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11-24-2008, 10:04 AM
Announcing Changing Landscapes, New Residencies to Begin at A Studio in the Woods
Three artists have been selected for Changing Landscapes: A Dialogue Between Art and the Environment, the new artist residency program at A Studio in the Woods in Lower Coast Algiers. The six-week residencies are designed to provide an opportunity for artists to engage their communities in addressing the sort of ecological challenges that are exemplified in South Louisiana.
“We are all aware that our natural environment is in dire straits and that climate change and human threats impact our built environment, and thus our quality of life,” said ASITW founder Lucianne Carmichael. “ASITW’s goal is to intersect its location in a protected natural environment with its community resources to provide artists with time and space for critical thinking, as well as support for the creation of new work ultimately igniting change for the benefit of the environment.”
Andrea Myers of Chicago, Illinois is currently in residence through mid-December, 2008. A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Myers says her interest is in exploring the “space between the two-dimensional and three dimensional,” using painting as a matrix to work against and to stretch the realms of other media. She is working on a site-specific installation, tentatively titled Seeing Ghosts , using stacked wooden shapes covered with mylar to create a distorted reflection of the canopy of trees above and utilizing the immediate surroundings as part of the sculptures, while also suggesting a broken mirror to signify the bad luck the land has experienced.
The central theme of the work of artist Anne Devine, who will be in residence in January and February 2009, is loss and remembrance, sometimes visibly applied to larger scale projects which examine one’s relationship to the environment. While at ASITW, a 24 mile investigative walk through the southern Louisiana wetlands will serve as a performance arts piece where she explores space – the space between herself and others, between things real and imagined, between ideas, objects, individuals and communities. Back home in San Francisco, CA she serves as director of Greenscene Media, a non-profit collective promoting creative combinations of environmental information, popular culture, music and multi-media and has produced a number of video works.
In March and April 2009, Rafael Hector Joaquin Santos of Buenos Aries, Argentina will visit the artists’ sanctuary. The founder of Ala Plastica, an arts/environmental non-profit organization in Argentina, he develops projects on socially engaged art, such as the AA Project – Art in Social Context, a permanent installation created as a survival space for communities suffering the effect of floods caused by mega-engineering in Del Plata river basin. While at ASITW, he will use photography, map creation, text development and interactive behavior as part of a diverse collaborative process to engage the local community.
The artists were selected via a multidisciplinary jury process that evaluated the proposals based upon several criteria, including creativeness and integrity of the proposal, evidence of rigorous thinking about the vision for the residency and harmony of purpose with the ASITW mission and evidence of previous exploration of environmental topics.
Supported by a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Changing Landscape Residencies are also funded in part by the Ford Foundation and our generous members.
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For more info about "A Studio In The
Woods", or for year-end gifting, go to :
http://astudiointhewoods.org/support.htm
Three artists have been selected for Changing Landscapes: A Dialogue Between Art and the Environment, the new artist residency program at A Studio in the Woods in Lower Coast Algiers. The six-week residencies are designed to provide an opportunity for artists to engage their communities in addressing the sort of ecological challenges that are exemplified in South Louisiana.
“We are all aware that our natural environment is in dire straits and that climate change and human threats impact our built environment, and thus our quality of life,” said ASITW founder Lucianne Carmichael. “ASITW’s goal is to intersect its location in a protected natural environment with its community resources to provide artists with time and space for critical thinking, as well as support for the creation of new work ultimately igniting change for the benefit of the environment.”
Andrea Myers of Chicago, Illinois is currently in residence through mid-December, 2008. A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Myers says her interest is in exploring the “space between the two-dimensional and three dimensional,” using painting as a matrix to work against and to stretch the realms of other media. She is working on a site-specific installation, tentatively titled Seeing Ghosts , using stacked wooden shapes covered with mylar to create a distorted reflection of the canopy of trees above and utilizing the immediate surroundings as part of the sculptures, while also suggesting a broken mirror to signify the bad luck the land has experienced.
The central theme of the work of artist Anne Devine, who will be in residence in January and February 2009, is loss and remembrance, sometimes visibly applied to larger scale projects which examine one’s relationship to the environment. While at ASITW, a 24 mile investigative walk through the southern Louisiana wetlands will serve as a performance arts piece where she explores space – the space between herself and others, between things real and imagined, between ideas, objects, individuals and communities. Back home in San Francisco, CA she serves as director of Greenscene Media, a non-profit collective promoting creative combinations of environmental information, popular culture, music and multi-media and has produced a number of video works.
In March and April 2009, Rafael Hector Joaquin Santos of Buenos Aries, Argentina will visit the artists’ sanctuary. The founder of Ala Plastica, an arts/environmental non-profit organization in Argentina, he develops projects on socially engaged art, such as the AA Project – Art in Social Context, a permanent installation created as a survival space for communities suffering the effect of floods caused by mega-engineering in Del Plata river basin. While at ASITW, he will use photography, map creation, text development and interactive behavior as part of a diverse collaborative process to engage the local community.
The artists were selected via a multidisciplinary jury process that evaluated the proposals based upon several criteria, including creativeness and integrity of the proposal, evidence of rigorous thinking about the vision for the residency and harmony of purpose with the ASITW mission and evidence of previous exploration of environmental topics.
Supported by a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Changing Landscape Residencies are also funded in part by the Ford Foundation and our generous members.
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For more info about "A Studio In The
Woods", or for year-end gifting, go to :
http://astudiointhewoods.org/support.htm