Open Studios Program - I-Park

UPCOMING Events
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
I-Park Foundation, Inc.
Artists-in-Residence Program | East Haddam, Connecticut
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Connecticut Trails Day Ar t & Nature Walk
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
Sincere thanks to our local supporters
Event sponsored by
Shagbark Lumber & Farm Supply
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Refreshments contributed by
The Town Tavern & Restaurant
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Beer and wine provided by
Swingbridge Wine & Spirits
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Major Support Provided by
Winterberry
Landscape & Garden Center
Southington, Connecticut
I-Park Foundation, Inc.
428 Hopyard Road | East Haddam, CT | 860-873-2468 | info@i-park.org
a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation
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May Sunday
Artists-in-Residence June 7, 2015
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. Markmaking, 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
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
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.
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
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
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
Support I-Park
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!
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