We learned that Brece Honeycutt (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist '18) had been selected for two different artist residencies this summer. Here, she shares images and observations about the three studios in which she worked these last few months: her own in Sheffield, her residency at Norte Maar in Jay, NY, and her residency at Naumkeag in Stockbridge, MA. Outside/Inside: … [Read more...]
Lisa Reindorf: Sea of Troubles
Massachusetts-based artist & architect Lisa Reindorf's multi-panel painting series, Sea of Troubles, will receive a solo exhibit at Brown University's Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (154 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island) as part of the university's Arts and Environment Initiative starting on August 27, 2018. Aerial views of infrastructure along the East Coast … [Read more...]
Heather Clark: Climate Change Barge Project
Heather Clark is the first artist-in-residence at the Woods Hole Research Center, the leading climate change think tank in the country. From her interviews with climate scientists, she developed an DISSONANCE, an artwork that was produced off the coast of Woods Hole, Cape Cod this past summer. The piece was a performance on a barge in the ocean. The DISSONANCE project … [Read more...]
Matthew Mazzotta: Cloud House
Matthew Mazzotta's (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow '11) new project CLOUD HOUSE, is a "cloud" that rains on a tin roof when you sit in the rocking chairs (location: Farmer’s Park – Springfield, MO). CLOUD HOUSE is a unique rain harvesting system that creatively reuses the rainwater it collects to provide a deeper look into the natural systems that give us the … [Read more...]
Madge Evers: Mesmerizing Prints from Mushroom Spores
For the love of fungi, western Massachusetts artist Madge Evers grows her own...ink. Yes, she makes prints by using the spores that fall out of the gills of the mushrooms that she grows. My art work begins, as so many things do, in the garden. I make images using the millions of tiny spores that fall from the gills of mushrooms that I grow in piles of wood chips. The … [Read more...]