2023-2024
Artist Residency Program
Since 2014, Prairieside Cottage + Outpost has welcomed artists by invitation and through a competitive award. In the 2023-2024 program we are excited to host seven artists.
Passage II, 2022, yarn, mixed media on board and wall, 96 x 96 inches.
Masha Ryskin and Serge Marchetta
(from Providence, Rhode Island and Montreal, Quebec)
Summer 2024
The global pandemic and its period of isolation and separation, as well as recent research in Jerusalem, enabled artists Masha Ryskin and Serge Marchetta to deeply consider the idea of borders and boundaries, both visible and invisible, literal and psychological. During their time at Prairieside Outpost, these artists will experiment with outdoor mixed media works using paper, acetate and plexiglass. They will also collect materials and imagery for an upcoming installation of large drawings and video works.
The Shaded Land I, 2023, acrylic, tempera, ink, and collaged paper on panel, 12 x 16 x 1 5/8 inches.
Anna Wetzel Artz
(from Shoreline, Washington)
Summer 2023
Anna Wetzel’s upbringing in the Kansas prairielands will influence her full-circle residency at Prairieside Outpost. During this time she will explore meditative markmaking in large, layered, mixed media works on paper.
Alan Blackman and Jennifer Hughes
Once Upon A Prairie
(from Baltimore, Maryland)
Summer 2023
Composer Alan Blackman and photographer Jennifer Hughes will work collaboratively at Prairieside Outpost on a project that involves a multimedia exploration of the loss and renewal of the American grasslands told through projected images and a musical fusion of Americana and jazz.
Lydia Gravis
(from Ogden, Utah)
Spring 2023
The “beautiful tension between growth and contemplation” will inspire Lydia Gravis’ creative work while at Prairieside Outpost. Her work is guided by the invisible yet collective experiences humans have and share, including those that are senseless, tragic or not understood on the surface. Immersion in the natural and remote surroundings of the landscape at Prairieside Outpost will guide Lydia’s new body of work through peaceful reflection within her practice.
A Place To Land, 2019, Barrels, water, cardboard, moss, variable dimensions.
Katherine Hair
(from Champaign, Illinois)
Winter 2023
In her time at Prairieside Outpost, Katherine Hair plans to build a unique site-specific work that is activated by the wind across the prairie landscape. Windsocks will be used to encourage discovery by multiple dwellers of this landscape, including hawks and insects, and to bring visibility to ideas of grief and time in relation to both stillness and movement.