The Cass Sculpture Foundation is now open for the summer season. In addition to our continued commissioning, lending and selling programme and our support for the 2012 Olympic project, we have a whole host of events and new developments planned which will advance our support for British sculpture even further throughout 2010.

Later this year the Cass Sculpture Foundation, along with Cass Art, and the University of the Arts London will announce the first annual Cass Prize. This will be awarded to a University of the Arts graduate student whose proposal for new work will be selected, realised and displayed on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design, the University's premier outdoor exhibition space on Millbank. Following this, the work will be displayed on the Cass Sculpture Foundation's grounds as one of its commissioned works.

The Cass Prize winning sculpture will not be the only Foundation commission to be exhibited outside of our stunning Goodwood grounds. We have many different locations lined up to display monumental sculpture in 2010 including Hatfield House, Hertfordshire and Kidwelly Castle, Wales and the Royal Opera House during its opening programme in Thurrock.

SUBJECT | MATTER artist Asif Khan, currently a designer in residence at the Design Museum, London, will collaborate with us on a project at St Barnabas Parish Church, Bethnal Green at the heart of London's East End. The Foundation will support this project by commissioning invited artists to propose and produce new works to take the place of St Barnabas' lost spire, with the aim of generating a renewed interest for the area of Bow and its church.

On a worldwide stage, two artists with works currently in the grounds; Phillip King and William Tucker have been named the 2010 winners of the International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement Award. The ISC is a non-profit organisation that strives to encourage both promotion and creation of sculptural works and to develop sculpture's place in society. Their Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 1991 to acknowledge sculptors who have made a significant, exemplary contribution to the advancement of the field of sculpture.

Keep up with all of our current and ongoing projects by subscribing to our mailing list at www.sculpture.org.uk/subscriptions. The Cass Sculpture Foundation is open from today, 10:30am to 5pm (last entry 4:30pm). To see the grounds properly, please allow at least two hours for your visit.