2026 International Sculpture Conference

The International Sculpture Center (ISC) has announced that this year’s International Sculpture Conference will take place in Minnesota’s Twin Cities (Minneapolis–Saint Paul) from October 22–25, 2026. This biennial gathering brings together sculptors, curators, educators, and arts professionals for talks, panels, networking, and creative exchange. 

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry, 1988, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Image courtesy of Meet Minneapolis

Susana Arias is participating in Confluence, a two-person exhibition pairing her sculptures with wall assemblages by Glen Carter, at MK Contemporary. An opening reception will be held August 7 from 5 to 8 PM.

Exhibition Dates: August 7 - September 13, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7, 5:00-8:00 PM
Location: MK Contemporary, 703 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA
For more information: susanaariasarts.com and glencarterartist.com

Susana Arias, "Ghost Ship Adrift," high-fired ceramics with steel chain on granite and steel base, 4

7" x 32" x 17"

To learn more about Susana Arias' work, follow her on Instagram: @susanaariasarts

Barry Beach will attend a residency at the Lucid Art Foundation in Inverness this August, an opportunity for focused studio time in the foundation's coastal setting.

Residency Dates: August 5-26, 2026
For more information: lucidart.org/residency

Lucid Art Foundation’s book about our Residency Program.
Visit the website link above for more information about the residency. 

Beach is also included in After Albers, an exhibition connecting the work of contemporary artists to themes explored by Josef Albers, including permutation, geometry, and the interaction of color. Curated by Mel Prest, the show brings together artists whose individual voices echo and inform one another throughout the space.

Exhibition Dates: August 22 - September 13, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 22, 4:00-7:00 PM
Location: 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA
For more information: web-production-7d4c4.up.railway.app/show/after-albers/

Barry Beach, from the Folded and Layered series, [Starburst], 2026, reclaimed wood and cardboard,

35"  x 18"  x 21" 

Lastly, Beach has a piece, "from the Folded and Layered series [Guardian Figure] " , in CALeidoscope: Evolving Reflections of California, Bedford Gallery's annual juried exhibition celebrating the Golden State's landscapes and its role as a cultural leader and hub for creativity and innovation. Fellow PRS member Catherine Daley is also included in the exhibition. Jurors for this year's show are Juan Omar Rodriguez, Assistant Curator at the San José Museum of Art, and Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Exhibition Dates: July 11 - September 13, 2026
Location: Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek, CA
For more information: bedfordgallery.org/exhibitions/current-season/caleidoscope-evolving-reflections-of-california

Barry Beach,  from the Folded and Layered series [Guardian Figure], reclaimed wood and cardboard,
21' x 48' x 21', 2025

To learn more about Barry Beach's work, follow him on Instagram: @barrybeachartwork

Susannah Israel presents Procession, a solo exhibition marking a formal, contemplative journey through her long creative life. The show offers a window into Israel's process, exploring and expanding the field of clay practice.

Exhibition Dates: August 12 - September 26, 2026
Location: John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, 521 First Street, Davis, CA
For more information: natsoulas.com/upcoming-exhibitions/susannah-israel-procession

Susannah Israel, "High Cotton," 2022, terracotta, slip, H 21" x 14" x 6"

Susannah Israel, "Mendocino," 2024, terracotta, slips, H 8" x 7" x 5"

Susannah Israel, "Home is a Tall Blue House," 2008, glazed sculpture clay,

27" x 12" x 6"

To learn more about "Procession," visit the gallery's press release or follow John Natsoulas Center for the Arts on Instagram: @natsoulasgallery

John Sheridan is included in Everything Must Go, a group show of Bay Area artists at Manna Gallery.

Exhibition Dates: July 11 - August 8, 2026

Location: Manna Gallery, 743 25th Street, Oakland, CA

For more information: mannagallery.com

John Sheridan, Not Enough Cars (Doordash to Destruction), model cars, 14" x 9" x 10".

Photo credit: Dana Davis

To learn more about John Sheridan's work, follow him on Instagram: @johnsheridanart

Renée Owen is included in Local Roots, the inaugural exhibition curated by the International Roots Project, celebrating trees, the environment, and our roots through evocative sculptural and wall-mounted work from a global community of artists. Fellow PRS members Marguerite Elliott, Jane Ingram Allen, and Catherine Daley are also included.

