Visual Arts Sea Grant Awards
2010 Awards
C.L. Terry Gips
Gips project is "Recordings and Memories of the Ocean: A Series of Intimate Observations". She scans aquatic plants at a high resolution and prints them ten to twenty times their original size in sections that pieced together are 3-8 feet in each dimension. "At this scale, every tiny root, stem, leaf, grain of sand, or strand of entangled fishline presents itself in vivid immediacy…"
Gips is from Wellfleet, Massachusetts, has exhibited throughout the Northeast and has work in the collections of the National Museum of American art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.
Nathalie Miebach
Miebach received an award for her installation "Changing Waters", exploring the ecological interaction between weather systems and marine environments within the Gulf of Maine. This work will be on view at the Fuller Craft Museum in January 2011. Miebach says, "My work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations."
Miebach from Brookline, MA has an MFA in sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Arts and is represented by the Cynthia Reeves Gallery in New York.
Timothy Murdoch
Murdoch's proposal is for "Tidal Flowers", a temporary installation in the water at Fort Point Channel. The sculptures will be made from recycled detergent bottles and will open as the tide ebbs from the channel and close as the tide flows out. Information regarding plastics in the environment will be placed at viewing points on nearby walkways and bridges. The installation is planned to take place during open studios in October 2010.
Murdock has an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and is from Boston, MA.
2009 Awards
Hannah Elise Miller
Hannah Elise Miller is a photographer and filmmaker and the grant will be used towards her 16mm film "Fluid Boundaries, a study in perimeters and shifting language." She writes, "This film will explore the boundaries, real or ambiguous, of the named bodies of water in Rhode island; the places where rivers flow into bays, two bays merge and open out to Rhode Island Sound and where the sound becomes the Atlantic Ocean."
Miller received her MFA in 2008 from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a BFA from Illinois State University. She has made several other films and exhibited her work in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York and Illinois.
2008 Awards
Janelle Iglesias
Janelle Iglesias will be researching translucent/transparent forms and creatures and creating an environment made from clear plastic trash and recyclables. The installation will blur the lines between plastic and organic, provoking a sense of the unusual.
Iglesias received her MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and currently resides in Hollis, New York.
Kim Salerno
Salerno is creating an installation, "White Sea", of cut paper organisms based on cephalopods and cnidarians. Light and shadow will create a luminous marine environment in which viewers can move.
Salerno has an MA in Architecture from The University of Pennsylvania and resides in Newport, Rhode Island.
2007 Awards
Deborah Wing-Sproul
Tidal Culture is a five-part nomadic work using the Atlantic Ocean as a focal point and primary resource. The work takes place in several countries that border the North Atlantic Ocean: the United States, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and the Hebrides. Wing-Sproul uses aspects of time and impermanence to address and reflect upon current conditions of the world as well as the relationships between and among cultures. There are two primary components to the work: performance and object making. She received support for Part III of the project which takes place in Greenland.
Wing-Sproul received her MFA at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is from Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Jennifer Simms
Simms works with found materials that have been washed ashore and received support for her installation , Flotsam and Jetsam. She is interested in how quickly the ocean can transform and decay human debris. The resulting objects are often hard to identify, blurring the distinction between what is from nature and what is man-made.
Simms received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She resides in Wendell, Massachusetts.
1989 - 2006 Awards
- 2006 - Christy Georg, Todd McCollister
- 2005 - Tabitha Vevers, Susan Schultz
- 2004 - Kimberly Faler, Donna Hamil Talman
- 2003 - Marguerite White, Patti Capaldi
- 2002 - Jeffrey Marshall, Kathie Florsheim
- 2001 - Tina Tryforos
- 2000 - Olivia McCullough, Lilla Samson
- 1999 - Lindsay Packer, Caroline Bagenal
- 1998 - Ana Flores, Kathy Kissick
- 1997 - Laura Davidson, Laura Baring-Gould
- 1996 - Thomas Walsh, Nancy Richter
- 1995 - Dan Ranalli
- 1994 - Charles McQuillen
- 1993 - Barbara Shamblin
- 1992 - Majorie Keller
- 1991 - John Ninneman
- 1990 - Jennifer Ann Murray
- 1989 - Chris Horton
News and Events
A&AH 2009-2010 Newsletter (PDF)
