Rockland Woods is nestled on 20 acres of second growth forest with direct lake access. The landscape is 150 years of rich and energizing natural beauty. The closest neighboring towns are Bremerton, Port Orchard, and Belfair.
Congratulations to the ten selected artist and writers for the 2022 Emerging Artist and Writers Residency! This year marks the first Emerging Writers component to the annual Emerging Artist Residency, and all residents will receive a month of lodging and stipends in October 2022. We can’t wait to have them at Fort Worden and learn more about their work. Stay tuned for podcasts and updates in the Fall. A huge thank you to all the applicants and jurors for their hard work throughout this process. Read more about the finalists and jurors below
based on the blurred / censored instagram
mode of controlling content on images &
stories. Who is censoring, what bodies &
experiences are censored? How can
algorithms continue oppression of
marginalized bodies?
a collaborative exhibition & experience:
multimedia sculptural installations, video,
pop-up market, workshops, artist talk, dj
sets, performances, & discourse.
SHAME
SEX
PLEASURE
BODY
DESIRABILITY
SCREENSHOT
Paragon Art Gallery
OPENS: 09/30 : 2022 : 6:00PM
815 N Killingsworth st
by maximiliano
Supported by Paragon Art Gallery Residency
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts Precipice Grant
GASPAR YANGA
2017-2021 & 2022
Forest for the Trees at Railspur July 21-24
Seattle, WA
MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION
LIVE PERFORMANCE:
JULY 23 8pm Railspur 3rd floor
GASPAR YANGA is a Black Liberation based evolving multimedia collaboration, born from RISE x FALL; between rubén garcía marrufo and maximiliano. Inspired by Gaspar Yanga, an enslaved African in Mexico, that escaped and formed a maroon society on what is now the state of Veracruz, the project takes from our mixed cultures as a border stranded mexican and an afro-chicanx artist, in the wake of empire. Weaving time collapsing narratives through video installation, site-specific sculpture compositions, and participatory performances as a means to explore new havens; in vain.
mononymously named, maximiliano, is a conceptual artist exploring a Black reclamation rococo multimedia mythos of themes & concepts of multiplicity & fluidity & race, blackness, pleasure, desirability, innocence, & imagination; digitally, physically, & communally.
ig: @thulsa_moon
rubén garcía marrufo is a border artist.
https://rubengarciamarrufo.com/
ig: @ruben_garciamarrufo
This first iteration of Gaspar Yanga, curated by Sharita Towne @ FFFT@ the Railspur Building in Seattle is supported by Black Art Ecology of Portland, The Ford Family Foundation, and the Oregon Community Foundation.
Forest For The Trees is taking over the historic RailSpur building in Seattle’s Pioneer Square for a 4 day, 70,000+ SQ art activation. Visitors will experience 8 floors of immersive installations, solo interventions, large group exhibitions and daytime live music in the historic neighborhood brick alley.
FFTT believes that artists play a vital role in the cultural ecosystems from which they grow, and aims to protect and expand their reach amid an ever-changing environment. We will be partnering with an array of artists and organizations that share these values with their respective communities. Our hope is to increase public accessibility and engagement with a diversity of work from emerging artists, both local and visiting.
Participating exhibitions include Forest For The Trees, Derek Bruno, Gaspar Yanga(rube, 12,143 curated by Axel Void, Howl curated by Lele Barnett & Amanda Manitach, Ancient As Time by Christopher Martin, and XO Seattle [XO Seattle Daily tickets sold separately]. its~Olafur-you+me by Christopher Derek Bruno & #GlitchGoddess by Marjan Moghaddam curated by Future Arts Co
FFTT will be located two blocks from Seattle Art Fair
Art-Performance-Drinks-Friends-Free
21+
Presented by:
RailSpur, Walsh Construction, A Black Art Ecology of Portland, Treadwell, Evergreen Gavekal, Sonder, Huxley Wallace, Georgetown Brewing, Liquid Death, The Stranger Seattle
Produced by:
ARTXIV
YVML offers residencies to visual artists, writers, musicians and performers so that they may explore a wide range of material. Residencies last up to three weeks and include lodging, full access to the lab, technical assistance and opportunities for intellectual exchange through public symposiums and lectures, studio visits and workshops. Head to the ‘Residency’ page on this website to see details.
YVML also offers introductory to advanced instructional workshops. These workshops are led by internationally established artists and designers who have taught in venues such as Bild-Werk Frauenau Academy, Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack, Penland, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, Ninety Twenty Studios, Urban Glass and Northlands Creative Glass. Students in the workshops also have an opportunity to work alongside and learn from YVML's artists in residence.
