Cultural Crossroads Artist Residency Program at the Holter Museum is an opportunity to explore the importance of international cultural influences shaping contemporary art. Through raising awareness of how artists and audiences participate in the complex web of culture, the program encourages visitors to appreciate creativity, diversity and collaboration. The residencies offer tours and opportunities for class groups to meet and work with the visiting artist.

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.

October 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 explored the illusory architecture of layered video projection in space. Kim’s In one ear… and in another was the first iteration of a body of work that featured a live performance and an ongoing video installation involved communities of artists, musicians/composers, writers, and filmmakers from Southern California as well as Montana, who will brought the performance to life during her October 2010 residency.

Events:
Oct 12 • Artist Lecture • 7:00-8:30 pm
Oct 21 • Opening Reception and Installation/Performance Premiere • 5:30-8:00 pm
Oct 22 • Performance of In one ear… and in another Installation • 5:30-8:00 pm 

MARIE WATT is a multidiscliplinary artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. A 2008 winner of the PDX Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Watt fabricates sculptural webs and wall hangings to show the interconnectivity of storytelling, history and collective memory. In Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons; Forget-me-not: Blossom in the Holter’s High Gallery from January 29-April 25, 2010, she honored the lives lost in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with embroidered portraits. Her fabric webs call attention to the invisible human bonds ever-present between strangers, neighbors, acquaintances friends and family. While at the Museum, she added portraits of Montanans lost in the current wars and facilitated sewing circle and storytelling workshops.

Marie Watt 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 are Turkish calligraphy and ebru (marbled paper) artists who led workshops for school children and the public in conjunction with the exhibition Magic Carpets: Tribal Sofras from Turkey in the Sherman Gallery from January 19-April 4, 2010. The workshops and a Turkish Family Festival day included Turkish hospitality, food and craft activities. Lectures and workshops on Turkish rugs and art were also held during the exhibition.

Burcu Kinay was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1983. She took lessons in ebru (marbling) from her master Ayla Makas for two 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

This artist-in-residence program was generously co-sponsored by: