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Filtering by Tag: Residency
Rachel Koroloff is a historian whose work focuses on the creation and maintenance of Russia’s botanical and medical gardens from the seventeenth through the eighteenth centuries. She is currently an early-career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg University of Göttingen in Germany, where she is finishing her book, An Empire in Flower: Russia’s Gardens Between East and West, 1630 to 1760. Learn more about her here.
Charlotte Leib is currently a PHD candidate in the history department at Yale University. Her work focuses on histories of the built environment, landscape architecture, and the perceptions, representations and repercussions of environmental and technological change in North America during the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. At Oak Spring, she carried out research for the project, ‘Surveying Sites Unseen: Trees, Representation and Power,’ which investigates the ways that trees were represented by American surveyors, scientists, and artists in the late 19th-century. Learn more about her here.
Candace Thompson is a performer and media maker, who has “always been fascinated by the feedback loops generated by place, culture, identity, gender, race, climate, politics, and simple human interaction.” Their many projects include films, web projects, audiobooks, music and ritualistic interventions “that challenge and examine the truths we purportedly hold to be self-evident.” Learn more about their projects by following them on Instagram at @thec_u_r_b.
Tamer Hassan is a filmmaker based in Chicago. His current work focuses on the way people relate to their environment and traditions, and has included films on the history of seed saving in the U.S. Currently, he is researching the migration of purple martins, birds that are dependent on humans for survival. His films have been screened nationally and internationally. To see some of Tamer’s work, visit our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.
Shilpa Joglekar is an artist practicing drawing, installation, painting, and sculpture. Based in Mumbai, India, she founded and was the first Dean of Academy of Fine Arts & Crafts in Rachana Sansad, Mumbai. Her work, which explores human relationships with nature, has been exhibited throughout India and abroad. Learn more about her at http://shilpajoglekar.com.
Sarah Jones is an artist and garden designer who works in fiber arts and installation. Based in Seattle, WA, her current work examines “plant extinction and the grief presented by climate change.” Her art has been exhibited throughout the U.S. Learn more about her at www.sarahjonesstudio.com. To see some of her work, visit our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.
Lauren Winchester is a poet based in San Carlos, California. Her poems explore humanity’s relationship with the natural world and have appeared in The Journal, Passages North, TYPO, BOAAT, and other publications. Learn more about her at www.laurenwinchester.com. To read Lauren’s poetry, visit our Fall 2020 Residencies Exhibit.
Alexis Elton is an artist practicing sculpture and installation. A farmer and adobe builder who co-operated a farm in rural New Mexico, “her work is situated where art and agrarian systems meet with aims to create ephemeral sensory encounters.” She has shown her work nationally and internationally. She is based in Hudson Valley, NY. Learn more about her at www.alexiselton.com. To see some of her work, visit our Fall 2020 Shelter in Art Exhibit.
Stewart Allen is a writer based in NY, NY. His published nonfiction books include The Devil’s Cup and In the Devil’s Garden, both of which deal with international foodways and religious plants. He is currently working on a novel that explores similar topics.
To read some of Stewart’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit.
Kaitlin Bryson is an artist and ecologist whose disciplines include drawing, fiber arts, installation, landscape design, and sculpture. She comes from a biodynamic and permaculture farming background that inspires her “restorative, earth-based practices.” Her current work examines interactions between fungi and heavy metals. She is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Learn more about her at www.kaitlinbryson.com.
To see more of Kaitlin’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit.
James Jack is an artist and an assistant professor of Art Practice at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, who is “concerned with rejuvenating stories that exist in the world.” His work has been exhibited and published in Asia and the U.S. Learn more about him at www.jamesjack.org.
To see more of James’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit.
Calista Lyon is an artist who works in film, installation, photography, sculpture, theater arts, writing/prose. A native of Australia based in Columbus, Ohio, she is currently working on a multi- year, multi-disciplinary project centered on an Australian native orchid collection created by an individual from her family’s farming community which examines the consequences of human action on nonhuman lives. A performance piece which she performed during her residency at OSGF, The Unknown and the Unnamed, draws from her research for the project. Learn more about her at www.calistalyon.com.
