Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay is an open, artist-driven show of site-specific sculpture that takes place each year at Maudslay State Park.

This unique exhibition brings together artists from many walks of life to create site-specific sculptures in the Park. Artists should have a connection to the North Shore or Merrimack Valley area, and both experienced and new artists may submit proposals. Artists are encouraged to pitch in and help with the organization of the show.

2026 Show Dates & Info

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What are @jennhoulestudio and @diannepappas creating for the EDGE show opening September 2026? 😃

The 2026 show EDGE is in process! 3D digital modeling, workshops (thanks @tinkerhausdotorg !), procuring materials, bending metal, chatting, sawing, French frying, and building… stayed tuned for more sneak peaks as the September show approache

So many exciting proposals received! Looking forward to the show in September!

More photos from the Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony @ssu_arts. Founding Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay team members shown (l-r): Nancy Sander, Bert Snow, Joyce Andy Zarins, Ellen Hanick, Dave Davies, Ken Reker, Nina Tanis.

Thank you @ssu_arts for recognizing the creative community building of Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay with a Lifetime Achievement award. It was wonderful to be acknowledged among other community leaders and young artists.

Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State University. Please join us Wednesday May 6 at 7pm to celebrate.

Applications for our 2026 show are open! Applications are all online, and you can find the application form on our website:
https://www.maudslaysculpture.org/2026-applic
The deadline is May 29, but don’t wait until the last minute, as we hav

Join us tomorrow to help plan this year’s show! We’ll be at a big table in the back room of The Port Tavern on State Street in Newburyport. 5pm March 23. Share ideas, snacks and laughs!

Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay, the award-winning, non-juried, artist-organized sculpture exhibit, has featured more than 730 site-specific, environmentally sited works by 340 North Shore and Merrimack River Valley artists over its twenty-five years a

Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay artist Nina Tanis is opening her third show in her new gallery @chalkgallery_newburyport on Harris Street in Newburyport. It is a retrospective of Peter Bodge’s jazz inspired linoleum prints. Peter Bodge is from L

If you’d like to get involved in our gap year work, we’d love to have you. We’ll post more information about that shortly and we’ll have other fun news to share.

Works from Sculpture at Maudslay sometimes take on new lives. Here, we see "Twist and Shout" from the 2022 show, starting to be put back together to go up at a house in Salem. The blue tape is from artist Bert Snow trying to remember (and r

Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay artist Joyce Audy Zarins with one of two of her pieces on exhibit now @threadneedle_gallery in Newburyport. Many other artists from the New England Sculptors association are also on view. @nesculptors @nbptchamber @nbpt

And the theme for Sculpture at Maudslay 2026 is….

“EDGE”

This year’s show will run from September 20 through October 16, 2026.

We are currently seeking sponsors via advertisements in our catalog. Please contact us via the form below if you would like to place an ad in our catalog for the 2026 Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay Exhibition.

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