Tag Archive: WSW
Lindsay Stern on Piecing it All Together
Dec 11, 2013
About a year ago, Lindsay Stern was shocked to discover she’d been awarded WSW’s Ora Schneider Residency for regional artists—initially because it would be her first residency, but also because she was 10 weeks pregnant. The symbiotic relationship between herself and her son Henry, now a flirtatious four month old, has come to quite literally… View Article
Required Reading: Fall In the Studio Wrap Up
Dec 04, 2013
Since launching our In the Studio series this autumn, we’ve been delivering glimpses into our resident artists’ projects and processes. With winter approaching, here’s a fall In the Studio wrap-up in case you’ve missed anything: Cheryl Paswater, a New York City-based painter by training, discovered that chine colle was the secret to translating her bold,… View Article
Across Time & Space: Sarah Peters in the Studio
Oct 23, 2013
This is the second of two posts on Sarah Peters’s project The Moon Has No Weather. If you missed it, read the first post here. “Sometimes I think this is really doable and sometimes I think this book is never going to get done,” Artist’s Book resident Sarah Peters said on October 3 amidst her final… View Article
Shu Mei Chan: The Artist is Present
Oct 09, 2013
A skeletal netted form is taking shape piece by twiggy piece on the laundry line behind the workshop. Gillian Jagger Legacy Artist-in-Residence Shu Mei Chan is behind the sculptural growth, carrying tubs of what look like bones of various sizes to the site and unpacking them in piles before linking them into the slowly-growing sheet… View Article
Fly Me to the Moon: Sarah Peters in the Studio
Sep 30, 2013
Over the next few weeks, we’re tracking our book resident Sarah Peters’s project The Moon Has No Weather. This is the first post in the series. If not for the hand-marbled paper, bits of abaca and Thai mulberry, polymer plates, and paper casts that look like chunks of lumpy lunar surface, you’d be forgiven for… View Article
Cheryl Paswater & the Importance of Being Playful
Sep 09, 2013
Cheryl Paswater has sprawled her double-sided 14×14” woodblocks across one wall of our intaglio studio, and she’s approaching her work the best way she knows how. “I’m about to try something I’ve never done, which should be fun,” she announces with a shrug and a laugh, inking a block. Cheryl is introducing chine colle into her… View Article