The Artist in Residence Program
The Artist in Residence program at Art & History Museums of Maitland (A&H) has a rich history. For over 80 years, the center has provided artists with the space and freedom to break from expectations and, with a brush in hand, embrace the spirit of exploration.
The program supports today’s artists by providing living and studio space to individual artists for 6-weeks. The studio and living quarters are located within the historical Maitland Art Center compound, boasting a thriving local studio residency program, an Art School, a contemporary art museum, and three history museums. The program is ideal for artists who work independently and will benefit from an atmosphere of solitude. The program is open to one visiting artist at a time, and artists receive a $600 living stipend.
“Working in such an idyllic setting and being so directly connected to the day-to-day routines as well as the unpredictability of the natural world has provided rich and complex painting material.”– Josette Urso, A&H Artist-In-Residence Spring 2013
The AiR program has been featured on: Vasari21.com
2024 Artists-in-Residence
Kenneth Brown: Artist-in-Residence TWENTY-SIX
Visiting from Youngstown, Ohio | May - June, 2024
A love for history and how the impacts of the past reflect on present day life is what inspired playwright Kenneth Brown to explore the friendship of the Founder of The Arts and History Museum of Maitland, Jules André Smith and Zora Neale Hurston a lifelong resident of neighboring Eatonville.
Brown the Founder and Artistic Director of Cultural Fusion performing Arts company formerly of Orlando, has always wanted to create something that involved Hurston. During a tour of the museum, curator Katie Benson shared that Andre’ Smith and Zora Neale Hurston were friends. Brown immediately knew this was a project he wanted to develop. Brown is the first writer to be offered a residency in the museum’s 86 year history. “I’m honored to have the opportunity to develop a story of André Smith who was a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion.
Matthew Fasone: Artist-in-Residence TWENTY-FIVE
Visiting from Oyodonaka Kita-ku Osaka, Japan | October 29 - December 10, 2024
I am an interdisciplinary American artist from New York City who has been living and working in Osaka, Japan since 2006. My arts practice involves making
palimpsests through collaging found, collected and upcycled materials, most notably washi, and old ledger books. In addition to these I combine textiles, botanical contact prints and other printmaking techniques and alternative photographic processes to create mixed media collage, assemblage and installation artworks with an emphasis on nature, sustainability and recycling. My artwork focuses on the passage of time, time’s effect on things, the relationship and dichotomy of opposites and the weathering of the materials I use.
@matthew_fasone_art on Instagram
Eve Brown: Artist-in-Residence TWENTY-FOUR
Visiting from Atlanta, GA | September 10 - October 21, 2024
My practice is about fascination. I work primarily in textile, drawing, ceramic and installation and I am particularly interested in how my work interacts with the world. Much of my work combines my movement and visual art practices. In both fields I investigate trauma, loss, connection, and human (and more than human) relationships. These practices inform each other and are both somatic, relational, “research” and experiential oriented. I’m inspired by cycles, birth and decay, in-betweens, “empty” space, play and unknowns. Paradoxes are one of the most inspiring subjects to me as they feel embedded in what it means to be alive. I’m deeply curious about what it means to be human and how we might connect in our shared humanity through what we most often feel isolated by. Whether it’s through research, collaborative projects or movement classes, I value involving my community into my work and investigations. My experience of chronic illness and trauma has impacted and inspired my work.
