Artists & Communities Archive
1996 Projects (Visual Arts Residency Program)
24 non-profit organizations
based in the Mid Atlantic region were awarded grants totaling
$106,000 through Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's Visual
Arts Residency Program. (the precursor to the Artist as Catalyst
program). The grants provided support for 31 visual arts projects
involving 28 artists
and 6 critics, in residencies scheduled to take place throughout
the region between March 1, 1996 and February 28, 1997.
From
its inception in 1985 through its conclusion in 1997, the
Visual Arts Residency Program at Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
supported more
than 300 projects, with over $900,000 in grant awards. The
Visual Arts Residency Program has encompassed all visual
arts media including traditional
and non-traditional approaches to sculpture, painting, photography,
printmaking, crafts, folk arts, video, film, and inter-disciplinary
art forms.
1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Saul Ostrow, New
York, NY
1708 Gallery, an alternative space in Richmond, VA, coordinated
a residency for New York critic Saul Ostrow, who conducted
studio visits with local artists and oversaw a critical
writing workshop. A catalog
and exhibition followed.
Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC
Charlene
Gilbert, Philadelphia, PA
Independent filmmaker Charlene D. Gilbert of Philadelphia
utilized the Smithsonian's archives in researching her new
documentary on black farming in the South, land loss, and rural/urban
family histories.
Arlington Co. Cultural Affairs Div., Arlington, VA
Don
Cook, Oakland, MD
Environmental artist Don Cook led a collaborative project
to create site-specific outdoor sculptures at the Long Branch Nature Center
with groups of teenagers from the Columbia Heights West neighborhood of
Arlington, VA. He was assisted in the project by students from Virginia
Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
Tomie Arai, New York, NY
Asian Arts Initiative, in collaboration with the Samuel Fleisher
Art Memorial, coordinated a six-week residency by artist Tomie Arai,
who worked with a group of Asian-American youth to produce mixed media
works dealing with memory and family history. The resulting pieces,
in the form of banners, were displayed in storefronts in the community.
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, Hampton,
VA.
Clay artist Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, a Ghanain living and working
in Hampton, VA, took advantage of the advanced facilities that Baltimore
Clayworks offers to ceramic artists to develop their work. While in residence,
Ampofo conducted workshops with area schoolchildren at the McKim Center
and the McDonough School.
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Scherer/Ouporov, Brooklyn,
NY
During their residency at the Lancaster Museum of Art, PA,
the artist team of Suzanne Scherer (New York, NY) and Pavel Ouporov (Moscow,
Russia) researched and produced new works that examine connections between
the individual and landscape, history, and specific cultures.
The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Paul Etienne Lincoln, New York, NY
The Museum for Contemporary Arts (The Contemporary) continued
its unique collaboration in 1996 with a residency project
that brought English artist Paul Etienne Lincoln to The Conservatory
in Druid Hill
Park, Baltimore, MD. In the Victorian-style greenhouse,
he created one of the elaborate, kinetic, site-specific environmental
machines that
epitomize this artist's work.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Susan Fenton,
Philadelphia, PA
Susan Fenton combines mask-making and portrait photography
in her work. During her residency at DCCA, Fenton worked with a group
of local elder citizens to produce masks and portraits, which later appeared
in an exhibition.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Mary Giehl,
Syracuse, NY
Mary Giehl is an artist, and a nurse-practitioner in a pediatric
intensive care unit. At DCCA she developed a new collaborative body of
work with children from the community, dealing with a child's perceptions
and emotions during the creative process.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Richard
Huntington, Buffalo, NY
Critic Richard Huntington met with 20 Delaware artists in
their studios during his residency at DCCA. Huntington, critic for the
Buffalo News, wrote essays on the artists and their work for publication
by Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts.
Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Renny Molenaar, Bronx,
NY
During his residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in
Philadelphia, Molenaar developed new work utilizing FWM's unique facilities
and support team.
Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Pepon Osorio, New
York, NY
The Fabric Workshop and Museum welcomed New York based artist
Pepon Osorio to its unique facility and workshop for a one-month residency.
Osorio's work deals with the everyday realities of immigrant Latino life,
and the impact on it of outside pressures and perceptions.
Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Alison Rossiter, Navesink,
NJ
Photographer Alison Rossiter investigated a new medium (fabric)
as a vehicle for her work during a residency at the Fabric Workshop and
Museum in Philadelphia.
Gesundheit Institute, Hillsboro, WV
Pat Oleszko, New York, NY
Internationally recognized performance artist Pat Oleszko
and the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic medical center in Hillsboro,
WV combined forces to explore new multi-media forms of creative expression
as a force of therapeutic healing.
Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Lisa Corrin, Baltimore, MD
Writer, curator, and educator Lisa Corrin led workshops for
high school students, art teachers, artists and community members on
the basic concepts and issues involved in writing about art.
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Nancy Princenthal, New York, NY
Critic Nancy Princenthal (Art In America) participated in
Maryland Art Place's annual Critic's Residency Program. Princenthal,
a regular contributor to Art In America, visited local artists' studios
to discuss their work, and prepared an essay for publication, in addition
to leading art criticism workshops for local writers.
