Creating Time and Space:
A Week of Mindful Making with Joanne Dugan
October 15 - October 21st, 2024
Workshop description:
Join visual artist, author and creative mentor Joanne Dugan for an artist retreat held directly on the grounds of MASS MoCA. The full-immersion residency format is suitable for visual artists, photographers and writers with an existing practice to restart, reinvent or expand. Utilizing Joanne’s signature prompt-activation style, participants will create intuitive responses to the museum’s expansive collections and inspire new work quickly, in unexpected ways.
A thoughtful framework of both scheduled and free time activities will encourage purposeful, dedicated time and space for artistic experimentation and mindful focus, away from the distractions of daily life and the need to project expectations on outcomes.
The flexible curriculum of guided daily prompts and mindfulness practices will allow artists to further an existing project and/or create spontaneously on site. Each group member will have 24-hour access to a dedicated private studio within the museum complex and will reside together in housing nearby. The cohort will also have free entry to MASS MoCA’s 250,000 square foot complex throughout the week, and instructor creative prompts will be inspired by exhibiting artists including James Turrell, Sol LeWitt, Taryn Simon, and Louise Bourgeois. There will be a field trip to the nearby Clark Art Institute for additional inspiration and research as well as free admission to the nearby Williams College Museum of Art.
Risk taking and multidisciplinary work is highly encouraged and there will be private scheduled feedback from the instructor, as well as ongoing cohort interactions in a safe, productive environment. An instructor questionnaire and suggested checklist sent prior will help participants create a realistic and clear vision for what they want to accomplish while in residency.
Cost:
$1650
Included in fee:
Private, lockable artist studio on museum grounds with 24 hour access. And 24 hour access to printmaking studio and color laser printer. Private bedroom (queen-sized bed) with shared bathroom and kitchen in walk-up apartments across the street from MASS MoCA. Welcome dinner on arrival day. Boxed lunches on museum grounds every day except for departure day. MASS MoCA membership benefits (including free gallery access) for the duration of the workshop.
The workshop is full, but you can join a waitlist in case a space opens up by emailing studios@massmoca.org.
Instructor bio:
Joanne Dugan is based in New York City and is a widely-published and exhibited visual artist, photographer, editor, and author. Her work has been shown in galleries in the US, UK, Poland, the Netherlands and Japan, and published in The New York Times T Magazine, the Harvard Review, Unseen and Photograph magazines, among others. She was recently awarded residencies at Mass MoCA, the Peaked Hill Trust and the Abbott Watts Residency for Photography and was a finalist for the Meijberg Art Prize at Unseen Amsterdam. Her work is widely collected and she is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and Black Box Projects Gallery in London .
Joanne’s visual work and writing is published in seven best-selling books, including Summertime (Chronicle), and ABC NYC: A Book About Seeing New York City (Abrams). Her limited-edition monograph, Mostly True, is in the permanent library collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the George Eastman House. She has been editor and creative director for many artists’ published works, including the recent ‘Dune Shacks of Provincetown’ by Jane Paradise (Schiffer). She is an active mentor for artists and writers around the world and recently founded The Creative Current, a private monthly lecture series about artistic mindfulness and activating authentic voice. She teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Los Angeles Center of Photography and the International Center of Photography in New York City.