RESIDENCY EXPERIENCES 2020
A note about the 2020 experiences
In early 2020, the Village Canoe Residency and Exhibition planning was put on hold. This was due in part because of the restrictions and unknowns from the global pandemic covid-19, and also because the 2019 experience needed some changes and re-thinking that we hadn’t been able to attend to before covid-19 set in. Fortunately, with the award of a grant from the Public Art Learning Fund administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), new ideas surfaced and developed after digging into the Public Art component to the Village Canoe, through a weekly directed study over the course of three months with artist Harrell Fletcher, in Portland, OR. Two new ideas came to bear: the Village Canoe Remote Residency Kit “(VCRRKIT”) and the Half-Day Floating Residency. Both of these concepts provide additional framework for programming, looking into the future, and reflecting on the dynamism of the 2019 Residency and Exhibition experiences.
2020 VCFRKIT Remote Residency Artist:
Harrell Fletcher
2020 Half-Day Residency Artist:
Willa Moore
Village Canoe Remote Residency Kit ("VCRRKIT")
This residency model exists to provide you, the participant, with some framework for exploring the intersection of art and the outdoors through your chosen means of boating in a human-powered craft.
VCRRKIT #001: Harrell Fletcher
Residency information
Artist: Harrell Fletcher
Location: Swan Island Boat Ramp onto the Willamette River; Portland, OR
Date: August 15, 2020
Duration: 2-3 hours
Vessel: an inflatable kayak
Food/drink/meal plan: a thermos of iced tea and a bag of cherries
Artist Website: www.harrellfletcher.com
Residency Documentation
Photo: Harrell Fletcher
Photo: Harrell Fletcher
“There was a conceptual framework that caused [me] to have a different mindset that is activated by the prompt itself. So I think that’s the sort of beauty of it. It is something that lots of people do already; but by by reframing it, you get them to experience a normal thing–a little bit differently. ”
Screen shot from Follow-Up conversation over Zoom
It’s that simple. Take yourself on a residency. Answer a handful of questions. Send documentation. And then have a follow-up conversation.
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Village Canoe Half-Day Residency
This residency model exists to provide the participant with an accessible, low-stakes, one-on-one guided residency experience for exploring the intersection of art and the outdoors.
HALF-DAY RESIDENCY #001: WILLA MOORE
Residency information
Artist: Willa Moore
Location: Passagassawakeag River; Belfast, ME
Date: August 14, 2020
Duration: 3-4 hours
Vessel: 16’ tandem canoe
Food/drink/meal plan: Willa brought jerky and cheese; Chris brought blueberries, cantaloupe, goat milk yogurt, Energy Gems; A meal was made by sharing both bounties at a picnic table at the river’s edge.
Artist Website: https://www.instagram.com/scragetywocket/
Why go on a Half-Day Residency?
Explore your local ecologies.
Enjoy creative time making work inspired by the outdoors.
Return from your residency feeling inspired, energized.
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