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YVML is partnered with High Desert Observatory (Yucca Valley), Bullseye Glass Co (Portland, OR) and The Ford Family Foundation (Roseburg, OR)Yucca Valley Material Lab is a creative platform comprised of intensive artist residencies, instructional workshops and public event programs.
YVML offers residencies to visual artists, writers, musicians and performers so that they may explore a wide range of material. Residencies last up to three weeks and include lodging, full access to the lab, technical assistance and opportunities for intellectual exchange through public symposiums and lectures, studio visits and workshops. Head to the ‘Residency’ page on this website to see details.
YVML also offers introductory to advanced instructional workshops. These workshops are led by internationally established artists and designers who have taught in venues such as Bild-Werk Frauenau Academy, Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack, Penland, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, Ninety Twenty Studios, Urban Glass and Northlands Creative Glass. Students in the workshops also have an opportunity to work alongside and learn from YVML's artists in residence.
Join our mailing list or follow us on Instagram for announcements on the public events calendar.
YVML is partnered with High Desert Observatory (Yucca Valley), Bullseye Glass Co (Portland, OR) and The Ford Family Foundation (Roseburg, OR)
Iris Project Residency in Los Angeles, California offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practices’. We strongly believe that when creativity is freed from the pressure of production or material exchange, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the creative's time at the residency. Iris Project Residency is a sponsored project of Venice Arts, a non-profit arts service organization.
Three no-cost residencies are awarded each year. Additional residency are available at a low-cost. All residents are responsible for their travel, meals, and art supplies. There are no publication, exhibition, or performance requirements if granted a residency.
Special events and development opportunities may be arranged by Iris Project Residency as and when appropriate for the artist-in-residence. The residency program varies in purpose (dictated by the artist), duration (between one and two weeks), and selection process (open call or by invitation). Applications for the coming 2023/2024 season will open July 1st - July 15th 2023. Residencies will be announced at the end of August 2023. Referrals are considered on a rolling basis.
Please direct all questions and concerns to contact@irisprojectresidency.com.
World Premiere
AT THE END OF EMPIRE exists as live performance, large-scale three-channel video installation, and collectible video art tortas.
An audiovisual montage of documentary performance presents the artists in their day-to-day, performing the actions necessary to transit the inbetween. In undressing and veiling they will find stranding echoes of the forgotten eternal.
A ritual performance shows bodies engaging in the metamorphoses of space and self, rupturing with violent change, and imbibed into membrane as geometric choreography. A collapse, merging, and final discarding.
Conjured from liminal space, the artists of rise x fall consider the rise and fall of an empire and the possibilities between stability and instability. Taking inspiration from the ocean’s crashing waves against the earth, rise x fall simultaneously inhabits the space between the pain and fear of death, and the hope and growth of rebirth.
rubén garcía marrufo is a border artist.
Jaleesa Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and arts administrator currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been the recipient of the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Centrum’s Emerging Artist Residency, and Open Signal’s New Media Fellowship. She has exhibited her work in cities along the West Coast, including San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, and she occasionally facilitates workshops and classes in new media and performance art. Jaleesa also organizes public programs as Programs Lead in the Learning and Community Partnerships Department at the Portland Art Museum.
mononymously named, maximiliano, is a conceptual artist working in BLKwvv, a generative multimedia mythos: a Black reclamation rococo aesthetic and agenda based in exploring and expanding the multiplicity and fluidity of the Black self through pleasure, desirability, innocence, and imagination as performance, video, GIF, sculpture, thought, and publications.
Performers:
Mazey Moon
Coco Madrid
Breana DePriest
Inaki Morales
Onyx Andra
Eric Fury
Stevie Biga
Samantha DeJarnett
Sponsored by Alberta Abbey Foundation, Caldera Arts, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Compliance Division, Spaceness 2018, Familia Garcia Marrufo, Roxana Gomez, and Sharita Towne.
LIVE PERFORMANCE of ANDROIDS IN THE TOWER at Performance Works Northwest
July 16 8pm
July 17 8pm
Limited Capacity / Tickets on Sale July 1st
SHOW STATEMENT
Entanglement at Night at Paragon Gallery is a window exclusive night time exhibition. A collection of video works from artists maximiliano, Jaleesa Johnston and Sarah Brahim working with gestures of embodiment within and through digital and physical landscapes. These works form dialogues between performances within a nature of physical space, through a nature of the body and extension into video space.
