Liza MacKinnon
July 30 – August 17, 2025 Mapping the Heart
Community Engagement– Saturday, August 16, 11:30am FREE at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Join Liza MacKinnon for a mixed media exploration of place, home, and the journeys we take. Select maps and images from her extensive collection (or bring your own) to create visual links, honor special places, and define locations that resonate with your life to create your mixed media “Mapping the Heart” masterpiece. During the workshop, MacKinnon will teach embroidery on paper techniques and offer guidance on collage.
Liza MacKinnon utilizes paper as her primary medium. She states: “Printed, painted, pulverized and lovingly presented, paper gives voice to my inner world. Whether I am exploring mental illness by quilting pages from the DSM IV, stenciling sonnets to honor an Elizabethan writer, or stitching together faux currency to create a statement about money and warfare; paper never ceases to provide.”
While in residence at MSA, MacKinnon will be creating an adult life-sized dress in a complicated and unusual form inspired by some of the silhouettes and drapery from the late 1700’s or early 1800’s; completely out of embroidered paper.
This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Holly Hughes and Katie Pearl
July 7 – 21, 2025, Writers, Theatre Artists
Community Engagement– Saturday, July 19, 11:30am FREE at the Jemez Springs Public Library. A conversation between Holly Hughes and Katie Pearl about creating art that addresses unsolvable issues. What does it mean to create artwork about topics that resist easy solutions? This included a performative reading of sections from a work in progress and a writing workshop focused on developing autobiographical material for the stage or page.
Holly Hughes is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work explores the complex fault lines of identity. Her blend of poetic imagery and political satire has garnered significant attention, placing her at the forefront of America’s cultural discussions.
Katie Pearl is known for her work that uses theatre to examine the climate crisis. Her recent production, “Ocean Filibuster”, was showcased at Harvard’s ART Theatre and subsequently toured to Duke University and the University of Utah.
During their residency at MSA, Hughes and Pearl worked on a new collaborative project titled “Indelible.” This multimedia solo stage show, performed by Hughes, imagines that they have been commissioned by Professor Anita Hill and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to continue the work that the FBI began. Their goal was to conduct a thorough and fearless investigation into not only the specific allegations made against Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas but also the broader crimes of the patriarchy and the subsequent cover-ups related to those issues.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai
May 3 – 18, 2025
Community Engagement– Saturday, May 17, 11:30am FREE at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Performative Lunch Lecture on Theme of Migration and Belonging and the history of the Jemez.
Prima Jalichandra-Sakutabhai is a visual mixed media artist who earned their Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts, San Francisco after completing studies at both the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.
Jalichandra-Sakutabhai utilized their time at MSA to delve back into projects already started as well as worked on new sculptures based on video and photo footage captured at a recent trip to Etretat, France, that captures the remnants of World War II on the Normandy coast against the stunning landscape of white chalk cliffs. Jalichandra-Sakutabhai feels they work best at a distance from the subject of research. “Distance allows me greater freedom in inserting fiction, assumptions and personal memories into the telling of history.”
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Farida Hughes
April 6 – 22, 2025
Community Engagement– Saturday, April 19, 11:30am FREE at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Painting workshop that incorporates natural patterns found in the Jemez landscape to create abstract art.
Farida Hughes is an abstract painter who plays with layering and transparency to explore interconnectedness. Hughes uses these explorations as a way to “refer to and reflect upon sociological themes, such as the blending of ethnicities and cultures, bridging divides, and finding joy”.
While at MSA, Hughes immersed herself in the Jemez landscape and used found plants and materials to create natural dyes. Hughes used these natural dyes to create new works based on the local environment.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Robin Luce Martin
September 3 -23, 2024
Community Engagement- Saturday, September 21, at 11:30 AM at the Jemez Spring Public Library. Writing Workshop
Robin Luce Martin found herself drawn to writing in her early 40’s after a separation. Martin took a writing workshop and has never stopped. Martin’s first story attempt led to winning the Tennessee Williams Fiction Festival. A story, “Exit, Enter, The Ghosts,” was published in the London Independent Story Prize 2023 Anthology. In residence at Mission Street Arts Martin will work on the novel version of this story, The Romance of Exiting which was started in 2020.
