PAST WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE
Irina Botea Bucan
January-April 2024
While in residency, Irina developed an artist book examining the Eastern European Cultural Houses model through the lens of what she calls the roommate-image. This approach involves an 'entangled' method of generating and interpreting images, emerging from her research into the historical model of the institution itself.
January-April 2024
During her residency, Colleen created a vignette of accommodations to support individuals who are pregnant students, educators, and/or cultural workers. Through interviews with current and formerly pregnant people as well as her own personal experience, she designed resource tools to empower future individuals to ask for reasonable modifications that support their temporary disability.
September-December 2023
Molly’s residency project expanded an essay on mess, disorder and process into a book-length exploration of painting's roots in sensation, disorganization and poetics. Material—greasy paint, nubby fabric, sparkly glitter, seat-less chairs, and empty shelves—haunt our digital, data-based information society that values the "well-organized" above all else. This writing project follows poetics, finding connections between language as material (words as sound, letters as shapes) and metaphor.
September-December 2023
Max’s residency project focused on developing narrative text for an installation about a formative encounter and friendship with another black boy in New York City during the late 1990s, and the profound impact of globalization, tech optimism, and cultural exports from Asia Pacific—namely Japan and counterfeit products from China—on their identities as black millennials in America. By intertwining personal experiences with these larger forces, Max’s project seeks to create a nuanced and complex portrayal of identity formation within the broader societal and political landscape of the late 20th century.
May-August 2023
During the residency, Alex developed a collection of essays to accompany a body of photographic sculptures created over the course of a decade. Research for this project included a range of interconnected topics from the evolution of google image search, the history of still life painting, feminist architecture and the role of zombies in our contemporary psyche. Both the sculptural works and the essays point to the potential failures of representation—the infinite attempts and inevitable impossibilities of accurately capturing, quantifying, and preserving the life that is present.
January-April 2023
As both a healing arts practitioner and an educator of art and design, Alex works in responsive practice allowing each of these positions to inform one another in pursuit of repairing the fracture between artist and healer. During her residency, Alex developed a workbook that calls on exercises from both her classrooms and her client work, giving participants a structure for reconnecting with their creative practice to support long-lasting shifts in patterns of thought and behavior.
Elizabeth Lalley
January-April 2023
During her residency, Elizabeth drafted a short ghost story set in a flower shop, drawing on influences from contemporary auto-fiction to explore the parallels between hauntings, unfinished creative work, and the process of mourning.
September-December 2022
Tirtza worked on an artist book that weaves writings from and about some of her more personal projects, with images from these projects, alongside reflections on auto-ethnography more generally, as well as on artists and writers who have influenced her work.
September-December 2022
During his residency, Shabtai began work on his first artist book. The book was based on his research and creative work with an archival collection of passport images taken during the first organized immigration from Yemen to the State of Israel, in 1949. The work traces the painful story of the 1949 Yemenite immigration while contemplating the issues that emerge when working with archival material in the context of Israel / Palestine.
Daniel H. Walden
January-April 2022
Daniel’s project developed as a response to the pandemic and the difficulties it prompted in terms of isolation and conducting outreach. His work asked: what could a project look like that’s intended to focus on sharing creative output, with an aim to help reestablish connections and emerge from the isolation of the pandemic?
Shane Rothe
September-December 2021; January-April 2022
Shane worked on a novel set in a veiled mid-west, where ghosts accompany a family submerged in a flume of corporeal memories. Water-logged and desperate for a witness, each person attempts to define their life against the narrative given by their ethereal companion. The ghosts have their own desires and obligations for the stories they tell, driven by a fear of closure.
January-March 2020
June-October 2019