Science Museum of Minnesota - Artist at Pine Needles

2014 Artists at Pine Needles Announced

The St. Croix Watershed Research Station has announced the selection of the Summer 2014 Artists at Pine Needles. Dave Beck of Menomonie, Wisconsin, Anne Marie Queenan of St. Paul and David Spohn of Lindstrom will participate this summer. The residencies will begin in May and continue through late August.

For the first time, the program welcomes back a previous participant for a second residency. 3D digital artist and sculptor Beck produced a digital animation titled "Log Jam" when he was an Artist at Pine Needles in 2010. Now teaching in the School of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Beck produces new media with a historical and environmental focus. His residency plans are to design a 3D interactive video environment, incorporating themes from the exploration and development of the American Midwest.

Anne Marie Queenan is a writer, video and documentary producer who has worked since 2008 on projects conveying important issues affecting the Minnesota River. She plans to develop an oral and video history/blog which profiles the natural history of the St. Croix River. She will collect and share stories, images, and sounds of the river valley.

David Spohn's art has been focused on two fronts, the creation of books and the art of printmaking. He creates solar plate etchings; a recent series of dragonflies was supported by a McKnight Foundation Fellowship grant with selections included in the permanent collection at the University of Minnesota-Morris. He plans to delve deeply into the environment of the river valley and commit to creating art that both celebrates the river and educates about its challenges.

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

2013
Bonnie Ploger (Shoreview, Minnesota) Painter

Susan Armington (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Painter

Su Smallen (St. Paul, Minnesota) Poet

Jessica Zeglin (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Painter/Sculptor
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

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

(651) 433-5953

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