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• Passing the Sash to 2013 Bronson Fellow Wynne Greewood

  

  At an award reception at Reed College tomorrow night I'll join the ranks of past Bronson fellows to welcome the 2013 recipient, Wynne Greenwood. It will be a great honor to "pass the sash" on to Wynne, an amazing interdisciplinary artist based in Seattle. My fellowship year has gone by quickly, with traveling, residencies and a beautiful new studio. While at Reed, check out my "NYT Little People" series, on exhibit in Elliot Hall.

• Jentel Artist Residency Fellowship, Summer 2013

  

  I have been awarded fellowship by the Jentel Artist Residency Program for a month-long residency in summer 2013. This  retreat for artists and writers is located on a working cattle ranch in the Lower Piney Creek Valley approximately 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming. 

• Unalphabetic at PDX Contemporary Art

  

  PDX Contemporary Art is ringing in the New Year by giving the gallery to Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts from January 3rd to January 19th for the exhibition of prints produced under The Ford Family Foundation's "Golden Spot" residency. 

  On exhibition are print works by Pat Boas, Arnold J. Kemp, Eva Lake, Susan Murrell, Jenene Nagy and Storm Tharp.

  Set at the base of the Blue Mountain foothills in Eastern Oregon, the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts was founded in 1992 by painter James Lavadour to provide opportunities to Native Americans through artistic development. In 2010 Crow's Shadow was one of three Oregon nonprofit organizations to receive a Golden Spot grant from the Ford Family Foundation, so named because each institution is located in a scenic region of the state. Under the Golden Spot residency Crow's Shadow provides a series of two-week printmaking residencies for Oregon mid-career visual artists guided by Tamarind Master Printer Frank Janzen.

  January 3, 2013 - January 19, 2013

• Pollock Krasner Fellowship for Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, July 2012

  

  This July, after a stop in New York City, I'll be working for a month at the Byrdcliffe Artist Residency in Woodstock, NY. Byrdcliffe annually hosts artists, writers, composers and musicians. 

  The history: In the winter of 1902, construction of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony began on Mount Guardian just outside the hamlet of Woodstock, NY. By the time it was completed in 1903, 30 buildings stood, comprising what has been referred to as a "textbook example" of a utopian Arts and Crafts Community. Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead(1854-1929), the son of a wealthy mill owner from Yorkshire, England, had come under the influence of utopian ideas when he studied with Ruskin at Oxford and later traveled with him in Europe. It is from Whitehead's vision to found his own "brotherhood of artists" community that Byrdcliffe owes its existence.

  
  

• 2012 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship

  

  In a phone call late one rainy night, Christine Bourdette delivered some completely unexpected news: I have been awarded the 2012 Bonnie Bronson Fellow. The Fellowship was founded in 1991 by friends who wished to honor artist Bonnie Bronson's memory with an award that would further the development of an artist living in Oregon or Washington. Past fellows include Nan Curtis, David Eckard, MK Guth, Marie Watt and a host of well-known Northwest artists (Christine herself was the first). The Bronson Collection Fund for the purchase of art by Bronson Fellows complements the Fellowship award. Six of the "NYT Little People" series have been been added to the collection, which is on long-term loan to Reed College and exhibited throughout the campus..