Jonas, Ellie, Patrick and Sarah made up the third group of HUB-BUB artists-in-residence. They moved to Spartanburg ready to make art/write and ready to engage the local community. Each resident spent significant time focusing on their craft and allowing the local landscape and personal interactions to influence their work. They collaborated with countless non-profits and individuals during their stay. They worked with the Historical Association on a public art project to attract visitors to the Seay House, worked with the COLORS Inner City Art Program to teach photography and graphic design to junior high students, taught at Wofford College, collaborated with the Spartanburg Ballet on an experimental performance piece, curated an exhibit for The Showroom, taught several screenprint workshops and a collage workshop, hosted soup nights and potluck dinners, installed 12 full-sized tipis in an open space downtown, exhibited at the Spartanburg Day School, and gave countless talks/presentations/open studio tours to community members. The 2009 AIRs fully immersed themselves in all aspects of the HUB-BUB community.
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Jonas Criscoe (B. 1979) is an interdisciplinary visual artist interested in how our ever-expanding consumer culture has shaped the environments and landscape in which we live. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, notably the Texas Biennial and the International Print Center in New York. His work is also part of the West Collection. Criscoe has been featured in various art publications, including Art Lies and New American Painting: The Western Edition. A native of Austin, Texas, he received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and the University of Texas at Austin, and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design this past spring.
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This girl has a spectacular vision and sense of sound for things
unseen, but heard and unheard, but seen. She swears that she will
finish her schooling for good. She thinks that survival is a luxury,
and thus she is going to give this notion weight in her daily
activities and through her interactions with both inanimate and animate
beings. She is an elaborator, a traveler, but not a salesman. Chances
are she will beat you in a game of Scrabble. Buy her some purple
handcrafted German shoes, send her to Orcas Island or Kodiak Island,
surprise her. After all, she is from OH and her initials are LE. She
appreciates, among other things, her mother, basketball, Wisteria,
Liquidambar styraciflua, lakes, purple broccoli, dancing, and bees...
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Patrick Whitfill finished his PhD in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University in 2008 before moving to Spartanburg. An occasional thespian and musician, he is also an unashamed super-fan of anything film related. His poetry can be found in the Mid-American Review, Alabama Literary Review, West Branch and others. A few of his short stories have found homes online, as well. He was born, raised and educated in West Texas.
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Fundamentally a living being, experimenting as a human, Sarah Witt occasionally identifies herself as a cross-disciplinary visual artist. Primarily focusing in performative video works, Sarah fabricates and portrays characters that become influenced and controlled by their environments. After receiving her BFA in Film from Syracuse University in 2004, Sarah relocated to New York City where she was involved in commercial sculpture production and minor sauerkraut production. In 2007, a nomadic appetite led Sarah to Greensboro, North Carolina where she participated as an artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative and has since been involved as a member of the Elsewhere Tenured Collective.
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