2010 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residency Program - News
- APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
- Deadline was March 01, 2010
- Applicants will be notified by late April/early May
- If you have any questions, please contact us.
- Each four week session is limited to 10 individuals. The cost per session is $300 USD. Candidates may apply for additional weeks in the event a space becomes available. (Learn more...)
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August 25, 2010
2009 & 2010 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner Fellows Exhibition
Organized by Exhibition Committee member, Katharine Umsted
Exhibition Dates: September 19 – October 17, 2010
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday, 12:00 - 6:00 pm, or by appointment
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild proudly presents the Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner Fellows Exhibition, curated by Katharine Umsted. This special exhibition features a selection of works from artists who were awarded Pollock–Krasner Foundation Fellowships during the 2009 and 2010 Byrdcliffe Summer Artist in Residence Programs. There will be an opening reception brunch on Sunday, September 19 from noon – 2 pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibition will run through October 17, 2010.
For the past four years the Pollock–Krasner Foundation has underwritten a Fellowship program for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Artist in Residence Program. The grant provided fellowships for five visual artists each year, plus studio visits and critiques with a visiting Master Artist, and also funded a public lecture by each Master Artist. The 2010 Master Artist was Joan Snyder, a 2007 MacArthur Award recipient and a resident of Woodstock. The 2009 Master Artist was Gregory Amenoff. Work by the Pollock–Krasner fellows from both years will be presented in this show.
Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic sites in 1979 for its architectural and historic significance. Today it supports a wide range of artists, including writers, composers, painters and sculptors. Byrdcliffe artists in residence stay at the historic Villetta Inn – a spacious rustic building with communal dining and living rooms. Each resident has his or her own bedroom and separate studio space. Residents are chosen by a committee of professionals in the arts. The major criteria for acceptance are the quality of work samples and an indication of serious commitment to one’s field of endeavor. Applicants must submit a written application and support materials. More information on the program can be found at: www.woodstockguild.org.
2009 & 2010 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner Fellows
Gwen Fabricant lives and works in New York City. Educated at Cooper Union Art School and Brooklyn College Gwen has been the recipient of many grants, awards and fellowships including a Bogliasco Fellowship in Italy, Joan Mitchell and Elizabeth grants and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.
Susan Harrington lives, works and teaches in Fort Worth, Texas. Susan’s work incorporates silhouette drawings of geese, dogs and bears on overlapping sheets of vellum with opaque felt cutouts of hands, creating an illusion of the shadow puppets from childhood memories. In her interpretation of subjects she astonishes with the freshness of invention and wit, or, when the subject demands it, profound drama.
“Etruscan Cat”, Susan Harrington
Essye Klempner is a native of Louisville, KY and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She will be starting an MFA course at Hunter College in the fall. Essye will be participating in the Byrdcliffe AIR program for the third time in 2010.
Katerina Lanfranco lives and works in NYC. She is the recipient of the 2010–2011 N.E.A and US/Japan Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship to study traditional arts in Japan for 6 months. Her work combines nature, fantasy and science. Having had many one–person exhibitions in New York and California, Katerina’s work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
“Carnivorous Beauty #5”, Katrina Lanfranco
Nathania Rubin currently lives in New York City where she was born. She makes psychologically and philosophically dense animations. She is also a musician. Nathania has shown widely in the US and also in Germany, Switzerland and Romania. In addition to the residency at Byrdcliffe she was a recent resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Cate Holt is an abstract painter and also makes temporary installations. Last year she participated in the SVA Summer Residency in Painting and Mixed Media. A graduate of the Hartford Art School, she works in Brooklyn NY and lives in Putnam County, NY.
“You”, Cate Holt
Joshua Kaplan lives and works in Queens, New York. He earned his BFA from Syracuse University in 2008 and will be attending Hunter College for his MFA in the Fall. His work has been exhibited in New York City, Italy as well as throughout the USA.
Lindsay Packer is a New York–based artist whose work ranges from collage to installation and writing. Having received an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material she was a 2002 recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in installation art. Packer traveled to India to study site–specific ephemeral imagery in both sacred and secular contexts.
“Get In Line”, Lindsay Packer
Heather Ramsdale lives and works in Philadelphia. A sculptor and recent MFA graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Heather was a Joan Mitchell Award nominee in 2010.
Laura Splan is based in Brooklyn, NY. Using many media Laura’s work investigates perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. She uses anatomical and medical imagery as well as her body as a source to explore the dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body. She often combines the visual vocabulary of science and biology with that of domesticity and decorum.
