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Artist-in-residence, Jenine Shereos, left us with some stunning tree embroidery. #Hambidge #hambidgecenter (at Hambidge Creative Residency Program)
It was a good week for bird nest discoveries. This one was found on one of our trails. #Hambidge #hambidgecenter (at The Hambidge Center For Creative Arts And Sciences)
Winner of the Field Experiment People's Choice Award... Martha Whittington & Rae Long from Atlanta, GA & Lindesnes, Norway with "Contemplation - Resolution - Unity." Votes for the People's Choice Award were collected at the Hambidge Art Auction + Field Experiment Gala on April 23. Martha Whittington and Rae Long will receive a two week Hambidge residency. ##hambidgeauction #Hambidge #fieldexperimentatl
And the Field Experiment 2016 winner is... Pablo Gnecco, Travis Broyles and Christopher Derek Bruno from Atlanta, Georgia, and Brooklyn, New York, with "9to5," a hyper-connected co-working space that broadcasts localized knowledge and receives worldwide commands to accelerate the creative process. Operating as open source software, all elements of the space are modifiable by users, regardless of location. The goal is to make “9to5” a permanent installation by threading itself into an Atlanta community space. Selected from 77 applications received from 32 cities, 16 states, and 4 countries including Thailand, Chile, Canada & Norway. The Field Experiment 2016 proposals included experimentation in the natural sciences & applied sciences, new media, movement, sound based work, transportation, architecture & design computation, music composition, participatory interventions, urban planning, 2D & 3D visual art & robotics. The 5 finalists each received $2,000 to complete a concept of their projects for display at the annual Hambidge Auction at The Goat Farm Arts Center on April 23rd, 2016. As the winning team, Pablo Gnecco, Travis Broyles and Christopher Derek Bruno will be awarded $20,000, a two week Hambidge residency, and administration and production support. The final project will be realized starting in Fall 2016.
Chick love... #hambidge #hambidgecenter (at Hambidge Creative Residency Program)
Hambidge has new chickens! #hambidge #hambidgecenter
Many thanks to one of our favorite volunteers and writers, Jeremy Lloyd, who donates time and hard work to help keep our trails clear. #Hambidge #hambidgefellow #hambidgecenter
More Hambidge garden harvest - a mess of mustard greens! #hambidge #hambidgecenter #hambidgegarden
First harvest from the Hambidge garden! The seedlings were sprouted by Jane, our housekeeper; planted, tended and harvested by Andrew, our buildings & grounds manager; prepared by Brian, our chef (in photo), and eaten by our residents! What can we say? It's a group labor of love around here. #hambidge #hambidgecenter #hambidgegarden
I want to share with y'all the story of a remarkable visionary woman who created a sustainable community in the north Georgia mountains long before it became the “thing to do”. Mary Crovatt was born in 1885, to a prominent family in Brunswick, Georgia. Mary left the South early in her life to attend boarding school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From there she moved to New York City as an aspiring actress and supported herself as an artists model as well as working in vaudeville where Mary was considered a world class whistler and performed with her pet mocking bird, “Jimmy”. Mary and Jay Hambidge photo courtesy of The Hambidge Center Mary probably met Jay Hambidge through the art community in New York. Mary took his last name and called him her husband, but they never married, in fact, he had a wife and four children that lived in Iowa. Jay Hambidge evolved a system for ordering visual elements, which he named “dynamic symmetry”. He believed dynamic symmetry was the foundation for all great art and outlined mathematical laws of proportion based on patterns of plant growth. In 1918, he wrote to Mary that an examination of a maple leaf caused him to see the link between art and nature. Many artists of the day used Hambidge's design elements in painting, crafts and architecture. Companies such as Tiffany's used it in their designs and Chrysler used it in designing several of their cars. In 1920, Yale Press sponsored a trip to Greece where Jay could corroborate his theory of dynamic symmetry through the use of on site measurements of the Parthenon. Mary accompanied him on this trip and it altered the course of her life and formed the basis for her major accomplishments. You see, Mary began studying with Kria Elene Avramea who ran a weaving studio where Mary learned to spin and weave. She also met Eva Palmer Sikelianos, an American married to a Greek poet. Eva created performance pieces based on Byzantine and Greek music that included music, dance and poetry all performed in garments she wove. Mary didn't share the belief of most of the textile artists there that you should be bound by traditional design and Mary began creating her own aesthetic drawing inspiration and techniques from tradition but not bound by convention. Within three years, Jay Hambidge died from a stroke while he was delivering a lecture. After Jay's death, Mary tried to make a living as a weaver and was constantly looking for ways to lower her cost of living. In seeking an inexpensive life