Artist Residencies at Centrum

Call for Artists

Wanted: Artists for a Centrum visual artists residency. Now artists who want the time and space to pursue their work at Centrum can apply for a grant to cover the weekly fee.

Max and Sherry Grover of the Max Grover Gallery, Teresa Verraes-Landis of Artisans on Taylor, and visual artist and Centrum community member Karen Hackenberg are putting the first monies into the fund. If you're an interested artist and/or funder, please contact Centrum Residency Coordinator Sally Rodgers at 360.385.3102, x128 for more details on how to apply and get involved!

"It's another way to contribute to the growth of the visual arts in Port Townsend," Sherry Grover says.

Skyscapes

Diane Wilkinson's work centers on big skies. The Harris Gallery in Houston notes that "The land or water is an abstract footnote to the paintings, overwhelmed by the size and scope of the skies." The daughter of an oilman, (and now married to one), Wilkinson has lived all over the world, but always under the same sky. "The clouds draw our attention into their dark centers," the Houston Gallery notes, "where raw power and energy is offset by whimsical wisps of sunlit vapor away from the stormy center."

The August, 2007, issue of Experience magazine will feature an article on Wilkinson and her work. (Top image is "Denver Wheatfield," oil on canvas, 48 x 60. Side image is a skyscape of Kinsey Beach at Fort Worden State Park.)

Sonatas on the Baroque Flute

Courtney Westcott was a Centrum Creative Resident in both 2006 and 2007. Her main focus is the baroque flute, the precursor to the silver flute. The baroque flute was the flute of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe: a continent caught between the old monarchies and the new, revolutionary ideas of science and liberty. Unlike the silver flute, the baroque flute is made of wood, and has a “gorgeous, sensual, vocal sound,” says Westcott, who fell in love with the instrument while a student at Oberlin in the early nineteen-seventies. “It has a lot of colors and dimensions,” she says. “The way it plays when you play the Bach sonata, for example, has a greater subtlety of articulation than does the silver flute.” 

The study of early music and musical instruments has now become mainstream, but as recently as 1975, places to study baroque instruments were scarce. Courtney Westcott went to The Hague, which was at that time a central location for studying early music. She stayed for five years, teaching in a music school to support herself—in that way becoming fluent in Dutch. She later became the first woman to receive a Soloist Diploma on the baroque flute from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

  Westcott currently makes her home in Seattle, and plays the flute both as a soloist and in orchestras. She is a founding member of Zephyrus, a group devoted to late eighteenth-century repertoire. Together with flutemaker Peter Noy, she collaborates on the research and development of flutes based on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century originals.   

2007 Artists in Residence

JANUARY
Jean Stefancic (Writer, Pittsburgh, PA)
Richard Delgado (Writer, Pittsburgh, PA)
Ellaraine Lochie (Writer, Sunnyvale, CA)
Patrick Carrington (Writer, Wild Crest, NJ)

FEBRUARY
Anne McDuffie (Writer, Seattle, WA)
Katie Humes (Writer, Bellingham, WA)
Diane Wilkinson (Visual Artist, Houston, TX)
Syrenka Slettebak (Writer, Seattle, WA)

MARCH
Lisa Olsen (Writer, Hadley, MA)
Valerie Powell (Visual Artist, Pullman, WA)
Isaac Powell (Visual Artist, Pullman, WA)

APRIL
Eric Barber (Composer, Shoreline, WA)
Bonnie Nelson (Writer, Forks, WA)
Darsie Beck (Visual Artist, Vashon, WA)
Bruce Trinkley (Composer, State College, PA)

MAY
Theresa Lovering-Brown (Visual Artist, Aptos, CA)
Luke Jennings (Writer, Seattle, WA)
Susan Gofstein (Visual Artist, Chicago, IL)
Courtney Westcott (Musician, Seattle, WA)
Peter Noy (Musician, Seattle, WA)

JUNE
Jane Ashley Butler (Writer, Iowa City, IA)
Ellaraine Lochie, (Writer, Sunnyvale, CA)
Linda Buckmaster (Writer, Belfast, ME)
Leslie Brody (Writer, Redlands, CA)
Robert Rice (Writer, Bozeman, MT)
Jolie Kaytes (Visual Artist, Moscow, ID)
Elise Moore (Visual Artist, Oakland, CA)
Patrick Carrington (Writer, Wild Crest, NJ)
Gregory Harris (Writer, Cambridge, MA)

AUGUST
David Owen Hastings (Visual Artist, Seattle, WA)

SEPTEMBER
Joseph Woodridge (Visual Artist, Seattle, WA)
Patricia Staton (Writer, Astoria, OR)
Artists Trust (EDGE program, Seattle, WA)
Hillary Raphael (Writer, New York, NY)
Marc Fendel (Musician, Seattle, WA)

OCTOBER
Rachel Bravmann-Bevens (Writer, Seattle, WA)
Nancy Sirkis (Photographer, New  York, NY)

DECEMBER
Laura Kaminsky (Composer, New York, NY)
Rebecca Allen (Visual Artist, New York, NY)
Jim Hobbs (Visual Artist, Seattle/London)