Brian, Emily, Justin and Leah were the first artists and writer to have the opportunity to "live free and create" at HUB-BUB. Thanks to the leadership of Kerry Ferguson and the rest of the Hub-Bub staff, they took Spartanburg by storm. Dedicated to making art, working for HUB-BUB and The Showroom, and initiating community art projects, the 2006/07 artists-in-residence made a tremendous impact in their short time here. During that year they: taught a semester-long photography course for a local Boys & Girls Club and sponsored an exhibition of photographs in The Showroom; partnered with SPACE on a substantial public art project called "Scarecrow Wedding" in a wetland area; coordinated the NEA's Poetry Out Loud program in nine South Carolina counties, including hosting and MCing the regional finals; designed and created a set for the Wofford College theatre production of 365 Days, 365 Plays; curated and hosted a one-night Hub-Bub Experimental Film and Video Microfest; researched the history of a father-son photography team who captured Spartanburg in the years 1908-75 and wrote an introduction to a book about their work (Spartanburg Revisited , Hub City, 2007).
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Leah Brown is a person who constantly questions the nature of
reality...ie: What is real and what is not, and the very definition of
reality. Her sculptures, her installations, and the rest of her artwork
is often motivated by the idea of dreams, the notion of dismissing our
dreams and why we often do so. The result of this dreamy groundwork is
sometimes startling, often ghostlike, and always unique and compelling.
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Brian Hitselberger, who had recently completed his undergraduate studies at Tulane University when Hurricane Katrina hit his adopted home-town, arrived in Spartanburg ready to tackle the grueling job of relocating physically and regrouping emotionally. More importantly for him as an artist, though, was that he arrived at the AIR program ready to create.
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Justin Plakas started making paintings just out of curiosity and right after he had graduated from high school. He had never taken any formal art courses outside of the ones that he had to take in public school in his hometown of Takoma Park, Maryland. But his little brother, knowing that Justin had always wanted to make films but just couldn't afford the gear, bought Justin a video camera for 40 dollars from a guy off the street.
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Like most kids, Emily Louise Smith grew up thinking the South Carolina town she lived in and the people she knew were unremarkable. It was only years later that she came to realize the rarity of the environment and ethic around her – the acres of farmland, waterways, and forests that disappeared a little with each of her visits home.
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