October 2019
Frontier Fellowship: Ashley Hanson & Brian Laidlaw
Ashley Hanson & Brian Laidlaw, Teaching Artists / Musicians (Granite Falls, MN) ASHLEY HANSON is a theater artist, community organizer and advocate for the arts in rural areas. She is the founder of PlaceBase Productions and the Department of Public Transformation, and was recently named a 2018 Obama Foundation Fellow for her work with rural communities. BRIAN LAIDLAW is a poet-songwriter nearing completion of a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. His books include THE STUNTMAN and…
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Frontier Fellowship: Sam Cox
Sam Cox, Graphic Designer & Filmmaker (Raleigh, NC) Sam Cox’s work investigates the ways our beliefs and identities are shaped by the places we inhabit. His work is a theoretical and personal response to hyper-individualistic and transient American culture. He is fascinated by geography, Eastern Christian mysticism, indigenous cultures, maps, and the desert. He hopes to live, die, and be buried on the same piece of land. His current film, New Men, chronicles the life of a Russian Orthodox Monastery…
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Frontier Fellowship: Erin Elder
Erin Elder, Artist (Albuquerque, NM) Erin Elder is an independent artist and curator guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places. Underscoring Erin’s work is a commitment to the creative process and to artists. From 2009 - 2013, she cooperatively founded and directed PLAND, an off-the-grid residency program near Tres Piedras,…
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Frontier Fellowship: Blanca Villalobos
Blanca Villalobos, Artist (Beaumont, CA) A proud, queer daughter of immigrants, Blanca S. Villalobos holds ancestral connections in Jalisco, MX, home to the Wixarika people, and was raised on Cahuilla & Serrano territory in the San Gorgonio Pass of Southern California. A lover of deserts and mountains, she spent the majority of her twenties in the Pacific Northwest organizing cultural happenings with and for communities of color while simultaneously developing her performance practice. She now lives in the same home…
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Frontier Fellowship: Erin Mallea
Erin Mallea, Artist (Pittsburgh, PA) Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her art practice is rooted in a generative research process in which she maps social dynamics and politics embedded within relationships to land and the environment. Working in video, sculpture, and photography, Erin often collapses natural and national history to examine taxonomies and systems of producing knowledge, national memory, and ideology within natural and cultural landscapes. She enacts a methodology of site-specific fieldwork that is…
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Frontier Fellowship: Sophie Macguire
Sophie Maguire (Vancouver, BC) Originally from New York and having spent much of her life in the American northeast Sophie Maguire now resides in Vancouver, BC. A choreographer and landscape designer working at the intersection of drawing, history, and performance Sophie is currently a project designer at PFS Studio, an adjunct professor at UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture and a choreographer/ maker. Her research spans an array of topics including the informal design of adventure playground in the…
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