New Faces at WSW: Spring 2018 Edition
January 29, 2018
Left to right: Laura Salgarolo, Marisa Malone, Sarah Gordon, Breana Hendricks
We are pleased to welcome our newest spring interns to WSW!
The studios are looking good and running smoothly with the help of Studio Interns Laura and Sarah, who are busy assisting the artists-in-residence and with our Art-in-Ed classes. In our office you can find our Nonprofit Management Intern, Marisa, responding to emails, answering phones and helping with many marketing projects. Meanwhile our Ceramics Intern, Breana, is hard at work making bowls and prepping for our 21st annual Chili Bowl Fiesta!
Each of them bring a lot to the table and they’re excited to collaborate and expand their art practices. Get to know them through our Q&A below!
Breana Hendricks
Internship: Ceramics Intern
School(s): State University of New York at New Paltz
Major(s)/Minor(s): BFA Ceramics major
Where’s your hometown (or place you call home)?
My hometown is New York City! I am from the Bronx, NY.
Who are your top three favorite artists?
My favorite three artists at the moment are Sue Tirrell, Kenyon Hansen, and Rob Lugo. I’ve been able to take workshops with all three artists recently; learning about highly decorated surfaces, storytelling, and firing techniques has influenced my work greatly.
What art-making supplies did you bring with you to WSW?
Tons of ribs, a ceramist can never have too many! I’ve also brought embroidery needles, floss, and hoops for when I have time to relax and sew.
What music do you like listening to while you work?
A friend of mine introduced me to a genre of meditative, Lo-Fi hip hop and I’ve been hooked ever since. I start my work days listening to artists like Natureboy Flako, Nosaj Thing, o h k o, Lukid, Dorian Concept, and Nujabes. Throughout the day, I cycle through songs by Queen, Solange, Kendrick Lamar, Marvin Gaye, The Head and the Heart, Alabama Shakes and many many more.
What are you most excited for at WSW?
I’m really excited to meet artists and students that come to WSW! I am always looking forward to learning new processes, and combining printmaking and ceramics is really interesting to me.
What’s your dream job?
Being able to do ceramics AND travel is my dream, I want to see the world! Community is important to me, but I wouldn’t mind having a snug studio in my own home one day, too.
Marisa Malone
Internship: Nonprofit Management Intern
School(s): The Evergreen State College
Major(s)/Minor(s): Writing, Gender Studies, Literature
Where’s your hometown (or place you call home)?
My home town is Reno, NV. but the place I feel most kinship with is Washington State where I went to school and had some of my fondest years and met my dearest friends.
Who are your top three favorite artists?
Some artists whose work I continue to discover and enjoy are Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, and Egon Schiele.
What art-making supplies did you bring with you to WSW?
I brought my favorite object, a custom case of handmade watercolors most of which I made myself. I built a color palette of that of Northern California, which is where I’d been living before coming to WSW.
What music do you like listening to while you work?
All kinds. I like to let my songs shuffle around. Usually it’s bands from the early 80’s/90’s like Yo La Tengo or jazz from Charles Mingus and sometimes folky/country sounds.
What are you most excited for at WSW?
To be a part of everything that happens here!
What’s your dream job?
I’m not sure what it is yet but something that incorporates aesthetics, production, writing and a livable wage.
Sarah Gordon
Internship: Studio Intern
School(s): Purdue University
Major(s)/Minor(s): Fine Arts and Art History
Where’s your hometown (or place you call home)?
Indianapolis, IN
Who are your top three favorite artists?
Jenny Morgan, Shepard Fairey, James McNeill Whistler
What art-making supplies did you bring with you to WSW?
I brought all of my paper, from oversized BFK to handmade abaca sheets, copper plates, a sewing machine, tapestry loom, multiple spools of yarn, and four silkscreens.
What music do you like listening to while you work?
It depends on my mood, but some of my favorite artists include Two Door Cinema Club, Flor, Saint Motel, Abstofacto, Young the Giant, and I love classical music with Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmonkier being my favorite ensemble.
What are you most excited for at WSW?
I am most excited about living and working with amazing artists and learning as much as I can from them! I’m also looking forward to making as many books as I can and trying all the different printmaking processes that WSW has to offer.
What’s your dream job?
I would absolutely love to be able to call myself a Master Printer one day and to be an expert in all of the processes and techniques for either lithography or intaglio/etching.
Laura Salgarolo
Internship: Studio Intern
School(s): Bard College ’16
Major(s)/Minor(s): B.A. in Studio Art
Where’s your hometown (or place you call home)?
I’m from Pittsburgh, PA.
Who are your top three favorite artists?
I always have difficulty picking top threes, but I’ll share some of my favorites. I love Shaun Tan because he is able to balance words and images in a way that few others do. Lisbeth Zwerger‘s watercolor illustrations have always demonstrated an economy of line and composition that I adore. Cory Godbey is a fantasy illustrator who will always be important to me because I wrote to him in highschool, and he wrote back the kindest encouragements.
What art-making supplies did you bring with you to WSW?
Since I never know precisely what medium each new project will require, I brought a bit of everything. Tools for printmaking, bookbinding, and sculpey work. Also painting and drawing supplies. I always like to collect bits and pieces of nature to keep as inspiration, so I brought a few favorites with me as well.
What music do you like listening to while you work?
Well, my favorite female singer is Lisa Hannigan, so she’s always a go to. But audiobooks have been a real staple these past few months. I just finished a 48 hour audiobook while preparing work and packing to move here.
What are you most excited for at WSW?
I am most excited to learn new processes since my school wasn’t equipped to do certain kinds of printmaking. And of course meeting new people from this community. So far it seems like such a welcoming environment full of collaboration and sharing of experiences, and that can be quite rare.
What’s your dream job?
I want to make picture books. I love stories (particularly fairy tales and fantasy) and I want to be able to explore and transform those narratives through word and images. A lot of people assume that the picture book format is only for children, but I’d like to make stories for many ages with a variety of different mediums and techniques.