Artists & Communities Archive
1997 Projects (Artist as Catalyst, NJ Pilot Program)
Synopsis of Funded
Projects:
In the fall of 1997, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation tested the
concept of its new regional artist residency program in projects
conducted in collaboration with New Jersey organizations, regional artists,
and
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. The projects are
described below.
Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Betty Leacraft, Philadelphia, PA
Perkins organized
a two month residency project by fiber artist Betty Leacraft
in cooperation with the Camden County Correctional Facility
and a family health center, also in Camden. The artist led
workshops for pregnant female inmates at
the prison, in concurrence with similar workshops for
pregnant teenage girls at the medical center. The project
focused on creative expression and reflection on mother-child
bonding, utilizing a variety
of fabric
construction and decoration techniques taught by the artist.
Category: Community Challenges Medium: Visual Arts - fiber/mixed
media
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Papermaking
, New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Center for Latino Art and Culture, New Brunswick,
NJ
Carmen Ines Blondet, Puerto Rico and Pepon
Osorio, Bronx, NY
Rutgers CIPP
in collaboration with the Rutgers Center for Latino
Art
and Culture, hosted Carmen Ines Blondet and Pepon
Osorio. Both
artists were in residence simultaneously for one month in
a project designed to stimulate artistic exchange and collaboration
from the perspective
of a shared cultural heritage. Blondet is a mature Puerto
Rican sculptor and painter still living on the island, Osorio
is an established installation
artist who emigrated to New York many years ago; the resulting
artworks reflected the two differing yet similar cultural
and artistic world viewpoints.
(This a part of a larger program at Rutgers which pairs "native" and "emigrant" artists
from a variety of cultures in cross-collaborative art-making.)
Category: Creative Actions Medium: Visual Arts- print and
paper
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Fort Lee, NJ
Woo Suk (Harry) Lee, Arlington, VA
Nai-Ni collaborated
with Woo Suk (Harry) Lee during a month
long residency by this master drummer,
who is the artistic director of Hanulsori, a Korean Chang-go
Drumming ensemble. The Chinese-American dance company
undertook both collaborative
creative explorations of new work between company and
composer and community workshops and activities with Korean
orphans, African-American drummers,
and students from Rutgers University, Elizabeth, NJ high
schools, and Harlem School of the Arts, New York City. Category:
Community Challenges
Medium: Performing Arts - music
New Community Corporation, Newark, NJ
Calvin Jones, Philadelphia, PA
New Community Corporation, an 8,000 resident housing complex,
coordinated an four-month project led by artist Cavin Jones,
an instructor at Village for the Arts & Humanities in Philadelphia.
Utilizing a variety of public art works to be developed with
residents, local and
visiting artists, schoolchildren and volunteers, the artistic
team transformed two main forecourts at the housing complex.
Category: Community Challenges
Medium: Visual Arts: public art, murals, landscaping An additional
component of the New Community Corporation project was brokered
by the Foundation
as a result of panel recommendations.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Janet Taylor Pickett
of Montclair, NJ
New Community Corporation, Newark, NJ
Janet Taylor Pickett was sponsored by Montclair Art Museum
at nearby New Community Corporation. The artist joined the
artist team working on the housing project activities,
and the Art Museum collaborated with the community partner
in developing expertise in community
arts programming. Category: Community Challenges Medium:
Visual Arts - public arts/murals
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