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A great place to ponder while at Byrdlciffe

A great place to ponder while at Byrdcliffe

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We are pleased to announce that the Byrdcliffe Artists In Residency Program has received a third grant to continue the Byrdcliffe Master Artist Program. The Byrdcliffe Master for 2010 is Joan Snyder. Each Fellow will have access to Joan for critiques, career opportunity discussions and to share insight and guidance during a four week residency. A panel of distinguished artists will choose five Pollock–Krasner Fellows. Last year's jurors were painters Donald Elder, Melissa Meyer and Portia Munson. Fellows are selected for the quality, originality and professionalism of their work.

2010 Byrdcliffe Master

Joan Snyder

Joan Snyder has been painting for over four decades and has been called obsessed with painting. Her work is described as “a vibration of light, color and texture that is to the eye like sound reverberating in the ear after music has stopped.” Her “Stroke” paintings were 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. Joan is an award–winning artist receiving multiple awards and fellowships such as a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983, and a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award in 2007.

Because of the changing nature of her work, Joan Snyder has never been easily categorized which one of the reasons she is so highly regarded in the visual arts world. A retrospective of her paintings from the last 35 years opened at the Jewish Museum in August 2005. Her work has been part of hundreds of exhibitions including our own Kleinert/James Gallery. Joan served as a juror for our 2007 visual arts applicants to our Byrdcliffe Artist In Residence program. Locally, Joan is represented by the Elena Zang Gallery. In NYC she is represented by Betty Cunningham.

This project is supported in part by a grant from the The Pollock–Krasner Foundation.

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Information

  • The Pollock–Krasner Fellowship is open to all working artists. Photographers are not included.
  • Five Fellows will be chosen and all will receive a residency for the month of June 29–July 25, 2010 only. (Session II).
  • Each Fellow will receive a $1,100 award and pay no tuition. (However, you must pay the application fee of $35).
  • Each applicant must fill in the Byrdcliffe AIR application as well and include your statement below with the application form.

Questions to be answered by the Pollock–Krasner Fellow Applicant:

  • Please write a brief statement on how you envision interacting with the Byrdcliffe Master Artist.
  • How can she be beneficial to your artistic career?
  • What are your expectations?
  • What have you gained from other teachers?

Notes to Pollock Krasner grant applicants:

  • Please indicate on your application if you want to be considered solely for the grant program; otherwise your application will also be considered for the AIR Program if you aren't granted a fellowship.
  • An artist may not receive a Pollock–Krasner Fellowship more than once.