Pieces of stone will be shaped into works of art on the waterfront this summer with Sculpture Saint John returning in early August and continuing until mid-September.
There are eight artists taking part in this year’s event and they hail from all over the world—France, Italy, South Korea, the USA, and New Brunswick. The artists are matched with community partners from this province like the town of Riverview, the town of Oromocto and the Port of Saint John. Executive Director of Sculpture Saint John Diana Alexander says for smaller communities like Cambridge-Narrows this may be their first piece of public art, “what a way to complete a community culturally to look at it and say this is what we’re really proud of.”
This year the symposium is expanding its reach from Fredericton to Riverview. The symposium will begin on August 4 and finish on September 17.
Over the six weeks of the symposium interns will live and work with the artist as part of an artist-in-residence program. “It’s a full on workshop for them,” says Alexander. The interns are all from New Brunswick. They’re looking for interns and applications are open until February 28.
Click here for the Sculpture Saint John website.
