ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS HOSTS 145TH ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Atlantic Center for the Arts Hosts 145th Artists-in-Residence
Dates: MAY 14 – JUNE 3, 2012
Atlantic Center for the Arts hosts its 145th artists-in-residence program with Master Artists: PAUL DRESHER- composer, JOANNE GREENBAUM- visual artist, GREGORY ORR- poet, and 24 Associate Artists from across the globe. Selected through a competitive application process, the arriving artists will have the opportunity to work and collaborate with their contemporaries for three weeks.
Each residency gives the public five free opportunities to interact with artists over a three-week period. From opening receptions, to outreaches at universities and other cultural institutions, and an opportunity to tour artist studios and attend an informal presentation of their works, Atlantic Center provides amazing opportunities for the public to come in contact with, learn from, and engage with contemporary artists who are creating our cultural legacy. Check calendar below for receptions & outreach events.
PAUL DRESHER, composer
Paul Dresher is an internationally active composer noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own personal style. He pursues many forms of expression, including experimental opera and music theater, chamber and orchestral composition, live instrumental electro-acoustic music performances, musical instrument invention, and scores for theater, dance, and film. As an experienced collaborator with artists from all performing disciplines, he also has been actively involved as a producer in collaboratively-created opera, music theater and new media projects. For more information about Paul Dresher please visit www.dresherensemble.org
Associate Artists-in-Residence working with Paul Dresher include: Patricia Alessandrini of Colmar, PA; James Bunch of Champaign, IL; Patricia Burgess of New York, NY; Quinn Collins of Princeton, MA; Biddy Connor of East Brunswick, NJ; Ian Dicke of Austin, TX, Erik DeLuka of Charlottesville, VA; and Cassis Birgit Staudt of Brooklyn, NY.
JOANNE GREENBAUM, visual artist
Joanne Greenbaum lives in New York City and Berlin, Germany. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her exhibitions include survey shows at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, and Museum Abteiberg in Monchengladbach, Germany. She has also exhibited at PS 1, The Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas, CCA Andratx, and the Schurmann Colection in Berlin. She is represented by D’Amelio Terras in NYC, greengrassi in London and Nicolas Krupp in Switzerland. In addition, she is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and has been an artist in residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, as well as Skowhegan and Greenwich House Pottery. For more information about Joanne Greenbaum, visit www.dameliogallery.com/artists/joanne-greenbaum/
Associate Artists-in-Residence working with Joanne Greenbaum include: Meghan Calhoun of Long Island City, NY; Martha Clippinger of Brooklyn, NY; Jennifer Cohen of Brooklyn, NY; Jason Dunda of Chicago, IL; Amanda Friedman of Brooklyn, NY; Rebekah Goldstein of San Francisco, CA; Pierre Obando of Sunnyside, NY; and Eli Ping of Brooklyn, NY.
GREGORY ORR, poet
Considered by many to be a master of short, lyric free verse, Gregory Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry. His most recent volumes include How Beautiful The Beloved, published in 2009, and Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved, published in 2005, both by Copper Canyon Press. His other volumes of poetry include The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (2002); Orpheus and Eurydice (2001); City of Salt, Finalist for the LA Times Poetry Prize; We Must Make a Kingdom of It; and The Red House. Orr has received many awards and fellowships, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence. For more information on Gregory Orr, visit www.blueflowerarts.com/booking/gregory-orr
Associate Artists-in-Residence working with Gregory Orr include: James Cooke of Higganum, CT; Caiatlin Doyle of East Hampton, NY; Elizabeth Kerlikowske of Kalamazoo, MI; Sophie Khlar of Houston, TX; JJ Penna of Princeton, NJ; Katherine Riegel of Brandon, FL; Elena Tomorowitz of Hattiesburg, MS; and Debra Wilk of Sanford, FL.
Friday, May 18, from 5 – 7 PM
Reception to welcome the Artists-in-Residence
ACA Pabst Visitor Center & Gallery, 1414 Art Center Ave., NSB.
Free/public invited. For more information, 386-427-6975
Monday, May 21 at 7:30 PM
Gregory Orr — reading – followed by Q & A, and book signing
ACA Joan James Harris Theater, 1414 Art Center Ave., NSB.
Free/public invited. For more information, 386-427-6975
Thursday, May 24 at 6 PM
Joanne Greenbaum — illustrated talk – followed by Q & A
Florida Museum for Women Artists, 100 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
Free/public invited. For more information, 386-873-2976
Monday, May 28 at 7:30 PM
Paul Dresher – composer forum – followed by Q & A
ACA Joan James Harris Theater, 1414 Art Center Ave., NSB
Free/public invited. For more information, 386-427-6975
Friday, June 1 at 7 PM
INsideOUT- Closing reception/presentations and informal studio visits
ACA Joan James Harris Theater and artists’ studios, 1414 Art Center Ave, NSB.
Free/public invited. Cash Bar. For more information, 386-427-6975
This residency is sponsored, in part, through the generous support of the Pabst Endowed Fund, which makes possible the Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers; The Joan Mitchell Foundation; 2012 Advance an Artist sponsors: Weldon & Brenda Frost. Enterprise Holdings Foundation, MetLife Foundation.