Sculpture Saint John plans to make a return for one final year
After being put on pause for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sculpture Saint John symposium is poised to return for its fifth and final year this summer.
The event, which turns a space along the waterfront into an outdoor studio, is going to be held from Aug. 11 to Sept. 10.
It will feature eight artists chosen from a pool of more than 180 applicants from over 50 different countries.
“It attracts people from all over the world,” says Diana Alexander, the executive director of Sculpture Saint John. “I look at our interns and what it’s done – one of our interns has gone on to do eight international sculpture symposiums from Nepal, to Germany, to Italy.”
There are eight community partners this time around, meaning the sculptures will be installed in expanded locations throughout New Brunswick, including Saint John, Moncton, Dieppe, Oromocto, Deer Island, and Grand Bay-Westfield.
“Some of the communities that… will be participating this year are small communities like ourselves,” says Grace Losier, a board member and former mayor of Grand Bay-Westfield.
“Frankly, it would have been a dream to have public art the way we have had it, had it not been for the sculpture symposium.”
Although this will be the final year for the event, Alexander says another region could pick up where Saint John has left off.
“For instance, if Moncton, Riverview, Dieppe wanted to do a Sculpture Greater Moncton,” says Alexander. “Or if Fredericton wanted to take it on, that would mean we would expand to other parts of the province and I think that would be great.”
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
MPP Sarah Jama asked to leave Ontario legislature for wearing keffiyeh
MPP Sarah Jama was asked to leave the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by House Speaker Ted Arnott on Thursday for wearing a keffiyeh, a garment which has been banned at Queen’s Park.
Mountain guide dies after falling into a crevasse in Banff National Park
A man who fell into a crevasse while leading a backcountry ski group deep in the Canadian Rockies has died.
2 teens charged in Halifax homicide: police
Two teenagers have been charged with second-degree murder in connection to an alleged homicide near the Halifax Shopping Centre earlier this week.
'Deep ignorance': Calls for Manitoba trustee to resign sparked after comments about Indigenous people and reconciliation
A rural Manitoba school trustee is facing calls to resign over comments he made about Indigenous people and residential schools earlier this week.
12-year-old hippo in Japan raised as a male discovered to be a female
When Gen-chan arrived at a zoo in Japan in 2017, no one questioned whether the then-five-year-old hippopotamus was a boy. Seven years later, zoo staff made a surprising discovery: Gen-chan, now 12, was female.
Here's why Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction was tossed and what happens next
Here's what you need to know about why movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction was thrown out and what happens next.
Legendary hockey broadcaster Bob Cole dies at 90: CBC
Bob Cole, a welcome voice for Canadian hockey fans for a half-century, has died at the age of 90. Cole died Wednesday night in St. John's, N.L., surrounded by his family, his daughter, Megan Cole, told the CBC.
Humanist group threatening to sue Vancouver over council prayers
The B.C. Humanist Association has threatened legal action against the City of Vancouver for allowing prayers at council, following a similar warning issued earlier this month to a smaller community on Vancouver Island.
LHSC performs a Canadian first in robot-assisted direct lateral spine surgery
Spine surgery may never be the same for people with chronic back pain and other physical ailments.