August 3, 2010
September 19 - October, 16, 2010
Pollock-Krasner Recipients from Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program, organized by exhibition committee member, Katharine Umsted. Opening Reception: Sunday, September 19, from 12:00 - 2:00 pm
July 21, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Heads / Hearts / Bodies an exhibition of sculpture and pottery by Ceramics Artist in Residence Program residents, Bob Barry, Jamie Gaul, and Marianne Levy at Barzin House, 5 West Byrdcliffe Road in Woodstock, NY. For more info, Rich Conti, ceramics[at]woodstockguild.org
July 15, 2010
Katherine Burger featured in a magazine article in American Profile
Artist in Residence Program Director, Katherine Burger, is featured in an article written by Marti Attoun, "Colony of the Arts – Creative minds and kindred spirits abound in Woodstock, N.Y." The article is about the town of Woodstock in American Profile.
July 02, 2010
Joan Snyder Lecture at The Kleinert/James Arts Center on Saturday, July 10th at 3 pm
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present a free slide lecture by MacArthur–award–winning artist and Woodstock resident Joan Snyder, Saturday, July 10, 3:00 pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center in Woodstock. For the month of July, Snyder is the Master Artist in Residence at the Byrdcliffe Colony, courtesy of the Pollock–Krasner Foundation.
Joan Snyder’s introduction into the New York art world began with a series of “Stroke” Paintings completed in the 1970s. These paintings were included in the Whitney 1973 Biennial and the Corcoran 1975 Biennial, and were the basis of her first solo shows in New York City and San Francisco. Although Snyder’s paintings are often placed under various art–movement umbrellas — Abstract Expressionism, Neo–Expressionism, and Feminist Art — the changing nature of her work, with its combination of personal iconography, female imagery, aggressive brushstroke, and accomplished formalism, has kept her steadily untagged.
Photo: Maggie Cammer
“Snyder is one of those artists who provide us with an eloquent model for working at our creative limits, which we can’t know, after all, until we try to reach them.” — Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, 2007
Snyder has characterized the work of this period as follows: “The strokes in my paintings speak of my life and experiences. They bleed and cry and struggle to tell my story with marks and colors and lines and shapes. I speak of love and anguish, of fear and mostly of hope.”
In 2005, The Jewish Museum in New York City presented a 35–year survey of her work that traveled. Last year, on the occasion of an exhibition of Snyder’s work, the Los Angeles Times wrote, “There’s a no-nonsense frugality to [Snyder’s] funky art, which is nothing if not serious. There’s also great pleasure, which comes with the wisdom of knowing what you can do and then doing more than that for reasons you can’t quite explain.”
Joan Snyder holds a M.F.A. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and an A.B. from Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Her work is in many public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The New York City Jewish Museum, The Guggenheim, The High Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection.
May 28, 2010
New Tumblr blog account added for current and past AIR Residents!
It is intended for current and past Artist in Residents to post information while they are amidst their residency and what happens after. This is a tool for current and past AIR residents to connect and share their adventures and experiences while at Byrdcliffe and beyond! The content will be a self-generated and self-edited.
May 04, 2010
Applicants notified
All applicants have been notified. If you have not heard from us, please let us know. We thank all of those who applied and we congratulate this summer's residents.
April 02, 2010
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March 03, 2010
Interview on Wooloo.org Blog with Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence director, Katherine Burger
An interview with Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence director, Katherine Burger, has been posted to Wooloo's Blog. WOOLOO.ORG is an online community for creating and sharing art exhibitions. It was created in 2002 as a way for artists to connect from all over the world.
You can also check out the Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program Wooloo profile here!
February 23, 2010
New email contact
Please note that we have a new email contact for the Artist in Residence Program: air[at]woodstockguild.org
February 05, 2010
Alliance of Artists Communities and College Art Association present: Be Our Guest
Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 10:00 – 11:30 am
Free and open to the public!
Room: Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower
Alliance of Artists Communities and College Art Association present: Be Our Guest: Finding creative time and space a public panel on artists in residence programs.
Mark Guarino will be present; he was a 2006 and 2007 Byrdcliffe Artist in Resident. Come say "Hi" to Mark if you are in the Chicago area!
Learn about the hundreds of artists’ residency opportunities available for artists of all kinds and every career stage, in your backyard and across the globe. Find out what distinguishes them, the best way to apply, and how to maximize your experience.
Visual artists, writers, choreographers, composers, filmmakers, architects, performance artists, and more — there’s a residency for you!
Mark Guarino is a playwright and journalist in Chicago. His plays have been produced by The House Theatre of Chicago, Walkabout Theatre, the Curious Theater Branch and many others. He is a staff writer with the Christian Science Monitor; his byline has also appeared in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun–Times and many other publications. He has been awarded artist residencies from the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, the Vermont Studio Center and was awarded an artist fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference at the University of the South.
