We have chosen the theme for this years show:  LINK !  We had a lively discussion, and followed our hallowed top-secret process.  LINK emerged victorious after multiple rounds of voting and good arguments.  We like that it's active, that it has many meanings, and that we're interested to see what artists will do with it!

Hello Maudslay friends,

We will not be putting on a show in 2014.  

We're taking the year off - to recharge batteries and to do some needed work to strengthen our organization for the future.  If you are interested in joining the show in 2015, and/or in helping us put on the show, please join our group here on this site and you can email us through the site.  We'll get to work on the 2015 show starting in October.  We'll miss…

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Here's our poster for this year's show -- thanks to Lynne and Jay - it looks great.  Please download, print, post, share...get the word out!  See links at bottom to download version for email or print.!

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INTERTWINE

If you have an inspiration to create an outdoor sculpture, you are invited to be part of Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay this fall.  This unique exhibition brings together artists from many walks of life to create site-specific sculptures in the Park. 

The Theme of this year's show will be INTERTWINE. …

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We had a lively meeting to debate and decide the theme for the 2013 show.  Everybody brought 3 ideas, (some sent em in from afar..) and we followed our "hallowed" process of rounds of voting to narrow the list down, until we ended up with two finalists: Intertwine and Between.  Intertwined won the final vote (but it was close), but with no fisticuffs.  Thanks to everyone who came and participated!

I think it will be a great theme - it's dynamic, organic, evocative and specific…

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A beautiful design by Lynne and Jay Havighurst of ArtFluence and Maudslay sculpture fame!  Please download and use this in your own emails, etc.  We also have printed posters to put up.

INSIDE-OUT

We had a great meeting with a lot of good ideas contributed by the artists who came, and others sent in by those of you who couldn't make it.  After following our "hallowed" voting process, Inside-out won out.  This should be a really interesting theme - lots of potential meanings.

What a great topic and fun show this year.  We need more play these days.  Thank you all.

We'll start with refreshments, then we'll take a tour of all the sculpures, with artists saying a few words about each.  It's a lot of fun -- sort of like a pub crawl, but with art instead of pubs....  It looks to be a beautiful day....

Mary Jo Shafer writes an interesting article on the show in the Current:



http://www.wickedlocal.com/newburyport/news/x412948752/Outdoor-Sculpture-at-Maudslay-creates-artistic-landscape



...and Sonya Vartabedian writes a thoughtful introduction to the show in the Newburyport Daily News:…



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This past Saturday, 34 artists worked busily under a beautiful blue sky, populating the park with 34 sculptures, many working with this year's theme of TRACE. It's a great day, when we finally get to see what everybody has been working on, and this year we definitely have a lot of interesting, strong work.

I'll start uploading photos today...

and come to the Tour / Reception on this Saturday, the 18th, 2 to 5!

We have a beautiful poster for the show, designed by Lynne and Jay Havighurst aka ArtFluence! You can use the jpeg version for email invites, the high-res PDF if you want to print. Also, printed version can be found in a plastic container on my porch at 66 Marlboro Street. Grab a few and put them up!

Dear Artists,



this is a reminder that we need your info for the exhibition catalogue. Most of you have sent this with your application, but if you made changes in the meantime please send an updated version now. Title of piece, description and short bio - please remember to be brief (100 word limit total). Send your updated information to Bettina Turner at bettinatu4@comcast.net. I will be typing in this information soon and start contacting those whose info may be incomplete or hard… Continue

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Tuesday night was a fun and dramatic meeting of Maudslay sculptors to set the theme for this years show.

A long list was compiled from ideas contributed by everyone, and we went through several rounds of voting to finally get to a small group of finalists. After much good natured lobbying, discussion, and joking, in the end, we needed a tiebreaker to choose TRACE as this year's theme, narrowly winning… Continue

Find 22 letters which can be unscrambled to form five words (3,6,2,4,7 letters) that are a quotation from William Wordsworth about nature.



You can find out more about the process and download a pdf with the Wordsworth quotation and paper letters to cut and unscramble if you can't get to Maudslay… Continue