Hello, I’m Adam Grinovich. I am a Penland Resident Artist and am participating in the one-year residency.
I work with jewelry and metalsmithing, incorporating emerging technologies such as 3-D printing with traditional metalworking techniques. I’m fascinated by contemporary adornment, streetwear culture, video game design, as well the related fields of craft and design.
During my time at Penland I plan to further develop the connections between technology and craft and develop a collaborative series with my partner and fellow resident artist Annika Pettersson.
For the past 5 years, I have been working as a full-time educator on a college level and have recently decided to transition back into a studio practice. Penland has given me the amazing opportunity to realize this goal by providing support and community during this one-year period.
I invite you to check out what I’m working on in the studio at any point during the residency and be sure to find me at the Penland Resident Artist open studios at The Barns that occur twice a month.
Hi! I’m Geoffrey Bowton. I’m just three months into my three-year term here at Penland.
I craft army paraphernalia using mold-making and glass-casting techniques, working to create poignant visual narratives. I also fabricate metal armatures and pedestals to display my work.
My practice delves into traumatic experiences that reveal true and transparent human emotion.
My goal during this residency is to continue establishing collection opportunities with museums, hospitals, and galleries in order to share the evocative stories that emerge from this work. I also plan to start writing a book.
This residency is coming at a good time for me. After working from my private studio in Oregon, I now have the opportunity to engage with others about my narratives and studio practice.
Be sure to stop in at The Barns and check in on the progress of my unorthodox works, and please feel free to openly express your views about the world we live in today.
Together with Adam A., Everett, Ellie, and Adam W., Julia will join our Resident Artist Program to set up her studio for a three-year residency at The Barns this month. These newest residents will be joining current residents Nate Cotterman, Jason Hartsoe, and Kit Paulson. Please get to know them below, give them a follow, and say hi!
Julia Harrison
Julia is a sculptor, jeweler, and public artist. Woodcarving is her core practice, but she also enjoys experimenting with a variety of materials and techniques. Recently she has been carving amber, casting concrete, building paper lamps, and creating installations out of cookie cutters. Julia earned an MFA in Metals from the University of Washington and a degree in Metalwork Conservation from West Dean College (UK). She teaches regularly and was the Jewelry/Metals Studio Manager at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle for five years. Julia has previously participated in residencies at the Center for Art in Wood and the Bunnell Street Arts Center.
Adam Atkinson and Everett Hoffman are cross-disciplinary artists and collaborative partners, whose studio practices intersect in their shared connection to craft, adornment, and identity. Having both grown up in the Pacific Northwest, their individual artistic paths question the hyper masculine tropes associated with the wild west. From the perspective of a queer male experience, they make work through mixed-media installations, wood carvings, photography, and body adornment. Atkinson and Hoffman both graduated with a BFA from Boise State University in 2013, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018 (Hoffman) and East Carolina University in 2019 (Atkinson).
Atkinson and Hoffman have participated in a number of exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, SOIL Gallery in Seattle, Wayne Center for Contemporary Craft in Pennsylvania, the Benaki Museum in Greece, and Nogoya Zokei University in Japan. They are co-curators of Spectral Matter Projects, an annual exhibition platform for LGBTQIA+ artists navigating queer perspectives in craft. Slippery and Subversive marked the first exhibition in this series, highlighting artists whose work takes a position of slippage and ambiguity as a way to redefine body-object relationships.
Ellie Richards looks to the tradition of both woodworking and the readymade to create eclectic assemblage, installation, and objects exploring intersections of labor and leisure. In addition to mining the histories of furniture and forestry as cornerstones in her research, she has traveled extensively to investigate the roles that play and improvisation have on the artistic process. Her work, both furniture and sculpture, has been included in exhibitions at the Mint Museum, Center for Craft, SOFA Chicago, and the Society of Contemporary Craft. After receiving an MFA at Arizona State University, Richards participated in residencies, fellowships, and teaching appointments, respectively, at Anderson Ranch, Peters Valley, the Vermont Studio Center, and Appalachian Center for Craft. From there she was Penland’s wood studio coordinator from 2015-2019. This year Richards was awarded Windgate residencies at the Center for Art in Wood and in the wood/furniture design programs at San Diego State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Adam Whitney is a metalsmith who focuses his work on forming and shaping sheet metal into volumetric forms by means of raising, chasing, and repoussé. He is constantly exploring and pushing his understanding and knowledge of the craft. When not in his studio, Adam travels for various projects and to teach workshops, bringing his passion for metalsmithing wherever he goes.
Adam received his BFA in Crafts / Materials Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he concentrated in metalsmithing. He has worked as a bench jeweler and metals studio coordinator, taught jewelry design at Raffles College in Kuala Lumpur, and now runs his own studio, AW Metalsmith.
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LOCK CHARM
Saints & Savages
Contagion Effect
Sykes Regulars
Mr. Stigma
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