Welcome January Artists-in-Residence!
Meet this month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: January 15- February 10th, 2025
Mark your calendars for the first open studios of the year on Thursday, february 6, 5 - 7pm
Adam Amram
Ridgewood, new york
Adam Amram (b.1994 Haifa, Israel), is primarily a painter, whose process is fundamentally rooted in drawing. His interest lies in discovering moments in reality that offer a portal into the realm of the unconscious. Through dynamic color relationships, unmistakable paint application, and playfully animated forms, Amram’s paintings explore the interrelations between time, recollection, and the imagination.
Bo Kim
amherst, massachusetts
Bo Kim's artistic journey, spanning over a decade, has been profoundly shaped by natural science research, ecology, and biology. She skillfully combines meticulous painting techniques with traditional Korean materials—natural stone-ground pigments, animal skin glue, and Hanji (Mulberry tree paper)—resulting in works that uniquely fuse cultural and scientific influences. Rooted in a postcolonial context, her research methodology challenges entrenched assumptions about history, race, and culture, skillfully navigating the tensions and ambiguities between authenticity and counterfeit. Kim takes the practice of collecting, conserving, and exhibiting specimens and archives as the subject of her work, shedding light on how these institutionalized actions inadvertently give rise to different meanings. Kim focus extends to the original meanings and contexts of specimens and archives, showcasing their potential to subvert common practices in collecting institutions.
Bo Kim is an artist-researcher, and educator who is based in both Amherst, MA and Northern Virginia. She was born in Busan, South Korea and holds an MA in Art Therapy and Counseling from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), as well as an MFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University in South Korea. In 2009, she completed her BFA in Paintings from Dongduk Women's University. Currently, Kim serves as an Instructor of Drawing 110 & 120 and is concurrently pursuing an MFA in Studio Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of Art.
Kim's work has been featured in several national exhibitions, including those held at the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Washington, D.C., the Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University in Towson, MD, the Korean Cultural Center in New York, NY, the Sejong Center in Seoul, South Korea, and the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, China. In addition, she has been an artist-in-residence at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, MI, and is a recipient of The Studios at MASS MoCA fellowship, sponsored by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cate Pasquarelli
brooklyn, new york
Cate Pasquarelli received a BFA from the Cooper Union and studied at the Slade School of Art in London, UK. She has exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Museum, BravinLee Programs, Steve Turner, the Wassaic Project, Art on Paper, and SPRING/BREAK Art Fair in New York and Los Angeles. Her work is included in the collections of Beth Rudin DeWoody as well as filmmakers Jim Jarmusch and Sara Driver. Selected residencies and awards include the Cooper Union Medici Award for excellence in art and a Programming Fellowship at the Wassaic Project.
Diana Dávila
Guaynabo, puerto Rico
Diana Dávila is a studio artist working in ceramic, artistic jewelry, concrete, painting and drawing. Dávila has taught at Liga de Arte de San Juan, Universidad del Sagrado Corazon. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico recinto Metropolitano. Her work has been exhibited throughout Puerto Rico and internationally and is held in a number of private collections.
“Our path through life is what ignites my creative process. A continuous awareness of the circumstances that shape our existence inspires me to find ways in which I can translate the abstract meaning I find in these events. Queries about spirituality, energy and dimensions in life lead me to forms, colors and concepts that I want to express.
In a conscious or unconscious way we are in constant movement internally. This movement evokes energies that are in constant seek of balance. I intent to transmute the energy I perceive in our environment and its circumstances and experiences, to the visual language of forms and images.
Memories, images, thoughts and emotions interlace during my process of creating forms.
In my work is often present a sense of the ocean and its movement. Images, marks and textures that suggest writings, symbolically represent the evidence of our passage through this life and the encounters we treasure. I wish that those who choose to observe them, can relate, connect, heal or be inspired by them.”
Hannah Perrin King
monterey, massachusetts
Hannah Perrin King (she/her) is a 2022-23 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA where she was named the inaugural Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow, a scholarship awarded in addition to the fellowship to “an emerging woman writer of exceptional promise.” King is the winner of The Georgia Review’s 2020 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the winner of Narrative Magazine’s Eleventh Annual Poetry Contest, the winner of New Millennium Writings’ 48th New Millennium Award for Poetry, and AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize for Poetry. About King’s poems, judge Leslie Harrison wrote: “They contain, barely, their own difficult, gorgeous music. They read like they're setting a match to their own paper, they read like fire.” King’s first manuscript is a National Poetry Series finalist, and she is a 2017 Tin House Workshop Scholar. In 2018, King graduated with a Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from The New School. During her graduate studies, she became Deputy Poetry Editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, where she served from 2017-2020. King’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Narrative Magazine, The Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, and Best New Poets, among others.
Kristal Juan
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Multidisciplinary artist and educator. Juan obtained her bachelor's degree with a concentration in Printmaking at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico in 2019. Her artistic practice explores various topics related to anatomy, flora, fauna and the microscopic. Her work studies different ways to do mixed media using printmaking in a traditional, experimental and contemporary way.
Her work has been presented in different international spaces. Throughout the years she has participated in collectives in Puerto Rico, Greece, México, Portugal, Ecuador and the United States. For example, in 2024 she has exhibit in Instituto Leonés de Cultura, Spain, Centro de Difusión cultural del IPBA “Raul Gamboa”, Mexico, and Souvenir, Puerto Rico. In 2023 she showed her work in 11th international Printmaking Biennial, Portugal and Museum of Art Francisco Oller, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
In 2019 she continued to develop her practice at La Casa de les Contrafuertes, where she managed the screen printing workshop. As part of the residency program in 2022 she had her first individual exhibition. As former co-founder of the collective project called Ciclos Graficos , Juan continued to promote artistic exchange and the tradition of the printmaking portfolio in Puerto Rico. She managed different printmaking theme portfolio projects and designed the package presentation. Currently, she works as a professor in the Printmaking department of the School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico and a professor at Liga Estudiantes de Arte. Additionally, she is also part of the Housing and Workshops Project for Visual Artists of the Municipality of Bayamón.