Robin Luce Martin conducted a generative writing workshop: Forming Stories and an open writing mic. The workshop included writing prompts, discovering various points of view and giving them a voice.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Amory Abbott
July 19 -August 2, 2024
Community Engagement– Saturday, July 27, at 11:30 AM at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Charcoal Drawing Workshop and Discussion focused on climate.
Amory Abbott is a visual artist living in Vancouver, BC, Canada and currently teaching illustration at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. As a contemporary landscape artist Abbott’s use of charcoal as medium transform snapshots into timeless, futuristic and otherworldly forms. Abbott explains “considering the multitude of human and ecological histories that have taken place, I want to create work that depicts both momentary and diachronic visions of the landscape”.
While at Mission Street Arts Abbott had the opportunity to explore a very different landscape and to focus his “attention toward unfamiliar lands, materials, cultures, and ecologies, and see how my drawings might change with new inputs”.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Gabby Raven
June 21 – 30, 2024
Community Engagement– Saturday, June 29, at 11:30 AM at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Collage and Poetry Workshop
Gabby Raven is a poet and visual artist from central Connecticut currently traveling in New Mexico. Her work focuses on the intersections of the body and the spaces it occupies, specifically natural environments, utilizing both collage and poetry. While in residence at Mission Street Arts she created a chapbook of poetry and collages exploring construction of selfhood in relation to the natural world.
Gabby Raven conducted a collage workshop at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Raven explains “collage as an eclectic medium of uncovering and expression through found objects”. In this workshop participants will explore ways to piece together printed materials and ephemera into a work of art.
Raven says, “We will focus on paying attention to what we each find eye catching, or thought provoking and find ways to weave a story or emotion through the use of color, shape and resonate imagery”.
Kai Mammoser
Kai Mammoser Valley Lights on Facebook
May 25 – June 2, 2024
Community Engagement– Saturday, May 25, at 11:30 AM at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Live performance and discussion
Kai Mammoser aka Valley Lights is an composer and musician. Mammoser grew up in and around Jemez Springs.
While in residence at Mission Street Arts Mammoser wrote and composed a body of songs that will become his sophomore “Valley Lights” album that will be ready to record when he returns to his home studio. He focused on the concept art, album design, explore stage production for live performance, and a music video storyboard.
Kate Bredeson
https://www.reed.edu/theatre/bredeson/
April 16 – May 14, 2024
Community Engagement- Saturday May 4, at 11:30 am at the Jemez Springs Public Library. Talk on current project “The Diaries of Judith Malina”.
Kate Bredeson (she/her) is a writer, teacher and theater historian base in Portland, Oregon. Bredeson has MFA and a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama. Bredeson states “her project as a scholar is to research, write about, and practice the ways in which theatre can be a tool for radical activism and protest.”
During her residency at MSA Bredeson annotated and edited the diaries of Judith Malina which she has been working on for 8 years. Malina was an anarchist Jewish German-American (1926-2015). Bredeson states, “Malina wielded theatre as a way to change the world. Her diaries describe The Living Theatre’s decades of defiance against capitalism and commercialism, and its struggles while making art as a form of resistance.”
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre
October 6 – 9, 2023
Community Engagment- Chai Chai, a play on Sunday, October 8 at 7pm in the Jemez Springs Village Plaza
Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre is an innovative theatre group that was founded in 2014 by creative Director Dara Silverman who had the idea to take a play across the country by bike. ARBTT mission is “to make innovative theater accessible, promote cycling as a viable means of transportation, inspire reverence for our natural landscape and foster creative connections between artists, activists and cyclists.”
ARBTT came through the Jemez Valley in the Fall of 2023. This troupe tours by bicycle, bringing their sets, props, musical instruments, costumes to then put a on free, creative and usually humorous play.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Daniela Molnar
September 4-11, 2023
Community Engagement- Reading and discussion from Molnar’s book “Chorus”, on Saturday, September 9 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Daniela Molnar is a creator, painter, paint forager and writer who has an MFA from Warren Wilson College. During Molnar’s first residency at Mission Street Arts in 2019 she worked on her book “Chorus” which has since won the 2021 Omnidawn 1st/2nd book prize.
In Molnar’s own words her “art is about transmuting grief to wonder in order to help shape and nurture generative new questions, feelings, and ethics about what it means to be human at a time of socioecological crisis”. Molnar retunred to Mission Street Arts to focus on short poem films, gathering material for pigments and creating cyanotype prints.
