Featured Resident Overview
Hello Residents!
We wanted to share some more information about our Featured Resident program! Beginning in September, each month of the residency cycle we will have three Featured Residents, who will have the opportunity to share their work with the cohort for feedback and ideas, and be highlighted on the SDA website and Instagram account.
Cohort members will be encouraged to engage with the resident’s work through forum comments with ideas, recommended artists / projects, feedback, based on what the resident requests. The asynchronous discussion of the resident’s work should include some aspect related to accessibility within the artwork or resident’s creative practice.
The monthly featured residents have the option to participate in any of the following:
Post to our public community blog (as a blogger-in-residence for the month)
Have a week-long takeover of the SDA Instagram account
Post artwork, writing, ideas, and/or works in progress to the community forum as “featured posts” and request feedback and/or ideas from the cohort (like an asynchronous version of Open Studio Hours or Art Critique.) Residents can set specific guidelines for feedback based on their needs by posing questions, or requesting suggestions related to a specific issue and/or artwork.
2022/23 Featured Resident date ranges, including Instagram Takeover Weeks, are listed in the Residency Timeline.
The featured resident months will be chosen as residents fill out the Event Lead form. So please fill it out as soon as you are able so as to make sure we can try to accommodate everyone's needs.
We will update the featured resident month schedule as we receive responses.
Check out the featured resident overview doc for more details.
Featured Resident Example | Artist: RMR
Below is an example of an introductory post by a Featured Artist. Rae has created a simple post, which includes an accompanying Google doc that featured some of their artwork, an artist statement, and some guidelines for feedback. This is just one approach you could take as a Feature Artist - you may prefer to create a Google Slide doc, a video presentation (with captions, of course) or even a jam board. We encourage you to at least give your fellow resident some specific around the type of feedback you would like, including some questions take relate to itegrating accessibility into your artwork and/or creative practice.
Hi all, you know me as Rae or RMR. I'm not very good at describing my work, so I'll show instead of tell-- check out the google doc in the link below with my work samples.
I've also copied my statement and desired feedback below for reference in the thread.
Thanks,
Rae
Statement
“My work is about the stories we tell, and who tells those stories; the stories told about us versus the stories we have to tell about ourselves; and the stories that should be there but are not. I employ sculpture and installation to create a space in which these intangible and too-often ignored stories are a physical presence to be reckoned with. In some cases I use audio and social practice techniques to present a narrative, whether mine or another’s, in the teller’s own voice; in others, the physical work alone stands witness to the invisible history which gives it meaning.”
Desired Feedback
I’ve been struggling with how I could create more interesting/artistic image descriptions, particularly for my in-progress work, “Abstract Relationships”.
I really like the “Abstract Relationships” pieces but I worry that they don’t/won’t fit in with the rest of my body of work.
I’ve previously done a lot of installation work and would love to figure out a way to do so again in a pandemic safe manner. Ideas and suggestions would be welcome.
My work is primarily made to resonate with a disabled audience but I worry that it may be so heavy that it verges on being “tragedy porn”.