Exhibition Dates: July 17 - August 25, 2026
Location: San Pablo Community Center, 2450 Road 20, San Pablo, CA
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 AM-5 PM, plus select Saturdays for special events
For more information: (510) 215-3080 or sanpabloca.gov

Renée Owen, "The Hollow Bones of Her Resting," 2026,
paper pulp, reeds, branches, and waxed linen thread,
44" H x 21" W x 6" D. Photo: Bob Stender

Renée Owen also has work in Spaces Between, a group exhibition of multiple mediums, including sculpture and wall-mounted work, featuring 7.5 feet of wall space for each of Gallery Route One's fifteen artist members, including two new additions this year.

Exhibition Dates: July 11 - August 16, 2026
Location: Gallery Route One, 11101 Highway One, Ste. 1101, Pt Reyes Station, CA
For more information: galleryrouteone.org, or view a video walk-through of the exhibition

Renée Owen, "The Wind Takes Me," 2025, cyanotype print on paper,
wood and jute, 44.5" H x 27" W x 5" D

To learn more about Renée Owen's work, visit reneeowenartandpoetry.com

Vicki Gunter's piece "Bloom 7" is among thirty works selected for Visions in Clay, an annual juried exhibition. The piece is part of Gunter's ongoing project Bloom, Flowers Made You, an expansive installation of fifty ceramic California native wildflowers and their pollinators, chosen by community input and surrounding life-size Blooming Spirit and Soil Spirit sculptures that represent the cycles of death creating life. A curator's talk on August 27 will feature the work of ceramic artist Viola Frey.

Gallery Exhibition: August 27 - October 2, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 27, 5:00-7:00 PM
Curator's Talk with Cynthia de Bos: August 27, 12:30 PM
Online Exhibition: August 27, 2026 - June 30, 2027
Location: Horton Art Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Shima Building 144, Stockton, CA 95207
For more information, visit the gallery's Instagram or Facebook

Vicki Gunter, "Bloom 7, California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Pacific Dotted-Blue Butterfly (Euphilotes enoptes), Poppy Lovin' Beetle (Amartus tinctus),"
2025, clay, underglaze, mason stains, copper/nichrome wire, beeswax, 14.5" H x 16" W x 8.5" D

To learn more about Vicki Gunter's work, follow her on Instagram: @vickigunter or Facebook: vickigunter.75

Rose Sellery presents Fragile Strength, a solo exhibition of work that navigates the charged terrain between beauty and brutality, fragility and strength, and tradition and rebellion. Through humor, irony, and unflinching confrontation, Sellery explores themes of innocence and loss, societal pressure, resilience, and survival, inviting viewers to reflect on how lives, particularly women's lives, are shaped, constrained, celebrated, and discarded.

Exhibition Dates: August 29, 2026 - January 3, 2027
Reception: Saturday, August 29, 12:00-2:00 PM
Location: Triton Museum of Art
For more information: tritonmuseum.org

Exhibition Flyer- Rose Sellery, "Pearl," 2026, pearls, epoxy clay, hanger, 40" x 17" x 12"

Rose Sellery, "The Break Up," 2018, reconstructed tempered glass, 31" x 31" x 12"

Rose Sellery, "Tension," 2012, vintage shoes, epoxy clay, steel, acrylic, 5" x 28" x 13". Photo: r.r. jones

To learn more about Rose Sellery's work, follow her on Instagram: @rose_sellery or Facebook: facebook.com/rose.sellery

Jeff Key's work is included in the Axis Gallery 21st Annual National Juried Competition, featuring pieces selected by juror Sharon Butler, founder of Two Coats of Paint, from artists working in a variety of mediums across the country.

Exhibition Dates: August 7-30, 2026 Second Saturday Reception: August 8, 5:00-8:00 PM Location: Axis Gallery, 625 S St, Sacramento, CA 95811 For more information: axisgallery.org

Key is also included in Momentum, an exhibition capturing a moment in the evolving landscape of the Northern California art scene, juried by Demetri Broxton, executive director of Root Division in San Francisco.

