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Nashua | Nashua Sculpture Symposium
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Once a year sculpture artists come from around the world to produce accessible public art.
Once a year sculpture artists come from around the world to produce accessible public art for the people of Nashua.
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Nashua | Nashua Sculpture Symposium
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Once a year sculpture artists come from around the world to produce accessible public art for the people of Nashua.
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So we are proud to be the only organization in the country that has international, the only sculpture symposium that invites international artists every single year.
There used to be a few, and we're kind of the last and we're excited to keep it going and continue to produce some relevant, everyday artwork for the city of Nashua, accessible public art.
So all along the city we have 42 sculptures now and we're in all parts of the country, side of the city side of it.
All of a sudden you turn a corner.
Is this sculpture, Where did that come from you?
It's really fun.
We like to have our sculptures all over the place.
Huge support from the city, huge support from the first symposium back in 2008, all the way until now.
I mean, the mayor is a close friend and a huge supporter, and it seems like every city worker we come across is so enthusiastic about what we do and ready to help us.
So we really look for the public to engage with us.
In many ways we have host families.
If it was not for our host families, we could never have this because we're inviting three, four or five sculptors from different countries to come for three and a half weeks to our city.
We could never house them otherwise.
So we have an amazing group of volunteers that support us that houses our sculptors.
We also have the community comes and provides lunches and dinner, so we're asking them to come and they make food that they want to feed the sculptors.
What they think that we ask them, Bring your favorite dishes, bring what you like to, you know, share with our sculptors, and then you sit and eat with them for their lunch or their dinner.
So you get to really know them.
And then we see them come back and they'll bring them snacks and to sign on for a lunch.
Next thing you know, they come back for snacks.
They come back with their family, they come on the weekend, they come just to visit.
And you can watch people walk in in the first few days and there's just stone and they see what's going on here.
Just tell them and say, you know, come on back and they'll come back.
And then it starts to form and starts to form and you get involved and you get really into it.
And then they come to the closing because we have the closing the last day and we see them there and it's very engaging.
And families come and it's it's it's definitely worthwhile.
We have a great time.
So this year we have five artists for International and me, the director and also a collaborator with these artists working to produce one piece that's a large sculpture.
They installed environment artists coming together to work almost in an architectural fashion to produce a place that Nashua community community members can come to be together.
It is really rare that you get to see an artist making work in public.
And this is this is your chance to come see four artists from all over the world, world class artists making stone sculpture, steel sculpture, monumental public sculpture.
And you could probably come and talk to them, have a great conversation with someone from New Zealand.
I mean, it's it's a wild opportunity and it becomes even more meaningful when you get to have their finished installed work in your community.
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