Science Museum of Minnesota - Artist at Pine Needles

2013 Artist at Pine Needles Announced

The Summer 2013 Artists at Pine Needles are Bonnie Ploger, Susan Armington, Su Smallen and Jessica Zeglin, all of the Twin Cities area.

For the first time, the program has accepted a team of two artists for a collaborative residency. Bonnie Ploger and Susan Armington will work together on ways to connect art, science and creativity through encounters with the natural world.

Su Smallen is a poet who will begin a new work during her residency, based on the river as a "guiding spirit, image or theme."

Jessica Zeglin is a painter and sculptor who creates wire sculptural replicas of natural objects in the field, and then uses those as the basis for paintings and additional sculptural forms.

Artist at Pine Needles

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.

Drawing of Pine Needles cabin by Dave Brandon. Dave Brandon © 2003

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.

Pine cone and needles drawing by Dave Brandon

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.

How to apply

Application materials for each summer's residencies are posted here during the first week of January. Applications are accepted until the end of February (check annually for exact dates), and artists are notified of the selection decision by the first of April. Two or three residents are selected each year.

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

Participants - Artist at Pine Needles

2012
Sally Gierke (Bettendorf, Iowa) Potter

Ryan Rodgers (Osceola, Wisconsin) Photographer
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

Programs

St. Croix Watershed Research Station

Contact Us

St. Croix Watershed Research Station
16910 152nd St. N
Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047

(651) 433-5953

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