Exhibition Dates: August 20 - September 19, 2026 Artists' Reception: Saturday, August 22, 1:00-4:00 PM Location: Gearbox Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 For more information: gearboxgallery.com

Jeff Key, "Vessel #95, Harbinger," 2022, wood, 28" x 22" x 24"

Jeff Key, "Vessel #61, Heed," wood, 24" x 16" x 71"

To learn more about Jeff Key's work, visit jeffmkey.com, his blog, or follow him on Instagram: @jeffmkey

Catherine Daley's "Lacunae II" has been officially registered for placement on the open playa at Burning Man 2026, joining the event's remarkable outdoor gallery in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The sculpture consists of two stainless steel screens composed of over 1,000 hand-sanded tubes, arranged perpendicular to one another to gather, reflect, and release the desert's ever-changing light while casting slow, shifting shadows across the playa. Openings within the piece invite visitors to step into the "lacunae," the gaps completed through human presence, part of this year's "Axis Mundi" theme placing participants as the medium between earth and the celestial. Integrated solar lighting continues the sculpture's dialogue with the landscape after dark.

Daley credits Charlie Gadeken for his mentorship and guidance throughout the project, and PRS Operations Manager Briona Hendren, who serves as Project Manager. Burning Man artist Kevin Clark is also supporting the project with transportation, installation, and deinstallation.

Event Dates: August 30 - September 7, 2026
Location: Black Rock Desert, Nevada
For more information: burningman.org/arts-innovation/burning-man-arts/

Catherine Daley, "Lacunae II," 2026, stainless steel, 10.5' H x 13' W x 10' D

(AI rendering based on the original artwork, Lacunae)

Catherine Daley, "Lacunae," 2018, granite, aluminum, 6' H x 28" W x 8" D

To learn more about Catherine Daley's work, follow her on Instagram: @cmdaleyphoto or Facebook: facebook.com/catherine.daley.9

Marguerite Elliot co-founded Local Roots, the inaugural exhibition curated by the Roots International Art Project, alongside Elizabeth Addison. The show features a selection of the group's local Bay Area Roots Artists members and centers on the intrinsic beauty of the natural world and the imperative to safeguard it. Fellow PRS members Jane Ingram Allen, Catherine Daley, and Renée Owen are also included.

Exhibition Dates: July 17 - August 25, 2026
Location: San Pablo Community Center, 2450 Road 20, San Pablo, CA
For more information: rootsinternationalartproject.com

Marguerite Elliot, "River," steel, expanded metal, stones, 60" x 4" x 14"

Marguerite Elliot, "Don't Touch Me," steel, mixed media, wire

Elliot is also included in Green, a juried exhibition of NCWCA members and invited artists exploring environmental themes such as landscapes, ecological cycles, sustainability, and climate change, alongside their cultural and social associations. The show is juried by JD Beltran, co-founder of Art + Water, San Francisco. Fellow PRS member Jane Ingram Allen is also included.

Exhibition Dates: July 22 - August 25, 2026
Location: Arc Gallery
For more information: arc-sf.com/green.html

Marguerite Elliot, "What Remains," cast glass, steel, wire, 14" x 6" x 14"

Lastly, Elliot will attend a Fellow Artist Residency at le Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France, an immersive experience steeped in history, architecture, and Roman, Gallic, and Occitan influences. Auvillar has been designated one of the "most beautiful villages in France" and sits along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Residency Dates: August 17 - September 3, 2026
Location: Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
For more information: vcca.com/apply/residencies-at-moulin-a-nef/

Artist Residency view of Moulin à Nef

To learn more about Marguerite Elliot's work, follow her on Instagram: @marguerite101

Manuel Vasaure is participating in Sculpture is: In the Garden, the twentieth annual outdoor sculpture exhibition presented by Pajaro Valley Arts in partnership with Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens. Now in its second decade, the exhibition has become one of the Central Coast's most celebrated showcases for contemporary sculpture, bringing together artists, community members, and visitors in a setting where art and landscape exist in dialogue. The show runs June 1 through October 31, 2026.

