2024 Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Artists in Residence
Amy FortierMay-October 2024 She is inspired by color, henna tattoos, Moroccan tile work, mandalas, mosaics and patterns of all kinds. She specialize in detailed mandala images, “fauxzaics” (fake mosaics) and line art for coloring. She also offers workshops for people of all levels of experience. Although she's been doodling, crafting, and dabbling in art since she could first hold a crayon, she didn’t start to show her work publicly until she painted, of all things, a 4 foot tall fiberglass pig as part of Hanover, NH’s 250th Anniversary celebration in 2011. She parlayed the momentum, recognition, and praise from that piece into confidence to try and show her other pieces. The rest, as they say, is history. More information about Amy can be found at AmyFortier.com. Workshops
Ellen Smith AhernJune-October 2024 Ellen is grateful to teachers and mentors, including Peter Schmitz, Amy Chavasse, Jenn Ponder, Penny Campbell and Andrea Olsen. She has performed and taught throughout the US and internationally, collaborating with Jane Comfort & Company, Lida Winfield, Kate Elias, Rachel Bernsen, Rebecca Pappas, Hannah Dennison, Pauline Jennings, Polly Motley, El Circo Contemporaneo, Amy Chavasse, David Appel and Tiffany Rhynard’s Big APE. With generous support from many institutions and community members, she shares her work through film, installation and live performance in a diverse array of venues, including the National Gallery of Art, Dance on Camera Festival/Film at Lincoln Center, Rainier Arts Center, Bates Dance Festival, AVA Gallery, Ucross, Dixon Place, Artistree Community Arts Center, FlynnSpace, Ionion Center of Kefalonia and Rococo Theatre in Prague. Please visit ellensmithahern.com. Performances
Christine Tyler HillAugust 2024Multi-Disciplinary Artist Christine Tyler Hill is an artist, creator, and organizer telling stories that connect people to places and movements for social change. Christine uses illustration, design, and short-form video to explore what interests her most: the natural world and conservation; community building and alternative economies and social structures; local political systems and civic engagement; bicycling and alternative transportation; outdoor adventure and recreation; and, gosh… so much more. For more information, visit Christine Tyler Hill. 2023 Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Artists in Residence
Amy Hook-Therrien2021-2023Watercolor Artist Amy Hook-Therrien is a visual artist with a specialization in watercolor. Amy grew up in Chelsea, Vermont, where she formed deep connections with the forests surrounding her. She went on to study art at the University of Maine in Orono, where she earned her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, focusing in painting. After graduating, Amy returned to rural Vermont to immerse herself in nature and painting. She has since been featured in multiple publications and her work displayed in galleries throughout the state. In 2019, Hook-Therrien was awarded the Abenaki Artists Association’s Artist of the Year Award. Amy primarily works in watercolor and chooses the natural world as her subject. With her landscapes, she aims to portray the tranquility and fragility found in nature. At Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park she will be exploring art inspired by the plants and animals who call this place home and working on an alphabet series inspired by the natural world and her Abenaki heritage. A portfolio of her art can be viewed at Amy Hook-Therrien. 
Dale BroholmSeptember 2023 Dale Broholm is a Studio Furniture Maker, with a practice spanning over 40 years. His work can be found in Public and Private Collections across the United States. For the past 24 years he has taught in the Department of Furniture Design, at the Rhode Island School of Design as a Senior Critic. Recently retired from teaching as a Distinguished Critic, his focus turns back to his own work. As a cofounder of the Witness Tree Project, a collaboration between the National Park Service and Rhode Island School of Design, historical research as a design tool factors heavily in his creative process. The two week residency at MABI will be focused on generating a start to a new body of work through a 3 dimensional ideation process.Dale's work can be found at www.dalebroholm.com. 
Heather HeckelAugust 2024 Dr. Heather Heckel, EdD is an artist and art educator living in New York City. Her award-winning artwork has been shown internationally, is in several national permanent collections, and is featured regularly in the local Park Slope Reader. She is a lifelong learner who loves to travel, and has been awarded 17 artist residencies through the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management. She is finishing her tenth year of teaching public school art, and has taught at the college, high school, and middle school levels. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Ringling College of Art and Design, her MAT in Art Education from the School of Visual Arts, and her MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Most recently she earned her Doctor of Education degree in Educational Leadership from the University of the Cumberlands, where her research investigated the relationships between creativity, art education, and leadership. She is a member of the Society of Illustrators, National Art Education Association, and the New York State Art Teachers Association. Past Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Artists in Residence
Margaret Dwyer2019-2021 Margaret Dwyer is a multi-media artist with a specialization in watercolor. Her first residency at the park was in 2019 and the park was fortunate to have her return in 2020 and 2021 to carry on the AIR program through the pandemic. Dwyer’s residency featured open houses at the park’s artist studio, as well as workshops for children and adults. Workshops included elements of the forest and encourage visitors to create a hybrid version of where they sit, what they see, even what they feel, finding deeper elements of the material from which their art is created. 
Jessica Creane2018 
Joan Hoffman2016 2016 Artist in Residence, Joan Hoffmann dedicated her time over the summer to helping the National Park Service celebrate its Centennial. Co-sponsored by Artistree Community Arts Center, Ms. Hoffmann offered painting demonstrations, en plein air painting workshops, and a public lecture all on-site at various scenic locations around the park. 
Lyal Michel Lyal Michel2015 
Alastair Noble2013-2014 Environmental artist and printmaker, Alastair Noble, returned to the park to in 2014 to complete the installation of his forest-inspired poetry log sculptures and ink-washed drawings begun in 2013. 
Andrea Polli2012 Andrea Polli, 2012 Artist in Residence, is a digital media artist whose work with science, technology and media has been presented widely in over 100 presentations, exhibitions and performances internationally, has been recognized by numerous grants, residencies and awards including a NYFA Artist's Fellowship, the Fulbright Specialist Award and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. Her work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, NY Arts and others. She has published several book chapters, audio CDs, DVDs and papers in print including MIT Press and Cambridge University Press journals. 
Wendy Call2011 Wendy has become something of an itinerant writer in residence, holding that position in 2011 at Cornell College of Iowa, and has also been writer in residence at a dozen other institutions. She presented her writing in public readings several times during the summer, including Saturday, July 30 at Bookstock: A Green Mountain Festival of Words and also on Saturday, September 24 at the Park Forest Festival weekend. During her two months Wendy was at the park three to four days every week. She offered several writing workshops as well as other ways for park visitors to engage with the world of words. 
Ethan Jackson Ethan Jackson2010 2010 Artist in Residence was Ethan Jackson, a visual artist working in photographic media and optical installation from Portland, Oregon. Through his work, Ethan explores aspects of landscape representation and the notion of "place". 
Susan Meztger Susan Metzger2009 Susan Metzger is from Washington, Maine. She is trained in painting, landscape architecture, and architectural drawing. Metzger's approach to painting distills the landscape to its core elements - creating something explicitly of a place, yet strikingly universal. Metzger worked for the permanent collections at the Decordova Museum and is a former Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow in Taos, New Mexico.
Barbara Bosworth2008 Bosworth, with her large multiple-format images, shows a keen interest in capturing people’s interaction with their landscapes – whether along the Bitterroot River, in the American Southwest or right here in Vermont’s forest. Her previous projects include photographs of so-called “National Champion Trees” and the surroundings in which they grow. Most recently she has been working with color photography, creating images of songbirds and the marshes and meadows they live in. Rather than a remote wilderness secluded from contact, Bosworth’s photographs are peopled with tourists, friends, family and sometimes the artist herself. 
Elizabeth Billings2007 |
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