Posts in Artists In the Studio
A Body of Interactions: Lauren Brooke Miller in the Studio
Nov 14, 2014
Down in the ceramics studio, resident Lauren Brooke Miller unwraps the large clay vessels sitting on her table, revealing their red wavelike forms. On the shelves behind her sit over seventy bowls (the most beautiful bowls she’s ever made, she says) thrown as part of her Chili Bowl Workspace residency. While she talks, she cups,… View Article
A 19-2 View: Libby Scarlett in the Studio
Oct 29, 2014
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be following the development of Libby Scarlett’s artist’s book, A 19-2 View. This is the first post of the series. Every night in Amsterdam, Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Resident Libby Scarlett would sit on her balcony, overlooking the maze of gardens and flats across the way. Regardless of the weather, she… View Article
Rooted in Narrative: Lucy Gans in the Studio
Oct 14, 2014
For twenty-five years, Workspace Resident Lucy Gans has been carrying the gnarled roots of a beautiful rose bush she dug out of her garden. Its remains have moved with her from house to house, and they’ve become tied to Lucy’s personal history. In her newest body of work, the roots appear delicately intertwined with her… View Article
Fragmented Investigations: In the Studio with Sarah Bertrand-Hamel
Oct 07, 2014
Smoothing the leathery skin of her handmade paper, workspace resident Sarah Bertrand-Hamel holds her various abaca experiments against a large window. Backlit, the brightly-colored sheets glow with different levels of translucency. She scribbles the results in her notebook. During her five-week papermaking residency at WSW, Sarah is experimenting with different fibers to create vibrant, translucent sheets… View Article
The Mad Hatter: Pat Oleszko in the Studio
Sep 24, 2014
Lit by the gorgeous stained glass windows of Cottekill’s CHRCH Project Space, artist-in-residence Pat Oleszko alternates between a sewing machine and a hot glue gun, both vital tools of her trade. Across CHRCH’s wood floors, vibrant and strange creatures stretch in various stages of becoming, waiting to be transformed with found materials that Pat has… View Article
A Playful Takeover with Cheryl Paswater
Sep 16, 2014
Brightly colored, angular newsprint shapes wait in piles on the large, wall-length table in the silkscreen studio. Workspace resident Cheryl Paswater introduces me to her various characters—“the reflectors,” “the airplane guys,” “the clampers,” “the crushers”—a dictionary of informal descriptions used to capture their non-representational, yet uncannily familiar forms. As I’m peering at the cut-out shapes… View Article
A Lamentation and a Goodbye: Kathy Hettinga’s “4 3 2 CRY”
Sep 08, 2014
After a 34 year absence, Artists’ Book Resident Kathy T. Hettinga paid a visit to Johnstown Farm, a modest, thoughtfully made farmhouse in Weld County, Colorado. It was there she once lived with her husband Duane, raised chicks in the basement, and reveled in the clear, open landscape. What she found upon returning was a region… View Article
Coded Memory: Breanne Trammell’s Twitter Diary
Aug 15, 2014
For the past seven years, Ora Schneider resident Breanne Trammell has used Twitter as a digital diary. Her feed is a playful archive of puns, conversation snippets, and coded records that signify particular moments. Breanne describes social media as containing “observations and gestures that make us who we are.” “Social media is a tool,” she… View Article
CHRCH Clothes: Kate Hamilton’s “Studio Lab”
Jul 22, 2014
For the month of July, Cottekill’s CHRCH Project Space has been filling up with yards of sailcloth sculpted and sewn into huge pieces of clothing hanging floor-to-ceiling and attached to a crisscrossing system of pulleys. The pulleys creak as Kate Hamilton tugs at some clotheslines, and the hem of a huge, floor-to-ceiling dress lifts off… View Article
Required Reading: Spring In the Studio Wrap Up
Jun 26, 2014
Between the last traces of the Polar Vortex and our first dip in the lake, our kenaf has sprouted, another successful season of Hands-On-Art has ended, and seven artists-in-residence have been busy as springtime bees around our studios. Behind on the WSW blog? Here’s your “In the Studio” cheat sheet, Spring 2014 Edition. Ohio-based emerging artist and educator Lisa Franko taught etching in our Art-in-Education program and… View Article