June 2024 - Radio Interview, Residency Highlights
Radio Interview with Creekside Artists in Residence
Wendy Butler’s show, Art Attitudes on Humboldt Hot Air, featured 4 of our artists-in-residence (Divya Srinivasan, Thandiwe Wilson, Ciara Miller,and Enneréssa LaNette Davis.) You can listen to the interview here.
2024 Spring Residency Highlights
Eneressa Lanette
Ennerréssa is an award-winning choreographer and CEO of Praize Productions, a dance company based in Chicago. While here, she organized a Memorial Day BBQ for Creekside Arts, taught choreography to high school students at Arcata High Performing Arts Institute, and shared her poetry and improvised dance for visitors to North Coast Open Studios.
Nicole Zimmerman
For North Coast Open Studios, Nicole R. Zimmerman (she/her) shared several ekphrastic poems in response to family photos and documents based on her wife’s family and an essay excerpt that explored themes of aging, caregiving, grief and loss. She also led a writing workshop with friends of Creekside Arts.
She shared a poem inspired by the time she spent working on the North Coast Rape Crisis Team, in the 1990’s. She called the Creekside artist residency “a healing homecoming.”
Divya Srinivasan
Divya: I created a series of dreamcatcher-esque installations using bio based materials that showcased memories and experiences I’ve had in Humboldt County. This one (my favorite) is called “A Glimpse of Trinidad”. After a difficult week, I still remember the feeling I had when I saw the Trinidad coastline: Sparkling aqua waters lined with redwood trees, even the sand at the beaches were glittering which I tried to capture in this piece.
For her community engagement, Divya worked with participants from Trojectory, a non-profit that assists and inspires artists with disabilities. they collected objects from nature, arranged them in a jello-like biomaterial, and set each piece out to dry and harden.
Marshall Sharpe
Marshall Sharpe’s creative work focuses on ancestry, identity, and transience through a queer lens.
His residency goal was to explore a different focus and style .Each painting took several hours and he was happy to have finished 5 great paintings: 2 Plein Aair and 3 Master Studies of John Ebersberger and Janet Fish.
For his community engagement, Marshall taught an art workshop at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. The participants were receptive and enthusiastic.
Ciara Miller
Ciara Miller shared a dramatic reading from excerpts of a future one-woman-show at Creekside Arts North Coast Open Studios.
Watch her stunning performance!
Thandiwe Wilson
Thandiwe Wilson, reading her latest short story, “Cacophony,” at Creekside Arts North Coast Open Studios..For her community engagement, she collaborated with Black Humboldt to lead a writing workshop, “Art As A Political Act.” Post Creekside Arts, she will spend the year doing residencies in various parts of the world.
Lisa Candela
Lisa: …I was honored to be part of this new and growing residency (among this talented cohort of writers, dancers, and visual artists). Some of the highlights were dinners with the community, talks by the fire and hikes in the redwoods.
When I was at school I sort of went from representational to abstract. But this time, I decided to try different ways of working but also breaking up the form as I’ve done previously, so will see where this leads me.
Lisa led an art activity with women at the Humboldt County Jail for her community engagement.
Congratulations Hayden Casey!
We are thrilled to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Hayden Casey, Creekside Arts alumnus, novelist, educator and musicker, who is releasing his latest publication.
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.