To see more of Calista’s work, visit our Shelter in Art exhibit and our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit.
Benjamin Heller is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work blends elements of installation, photography, sculpture, and theater arts. His site-specific sculptures and other work has been performed, exhibited and installed throughout the U.S. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more about him here.
To see more of Benjamin’s work, visit our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit.
Amie is a poet whose work explores issues of place, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of Glass Harvest and is currently based in Murfreesboro, TN, where she is the city’s 2020 Poet Laureate and a lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University. Read more about her at www.amiewhittemore.com.
To see more of Aimee’s work, visit our Shelter in Art exhibit and our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit.
Aimee is an artist and writer who practices sculpture, installation, and fiber arts. She is the author of Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking and the founder of the first hanji studio in North America. Aimee is currently based in Cleveland, OH. During her residency at Oak Spring, she used a variety of plant materials growing at the site, including milkweed and okra from the Biocultural Conservation Farm, for papermaking. Read more about her at www.aimeelee.net.
To see more of Aimee’s work, visit our Shelter in Art exhibit and our 2020 Summer Residencies exhibit.
Jeanne Medina is an interdisciplinary artist based in LA who works between textiles, fashion, and performance. She has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Fibers at Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) in Portland, OR, and has researched and worked on projects in Belgium, Guatemala, and the US.
Spending time at Oak Spring gave Jeanne, who said she is accustomed to working in urban environments, the opportunity to explore her relationship with nature and the materials she uses in her art via exploration of the foundation’s archives, Bunny Mellon’s design work, and the landscape.
To see more of Jeanne’s work, click here.
Jamē McCray is a dancer, choreographer, and ecologist. She holds a PhD in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida, and is interested in using dance as a narrative to start conversations about climate change and other issues related to the environment. She spent much of her residency at Oak Spring exploring the library, where she said she was inspired by the different ways scientists in the past thought and communicated about the natural world.
Sarah Horowitz, a printmaker, drawer, and bookmaker, lives in Leavenworth, Washington. Previously, she lived in Oregon, where she was a member of Atelier Mars printmaking workshop and taught printmaking at Portland State University. Sarah produces hand printed and bound artist's books under her imprint Wiesedruck along with prints and drawings.
Sarah’s work is influenced by nature, poetry, and language. Spending time at the Oak Spring Library gave her a different perspective on the history of science, and how people understand and have researched plants and the natural world.
To see more of Sarah’s work, click here.
Lisa Sewell is a poet and the author of Impossible Object, which won the 2014 Tenth Gate prize from The Word Works, as well as The Way Out, Name Withheld, and Long Corridor, which received the 2009 Keystone Chapbook award from Seven Kitchens Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University.
Much of her work focuses on place, its ecological history, and the non-human world. At Oak Spring, she spent much of her time in the library researching early natural histories and species catalogues, where she was particularly influenced by the work of naturalist and botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian.
To learn more about Liza’s work, click here.
Andrew Myers is a visual artist whose work incorporates the environment, conservation and preservation. A native Oregonian, Myers also works extensively with the idea of place. He currently teaches at Oregon State University.
Myers’ work is often both very sculptural and very active. He creates his art in pieces and rearranges them while fine-tuning the placement of drawings, producing figures and gesturing at landscape. While working at Oak Spring, Myers noticed his art molding to the space he created in. His studio was once the firehouse of the Oak Spring airstrip, and still contains a maze of pipes, the old firehose, and other rustic features from the early 1960’s. During the program, Myers played with these features and nurtured a symbiosis of architectural detail and careful, artful craft. Inspired by Virginia’s hunt country, Myers incorporated a fox into one of his works.
See more of Andrew Myers’ work here. To read our blogpost about our inaugural artists in residence program, click here.