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Barry Schwabsky, New York, NY
Barry Schwabsky is a contributing editor to several leading
art magazines in the U.S. and Europe. He participated in Maryland Art
Place's annual Critic's Residency Program, visiting local artists and
writing an essay for publication.
Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, Doylestown, PA
Beth Katleman,
New York, NY
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, a historic landmark and living
museum located in Doylestown, PA, provided the setting for a residency
by ceramic artist Beth Katleman. Katleman created new ceramic art based
on her response to Tile Work's founder Henry Mercer's unique house, a
19th century American Arts and Crafts Movement style building.
Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Betty Leacraft, Philadelphia,
PA
Perkins Center for the Arts coordinated a residency by Philadelphia
artist Betty Leacraft that included a series of interactive workshops
at Camden County Correctional Facility with female African-American and
Latino inmates and female teenagers from inner-city Camden. The project
was a unique collaboration between Perkins, the Camden County Correctional
Institution and the Camden Family Counseling Services. The project focused
on both creative expression, through workshops in surface design and fabric
collage, and on social education, through a series of video dialogues
between the inmates and the teenagers, pertaining to issues of drug abuse,
urban violence, community, family support systems, etc.
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Gebel/Swierzbinski, Brooklyn, NY
The Noyes Museum hosted the artist team of Hazinat Gebel and
Annette Swierbinski for a six-week residency during the summer of 1996.
The artists led local artists, students, teachers, and volunteers in
constructing an environmentally sensitive installation in the museum.
Materials were gathered from a preliminary beach clean-up, orchestrated
by the artists. Visitors to the museum were able to add to the final
artwork by writing their wishes and responses onto slips of paper that
were then be incorporated into the installation. This residency was
the first such activity conducted by the Noyes Museum.
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper, New Brunswick,
NJ
Margo Humphrey, Hyattsville, MD
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
Michi Itami, New York, NY
The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper provides state-of-the-art
facilities and expert technical staff support to artists each year, resulting
in some of the newest and most exciting print genre works being produced
in the U.S. today. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation brought two artists, Margo
Humphrey of Hyattsville, MD, and Michi Iatami of New York, NY, to Rutgers
to produce new works during 1996. Humphrey began a long-planned project,
illustrating an African-American version of the Bible; Itami continued
to investigate new themes in her work, which concerns her family's internment
in the U.S. during World War II.
Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
Robin Tewes, New York, NY
Painter Robin Tewes experimented with paper and printmaking
techniques in the development of a new body of work, utilizing Pyramid
Atlantic's extensive and sophisticated technical resources at this Riverdale,
MD, workshop.
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
Sandra Gould Ford, Pittsburgh,
PA.
Sweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, NY, hosted Pittsburgh,
PA, quiltmaker and book artist Sandra Gould Ford in a residency coinciding
with a special exhibition Quilts=Art=Quilts. Gould Ford completed
quilts illustrating her award-winning children’s book, Purple
Stork Island.
Sussex County Arts Council, Georgetown, DE
Nanticoke Indian Museum, Millsboro, DE
Sheldon A. Gibson, Nedrow,
NY
Sussex County Arts Council coordinated a residency project
for Sheldon Gibson, a traditional artist of the Onondaga Nation, to lead
workshops with local youth at the Nanticoke Indian Museum, Millsboro,
DE, in building a traditional style longhouse, but with contempoary materials.
The longhouse, a central feature of Nanticoke culture, was portable, and
was used for display and participation in tribal pow-wows.
Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA
Pedro Ospina, Briarcliff,
NY
Ospina worked with parents and children from the community
surrounding host site Taller Puertorriqueno in north Philadelphia, PA.
Together they created a series of tile mosaic planters as part of a continuing
urban beautification project for the neighborhood.
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Tony Oursler/Constance de Jong,
New York, NY
Tyler School of Art, through its outreach and commissioning
program Arranged Introductions: Art in Different Places, brought
New York artists Tony Oursler and Constance de Jong to Philadelphia
to produce a multi-media video/ performance/ computer based
work. The artists worked with students from Temple/Tyler,
and the William Penn
High School,
as well as utilized the collection of the third collaborating
institution, The Mutter (medical) Museum.
VA Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Sylvia de Swaan,
Utica, NY
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a rural artists' residency
center, provided photographer Sylvia de Swaan with undisturbed time, and
access to facilities and space, to concentrate on the development of her
artistic work.
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Gail Rebhan, Washington, DC
Artist Gail Rebhan had access to the specialized technical
support and equipment available at Visual Studies Workshop. Rebhan produced
an editioned offset book, featuring the artist's images and text, which
dealt with family and relationships.
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
John Wood, Baltimore, MD
Artist John Wood utilized Visual Studies Workshop's advanced
printmaking facility to produce an editioned offset book,
the first multiple copy book of his long career. Wood's work
deals with flight,
and its associations, as a metaphor for experience and vision.
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Robin Rice, Philadelphia,
PA
Critic Robin Rice conducted a series of visits to artists
working at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, producing a
series of essays about the creative process and output she witnesses.
The essays were published in WSW's annual arts and literary journal, The
Binnewater Tides.
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