Join us to meet our session three Print + Paper artists-in-residence, Vivian Sming and Jenene Nagy at this free community event!
Camp Colton is excited to be partnering once again with our nonprofit sister organization in Portland, Stelo, to offer 2-week artist residencies in our papermaking and letterpress printmaking studios. Learn more about the residencies HERE.
Come for all or part of the afternoon to enjoy these activities with friends and neighbors:
12:00 pm - Gates open - Guests are invited to arrive and stroll the campus, or grab a snack at the Gathering Hall
1:15 pm - Artist talks by Jenene and Vivian. (see bios below)
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Demonstrations and work samples in the paper and print studios
PLEASE NOTE: Kristy’s Food Truck is no longer going to be on site during this event.
Guests are welcome to join in for all activities, or just pick and choose. No tickets or RSVP are necessary.
About the papermaking artist-in-residence:
Vivian Sming is an artist-publisher based in the Bay Area, who produces a wide range of artists’ books through their publishing studio Sming Sming Books. Formed in 2017, the studio experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Sming is invested in creating books from practices that are challenging to represent on paper, and is committed to promoting critical discourse and advancing cultural equity through the format of publishing.
About the printmaking artist-in-residence:
Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in the Inland Empire. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues in Los Angeles, Portland, New York, and Berlin. Her work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, the Oregon Arts Commission, Colorado Creative Industries, the Ford Family Foundation and in 2016 a nomination for the United States Artist Fellowship. Nagy's work is held in several permanent collections including the Portland Art Museum and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is one half of the curatorial team TILT Export:, an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues to produce exhibitions. From 2011-12 she was the first Curator-in-Residence for Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon.