Posts in Artists In the Studio
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
Paper, Skin, & Hair: Maria Vonn in the Studio
Jun 20, 2014
In the papermaking studio, Maria Vonn pulls and couches a thin sheet of flax. From a small pile, she tugs loose a handful of strands from what used to be the dark, thick ponytail of a friend. In careful loops, she presses the hair into the wet pulp, repeating the process until she is satisfied… View Article
Printerly & Drawerly: Emily Wilson in the Studio
Jun 11, 2014
“Etching is my love,” gushes Emily Wilson. But spend ten minutes with her and it’s clear her practice is rooted in an even deeper love for the immediacy of drawing. In her studio, a huge piece of Mylar exists solely for her daily exercise of grabbing a chunk of graphite and making marks. “I used… View Article
Navigating Sarah McDermott’s “Channel & Flow”
Jun 04, 2014
This is the second of two posts about our Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Resident Sarah McDermott’s project Channel & Flow. If you missed our first post, catch up here. Until the folding, collating, and sewing began, it was hard to visualize exactly where Sarah McDermott’s book project, Channel & Flow, was going. Laid out in folios, a curious, wavy, letterpress… View Article
Dora Lisa Rosenbaum Gets Her Clean On
May 21, 2014
When Guatemala-born, Albany-raised artist Dora Lisa Rosenbaum moved to the northern coast of California a few years ago, one thing in particular really struck her. “I smelled this really strong laundry detergent and I was instantly sent back to my patio in Guatemala where the laundry was done,” says Dora, who now lives surrounded by… View Article
Karen J. Revis in the Land of Happy Accidents
May 09, 2014
Even as a student, workspace resident Karen J. Revis was doing things her way: adding wax to her paint and eschewing brushes and canvas for palette knives and plexi. She wanted to get in there and push paint around, she wanted to be engulfed in a process. “It’s always been about the materials,” says Karen, who… View Article
Nanette Yannuzzi: The Private & the Political
Apr 23, 2014
When Nanette Yannuzzi arrived at WSW, she visited Rosendale’s antique and vintage shops, where digging around in piles of linens yielded a small stash of old, hand-stitched handkerchiefs, tablecloths, and napkins–a nice supplement to the four- or five-dozen found and gifted linens she brought with her from Ohio. On one side of the silkscreen studio,… View Article