Artists & Communities Archive
2000 Projects (Artist as Catalyst)
30 residency projects
featuring artists and/or host organizations from Pennsylvania
and New Jersey are listed below. Grant recommendations totaled
$267,225.00. Community Challenges:
This component of Artist as Catalyst 2000 supported residencies
that concentrated on public participation in art-making, and
which discussed and investigated pressing social issues and
situations in our communities.
Although not necessarily the principle purpose of the residency,
the creation of new art works was often the result of these
activities.
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
Gary San Angel, Philadelphia, PA
The Asian Arts Initiative hosted performance artist, director,
and facilitator, Gary San Angel, who led a workshop series which developed
personal emotional
experiences into public performance pieces for Asian and Asian
Americans. Angel also trained members of Something to Say, and Generasian
Next, teen
theater groups, through his unique artistic skills and models
of leadership.
Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Mark Kobasz, Perkasie, PA
The Banana Factory, in collaboration with the Bethlehem Musikfest
Association and the Bethlehem Area District Schools coordinated
a public sculpture
project by the visiting artist. Kobasz worked with area students,
and visitors to MusicFest. The program promoted an awareness
of the environmental impact of the Lehigh River and its relevance to the
artistic,
economic,
architectural, historical and cultural diversity of the city
of Bethlehem.
Center for Community Arts, Cape May, NJ
Gayle Stahlhuth, New York, NY
The project hosted a playwright and a storyteller to work with students
and community elders. Together, they created a production that explored
social divisions as seen through beach life in Cape May in the past and
today. The resulting performances of The Lifeboat Project included
dialogue with school and community audiences.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary
Arts, Wilmington, DE
Benjamin Schulman, Philadelphia, PA
In a two-month residency, Schulman worked with youth from
the Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware to construct a site-specific
installation in an abandoned factory, incorporating materials from the
local urban
industrial landscape
Institute for Arts and Humanities Education, New Brunswick, NJ
Mary Jo Winiarski, New York, NY
Professional set designer Winiarski introduced teens at IAHE's
Summer Arts Institute, to basic techniques and practices of theatrical
design. She also developed a set for a new multimedia theatre
piece that premiered in August, 2000, and toured NJ, NY, and PA.
InterAct,
Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Joseph Sorrentino, Philadelphia, PA
Sorrentino worked with InterAct's Seth Rozin, and Larry Loebell, in transforming
ten years worth of interviews with homeless and impoverished people of
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Washington, DC, into a dynamic piece of social
theater. Veteran actors helped Sorrentino in illustrating these stories
onstage.
International Institute of New Jersey, Jersey City, NJ
Paula Sepinuck, Swarthmore, PA
Creation of two theater pieces celebrating the rich cultural heritage
of Russian and Vietnamese refugees, stimulating public dialogue about
how issues of immigrant alienation can be overcome. The refugees themselves
performed the resulting multi-disciplinary theater pieces.
Long Beach Island Foundation on the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies,
NJ
Jeff DeCastro, Ithaca, NY
The project, called Cultural Weather Station, examined important
issues of identities and traditions in this coastal community, through
the metaphor of weather's influence on daily life.
New Community Corporation, Newark, NJ
Margie Shaheed, Newark, NJ
A creative writing residency in
which lead artist, Margie Shaheed, worked with emotionally challenged
female clients of the Family Services Bureau
and with local female writers. The residency culminated in
a public reading and the publication of two books, one featuring selected
writings by the
participants and the artists, and a workbook by Shaheed, Writing for
Healing.
New Jersey Community Development Corporation, Paterson, NJ
Renato Alarcao, Newark, NJ
Promote Artistic Youth Development is a community project
NJCDC designed to create an artistic outlet for at-risk foster teens possessing
talent. Alarcao led a team of youth in creating murals and other art works
dealing with the physical and emotional realities of growing up in poor,
under-served neighborhoods of the city.
Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Kevin O'Neill, Norristown, PA
In taped interviews and workshops, the voice of teens and prison inmates
articulated a new perspective on the social issues and effects surrounding
family life without a father present. The finished product was in the
shape of a performance poem on video.
Pittsburgh International Children's Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
Cindy Snodgrass, Sewickley, PA
The International Children's Festival, in collaboration with
the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, and Carlow College hosted artist Cindy
Snodgrass. Participants created a large-scale, public artwork to establish
a Children's Park on the common ground shared by the ICF and the Museum.
Society for Arts in Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Leroy Johnson, Philadelphia, PA
Artists and Kids, an ongoing project sponsored by SCC, facilitates access
to the arts in Pittsburgh's North side. This project will brought Leroy
Johnson, an internationally known ceramic artist, to work with a group
of at-risk students aged 12-16.
Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen, Inc., Woodstock, NY
Walter Thompson, Weehawken, NJ
A return residency for composer/conductor
Walter Thompson using his 600 gesture Sound Painting technique
to express individual creativity in elementary students, mentally challenged
adults and children. Also included was a
training workshop for educators and professional musicians,
singers, dancers, actors, and visual artists.
Creative Actions:
Artists were supported in residencies which enabled them
to spend uninterrupted time on creating new works, often
with professional technical assistance from a host organization
specializing in a particular
medium, such as printmaking, or a specific discipline, such
as dance.
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, Buffalo,
NY
Mary Carothers, Big Run, PA and Sue Wribican, Montclair,
NJ
CEPA hosted the collaborative team of Mary Carothers
and Sue Wribican, in a public art project at Niagara Falls. Carothers
and Wribican
resided in a trailer park near the Falls, creating art
works on site while exploring the complex relationships and issues
surrounding travel and
tourism in the region.
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
David Greenberger, Greenwich, NY
Greenberger's residency resulted in the creation of a new work, which
deals with the issues of aging in America. Through a series of repeated
interviews and conversations, Greenberger produced a printed publication
presenting the thoughts of the elderly, and he wrote and performed a one-hour
monologue drawn from the material.
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Stacy Levy, Spring Mills, PA
FWM supported a three-month residency with sculptor Stacy Levy. Levy
collaborated with the FWM's staff to create installations using cloth
as a collecting agent, filter, and register for the natural world and
atmosphere of the urban environment.
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Winifred Lutz, Huntington Valley, PA
Lutz worked on a permanent,
site-specific garden adjacent to the Mattress Factory, which she first
created several years ago. New and extended elements
were implemented, coinciding with building and site-altering
construction work at the host facility itself.
McCarter Theatre Company, Princeton, NJ
Polly Pen, New York, NY
Composer/author Polly Pen began work on a new musical theatre piece called
The Flitch. The residency allowed Ms. Pen the time and resources to focus
intensively on the creation of a new play and to extend her ongoing collaborative
partnership with McCarter Theatre.
Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
Demetria Royals, Anita Gonzalez and Robbie McCauley, Brooklyn,
NY
Demetria Royals, filmmaker, and performers Anita Gonzalez and Robbie
McCauley accompanied by an ensemble of 15 created a multi-media theatre
production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children from an
African American female perspective. The production premiered at Montclair
State University in the fall of 2000, followed by performances at other
venues in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
Armando Passy, Bethlehem, PA
Accomplished Vietnam Veteran poet Armando Passy devoted a block of time
to creating a new body of work which resulted in a public reading on Memorial
Day, and the publication of a new chapbook of the artist's poems.
Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Laure Drogoul, Baltimore, MD
Artist Laure Drogoul participated in a three-month residency to develop
and fabricate large-scale interactive exhibits at the Pittsburgh Children's
Museum. The works reflect the artist's interests in myths and popular
culture.
Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, Pittsburgh, PA
Tere O'Connor, New York, NY
Choreographer Tere O'Connor had the opportunity to experiment
with new text and movement in the creation of a new dance/theater
work based on American attitudes toward death. O'Connor set
the work on Dance Alloy Company members.
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
Juan Logan, Baltimore, MD, Freddy Rodriquez, Flushing, NY,
and Laura Anderson Barbata, New York, NY
RCIPP's professional
technicians and advanced technical facilities for creating new editioned
print and paper artworks supported these three
talented artists. All three artists shared an interest in
investigating through their imagery issues of diversity in American
art and culture
and the intersection between the American mainstream and their
own, individual, "home" cultural
influences.
Temple University Department of Dance, Philadelphia, PA
Cathy Weis, New York, NY
Choreographer and performance artist Cathy Weiss was given uninterrupted
studio time to develop a new work. Additionally she interfaced with the
Philadelphia dance community in a two-week workshop, entitled Technology
and Performance, which culminated in two public performances.
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Carson Fox, Trenton, NJ
Artist Carson Fox created and completed a series of 30 objects for subsequent
exhibition/installation. The project made extensive use of WSW's papermaking
facilities.
Cultural Dialogues:
This component of the program sought to increase the level
of understanding of contemporary art among the public, and
to support regional artists in their careers by producing professional
quality writing
about their work.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Miriam Seidel, Bala Cynwyd, PA
The Delaware Art Museum hosted Art in America Corresponding Editor, Miriam
Seidel. The residency connected Seidel to members of the community during
Biennial 2000, an exhibition of the region's most innovative artists,
with the goal of increasing the awareness and appreciation of contemporary
art through workshops, lectures, and discussions (including email) with
Seidel.
Wheaton Village, Inc./ Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
Robin Rice, Philadelphia, PA
The Creative Glass Center of America hosted Robin Rice for
a critic residency which ran during the CGCA Fellowship Sessions
in the Year 2000. The intent of this project was to create meaningful
dialogue
with resident artists on their work, the medium of glass,
and its role in the overall visual arts. |
