it was huge - over 2200 pixels. That is why it didn't post, and actually the system reported this one to me as a problem. Please make your photos smaller and it should work better for you and still load nicely for others. - thanks, Russ

[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]

Originally Posted by 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]

Originally Posted by 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

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....

[JAZ]

Originally Posted by 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....

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]

Originally Posted by 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/

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

[ewinigrad]

Originally Posted by RuBert

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

[Mike Walsh]

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

[Caldwell]

Originally Posted by 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)


-Edit Picture- Hi Mark, I had to edit this picture because it was huge - over 2200 pixels. That is why it didn't post, and actually the system reported this one to me as a problem. Please make your photos smaller and it should work better for you and still load nicely for others. - thanks, Russ

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.