We've been very fortunate to have artist Ben Whitehouse as part of our Arts Center this winter. Ben has been working in our 2nd floor studio space and interacting with students and visitors throughout the week. He will be with us through April 13. We hope that the public will take full advantage of Ben’s time with us and stay alert for upcoming events and programs with him.
Our Living Studio residency is a new and ongoing program provides a meaningful platform for local and national artists to transparently make and share work. The residency focuses on artistic visibility and public engagement around contemporary artistic practices and processes. The Art Center views its residency as an investigation of openness, generosity and exchange while challenging traditional notions of art studio.
Our faculty, students, exhibiting artists, and community members will culturally benefit from our artist-in-residence program through its interrelated programming and opportunities to engage an artist at work. So often art audiences are asked to attend gallery openings to passively view finished art, our residency provides a space to examine works in progress and speak with the artists about her/his ideas in real time. This open studio model demystifies the artistic process by letting the community in to view and talk with an artist at work.
The Living Studio encourages artists to imagine what they can do in their time with us, we are open to all possibilities and encourage artists to work on-site, off-site in the community, hold studio hours for the public, facilitate a class or workshop, and facilitate some culminating event (give a talk, produce text, or mini exhibition).
We encourage you to find out more about Ben Whitehouse at:
http://www.whitehousestudio.com