Visiting Artist in Residence Program
Our Visiting Artist in Residence Program is a short term curated partnership between an established artist and The Bray. The Visiting Artist is provided a private studio space, in proximity to The Bray Resident Artists, to realize and conceive new work and projects while engaging in shared on-site resources and a lively creative atmosphere.
We maintain an ongoing list of interested artists to fill residency slots. Our goal is to invite artists interested in growing their own artistic vision while sharing space with the long- and short-term cohort of resident artists at The Bray. This residency is best suited for mid-career and established artists looking to engage in a lively studio environment.
The Visiting Artist Program Provides
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on-site Studio Facilities
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4-6 weeks in a creative environment
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open ended space and time to work
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Subsidies on firings and materials
Additional details
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Artists may be asked to present a lecture
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Artists are responsible for travel to and from the bray
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Artists retain ownership of work created at the bray
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Artists are responsible for packing, insuring and shipping their artwork
Current Visiting Artist In Residence
Carmel Buckley
I have a background in sculpture, and I now primarily work in the mediums of sculpture and drawing. In both of these, I’m interested in the slightest transformation or repetitive mark that might give an unexpected reading to an otherwise prosaic object or geometric form out in the world. I have a particular interest in working with diverse materials and objects, often in reference to plants, to explore histories and the role of imagination.
In my drawings, I explore both the artefacts and the vegetation found in various locations I inhabit as a starting point for developing a series of works. I have an ongoing series of “drain drawing” works that I have made from urban drains/sewers/manhole covers in locations including Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, New York City, along with London, England, and Otranto, Italy.
Another series of drawings come out of my interest in native plants. The leaf silhouette drawings explore my interest in fairytale narratives, nature, and location. The silhouettes are made from the tracings of leaves in particular local settings.
I am fascinated by the detail of pattern and design found in urban and natural environments, which I recognize as one way that we become entranced by things in the world. My drawings are often made with accumulations of repeated marks that create optical fields within an image. This mode of representation as a sign of entrancement was certainly recognized by some early-twentieth-century illustrators, including Harry Clarke and Kay Nielsen, as a way to evoke thresholds of magical or psychically transformative experiences. I have used these processes for a series of plant drawings based on the beach/maple virgin forest that surrounds my house in Cincinnati.
Mark Harris
I’m an artist and writer working in several media depending on the ideas addressed. Paintings, drawings, videos, sound, conceptual, and written works have looked at how individuals and groups use language, imagery, and music to show the remarkable qualities of everyday experience. In the past, these works have concerned intentional communities and avant-garde groups that include Fourier’s 19th-century phalanstery, Surrealist writers, 1960s communes, Beat poets and filmmakers, and musician milieus,
including Caribbean singers and UK punk bands. All of those examples feature in different parts of “Sonic Wilderness,” a book I published in 2022. One preoccupation driving that book was the proposal that unusual, often outsider, records form an obscure sonic resistance that exposes fault lines masked by conventional popular music and the ideologies that hold it in thrall.
Recent drawings, videos, and essays are part of a research project into colonial Caribbean botany and the African plant diaspora, the more than 30 fruits, vegetables, and grains transported to the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade. As part of that project, I am writing on the Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite in relation to concepts of West Indian folk traditions and paradigms of sound and silence in the Caribbean histories.
Recent Visiting Artists In Residence
Chris Riccardo
Heesoo Lee
Yoonjee Kwak
Jessica Brandl
Alessandro Gallo
Voulkos Fellowship
The Voulkos Visiting Artist Fellowship was created in memory of the renowned ceramic artist, Peter Voulkos who began his career at the Archie Bray Foundation in 1951. His family and friends established the Fellowship at the Bray to be awarded each year to a special and distinguished visiting artist whose generosity, commitment to innovation, and passion for creative exchange through shared ideas reflect Pete’s spirit.
Peter Voulkos taught by example, working alongside other artists in the studio, fostering artistic exchange and dialogue, and nurturing mutual respect. In the same spirit, the Voulkos Fellow is invited to work in an environment that encourages interaction among the resident artists and the Bray community.