Maryam Adib
Ithaca, New York
Maryam Adib is an oil painter, clothing designer and muralist working in Ithaca, NY. In her painting practice she seeks to weave together the links of memory, history, family lineage, and dreams. She believes that by understanding our collective and individual histories and dream worlds, we can reawaken memories and pieces of ourselves that may feel lost to our subconscious. In her clothing design practice, Maryam sources clothing from thrift stores and vintage shops; she customizes these finds with her hand drawn designs via screen printing. Maryam wishes to encourage clothing reutilization by showing the possibilities that upcycling provides to refresh garments once considered old or unwearable.
Maryam graduated with her BFA from SUNY Cortland in May of 2020 after completing her thesis show, Alchemy of the Spirit. After graduating, Maryam was invited to develop a solo show in Albany NY in early 2021. This opportunity was presented by the Stage One Gallery BIPOC residency program run by community organizer, Jammella Anderson and the Stage One Gallery. In this time, she created the body of work, Dream State: Between the Conscious and Subconscious Mind. This was a series of 9 paintings and a site specific mural in the Stage One Gallery. Since then, Maryam has been a part of various group shows in Albany such as SEEN and the Mohawk- Hudson Regional show, both curated by the Albany Center Gallery. Along with the group show, Mixtape Vol. 1 curated by Collective Effort in Troy, NY. She was awarded the Christine M. Miles Award in May of 2021 and later received the Mona Brickman Artist of the Year award in December of 2021, both presented by Albany Center Gallery. Shortly after, Maryam attended the Saltonstall foundation for the Arts in August of 2022 for a 4 week residency. In that time she created various drawings and began developing a large scale 5 panel painting. Maryam was then invited for a solo show with The Rest Gallery in Ithaca, NY, titled, The Body Remembers in early 2023.
Over the course of the last two years, beginning in July of 2022, she and a group of artists working with Southside Community Center’s program CUMEP (Community Unity Music Education Program) were awarded the Creatives Rebuild New York grant. This grant provides each artist on the team with a salary to work for said program, while also working on their own personal practice. She has been responsible for developing art programming centered around Black and Brown youth in Ithaca. Her professional focus being both mural and screen- printing education and development. She has developed and screen-printed designs to promote the program (CUMEP), created art curriculum, and developed a kids mural program where children learn how to design and paint a community mural along with a fashion program for the youth.
Molly Burt-Westvig
philadelphia, pennsylvania
Molly Burt-Westvig is a visual artist with a practice spanning across modes and media, from painting and photography to video and installation. Her work questions the history of landscape painting and ideas of the sublime, bridging the immaterial experiences of the digital with the embodied presence of our physical world through projected video, sculpture and salvaged objects. Made between her studio in Philadelphia and the scrapyards beyond, it draws upon salvaged materials from the city itself like broken auto parts and glass to make moments which blur the edge between beauty and violence. Molly has participated in numerous residencies including PILOTENKUCHE and Heima, and in 2024 was awarded Skidmore College's Work+Space residency. In 2023 she was featured in the MFA edition of New American Paintings, and in 2024 her writing and work was published in Peer Review Volume II.
Paola de la Calle
san francisco, california
Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work examines home, identity, borders, and nostalgia through the use of textiles, printmaking, and sculpture. In her practice, De la Calle combines photographs sourced from family albums and found images which she prints on textiles, as well as poetic texts, paintings made with coffee instead of paint, and found objects, to mine the aesthetics of nostalgia and examine the socio-political relationship between the United States and Colombia.
She is a graduate of the New York Foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program in 2019 and the lead artist for the Caravan for the Children Campaign as part of her residency with Galeria de la Raza (2020). She has been awarded the REGEN Artist Grant (2024), and the KALA Fellowship Award (2022). She was previously an Artist-in-Residence at the Textile Arts Center (2023) and Casa Lu (2024).
She’s been featured on Hyperallergic’s “A View from the Easel”, NPR, Glasstire, Refinery29, The Boston Art Review, Latina Magazine, and VOGUE among others.
Simone Khanyi Hadebe
providence, rhode island
Born in Botswana and raised by her grandparents in Zimbabwe, Simone Khanyi’s upbringing heavily informs her practice. Through illustration, animation, and sound, she explores the nuances of family dynamics, memory, nostalgia, language and the rich visual symbolism of African textiles. Her work as a Zimbabwean-Motswana multidisciplinary artist is informed by her in-betweenness. She considers herself a “third culture kid” - having been raised in a Zimbabwean household yet struggling to speak her family’s language of Ndebele or the language of her nationality, Setswana. These persistent feelings of detachment and a nostalgic longing for home influence her current project on Zimbabwean album covers.
Notably, she is keenly interested in ways of archiving and digitally preserving endangered indigenous languages in Southern Africa. Her career goal is to become a creative consultant/arts based researcher, using her education to assist indigenous communities worldwide in documenting their oral histories and language learning. These ideas include designing storytelling spaces, information design as patterned textiles, using AI for language revitalization and hosting live motion capture storytelling nights. Whilst her interests are vast, she feels that she has the dogged enthusiasm to achieve them all.