style, Mary lived at a friend's mountain house located in Mountain City in Rabun County, Georgia. She fell in love with the mountains and “discovered” the Appalachian hand weaving tradition. Mary, like most people thought that hand weaving has disappeared a long time ago in the southern United States. After two years of living in the mountains, Mary returned to New York City, there she met Eleanor Steele, an opera singer, while they were working together on an opera production. Mary was hired to weave all the costumes and adapted each costume to the exact proportions of the cast member instead of just hemming them all the same, irrespective of the person's height, which was the usual method. While in New York, Mary also wove all of her own clothes, it seems they had a decidedly Grecian flair and some said they had the look of a costume rather than every day wear. She used a heavy silk warp and a lighter silk weft and employed Jay's design figures woven in an inlaid tapestry technique. photo courtesy of www.indiana.edu While living in New York, Mary envisioned a place in the Georgia mountains where crafts and agriculture could be practiced according to the principles developed by Jay. She expanded dynamic symmetry and imagined a self-sufficient lifestyle emerging from the practice of balance and proportion Eleanor Steele pledged to support Mary in her dream. Mary moved back to the North Georgia mountains and rented space where she employed recent high school graduates as weavers. The girls lived in one cabin and Mary in another, eating and weaving together in a larger central building. Soon Mary realized she needed more space for both weaving and farming and began searching for land. She wanted land where she could create her sustainable community. Mary found an ideal space along Betty's Creek in the Rabun Gap area. In 1938, Mary purchased 800 acres using $6000 supplied by Eleanor Steele. The property consisted of both bottom land near the creek and mountainous terrain with a large house made out of creek rocks. At 50, Mary finally realized her dream of a place in the mountains. To be continued..........
Read a history of Mary Hambidge written by Donna Hardy on Sea Island Indigo!
Pretty petals on Betty's Creek. #hambidge #hambidgecenter
"The mental space that the (Hambidge) residency provided me, allowed for connections to be made between works in the studio at home and works I was making in Son House. I came back to my home studio and immediately knew how to resolve a large work that I hadn't been able to 'see' yet." –Amy Pleasant The photo is of Son House Studio this spring while Amy was in residence. Her solo show, Blink, at Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson NY, ends July 5th. #hambidge #hambidgecenter #hambidgefellow #visualarts
Guest post by Susannah Felts from the Porch
Susannah Felts, a writer of fiction from Nashville, Tennessee, had a residency at Hambidge in the summer of 2013 (as seen above, working in Son House Studio). Not long after her return home, she co-founded the Porch Writers’ Collective in January of 2014 with writer Katie McDougall.
Through the Porch, Susannah and Katie aim to inspire, educate, and connect writers of all ages through classes, youth outreach programs, and innovative events. In the process, they hope to nourish and energize Nashville's literary community, encouraging collaboration and creative mingling between writers and other artists and makers.
Since its founding 18 months ago, the Porch has organized writers’ retreats, poetry readings, a short story contest, an essay contest, book club meetings, guest speaker events, and workshops for writers of all levels: adults, kids, professionals and novices.
When someone, who is a writer herself, founds a nonprofit center for writing, it’s a clear indication that she thinks it an important and necessary endeavor. Such organizations require an enormous amount of time and work, and can make it challenging for a writer to find time for her own craft. I recently asked Susannah to share of few thoughts about the Porch and why she founded it.
Building the Porch: a blog for Hambidge
By Susannah Felts
Writing often gets described as a solitary art. I get this, just as I understand the need to get away from it all to focus on one’s words—a gift that Hambidge has provided me and so many fortunate writers. But I also wonder: Is this not the full story? Is writing unduly pigeonholed as a solitary craft? Artists working in other mediums create primarily alone, but these art forms are not so culturally cast as isolated endeavors.
Writers, I think, need community as much as other artists, which is to say: plenty. We also need a lifetime of learning. We need to seek opportunities to hone our craft, to apply our visions to the work of other writers (in part to become better readers of our own work), to come at the work of writing from new angles, putting new voices and methods of practice in the mix. We need to shake things loose, seek motivating pick-me-ups, employ new strategies. We need to do these things in a supportive environment, one built not on competition but on mutuality. We need, in short, what a literary center can provide, and that is why my business partner Katie and I (and our glorious board of directors) are working so hard to build a nonprofit literary center for Nashville.