Molnar led a reading and discussion on Saturday, September 9 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Katie Cooper
August 7 – 21, 2023
Community Engagement- Visual poem workshop Saturday, August 19 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Katie Cooper is a mix media artist who uses painting and collage to create wall installations. Cooper received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.
While at Mission Street Arts Cooper created small panel compositions that will then be hung together to generate what she describes as a “elements of a visual galaxy, of points and connections greater than themselves”.
Cooper’s residency was funded in part by the Arts Foundation of Tucson and Southern Arizona with funding from the City of Tucson and Pima County.
Cooper led a visual poem workshop based on her method of collage on Saturday, August 19 at the Jemez Springs Public Library.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Jenna Annunziato
July 10 – 31, 2023
Community Engagement- Painting and collage workshop Saturday, July 29 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Jenna Annunziato is a visual artist, who received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. In 2020 Annunziato had exhibitions at the Hudson Valley New Folk at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and the Kingston Annual showcase at the Kingston Art Society. She is currently a member of Redline Contemporary Art Center’s satellite studio program and works out of the Evans School in the Golden Triangle in Denver, Colorado where she lives.
While in residence at Mission Street Arts Annunziato explored the surrounding landscape and used found objects and images to make paintings and a mixed media collage. Annunziato led a collaborative painting and collage workshop focusing on memories and the role colors, patterns and shapes take in them. This was held on Saturday, July 29 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Soulaf Abas
June 9 – 23, 2023
Community Engagement- Interactive Talk Saturday, June 17 at the Jemez Springs Public Library and Open Studio Sunday, June 18 at Mission Street Arts.
Soulaf Abas was born in Damascus, Syria. After receiving her undergraduate degree in painting she returned to Syria where she began to document the destruction she witnessed in her work. Abas received her Master of Fine Arts in painting from Indiana State University in 2013 and currently lives and works in Terre Haute, Indiana where she teaches art at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology.
Abas, while in residence at Mission Street Arts, created paintings, pastels, and watercolors that explore the subject of “Loss”. Abas explains, “traumatic experiences can change us in undetectable ways, and grief can alter our outlook on life. Art is a powerful tool to navigate these experiences and to process them.”
Abas conducted an artist talk on Saturday, June 17 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library and had an open studio to view the new work created while in residence on Sunday, June 18 from 11:30-1pm at Mission Street Arts. This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer
May 8 – 21, 2023
Community Engagement– Reading and discussion on May 20, 2023 at the Jemez Spring Public Library.
Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer is a composer, playwright, writer and documentarian. Cheslik-DeMeyer has created amazing work from Y’all, an old-time vaudeville story telling act that has four CDs, two books, and appeared on MTV and Comedy Central to LIZZIE a rock show with various productions all over the world.
Currently, Cheslik-DeMeyer is working on a new musical “Jack” and his first non-fiction book. He is a Jonathan Larson Grant finalist, a MacDowell Fellow, and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in American Studies. He and his husband live in New York City.
During his residence at Mission Street Arts Cheslik-DeMeyer focused on his first nonfiction book that he describes as “memoir, family lore, queer history, and true crime”.
Cheslik-DeMeyer conducted a workshop on Saturday, May 20 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library. This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Susan Roden
April 1 – 14, 2023
Community Engagement– Collaborative banner (prayer flag) workshop Saturday, April 8 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library and an Open Studio on Sunday April 9 from 11:30-1pm at Mission Street Arts.
Susan Roden is an artist and designer who lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While in residence at Mission Street Arts Roden will finalize a project, Aging . . . A Female’s Perspective, which will then be shown at The Harwood Art Center of Albuquerque.
In Roden’s words, ” the multi-platform installation centralizes upon females’ perspectives of the physical, emotional and professional impacts of aging. The exhibit is comprised of three segments with the first of art dresses, an iconic symbol of the female gender.”
Roden ran a flag/pennants banner workshop on Saturday, April 8 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library. This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Sophie Anne Edwards
October 13 – 31, 2022
Community Engagement- Saturday, October 29th from 11:30-1pm, Creative Walk and Talk Beginning at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Sophie Anne Edwards is a geographer, geopoet, walker, and environmental artist who lives on Mnidoo Mnising|Manitoulin Island, Anishinaabeg a territory in northeastern Ontario, Canada. She has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies, a PhD(ABD) from Queen’s University (Canada), and a Certificate in Creative Writing (Humber College).
Edwards, as the founding artistic/executive director of
4elements Living Arts, has designed and curated numerous ecological/land-based projects including the Connections Trail which won an Ontario Lieutenant Governor award for cultural landscape heritage preservation, the Drawing Box project, the Bonnie Blink land use history research project (in collaboration with Queen’s University Geography), River School (the Art + Science of River Ecology), and Elemental Festival(multidisciplinary site-specific work).
Edwards’ intent, while at Mission Street Arts, was to enrich her co-creation with aquatic ecosystems and create works (drawings, poems, prints) in response to Jemez Springs. During Edwards’ time at MSA she will be collaborating with Minera Press based in Albuquerque.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Saya Moriyasu
September 19 – October 2, 2022
Community Engagement- Saturday, October 1 from 11:30-1pm, Sumi ink painting workshop by Saya Moriyasu, at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Saya Moriyasu paintings, drawings and sculptures are comprised of a mix of media ranging from ceramics to sumi ink. Moriyasu received her BFA from the University of Washington and is represented by the J.Rinehart Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
Moriyasu, while at Mission Street Art made many works on paper with inks, watercolors and oil paints.
Moriyasu led a Sumi ink painting workshop at the Jemez Springs Public Library on Saturday, October 1 from 11:30-1pm.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Linda D’Elia and Emily Devine
July 10 – 16, 2022
Community Engagement- Saturday, July 16 from 11:30-1pm, Collaborative painting workshop at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Linda D’Elia and Emily Devine, a mother daughter artist team, gathered images and information about the natural world around Jemez Springs, and collaborated to create new artwork during their residency at MSA.
D’Elia is a painter who is currently exploring the natural world in her home state of South Carolina through outdoor observation, photographs, and studio work.
Devine is a multi-disciplinary artist from Nevada, with experience in graphic design, painting, photography, sculpture, and textile work.
D’Elia and Devine taught a class entitled “Two Heads are Better than One“. This collaborative painting workshop was held Saturday, July 16 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library.
Juan Negroni
June 19 – July 9, 2022
Community Engagement- Large Scale Outdoor Art Installation Located on the truck outside Los Ojos
Juan Negroni is a Caribbean artist producing work in the United States. Negroni’s objective has been to use his practice to talk to others, establish dialogs and respond to questions about socio-political issues, folklore, geography and other subjects related to Puerto Rico and its history.
Negroni’s work has been strongly dependent on a colorful imagery often related to the Caribbean and cultures deviated/influenced by Africa. At Mission Street Arts he plans to re-evaluate the use of color and its role within his practice, establish new conversations and find other vanishing points to outline the conceptualization of his work.
Negroni created a vibrant Large Scale Outdoor Art Installation on the 18 wheeler in the parking lot of Los Ojos Restaurant and Saloon in Jemez Springs.
This project was supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library, Los Ojos Restaurant and Saloon, and After the Thunder newspaper.
Brandi Homan
www.brandihoman.com
May 21 – 29, 2022
Saturday, May 28 from 11:30-1pm- Writing workshop at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Brandi Homan is an award- winning novelist and poet. Homan has a PhD in English, Literature & Creative Writing (Fiction), from the University of Denver and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. For “Burn Fortune”, her first novel, she is the winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction.
While in residence at Mission Street Arts, Homan will be worked on her second novel, “You Are Not The Problem Here”.
Homan ran a well attended and engaging writing workshop.
Callous Physical Theatre
Joséphine A. Garibaldi and Paul Zmolek
www.callousphysicaltheatre.com
April 17 – May 7, 2022
Saturday, April 30 11:30-1pm – An an Artist Talk at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Callous Physical Theatre is a collaborative, project-based endeavor guided by our slogan, “We go where the work takes us.” From environmental and performance installations, movement and text-based visual poetry, Garibaldi and Zmolek have devised original performance, installation, and digital works nationally and internationally together for three decades.
During their residency, titled “Jemez Springs: A Sense of Place”, Callous Physical Theatre surrendered to the majestic environment of Jemez Springs and created work in responsive to their experience. CPT intentionally seeks out residencies where deep connection with the rhythm of land, seasons and environment is vital to sustenance.
Garibaldi and Zmolek shared their work created at MSA as well as past work with the Jemez Springs community. Please check out their website and links to the videos they created while in residence
Jim Gladstone
September 13 – October 6, 2021
September 25 and October 2, 2021- Artist Talks at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Jim Gladstone, a writer living in San Francisco, shifted gears while in residence to focus on his manuscript, titled “The Love Song of Mookie Macaw”. Some of the topics related to his work are: “What are similarities and differences in the relationship between artists and their art and the relationship between parents and their children?, what cartoon characters have had the biggest impact on your life, and what important objects or activities from your life are unfamiliar or strange to people a generation or two younger than you?”.
The community outreach aspect of the residency was a series of interactive gatherings, during each of which the artist gave a brief presentation of one of the ideas he was exploring in this novel and then facilitated a discussion and personal storytelling around the topic with attendees.
Russell Prather
June 18 – July 31, 2021
July 17, 2021- Artist Talk at Jemez Springs Public Library
July 24, 2021- Open Studio at Mission Street Arts
Russell Prather designed and created four new hanging pieces during his residency. These art pieces will be incorporated into a traveling solo exhibition of new work called “And the Heart is Pleased by One Thing After Another.”
Prather also conducted an artist talk at the Jemez Springs Public Library discussing his process, as well as a open studio at Mission Street Arts showing his work.
“The Mission Street Arts artist residency is professionally managed by a great bunch of people in a beautiful and interesting place. The residency provided me with everything I needed—facilities, tools, moral support, community involvement—to be innovative and productive as one of its visiting artists. Very highly recommended!”
Russell Prather
Monique Martinez
June 5 – June 12, 2021
June 12, 2021- Collage Workshop at Jemez Springs Public Library
While in residence, Monique Martinez immersed herself in the research she has done about her family’s New Mexico genealogy to create four new pieces. Photographs, painting, computer generated images, and personal artifacts were stylized in personal collages depicting their life stories.
Her form of storytelling was shared with the community during a collage workshop that took place in Jemez Springs Village Plaza, June 12th between 11am to 1pm, in collaboration with the Jemez Springs Public Library.
“My overall impression of the residency was very positive with a welcoming tour of the residence upon my arrival that made my stay very comfortable.”
Monique Martinez
Elise Martin
https://www.elisemariemartin.com/
May 20 – May 31, 2021
May 29- Natural Dye Workshop at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Elise Martin is a Detroit-based visual artist working primarily in the areas of fiber arts and sculpture. As a maker of objects, she has become invested in exploring the autonomy of the things she creates, and the power of inanimate objects in general to influence human behavior. Much of her work revolves around intimacy, empathy and connection between persons and the role that objects play in either facilitating or obstructing these relationships.
Elise Martin creates sculptural works that tip-toe the line between passive object and active participant. While in residence Elise led a plant based fabric-dying and textile-printing workshop in association with the Jemez Springs Public Library.
“The residency at Mission Street Arts offered me a rare opportunity to make art away from the distractions of my daily routine. After visiting, I completely understand why so many artists before me have sought out New Mexico as a source of creativity. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the folks at Mission Street Arts, as well as exchanging ideas and sharing experiences with the creative community of Jemez Springs.”
Elise Martin
Hayden Harasta
May 6 – May 16, 2021
May 15- Installation and workshop at Jemez Springs Village Plaza
Hayden Harasta, while in residence worked on a large interactive synthesizer sculpture taking the shape of a tentacle. The final creation was immersive and interactive, with buttons that could be pushed and played by visitors. The installation was located at the Jemez Springs Village Plaza on Saturday May 15th from 9am – 9pm.
Also on Saturday, May 15, Harasta lead workshops where participants each created personal pocket synthesizers that can be played. The hour-long workshops took place at the Jemez Springs Village Plaza, adjacent to the installation. The workshops were suitable for all ages, with some knowledge of tools.
The suggested donation was $20 to cover material costs with sponsorships available for kids and teens. These workshops were presented in association with the Jemez Springs Public Library.
“It took everything I had, and I couldn’t be happier”
Hayden Harsta
Daniela Molnar
October 15 – November 15, 2020
Molnar used the time at Mission Street Arts to recalibrate, reflect, and explore while expanding on three existing projects.
