Sculptor Pascal Arch works on her piece at the Segunda Triennal Americana es Escultura in Resistencia, Argentina, in July 1996. The experience of a symposium or a site also often inspires artists to initiate new events. Elisabeth Ekstrand organized a symposium at the Wasa Sten Quartzite quarry in the Swedish heartland of Dalarna in the summers of 1995 and 1997 after working there in porphyry, an extra-hard stone once called the Swedish Diamond. After being invited to the Wasa symposium, Chinese sculptor Wei Xiao Ming organized a symposium in Tianjin's new industrial and technological development area in 1996. For Rino Giannini, symposia are about sculpture.
People begin to understand, sometimes for the first time, what sculpture is.
Neal Barab is a stone sculptor and frequent participant in sculpture symposia. Cristelli or Sr. Stockholm, Sweden Sculptors carving at the Tareitanga Stone Sculpture Symposium in Frank Kitts Park, New Zealand.