Residencies: Creative Potential & Practical Strategies
Tarrah Krajnak, Hannah Frieser, Charles Guice, and Mary Goodwin
Thursday, October 21, 2021, 12PM EST (Noon)
/ 9AM Pacific
Free and open to the public
Registration required
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Tarrah Krajnak, artist, Hannah Frieser, Executive Director of the Center of Photography at Woodstock, Charles Guice, art advisor, curator, writer, and mentor, and Mary Goodwin, director at Aurora PhotoCenter, will discuss the creative potential of residencies, both for artists and the institutions that sponsor them, as well as practical strategies for when, where, and how to engage a residency.
Tarrah Krajnak will share the importance of residencies in her work and career, starting with her first collaborative residency at Center of Photography at Woodstock in 2008, up through her latest residency at Herron in 2021. As an integral part of the residency program at CPW, and formerly at Light Work, Hannah Frieser has years of experience building residency programs and helping artists maximize their residency time. Charles Guice has advised and mentored many artists in various stages of their careers, helping them to seek the right opportunities for the right time and project. Mary Goodwin will host and moderate the conversation, as well as talk about the value of residencies in Aurora’s programming.
Tarrah Krajnak (tarrahkrajnak.com) was born in Lima, Peru in 1979. She is currently based in Los Angeles. Krajnak was awarded the Jury Prize of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles in June 2021 and most recently the 2021 Hariban Award Grand Prize, Kyoto, Japan. She is also a recipient of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Her first monograph of the project El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan was published with DAIS books in May 2021. Krajnak is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander. (Photo by Tarrah Krajnak)
Hannah Frieser (www.hannahfrieser.com) is the Executive Director for the Center for Photography at Woodstock, where she curates group and solo exhibitions for CPW's diverse, year-around programs. She works closely with artists and writers in CPW's residency program, Woodstock AIR. Founded in 1999, the program is dedicated to BIPOC artists in the context of social justice. For nine years, Hannah was Director of Light Work, a photographic arts organization with exhibition and residency programs in Syracuse, New York. At Light Work she curated major exhibitions with Suzanne Opton, Adam Magyar, Barry Anderson and other major contemporary photographers. Hannah's essays have been featured in publications and monographs, such as Contact Sheet, Exposure, and Nueva Luz. (Photo by Charles Guice)
Charles Guice is an art advisor, curator, mentor, and writer. An accomplished arts professional conversant in the diverse role of photography, he has been instrumental in advancing the careers of numerous leading contemporary visual artists, such as Erika Diettes, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems. As a gallerist, Guice placed works in prominent private and public collections throughout the United States and abroad, including The Brooklyn Museum; The J. Paul Getty Museum; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A co-founder of Converging Perspectives (www.convergingperspectives.org), an online initiative promoting timely, critical, and in-depth discussion of contemporary photography from an international perspective, Guice has written articles and essays for publications such as B&W, Contact Sheet, and Nueva Luz, and on a number of artists. He has served on the Boards of Trustees for The California College of the Arts and The Museum of The African Diaspora, and was a founding member of the nominating committee for the Aperture West Book Prize. A former healthcare executive, Guice has curated exhibitions varying in scope, and he was a principal, managing director, and co-curator for Photo Miami. (Photo by Doug Menuez)
Mary Goodwin is co-founder and director of Aurora PhotoCenter. She is the publisher at Waltz Books, a photobook publishing company with a focus on the relationship between the photographic image and the book format. Her photographic practice depicts the land as a site of memory, culture, and politics. Goodwin holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she also acquired a love of chilis, both red and green. Her writing about photography has appeared in photoeye booklist, f-stop magazine, and the Contact Sheet Annual. As the former Associate Director at Light Work in Syracuse, New York, she curated exhibitions by Deana Lawson, Yolanda del Amo, and Stephen Chalmers, among other artists. Mary loves to talk about photobooks, and she has led a series of book talks, with artists, publishers, and designers, for Aurora in addition to her curatorial and administrative duties.