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 will run a flag/pennants banner workshop on Saturday, April 8 from 11:30-1pm at the Jemez Springs Public Library. 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.
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 will 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
May 21-29, 2022
Saturday, May 28 from 11:30-1pm- Writing workshop at the Jemez Springs Public Library
www.brandihoman.com
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
April 17 – May 7, 2022
Saturday, April 30 11:30-1pm – An an Artist Talk at the Jemez Springs Public Library
www.callousphysicaltheatre.com
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
May 20 – May 31, 2021
May 29- Natural Dye Workshop at the Jemez Springs Public Library
https://www.elisemariemartin.com/
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
Summer 2018
https://enrightmike.wordpress.com/
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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