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The artists have put down their hammers, chisels, pneumatic chipping tools, and diamond blade grinders. The dust is settling and the yard next to the Picker Artist building is once again quiet. The 2024 Nashua International Sculpture Symposium (NISS) has finished after three weeks of creative productivity and tremendous labor.
There is a remarkable transformation that is occurring in the Millyard District of downtown Nashua that began this week. Just nine days ago three giant slabs of recently quarried Vermont marble sat unformed and silent. And then the 2024 Nashua International Sculpture Symposium (NISS) began.
The sculptors begin carving on Monday the 13th through Thursday, May 30th. The public is invited to watch them at work in front of the Picker Artists Building at 3 Pine Street in the Millyard District of downtown, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
It’s not every day you can tell someone to go “pound sand” and get them to respond with a smile and a load of elbow grease. But that was the response of the team of John Siddall and Davide Tiller as they began the process of prepping for IRON POUR 2024, a fundraising event for the Nashua International Sculpture Symposium.