SCWRS Artist at Pine Needles

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The Artist at Pine Needles residency program invites natural history artists or writers to spend 2 to 4 weeks to immerse themselves in a field experience, gather resource materials, and interact with environmental scientists and the local community.

The setting for the Artist at Pine Needles project is the James Taylor Dunn Pine Needles Cabin, located just north of the village along the St. Croix River.

Applications will be accepted from writers and visual artists who focus on environmental or natural history topics. Participants will have an opportunity to interact with environmental scientists and to create links between their art, the natural world and the sciences.

As part of the program, artists will be encouraged to design an outreach project to share their work with the local community and to contribute an original work for the benefit of the research station.

Housing and rustic studio space is provided for the artists' choice of a 2 to 4 week residency.

For more information, contact , Assistant Director at the St. Croix Watershed Research Station, (651) 433-5953 ext. 13.

Participants - Artist at Pine Needles

2011
William Powers (New York City, New York)
Author/journalist

Jim Proctor (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Sculptor

David Luke (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Photographer

2010
Dave Beck (Potsdam, New York)
Digital Artist

Michael Eble (Morris, Minnesota)
Painter

Jeanne Kosfeld (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Painter

2009
Bethany Kalk (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Painter

Ann Myers (Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota)
Photographer

Robin Smith (Denver, Colorado)
Printmaker/charcoal

2008
Anne Canright (Del Rey Oaks, California)
Writer

Kathleen Heideman (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Poet

Darcy Love (Sauk City, Wisconsin)
Fiber artist

2007
Mark Odegard (Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota)
Painter, creative journalist

Vera Ming Wong (River Falls, Wisconsin)
Painter, botanical and scientific illustrator

Kim Gordon (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Painter

2006
Rebecca Silus (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Painter

Linda Gammell (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Photographer

Stephanie Torbert (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Photographer

2005
Naomi Cohn (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Poet

Gwen Partin (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Printmaker

2004
Merlyn Chesterman (Devon, England)
Painter/printmaker

Susan Maakestad (Memphis, Tennessee)
Painter

2003
Seitu Jones (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Photographer/visual artist

David Morrison (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Painter

2002
Laurie Allmann (Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota)
Environmental writer