Anderson Ranch’s Visiting Artist Program is an invitation-only program that provides space and time for artists to create artwork in our studios. Throughout our history this simple mechanism has been the cornerstone of our artistic mission, and the Ranch has provided hundreds of opportunities for artists to visit and complete projects within their practiced expertise, or offered assistance for artists to branch out into other media outside of their expertise. Through the Visiting Artist Program the Ranch aims to enrich our community and maximize our facilities for the use of artists and creation of artworks.

History

Over the years, the program expanded to include special artist projects in all the major disciplines supported at the Ranch including painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography furniture making and design, digital media, performance, installation and a wide range of interdisciplinary projects.

2010 Visiting Artist Summer Schedule

Marlo Pascual: May 17-June 4
Emily Cheng: June 7-11
Goro Suzuki: June 19-July 3
Michael Mocho: June 28-July3
Diana Cooper: July 5-9
Guy Dill: July 5-16
Brad Kahlhamer: July 12-16
Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino: July 18-24
Mickalene Thomas: July 26-30
Takashi Nakazato: July 25-Sept 8
Allison Miller: July 30-Sept 3
Tim Schwartz: August 22-28  
Jason Rogenes: August 30-September 3

Past Visiting Artists

Ceramics
Ron Nagle, internationally known for his intricate sculptural forms, employed state-of-the art equipment in the printmaking studio to develop intricate pictorial images for objects in clay.

Bobby Silverman, distinguished by his passion for nesting elegant ceramic vessels, shared his expertise with studio residents, critiquing their work and showing slides of his own pots during three days in January.

Takashi Nakazato's annual winter visit to the Ranch extended his ongoing experiments with wood firings. Working in quiet spaces, far from his high-paced production studios in Japan, Takashi investigates color and texture, developing new surfaces for his pots. Trained in the traditions of a long line of master potters from Karatsu, he has been an honored guest of the Ranch for over 12 years.

Digital Media & Photography
Michael Swaine and Amy Franceschini, from the collaborative art and activist group Futurefarmers, engaged the landscape to produce a performance piece about alternative forms of fuel. Images and video documenting this performance were exhibited alongside their goggles (hand-made from office file folders) at the Ranch's "Data Poiesis" show in February 2007. They also gave a public talk which included a break-dancing race.

Tracy Featherstone, multimedia artist, worked with program director Krista Connerly on a series of ongoing projects entitled Intimate Environments. These projects, which take a humorous look at our relationships with our natural environment and with each other, were also sponsored by a grant from the University of Miami, Ohio.

David Hilliard took a series of his multi-paneled photographs exploring the environments, and interior lives of area locals. Subjects included, a group of belly dancers, a teen-age boy on the verge of forging his identity, and a workman coming home for the day.

Furniture Design & Woodworking
Donald Fortescue built a new piece in his collector cabinet series to house digital images of the mountains and forests surrounding Snowmass Village. His series is inspired by historical influences and portable furniture designed for scientific expeditions.

David Ellsworth, renowned woodworker and founder of the woodturning studio at Anderson Ranch, returned to his Colorado roots to focus on his own work. He continues to awe and inspire everyone in his presence.

Donald's wife, Sandra Kelch, joined him for the last week of the project to develop and process a series of related prints. At the end of their three-week residency they hosted an informal "show & tell" exhibit in the loft studio.

Wendy Maruyama spent a month between the wood and digital studios, shooting and editing two short videos and building a small vanity to house one of the films. The finished piece was featured in the exhibition "Inspired by China" at the Peabody Essex Museum in the fall of 2006.

E.G. Crichton, multi-media artist and art instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, collaborated with program director Susan Working to create two time-based pieces incorporating video pieces into abstract tables.

Donald, Sandra, Wendy and E.G. came to the Ranch through "Visiting Artists: extending creativity in digital media," a new series sponsored by the wood program designed to advance interdisciplinary exploration.

Painting & Drawing
Phyllis Bramson was sponsored by the painting program as a visiting critic last fall. Bramson, a studio artist and recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim awards, presented a public slide-lecture in November.

Julie Mehretu, acclaimed for work representative of socially-charged public spaces, was a visiting artist and critic in 2006. She was also a guest artist in last summer's Advanced Painting Studio workshop with a Jane Hammond.

Printmaking
Multi-media and performance artist Terry Allen spent a week in August producing four multi-colored lithographs. The author of Dugout, Terry also taught a 2006 workshop with his wife, Jo Harvey Allen, entitled "Building on Ideas: looking for source."

Photographer David Levinthal collaborated with printmaker Jonathan Singer to create a ultrachrome pigmented digital print. The print was produced by the Ranch in limited edition specifically for the Recognition Dinner in August.

Brad Miller, interim president of the Ranch in 2006, produced two portfolios of digital prints exploring the dynamic structures of water. Following the completion of Wave Shadows, Brad premiered "Bubble Shadows," his second series of 20 prints, in a September opening at the Patton Print Shop.

Allison Stewart's colorful montoypes were largely influenced by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Stewart, a part-time resident in Colorado and New Orleans, produced fluid prints of sea life and biological forms.

John Walker, acclaimed painter and head of the graduate painting program at Boston University, interacted with students and staff as a visiting critic in April .

Artist and interior designer Marcia Weese brought her professional sensibilities to the studio last spring, where she collaborated with Matt Christie to produce a series of monotypes in the Patton Print Shop.

Sculpture
Jean Blackburn, mixed-media artist, painter and sculptor, critiqued work in the studios. She also presented a public slide lecture in December.

Charles Long created small ceramic sculptures from drawings adorning his studio walls. The objects were featured last summer in "Monads, Soul Houses and a Star-off Machine," a solo exhibition at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York.

Milton Rosa-Ortiz collaborated with sculpture and printmaking artists while completing Piety, an elegant piece he created and installed in the Patton-Malott Galleries. His work is exhibited widely across the U.S. and in his home country of Puerto Rico.

Local artist James Surls visited the studio and discussed his work throughout summer, earning his unofficial title of Sculpture Laureate in 2006.

Renowned sculptor Ursula Von Rydingsvard offered studio critiques in printmaking and sculpture last winter. She presented slides and a discussion about her work during the Ranch's 2006 Evening with an Artist lecture, an annual community event, in February.