We are pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Holter Museum of Art a grant for $55,000 in support of the Cultural Crossroads program for 2008-2010. NEA has been a key supporter since the inception of the Holter’s Cultural Crossroad Artist Residency program and is supporting the program for the fifth time.

Cultural Crossroads Residencies 2010

Carole Kim
Oct 11-22, 2010

CAROLE KIM is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on live video performance and performance-based video installation.  Digital/new media technologies interface with the sensitivity of the improvisational live performer.  The installations explore the illusory architecture of layered video projection in space.  Check back for more information about what Carole will be doing at the Holter Museum.  Learn more about Carole Kim at www.carolekim.com

Marie Watt

Marie Watt is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Portland, OR.  She was born to the son of Wyoming ranchers and a daughter of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation (Iroquois/Haudenosaunee).  She identifies herself as “half Cowboy and half Indian.”

Events:

Jan 28 •Community Sewing Circle • 5:30-7:30 (no experience necessary)
Jan 29 • Exhibition Opening • 5:30-8pm
Feb 1-5 • Student Tours
Feb 4 • Artist Talk • 6:30-7:30 pm
Feb 6 • Storytelling with Soft Sculpture, Teacher Workshop • 10am-4pm

Burcu Kinay & Murat Cabuk

Burcu Kinay was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1983. She took lessons in ebru (marbling) from her master Ayla Makas for 2 years in Caferaga Medresesi which is an historical training place for Turkish arts.

Murat Cabuk was born in 1978 in Turkey. He graduated in Economics from Black Sea Technical University in Turkey. He is  a web application developer as well as a calligraphist.

Events:

Feb 16-19 • Student tours
Feb 18 • Turkish Festival • 6-8:30 pm
Feb 19-20 • Adult Ebru & Calligraphy • 4-7pm & 9-Noon
Feb 20 • Family Day: Turkish Festival • 1-3pm