LIVE SCREENING of ANDROIDS IN THE TOWER video with MOBILE PROJECTION UNIT, Nov 20th 2020
LOCATION : TBA
a PATER_CIDA performance, a multimedia mythos
by maximiliano ft. Onyx Andra. funded by a REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL
+performance , video , publications , digital platforms , GIFs , clothing
+ androidsinthetower.com
+ critical review by Melanie Stevens , dramaturg : keyon gaskin , technician : Alejandra Arias Sevilla , videographer : rubén garcia marrufo.
rise x fall will be a part of TBA 2020
Nat Turner Project, hosted by c3:initiative, proudly presents ANTIDOTE, an exhibition of four artists in two parts over the course of six months, activating the windows of c3:initiative for an exterior facing display, for those who choose to see.
Support Beam intends to strengthen artists towards a long-term re-imagination and multi-pronged activation of their work, with no restrictions on media. Participating artists will contribute virtual work-in-progress share-outs which will be released on RACC’s web and social media platforms—follow along! At the conclusion of the artists’ work period, one art piece will be acquired into the Portable Works Public Art Collection.
Support Beam is not structured by simple transaction or purchase; its goal is to support artists’ long-term creative practice and livelihood, outside of a fixed expectation of production. Inspired by the depression-era Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), this program utilizes “Percent for Art” funds from Multnomah County to commission a body of public art without restriction to media or themes, and aspires to sustain as many artists as possible during a precarious economic and political time.
This new opportunity prioritizes Black artists, Indigenous artists, and artists of color for several reasons. Initially this prioritization was made to acknowledge the disproportionate impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has on BIPOC communities. With the rise of racial justice movements, and our country’s expansive confrontation and dialogue around privilege, we collectively began to define this disproportionate impact as a direct result of historical and ongoing systemic inequities. In addition, the Public Art Collection is being increasingly diversified. Through these Support Beam additions, and intentional additions to the Visual Chronicle of Portland, the collection begins to more accurately represent the many distinct communities who enliven our region.
The artists were selected by a group of panel members that similarly reflect the artist community Support Beam is intended to uplift and give voice. This panel of artists, arts workers, County staff and writers reviewed almost 200 artist applications and, through hours of conversation and collective decision making, awarded about 10 percent of artists who applied.
Studio residency at Performance Works NorthWest
3rd NAT TURNER PROJECT ANNUAL FUNDRAISER
RENT PARTY
BAEP/ alberta abbey 126 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211
NTP will curate a group show at WOU
3.5 weeks in Sisters, OR at the beautiful Caldera Residency to reflect , make art & friends . w/ the marrufos
month long residency at a house in SEATTLE to make art & meet ppl
Curated by Nat Turner Project
swallow is a multi-channel video installation of visual gestures from contemporary television and film exploring parts of black femme existence considered less desirable for consumption. what resistance sits wet and warm in the offal? swallow considers the different imperatives around consumption that exist for black bodies and what it feels like to hunger for things that catch in your throat. how do we read black femme queerness into, underneath and behind these visual spaces? how does it look, feel and sound, to open things up so that we can fit inside?
Ashley Stull Meyers
Derrais d.a. Carter
Leo Ariel
Patricia Vasquez
ariella tai is a video artist, film scholar, and independent programmer from queens, new york. they are interested in the materiality of black bodies and black performance as vernaculars which subvert, interrupt or defy the diegetic cohesiveness of narrative. they currently re-appropriate, glitch and video process existing media in attempts to rupture and reconstruct some of the messier emotional realities of black femme existence. they are one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of black women and femmes in film, video and new media art.
Nat Turner Project (NTP) functions as a radical space seeking to fill a void in Portland, Oregon, one of the least diverse metropolitan cities in America. NTP allows artists of color to go beyond the usual expositions inherent in presenting the art of marginalized perspectives to a dominant culture; allowing them the freedom to create or express their own language within and without the parameters of racial commodification or designation. NTP creates an environment of inclusivity –– a communal harbor for artists previously silenced by institutional constraints –– and actively provides them spatial priority. Nat Turner Project is made up of Melanie Stevens and maximiliano. Melanie has a background in Political Science, drawing, and sequential art. maximiliano does performance, installation, and poetry. They each bring a variety of skill sets to the project, ranging from curatorial and organizational experience to social practice and public relations.
Free with admission to late night and/or performances at PICA (All Ages)
may 24th city hall, portland, or.
kiki nicole x black apotrope // paragon gallery pcc cascade portland, or
feb-march 2018
s1 portland will host cvllejerx for the 1st 6 months of 2018
to use the synth library + throw events
