DATE
19 05 2024
Recently seven sculpture symposiums have been approved as new members of the International Sculpture
Symposium Alliance (ISSA), with the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain joining for the first time, becoming
the 59th member of the alliance.
Bahrain, a country on the Persian Gulf, celebrates International Wood Day every November with a wood
sculpture symposium, which officially joins ISSA, along with two sculpture symposiums from the Hebei
Academy of Fine Arts and three sculpture symposiums from Taiwan, including the Taiwan Wood Sculpture
Association, the Nantou Drunken Stone Creative Association, and the IKOKO International Creative Exchange
Organization.
Another sculpture symposium, also from the Middle East, is from the Sultanate of Oman on the east coast of
the Arabian Peninsula. Since then, the Alliance now has 137 affiliates from 59 countries.
Editor: Liu Qin, Song Mingcheng
Translator: Sun Ya’nan
Legal Advisor: Tao Ranting