by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 25, 2022 | Residency Blog |
Week 4 was a busy one! D Wood, the group scholar, arrived from Toronto and split her time between the Center for Art in Wood’s wonderful library and talking to each resident. As the visual documentarian, I COMPLETELY FAILED to get a picture of her early in the...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 11, 2022 | Residency Blog |
Week three was such a good one! It felt like all of us finally started to figure out how to work in the space, we started talking and sharing more with each other (it is a group of introverts!). On Monday we got an unexpected and lovely visit from Gord Peteran and...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 4, 2022 | Residency Blog |
Week two started a little late for a couple of us – Janice and I didn’t get back from the DC/Maryland trip until Monday afternoon. James was busy for the week, so from Tuesday to the weekend it was mostly Janice, Chris, and me. I did a bunch of carving...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jun 30, 2022 | Residency Blog |
Hello wood friends! We’re into week 3 and I still feel like I’ve just arrived, but we’ve had some great adventures and conversations so far, and soon Kailee Bosch will be joining us! I realize I have a zillion pictures to share with y’all about these first...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jun 26, 2022 | Residency Blog |
Hi friends! It’s been exactly two weeks since I arrived in Philadelphia, and after a bit of travel in the first week, we are all settling in and figuring out how and what to make. I thought I would share some of the images from our first week, which included...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jun 21, 2022 | Residency Blog |
Welcome to the Center for Art in Wood 2022 Windgate Artist Residency Blog! My name is Katie Hudnall and I am the Visual Documentarian for this year’s group. I am so excited to be in Philadelphia and working with the Center for Art in Wood and the rest of these artists...
by import_blog | Aug 4, 2019 | Residency Blog |
I’m writing my last post from home, having moved all my stuff out on Saturday with the assistance of my patient husband. Unfortunately, the elevator in the dorms was broken, so we carried all our stuff down four flights of stairs. The shop was a lot easier, with...
by import_blog | Jul 28, 2019 | Residency Blog |
Text and sketches by Amy Forsyth We’re really feeling the end of this amazing residency approaching! This past week, everyone scurried around, trying to finish things. Some of the larger pieces have already been delivered to the gallery. In the midst of it all,...
by import_blog | Jul 21, 2019 | Residency Blog |
Drawings and text by Amy Forsyth. Ellie Richards has added some wonderful photos to the earlier blog posts, so check them out! The weeks are flying by so quickly! And the studios are filling with amazing objects! This week, we’ve had to write artist statements,...
by import_blog | Jul 14, 2019 | Residency Blog |
Text and drawings by Amy Forsyth, 2019 Sketch Artist This week, our scholar, John-Duane Kingsley, joined us. His arrival gave us the opportunity to pause and assess what we’ve been doing over the past few weeks and adjust our course for the last three weeks....
by import_blog | Jul 10, 2019 | Residency Blog |
Text and sketches by Amy Forsyth, 2019 Sketch Artist The first half of this past week we were very productive. Everyone dashed about, carved, cut, shaped, turned, painted, drew, etc. And then, there was July 4 and 5, when the entire building, including the wood shop,...
by import_blog | Jul 1, 2019 | Residency Blog |
Text and sketches by “Sketch Artist,” Amy Forsyth This past week was the first one where we really were able to start working and focus for an entire week without interruption. Our heads were full of new ideas and images from our past couple weeks’...
