Roadtrip!
Just got back from a great chat with Maine sculptor Jesse Salisbury. He’s a large scale sculptor who a couple of years ago took an amazing idea and made it real.
The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium.
The what where symposium?
Yeah, that’s what I asked too.
The Schoodic Peninsula is a granite shoreline located in what the locals call Down East Maine. Tourists would say its near Bar Harbor. Part of it snakes through Acadia National Park and it was here in the late summer of 2007 that a local group of residents, led by Jesse, brought six sculptors together to create incredible pieces of public art out of Schoodic granite.
The sculptors came from Poland, Germany, Sweden, Japan and Maine.
They set up outdoor studios in Acadia National Park and from late July until early September they created these magnificent contemporary art sculptures – and the public came to watch.
The pieces have since been installed in seven small towns in Hancock and Washington counties.
Jesse is speaking at the Saint John Arts Centre on Thursday, May 14 at 1 p.m. to talk about the Symposium and what it has meant for the arts in this rural area of Maine.
Wouldn’t it be great to do something like this in Saint John?
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