Artists across the globe have collaborated in a virtual residency program presented by the North Central Louisiana Arts Council and the Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation.
The 2021 North Louisiana Virtual Residency Exhibition is available for viewing until March 26. The exhibition is a culmination of artists from across the globe collaborating together in groups during a virtual residency program that began in 2021.
The exhibition features 16 artists from seven different countries with diverse art forms ranging from painting and paper arts, to photography, sculpture, performance art, and more.
This virtual residency began in May of 2020 as a way to offer virtual space, support and community for artists during the early stages of the pandemic. RLCF and NCLAC hope to foster a communal and collaborative environment that brings about connections that would otherwise not exist.
The online exhibition is now available for viewing at nclacgallery.org. The exhibition serves as a way for the artists to communicate the results of their dialogs and explorations during the residency. Each group shares their collaborative project and experience through images, videos, audio and text.
Artist talk videos will be shared each week of the exhibition on the Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation Residency Facebook account, @RossLynnFoundation. The residents and their project titles are:
April Fitzpatrick & Robyn Gibson (We Can’t Heal What We Don’t Reveal) Chris King & Oluwakayode “Oba” Moyosade (A Tale of Two Kings) Ally Zlatar & Ayesha Mubarak Ali (Where Two Bodies Meet) Sarah Nguyen, Mami Takahashi, & Eden Radfarr (Compilation 001) Kinnari Saraiya & Sangram Mukhopadyay (যত উপর, वैसा नीचे [Translated: As Above, So Below]) Eden Radfarr & Emily Tironi (Material Connections / Children At Play) Beenish Ahmed & Eman Fatima (Ever-Present) Cristina Koutsolioutsou & Shannon Rose Moriarty (Tangible Metafora).
