May 2024 - Featured Artists, Ongoing Discussion Groups
Seven amazing artists are coming to our spring residency in May. This month we are featuring Ciara Denise Miller, Lisa Candela and Divya Srinivasan.
Ciara Denise Miller
A native of Chicago, Ciara holds both an MFA and MA in Poetry and African American/African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University. She also received her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a Cave Canem fellow who has published poems and academic essays in such collections and periodicals as Break Beat Poets, African American Review, Callaloo, Muzzle, Alice Walker: Critical Insights, Chorus, and many more. She currently lives in Chicago where she serves as a Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse professor at DePaul University as well as an Afro-American Studies professor at Kennedy King College.
You can follow her at CiaraMiller_Writer on Instagram.
Lisa Candela
Lisa Candela is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City who works in paper mache, fabrics and oil paint. She recently received her MFA from The City College of New York in May of 2023. She started her training at The School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League, New York.
Her creative process is a dynamic exploration of the female figure with an intricate dance between correction and acceptance of the female form. She has shown at galleries such as Local Project, Amos Eno Gallery, and the Fountain House Gallery, New York. She recently participated in residencies at ChaNorth, Pine Plains, New York in the fall of 2023 and the Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock, New York in the summer of 2023.
Her recent shows include “Every Woman Biennial 2024” at LaMaMa Galleria, New York, NY, “Women in the Heights: Dress” at NoMAA, New York, NY, “The Face of Justice” at The Kota Alliance, and “Transplants” at Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
Find her at Lisa_Candela_Art on Instagram.
Divya Srinivasan
Divya s a sculpture artist who works with wood, ceramics, and explores natural and living materials in her environment.
she says:
I’m a multidisciplinary designer with a background in Materials Science. Prior to MDes, I focused on soft materials research and worked in the additive manufacturing industry for several years. I have a broad range of interests, including sustainable design, art and ceramics, biodesign, community-based design, and debating the social and environmental ethics of new technology. In my free time, I love crafting, taking care of my many houseplants, and exploring new places and restaurants.
Divya was awarded the MDes Design For Good Grant from UC Berkeley for her upcoming work at the Creekside Arts Residency. The grant, “Designing for People and Planet,” supports students in engaging in social impact work and in their efforts to address the climate crisis.
See Designed_by_Divya on Instagram.
They're here!
Sharing with the Community
Besides dedicating time to developing their craft, all 7 of our resident artists will engage with Humboldt community groups, offering projects ranging from drawing and painting workshops, writing workshops, choreography workshops, and participating in an open mic.
The last weekend of their residency they will open their studios to the public for Northcoast Open Studios, June 8 and 9 at Creekside Arts.
Left to Right: Divya Srinivasan, Thandiwe Wilson, Enneréssa Davis, Nicole Zimmerman, Marshall Sharpe, Ciara Miller, Lisa Candela
Rolling Residencies
Rolling residencies are available throughout the year for periods of two weeks or more.
Includes fully equipped, private living quarters and private studio workspaces.
Rolling Residencies are an opportunity for artists to focus on their work and enjoy the beauty of the surroundings. There are 8 members of the Creekside Arts collective who live on the Creekside Arts grounds and artists are invited to join our weekly neighborhood gatherings. Resident artists are asked to participate in a casual showing or artist panel at the end of their stay. There may or may not be other visiting artists here at the same time.
Starting at $1050 for two-week residency.
Ongoing
WRITERS GROUP
Creekside Arts Writer’s Group meets every two weeks. The sharing of good writing, whether it be poetry, short story or the novel, is their goal. Sharing good conversation and good food is a welcomed bonus.
To learn more: jh2@humboldt.edu
BAAM (Because Art Always Matters)
Join artists of various disciplines to talk about the creative process and enjoy shared snacks and drinks.
For details, contact: Rich McCutchan (530-277-6563) or Marceau Verdiere (707-845-2230)
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OUR MISSION
Creekside Arts is designed and created to bring together artistic residencies, workshops and performances. Our goal is to create an environment in which creative artists and audiences interact in a positive and structured way to learn from and inform each other and then bring that learning into the larger Humboldt community. To that end Creekside Arts is committed to equity and welcomes people from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences.
