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Update-Georgia Rowswell on Residencies

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360 Xochi Quetzal -on the Lime Casita steps enjoying the great weather in 2016

Artists residencies happen all over the world in all kinds of situations, cultures and climates. With a little bit of Spanish and a lot of excitement, I embarked on a personal residency  at 360  Xochi Quetzal in the Fall of 2016 to work on my year long  Leap 366 Life Ring project.

Residencies are all about giving artists the gift of time. Time to work on current projects and time to incubate new ideas. Fast forward to my February 2021 residency in the  High Plains of Ucross Wyoming, population…25!

Ucross Foundation for the arts was started by philanthropist  Raymond Plank in 1983 to, ” foster the creative spirit of deeply committed artists and groups by providing uninterrupted time…” Surrounded by snow and a few days of temperatures that dipped to -22 degrees, I was able to spend hours in my beautiful studio working on projects that revolve around textiles as storytellers.
 
Today I continue to work on ideas and artwork started in Ucross in my downtown Cheyenne studio while dreaming and scheming about my next residency adventure! 
 
 
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My Ucross studio
Story| Lines -- flexible, modular piece made up of textiles containing personal and global stories both known and unknown
Lift

Update-New Works Michael Pribich

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Lift, installation with used hand-trucks outfitted with chrome extensions, and support belt.   Lift was part of  the exhibition Backstitch at Verge Center for the Arts 2019-20 which culminated the  Ali Youssefi Project / Residency.    The residency and exhibition ended abruptly because the pandemic was beginning in the United States.
 https://www.vergeart.com/exhibitions/ali-youssefi-project-residency-exhibits-jodi-connelly-and-michael-pribich/ .   A digital and hard copy catalog are available if you would like to see more.

Essential, 2020,  30 x 30 x 17″ (detail of larger installation with suspended gloves), brown cotton work gloves over steel rod armature .  Essential will be included in the upcoming exhibition Vida, Muerte, Justicia  (Life, Death, Justice) at the Ogden Contemporary Arts in October 2021.   Ogden Contemporary Arts . The show is curated by Jorge Rojas and Maria Del Mar Gonzalez. 

Black Support 2021, interlocking leather support belts suspended with chain.  Belts made with two color leather with sewn mirror inlay.  Black Support was made in May 2021 in Mexico  while participating in the 360 Xochi Quetzal Residency in Chapala and Guadalajara.   I work with talabartero (saddle maker) Victor Parra to make  support belts.
1521:  While in Guadalajara I did research on the history of African slaves brought to Mexico.  My mother’s family is from Chihuahua and I want to know more about this history.   Around the year 1521  Africans slaves  were brought to present day Vera Cruz to work as slave laborers including work in the silver mines and sugar cane fields.   This work continues with drawings and different versions of support belts. 

Paper Support, Work in progress using paper bags used for holding cement. The cement bags weigh 90 lbs, so the paper is heavy.  I will continue this work at  NARS RESIDENCY in Brooklyn beginning 7-1.     

I continue research into the movement of African slave into Mexico, around 1521, as well as NYC labor.   (Across the street from my Canal St studio is a Chinese pasta factory that each night  throws out huge bundles of brown paper bags used for holding 50lb flour sacks.)  Slave labor in Mexico, present day Chinese labor on Canal St are part of the under-recognized work force building the new world. 

Michael Pribich
sky7@mindspring.com
www.michaelpribich.com 

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Update-Deborah Kruger’s Summer Blog

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Even though the pandemic has slowed down so many parts of the culture economy, things have been lively for me and I thought you enjoy hearing about where my art will be this summer.

Since January, my work has been represented in two international Biennales. Kimono is traveling around Australia as part of the Art Textile Biennale sponsored by Fibre Arts Australia.

One of our 360 Xochi Quetzal residents from Melbourne, Louise Saxton, went to see the show and here’s a picture of her looking at my piece. She was kind enough to also send me a copy of the catalogue.

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Abandon was chosen to be exhibited in the prestigious Rufino Tamayo Bienal in Mexico. This exhibition showcases the work of the top 51 painters in Mexico. The show opened last October at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO). The pandemic has stalled the traveling schedule and we are eagerly waiting to hear about the next venue.

Abandon
Accidentals

Like many artists, I am beginning to show more on-line. The Raleigh Fine Arts Society (RFAS) is sponsoring a virtual North Carolina Artist Exhibition. This year they have organized a virtual retrospective with new work by North Carolina artists who were juried into previous shows in 2018 – 2020.  My new mural-sized piece Accidentals was chosen for this exhibition.

Accidentals, along with Casanare and Turbulence will all appear in a show entitled Abstraction organized by Manifold Global, an international on-line gallery. I’ll be interested to see what kind of coverage and response I get from exhibiting on-line.

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Turbulence

In late July, I will be heading to Shelton, WA for a two-week artist residency in Holly House at Hypatia-in-the-Woods. This is a very competitive residency as they only accept one artist at a time. We are given a beautiful residence in the woods and two weeks of delicious time to focus on our work.

I plan to spend the time drawing some of the endangered birds I’ve been researching. I have never been to the Pacific Northwest and I’m excited to visit this part of the US.

