RESIDENCY AWARD
Beginning your career as an emerging artist can be tough, which is why Spark Box Studio is offering FREE RESIDENCIES to fine art students and emerging artists. This residency opportunity is a unique way for young and emerging artists to cultivate new ideas, access a rich library of arts resources, learn about career-building opportunities, and develop an understanding of the art world from a business perspective.
Six emerging artists will receive a one-week (7 days) residency at our Open Studio in Prince Edward County. The selected applicants will be given a private studio space and given access to the Spark Box Studio equipment and resources, as well, winners will be provided with living accommodations for their weeklong stay. They will also have access to career guidance from owners Chrissy Poitras and Kyle Topping, along with, local community members.
The winter residency award runs from January 9, 2012 to March 31, 2011. Please be advised that the award is for 7 consecutive days.
Applying for the Residency Award gives artists the opportunity to practice an essential business skill in the art world: the application process.
APPLY NOW (DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2011) CLICK HERE>>
RESIDENT: JESSICA ANDERSON
This summer has brought us a number of fantastic artists-in-residents. Sadly, these artists don’t stay with us forever and last week we said our goodbyes to Atlanta-based artists Jessica Anderson. Jessica is pursuing a MFA degree in sculpture at the University of Tennessee. Her work and interests lie at the intersection of art, activism, and the transformative possibilities between the two.
The allure of printmaking did take hold of Jessica during her stay and she ended up making several prints large etchings. Her main focus though was the creation of sculptural pieces that resemble her In Laboratory work. During her two week stay the studio turned into what looked like a science lab filled with jars and bags of floating bits and pieces of simulated human parts.
SQUARE2 ISSUE THREE
The third issue of the Square2 Magazine is now for sale at Spark Box Studio and Books and Company! This issue looks at artists who work in a traditional fashion, creating art grounded in history, using materials, methods and subject matter passed down through generations.
We had the opportunity to launch this issue with an intimate concert at the Bloomfield Town Hall with Julian Brown and Blake Howard.
We are now working on the fourth issue which is already looking to be packed full of great and inspiring artists!
To see a preview click here: http://issuu.com/square2magazine/docs/sq2issue3_portion
ART TORONTO 2010
Canada’s leading art fair is at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this week (Oct. 29 – Nov. 1) with more than 100 exhibitors and projects. The image above, a custom-painted car by South African artist Esther Mahlangu, came from a Canadian Art Magazine article covering some of the shows highlights. If you are in Toronto this weekend this is a definite Must Go event!
DON MAYNARD
In mid-winter of 2010 we had the pleasure of hosting Kingston-based artist Don Maynard at our residency. Maynard has explored a variety of mediums over his career, spanning from drawing to multi-media installation, the latter being very impressive and mesmerizing. During his time at Spark Box Studio Maynard developed a mock-up for a sculpture commissioned by the City of Ottawa Archives. The sculpture is a floating house, which appears to hover 20 feet above the ground, and is held down by six stainless steel ropes lashed over the roofline—“ropes” that actually serve as a giant support structure from which the house hangs. Maynard remarked when asked why he decided to do a residency “Sometimes you have to get away from your own studio to get something done”, making Spark Box Studio a great location to prepare the scale model for the sculpture.
We couldn’t have been happier to have him working in our studio and to later feature him in the first issue of Square2 and exhibit his work at the launch on the upper floor of Books and Company.
To learn more about Don Maynard pick up a copy of Square2 Magazine!
