NEW DATES: Show Opens Sept 20, Ends October 11!

Great news - the state has made an exception and given us a permit to put on the show!  (We've been working and planning to put on the show all summer, and this was a final hurdle.)  So we are ON...but with some changes:

1. Artists will put up their sculptures on Saturday September 19.

2. The show will open to the public on Sunday, September 20, and close at 2pm on Sunday, October 11.

3. We are doing many things to make the show safe for everybody during this COVID-19 Pandemic: Here are some of them:

• Visitors are encouraged to come see the show on weekdays if at all possible - as, for safety, the…

In this terrifically difficult moment, when so many artistic, cultural, and musical events cannot happen, we are working hard to put on the 2020 Outdoor sculpture at Maudslay show in September as we have planned.

We will be making adjustments to all aspects of the show to make sure that it is safe for artists and for visitors, including online applications and new ways to guide visitors around the show.  We'll share information here as plans develop.

Our theme (chosen, amazingly, before all this) is PASSAGE .  It's full of possibility for artists to work with (or ignore, in our tradition of respecting artists' inspirations).

Key dates for this year's…

Due to the Coronavirus, we have postponed our planned 20-year retrospective of the Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay show. 

The show will open on April 21st, 2021, and it will be up until May 16. 

Our plan is to have two coordinated shows - one at the Firehouse Gallery in Newburyport, and one at the Riverwalk Brewery.  We'll use large format photographs and text to tell the story of the 250 area artists who have created over 700 sculptures over the 20 years of the show, and how its vibrant community was built. …