https://www.earthenbodies.org/
Alvin Ancheta: Artist-in-Residence TWENTY-THREE
visiting from the Philippines
2023 Artists-in-Residence
Soude Dadras: Artist-in-Residence TWENTY-TWO
visiting from Georgia, USA | October 10 – November 20
Isobel Francisco: Artist-in-Residence TWENTY-ONE
visiting from the Philippines | May 2 - June 12
Amira Hasoon: Artist-in-Residence TWENTY
visiting from the UK | March 8 - April 18
Past Artists-in-Residence
Carol d'Inverno: Artist-in-Residence NINETEEN
(May-June 2022)
LaTasha Nevada Diggs: Artist-in-Residence EIGHTEEN
(July 2021)
Rachel Livedalen: Artist-in-Residence SEVENTEEN
(May 2021)
Nellie Appleby: Artist-in-Residence SIXTEEN
(December 2020)
Nellie Appleby is from the mountains of Virginia and she spent influential childhood years in Botswana. She earned her Bachelors degree in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and her Masters of Fine Art in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the recipient of many grants including two South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships and a Virginia Museum of Fine Art Fellowship. She has exhibited her works at The Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, ChaShaMA, Dimensions Variable, The Rutter Family Foundation, David Castillo, Oolite Arts, The Deering Estate, Florida Atlantic University, Anderson Gallery, Museo Ex-Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara), Galería Metropolitana (Mexico City), Wildfist and The Cave among others. She is thankful to have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Carrizozo AIR, Residencia en la Tierra and The Studios of Key West, along with her stay at A&H. Her life and work are deeply engrossed with the study of ecology and plants, the cultivation of gardens and beauty, the exploration of wildness and the examination of culture and expression through the actions of photography and sculpture. She has dedicated her life to these practices.
She lives and works between sub tropical South Florida and the mountains of Virginia.
Wade Schaming: Artist-in-Residence FIFTEEN
(March 2020)
Wade Schaming (b. 1984; Pittsburgh, PA) lives and works in New York City. His sculptures are painstakingly assembled solely through processes of stacking. The materials remain unchanged – used as is/found – and are unfixed to each other: as such, he creates delicate juxtapositions perilously balanced, like thought given concrete form. From discarded and forgotten objects, which memorialize hope, the assembled forms aspire to return dignity to the bearer and evoke empathy in the viewer. This process is site-specific and confined to the present moment: because he works only with found and discarded materials (nothing used is purchased), his pieces reflect their origins while reinforcing a desire to create impermanence. Schaming studied at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (BA 2006) and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA 2010). His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Field Projects, New York, NY, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX and Primary Projects, Miami, FL. He has been profiled/interviewed by Paper Magazine, International Sculpture Center and The New York Times. Residency awards include the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program, Bronx, NY (2012), Residency 108, Clermont, NY (2014), the Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY (2015), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2016), Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2017), The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY (2017), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (2017) and Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY (2018).
Lori Larusso: Artist-in-Residence FOURTEEN
(Spring 2020)
Lori Larusso makes paintings and installations that explore issues of class and gender and how both reflect and shape culture. She has exhibited her work widely in the US and abroad and it is included in numerous public and private collections. Lori has been awarded numerous residency fellowships including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, chaNorth, and MacDowell where she received a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship. She is a recipient of the Kentucky Arts Council’s Al Smith Fellowship, multiple grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Lori is the 2019 Kentucky South Arts Fellow and is the recipient of the 2020 Fischer Prize for Visual Art.
Lori Larusso earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and a BFA from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). She currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky and is represented by Galleri Urbane in Dallas, TX.
Katrina Bello: Artist-in-Residence THIRTEEN
(March 21 - May 2, 2019)
Born in Davao City, Philippines, Katrina Bello is a visual artist whose practice is devoted to drawing. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and the Philippines: Rowan University Art Gallery, El Museo Cultural, West Gallery, Trestle Gallery, Neon Heater Gallery, Gallery Aferro, The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster among others. She has been awarded residencies at the Art & History Museums in Maitland, Florida and the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine, USA. Bello is the founder and operator of North Willow, an informal artist-run attic exhibition space in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. She lives and works in New Jersey, USA and Metro Manila, Philippines.