Check out this article in Variable West on her art and her residency here at MSA: https://variablewest.com/2020/11/26/interview-daniela-molnar/
The New Earth Series This project was recently the topic of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com. This series envisions how climate change is reshaping our planet and our embodied experience of it.
The Topography of Water/WEB series. The special relationship of Jemez Springs to water will no doubt have a wonderful impact on this series, which explores local pigments and materials, using the waters, rocks, and plants of a particular place to meditate on the ever-changing nature of riparian systems and oceanic systems.
Words in Place Project. wordsinplace.org This collaborative project activates public spaces with temporary artistic installations of poems referencing those spaces.
Molnar has her Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry (pending), from Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina. She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz, CA with a Graduate Certificate in Scientific Illustration and has a BA in Environmental Studies and Art, from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. She continues her studies at the School of Visual Arts (NY) and Pratt Institute (NY).
“I loved every second of my time at MSA. My overall impression is that of four extremely good people in an extremely special place making an extremely good thing happen together with love, care, and dedication.”
Daniela Molnar
181 Collective
October 2 – October 9, 2020
October 9 – Situational Composition – “Tilde: At The Coming Of The Night”
The 181 Collective is made up of Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, and Jason Rhodes. Over the course of the residency the collective sketched together, collected, and built, all with an eye toward a “one night only!” situational composition. Various special guest artists from across the country participated via the internet including Brittany De Nigris, Aaron K. Hoffer, Mike Marks, Phil McGaughy, Joe Netta, Mike Roche, Charlotte Thurman, and Jacob Zimmerman.
The 181 Collective also were visiting artists/guest lecturers via zoom with 65 first year undergraduate art students at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE on 10/5 and on 10/6 they were visiting artists/guest lecturers via zoom for the intermediate and advanced ceramics classes at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM while in residence.
As a collective, the 181 is interested in creating situations that generate experiential spaces which expand, contract, or reassemble as information sloshes about. They attempt imperfect approximations of the universe as a whole. The members of the collective can be described as a physicist/electronic engineer/musician, a mushroom forager/rockhound, and a linotype operator—any attempts to formalize their practice they view with distress.
Walter McQuie
February 15 – March 30, 2020
February 29 – Salon Discussion at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Walter McQuie stated that, “Following a happenstance but oh so enchanting visit to Northern New Mexico 15 years ago, I have occupied and explored our mountains and high desert, canyons, mesas and badlands. This evolving relationship has involved me in two creative endeavors—market gardening and landscape photography—that benefit not just from specialized knowledge but insight and passion. After seven years of sharing my experiences growing vegetables, I join Mission Street Arts to invite you on my photographic journey of exploration and seeing.”
Sylvia Warner
February 15 – March 30, 2020
Sylvia Warner stated that, “For me, weaving is a metaphor for life. My tapestries blend old yarns with new approaches, the designs always changing, evolving on the loom. As with life, intuition is important.” Fiber Arts and writing are the paths of Sylvia Warner’s second career after university/ college teaching in the humanities for a quarter of a century. “I enjoy every aspect of weaving: the quiet and meticulous work of warping the loom, the excitement of color and pattern combinations as I begin, the pleasure of developing an idea.” Sylvia’s tapestries are rich in texture and color, showing the natural landscapes around her home setting in the Sangre deCristo mountains of northern New Mexico. Mesas, mountain ranges, high desert meadows frame scenes of a solitary hogan or a distant pueblo.
Warner retired early from teaching English Language and Literature ( mostly in Canada ) back in 1996, and then studied weaving at the El Rito Campus of Northern New Mexico College for a couple of years. She worked on her own for a decade, taking classes from local masters such as Rebecca Bluestone and Ted Hallman. She has exhibited her works at the Fine Arts Gallery of Jemez Springs, joining the collective at the same time as the sculptor Murphy. We became good friends. Sylvia’s home is north of Cuba, NM, where you find her living ‘close to the land’, writing, walking her two dogs – Bravo and Encore, taking cello lessons, and sketching.
“I am delighted to be a part of Mission Street Arts. It’s peaceful yet vibrant community setting, provides inspiration for me to pass on what I have learned.”
Sylvia Warner
Doug Omstroff
Summer 2019
August 14 – Public Demonstration at the Jemez Springs Public Library
August 17 – Workshops at Mission Street Arts
Doug Ohmstroff has been a practicing glass artist for over 25 years, creating works in both Hot Shop and Flameworking techniques. As a child, Doug was fascinated with campfires. Making glass art satisfies this enduring fascination with fire and the materials that it transforms. As he says, “flame-working is like playing with a stick with a hot ember on it for the first time”.
