Seven Below Artist-in-Residence
About the Program
The Seven Below Arts Initiative was established to foster artistic development and support arts education in the state of Vermont. Burlington City Arts, in partnership with Seven Below, is proud to administer the second annual session of the Artist-in-Residence program at The Barn, a historic property near Burlington, Vermont.
The five chosen residents were selected from a diverse range of applicants from all over the country. They are joined by new Seven Below Studio Manager and working resident R. Elliott Katz from Cabot, Vermont.
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Announcing the 2009 Residency Dates:
Session #1: May 31 - July 26, 2009
Session #2: August 2 - September 27, 2009
2009 RESIDENTS
Peter Miller started out as a magician in his native Vermont
and turned to art as a way to explore “illusions that are true.”
He is very interested in cinema and the moving picture, and he uses the
medium to study the line between the technical and aesthetic merits of art.
Miller currently lives in Cologne, Germany.
Mia Feurer comes from a Hebrew-Zionist education, and
has lived in occupied Israel and Palestine. The difficult cultural and geo-political
problems of our world play a big role in Mia Feuer’s art. Provoking
and unusual, Feuer’s work consists of architectural forms and installations.
Will Walker is fascinated by the architectural and historical aspects of the landscape surrounding him, and his art is a reaction to that. He expresses himself through on-site installations, fine art and craft projects and hopes to inspire viewers to reflect on the landscape surrounding them with his work.
Christine Gray is a Virginia-based artist and brings her
hyper-detailed painting technique to the Barn. Gray injects a dose of bizarreness
to her tableaus, giving a sense of distortion or parody to the everyday.
She is currently an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Lisa Iglesias plays with notions of scale and placement
in her art, by using intricate marks on a very large scale and displaying
her work in a variety of places, such as walls, ceilings, ‘zines,
and posters. A second generation New Yorker, Iglesias is part of the art
collaborative Las Hermanas Iglesias with her sister Janelle.
Maria Pithara, originally from Cyprus, uses her art to explore the interconnectedness of the actions and peoples in the world around her. Her art combines both performance and the moving picture.
2008 RESIDENTS
Charmaine Wheatley depicts everything from sunsets to eavesdropped conversations in watercolors, and will work on a Burlington area-based comic book during her residency.
Haisi Hu, a native of China, works with narrative videos by using animated puppets, toys and mannequins. She creates armatures for her characters and elaborated sets. The New York State Council for the Arts supported her last feature-length video, "Once Upon A Lifetime."
Matt Bollinger received his BFA in painting and creative writing from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. His paintings and drawings depict fictional social groups who congregate at music shows, in art collectives, or at karaoke bars.
Meghan Gordon received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work explores the world of period rooms and their relationship to painting.
Wylie Sophia Garcia is currently enrolled in a low-residency MFA program with Massachusetts College of Art and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. This September 2008, she will defend her thesis and graduate.
Seven Below Artist-in-Residence Manager
A sculptor, Elliott's work explores the intersection of man and nature. His methods include hybridizing natural forms and spaces with unnatural materials or modifying man-made objects to reference natural forms. He is currently preparing a series of cast concrete sculptures for his upcoming show, "Cultivate," with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in June 2008.
REACHING OUT...
The Outreach Program connects the resident artists with the community through workshops in local schools and camps, public lectures, and community events.
PAST RESIDENTS
- Klara Hobza (‘07) gave a public lecture at the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts in Burlington, discussing her artist/naturalist project that attempts to banish the European Starling as an allegory to the expatriation of humankind.
- Anna Schachte (‘07) worked closely with an area elementary school to explore the links between poetry and visual art. The workshop led students through an exploration of poetry inspired by a selection of paintings and, after an engaging discussion, guided the students in writing their own poetry.
- Carlos Ferguson (‘07) took his educational component directly to the streets. Using his projection-fitted Airstream for film screenings of found and re-edited home movies, Carlos engaged locals at the supermarket, in town parks, and at public gatherings.
- Josh Reiman (‘07) created a dynamic opportunity for a crew of interns and volunteers to document his performance-oriented project, including the construction of a monumental pyramid from hay bales.