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' activities and...

Text and sketches by Sketch Artist Amy Forsyth No sooner had we returned from Echo Lake than it was time to pull our postcard together for our upcoming exhibition.  The only problem was that we haven't really had enough time to finish anything (or maybe even start...

Sketches and text by 2019 ITE "photojournalist" Amy Forsyth The first week of our residency is coming to a close. On Day 1, we were given a tour of the wood shop by shop guru extraordinaire, Tara, whose benevolent presence provides advice and some materials for our...

Hello from Philadelphia! The 2019 residents have touched down, moved in, and started working! I am Amy Forsyth, this year's "photojournalist." You'll see that this year's documentation is a bit different, since I proposed to draw everything instead of photograph it...

Its been almost a month since the residency came to an end and we said goodbye to Philadelphia and The Center for Art in Wood. Now that I have most of my film develop, (yes, there are still some photos of the summer that I have not seen yet haha), I wanted to post...

Janine and Michael exchanging some words. Seán, Janine, Michael, Jack, Jong-rye, Navva, and Mark at the Wharton Esherick. Jong-rye at the deck at Wharton Esherick deck. Michael and Seán: the start of a beautiful friendship. Janine, Brian, and Jong-rye. Oh! did I...

Some of the ITE Fellows were inspired by a dinner conversation about corn and decided to turn some.  Check out the video below: https://www.instagram.com/p/BkgXmTYFWzo/?hl=en&taken-by=morganhillcreative Here is a very blurry photo of Vivian Jack, and Cristina...

Our second week started with our weekly meeting followed by a group clean-up session.   The second half of the week we headed to DC. This trip was filled with amazing and an overwhelming amount of incredible art as...

Our first week as  ITE Resident Fellows has been jammed pack with exciting things, only to realize we have a lot to do in such a short time! Artist presentation was completed on the first day at The Center for Art in Wood. Your new ITE Resident Fellows for 2018 are...