Exhibition Dates: June 1 - October 31, 2026
Location: Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens, 2660 East Lake Avenue, Watsonville, CA 95076
For more information: pvarts.org

Manuel Vasaure, Ascending Blue, marine-grade epoxy, steel rods, enamel pigment,

3' x 3' x 6'

To learn more about Manuel Vasaure's work, follow him on Instagram: @manuelvasaure

Margaret Michel is participating in Itinerances, a group exhibition uniting sculptures around the theme of an initiatory or physical journey, a wandering, a disorientation, a spiritual and inner passage that may also evoke a trip, a pilgrimage, or a travel journal.

Exhibition Dates: July 14 - August 1, 2026
Location: La Chapelle des Penitents Blancs, Vence, France

Margaret Michel, Sympathy for the Devil, 2006, truck inner tube tires and steel, 200 cm x 200 cm x 25 cm

To learn more about Margaret Michel's work, visit margaret-michel.com and follow her on Instagram: @margaret.michel.art

Jenny Rosen's piece "House of Cards", featuring decals of "Print Your Own Red Cards" (created to help individuals assert their rights during ICE encounters) alongside black-and-white American flags, is included in Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History at AMOCA. The exhibition brings together ceramic artists who reconsider American history through a contemporary lens, exploring resilience, injustice, and resistance while inviting reflection on the contradictions of the American experience.

Exhibition Dates: June 27 - November 29, 2026

Location: AMOCA, 399 N Garey Ave, Pomona, CA 91767

For more information: amoca.org

Jenny Rosen, House of Cards, 2025, porcelain, glaze, overglaze decals, epoxy, 8" x 3" x 10".
Photo credit: Shaun Roberts

To learn more about Jenny Rosen's work, follow her on Instagram: @heyjennyrosen

Paul Reiber's carved wood sculpture The Questioner has been selected for the 93rd National Sculpture Society Annual Awards Exhibition at Brookgreen Gardens.

Exhibition Dates: August 2 - October 25, 2026

Location: Brookgreen Gardens, PO Box 3368, Pawleys Island, SC 29585

For more information: nationalsculpture.org

Paul Reiber, The Questioner, 2025, acacia wood, 8" x 12" x 17"

To learn more about Paul Reiber's work, visit paulreiberwoodcarver.com

Annette Goodfriend is featured in Second Nature at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. The exhibition brings together the work of Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot, exploring humanity's relationship with the natural world through sculpture, textile, installation, and mixed-media practices. The exhibition examines environmental change, ecological fragility, and the interconnected systems that shape contemporary life.

Exhibition Dates: May 28 - September 6, 2026

Opening Reception: May 28, 2026 | 7:00-9:00 PM

Artist Conversation with Andi Campognone: July 18, 2026 | 1:00 PM

Location: Bakersfield Museum of Art, 1930 R Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301

For more information: https://www.bmoa.org/current

Ruth Tabancay, Crenation, detail, Wet Felted Merino Wool on Panel2013,

40" x 120" x 4 " Photo: Dana Davis

Annette Goodfriend, Macrocystis Ambulataurus, Steel, Aluminum, Epoxy, Paint, Silicone Rubber, Magnets,
90" x 128" x 78" Photo: John Janca

To learn more about Annette Goodfriends' work, visit www.annettegoodfriend.com and follow her on Instagram: @annette.goodfriend
To learn more about Ruth Tabancay's work, visit https://www.ruthtabancay.com/ and follow her on Instagram: @ruth_tabancay

Susan Amorde’s new handmade paper installation, Transmission, is included in Brand 54: Annual National Exhibition of Works on Paper, a juried exhibition showcasing a wide range of contemporary paper-based practices.

Centered on material transformation and narrative, Transmission takes the form of a handmade paper suitcase installation, engaging themes of movement, memory, and exchange.

Exhibition Dates: June 6 – August 28, 2026

Location: Brand Library & Art Center | 1601 West Mountain Street, Glendale, CA 91201

If you are in Southern California this summer, the Brand Library & Art Center offers an exceptional setting to experience innovative work on and of paper, alongside its historic architecture and surrounding park.

For more information, visit: brandlibrary.org/gallery

Susan Amorde, Transmission, 2026, Handmade paper and cardboard, 17" x 67" x 44"

Photo credit: Errol Sabinano

To learn more about Susan Amorde's work, follow her on Instagram: @susanamordeart or visit her website: www.susanamorde.com