Joshua Tree National Park and the Joshua Tree National Park Association have announced their selections for the 2013-2014 Artist-in-Residence Program (AIR). Reporter Dan Stork tells who they are, and which art forms they practice…
Four visual artists, a sculptor/videographer, and a writer were invited to participate in sixth year Joshua Tree National Park Artist-in-Residence program, which provides a unique residential opportunity to artists from around the nation.
The 2013-2014 artists are Lauren Beth Eisenberg Davis (a writer from Maryland); Sonja Hinrichsen (a sculptor/videographer); Hanna Kunysz (a visual artist from San Francisco, California); Brendan Monroe (a graphic novelist from Oakland, California); Olivia Parkes (a painter from Pioneertown, California who is currently living in Berlin, Germany); and David Titterington (painter from Lawrence, Kansas). Elaine Stocki (a photographer from Brooklyn, New York) and Joshua McKinney (a writer from Fair Oaks, California) were selected as alternates. The park will provide accommodations for the artists-in-residence for two to four weeks so that they may create work in their chosen medium. The Joshua Tree National Park Association provides financial and administrative support. The artists will reside in the Park September through November 2013, and March through May next year. They will produce a program or exhibit to engage members of the surrounding communities. They were chosen from 40 applicants. For more information about Joshua Tree National Park’s Artist-in-Residence Program, please contact Caryn Davidson, Park Liaison for the AIR Program at 760-367-3012.
