tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73578254128072180442024-02-19T07:48:43.349-08:00Merrie WrightMerrie Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783184448932850251noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357825412807218044.post-1629973142475557322017-01-18T11:29:00.001-08:002017-01-30T08:43:59.494-08:00Red Lodge Clay Center Residency<h3 style="text-align: left;">
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<span class="s1"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was awarded a three week residency to the Red Lodge Clay Center over the winter break of 2016-2017. My residency was funded through a Faculty Research Scholarship Award through UT Tyler. Thank you to everyone who made this opportunity possible!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived in Red Lodge, Montana on Sunday, December 18, 2016. What a beautiful town! We settled into our digs above the RLCC Gallery in downtown Red Lodge. The folks at RLCC have made Cody, Wren, and I feel so welcomed! I am so excited to be here! </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our view as we arrived at Red Lodge, MT. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made the trek out to Fox Studios on Monday and have settled into my studio space in the short term residency wing. The studio is located just in front of Rock Creek, what a picturesque view from the studio! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My fellow short-term residents are Brooke Armstrong, Holly Thompson, and Jared Peterson. The long-term residents are Allison Chochran, Matt Fiske, Raven Halfmoon, Joyce St. Clair Voltz, and Lars Voltz. I am so excited for the opportunity to focus on working in the studio for the next three weeks! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I plan to spend the next three weeks making new work. </span>Recent travels to the Far North have opened my eyes to a very
different quality of light and color unique to the northern landscape. My recent body of work, the <i>Switchback</i> series, stems from a previous
residency at The Banff Centre. The
small, highly abstracted sculptural forms of the <i>Switchback</i> series, were inspired by the geologic and climatic
phenomena unique to this location including the rock formations of the
mountains as well as lakes and rivers, glaciers and ice fields, and coniferous
forests that surround Banff. New clay
bodies, as well as a new palette, draw from the cool yet brilliant light and
color unique to the north. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have been busy in the studio working on components to new sculptures and new cliff cups and mountain cups. Below is a sneak peak of the work-in-progress. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beautiful sky on my last day in Red Lodge! Thank you to the amazing folks at Red Lodge Clay Center. I am so grateful to have been able to spend time here and get to know everyone. I can't wait to come back!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">This week Cody arrived for a one week visit. We spent time exploring the town of Banff, fished and took a boat ride at Lake Minnewanka (and had trout for lunch, yum!), saw the opera #UncleJohn at the Cave and Basin, drove up the Icefield Parkway to the Athabaska Glacier, and spent a day around Lake Louise, where we hiked to the teahouse on Lake Agnes. Whew, what a wonderful week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have spent the last few weeks with my nose to the grindstone in the studio...lots of new mugs with surfaces created from the stones I picked up outside of Canmore, and I am now working on the surfaces of my new small sculptures! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though I have been hard at work, I have taken time to enjoy my surroundings and the offerings of The Banff Centre. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Surprise Corner', a little spot off the rode with great views of the Bow River rapids and the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. As you can see, the baby in my belly is getting big! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also enjoyed a reading by Susan Orlean, non-fiction writer of <u>The Orchid Thief</u>, a Q&A with Susan and Ian Brown, a Dance Masters Performance by the ballet students studying here this summer, a free concert at the Whyte Museum, a viewing of the documentary <i>Our Man in Tehran</i>, with a Q&A session with Ken Taylor, his wife Pat, and a producer and director of the film, and a visiting artist talk/performance by artist Daniel Barrow. So much great culture...I am trying to soak up as much as I possibly can!</span>Merrie Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783184448932850251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357825412807218044.post-3682814754106389162014-07-15T12:07:00.001-07:002014-07-15T12:09:32.284-07:00Goodbye week 1, hello week 2!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't believe my first week at The Banff Centre has already come to a close...time is flying by! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Week 1 at The Banff Centre was super-productive. I have several small sculptures in-progress. Most of the pieces I am working on are about 3 inches tall or smaller and are landscape abstractions based on my surroundings. Outside of my studio window I have views of both Mount Cascade and Stoney Squaw... and the occasional mule deer (picture below)! This little female spent about an hour grazing outside my window on Saturday morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Week 2 began with the BAIR's (Banff Artist in Resident's) giving a short slide talk about our work and a brief agenda for our time at The Banff Centre. This week is pretty much devoted to the studio, with a few breaks to see some of the amazing performances and lectures offered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above ground the site offers a boardwalk trail through the marshlands where, if you look closely, you may see the endangered Banff Springs Snail...they are very small, with larger snails only measuring about a centimeter in length. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't see a snail, but I did see two small garter snakes while there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've spent the last few days getting to work in the studio. I use a lot of natural materials in my process, so, in order to gather a few stones and sticks, I had to leave the national park. We took a short hike just outside of a town called Canmore, which is about 17 kilometers from Banff. Just off of the highway is a hidden spring that locals visit to fill up their bottles with drinking water. The spring's stream is full of the most beautiful variety of stones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will use the materials I picked up to create press molds or directly press or stamp them into my work. I also spent quite a bit of time making press molds around The Banff Centre campus. Because Banff is located within a national park, you can not move or remove anything. There are, however, plenty of natural things to take molds off of all around!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While my main focus is a series of small abstract porcelain sculptures based on the landscape, I have moved a pottery wheel into my studio and I plan to make a few pots while I am here too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've taken several trips into the town of Banff. It is only a 5-10 minute walk from The Banff Centre campus. The walking path to town takes you right by the cemetery and into downtown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Bow River flows through the south part of the town. There are several scenic bridges and walking paths along the river. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The town itself is very walkable...you can see almost all of Banff on foot as it is only 3.93 square kilometers. Just be </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">prepared for the steep incline on the way back up the mountain to The Banff Centre...I am definitely getting my exercise here!</span>Merrie Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783184448932850251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357825412807218044.post-86754982326120039992014-07-08T19:01:00.002-07:002014-07-08T19:01:32.356-07:00Settling In...and my first bear sighting!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My trip to Banff is not only an opportunity for me to re-focus on my studio practice while working on an experimental body of work, but also to take in the landscape, which is an integral component of my work both formally and conceptually. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't realize the landscape would be found indoors as well as out! Tunnel Mountain can literally be found inside the buildings around The Banff Centre, including the basement area of Gylde Hall, where my studio is located. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">Late this afternoon the invited guest artist working with the thematic visual artist residents, <a href="http://jessicabradleyinc.com/artist/shary-boyle">Shary Boyle</a>, gave her artist talk. </span></span></div>
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Merrie Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783184448932850251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357825412807218044.post-37496485432469987192014-07-06T08:37:00.000-07:002014-07-07T17:38:18.621-07:00Welcome to The Banff Centre<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have left Tyler, Tx for an extended stay in Banff, Canada...what a journey! The Banff Centre is located just outside of the town of Banff, which is nestled in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and is within the boundaries of Banff National Park, Canada's first national park! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Banff Centre is an amazing place with a mission to 'inspire creativity'. Originally a school of fine arts, The Banff Centre now hosts a wide range of guests who study visual arts, performing arts, creative writing, communications, math, and science. It is truly an arts and creativity incubator! My six week residency was made possible through a International Residency Partnership Award, generously created through a partnership between <a href="http://www.banffcentre.ca/">The Banff Centre </a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://nceca.net/">NCECA</a> (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tagging along with me is our 20 week old baby in utero...what an exciting adventure! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am using my residency to make a new body of smaller works, but I also plan to take in the beautiful surroundings and all that Banff and The Banff Centre has to offer. Keep posted for updates and many more new photos!</span>Merrie Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783184448932850251noreply@blogger.com4