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Sunday June 7, 2015

MayArtists-in-Residence

UPCOMING Events

I-Park Foundation, Inc.428 Hopyard Road | East Haddam, CT | 860-873-2468 | info@i-park.org

a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporationwww.i-park.org

Sunday, July 12 | 2pm to 5pm General Residency Open Studios

Sunday, August 9 | 2pm – 5pm General Residency Open Studios

Sunday, August 23 | 2pm to 4pm Composers/Musicians Collaborative Residency Concert

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, East Haddam

Sunday, August 23 | 5pm to 7pm Post-Concert Reception, Site-Specific Music at I-Park *

Saturday, September 12 Autumn Volunteers Day

Saturday, September 19 Annual Fundraising Dinner *

Dinner with the Artists and Exclusive Preview Walk of the Environmental Art Trail

Sunday, September 20 OPEN House | Public Exhibition | 2015 Environmental Art Biennale

* Ticketed Events

Winterberry Landscape & Garden CenterSouthington, Connecticut

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Event sponsored by Shagbark Lumber & Farm Supply

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Sincere thanks to our local supporters

Refreshments contributed by The Town Tavern & Restaurant

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Beer and wine provided by Swingbridge Wine & Spirits

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Music Studio Elizabeth A. Kelly’s (b. 1982) works have been performed at major venues thorughout the United States and Europe, from Carnegie Hall in New York to Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the United Kingdom and the Gaudeamus Festival in the Netherlands. Her compositions have been commissioned and performed by diverse ensembles including Alarm Will Sound (US), and ASKO Schoenberg Ensemble (Netherlands), the Curios Chamber Players (Sweden), Ensemble 10/10 (UK), the Albany Symphony Dogs of Desire (US), and the New York and Netherlands Youth Symphonies. Her work has been recognized with two Morton Gould Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and numerous other prizes. Kelly holds a Ph.D. in music composition from Eastman School of Music. She is an Assistant Professor of Music at Texas Woman’s University.

www.elizabethakelly.com

White Studio Kellie Murphy is a processed based artist whose current drawings are meditations on time and loss. For this, she makes custom inks from natural materials, modifying historical recipes, and quill pens from various bird feathers.

Select exhibitions include the Kim Foster Gallery, NYC, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC and Socrates Sculpture Park, L.I.C., NY. Kellie has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundations.

She received her MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and a BA from SUNY-Empire State College, NYC.

Kellie lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. www.kelliemurphy.com

South Studio Karen Harris has pursued a variety of creative endeavors over the years. Working, not only as an artist and art instructor, but also as Art Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Colorist. Additionally, Harris designs and creates custom jewelry based on Native American petroglyphs. A trained Watercolorist, Harris received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. In her current work, Harris explores new techniques using both watercolors and oils. Harris is the Internship Manager and Career Advisor at the RISD Career Center. I-Park is her first artist’s residency.

Red Barn/South Studio Marina Fridman is a Canadian artist creating drawings, mixed media paintings, sculptures and installations. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with a BFA Degree in 2014, and has since then attended residencies at the Creative Practices Institute, Vermont Studio Center and The League Residency at Vyt.

Marina has received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and has been featured in publications such as Poets/Artists Magazine, Art Journey and Strokes of Genius. Her recent exhibitions include the Drawing Discourse Exhibition at the University of North Carolina Asheville, and Nature Inc. at the Rockland Center for the Arts in New York.

www.marinafridman.com

Pond Studio Kendall Baker received his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art and his B.F.A. from Clark University. He spent a year in India as a Fulbright Scholar making sculpture and studying cave-temple architecture. His artwork has been shown recently at the Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, the Sculpture Center, NYC, Berlin, Germany and New Delhi, India. In 2013, Kendall lived in Berlin working on a combined installation of sculpture and photography. His first residency at I-Park was in 2011. His current interest is how objects and natural elements accept marks. Mark-making, in his work, is about giving form — in a very minimalist, non-invasive manner — to elements of nature in order to make it more renderable. kendallbaker.org

Grey Studio Molly Reid’s stories have recently appeared on NPR and in the journals TriQuarterly, The Collagist, Redivider, and Indiana Review, among others. Her story “Happy You’re Here” was awarded first place in The Pinch’s 2015 literary contest. She has received fellowship and residency support from the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Ucross Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently at work on a novel about taxidermy and ghosts. She has been living in Portland, Oregon, for the last three years. mollyreid.contently.com

South Studio Steven Gilbert attended Columbia College and The New School for undergraduate studis and Columbia University and New York University for graduate and post graduate studies in art history. He studied painting and drawing at the Arts Students’ League, Cooper Union and with Hans Hoffman. From 1957 to 2007, he was Assistant Professor of Painting at the Maryland Institute of Art. He has exhibited with the Max Hutchinson Gallery, ‘America meets Bavatia’ show at the Oberfalzer Kunstlenhaus in Schwandorf, Germany and various other venues. He has attended many artist residencies in the country and abroad, including: The Virginia Center for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Djerassi, Ucross, The Saltonstall Foundation, Blue Mountain Colony, The Kanoly Foundation, France, The Oberfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Germany and Fundacion Valparasio, Spain. stevengilbertpainter.com

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Thanks so much for visiting I-Park this afternoon for our OPEN Studios | OPEN Trails event. We hope you enjoyed yourself and we look forward to seeing you at future events. Please consider supporting I-Park by making a financial or in-kind contribution, or volunteering. To do so, either visit our website at www.i-park.org or contact Joanne Paradis at joanne@i-park.org or 860-306-0636. The I-Park Foundation, Inc. is a not-for profit corporation under 501(c)(3) of the IRS code. Your contribution will be fully deductible for tax purposes. Thank you!