Musician and Centrum Creative Resident Marc Fendel just completed a residency using the Dan Harpole Cistern here at Fort Worden (and its 44 second reverberation) as a recording and musical instrument.
Marc sent us a link to a brief video clip of Kevin Nortness playing banjo in the Cistern during the residency. Marc tells us that they also recorded in HD. We can't wait to see that.
[Video of Kevin Nortness playing banjo.]
Creative resident and visual artist Kim Kopp was interviewed recently by fellow artist Counsel Langley over on our Visual Arts site.The result is a fascinating look 'behind the scenes' of an artist's process. Read the whole thing.
March 14-April 12, visual artist Kim Kopp is presenting an exhibition at the Fetherston Gallery in Seattle entitled "Pathways and Echoes," with an artist reception Friday, March 14, from 5 to 7 pm.
Port Townsend visual artist Julie McHugh will present an open studio on Saturday, February 9, from 4-6 pm in the upstairs of Building 205. She will show photographs and photo intaglio prints.
McHugh uses a “simple” film camera, and develops and prints her own work. After taking a photo itaglio workshop taught by Marsha Slomowitz and Jay Haskins of Corvidae Press, she discovered the most satisfying physical form for her work to take: water-based inks on high-quality natural-fiber paper.
“My main artistic interest has been taking black and white portraits, landscapes and still lifes with a special interest in capturing nature’s gifts,” McHugh says, “whether it be a tree, a child, or an artful scene created by someone.”
McHugh has shown her work in multiple solo and group shows, won the Merit Award from the Northwind Arts Alliance, and had her images published in many newspapers and
magazines.
"I strive to capture the essence of moments, individuals, landscapes, objects, and scenes which are beautiful or interesting to me," McHugh says. "I try not to disrupt what occurs naturally or to perfect it, simply to document, the only manipulation being subtracting the color and minimizing the depth of field. Sometimes, I add color back with pencils. It is interesting to see how things appear in linear time, in print--what shows through and transfers, visible or not, and what is missed or what happy accidents occur. It provides an avenue through which to study myself and the magical, mysterious gift of life and our world."
Originally artists Sean Edwards, Jim Hobbs, Maria Glyka, Lisa Peachey, Ellie Reid, and Daniel Whibley were drawn together because of their overlapping interest in working with space, place, and site. Be it pragmatic and rational, poetic and futile, or historic, and cultural, they each use their artistic practices to investigate how they relate to, and experience these terms.
For their residency at Centrum, they have created new, individual works, which are either inspired by, or are incorporated into the specific location and architecture at Fort Worden and the surrounding area.
Their works will be shown in Batteries Quarles and Randol, situated along the main gun line, as well as in their studio—Building 205 (upstairs). Quarles and Randol are the bunkers up past Memory's Vault. The installation will be open from 11am-5pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can access this area through the gate near Copper Canyon Press and bear to the right at the first opportunity. We'll have signs to get you to the gate.
ADA Volunteers will be on hand Saturday from 3-4 pm to guide installation viewers.
There will also be artists in studio in Building 205 on Saturday from 3-5pm to show work in an Open Studio. They will discuss—through dialogue and through the works themselves—how they deal with and are affected by the notions of space, place, and site.
Centrum is seeking a Development Director to develop, nurture, and manage over 1,500 individual and institutional relationships to inspire $1,200,000 million in annual charitable giving. If you're interested in joining a dynamic and passionate team, read more at The Centrum Information Center blog.
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.
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)
Established
in 1980, Centrum's artist residency program aims to create an environment where
ideas, music, writing, art and more can be developed, and eventually
disseminated.
Centrum residencies are about time and space. With both, you’ll have the opportunity to grow as an artist or creative thinker.
Our residencies are open to artists, thinkers, activists, performers —anyone involved in creative endeavors. A residency may involve either the solitary creative work of an individual or the interactive work of a group. It can focus on a single genre or be multidisciplinary. A residency may involve active engagement with other Centrum programs, artists, and communities, or it may serve as a reflective retreat.
Residencies are awarded on a space-available basis, in week-long blocks (Friday-Friday). Residencies are available as space exists in Centrum facilities--generally January through June, and August through December. Some resources are available year-round.