Carole D'Inverno: Artist-in-Residence TWELVE
(January 8 - February 16, 2019)
Carole d’Inverno is a self-taught artist. She was born in 1956 and grew up in Italy and Belgium. She moved to the United States in 1979 and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. d’Inverno has had numerous solo and group shows in the United States. Recent solo shows include “Massillon and Ohio,” at the Massillon Museum of Art and History, Massillon, Ohio; “Appalachia: an Abstraction,” at the Western Carolina University Art Center; “A Way of Saying,” at SUNY Rochester Monroe College, Rochester, NY.
d’Inverno is the recipient of "The Art of Ivy Side, National Competition Winner," PENN State Altoona, PA; she has been accepted into the historical Artist Lab at Rokeby Museum, VT, and has been awarded Fellowships and Residencies at the Art and History Museums, Maitland, Florida, the Studios at Key West, La Playa, Summer Lake (OR,) Willapa Bay AIR, Willapa (WA), the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson (VT), the BAU Institute, Otranto (Italy,) Starry Night, Truth or Consequences (NM,) and the Wassard Elia Center, Ascea, (Italy.)
Her work is in the public collections of the Microsoft Art Collection, Kirkland, WA; Group Health Headquarters, Seattle; Swedish Hospital, Seattle; Seattle University, Seattle; Art and History Museums - Maitland, and in private collections across the US and Europe.
Barbara Marks: Artist-in-Residence ELEVEN
(February 7 - 28, 2018)
A child of the sixties, I fell into graphic design and established my own studio specializing in book design. In 2001, I left that behind to study painting at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (BFA 2005), and Brooklyn College CUNY (MFA 2008). I’ve been awarded artist residencies in Italy, France, and across the United States and have shown my work throughout the Northeast.
Barbara Marks has been a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fowler Dune Shack (Cape Cod), MIRA (Martignano, Italy), Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (WY), Jentel Foundation (WY), L.A. Summer Residency at Otis College of Art and Design (CA), The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA), The Research Studio at Art & History Museums-Maitland (FL), Monson Arts (ME), Edward F. Albee Foundation (NY), and Moulin à Nef (Auvillar, France). She has twice been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Barbara’s work has been shown at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA); Providence Art Club (RI); Painting Center, First Street Gallery, and Atlantic Gallery (NYC); Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn), Drawing Rooms (NJ); New Britain Museum of American Art; DaSilva Gallery, Silvermine Arts Center, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Whitney Center, Serendipity Gallery, The Loft Gallery, Five Points Gallery, and The Chase Family Gallery (CT); McLanahan Gallery at Penn State Altoona (PA); The Affordable Art Fair (NYC); and Artist-Run at Satellite (Miami). Barbara is an artist member of The Painting Center (NY); New York Artists Circle (NY); and a Guild Artist at Silvermine Arts Center, (CT). Her work on paper is represented in the flatfile at Artspace New Haven. She is a Trustee of the Vermont Studio Center and a former board member of Artspace New Haven. Barbara divides her time between Connecticut and NYC.
Nikki Painter: Artist-in-Residence TEN
(February 7 - March 21, 2017)
Nikki Painter has been making drawings for as long as she can remember, and she is most interested in the idea that artmaking is a way to create a new world. She thinks of all the drawings, paintings, and installations she makes as being part of one world -- they are all just fragments of this place, sometimes from different phases of its cycle (like seasons of the year). For the last several years, Painter has been working with more architectural imagery, dealing with themes of construction and destruction, but more recently, she has gotten into plant-sourced imagery, thinking about concepts of growth and renewal.
Elizabeth Condon: Artist-in-Residence NINE
(January 10-31, 2017)
Elisabeth Condon grew up in Los Angeles, down the street from a canyon. This landscape comprises her most vivid recollections, dissolving form in flows of light and color. Visual memory conflates the Asian influenced décor of her childhood home with the canyon, as if plum blossom wallpaper formed the backdrop for its riverbeds and rocks. LA’s glam rock nightclubs, travel to Asia and the Grand Canyon sharpen her desire to paint synthetic landscapes that appear equally fantastic and real. Lately, combining wallpapers and fabrics with pours of paint recreate the ‘dance’ of elements found in Chinese ink painting, replacing calligraphy with stylized plant forms and birds. Condon’s love to travel, strong sense of place and passion for Chinese culture past and present lead her to the intersection of architecture and nature via décor.