Originally from the Philadelphia area, Ohmstroff worked in a number of local glass studios including: La Sorgente, Taylor Backus, Bucks County Community College, The Crefeld School, Tyler School of Art, Glass Light, 160 Studio, Hudson Beach Glass, and the Corning Museum of Glass. He assisted teaching glass blowing and art therapy for adults and teenagers at the Crefeld School and Bucks County Community College.
Ohmstroff’s glass sculptures are influenced by nature and his practice of foraging. When he was young, he says he was excited to scavenge for natural forms- fossils, frogs, shells, starfish, blueberries, black walnuts. Foraging in nature became an inspiration for him today. Doug Ohmstroff brings the natural form to the torch to transform glass into sculpture.
Ohmstroff relocated to Colorado in 2009 and built a glass studio focused on Flameworking. Currently, he teaches Flameworking workshops for adults and children in the community.
Aaron Wexler
Spring 2019
March 24 – Art/Work/Life: a Q&A with Shawn Dubin and Aaron Wexler at the Jemez Springs Public Library
March 30– Open Studio at Mission Street Arts
Aaron Wexler created new studies for larger work and held an open studio. Along with Shawn Dubin they held a panel discussion at the Jemez Public Library entitled Art/Work/Life a Q&A.
Wexler is based in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He has exhibited with galleries in New York City London and Tokyo. His work is in the collections of numerous public and private collections including the West Collection, Saatchi Collection and the Fidelity Collection.
Shawn Dubin
Spring 2019
March 24 – Art/Work/Life: a Q&A with Shawn Dubin and Aaron Wexler at the Jemez Springs Public Library
Shawn Dubin continued work on his upcoming book, “Simon”. Along with Aaron Wexler they held a panel discussion at the Jemez Public Library entitled Art/Work/Life a Q&A.
Dubin is an illustrator and tattooist living in New Orleans. He is the co-creator/illustrator of the Dreary & Naughty book series along with author John LaFleur (The Misadventures of Dreary & Naughty, Friday the 13th of February, and The ABCs of Being Dead, published by Schiffer Publishing).
Dubin also works on a handful of indie comics and is currently in the midst of writing and illustrating a graphic novel of his own. You may find him selling his wares at a local art market or sitting behind a table at comic cons across the country. He tattoos at Idle Hands Tattoo Parlour in New Orleans four days a week.
Mike Enright
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Summer 2018
Mike Enright created a new animated short for the Jemez Springs 2018 4th of July Celebration. The original 15 minute version was projected onto a 12 ft sphere that floated above the center of town while a live band played. The time lapse photography was captured while in residence at Mission Street Arts. Animated elements were created after the retreat in preparation for the festival. Apps used: Framelapse Pro, Adobe Animate CC, Adobe After Effects CC, and Adobe Premiere CC. Audio was captured with Samsung Galaxy 7. Special Thanks to Antonio Caamano.
Paradox Pollack
Winter 2017
Paradox Pollack created new writings while in residence.
Pollack is an actor, producer and movement director. He has worked directly with some of the biggest names in film including actors Robin Williams, Will Smith, Rene Russo, Chris Hemsworth, and Tom Hiddleston, directors JJ Abrams and Kenneth Branagh, as well as legendary stunt coordinator and second-unit director Vic Armstrong.
He was a co-founder of both Dream Circus and Mystic Family Circus (San Francisco). He created shows for Cirque Du Soleil and performed with many other companies, including Circo Zero (San Francisco),Bindlestiff Family (New York), Lucent Dossier (Los Angeles), and Cahin Caha (France). His extensive background in the performing arts created the foundation for his work as a fight choreographer and movement director for feature films.
“My time at the Mission Street Arts allowed me the tranquility and collaborative environment to really make headway with my book. The beauty of the environment and the space itself was all I needed to be able to focus and create.”
Paradox Pollack
Eric Schoefer
Spring 2017
Eric Schoefer was our first resident at Mission Street Arts. He spent his 5 days carving wood collected from juniper trees on the property. Schoefer can be described as a renaissance man living in Philadelphia. He is known for his work as a choreographer and being a passionate beekeeper.
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