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Fire Island National Seashore 2016 deadline approaching

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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Jane and blue bucket

Last September I spent two wonderful weeks at Fire Island National Seashore as an artist in residence. Fire Island Naitonal Seashore is so near NYC yet so far away. You can only get there by ferry, and after Labor Day there are not even many people. It was good for working, and I really enjoyed making handmade paper for my artwork using the local beach grass and other plants found there.

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The accommodations are great, and the scenery couldn’t be better. I highly recommend this residency, and the deadline for applications is February 5! Contact me by email if you want more information. Here is the link to the application and information about the Fire Island National Seashore artist in residency program.

http://www.nps.gov/fiis/getinvolved/supportyourpark/artist-in-residence.htm

Upcoming WEAD Artist in Residency Project in Lancaster, California

09 Saturday Jan 2016

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Announcing my selection as the first WEAD (Women Eco-Artists Dialogue) Artist in Residence in cooperation with the Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA, from Feb. 12 to March 13, 2016. I will be going to Lancaster in southern California, about 1 hour north of Los Angeles in the Antelope Valley, to work at the Museum of Art & History’s Cedar Center for the Arts to create a site-specific environmental art installation with local participation during this one month artist in residency.

My art installation will make use of handmade paper from local plants, seeds for local wildflowers and other natural and biodegradable materials and consist of an “Eco-Art Quilt” that will be sited in a public area (perhaps the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve in Lancaster) and that will evolve over time with the paper quilt dissolving into compost and the wildflower seeds in the pulp sprouting and growing and blooming to make a living blooming bed cover. This installation will be part of the WEAD (www.weadartists.org) program in environmental art cooperating with the Museum of Art & History in Lancaster, CA.  The theme for the WEAD group show at MOAH and this residency is “Smaller Footprints” focused on what we can do to prevent more global warming and climate change.
My planned installation to be created in Lancaster will be somewhat like other projects I have done around the world using seeds in handmade paper and working with nature as a partner to make changing and evolving artworks that contribute to the earth and improve the environment. Here are some photos of an eco-art quilt installation I made in a city park of Sumter, SC in 2003, showing it evolving over about 6 months:

Making My Bed installation - Sumter SC 2003, 300dpi Making My Bed installation - Sumter SC 2003-two months later 300 dpiMaking My Bed installation Sumter, SC, 2003 6 months later

I will be looking for local people in the Lancaster area to help with the papermaking from local plants, making the quilt block squares, creating a headboard and footboard for the bed and installing the quilt as well as helping to care for it as it evolves.

Keep checking this Blog for more information and photos of my artist in residency project in Lancaster, CA, Feb. 12 to March 13, 2016.

Happy New Year and reminder about deadlines for the 2016 eco-art projects I curate in Taiwan each year

03 Sunday Jan 2016

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Hello Everyone,

I hope that your 2016 is happy, healthy and adventurous!  This photo shows me working in Izmir, Turkey, on my recent Fulbright Specialist grant project with the Museum of Paper & Book Arts, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.  My experience as an artist in residence in Turkey was great, and I am looking forward to more adventures in 2016.

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I wanted to remind artists to send applications soon for the 2016 eco-art projects I curate in Taiwan. This Spring I will again be going back to Taiwan to curate two environmental art projects that invite international artists to come to Taiwan for a 25-day residency and create site-specific environmental art projects. Selected artists receive a stipend of US$2000, airfare, accommodations, meals and volunteer help.

The deadline for applications is coming up fast for the Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Yunlin County, Taiwan. All application materials must be submitted by email to me at allenrebeccajanei@gmail.com by January 15, 2016. Selected artists will come to Cheng Long from April 7 to May 2, 2016, and the theme is “Meet the Future in Cheng Long”. For complete details about what to send to apply see the Blog at http://artproject4wetland.wordpress.comMarisa

This photo shows Marisa Merlin’s 2015 installation in Cheng Long Wetlands.

I will also be curating the 2nd eco-art project in Keelung, Taiwan, with the National Museum of Marine Science & Technology. Look at the Museum’s website at http://www.nmmst.gov.tw Then click on to English and Activities and you will see the 2016 Call for Proposals. The theme for 2016 is “Envisioning the Future , and it is the 130th anniversary for Keelung port. Selected artists for the Keelung project will be in residency in Taiwan from May 12 to June 6, 2016.

outdoor installation by Taiwanese artist Chris Lee at the 2015 NMMST International Environmental Art Project in Keelung, Taiwan

outdoor installation by Taiwanese artist Chris Lee at the 2015 NMMST International Environmental Art Project in Keelung, Taiwan

The deadline for applications to the Cheng Long project is January 15 2016, and the deadline for applications to the Keelung art project is February 15, 2016. Hope to see your applications soon.