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Shana Agid is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and Assistant Professor at Parsons the New School for Design in New York, where he teaches artists' books, service design, and collaborative design. During her Spring 2012 residency at MCBA, Shana used the Vandercook SP-25 to print Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window, a map-fold book with original text that explores routes taken and spaces made by queer people in New York City from the 1970s through the 2000s.
Amanda Nelsen is a Massachusetts-based artist and teacher who works primarily with the book form. During her Spring 2010 residence at MCBA, Amanda created an editioned pocket-sized artist's book exploring our notions of "fine print" using paper made from pulped fine print inserts of credit card offer junk mail.
Frances Gordon traveled from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to work in the printing studios at MCBA in the winter of 2007. |
MCBA's Artist-in-Residence application system is undergoing renovation. We are creating a new modernized system to accept residency applications. Check back for updated eligibility guidelines, selection criteria, residency benefits, and a revamped application process. In the left and right sidebars, you can view profiles of past MCBA Artists-in-Residence and learn more about their work.
The Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is designed to support selected artists by providing financial and community resources, space, and equipment to assist in the creation and promotion of their work. Residencies may be from two weeks to three months in duration. MCBA's AIR program is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Studios and equipment are available to facilitate work in papermaking, printing and bookbinding. Artists-in-Residence also receive generous living and materials stipends, as well as a travel reimbursement up to $500. Participation in the program is based on the artistic merit of proposed projects as well as the degree to which artists further MCBA's artistic vision: to preserve the traditional crafts of fine printing, bookbinding and papermaking; champion book art as a vital contemporary art form; and demonstrate the critical role artists' books play in the advancement of cultural and visual literacy.
MCBA's 2012-2013 Artist-In-Residence program was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Melissa Wagner-Lawler (Summer 2012) used handset type and photopolymer plates to create her artist's book Everything You Hear. By printing, overprinting, and using subtleties in ink, she created a visceral, delicate surface on the page enticing the viewer to decipher the message. The prints were then bound using a drum leaf structure and cased into a hard cover.
During his Fall 2009 residency, artist Cole Hoyer-Winfield produced a visual narrative made of dozens of hand-carved woodblock prints, based on the problematic and intriguing history of the Minneapolis mill district.
Dennis Ichiyama, Professor of Art and Design at Purdue University, worked in the printing studio at MCBA. During a two-week residency in the summer of 2006, he used MCBA's large collection of wood type to produce a series of prints. Dennis has been the recipient of NEH, NEA and two Indiana Arts Council Artists grants. In addition, he recently won a Rome Prize, sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, which awarded him a one-year residency.
During his residency at MCBA, Asheville, North Carolina book artist Andy Farkas cut the woodblocks for the illustrations and printed and bound the pages for a book he wrote titled hmmm.... Andy's story is about a bear that tries to become a tree.
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