2010 Summer Artists-in-Residence

KFW congratulates the feminist social change artists who were selected to participate in the 2010 Hopscotch House Summer Residency Program:

Amy Attaway of Louisville will participate in a one-week residency to identify what it means to be a feminist theater director and how to continue her career through reading and researching contemporary and historical theater women. The community experience will provide her with a sense of the land, sisterhood, knowledge of other art forms, and opportunities for discussing the business of arts with working artists.

Jessica Bellamy of Louisville will participate in one-week residency to continue and perfect a large visual art piece concerning black women and their inter- and intra-connections with others as well as themselves. The community experience will provide her with ideas, positive attitudes, opinions and critiques from other artists.

Janet Boyd of Louisville will participate in one-week residency to work on her book, Life, Love, and What I Ate, a memoir told through essays about food that chronicles the birth and evolution of a feminist consciousness. The community experience will allow her to spend time with other working artists and engage in conversations about feminism, art and the joys and problems unique to artists.

Jennifer Gibson of Morganfield will participate in a one-week residency to finish a first full draft of Hannah’s First Hurrah, a novella portraying 30-year-old Hannah’s conscious choice to address wounds of childhood incest. Through the community experience, she will meet other artists from across the state, encourage their art and nurture creativity.

Deena Lilygren of Rineyville will participate in a one-week residency to work on a series of short stories that portray historical figures and highlight the limitations that came when they conformed to the mores of their time and the possibilities that existed when they did not. Through the community experience, she will exchange ideas and use the experience as jumping off points for fiction.

Sarah Lyon of Louisville will participate in a one-week residency to create a book of photographs and text compiled from her travels documenting and interviewing women mechanics working in their shop environments. Through the community experience, she will share her work and get feedback from other artists who identify as feminist, social change artists.

Mari Mujica of Louisville will participate in a one-week residency to finalize a mixed media/installation exploring issues of identity, health and rebirth and to research and find appropriate venues for showing feminist art for social change. The community experience will allow her to contribute to an enriching, engaged, and respectful relationship among women and to learn from them about areas in which she feels challenged, especially exhibiting her art.

Leslie Nichols of Bowling Green will participate in a one-week residency to create on paper a life-size female figure as a representation of shared personal histories, which will be the first in a series reflecting research on early feminist activists. The community experience will inspire her to question the content and audience of her work and meet women with varied ideas about feminism and social change.

Susan Tipton of Beattyville will participate in a one-week residency to create several works of art in separate media, such as stained glass, watercolors and colored pencil, and to design ideas to be created after the residency for images and feelings she is familiar with in life and natural surroundings. The community experience will enable her to listen to the stories of others, their ideas, and to be inspired and encouraged.

Afrykah WubSauda of Louisville will participate in a one-week residency to work on an assortment of spoken word/poetic pieces that reflect personal struggle as well as struggle of women at large. These pieces will be included in a larger literary piece, Memoirs of a Little Black Girl. Through the community experience, she will encourage and be encouraged, draw from the lives of others, and be inspired by creative people.