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08/29/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/29/2024 11:32
Weir Farm NHP Welcomes September 2024 Artist in Residence: Carla Stetson
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August 29, 2024
Artist-in-Residence Open Studio Program Saturday September 28, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Stop by the Artist-in-Residence Studio between 11:00 and 12:30 to meet September Artist Carla Stetson, view her work, and learn more about the Park's Artist-in-Residence program. Light refreshments will be provided by the Friends of Weir Farm. No registration required.
More about September's Artist-in-Residence Stetson received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College. She recently retired as an Associate Professor of Art at Ithaca College in New York and works full time in her studio. Previously, she lived in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is best known for her public art sculptures, Arising; The Language of Stone at the Great Lakes Aquarium; and The Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, the first large scale memorial to victims of lynching in the United States. Stetson's residency awards include Draw International in Caylus, France; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina; Saltonstall Foundation in New York; the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming; and the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Residency in Nebraska. In 2023, Stetson was a finalist for the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Drawing. She has received fellowships and grants from the Puffin Foundation, Intermedia Arts, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, the Minnesota State Arts Board and Ithaca College. Her work is included in several collections including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth, Minnesota, the City of Duluth, Minnesota and Carolinas Health Care in Charlotte, North Carolina.
August 29, 2024
Wilton/Ridgefield - Carla Stetson is a visual artist currently living and working in a barn built in 1840 that she converted into her studio and home on four acres near Ithaca, New York. Her work explores the tangled interrelationships between the wild and human in mixed media drawings, sculptures and installations.
"During a one-month residency my goal is to create two or three large mixed media pieces and many smaller collages and drawings experimenting with different techniques," says Stetson. "My primary goal is to create an extensive body of work that uses the braid motif as a metaphor for the necessary interdependency between that which we deem natural or wild, and the human or domestic."Artist-in-Residence Open Studio Program Saturday September 28, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Stop by the Artist-in-Residence Studio between 11:00 and 12:30 to meet September Artist Carla Stetson, view her work, and learn more about the Park's Artist-in-Residence program. Light refreshments will be provided by the Friends of Weir Farm. No registration required.
More about September's Artist-in-Residence Stetson received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College. She recently retired as an Associate Professor of Art at Ithaca College in New York and works full time in her studio. Previously, she lived in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is best known for her public art sculptures, Arising; The Language of Stone at the Great Lakes Aquarium; and The Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, the first large scale memorial to victims of lynching in the United States. Stetson's residency awards include Draw International in Caylus, France; McColl Center for the Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina; Saltonstall Foundation in New York; the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming; and the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Residency in Nebraska. In 2023, Stetson was a finalist for the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Drawing. She has received fellowships and grants from the Puffin Foundation, Intermedia Arts, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, the Minnesota State Arts Board and Ithaca College. Her work is included in several collections including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth, Minnesota, the City of Duluth, Minnesota and Carolinas Health Care in Charlotte, North Carolina.
About the Weir Farm Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program
Weir Farm's AIR Program fosters contemporary artistic expression on site and prioritizes experimental and thought-provoking approaches to examining and interpreting our world through the medium of contemporary visual art practice. The AIR Program keeps Weir's experimental tendencies alive allowing the Park to share new ideas broadly with ever more diverse artists, communities, and visitors. This program is supported by the generosity of Park partners, including Friends of Weir Farm.