Deanna Morse: Artist-in-Residence EIGHT
Over the past thirty-five years, I have been working as a film/video artist, creating experimental and art films and videos, animations, installations, and interactive multimedia pieces. My films are visual poems, often revolving around a character exploring an environment or situation. This art-film-work has been screened in many different and varied venues: on cable, network and public television, in film and animation festivals, museums and schools. My films are represented in many international collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Australian National Film Library. I have also made films for children, including animations for Sesame Street.
Marie Yoho Dorsey: Artist-in-Residence SEVEN
Marie Dorsey works in multiple mediums including printmaking, photography and sculpture. Fascinated by the power of stories and the creation of myth her multidisciplinary practice reflects upon the nature and expectation of narrative as a means to explore ideas. Dorsey studied at the Sogetsu School of Ikebana in Tokyo, and earned her MFA from the University of South Florida. She practices the of the art of Ikebana, the constant search for a balanced relationship between the sky, the earth and man: a parallel to her own personal, spiritual journey.
Sharon Lee Hart: Artist-in-Residence SIX
Sharon Hart is a DC born visual artist with a practice primarily focused on photography, works on paper, and a developing interest in book arts. She earned her BFA from Maine College of Art and MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hart maintains a studio in South Florida, where she is the Head of the Photography program and an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida Atlantic University.
Serge Marchetta and Masha Ryskin: Artists-in-Residence FIVE
After 18 years of service at Post Canada, Serge Marchetta quit in 1993 and started a new career as a visual artist. Graduating from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995, Marchetta has participated in over than forty solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Québec, Europe and United States.
Since 2010, in parallel with his individual practice, he has started to work in collaboration with Masha Ryskin.
Masha Ryskin is a Russian born artist currently based in Rochester, NY and Providence, RI. She received a classical art education in Moscow, Russia, followed by a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Michigan. She uses a variety of media, including drawing and painting, printmaking, installation, and fibers. Her work is concerned with landscape and its elements as a metaphor for memory, history, and passage of time.
Masha's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has participated in a number of artist residencies, both in the United States and abroad. She is a recipient of many grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright grant to Norway.
Marydorsey Wanless: Artist-in-Residence FOUR
Marydorsey Wanless is a visual artist and educator living in Topeka, Kansas. She is an Associate Professor Emerita of Photography at Washburn University Art Department, where she has taught sixteen years. She is currently retired and teaching workshops in photography.
Her art work is photo-based, using historical photographic alternative processes. It incorporates personal experiences combined with the photographic processes. She has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally; and has received many awards, including the grand prize in the SoHo Gallery’s alternative photography show, The Krappy Kamera Exhibit 2009. She has exhibited in over 150 juried shows, in 32 invited group shows, and has had 25 solo shows of her photography.
Elysia Mann: Artist-in-Residence THREE
Elysia Mann is from St. Louis, where she earned her BFA in printmaking. She later earned her MFA at the University of Tennessee, where she was a graduate teaching associate. Mann’s work embraces doubt as a way of knowing and redundancy as a performance of doubt. She has an interdisciplinary approach that includes printmaking, weaving, installation, and poetry. Areas of repeated focus in Mann’s work include language, time, the body, the body politic and repetition.
Leigh Tarentino: Artist-in-Residence TWO
Leigh Tarentino is from Rhode Island. She is an artist who makes paintings, works on paper and digital prints constructed from photographs of the built landscape. She is an Assistant Professor at Brown University.
Josette Urso: Artist-in-Residence ONE
Josette Urso makes paintings, drawings and collages working directly and urgently in response to her immediate environment. For Urso, space is a malleable substance that she delights in manipulating acrobatically in a kind of gymnasium of mark making and image collision all governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color, and a wayward geometry. Her approach involves “moment-to-moment” extrapolation where the contrasts and cross-fertilizations are cumulative, non-linear, free flowing and interpretive. She strives to discover and engage the known as well as the unknown in unforeseen ways.
Urso has shown widely in the United States and abroad in galleries, public institutions, and museums including the New York Public Library, the Drawing Center, and the Bronx Museum for the Arts. She has had numerous grants and residencies including those from the NEA, Basil H. Alkazzi and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation as well as the Camargo Foundation, Ucross and Yaddo.