Artist Residencies
Residencies at the Wexner Center offer support to artists and often provide opportunities for interaction with the Ohio State community and the public at large. They are an essential part of the Wex's mandate to be a creative research laboratory for all the arts.
Wexner Center Residency Awards are their most substantial and high-profile residencies. They are given annually in the main program areas—performing arts, media arts (film/video), and visual arts—with some projects extending over two or more years. Residency Award recipients for 2008-09 are choreographer William Forsythe, filmmaker Guy Maddin, and innovative theater groups Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and Improbable theater group.
Other artists participating in exhibitions and performances also may receive commissions and often engage in residency activities—workshops, master classes, and discussion sessions with students or the community—during their time at the center. In addition, about 20 visiting filmmakers and video artists from around the world are invited to use the facilities of the Art & Technology studio and editing suite each year.
Wexner Center Residency Award recipients include:
Performing Arts: Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, The Builders Association, da da kamera, Twyla Tharp, Elizabeth Streb/Ringside, Mark Morris Dance Group, The Wooster Group, Anne Bogart/SITI Company (multiple), Improbable (multiple), Bill T. Jones, Ann Carlson, Amanda Miller/Pretty Ugly Dance Company, and (collectively) Michael Curry, G.W. Mercier, Donald Holder, and Molly Anderson (all collaborators with Julie Taymor).
Visual Arts: William Forsythe, Kerry James Marshall, Zoe Leonard, Josiah McElheny, Maya Lin, Ann Hamilton, Barbara Kruger, Lorna Simpson, Barbara Bloom, Alexis Smith, Shirin Neshat, Lee Mingwei, Greg Lynn and Fabian Marcaccio, Hussein Chalayan, Terry Allen, and Softworlds.
Media Arts: Guy Maddin, Jennifer Reeder, April Martin, Yvonne Rainer, Jennifer Reeves, Deborah Stratman, Phil Collins, Tom Kalin, Judith Barry, Todd Haynes, Julie Dash, Isaac Julien, Tacita Dean, Miranda July, Cheryl Dunn, Rineke Dijkstra, Sadie Benning, William Wegman, Sowon Kwon, Steven Bognar, Helen DeMichiel, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Tom Poole, Robert and Donald Kinney, Steve Fagin, Daniel Minahan, Chris Marker, and Paper Tiger Television.
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