Joan Mitchell Foundation Names 2019 Artists-in-Residence

Alumna Veronique d’Entremont Among the 32 Artists Selected

January 10, 2019

Alumna Veronique d’Entremont (MFA '12) is one of 32 artists who have been awarded residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans for the coming year. Artists in Residence will be provided with private studio space at the Center, which sits on a two-acre campus in the historic Faubourg Treme neighborhood, lodging for those artists traveling to the Center from outside New Orleans, a stipend, communal dinners, and opportunities to participate in programs that actively engage both the professional arts community and the public. The Artist-in-Residence program was developed as an extension of the Foundation’s support of the local arts community in New Orleans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and has become a vital realization of artist Joan Mitchell’s vision to provide artists with the necessities of time and space to create their work.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has announced the 32 artists who have been awarded 2019 residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, where each participant will be given a private studio space as well as access to programming staged by the center.

Christa Blatchford, the chief executive officer of the foundation, said in a statement that the residency program brings Mitchell’s “life and vision into the present, in a community that is so incredibly rich with history and creative energy.”

This will be the sixth year that the foundation has hosted artist residencies. After this year’s program, the center will have hosted over 200 artists.

Blatchford added, “We look forward to engaging with our artists-in-residence and to seeing the exciting and unexpected ways the space and time can impact their work."— Annie Armstrong, JAn. 10, 2019

This post is an excerpt. Read the full article and see the list of 32 Artists in Residence on the ARTNEWS website.

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