![]() “I think, especially as a woman, you’re taught that your feelings - you have to kind of minimize yourself,” Ravelo said. ![]() Ravelo has experienced that too, taking the time to “sit with my own thoughts and really kind of unpack why I’m doing some of the things that I’m doing.” Her fellow artists in residence supported her in that process, she said. “I’m diving more into my own perspective as far as life goes and just, like, things that I’ve found beautiful that are surrounding me,” O’Neal said. “This gave me a break from my own life,” said painter Reginald O’Neal, which, in turn, makes more time to mull, marinate and meditate - or as O’Neal describes it, “thinking about my own thoughts.” They each have a dedicated studio space at Anderson Ranch and the program is designed to foster free exploration of different disciplines and different ideas. Travel, room and board are covered, and participants also receive a $2,500 unrestricted stipend. The residency also gives artists the space - mental as much as physical - to stretch their bandwidth for introspection. The cohorts tend to keep in touch and collaborate with one another after participating in the “Home and Away” program, Scholl said. 2, they’re a tight-knit group now and will likely remain so when they head home March 9. ![]() “Encouragement” is a word that comes up a lot in interviews with the resident artists though they didn’t know each other well when they arrived on Feb. It helps, the Oolite artists noted, that the community of resident artists and Ranch staffers alike are so supportive of that experimentation, and that the facilities at the Ranch are so readily available to dabble in different disciplines. … I think that they’re being brave and experimenting, and that is what this is about,” Scholl said.īen Chatag works on a painting during the Oolite Arts "Home and Away" residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village on Thursday, March 3, 2022. “I’ve got painters making ceramics, I’ve got filmmakers pouring bronze. “If they work, or (if) they fail, too, it’s been nice to have the space to experiment and really see what gels, or what fits together,” she said.ĭennis Scholl, the president and CEO of the Miami-based visual arts organization Oolite Arts and a longtime patron at Anderson Ranch, said that’s exactly the point of the “Home and Away” program, which is now in its third year at Anderson Ranch. It’s not her typical medium, either - she came here primarily to work in the Ranch’s Digital Fabrication Lab and often works in two dimensions, not three - but has found in the residency the opportunity “to do the things that maybe have been in the corners” of her creative practice, she said. Francisco Masó paints a ceramic tile for a project he has been working on during the Oolite Arts "Home and Away" residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village on Thursday, March 3, 2022.Īnd over in the Wood Loft Studio, Monica Lopez de Victoria was waiting for her ceramic pieces to cool off from a firing in the kiln.
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