A key part of that work in the first year+ has been education: about the mission, the vision. Here’s how I contextualize the Porch for people who aren’t familiar with existing literary centers: Like me, you probably want to live in a city with a world-class symphony, a great art museum, a strong local music scene, a thriving theater community, a vibrant culinary landscape. Thankfully, Nashville has all of those features. Shouldn’t it stand out for its literary arts culture as well? Shouldn’t it have a place where people can study the craft of writing, a place that nourishes a local literary community and puts Nashville on the national map? Shouldn’t we be seeking ways to create innovative collaborations between the performing and visual arts and the literary arts? As a writer, you can bet that these are features I want in the city I call home.
What the Porch does, and what we seek to do on a larger scale as we grow, isn’t without precedent: both nonprofit and for-profit literary centers flourish in cities all over the country. We look to those centers as role models, as exemplars of what we hope to achieve as we evolve. We hope that we inspire others still to follow in our footsteps. And we hope that we encourage writers who are looking for the next place to call home to consider Nashville as a city that supports their art—a good place to live if you’re a writer-type, a place that offers so much beyond that solitary writer’s desk.
From last week's hail storm at Hambidge!
On April 24, at the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort, Kentucky, Hambidge Fellow George Ella Lyon was inducted by Governor Steve Beshear as the Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2015-16. George Ella, a Lexington-based writer and Harlan county native, attended Centre College of Kentucky where she studied music and English. Since then she has written over 40 books for adults, teens and children. Of her appointment, George Ella said that she will continue her work to make poetry accessible: "Many people are afraid of poetry because they don't understand it. I hope to reach past that and welcome them, and (ask) that they infuse poetry into their everyday language and hear the poetry in their everyday speech."
Co-authored with J. Patrick Lewis, Lyon’s latest book for teen readers, Voices from the March on Washington, - which she worked on during a recent Hambidge residency - was published in October 2014 by WordSong. A collection of original poems, the book tells the stories of individual marchers at the historic civil rights march of August 28, 1963, which culminated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The book has been very well received. It was chosen as one of “Booklist’s” Top Ten Nonfiction Books for Young Readers; won the Cybil Award for Poetry; was chosen as an Honor Book by the California Reading Association; and made the Chicago Public Library “Best Books” list.
Of her time at Hambidge George Ella says,
“Each time I've come, Hambidge has given me exactly what I needed: a peaceful, quiet place to work, acres of woods to walk in, the inspiring company of writers and other artists, delicious food, and a welcoming and helpful staff. In just the right balance of solitude and lively company, my work and my spirit flourished… It’s inspiring and eye-opening to glimpse such varied and rich projects [of fellow residents] as they are being created and to hear the artist/writer/composer talk about the process. It’s different from going to a gallery opening or a reading where what you experience is a chosen product. Here it’s all becoming; the courage it requires is more visible and the sharing is deeper because we’ve gotten to know each other a little during our magical dinners on the porch.”
Coming out in September 2015, Lyon has another children’s picture book, Boats Float! Co-authored with Benn Lyon and illustrated by Mick Wiggins, this is the third book in their transportation series.
Below is a wonderful limited edition print proudly displayed at Hambidge - a poem by George Ella, illustrated by Carolyn Whitesel, and printed by October Press in Lexington, Kentucky.
Kate Schutt came to Hambidge last Autumn to write music about very difficult subjects: death and loss. The resulting songs are heartfelt, penetrating, and manage to form a bridge from the raw sorrow of grief to the first glimmers of peace. Listen to more of her songs at SoundCloud.
“I was inspired by the dedication of the other artists at Hambidge and loved the enlightening conversations around the dinner table during our communal dinners. Seeing another person’s art and talking to them about their struggles and successes helped me with my own struggles and successes while at Hambidge. Many a night, I went to dinner with a lyrical problem in my mind – struggling with a way to say something tender and profound about death in lyric form. After bringing it up over dinner, I always went back to work with new ideas and new energy to tackle the stanza I was working on. I made more than a few lifelong friends from my time at Hambidge and these friendships were forged over the dinner table.” – Kate Schutt
(via The Answer Is Never)
Longreads recently published this thoughtful (and happily unapologetic) piece by Sabine Heinlein. In The Answer is Never, Sabine does her part to “rewrite the false narrative of childlessness.”