I have work under consideration at some other exhibitions and grants, so stay tuned for more good news!

Holly House at Hypatia-in-the-Woods
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Update-5 authors Tod Goldberg recommends you read right now

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The author of 'The Low Desert' tells you about the books you're going to want to check out.

“Liska Jacobs, ‘The Worst Kind of Want’ “The Worst Kind of Want” is Jacobs’ second novel and it’s painful, sexy, lost, and deeply rendered. More importantly, it sets up Jacobs for what I think is about to be her breakout novel, due next year, about life in Los Angeles. For my money, she’s somewhere between Janet Fitch and James M. Cain — she doesn’t write noir novels intentionally, but they end up feeling like noir novels anyway.”

Read the article:
https://www.pe.com/2021/01/27/5-authors-tod-goldberg-recommends-you-read-right-now/

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Update-Jan Huling on Artsy

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A self-proclaimed “beadist”, Jan Huling coats the surfaces of found objects with brightly colored seed beads. Through surface design and elaborate patterns, she recontextualizes familiar objects, masking original forms to add whimsy and transform the mundane into something special. Inspired by a fascination with indigenous cultures, mythologies, and pop culture, Huling’s patterns echo tessellating African textiles, Southeast Asian Buddhist architectural ornamentation, and Mexican embroidery. Working with an air pen to place beads, as well as buttons, coins, tokens, and similar found objects, Huling adorns any object that catches her eye, and creates approachable, evocative objects that elevate the everyday.

Visit Jan Huling on Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/artist/jan-huling

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Update-Special Recognition Art Award in Sculpture

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InBodied Light, Woman #3 & Man #3

Zahava Sherez is the winner of the Dr. Janet Jordan Special Recognition Art Award in Sculpture for her “InBodied Light”: Woman #3 & Man #3. Curated by Renée Phillip, founder of The Healing Power of Art and Artists. The exhibit entitled “The Spirit of Resilience” can be viewed through November 4, 2020.

(https://www.healing-power-of-art.org/the-spirit-of-resilience-exhibition/)

See more: https://zahavasherez.com/special-recognition-award/

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Update-JAI Featured Artist of the Month- Shelley Heffler

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Shelley Heffler - Quarantine Blanket 60" x 42"

Dear Art Lovers,
I am honored to be recognized by Jewish Art Initiative as Artist of the Month for my artwork. This new body of work follows my Rescued Refuse series, inspired by the materiality of used vinyl banners, The process of manipulating the vinyl, tearing, slicing, cutting and painting leads to shapes that ebb and flow in time and space. 

To see The Shape Shifters, click HERE

Studio visits are available by appointment.
Stay safe, stay strong.
Shelley

Website: http://www.shelleyheffler.com/

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Update-Selena Anderson wins Rona Jaffe Foundation Award

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We are proud to announce that one of our 360 Xochi Quetzal Resident Writers, Selena Anderson, is one of the six winners of the prestigious Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. This prize is granted to writers who demonstrate great talent and promise and comes with a $40,000 award. 

Anderson says that when she got the call about winning the prize, she tried to sound cool but was silently jumping up and down. Her nominator writes, “Selena articulates, through brilliant prose, the fears and thoughts that preoccupy modern society. I have been consistently struck by the ways in which she balances the confidence of a mature writer with the vulnerability that characterizes the most impactful work. There is, at once, an emotional honesty and physical reality to her writing that has captivated me from story to story.”  She also won the Transatlantic/Henfield Prize in fiction writing.

Selena is finishing a novel about three best friends who write letters to men in prison and working on a new project about the Texas-to-Mexico underground railroad. Anderson says that she will use some of the prize money to fund childcare so that she can finish some of her work-in-progress. https://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/2019/Winner/Selena-Anderson

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Update-John Clinock-Chapala Paintings

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Vancouver painter John Clinock, who was here last year, recently updated us with the completed paintings that he began during his stay in Chapala.

THE MAGICIAN - 17x14 in. 43x36 cm. Acrylic on paper

About John Clinock

I’m a visual artist in Vancouver, BC. Canada.I work in a variety of media including words, painting, drawing, and  mixed media.I teach and workshop the creative process of art in the community with a belief in the healing power of the act of art.
Making art enchants me. The sensual and quintessentially magical process of making something from nothing animates my life.

I play and lose myself in the act of art.

I work until I disappear.

Each new piece I make is a deeply personal journey, a dance with those aspects of consciousness that are mysterious and elusive.

I approach each working surface as I would a new relationship, a Fun-House mirror, or a dream, in search of another disclosure of self.

 My art is an unfolding path of exploration and adventure, a dance of flesh and spirit, a poetry, a making magic on the edge of the unknown.

La Dama de las Flores - 17x14 in. 43x36 cm. Acrylic on paper
Lola and Smudge - 17x14 in. 43x36 cm. Acrylic on paper
Tres y Muerte - 17x14 in. 43x36 cm. Acrylic on paper
An Unexpected Encounter - 17x14 in. 43x36 cm. Acrylic on paper

CONTACT:

 My email: johnclinock@gmail.com

My blog:  https://clinock.com

Instagram @johnclinock